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How Is Spinal Stenosis Diagnosed?
Spinal stenosis can be difficult to diagnose because its symptoms can be caused by other conditions. Usually, people who develop stenosis have no history of back problems or any recent injury. Often, unusual leg symptoms are a clue to the presence of spinal stenosis.
If simple treatments, such as postural changes or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, do not relieve the problem, special imaging studies may be needed to determine the cause of the problem. An MRI (magnetic resonance image) or CT (computed tomography) scan may be requested. A myelogram (an X-ray taken after a dye is injected into the spine) may be performed. These and other imaging studies can offer details about the bones and tissues and help with diagnosis.
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but ended up getting same error. Is there any patch that I can install in my system to make it
topology aware?
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The error is telling you that your OS doesn't support queries telling us what cores are on which sockets, so we can't perform a "bind to socket" operation. You can probably still "bind to core", so if you know what cores are in which sockets, then you could use the rank_file mapper to assign processes to groups of cores in a socket.
It's just that we can't do it automatically because the OS won't give us the required info.
See "mpirun -h" for more info on slot lists.
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> Hi,
> I am trying to perform an experiment in which I can spawn 2 MPI processes, one on each socket in a 4 core node
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A RESOLUTION adopting and updated master plan for South Lake Union Park, setting forth principles for the City's negotiation of an agreement with the Maritime Heritage Foundation for the development, operation and maintenance of a Maritime Heritage Center.
Date introduced/referred: Jul 10, 2000
Committee: Culture, Arts & Parks
A RESOLUTION adopting an updated master plan for South Lake Union Park, setting forth principles for the City's negotiation of an agreement with the Maritime Heritage Foundation for the development, operation and maintenance of a Maritime Heritage Center.
WHEREAS, significant public support for developing South Lake Union
WHEREAS, the Maritime Heritage Foundation ("Foundation") is a not-for- profit entity created to develop and manage a cultural center at South Lake Union Park. The Foundation is made up of five member organizations and several operating partners who collectively will bring a wide array of historical, cultural, educational and recreational maritime related activities together. The member organizations are: Northwest Seaport, Center for Wooden Boats, United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, Virginia V. Foundation and Northwest Schooner Society, and the operating partners are organizations with a common mission, such as the Fireboat Duwamish and the Sea Scouts; and
WHEREAS, there is a need to update and clarify the the development and operation of a Maritime Heritage Center at the park; and
WHEREAS, the City Council by Ordinance 119331 appropriated $60,000 from the Shoreline Park Improvement Fund for planning and preliminary design studies of the South Lake Union Navy property, to examine development options and associated costs; and
WHEREAS, City Council Resolution Number 30080 outlined City objectives for development of nearby City-owned properties so that parking facilities, pedestrian connections, view corridors, architecture and types of uses will be coordinated with the park development; and
WHEREAS, the consolidation of maritime interests within the Maritime Heritage Foundation provides a comprehensive approach to development of the proposed Maritime Heritage Center within South Lake Union Park; and
WHEREAS, the City Council by Resolution 29870 recognized the South Lake Union Neighborhood Plan, wherein the parks and open space element built upon and recommended refinements to the 1991 South Lake Union Park Master Plan, and approved the City's work program responding to the Plan: and
WHEREAS, the City Council by Ordinance 119401 amended the Seattle Comprehensive Plan to incorporate portions of the South Lake Union Neighborhood Plan including its strategies for parks and open space in the neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, the City Council by Ordinance 119944 authorized acquisition of the Naval Reserve property at South Lake Union and appropriated funding therefore; and
WHEREAS, this newly recognized South Lake Union Neighborhood Plan was considered by a South Lake Union Park Master Plan Update Advisory Committee when it developed its recommendations for updating the existing 1991 master plan; and
WHEREAS, the South Lake Union Park Master Plan Update Advisory Committee's recommendations were reviewed in a public hearing held April 27, 2000 by the Seattle Board of Park Commissioners, and were considered in their master plan update recommendations to the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation, the Mayor and the City Council; and
WHEREAS, an addendum to the 1991 South Lake Union Park Master Plan EIS has been prepared and issued on June 14, 2000; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor has recommended for Council approval an updated Master Plan for South Lake Union Park as described in Exhibits A and B and further supported by attachments to this Resolution;
I. The Master Plan for South Lake Union Park
The City Council adopts a revised master plan concept diagram to replace the one that illustrated the master plan adopted on October 14, 1991 by Resolution 28444. The updated master plan concept diagram, designated Exhibit "A", is attached to this resolution. Exhibit "B" also attached to this resolution explains the concept diagram in narrative form. Attachment #1, "Background Information", includes an illustrative site plan, suggesting one possible way the master plan concept might be implemented, recognizing that a detailed design resulting from the work of a landscape architectural consultant may lead to alternative designs of park features. Attachment #1 also includes other information and details supporting the Master Plan update.
II. Statement of Intent
In adopting this updated master plan, the City Council with the Mayor's concurrence intends for it to guide future development of South Lake Union Park. Implementation of the adopted master plan continues to be contingent upon agreement with the Department of Natural Resources, owner of the waterways and some of the upland property encompassed in the plan. Implementation is subject to the development of an acceptable memorandum of agreement by the Department of Parks and Recreation with the Maritime Heritage Foundation.
Successful implementation of the master plan will in part also depend on coordination with the redevelopment of surplus City-owned properties in the South Lake Union area, and specifically those south of Valley Street, which provide the opportunity for their integration with the park development and the meeting of public objectives noted in Resolution 30080.
South Lake Union Park provides significant access to Lake Union, an important open space in and of itself. As Lake Union is anticipated to provide increasing opportunities for water related transportation, South Lake Union and the proposed Maritime Heritage Center provide an opportunity for water related passenger drop off and pick up, i.e. "water taxi", and while this use of park land is ordinarily thought to be inappropriate, this site may justify an exception. However, the accommodation of this use will need to be designed in such a way as to control its use and limit its impact on the park. The Executive will submit any agreements authorizing the use of South Lake Union Park as a terminus for a water taxi or tour boat operation to the Council for approval. At that time the Executive should brief the Council on a) how such a use of the Park would contribute to the Park and b) how any negative impacts can be limited or mitigated (including, but not limited to, contribution to traffic congestion and parking shortages in the surrounding neighbor hood and potential disruption of Park tranquility by water taxi passengers).
The Park will be developed in such a way that the safety and security of visitors will be a significant consideration, with special attention being paid to landscaping and lighting.
III. Principles for Development of an Agreement with the Maritime Heritage Foundation for the Development of a Maritime Heritage Center in South Lake Union Park
The City of Seattle (the "City") and the Maritime Heritage Foundation (the "Foundation") have a mutual interest in the establishment of a Maritime Heritage Center (the "Center") as an integral part of South Lake Union Park.
The following "Statement of Principles" has been agreed to in concept by the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and the Foundation, to guide further discussions leading to a more formal agreement concerning the development and governance of the Center.
