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I have been posting a lot about the product – Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager. This is my first post probably on the dev topic. The post is copy\paste of the internal email that I sent to our dev team. You will find this useful if you do Globalization\Localization of your code.
Based on code reviews, I have observed some common coding confusion among devs. The #1 coding confusion is mix up between CultureInfo.InvariantCulture and CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. You will find lots on this on web but none with good examples. Below is my attempt –
What is CultureInfo?
Provides information about a specific culture (called a "locale" for unmanaged code development). The information includes the names for the culture, the writing system, the calendar used, and formatting for dates and sort strings.
This means a date of 27th November 2010, when converted to string could be "11/27/10" or "27/11/2010" or "27-NOV-2010" or something else depending on the culture. Similarly parsing back a string "3.3" as double might succeed (e.g. in en-US) or fail (e.g. Fr-fr as comma ',' and not dot '.' is the decimal separator). So it is important to use right CultureInfo any time you are converting any rich .NET object to string or are parsing string to construct the object.
For example, use CultureInfo in string.Format, XXX.ToString (like DateTime.ToString), XXX.Parse (like int.Parse), XXX.TryParse (like double.TryParse) etc.
What are various CultureInfo's?
The CultureInfo class has four static CultureInfo properties –
Property |
Description |
When to use? |
A fixed (i.e. invariant) culture info which is based on English and is independent of any region or country or other settings & cannot be changed by the user. (Note that this is not same as en-US.) All objects will give the same string when ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) is called irrespective of the language, culture, region, country or the customization done by the user. |
1. To store, retrieve and manipulate data in non-UI layer like storing\retrieving options from registry\configuration files. 2. To trace\debug or other messages that are for non-end users (like product devs). |
Culture information of the current thread based on user's current culture. This includes the standard culture chosen by the user plus any customization done on top of that (at OS level or within the thread). Because this includes customization done by the user, even for two people having same en-US culture, the data could be different. |
1. To parse data coming from the user 2. To show data to the user on the UI or console or data going into the files meant for user. |
The user's culture as represented by standards excluding any customization by user. |
There are rare scenarios where one will need these two cultures. It is best to forget them to avoid confusion. |
The culture installed with the OS. |
Some Examples!
Use Case |
Culture to use |
Reason |
Take a double as input from the user |
CurrentCulture |
Data coming as an input from the user. Refer example above – in Fr-fr, "," and not "." is decimal point separator. |
Take a date time filter from the user via a Text Box (like WIT Query) and parse it into date time object |
CurrentCulture |
Data coming as an input from the user – she will prefer to give it in her culture. |
Show a date time to the user in the UI |
CurrentCulture |
Data being shown to the user – makes it easy for the user to understand |
Show an error message to the user |
CurrentCulture |
Same as above |
Trace a message for debugging |
InvariantCulture |
Data meant for developer and not the user. You don't want to wonder what "12/6/2010" means – 6th Dec or 12th June. |
Save users last time filter to registry |
InvariantCulture |
So that even if user changes her culture, the last time filter option saved in registry works as expected. |
Serialize an object into XML to save it on the server (like UITest object) |
InvariantCulture |
The client and server culture could be different and the same data could be consumed by another user in different culture. |
Mixed Scenario – Consider WIT like query where the user gives "Created Date < 12/6/2010" in the query and saves it on the server (assume it saves it as XML). Later she opens the same query. |
– While saving
– While opening
The above might seem cumbersome – why not store and retrieve the data all along in CurrentCulture? The reason is as mentioned above – a) the client & server cultures could be different & b) there may be multiple users having different culture consuming this data. In fact the same user may have changed her culture between saving and reopening. |
- Use InvariantCulture when the data is not meant for end-user like trace messages or storing\retrieving configuration options in registry.
- Use CurrentCulture when the data is meant for the user like taking inputs in a UI or showing it in UI.
- You will probably never need CurrentUICulture and InstalledUICulture. Best is to forget those exists.


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Decades before the term "snarky" caught on with the public, Dennis Miller embodied that snappy, smart-alecky style of humor for six seasons (1985-91) as anchorman on the "Weekend Update" segment of NBCâ¿¿s "Saturday Night Live" (1975- ). Miller not only became the showâ¿¿s first cast member since Chevy Chase to make the parody newscast his own, he launched himself as one of the top political comedians of his generation. Following "SNL" and a failed 1992 talk show, the former stand-up comicâ¿¿s topical news-driven "Dennis Miller Live" (1994-2002) ran for nine successful seasons on HBO. Millerâ¿¿s follow-up TV effort â¿¿ providing colorful commentary on "Monday Night Football" (1970- ) â¿¿ proved to be a severe fumble, as his signature esoteric references and wild metaphors seemed jarringly out of place during a sports broadcast. Always anti-authoritarian, the liberal-leaning Miller shifted his political views to the right following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Millerâ¿¿s conversion was controversial, but it propelled him into new life as a media personality. After nearly a decade of TV flops, Miller hit it big again in 2007 via talk radio with "The Dennis Miller Show," which propelled the...
