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Acme Translation Company
Acme Translation Company (Academic Translation Service Center) is a professional translation company approved by and registered with National Industrial & Commercial Administration Bureau.
APlus Translations Inc.
Providing the highest quality translations, guaranteed results and reasonable costs to global companies large and small, APlus Translations' professionals specialize in many fields to ensure effective communication in over 40 languages.
Beijing HYW Translation Co., Ltd
We are a large translation service company, founded and managed by several experts from well-known universities in China such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, etc.
Ningbo Yes TranslationCo., Ltd
To provide accurate, timely, high-quality translations, we follow a rigorous translation process which includes editing, proofreading, and formatting the original translation.
Active Translators S.R.L.
High quality translation services into/from romanian language. Professional linguists and engineers focusing on the quality of services and efficiency.
ACTSPAND Pte Ltd
Operating in Singapore and Lima, Peru, we offer trading services (organic health food products / ingredients from South America), and translation services (Chinese, English, Spanish and other major languages).
Beijing Institute of Century Simultaneous Interpreting
Beijing Institute of Century Simultaneous Interpreting (BICSI), a leading translation company in China, provides document translation, simultaneous interpretation and consecutive interpretation between Chinese and dominant languages.
Beijing Jingyitong Translation Co.,Ltd
We provide English, Japanese, French and other 50 languages in total for Mechanics, Computer, Education, Government, Energy industries, and so on.
Beijing Sindeyar-Win Translation Co., LTD
Beijing Sindeyar-Win Translation Co., Ltd is a commercial service company devoted to the business of translation and interpretation. The Chinese characters in our name reflect our business philosophy. "信" (Xin means be faithful to the original version),
Canada-El Salvador Chamber of Commerce
[El Salvador]
We are El Salvador's Most Dynamic Chamber, located in Central America. We are working to improve bilateral business relations between El Salvador and Canada, by partnering our members with businesses in Canada, El Salvador and now globally.
Chinamultiservice Consulting Co. Ltd
Chinamultiservice Consulting Co., Ltd. is a consulting firm specializing in providing services to companies, institutions, and foreign economic entities intending to enter the Chinese market. Registered as a Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise, Chinamultiserv
CLS Lexitech Ltd
CLS Lexi-tech language translation: We make sure that your message is understood in any language! We understand that your core business requirement is best met by getting your message and information across precisely.
CNX Translation
[Hong Kong]
Translation, transcription and localization services in English, French, Chinese, Thai and more...
Cosmic Europe Limited
Cosmic Europe Limited (CER) is a Business Service Provider based in the United Kingdom with an ISO certified delivery center based in Chennai, India. We provide professional translation services, DTP, Localisation, Transcription and Accounting services.
DTGlobal is a professional consultancy focused on establishing and expanding business initiatives into Latin American markets. Our core services include Market Research, Strategic Marketing, Marketing Deployment, and Event Management.
ET Yana
I deal with translations and interpretations in English,Bulgarian and French.
Fitch 1000 Qingdao International Freight Forwarders Ltd.
Fitch 1000 Qingdao International Freight Forwarders Ltd, the country's Ministry of Commerce approved the establishment of an international freight forwarding company with a registered capital of 5 million. Specialized in, maritime transport, air transport
Foreign Market Consulting
FMC is an international consulting and service company specializing in strengthening the market position of clients in Turkey. We offer a broad range of services from research to finance and business services - a true, single, local service partner.
Galax Logistics Co., Ltd.
China based, headquarter in Shanghai WCA alliance member of creditability MOC-NVOCC licenced NVO, government authorized Latin America trade is our advantage Specialized DG/Chemical handling
Ghana-Chinese Translators
Providing translation services for ghanaian and chinese importers and exporters. Mainly for chinese and ghanaian importers and exporters from china into ghana and vice versa.
Giant Translation Co., Ltd
We are a high-speed commercial translation & printing company, mainly formed by a high-speed translation center & a high-speed printing center.
Global Wine China Group Limited
A group of highly skilled persons knowing the wine industry from the different angles and their joint experience in the China market will be the best choice for any wine producer willing to tackle the Chinese market
Growth Wings Consulting Corp.
Growth Wings Consulting helps your business to enter Turkey. We have verity of services including; market search, business feasibility study (including government incentives for Canadian companies moving to Turkey), marketing your business venture for Tu
Guang Zhou Quang Yi Translation
We are professional translation company located in Guang Zhou City. We have a team of full time/part time prefessionals in different industries. We provide value added service to our customers.