It is intended that these principles will guide the drafting of an agreement with the Foundation. The Council finds that through this agreement, the City would engage in a partnership with an entity (the Maritime Heritage Foundation) where the City is seeking benefits for the public that would not otherwise be provided by a private entity; and where the City and its partner have a substantial financial interest. Therefore the Council has determined that this agreement between the City and the Maritime Heritage Foundation shall be a Targeted Partnership subject to the Public-Private Partnership Review Process set forth in Resolution 30072 and attachments. The Panel will make recommendations to the Council before Council approval of the Memorandum of Agreement. The Panel will make a recommendation to the Executive and Council prior to any vote on an ordinance adopting a Memorandum of Agreement.
IV. Principles for Future Negotiations for Implementation of the South Lake Union Park Master Plan
1. The Foundation will be the sole spokesperson for the maritime heritage community regarding the Maritime Heritage Center project, and the City will deal exclusively with the Foundation on all matters concerning the Center. However, should the Foundation cease to perform under terms of an MOA, the City reserves the right to terminate its agreement with the Foundation.
2. The Center will concentrate its development and activities within that part of South Lake Union Park (the "Park"), generally east of Terry Avenue, as shown on the updated Park Master Plan.
3. The City and the Foundation will work together in implementing the Park Master Plan.
4. The City will, with the financial assistance of and input from the Foundation, construct a wharf ("Lake Union Wharf") at the north end of the Armory building to provide moorage for historic ships.
5. The Armory building, will be considered for inclusion as a part of the Center. (Note: A wide range of options exist for utilization of the Armory Building, which has been determined to be eligible for the National Registry of Historic Buildings and has covenants protecting certain features of the building. These options range from use as a Maritime Museum as a part of a Maritime Heritage Center, to a community recreation facility to meet the needs of a burgeoning and changing residential and working population in the immediate area and elsewhere in the "center city," to a civic venue for gatherings, performances, etc. All of these uses will be evaluated by the Department of Parks and Recreation.)
6. The City will own all land, buildings and other real property in the Center. Money spent by the Foundation for improvements at the Center will become City property, and will be considered a public benefit in determining the consideration for any use agreement between the City and the Foundation.
7. At the present time it is contemplated that the Foundation, or its constituent organizations, will own all exhibits, artifacts, furnishings, equipment and other personal property furnished to the Center by the Foundation or its constituent organizations.
8. Except as specifically provided, the parties understand that the financing of the Center, including development, maintenance and operational costs for facilities and grounds directly associated with the MHC, will come from private sources and government grants from agencies other than the City.
9. The Foundation will be responsible for private fund raising and grants, including any costs associated therewith. The City will support the Foundation in these efforts by communicating the City's support for the project and making appropriate representations of this support as required for fundraising purposes. The Foundation shall have the right to recognize donors and sponsors by affiliating their names to facilities and exhibits similar to the manner in which donors are recognized at the Woodland Park Zoo. These named entities will only be found within the Maritime Heritage Center and not be used to designate any other areas or facilities in the South Lake Union Park. Names for facilities and donor acknowledgement shall be submitted to the Department of Parks and Recreation for approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.
10. It is anticipated that under the agreement, the Foundation will be permitted to use the Center facilities for all uses normally associated with a major museum or heritage center, subject to the terms of that agreement. These uses may include office, retail shop, and food and beverage service. Agreements for such uses will be subject to City approval. Provisioning, maintenance and other tasks in support of historic vessels at the wharf will be permitted, defined, limited and restricted as shall be agreed in the agreement contemplated in this resolution; however, industrial or commercial operations and major restoration projects will not be permitted in connection with vessels at the South Lake Union site.
11. While the wharf is under construction the Foundation may be permitted to use other suitable portions of the waterfront at South Lake Union Park for the mooring of vessels meeting established criteria.
12. The City and Foundation will coordinate regarding parking and pedestrian connections between the Park and the South Lake Union neighborhood. No later than the time the Council considers a Memorandum of Agreement with the Maritime Heritage Foundation (expected to be in 2001), the Department of Parks and Recreation, in coordination with other City Departments, will report back to the Council on a strategy for accommodating parking demand based on full development of the Maritime Heritage Center. Any agreements relating to the disposition of the City owned properties south of Valley Street that are entered into prior to the Executive's presentations of this strategy to the Council will respond to the parking public objective Section 2 a) of Resolution 30080, taking into account the Foundation's intention to develop a major Maritime Heritage Center at the Park.
V. Agreement with the Maritime Heritage Foundation (Foundation):
The Superintendent of Parks and Recreation is hereby authorized to negotiate an agreement that includes certain milestones and performance criteria that the Foundation will meet in order to be able to occupy and use City property at South Lake Union Park.
The Foundation will create a detailed schedule for the development of a Maritime Heritage Center within South Lake Union Park. This schedule, to be completed by the end of the Fourth Quarter 2000, will include milestones for fund raising, personnel, construction projects, exhibits and activities, and educational programs. The schedule, along with the results of the Foundation Facilities Integration Study now underway, will provide information necessary to finalize a Memorandum of Agreement between the Foundation and the City by the end of the Second Quarter 2001. A status report on the Facilities Integration Study and Development Schedule will be presented to the City Council in the first quarter of 2001.
The detailed schedule described above and the agreement with the Foundation will be submitted to the City Council for approval.
The Foundation will be responsible for all development, maintenance and operational costs for facilities or portions thereof and grounds directly associated with the Maritime Heritage Center's activities.
The Department of Parks and Recreation will be responsible for all development and maintenance costs for facilities, grounds and that portion of the dedicated parking directly associated with general Parks and Recreation activities, and for common areas shared by the Foundation and the Department of Parks and Recreation.
The compensation to the City for the Foundation's use of City-owned upland areas in the park including buildings and facilities and for services provided for the benefit of the Center, will be based on a methodology that recognizes the public benefit of the value of the historical, cultural, educational and recreational programs and activities that the non-profit Foundation intends to provide on public property, in arriving at reasonable compensation for such use.
The Department of Parks and Recreation and the Foundation will ensure free public access to the park's shoreline and open space areas as well as the ability to circulate throughout the park, noted as "open pedestrian routes" on Exhibit "A", the Master Plan diagram, with the exception of boarding the historic ships and admission to other exhibits as defined in the MOA. The integrity of the view corridors throughout the park will be maintained, also as shown in Exhibit "A" by the heavy arrows on the master plan diagram. Public access to these areas and routes may be temporarily closed during infrequent special events by mutual agreement between the City and organizations staging such events in the park. The criteria for, and number of, such events will be defined in the Memorandum of Agreement.
VI. Agreement with the State Department of Natural Resources:
The Parks and Recreation Department and the Foundation will need to develop an agreement with the State Department of Natural Resources regarding long term use of Waterways No. 3 and 4 for park and recreation purposes, continued operation and development of the Center for Wooden Boats, and for maritime activities over aquatic lands leased from the State of Washington including the moorage of historic ships.
VII. Coordination with Seattle Transportation Department (SEATRAN):
The Department of Parks and Recreation will work closely with SEATRAN to determine project specific traffic impacts on the Mercer Corridor, and coordinate with them to integrate South Lake Union Park access and parking with area-wide traffic improvements.