Decades before the term "snarky" caught on with the public, Dennis Miller embodied that snappy, smart-alecky style of humor for six seasons (1985-91) as anchorman on the "Weekend Update" segment of NBCâ¿¿s "Saturday Night Live" (1975- ). Miller not only became the showâ¿¿s first cast member since Chevy Chase to make the parody newscast his own, he launched himself as one of the top political comedians of his generation. Following "SNL" and a failed 1992 talk show, the former stand-up comicâ¿¿s topical news-driven "Dennis Miller Live" (1994-2002) ran for nine successful seasons on HBO. Millerâ¿¿s follow-up TV effort â¿¿ providing colorful commentary on "Monday Night Football" (1970- ) â¿¿ proved to be a severe fumble, as his signature esoteric references and wild metaphors seemed jarringly out of place during a sports broadcast. Always anti-authoritarian, the liberal-leaning Miller shifted his political views to the right following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Millerâ¿¿s conversion was controversial, but it propelled him into new life as a media personality. After nearly a decade of TV flops, Miller hit it big again in 2007 via talk radio with "The Dennis Miller Show," which propelled the host back to TV by way of Fox News and World Wrestling Entertainment; all of which solidified his status as one of the more important commentators on entertainment and politics.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA on Nov. 3, 1953, Miller was raised primarily by his dietitian mother, Norma Miller, in the nearby suburb Castle Shannon. After the arrivals of Millerâ¿¿s younger brothers James and Richard, the boysâ¿¿ father left the family and then died while the children were still young. His parentsâ¿¿ break-up brought pain and sadness to Millerâ¿¿s early life, which otherwise might have looked very much akin, culturally, to a typical baby boomer experience. As with many comics of his generation, the dark shortcomings that belied 1950s TV sitcom family dynamics â¿¿ which very directly hit home in this case â¿¿ profoundly informed young Dennis Millerâ¿¿s general skepticism, hostility toward hypocrisy, and scathing sense of humor. He was not alone in comedyâ¿¿s influence. His brother James "Jimmy" Miller would grow up not to perform comedy himself, but to professionally manage A-list comedy superstars such as Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Judd Apatow, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Miller graduated from Key Stone Oakes High School in 1971. Claiming to be inspired by how sharp Robert Redford looked playing Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in "All the Presidentâ¿¿s Men" (1976), he majored in journalism at downtown Pittsburghâ¿¿s Point Park University. Miller also joined the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity while at PPU, and graduated with a BA degree in 1975. After college, Miller took second place in a 1979 Playboy magazine joke-writing contest and worked in local Pittsburgh television. Throughout the early 1980s, he composed humor segments for the nightly news program "Evening Magazine" and he hosted the teen-focused "The Trolley Show," before moving to New York City to pursue stand-up comedy.
From his earliest moments on stage, Miller peppered his self-consciously laid-back delivery with winking, ironic show business clichés (such as referring to individuals as "Babe" and "Cha-Cha") while making elaborate references to all manner of cultural material, thereby creating a highly stylized series of comical metaphors. A typical Miller routine at that time might have connected movie quotes, TV characters, historical milestones, classic literature, and ultra-lowbrow entertainment figures to any given punchline. While persistently working his way up the stand-up chain in both New York and Los Angeles, Miller won a slot on the syndicated TV talent contest "Star Search" (1983-95) in 1985. The comedian Sinbad defeated him after a single round, but Miller⿿s simultaneously relaxed and acerbic technique caught the attention of "Saturday Night Live" talent scouts. That, along with Miller⿿s rising reputation on the club circuit, prompted "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels to catch the funnyman⿿s live act in L.A. In November 1985, Michaels was slated to return to the helm of "SNL" after a five-year absence, starting off with a fresh cast and new energy. In Miller, he felt he found a unique comic voice for the show⿿s pivotal "Weekend Update" feature. Originally, Jon Lovitz was set to man the anchor chair, but he proved to be too valuable a utility player in the show⿿s ensemble. Miller, by contrast, came off strongest by sticking to his own persona, which he overwhelmingly did during his tenure on the series.
The 1985-86 edition of "Saturday Night Live" turned out to be one of the more troubled seasons in the showâ¿¿s history, but Millerâ¿¿s "Weekend Update" caught on quickly and was one of the few elements to be brought back the following fall. Audiences responded positively to Millerâ¿¿s sarcasm, his frequently flipped hair, and the high-pitch giggle that he interjected after jokes that either went particularly well or bombed badly. He also spawned one of the showâ¿¿s most enduring catchphrases when he ended each "Weekend Update" by announcing: "Thatâ¿¿s the news, and I am outta here!" Along with Lovitz and Dana Carvey, Miller figured as one of the sketch showâ¿¿s primary breakout stars of the mid-1980s. That trio of colleagues even embarked on a successful series of stand-up tours beginning in 1987. Unlike his zanier cohorts, however, "Weekend Update" earmarked Miller as a political comic; a persona he brought to the first of his many HBO specials, "Mr. Miller Goes to Washington" (1988), which was recorded in the District of Columbia. His follow-up special, "Dennis Miller in Black and White" (1990), further solidified the comedianâ¿¿s standing as an anti-authoritarian â¿¿ and, in particular, an anti-conservative â¿¿ cynic.
After six auspicious "Saturday Night Live" seasons, Miller left the series in 1992 to launch his own late-night talk venture. "The Dennis Miller Show" (1992-93) was a nationally syndicated, hour-long weeknight series in the classic "Tonight Show" format that attempted to capture the "alternative buzz" of the early 1990s. Actor and "National Lampoon" editor Nick Bakay served as Millerâ¿¿s announcer/foil, while guitarist Andy Summers of the 1980s band The Police led the house band. Aside from Millerâ¿¿s free-associating, the show earned further counterculture credit by booking what were daring musical guests for the time, with first-wave Lollapalooza-era rock acts such as Henry Rollins frequently performing. Unfortunately, "The Dennis Miller Show" never caught on amidst the late-night talk wars of its era, and it was cancelled before the end of its first full season.
Cable proved a better and more fruitful fit for Miller. After hosting "The 1992 MTV Movie Awards" and starring on "Live from Washington D.C.: They Shoot HBO Specials, Don⿿t They?" (1993), the series "Dennis Miller Live" (1994-2002) debuted on April 22, 1994 as an instant hit, running on Friday nights on HBO for nine seasons. Unlike Miller⿿s previous attempt at TV talk, "Dennis Miller Live" featured a format that seemed perfectly tailored for the host. Each episode opened with one of Miller⿿s signature "rants" ⿿ a stream-of-consciousness-style monologue on a single topic that began with the phrase, "Now I don⿿t want to get off on a rant here⿦," and concluded with the statement, "⿦ but, of course, that⿿s just my opinion. I could be wrong." Hot off the rant, Miller would chat with a single guest (most often a show business or political figure), take viewer phone calls, and conclude with a news segment. Over the course of its run, "Dennis Miller Live" garnered five Emmy Awards for both the writing staff and the host himself, who was billed in each week⿿s closing credits as "400 Lb. Gorilla." Print collections of the most popular "Dennis Miller Live" monologues resulted in a best-selling series of books: The Rants (1996), Ranting Again (1999), I Rant, Therefore I Am (2000), and The Rant Zone: An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs! (2001).