The Department of Parks and Recreation will make progress reports to the Council on their negotiations and coordination with key parties involved with the South Lake Union Park Master Plan.
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Attachment: Exhibit B
Reasons for Master Plan Update
In 1986 City Council Resolution 27462 instructed the Department of Parks and Recreation to evaluate alternative concept plans for a major park at South Lake Union. The subsequent Phase I Planning Study in 1987 described and evaluated seven alternatives. An Environmental Impact Statement evaluated and compared variations on two of these alternatives, and in 1991 the City Council adopted a master plan for South Lake Union Park by Resolution 28444. Interim improvements were then made to open the City-owned portions of the park to public use.
By 1999 it became clear that the 1991 master plan needed updating. With the City acquiring the Naval Reserve property in 2000, it is timely to clarify the earlier plan's guidelines for reusing the Armory Building, and incorporating it into the park plan. The 1999 South Lake Union Neighborhood Plan also recommended several modifications of the park master plan. The City's plan for redeveloping its surplus South Lake Union properties along the Mercer/Valley corridor provided a context for modifying the park plan's traffic and parking assumptions. The Maritime Heritage Foundation's evolution into a larger and more viable organization warrants some reconfiguration and enlargement of the physical area they would manage in the park, with an operating agreement for that purpose.
Summary of Master Plan Concept
In broad outline, South Lake Union Park will encompass approximately 12 acres at the south end of Lake Union, with possible expansions at its east and west ends. The park will include a Maritime Heritage Center, allowing enlargement and reconfiguration of the existing Northwest Seaport and Center for Wooden Boats facilities and programs. The Maritime Heritage activities and facilities could expand within the former Naval Reserve Armory building and adjacent spaces, including the Wharf Project to provide moorage for large historic vessels, and a Native American Canoe Center. The amount of space dedicated to those activities will depend upon the Foundation's fulfillment of criteria set forth in a detailed Memorandum of Agreement with the City. The City's usage of the Armory Building for community-based and other activities could change over time in relation to the Maritime Heritage Center's increasing use.
The area generally west of the Terry Avenue right-of-way will be designed and used for public park, recreational and open space, typically accommodating non-scheduled recreation activities such as launching of hand-carried small boats, picnicking, and walking, as well as occasional scheduled events. The area east of Terry Avenue will be used primarily for Maritime Heritage Center facilities and activities. Public access corridors will be designated along the entire lake frontage of the park including the Maritime Heritage area east of Terry Avenue. Several "internal" public access and view corridors will also be maintained within the Maritime Heritage Center east of the Terry Avenue alignment.
Specific aspects of the Plan Concept Diagram (Exhibit A) and the Illustrative Site Plan (in Attachment 1) are explained in more detail below.
Maritime Heritage Center: The Maritime Heritage Center (MHC) will provide a regional focus for hands-on preservation of Pacific Northwest traditional boat building and maritime history. Maritime heritage uses will include moorage of large historic vessels moored at the Wharf (north of the Armory Building), together with some maritime exhibits inside the Armory Building, in nearby open plaza spaces and possibly in one or more new structures south of the Armory Building. The "Maritime Exhibits and Demonstrations" area could include open display of equipment, boats, and occasional small-scale repair/outfitting of the vintage large and small vessels moored nearby.
The Wharf, approximately 240 foot in width with a series of slips oriented generally in a north-south alignment, will provide long-term moorage with a probable capacity of 5 large heritage vessels, and an adjacent short-term space to the west for occasional visiting vessels, and related visitor facilities. A pedestrian ferry, water taxi and/or tour boat landing may be accommodated at the foot of the Terry Avenue Promenade. The MHC can also arrange for occasional short-term moorage of visiting heritage vessels along the bulkhead on the east side of Waterway 3.
The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) will expand its complex of floats and floating structures as generally shown on the Illustrative Plan, in Attachment 1. It will accommodate approximately 200 small wooden boats for display and public rental. Its floating dock system in Waterway 4 will provide public access to the CWB's floating repair shop, boathouse and administration building as well as to the boats themselves. Some of their float space will be allocated to transient day moorage for tying up visiting small boats.
All of these MHC uses will be located generally east of the Terry Avenue Promenade that is intended to be a primarily pedestrian public access and view corridor. (The Native American Canoe House cluster located west of the Terry Avenue corridor is also a part of the MHC, and is discussed separately below.) The specific square footage and configuration of MHC facilities in the areas shown for them on Exhibit A in Attachment 1 will not be known until more detailed design and financial feasibility studies are completed.
Uses of the Naval Armory Building: For at least an initial phase of park development the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation will occupy and operate the Armory Building, with some allocation of office, meeting and exhibit space for the Maritime Heritage Foundation to be considered in an interim use agreement. The exact mix of the Department's recreation-related uses is not yet determined. Over a period of time, observing milestones and criteria set forth in a Memorandum of Agreement, the City may reduce its recreational use of the Armory Building area, allowing the MHF to expand its programs if and when it demonstrates capability to do so. If it is determined by the City that it is desirable to put the Armory building to use to meet other public needs it reserves the right to do so. Physical modifications of the building will be limited according to terms of a covenant imposed by the Navy and the State Historic Preservation Officer, which identified both external and internal features considered significant in determining the building's eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places.
Native American Canoe Center: This approximately 1/2 acre site will feature a Northwest Canoe Center longhouse and a carving shed, together occupying approximately 5,000 sq. ft. The Canoe Center will provide for launching and retrieval of Native American canoes from a restored beach on the east side of Waterway 3. The low-profile buildings will be integrated with the pathway system and landscape design, providing a transition between the adjacent natural area and the walkway along the low bulkhead quay to the north. Organizationally and programmatically, the Native American Canoe Center will be part of the MHF, although its location in the public open space part of the park will require coordinating its public access and operation with the surrounding park.
Picnic and Sitting Areas: Tables and benches will be distributed in appropriate areas of the park, accessible by the pathways and capitalizing on views of the lake. The concentrations of activities and events in and near the Maritime Heritage Center could support an outdoor seating area in conjunction with light food and beverage service. Due to the park's relatively small size, it will not include large concentrations of picnic tables or shelters for scheduled use, as they typically draw large groups of people with sizable access and parking needs.
Children's Play Area: While small-scale informal play is anticipated in many areas of the park, a structured play area that may become a "destination playground" is shown in the MHF's more active part of the park. In that location the nearby maritime exhibits may reinforce a nautical theme for the play area and equipment, and youthful energy will find a good outlet while adults explore the exhibits at a leisurely pace.
Parking: The plan concept diagrams (Exhibit A and Attachment 1) depict consolidated parking located south across Valley Street, connected to the park by a safe and convenient pedestrian access. Developing and operating a parking area available to park visitors at times of heavy use, especially summer evenings and weekends, may represent a considerable development expense in this thriving lakefront area.The park is estimated to need 244 spaces, assuming full buildout of the Park and wharf, and use of the Armory building as a Community Center. Of the 244 spaces, it is anticipated that about 50 would be provided off Westlake Avenue in the vicinity of the hand- carried boat launch area. Under the existing building code, use of the Armory for a museum instead of a community center would increase the required number of parking stalls by about 120 spaces in the absence of any adjustments for ease of alternative modes of access or other bases in Code.
Pedestrian Connection to Parking: The City's current studies
of traffic management solutions in the Mercer Corridor may conclude
that a signalized at-grade pedestrian connection between the park and
the parking area may be feasible even with the high traffic volumes
on Valley Street. However, the heavy through traffic may preclude that
option. A pedestrian skybridge over the street may be another way to
provide the necessary separation of pedestrians from vehicles. In either
case, the garage, pedestrian crossing, and park entry plaza will be
designed to make this arrival experience convenient and pleasant. Any
pedestrian skybridge proposal will be subject to Council approval.
Landscaped and Hard Surface Areas: This is an urban park in an area planned for high-density commercial and institutional development. As such, the plan concept diagrams show a substantial amount of "hardscape" in the form of plazas, walkways, vehicular drop-off driveway, and maritime activity areas. However, the plan also anticipates that part of the park's value will be realized in the "softer" components represented on the concept diagrams as Lawn/Landscape areas. The park design will balance these areas with the other park elements to provide a restful and beautiful setting for relaxation, walking, views, picnicking, unstructured play.
Visitors who come to the park for maritime displays, events and general recreation will be accommodated on designated hard spaces including the shoreline promenade and pathways, the maritime plaza(s), the Wharf, the Westlake and Terry Avenue arrival plazas, the main entry gate/ observation tower. These paved areas will be functionally and visually distinct from the turf/landscape areas described above. Paving materials, textures and colors can be varied in different parts of the park.
South Lake Union Park's expected use for occasional large public gatherings, e.g. the annual Wooden Boat Festival, concerts, etc., will not preclude large green spaces for more typical public use and enjoyment. One of these is the large turf/landscape area west of the Armory Building. The principle at stake is to avoid excessive paving of the park to withstand crowds that gather fairly infrequently. Sufficient green space is needed for summer days when people can relax in grassy surroundings. A substantial amount of green space is also valuable during the long wet season when people's enjoyment of the park will often be from a passing vehicle, or during brief walks in the park.
Wetland Area: The plan update continues a variation of the 1991 plan's wetland habitat area at the south end of Waterway Number 3. About one acre in size, this will be a kind of "wetland garden" feature in the park. Detailed design may lead to a configuration different from that shown on the conceptual diagrams. It should be designed to make a smooth transition between the high-bank terraced shoreline on the west side of Waterway 3, and the low-bank restored beach where canoes are launched at the Native American Canoe Center on the waterway's east side. Aside from the visual quality this feature may add to the park, it also affords an opportunity to enhance the lake's habitat, offsetting and mitigating other structured improvements along the shoreline. It can provide an opportunity for biofiltration of stormwater runoff from the park's hard-surfaced areas. The wetland can also increase the park's potential for natural as well as cultural interpretation.
Shoreline Renovation: South Lake Union Park will offer various shoreline characteristics along its approximately 1/2-mile length. It includes high-bank, terraced and revegetated lakefront on the west side of Waterway Number 3 (see Sections A, B and C), the wetland area at the south end of the waterway and the Native American Canoe Center's restored beach on the east side of the waterway(see Sections D and G). North and east of that the shoreline assumes a more rectangular, structured form of the existing Navy bulkhead quay, lowered so that pedestrians along the quay walkway will be about 18" above the summer lake level (see Section E). On special occasions, sizable heritage vessels can tie up alongside this quay, but most of the time it will be open to assure good views of the lake.
East of the Terry Avenue corridor, the shoreline pathway will rise gradually to meet the Armory Building and adjacent wharf elevation. The wharf when reconstructed will be narrower than it is today, reconfigured to allow visitors to walk between several of the heritage vessels moored there, as well as being able to continue walking eastward to Waterway 4. The old Navy pier along the east side of the Armory Building will be brought up to code to support emergency vehicle access, as well as continuous pedestrian movement. The shoreline at the south end of Waterway 4 will accommodate public access to the Center for Wooden Boats' floating buildings and moorage. The walkway system there will link directly to the public shoreline path system of the existing private Henry Pier and Chandler's Cove on the west side of Waterway 4.
Even though pedestrians along the Waterway 3 shoreline will in some places be close to the lake level, the pathway design will encourage direct contact with the water in just two places-at the kayak/canoe float on the west side of the waterway, and at the Native American Canoe Center's restored beach on the opposite bank. Elsewhere contaminated sediments remaining from previous industrial uses will for the foreseeable future restrict water contact recreation.
Pedestrian/Bike Trail: The pedestrian/bike trail around the perimeter of the park will connect the present trail terminus along Fairview Avenue East with the new Westlake Multipurpose Trail to be constructed in the year 2000. This trail connection cannot allow high-speed bike travel, but will incorporate design of the park's perimeter in a sweeping curve that offers another way for people to experience the park in passing around it. It will connect with but be separate from the internal pathway system for pedestrians in the park.
Park Design Theme Extension: As envisioned in the Neighborhood Plan recommendations, park design features are expected to influence neighborhood design and redevelopment. Certain aspects of the park may become part of the surrounding area's design vernacular, setting a tone for public spaces and the rights-of-way so that the park's influence goes beyond its boundaries. This may be expressed in the quality of materials used in the park, setting a different qualitative standard than found in the utilitarian design of many parks.
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The 2013 Nissan 370Z has been unveiled by Nissan at the ongoing Chicago Motor Show. Nissan has announced that this car has been built specifically for the US market. The delivery of this car will begin from June this year and it will be made available in three different versions – Coupe, Roadster and NISMO.


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Incontinence & Overactive Bladder Health Center
Anticholinergics for Urinary Incontinence in Men
|Generic Name
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|Ditropan, Gelnique, Oxytrol
How It Works
These medicines calm the nerves that control bladder muscles. They may prevent uncontrollable bladder contractions that force urine out of the bladder.
Why It Is Used
Antispasmodics and anticholinergics are used to control the symptoms of urge incontinence. These medicines may also be used to treat stress incontinence, especially if you have both stress and urge incontinence.
How Well It Works
Many men taking these medicines have fewer symptoms of urge incontinence and overactive bladder. Some men stop having symptoms completely. These medicines can decrease the chance of leakage and the number of times you feel the need to urinate.1
Adding these medicines to behavioral therapies like bladder training can help symptoms of urge incontinence and overactive bladder more than behavioral treatment alone.2
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor if you have:
- Hives.
- Vision problems.
- Bloody or cloudy urine.
- Pain or burning when you urinate.
- Problems with urination, including:
- Difficulty starting to urinate.
- A urine stream that stops and starts.
- A weak urine stream.
- A need to strain while urinating.
- A sense that the bladder is not empty after urination.
- A dry mouth for more than 2 weeks.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
- Dry mouth, nose, throat, and eyes.
- Dizziness.
- Drowsiness.
- Belly pain, upset stomach, or nausea.