During the course of "Dennis Miller Live," the comedian himself expanded into other outlets, as well. He emceed "The 1994 Billboard Music Awards" and both the 1995 and 1996 editions of "The MTV Video Music Awards," plus two more HBO projects: "Citizen Arcane" (1996) and "The Millennium Special: 1,000 Years, 100 Laughs, 10 Really Good Ones" (1999). Unexpectedly for someone who rarely played a character on "Saturday Night Live," Miller also began acting in movies. Most notably, he co-starred in "The Net" (1995), "Bordello of Blood" (1996), and "Murder at 1600" (1997). Eventually, Miller turned his sights to the world of sports.
Facing its 30th season in 2000, ABCâ¿¿s "Monday Night Football" (1970- ) aimed to enliven its on-air chatter by recruiting a non-traditional sportscaster into its commentary booth. Harkening back to Lorne Michaels revitalizing "Weekend Update" in 1985, it was Dennis Miller who won the position, beating out top contender Rush Limbaugh to the surprise of many. The prospect of Miller on "Monday Night Football" generated copious pre-publicity, but the actual results proved semi-disastrous. Millerâ¿¿s flippant tone and frequently obscure metaphors confounded fans and annoyed critics. Online sites cropped up to explain and decry Millerâ¿¿s quips, which tended toward observations such as: "I haven't seen anyone rely on the ground game this much since the battle of Verdun," and "That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche." As a result, Miller lasted only two largely lamented seasons on "Monday Night Football." Removing some of the sting from his football fumble was Millerâ¿¿s well-received portrayal of a radio shock jock in the big screen David Spade farce, "Joe Dirt" (2001). However, not long after that film, the definitive somber moment of the early 21st century made a dramatic impact on Dennis Millerâ¿¿s sensibilities, both comedic and otherwise.
Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Miller experienced a political awakening that came to embody the best-known aspects of his post-"Saturday Night Live" career. He shifted from a clearly left-leaning point of view to an outlook that appeared to be more classically conservative. Publically, Miller had traditionally backed Democratic politicians but then, especially moved by New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, he became a booster of numerous Republicans and largely aimed his barbs at liberal policies and politicians. Despite general assumptions, Miller pointed out that his stances on some hot button issues diametrically opposed those of the GOP â¿¿ specifically, he favored abortion rights and gay marriage. Personally, he defined himself as "a conservative libertarian." His tag as a hard-line righty, Miller said, stemmed entirely from his support of President George W. Bush in general, and the military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan in particular. "I think, on most things," Miller said, "I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on." Just 10 days after 9/11, Millerâ¿¿s reconfigured perspective came to light via his "Real Free Speech" commentary segment on the Fox News program, "Hannity and Colmes." Millerâ¿¿s angry, immigration-themed piece planted the seeds for later partnerships between Miller and the network, which billed itself as "Fair and Balanced," but which was popularly perceived as being tilted toward the right.
After upping the brashness of his new ideology on the HBO special "Raw Feed," Miller returned to cable fulltime in a CNBC solo venture simply titled "Dennis Miller" (2003-05). The live, hour-long weeknight broadcast contained a news segment titled "The Daily Rorschach" and a panel conference called "The Varsity," as well as, on occasion, a chimpanzee sidekick. After a lukewarm launch, the show was pulled from the air for retooling and came back, but never found its proper audience and was quietly cancelled. The next two Miller-headlined TV projects flopped even more severely â¿¿ "The Half Hour News Hour" on Fox News and "Sports Unfiltered" (2007) on the largely hockey-focused cable network Versus. On the positive side, Miller did manage some good notices for playing himself in director Jason Reitmanâ¿¿s cinematic send up of the cigarette industry, "Thank You for Smoking" (2006).
Still, despite what was deemed his prickly and â¿¿ especially post-9/11 â¿¿ even divisive persona, Miller remained a generally well-liked public figure. While ardently speaking out against mainstream Hollywood political thought, Miller reinvented himself in the public eye as a freshly effective guest on other peopleâ¿¿s programs, most notably "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." In fact, his conversion placed him in a valuable position as a sort of living counterpoint to his real-life close friend Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" (1996- ). Miller, for the right, had become the preeminent joker of the loyal opposition. As with Stewart, his masterful comic abilities proved amusing enough to entertain even those who might thoroughly disagree with him. Unlike Stewart, though, Miller had foundered for most of the 2000s while attempting to establish a proper TV outlet for his own ideas and observations. So with his conservative image firmly entrenched in the public consciousness, Miller moved to the popular medium that had proven most friendly to Republican philosophy: talk radio. Westwood One launched "The Dennis Miller Show" (2007- ) in 2007, as a live, three-hour, call-in news and political discussion program airing weekdays. Originating from Los Angeles, the show syndicated to more than 250 radio stations. In the third quarter of 2008, Talkers magazine estimated the showâ¿¿s audience at two million listeners daily, placing it among the most famous and successful AM-FM programs of its day.