- Constipation.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Dry mouth is common with these medicines. To help with dry mouth, you can chew sugarless gum, suck on sugarless candy, or melt ice in your mouth. If you continue to have problems with dry mouth after a couple of weeks, call your doctor. Dry mouth can lead to tooth decay and gum disease.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Nabi G, et al. (2006). Anticholinergic drugs versus placebo for overactive bladder syndrome in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (4).
Alhasso AA, et al. (2006). Anticholinergic drugs versus non-drug active therapies for overactive bladder syndrome in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (4).
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerE. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerAvery L. Seifert, MD - Urology
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Friday, January 05, 2007
Brief Therapy: Therapy for the Mentally Well
Nonetheless, old assumptions die hard. People assume that you need to have "a problem" in order to see a psychologist. In fact, insurance companies will not reimburse visits to psychologists and psychiatrists unless they are provided with a "diagnosis" of the problems being "treated". Little wonder that the stereotype persists that there's something wrong with you if you need to see a "shrink".
The reality is that the good psychologist is not a shrink, but instead expands people's minds and horizons. The goal is not to treat problems, but to make changes. Psychology is about making changes in life. Sometimes these are changes in relationships; other times, they are changes in the ways we think, feel, or act. To benefit from psychology doesn't require that you have a problem. It does require a desire to make changes.
A group of methods known as brief therapies are extremely promising, because they accelerate the process of change. I refer to the brief therapies as therapies for the mentally well. There are individuals who have chronic mental health problems. They are not the ones for whom brief work is appropriate: lifelong, severe problems often require ongoing assistance, including medication help. The mentally well, however, are not beset with such problems. They are simply interested in making changes. Sometimes those changes are simply to expand their strengths: to become even better at what they do.
A trader who made 2 million dollars last year--and more the year before that--recently insisted on meeting with me before New Year's Day to identify areas for improvement and set goals--and a path for meeting those goals--for 2007. His goal was to enhance his performance, not rid himself of personal demons. That is an excellent use of therapy for the mentally well.
So how do you know if you can benefit from such brief work? Here's a guide:
Behavior is patterned. How we think, feel, and act have a pattern to them, and that patterning is what makes us who we are. The sum total of our patterns is our personality.
Sometimes our patterns interfere with our goals in life. They prevent us from being who we want to be or accomplishing what we want to accomplish.
Perhaps there are times when you say to yourself, "I don't know why I keep [fill in the blank]. I wish I would stop."
You could fill in the blank with any of the following--and more:
"losing my temper"
"going into slumps"
"winding up in bad relationships"
"beating myself up"
"making stupid trades"
"pushing people away"
"choking under pressure"
In each of these situations, we're recognizing that there is some pattern of behavior that is not fully in our control. The pattern has ossified: it's hardened into a habit. If you can identify a pattern that is getting in your way, you can benefit from short-term applications of psychology.
Brief therapy is about changing the patterns that no longer serve us well. The second step in such therapy for the mentally well is to ask yourself: What is the one pattern that is most holding me back from my goals, from being who I want to be?
So what's the first step? To know what our goals are. To know who you want to be. Many people never travel the right path, because they never formulate their destination.
So that's where we'll begin in the next post in this series: Figuring out where you want to go in life. Then we'll take a look at what might be holding you back.
But first things first. Solving a problem will not give you a goal. Furiously climbing the ladder of success won't help you if it's leaning against the wrong structure.
Brief therapy doesn't start with problems. It starts with goals--and a vision for the future. Without such vision, we're walking blind through life. The therapy for the mentally well begins with the recognition that it's time to open our eyes and develop our vision.
Related readings:
Brief Therapy and Becoming Your Own Trading Coach - Part One, Part Two, Part Three
TraderFeed Posts on Psychology From 2006 - Part One, Part Two, Part Three
Evaluating Problems That Interfere With Trading
Excerpt From My Book on Trading Performance
Excerpt From My Book on Trading Psychology
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Hi Brett,
While this is a financial trading forum I really appreciate your psychology insights. I've found that my parents generation(70+) is much less inclined to try therapy and they end up getting stuck in old patterns. Like trading, holding on to an old pattern that continues to fail is not good. I think the best thing any trader can do to improve is realize they don't know it all.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Thanks, Marc. My goal is to help traders learn how to recognize and shift their own patterns--skills that then can be applied real time to trading situations. I hope the upcoming posts on the topic help to illustrate how that can be accomplished. I appreciate the feedback--
- The Market Speculator said...
I'm going to play along with your series of brief therapy series. My goal is, simply, to become a better trader. Outside of family, that is my passion. I'm looking forward to figuring out what's holding me back.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Market Speculator,
Thanks for your interest. In working on improving trading performance, the key is to figure out whether the improvement is going to come from better methods (entries, exits, money mgt, etc) or from better implementation of existing methods (which can get into the psychology of performance). That's why I try to address both facets in the blog.


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A slavic name (Егор) that is the same as Yegor, but differs from Igor. Egor is properly pronounced yegor, with the stress on the 2nd syllable and the r rrrrolled. It has a Norse origin meaning "archer-soldier." It is relatively uncommon, even in Russia.
"Anton spots them and talks with Maxim, explaining the Treaty between Light and Dark, but Maxim doesn't comply, pointing out that Egor will grow up to be a dark mage, and it's better to kill him now." --from Wikipedia's description of the movie Night Watch
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Someone, usually an attention whore, who feigns a friendship with others in the presumption that everyone will return that friendship, but no one likes him/her (except for the 1 or 2 attention whore sidekicks). E-gor's can often be found at places/parties where they are not accepted, invited, or liked.
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Late 80's early 90's rockers with ripped jeans and a balding mullet that they just can't let go of. They are often seen riding there bicycle's to the beer store to return there empty's and pick up a 6 pack of there favorite beverage (12-24 when they group together). Also called an Uncle, Unc, Uncle Zeean, or "What the fuck was that"
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PC GPU driver updates often cite improvements made to performance of specific, recently released games. Why is this game-specific updating needed? How do the game-specific changes interact with the game code?
As someone with a few years of driver development, I see this as two separate issues.
A graphics driver is a very complicated beast. To implement everything in a optimal way would be a simply impossible task; it's a big enough hurdle just to make a driver that actually follows the specs - and the specs keep getting increasingly more complex. So, you develop your driver based on the spec, and a handful of test applications (as, in many cases, there's no real software yet).
Along comes a real game (or benchmark, or some other use case for the driver, like video decoding) that exposes a bottleneck in the driver. In you go, figuring out how to smooth things out and make that use case faster. You can easily report that game XYZ is 27.3% faster, but in reality every application that has said use case (say, dynamic texture update) gets faster.
Then there's the ugly side, real per-application optimizations, wherein the driver detects what application is being run (or which shader is being compiled) and does something non-generic. There's been plenty of publicized cases of this, where, for example, renaming 3dmark executable suddenly changes the results.
I feel these kinds of optimizations are a waste of everybody's time - you lie to your customers in the case of benchmarks, and you may change the way a shader behaves from what the developer actually wants. I recall a case where a shader was changed from a texture lookup to a in-shader calculation (which only worked for said manufacturer's hardware) which was close, but not exactly the same result, and the developer balked that this wasn't a legal optimization.
In an ideal world they wouldn't.
This is not an ideal world however, so game-specific performance improvements may come from one or more of the following (not intended to be an exhaustive list):
It's important to note here that none of these should actually be "required". So long as both the driver and the game's API usage are conformant, things should work. But sometimes special-case tradeoffs to be able to extract max performance may be seen as appropriate. I'll refrain from commenting on whether or not that's a good thing.
Game developers push the bounds of GPUs. We can make an analogy to a game and a game engine. The more advanced the requirements of the game, the more advanced the game engine needs to be to support it. This is the same with graphics cards.
Computer games and GPU manufactures are good bed fellows. It's in their best interest to work together to improve the GPU, thereby improving the game. This is the classic software guys working with the hardware guys relationship. Both parties have something to add when it comes to designing the interface between software and hardware. That interface is the driver.
These updates may include bug fixes that the software guys found, or improvements the hardware guys have made to support the requirements of the software guys. You'll find this relationship all over.
Likely the reasoning behind including the specific games in the driver update release notes is PR. It not only shows that card manufacturer X is going to work really well with game Y, but it shows that game Y is going to be even better than it was before.
It's plausible that the game development team ran into a GPU driver bug that would cause the game to not work correctly if the driver bug wasn't fixed.
It's also sometimes a marketing gimmick. For example, ATI/AMD recently bundled a copy of Dirt 3 with their newer GPUs and pushed the idea of playing with Eyefinity with 3 monitors on this game.
So it's a bit of symbiosis there.
GPU vendor: Hey! This new feature! No one's using it!
Game developer: We could use it! Bundle our game with your GPU that uses this feature?
GPU vendor: Hell ya!
The truth is that GPUs do not require game-specific drivers.
Game-specific drivers are part of a marketing effort by GPU manufacturers to try to get an edge over other GPU manufacturers. If they can show better performance in popular games by having custom-tuned their drivers for those specific games, then (the theory goes) they attract more players of those games.
That's pretty much all there is to it.


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Aside from their retail products like clothing, apparel and accessories, Sears also offers a wide range of other services with money-saving offers as well, such as Sears Outlet, Sears Automotive, Sears Portrait Studio and Sears Driving School.
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The price of tires at Sears will vary greatly, depending on a number of factors. Size, brand and insurance coverage are just a few of the ways tire prices are determined. However, when buying tires online at Sears, be sure to check their "Current Offers" section in the Tires and Wheels department to find online specials and clearance pricing on select products.
A basic oil change at Sears costs about $30 for most vehicles and includes complimentary inspection of all your vehicle's fluid levels, such as wipers and power steering, in addition to inspection of other vehicle components like belts, wiper blades and hoses. A synthetic oil change at Sears costs about $60 for most vehicle and includes all the complimentary inspections as a basic oil change, in addition to inspection and inflation of your tires – if needed.
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In 1925, Sears opened their first brick and mortar store on a sprawling 40 acre compound that would include a shipping warehouse, catalog printing plant, headquarters and office complex. Sears continued to expand well into the 1950s, at which time they focused efforts on entering the suburban markets and malls. In 1974, Sears claimed its place at the top of the retail ladder by completing the world famous Sears Tower, which at the time was hailed the tallest building in the world. The Sears Tower would serve at the company's consolidated headquarters for the next two decades.
Today, Sears has more than 1,300 branded and affiliated stores in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, including 790 full-line stores and 50 specialty retail locations. Sears also owns K-Mart and Land's End brands as well.
You can learn more about Sears on Wikipedia and Wikidata.


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What is the easiest way to install postgis on Ubuntu Server 11.10?
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What is the easiest way to install postgis on Ubuntu Server 11.10?
this package is not available in the official repository so you can use a ppa for a quick and dirty installation.
for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric the packages are only available in the unstable version of this PPA, to install and use this ppa
to update your software list and install the package you are interested of
As noted in Micro's answer, your best bet for installing PostGIS is the UbuntuGIS PPA. As of the time I'm writing they are distributing PostgreSQL 9.1 and PostGIS 2.0.1. Starting with these versions it became much easier to set up a PostGIS database.
Once PostGIS is installed, how do you create a PostGIS database? Ignore any old docs you find about using


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1. California Has Fallen Behind.
Once the nation's leader in protecting workers from the toxic effects of secondhand smoke, California has fallen behind the national standard set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). California is not considered a 100% smoke-free state by the CDC. Meanwhile, 24 other states and the District of Columbia provide greater secondhand smoke protection in the workplace than California.[i]
2. Too Many California Workers Are Still Exposed to Secondhand Smoke.
Secondhand smoke contains toxic, cancer-causing chemicals. Repeated exposure can kill you even if you don't smoke. Yet California's Smoke-Free Workplace law (Labor Code Section 6404.5) currently ALLOWS smoking under certain conditions in hotel lobbies, hotel/motel guest rooms, banquet facilities, small businesses, break rooms, owner-operated businesses, tobacco shops and private smokers' lounges, warehouses, company vehicles, long-term health care facilities, volunteer-operated facilities, theatrical productions and medical research or treatment sites. These exemptions and loopholes mean that employees and patrons of certain businesses continue to be exposed to the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
3. A Smoke-Free Workplace Is the Only Way to Ensure Workers Are Protected From Secondhand Smoke.
The U.S. Surgeon General has found that other approaches, such as smoking rooms or air ventilation systems, do not eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke.[ii] The only way to protect people from breathing secondhand smoke indoors is to require all workplaces and public places to be smoke-free.
4. Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Should Not Be A Condition of Employment.
It is not fair that workers reporting secondhand smoke exposure are highly represented among the hospitality, service and blue-collar employment sectors — the same sectors most directly impacted by the gaps in California's smoke-free workplace law. Workers should not have to jeopardize their health in order to make a living.
5. California's Law Does Not Provide All Workers with Equal Protection.
California's Smoke-Free Workplace law provides inadequate and unequal secondhand smoke protection for certain groups, particularly low-income workers making less than $30,000 per year, young adults (ages 18-24) and Hispanics.[iii] As a result, these Californians face an unfair health burden of disease and premature death from lung cancer, heart disease and serious respiratory diseases, such as asthma and bronchitis.[iv] Reducing health disparities is both a public health priority and a community responsibility. All California workers deserve equal protection from secondhand smoke exposure under California law.
6. There Is A Huge Economic Burden Associated with Secondhand Smoke.
Nationally, the annual direct medical care costs associated with secondhand smoke exposure are estimated to be $5 billion each year, plus another $5 billion for indirect costs.[v]
7. Smoke-Free Workplace Laws Are Good for Business.
Research shows that smoke-free policies and regulations do not have a negative impact on business revenues. [vi] Establishing smoke-free workplaces is the simplest and most cost effective way to improve employee and employer health.
8. Smoke-Free Workplaces Create Healthier People.
Strong smoke-free workplace laws not only protect workers and the public from secondhand smoke, they have also been found to reduce the rate of heart attacks by an average of 17 percent after one year and 26 percent after three years.[vii] They also help smokers quit by decreasing cigarette consumption and increasing rates of quit attempts.[viii] Creating smoke-free workplaces will protect all groups of workers and create an environment that increases smokers' chances of successfully quitting.