Regardless of his daytime radio success, Millerâ¿¿s capabilities did not translate well to TV game shows. In 2007, he briefly hosted the quiz program "Grand Slam" on GSN. A year later, Millerâ¿¿s NBC game show "Amne$ia" (2008) lasted for just one month prior to disappearing from the air. Once again, to expand his cultural reach, Miller set his sights on the world of sports â¿¿ at least in a very broad definition of that term. Perhaps prompted by the rough-and-tumble realm of daily political talk, Miller tossed his talents into no-holds-barred arena of professional wrestling in 2009. First, he guest-hosted World Wrestling Entertainmentâ¿¿s "The 2009 Slammy Awards." Then Miller appeared on a 2009 edition of "WWE: Raw Is War" (1997- ). However odd Millerâ¿¿s wrestling adventures might have come off, it seemed somehow in keeping his other late-2009 endeavor: a Friday night commentary segment titled "Miller Time," where he cracked wise via satellite opposite verbal grappler Bill Oâ¿¿Reilly on the Fox News networkâ¿¿s bombastically combative, "The Oâ¿¿Reilly Factor" (1996- ).
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There are three classes of people: those who see...those who see when shown...and those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
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What is Flipped Teaching?
Flipped teaching is the process of moving lecture content from face-to-face class time to before class by assigning it as homework. This allows for more interactive and student-centred types of learning to take place during the scheduled class time. Flipped teaching often involves, but is not limited to, students viewing lecture videos as homework.
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- For more information on flipped teaching, visit: http://www.usask.ca/gmcte/resources/teaching/strategies_flipped.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this experience, participants should be able to:
- Articulate what flipped teaching is and why it would be used.
- Create and distribute a lecture video.
- Search for and find relevant instructional videos to use in their course(s).
- Create a student-centred lesson plan to use in class following a lecture video.
- Articulate how flipped teaching could be implemented using a medium other than lecture videos.
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Day 2 (9am - 12pm)
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The Sessions
The sessions consist of discussion and brainstorming of different ways to successfully implement the flipped classroom. Participants will create a brief lecture video. There will also be an exploration of ways to flip your classroom without creating videos for every topic.
One session will focus on making effective use of in-class time to facilitate higher-order thinking and deeper learning. The workshop comes to a close with participants creating a lesson plan for a flipped class. Participants will also share what they are working on with each other to gain valuable feedback.
- Participants will need to complete online pre-workshop activities.
- Ongoing meetings between the instructors and the participants will be arranged at a later date to continue to assist and to check-in on how these courses are proceeding and answer participants questions that have come up since the workshop.
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A person familiar with the probe by law enforcement told The Associated Press last week that Samuels admitted to an investigator for Major League Baseball that he bet on baseball. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars received good news Monday when they learned that starting guard Will Rackley's injury in Saturday's preseason game against Philadelphia was nothing more than an ankle sprain.
Rackley was hurt in the Jaguars opening series and had to be assisted to the sidelines. An MRI over the weekend revealed that it was only an ankle sprain.
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School subject: English and Spanish
Extracurricular activity: Singing and playing guitar in the worship band at my youth group
Hobbies: Helping children with special needs through the BREATHE Ministry of Westgate Chapel, singing, playing guitar, spending time with my friends, and reading
Car: My 2002 Chevy Trailblazer
Store: Life Way Christian Bookstore
Musical artist: Moriah Peters, the Rend Collective Experiment, BarlowGirl
Movie: Courageous
TV show: Duck Dynasty
Cafeteria food must-have: Salad bar
Last book read that wasn't required: Radical by David Platt
Pet peeve: When people walk very slowly in front of me in the halls at school and I'm in a hurry.
Person I'd like to meet: Joni Eareckson Tada, founder of Joni and Friends
Person most admired: My former varsity softball coach, Robert Taylor, for his great work ethic, encouragement, and strong faith.
Items always in my locker: A bag full of extra school supplies
First job: Babysitting
Top accomplishment: Going to Cambodia on a mission trip (summer 2011), growing in my relationship with Jesus, falling in love with the people there, and gaining a heart for cross cultural missions.
After-graduation plans: I hope to attend Nyack College in New York and get a master's degree in Special Education and a minor in Intercultural Studies.
Career goal: My dream is to work in a foreign country where people with disabilities are typically outcast, and begin an outreach to love, care for, and educate them.
Quote from teacher: "Leah is a passionate and driven young lady who is dedicated to making the world a better place," said Scott Leach, Principal.
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I have it: 65 I had it: 14 I want it: 100 My signature: 1
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I have it: 65 I had it: 14 I want it: 100 My signature: 1
Aqua Allegoria Bouquet de Mai is a sunny, light and fresh scent of spring. It includes notes of white flowers, wild grasses and pink pepper. It is available as 75 ml Eau de Toilette. Aqua Allegoria Bouquet de Mai was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Thierry Wasser.
Perfume rating: 3.66 out of 5 with 82 votes.
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mmm this is jummy fresh floral and slighlty fruity aswell.
The whit floral is slightly sweeten as in Elie saab the grapefruit brightens it up and making it almost a bit sour, its almost a tad to sour right away . the green gras note makes it feal like its a walk in the garden a Bright sunny day With flowers blooming all ower . pink pepper yes a slight touch of it not to much
This is a realy Bright and happy scent to me It does remind me of some other perfumes but at the moment i can not figuere out wich it is
This shure is suitable for all ladys With a joyous happy heart .. Not to serios not to shy . just happy and full of life
Not to young not to old,
I can imagin this will be great for a rainy day, to lifte the mood and expectasion for sunny days and blue skies to come ones again realy pretty
It starts out with a fruity burst of citrus. I say fruity because rather than being the fresh and typically sharp type of citrus, the lemon here is very much of the tart variety with some sweetness; like the lemon part of the lemon meringue pie. I don't get much of any pepper, maybe a little at first but it just vanishes into the lemons.
The florals are a softer presence, and are never assertive. They just sort of float around in a cloud of sunshine and springtime and grassy meadows with little flowers everywhere.
It dries down and the fruity lemons become fainter, the flowers-in-the-meadow scent lingering.
This is one of my favorites so far in the AA line. There's a time and place where I want to smell complex and make a statement, and there are other times I just want to smell like a pretty girly girl with class. This is a must have for sunshine days.