9. Californians Support Smoke-Free Workplace Laws.
More than 90% of Californians approve of a law to protect workers from secondhand smoke exposure in the workplace.[ix]
10. California CAN Win This Battle.
Assembly Bill 1467 (DeSaulnier, 2007) would have removed some of the exemptions in Labor Code Section 6404.5 and increased protection from secondhand smoke for California workers. The legislation had no opposition from business groups including the tobacco industry — yet was vetoed by the Governor.
Isn't it time to protect ALL California workers from secondhand smoke?
[i] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Press Release, New CDC Report Says Increased Efforts, High-Impact Strategies Needed to Reduce Smoking and Save Lives. April 23, 2010. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r100423.htm
[ii] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. 2006. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2006/index.htm
[iii] Data from the California Tobacco Survey, 2005, California Department of Public Health, California Tobacco Control Program.
[iv] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. 2006. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2006/index.htm
[v] Behan, DF, et al., Economic Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Society of Actuaries, March 31, 2005. Available at: http://www.soa.org/files/pdf/ETSReportFinalDraft(Final%203).pdf
[vi] Scollo M, Lal A, Hyland A, Glantz S. Tob Control. 2003 Mar;12 (1): 13-20. Review of the quality of studies on the economic effects of smoke-free policies on the hospitality industry.
[vii] Meyers D., Neuberger J., He, J. Cardiovascular Effect of Bans on Smoking in Public Places: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 54(14): 1256 – 1257, 2009. Available at: http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/54/14/1249
[viii] Fichtenberg C. and Glantz S. Effect of Smoke-free Workplaces on Smoking Behaviour: Systematic Review. BMJ 325 : 188, 2002. Available at: http://www.bmj.com/content/325/7357/188.full
[ix] California Adult Tobacco Survey. 2007. Prepared by: California Department of Public Health, California Tobacco Control Program, March 2008.
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|Gracie is so happy in this picture! Isaac is too.
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This is the blog for Gavin and Carrie Jones and family. We live in Papua New Guinea and are working to support Bible translations in progress around the country and the people of PNG. Gavin is a helicopter pilot. Carrie has her degree in Public Health, but our "public" now consists of our son, Isaac, born in 2004 and our quintuplets, Will, David, Marcie, Seth, and Grace, all born in 2012.
But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him and his righteousness with their children's children . . . Psalm 103:17
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They are getting so sweet. I love the smiles of all of them, encluding you Issac. I just want to hug them all. Thanks for the pictures. JudithReplyDelete
Long time reader, first time commenter. Gracie literally made me laugh out loud, she is so stoked on whatever is happening! I wish I lived a little closer so I could volunteer. I'm a paramedic and fully vaccinated so I'm sure I'd qualify.ReplyDelete
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Just love all the photos you have recently posted. Your babies are growing up sooo fast and turning into real little people. Isaac looks like an amazing big brother too!! Cant wait to meet your family again some time in the near future (dv). We continue to pray for you all. Love Claire xxxReplyDelete
Well look at you Lynn!! You too can sit in the special chair with more than one in your lap :) Such a great picture- I LOVE IT!! :)
All of your babies are just adorable and I've so enjoyed watching them get bigger and more curious about their surroundings. I was a 29 week preemie back in early 1988, and I think it's so amazing what medicine can do 25 years later!
The proud smile on Isaac's face in the first photo is great, and I love the second picture of Gracie. If there were a caption, she'd be saying, "HEY! WE'RE STILL HERE! Why'd ya stop reading?!"
That is the kind of picture that just makes me love Gracie so....
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Suppose we view fluids classically, i.e., as a collection of molecules (with some finite size) interacting via e&m and gravitational forces. Presumably we model fluids as continuous objects that satisfy some differential equation. What mathematical result says that modeling fluids as continuous objects can accurately predict the discrete behavior of the particles? I don't know anything about fluid mechanics, so my initial assumption may in itself be wrong.
There are many physical intuitions often presented in various texts on fluid dynamics. I won't mention those here. I will, however, mention that mathematically the passage from a particle point of view to a continuum point of view is still a largely un-resolved problem. (With suitable interpretation, this problem was already posed by Hilbert as his 6th of 23 problems.)
We can interpret the problem as one of starting from "a Newtonian description of particles interacting through collisions" and try to end up with "an approximation of the physical system by a continuum obeying certain laws of fluid dynamics (Euler, Navier-Stokes, etc.)"
Most work up through now takes an intermediate step through the Boltzmann equation: in this kinetic theory model, instead of individual particles we consider distributions of particles, where the "density" of particles is given based on both position and velocity. So it makes one level of continuum approximation. But it still keeps the facet of Newtonian theory where particles interact through direct collisions. Under an assumption known as molecular chaos (more on this later), that Boltzmann's equation follows from Newtonian laws of motion have been demonstrated, to various degrees of rigour, by Boltzmann himself, as well as Grad, Cercignani, and Lanford, building on the work of Bogoliubov, Born, Green, Kirkwood, and Yvon. For a mathematically sophisticated, but more or less self-contained description one can refer to Uchiyama's write-up. There are a few issues with this derivation.
Starting from the Boltzmann equation, one can arrive at the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations with quite a lot of work. There has been a lot of recent mathematical literature devoted to this problem, and under different assumptions (basically how the Reynolds and Knudsen numbers behave in the limit) one gets different versions of the fluid equations. A decent survey of the literature was written by F. Golse, while a heavily mathematical discussion of the state-of-the-art can be found in Laure Saint-Raymond's Hydrodynamic limits of the Boltzmann equation.
It is perhaps important to note that there are still regimes in which the connection between Boltzmann equation and the fluid limits are not completely understood. And more important is to note that even were the connections between the kinetic (Boltzmann) picture and the fluid limits, there is still the various assumptions made during the derivation of the Boltzmann equation. Thus we are still quite far from being able to rigorously justify the continuum picture of fluids from the particle picture of Newtonian dynamics.
The theory of fluids introduces material parameters in the stress tensor, which help model the substance. "The viscosity coefficient is the proportionality constant relating a velocity gradient in a fluid to the force required to maintain that gradient. The thermal conductivity is the proportionality constant relating the temperature gradient across a fluid to the flux of energy, that is, Fourier's law of heat conduction. Finally, the diffusion coefficient is the proportionality constant relating the gradient in species concentration of the mass flux." Of course it only works if it works.
There is the self consistent derivation of the Navier–Stokes equations, w.r.t. several conservation laws. But relevant for you are the considerations involving Boltzmann equation, a formalism for gases in the microscopic regime. Here, for many systems, you can find macroscopic expectation values, which validate fluid dynamics and give microscopic explanations for the viscosities, etc. The results are then usually said to "also hold for liquid systems".
For the limit, one might assume a pertubation of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution $f(t,\vec x)$, which weakly depends on space and time. This is the relaxation time approximation, or the $0.5^{th}$ order in Chapman–Enskog theory. From this one can compute average (particle) densities, mean velocities and average kinetic energies (temperatures). For example $$\vec V:=\langle \vec v\rangle$$ $$T(t,\vec x):=\frac{1}{3}\left\langle m\left(\vec v-\vec V\right)^2 \right\rangle,$$ where $\langle\dots\rangle$ is the mean w.r.t. the particle distribton given by $f(t,\vec x)$. This procedure gives a macroscopic/net velocity and a local temperature distribution. It eventually fulfulls an equation of state, like $P=\frac{N}{V}k_B T$, or rather $$P(t,\vec x)=n(t,\vec x)\ T(t,\vec x),$$ which relate macroscopic quantities like temperature to pressure, which is also given as mean and which is part of the stress tensor I mentioned above. The differential equations, which governs the dynamics of the fluids ultimately stem from momentum conservation in both cases. See Kerson Huang: Statistical Mechanics, 2nd Edition for a derivation.


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Is there a big difference between edge-lit and back-lit LED TVs?
I've noticed a lot of the discount brands are edge-lit, and I wasn't sure if I should hold out for back-lit or not.
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Back-lit is better because light is more evenly distributed across the screen. With edge-lit TVs, you get a "spotlight" effect from light shining from the edges of the screen. It's noticeable mainly if you're watching a scene that's dark or has a lot of black in it.
The down side of back-lit TVs is they're more expensive. They're also a bit thicker than edge-lit models, but the only time that might become an issue if you plan to mount it on a wall.
This is perhaps the best breakdown of current LCD/LED TV technologies I've seen lately.
From personal experience, the back-lit LED with local dimming I have (a Vizio) is beautiful. I haven't seen picture quality or blacks that deep on any other TV, outside of perhaps a plasma. The problem with a plasma is it's not as bright as an LED and less suitable for brighter rooms.
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5 Eerily Human Things You Won't Believe Animals Do
Humans live with the illusion that there is a distinct line between us and everything else in the animal kingdom. People are unique and independent, with our own special ambitions and traits, while animals fall pretty much into one of two categories: pets and dinner. That's why every once in a while we like to remind everyone of all of the insane ways animals are just like us. For instance ...
#5. Marmosets Make Polite Conversation; Chimps Will Fake Laughter
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We know that animals can communicate, but not like humans. An animal barks or roars to communicate simple things like, "Stay away or I'll kill you!" or "Let's fuck!" Humans, on the other hand, devote most of our words to the fact that we don't have anything to say -- we'll make small talk to avoid awkward silence with the cab driver; we'll fake a laugh to pretend we got the joke with a group of friends. You'd never see, say, monkeys doing that pointless shit, right? That kind of social anxiety takes an advanced brain.
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"Oh God, I said 'you too' when I just meant 'thanks'!" -No monkey ever.
Well, maybe not.
Marmosets (a kind of South American monkey) share the otherwise exclusively human trait of chatting for the sake of it. Scientists have no idea what the monkeys are saying when they're chattering in groups, but have observed that they take turns shooting the shit. In fact, they're even more polite about it than most humans are -- waiting a few seconds after the other has finished speaking so as to avoid interrupting. Researchers observed conversations lasting for up to 30 minutes at a time, at which point, we suppose, even the marmosets made up an excuse to leave.
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"Well, I should probably get back to flinging poop. Good talking to you."
The researchers note that chimps and other almost-human apes have a tendency to speak over the top of one another rather than engage in polite discourse. And that marmosets tend to chat more frequently with monkeys other than those whom they are mated with, which, when you think about it, is also an oddly human phenomenon.
And then you have chimpanzees. Scientists know that, chimps being highly playful creatures, most of them spend their time in groups jumping out from behind things, tackling each other, throwing their poop around, etc. Chimp stuff. But in a study of chimp behavior done by researchers at the University of Portsmouth, they found that chimps had two distinct kinds of "laughter" during play time. The ones that were actively engaged in play responded with ordinary laughter, but the other, nearby chimps made a much more forced, less intense, and more deliberate sound. In other words, it was more like the chimp equivalent of you going "heh" after your dad tells a particularly horrid joke.
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Or when the alpha chimp tells his racist joke about the two bonobos who walk into a bar.
The researchers suggest that this is the way a chimpanzee who isn't actively engaged in the joke signals to the others "I, too, am having fun." In other words, they're being polite and assuring the others that they aren't moody assholes, a level of social etiquette that even some humans have failed to master.
#4. Rats Laugh When You Tickle Them
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We don't know if this is the most adorable experiment ever conducted, or the most unsettling. Either way, scientists spent two weeks tickling some rats, and discovered that rats not only love being tickled but they actually giggle while it's happening.
We know what you're probably wondering (or, at least, one of several hundred things you're probably wondering): How do we know that the rats actually enjoy it and are not just squeaking in anguish and confusion? Well, first they conditioned the rats to be afraid of a certain audio tone -- the rats would freeze up and become nervous whenever the sound was played. But then, if they tickled the rats beforehand, the rats showed less physical and hormonal signs of fear when they heard the sound.
On top of that, the sounds that the rats made while being tickled were the same sounds they made when they were playing with other rats, suggesting that they are the rat equivalent of giggling. If the researchers stopped tickling, the rats would often chase their teasing hands around the tank to try to coax more tickles. There are social intricacies to be found as well, since the fun-lovers are more likely to spend time with like-minded fellows.
Furthermore, in a weirdly specific human parallel, the rats that didn't enjoy the interactions (and didn't laugh) tended to be neurotic and antisocial. And because scientists love playing God, they've selectively bred the most playful of the rats over the course of several generations to create a genetically super-ticklish, loud-laughing breed. That definitely won't make it weird when we poison or trap the little bastards years from now.
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On the other hand, we can start baiting traps with feathers instead of precious cheese or peanut butter.
#3. Cows Have Best Friends
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Based on everything we know, cows are fat, lazy, and devoid of personality. They're smarter than most rocks, eject less methane than some military aircraft, but are otherwise only useful because a cow is the first step to a cheeseburger.
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And horses are much harder to tip.
In reality, these vacant-looking animals are more emotionally complex than given credit for, and have the capacity to form intimate social bonds. For the sake of animal welfare, Krista McLennan led a study that tracked how heifers respond to isolation. The doctoral student from Northampton University monitored several physiological parameters such as cortisol levels (which correspond with stress) and heart rate.
McLennan found that not only do cows prefer the company of other specific cows but that they even pick out best friends -- the cows' vital signs were most favorable when paired with their best friend, as opposed to a random stranger cow. Without their BFFs, they got sad. And with the noble heifers' demeanor negatively affected, milk production dropped. Just like every human on the Internet, cows can be socially awkward and become stressed when removed from their buddies. In the modern era of big-money farming, this scenario is commonplace, and cows are constantly separated then forced into new groups, like some kind of bovine speed dating.
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"Wait, you like eating grass and staring blankly all day? No way, me too!"
We have no idea what society is supposed to do with this information (slaughter them in pairs, with their friends? That only seems weirder). We guess just keep in mind the next time you drive past a pasture that the cow you see grazing out there might have more close friends than you do.


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