This is such a pretty scent, it's light, fresh and ethereally sweet. There definitely is a vibrant sense of a bright, dewy spring morning in the garden, especially with its crisp, peachy-fruity roses, it's one of the few perfumes I've encountered that really reminded me of our rose garden at home. There's also a gorgeous light honey note and a grassy wildflower quality, with a luminous, airy lightness to the whole thing that was really pleasant.
Drying down, it lost some of the charm for me, it was mainly a bland and slightly soapy orange flower and nothing else, but pleasant whiffs of rosy-wildflower-honey would come back every now and then. The lasting power was better than I expected, it went for a good four and a half hours and just barely resisted washing.
All in all, I'd wear this if I received it as a gift, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it, the parts of it I like are just too short-lived.
I got this without any trial. I like all its notes, so I thought that consecutively I would love it.
After trying it, I realized that in perfumes, like in food, what matters most, is not the list of the ingredients, but how you mix them.
White flowers is the strongest note, that just softens after some time, but still doesn't allow much of the rest to show. Grass just makes it and balances the sweetness of the flowers, but grapefruit and pink pepper? Barely there.
Long lasting, strong, but too flowery for me.
Honestly I think that Guerlain should think more about what they throw on market, even travel niche.
This "new" (again!) Aqua Allegoria is not bad at all, but dare I saying boring? Very dry but overloaded with heavy floral notes, the first phase fades quickly leaving a long-lasting track of... I don't know...possibly dirty floral water?
I don't mind if there is yet another Guerlain around in duty-free. I just don't like this aqua-throwing attitude and then big launches less meaningful than the past.
11. august 2012
This year travel exclusive Guerlain "Aqua allegoria" didn´t impress me at all. I love the last year "Bouquet nro2" but i find this "Bouquet de mai" is being too dry. The white flowers are huge here, but so is the green note, which really distracts me personally. Look at the notes: grass and grapefruit are both bitter notes and they are dominanting the white flowers note. The pepper note is just slightly noticeble and i would like it to be more prominent. The drydown is bit softer, since the dry grass note is not that prominnet anymore, but still it leaves me wanting for something more, more creamy notes i would say. It has a good lasting power and sillage and would be good for spring indeed. Actually it might be also qite wearable during warm autumn as well. But i will repeat once again: this time minimal composotion will not do as it did last 2 years.
There are much much better white florals out there and only because this is Guerlain and limited travel exclusive edition doesn´t help much it to become a favorite of mine sadly.
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Healthy Brains & Behavior: Understanding and Treating Youth Aggression (HBB)
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Understanding the joint neurobiological and social bases to aggression is critical to future attempts to tackle this major public health problem. The overarching goals are: (a) to conduct perhaps the most systematic integration of biosocial risk factors for childhood aggression in order to predict later aggression, (b) to conduct one of the very few biosocial interventions on childhood aggression, (c) to predict and treat two fundamentally different manifestations of aggression proactive and reactive aggression which likely have different etiologies and responsiveness to treatment. The specific aims are: (1) to assess biological (genetic, neurocognitive, brain imaging, neuroendocrinological, neurotoxin, psychophysiological, nutritional), psychosocial (neighborhood, family, school, peer, psychological) and psychiatric (ADHD, CD, ODD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, schizophrenia-spectrum) risk factors for male and female aggression in order to better predict later aggression, (2) to improve prediction by identifying the genetic, neuroimaging, psychophysiological, and neuroendocrinological factors that protect children who are socially at risk for a violence outcome, (3) to develop a genetic mouse model of aggression to test the effectiveness of nutritional interventions in reducing aggression, (4) to begin to develop a new biosocial approach to the treatment and prevention of aggression, based on both cognitive-behavioral and nutrition interventions, (5) to assess the differential prediction and treatment of two fundamental variants of child aggression: proactive and reactive aggression. The human sample will consist of 500 male and female 11-year-old children drawn from high-risk communities in Philadelphia. Three hundred participants will engage in a baseline assessment for risk factors for aggression, and then be randomly assigned to one of four three-month intervention programs: treatment-as-usual, cognitive-behavioral intervention, nutrition supplementation, or CBI + nutrition. Aggression outcome will be assessed throughout intervention and post-intervention.
The investigators believe that biological risk factors will interact with social risk factors in predicting aggression, over and above main effects of these classes of risk factors. Treatment effectiveness will interact with risk factors: those with low omega-3 and high lead exposure at intake will benefit most from the nutritional intervention; those with cognitive and affective risk factors will benefit most from the neuro-cognitive-behavioral intervention.
Condition | Intervention |
Aggression |
Behavioral: CBI Dietary Supplement: NUT |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Prevention |
Official Title: | Biosocial Prediction and Intervention on Childhood Aggression |
- Diagnostic interviews and questionnaires will be used to see measure changes in aggression and antisocial behavior. We will also check for levels of Omega-3 before and after the interventions to see whether there are changes in Omega-3. [ Time Frame: one year ]
Enrollment: | 335 |
Study Start Date: | February 2009 |
Study Completion Date: | August 2012 |
Primary Completion Date: | August 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CBI)
Participants will meet with an interventionist once a week for 12 weeks. They will discuss the child's behavior, will learn coping skills and how to deal with other people.
Behavioral: CBI
Participants will have have one hour sessions, once a week for 12 weeks, where they will meet with an interventionist to go over cognitive-behavioral skills.
Experimental: Nutritional Supplements (NUT)
Participants will be asked to take omega-3 supplements, multivitamin tablets, and calcium tablets every day for 12 weeks.
Dietary Supplement: NUT
Participants will be asked to take omega-3 supplements, calcium tablets, and multivitamins every day for 12 weeks.
Experimental: CBI + NUT
Participants will receive both the cognitive behavioral intervention and the nutritional supplements.
Behavioral: CBI
Participants will have have one hour sessions, once a week for 12 weeks, where they will meet with an interventionist to go over cognitive-behavioral skills.
Dietary Supplement: NUT
Participants will be asked to take omega-3 supplements, calcium tablets, and multivitamins every day for 12 weeks.
No Intervention: No intervention
Participants will not be asked to come for sessions or any other intervention. They will receive a list of the types of help that are available if they are interested in following up on their own.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 11 Years to 12 Years (Child) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
Entry into risk assessment component:
- Must be identified by their health care provider as meeting study criteria.
- Must be 11 or 12 years old
- Can be from the general population or who exhibit problem or aggressive behavior.
- Determination if the child meets criteria for enrollment into the at-risk risk group who will be entered into the RCT will be determined by the PI at the completion of the risk assessment day.
- Participant can be of any racial or ethnic background.
- Both youth and parent must be able to speak and understand English and able to provide informed assent/consent.
Entry into intervention component:
- Entry will be determined by the findings of the risk assessment that is conducted on study entry.
- Participants diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder or have a borderline diagnosis
- Participants diagnosed with conduct disorder or have a borderline diagnosis
- Participants who score one standard deviation above the (normed population) mean on the either the reactive or proactive components of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression questionnaire
- Participants who score one standard deviation above the mean on the aggression subscale of the CBC, will be entered into the clinical trial
- These criteria may be relaxed slightly to ensure that we have sufficient participants in the intervention phase of the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
The goal is to be inclusive rather than exclusive, so as to achieve a more naturalistic cohort of community-residing children and their parent(s). Exclusion criteria are designed to deliberately limit the sample to eliminate, to the greatest possible extent, variables that might confound our primary aims.
Exclusion criteria include:
- A diagnosed psychotic disorder
- Mental retardation
- Claustrophobia
- Currently under psychiatric care
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Conditions that preclude participation (or increase risk) in the clinical trial (Type 1 diabetes mellitus; metabolic diseases, gastro-intestinal disorders affecting nutrient absorption, cancer)
- Currently on medication that may modify lipid metabolism
- Extensive use of nutritional supplements within the previous 3 months
- Seafood allergy
- Presence or history of orthopedic circumstances and metallic inserts interfering with MR scanning; 11) pregnant in the case of females.
- There are no exclusions by sex or race/ethnicity.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00842439
United States, Pennsylvania | |
University of Pennsylvania | |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104 |
Principal Investigator: | Adrian Raine, D.Phil. | University of Pennsylvania |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | University of Pennsylvania |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00842439 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | February 2, 2009 |
Last Updated: | August 17, 2016 |
Keywords provided by University of Pennsylvania:
aggression Prevention and treatment of youth aggression |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Aggression Behavioral Symptoms |
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The dean of the University of Rhode Island College of Arts and Sciences has appointed Adam David Roth as interim director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media as the school prepares to embark on a national search for a permanent director.
Dean Winnie Brownell introduced Roth on the school's website after making the appointment June 30. Roth, who is an associate professor of communication studies at URI, officially begins in his new post on Aug. 4.
Renee Hobbs, founding director in 2012 of the Harrington School which Brownell conceived and created in 2008, decided to step down as director on June 30, but will remain on the faculty as a tenured professor, according to the school's website and URI spokeswoman Linda A. Acciardo.
A national search for a permanent director is expected to begin in 2015, Acciardo said via email.
"Searches for positions of this importance are considered strategic investments, and it is not uncommon when someone leaves a position to make an interim appointment," Acciardo said.
The dean was not immediately available for comment, Acciardo said.
The Harrington School offers programs in journalism, film/media, rhetoric, communications and related areas of study.
According to Roth's online profile, he became an associate professor at the Harrington School in 2013 after serving as assistant professor at the school and in URI's Department of Communication Studies since 2007.
Roth earned a bachelor's dual degree from the University of Pittsburgh's business program in communication and rhetoric and business administration. At the University of Iowa, he earned both a master's degree and a Ph.D. in communication studies and rhetoric, as well as a post-graduate certificate for interdisciplinary inquiry.
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Oualata ولاته |
Commune and town | |
View of the town looking in a southeasterly direction
Location in Mauritania | |
Coordinates: 17°18′00″N 7°01′30″W / 17.3°N 7.025°WCoordinates: 17°18′00″N 7°01′30″W / 17.3°N 7.025°W | |
Country | Mauritania |
Region | Hodh Ech Chargui |
Population (2000)[1] | |
• Total | 11,779 |
Official name | Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | iii, iv, v |
Designated | 1996 (20th session) |
Reference no. | 750 |
State Party | Mauritania |
Region | Arab States |
Oualata or Walata (Arabic: ولاته) (also Biru in 17th century chronicles)[2] is a small oasis town in southeast Mauritania, located at the eastern end of the Aoukar basin. Oualata was important as a caravan city in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as the southern terminus of a trans-Saharan trade route and now it is a World Heritage Site.
Oualata is believed to have been first settled by an agro-pastoral people akin to the Mandé Soninke people who lived along the rocky promontories of the Tichitt-Oualata and Tagant cliffs of Mauritania facing the Aoukar basin. There, they built what are among the oldest stone settlements on the African continent.[3]
The town formed part of the Ghana Empire and grew wealthy through trade. At the beginning of the thirteenth century Oualata replaced Aoudaghost as the principal southern terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and developed into an important commercial and religious centre.[4] By the fourteenth century the city had become part of the Mali Empire.
An important trans-Saharan route began at Sijilmasa and passed through Taghaza with its salt mines and ended at Oualata.
Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta found the inhabitants of Oualata were Muslim and mainly Massufa, a section of the Sanhaja. He was surprised by the great respect and independence that women enjoyed. He only gives a brief description of the town itself: "My stay at Iwalatan (Oualata) lasted about fifty days; and I was shown honour and entertained by its inhabitants. It is an excessively hot place, and boasts a few small date-palms, in the shade of which they sow watermelons. Its water comes from underground waterbeds at that point, and there is plenty of mutton to be had."[5]
From the second half of the fourteenth century Timbuktu gradually replaced Oualata as the southern terminus of the trans-Sahara route and Oualata declined in importance.[6][7] The Berber diplomat, traveller and author, Leo Africanus, who visited the region in 1509-1510 gives a description in his book Descrittione dell'Africa: "Walata Kingdom: This is a small kingdom, and of mediocre condition compared to the other kingdoms of the blacks. In fact, the only inhabited places are three large villages and some huts spread about among the palm groves."[8][9]
The old town covers an area of about 600 m by 300 m, some of it now in ruins.[10] The sandstone buildings are coated with banco and some are decorated with geometric designs. The mosque now lies on the eastern edge of the town but in earlier times may have been surrounded by other buildings. The French historian, Raymond Mauny, estimated that in the Middle Ages the town would have accommodated between 2000 and 3000 inhabitants.[10] Today, Oualata is home to a manuscript museum, and is known for its highly decorative vernacular architecture. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 together with Ouadane, Chinguetti and Tichitt.[11]
See also[edit]
- En attendant les hommes, 2007 documentary film about women muralists in Oualata.
Oualata images[edit]
- ^ Résultats du RGPH 2000 des Wilayas
- ^ Hunwick 1999, p. 9 n4. Walata is the arabized form of the Manding wala meaning a "shady place" while Biru is the Soninke word and has a similar meaning.
- ^ Holl 2009.
- ^ Levtzion 1973, p. 147.
- ^ Gibb 1929, p. 320.
- ^ Levtzion 1973, p. 80, 158.
- ^ Mauny 1961, p. 432.
- ^ Hunwick 1999, p. 275.
- ^ Today there is a deserted settlement called Tizert at a distance of 5 km from the town.
- ^ a b Mauny 1961, p. 485.
- ^ "Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata". UNESCO: World Heritage Convention. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- Gibb, H.A.R. translator and editor (1929), Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354, London: Routledge. Extracts are available here.
- Holl, Augustin F.C. (2009), "Coping with uncertainty: Neolithic life in the Dhar Tichitt-Walata, Mauritania, (ca. 4000–2300 BP)", Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 341: 703–712, doi:10.1016/j.crte.2009.04.005.
- Hunwick, John O. (1999), Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-Sudan down to 1613 and other contemporary documents, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 90-04-11207-3.
- Levtzion, Nehemia (1973), Ancient Ghana and Mali, London: Methuen, ISBN 0-8419-0431-6.
- Levtzion, Nehemia; Hopkins, John F.P., eds. (2000) [1981], Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa, New York, NY: Marcus Weiner Press, ISBN 1-55876-241-8.
- Mauny, Raymond (1961), Tableau géographique de l'ouest africain au moyen age, d'après les sources écrites, la tradition et l'archéologie (in French), Dakar: Institut français d'Afrique Noire.
Further reading[edit]
- Mauny, Raymond (1971), "The Western Sudan", in Shinnie, Peter L., The African Iron Age, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, pp. 66–87, ISBN 0-19-813158-5.
- Monteil, Charles (1953), "La Légende du Ouagadou et l'Origine des Soninké", Mélanges Ethnologiques, Mémoires de l'Institut Francais de l'Afrique Noir 23, Dakar, pp. 360–408.
- Norris, H.T. (1993), "Mūrītāniyā", Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume VII (2nd ed.), Leiden: Brill, p. 625, ISBN 90-04-09419-9
External links[edit]
- Map showing Oualata: Fond Typographique 1:200,000, République Islamique de Mauritanie Sheet NE-29-XI.
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Review of Greg Woolf's "Rome: An Empire's Story"
BooksIt seems fitting that a short book about the rise and fall of the Roman empire is a triumph of engineering. Greg Woolf distills 1500 years of history, bisected by the birth of Jesus Christ, into exactly 300 pages of main text, cased with a robust editorial apparatus. He accomplishes this with eighteen chapters that alternate between narrative history and a thematic overviews that include the ecology of the Mediterranean basin, the role of slavery, Roman religion, and other topics. (Oddly, one omission is a chapter on Roman engineering, a surprising oversight given the magnitude and durability of its accomplishments.) The effect of this book is a squared circle: Woolf surveys a history that is very difficult to grasp as a whole, and yet also manages to suggest a sense of texture and continuity in the values, institutions, and practices that stitched together a world for a remarkably long time.
With a similar sense of economy and leverage, Woolf endows his narrative with an interpretive dimension that rests on the indefinite article of its subtitle: an Empire's story. When it comes to the Romans, Woolf is not an exceptionalist. He is able to repeatedly and convincingly juxtapose any number of practices -- tax policy, war-making, identity formation -- with reference to earlier and later empires around the globe, both contemporary to Rome and those temporally on either side of it. He sees the key of Rome's success is the way in which the ad-hoc conquests of the late Republic, culminating in the career of Julius Caesar, gave way to the tributary empire of Augustus, in which an army loyal to the emperor maintained civil as well as military stability. This stability was severely tested in the third century CE, but successfully reorganized before a series of waves eroded and finally broke it down, a gradual process culminating with the the rise of Islam in the seventh century. This is not an original argument, of course, as Woolf, a professor of Ancient History at St. Andrews and the editor of The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World, readily makes clear. Indeed, his masterful sense of historiography suggests a lifetime of learning worn lightly. But his assertion that it's Rome survival, not its fall, that's hardest to explain is a point worth remembering.
Rome: An Empire's Story was first published in 2012 and has just been reissued in a paperback edition. It was clearly conceived as a textbook adoption, as suggested by chapters that end with sections for further reading. But it has the ease and scope of a trade book, as admiring reviews from the likes of the Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley suggests. It's hard to imagine a better introduction to the subject.
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Fabrication and magnetic properties of granular Co/porous InP nanocomposite materials
© Zhou et al; licensee Springer. 2011
Received: 30 December 2010
Accepted: 31 March 2011
Published: 31 March 2011
A novel Co/InP magnetic semiconductor nanocomposite was fabricated by electrodeposition magnetic Co nanoparticles into n-type porous InP templates in ethanol solution of cobalt chloride. The content or particle size of Co particles embedded in porous InP increased with increasing deposition time. Co particles had uniform distribution over pore sidewall surface of InP template, which was different from that of ceramic template and may open up new branch of fabrication of nanocomposites. The magnetism of such Co/InP nanocomposites can be gradually tuned from diamagnetism to ferromagnetism by increasing the deposition time of Co. Magnetic anisotropy of this Co/InP nanocomposite with magnetization easy axis along the axis of InP square channel was well realized by the competition between shape anisotropy and magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Such Co/InP nanocomposites with adjustable magnetism may have potential applications in future in the field of spin electronics.
PACS: 61.46. +w · 72.80.Tm · 81.05.Rm · 75.75. +a · 82.45.Aa
The fabrication and magnetic properties of magnetic nanomaterials or nanocomposites have been the center of attraction among researchers, due to their potential applications in high-density data storage devices, magneto-optical sensors, spintronic devices, and interesting fundamental physical phenomena [1–8]. Particularly, electrodeposition of magnetic nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanotubes in ordered nonmagnetic templates has attracted great attention because of its low cost, preferred yield of order magnetic nanomaterials, and size-adjustable properties [2, 4, 5, 9–20]. The most popular template is anodic alumina oxide (AAO) membrane because of its uniform channel arrays and chemical inertness, which has been widely used for producing magnetic nanostructures, including cobalt ferrite nanodot arrays [13], Fe, Co, and Ni nanowires, nanotubes, and nanoparticles arrays [5, 8, 14–19], FeNi ferromagnetic alloy, CoPt nanotubes [9], and so on. The growth and magnetic properties of magnetic nanomaterials in AlN, MgO, polymer templates, and superlattice matrices were also reported [21–25]. Up to now, both theoretical and experimental works have focused mainly on insulation templates, while there has not been much study conducted on the growth of magnetic nanomaterials in semiconductor templates. Recently, electrodeposition of Fe, Co, Ni, and FeNi alloy into porous silicon semiconductor matrix has been studied [11, 26–29]. It was found that the novel magnetization behaviors of these nanocomposite materials depended on deposits and matrices. For example, Granitzer et al. [29] found a new twofold switching of magnetic hysteresis curve in Ni/porous silicon composites. Therefore, electrochemical deposition of ferromagnetic metals into semiconductor templates and investigation of their magnetic properties may provide a new avenue for nanofabrication and have important applications ranging from magnetic sensing to the field of spin electronics [5, 6, 29].
In addition, owing to its direct band gap and enhanced nonlinear optical response, increasing interest has been focused on porous InP because of its potential applications in nanoscaled Schottky diodes, waveguides, solar cells, and for fabricating nanocomposite materials [30–34]. However, to our knowledge, there are no reports on the composite between porous InP matrix and magnetic materials. Furthermore, as a typical ferromagnetic materials, Co nanostructures, especially for granular Co, embedded in nonmagnetic matrices have been widely studied, where the matrices most focused were of three kinds: metallic matrices (Cu, Ag and Nb) [35–38]; ceramic matrices (Al2O3 and AlN) [5, 23, 39]; and polymeric matrices [22, 24]. In this article, we report on the electrochemical deposition of Co into n-type porous InP semiconductor matrix based on organic solution of cobalt chloride, where the organic solution, i.e., ethanol solution, was applied to protect Co from oxidization. The structure and magnetic properties of such Co/InP nanocomposites were also investigated.
Experiment details
The morphology of Co/InP nanocomposite structures was subsequently studied by field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM). The composition and crystallographic structure of samples were investigated by energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDS) system attached to SEM and X-ray diffraction (XRD) with Cu Κα radiation (λ = 1.54 Å). Physical property measurement system was applied to characterize magnetic properties of such Co/InP nanocomposites at 300 K with magnetic field sweeping from -15 to 15 KOe.
Results and discussions
Structure characterization of Co/InP nanocomposites
Magnetic properties of Co/InP nanocomposites
We have reported in this article a novel Co/porous InP magnetic semiconductor nanocomposite based on electrochemical deposition technique in ethanol solution of cobalt chloride. The ethanol solution effectively protects Co from oxidization, as confirmed by the XRD and EDS analyses. Granular Co prefers to uniformly distribute over the channel walls of the InP templates, which is different from the "bottom-up" mechanism of ceramic matrix and thereby may provide a new avenue for nanofabrication. With the increasing deposition time of Co, the size or content of granular Co embedded in the InP template increases, and the magnetic behavior of such Co/InP nanocomposites shows gradual change from diamagnetism to ferromagnetism. The comparison of shape anisotropy effects to magnetocrystalline anisotropy effects helps one to explain the magnetic anisotropy of this novel Co/InP magnetic semiconductor nanocomposite, which may lead to new applications in the field of spin electronics.
anodic alumina oxide
energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer
field emission scanning electron microscope
field-dependent magnetization
saturated calomel electrode
X-ray diffraction.
This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant NO. 10874115 and 10734020), National Major Basic Research Project of 2010CB933702, Shanghai Nanotechnology Research Project of 0952nm01900, Shanghai Key Basic Research Project of 08JC1411000, the Research fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of Chain, and the Graduate Innovative Ability Training Special Fund of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Knitting Lace with Meg Swansen DVD
As if Meg Swansen herself were sitting next to you, you can knit three beautiful lace shawls: a long, reversible Stole, a Mananita or Lace Poncho and a neck scarf version of a traditional Faroese Shawl. With her easygoing personality, Meg provides her friendship as well as her detailed instruction and a master class in knitting lace.
Item No. 80517