Guangzhou International Business House Ltd.
Guangzhou International Business House Co., Ltd. is one of the leading exporter of many products in different part of the world.
Guangzhou Won Translation Organization
The organization was established in 1998 and now has more than 400 certified and accredited linguists, as well as specialized teams. We act as a bridge between languages
The scope of our services is Business Development for small and medium sized companies wanting to start their businesses in central Europe. We are specialized to the German speaking parts of Europe - Germany (D), Austria (A) and Switzerland (CH).
Ideal Ideas Graphics
Ideal Ideas Graphics has been providing quality book publishing services at most affordable price. Founded in 2006, Ideal Ideas Graphics is an India based company having experienced, dedicated staff in our state-of-the-art production facility guarantee yo
Jac OlaNigeria Limited
We import printing papers and boards for resale in wholesale, we are also into commercial printing and light packaging and printing of security documents for all kinds including annual reports and calendar including exercise books
Jiangyin Tsinghua Foamplastics Equipment Co., Ltd
Jiangyin Tsinghua Foamplastics Equipment Co.,Ltd We are a technical EPS machinery manufacturer with over 17 years' experience. We make EPS Pre-expander (Batch and Continuous), Block Molding Machine (vacuum and air cooling), Silos, Block Cutting Line, CNC
Kunming Tianheng Translation Company Ltd.,
Precisely written-translation, simultaneous interpretation, consecutive interpretation,localization,multi-media,translation training,etc. 100,000 translation talents tank,2000 talents serve for frequent tasks. Kunming Tianheng-Your Languages Provider
L&M Accessories Co.,Ltd
We specilize in many kinds of bags, being made of cotton, canvas, leather. Our customer spread all over the country, especially for bikini company, promotion gifts. Pls feel free to contact me if you are in need of these products.
自刘邦建汉朝起,中国与世界其他国家的交流才逐渐开始,文明古国打开了与其他文明交流的大门,于是乎出现了丝绸之路的文化经济走廊,中国走出了迈向世界的第一步。。。 如今经济全球化迅速蔓延的信息时代,世界各地各国的交流沟通更是如火如荼,可语言却成为了阻碍不同国家人民交流的一大障碍,为了弘扬我中华民族历来与世界人民修好,促进全球交流的优良传统,并使世界各国各组织及人民能够共同向前发展,我刘邦翻译公司隆重出场了。 我们的宗旨是:弘扬文化、促进交流、共同发展,从打造和谐中国开始走向和谐世界!
M.A.S. Consulting Development
Around four founding members, a team in constant resonance with the pace of the world economic and its financial markets. Combining expertise and experience, they share the same business ethics characterized by «Innovation, Integrity and Efficiency»
Mendoza Trade and Consulting
We are a trade and consulting company specialized in the business between Latin America and Turkey. We provide consultancy services, buying agent services, intermediary services, translation services. We have references in Latin America and Turkey
Mes-A International
We provide the needed platform to leverage the business between Central America and Europe. Our customers get an European representative through Mes-A International.
Navigator International Freight Agency Co., Ltd.
Class A freight forwarder locates in China. With over 9 years experience in handling overseas shipments, with competitive rate, reliable service. All rate inquiry, cargo tracking request and other overseas needs will be processed within 10 minutes.
Objective Turkey
We are a Business & Consultancy Center in Istanbul. We provide business solutions focused on the development of international commercial activities and foreign investments in Istanbul. Rent Office, Virtual Office Company set-up, Domiciliation, Payroll
Ooo Ascent (Moscow)
Ascent Swiss Business Management AG assists Swiss companies in their expansion to East and Central Europe and Russia. Through our assistance you will get: Security for the implementation of your project abroad Faster Results Reduced project costs
Perse International Forwarding Co., Ltd
PTB was established in 1961 and is one of the most experienced freight forwarders in Iran. The company is wholly privately owned. With over 400 employees in Iran. PTB Group have built and owns 900'000 sqm of terminals in B. Abbas, Tehran.
Play sas
Translations agency and audio production Co. Translations, trasriptions and voice overs in all languages from 0,06 €/word. All mother tongue translators and voice talents
Qingdao OM Translation Co., Ltd.
As a professional Chinese translation agency, Qingdao OM Translation Co., Ltd. may organize and deliver quality multilingual translation services in almost every major cities of China: English translation, Chinese translation, German translation, French
Qingdao Senior Translation & Consultation Co., Ltd.
Qingdao Senior Translation & Consultation Co., Ltd. is a Chinese translation company with a history of over 10 years. With over 4,000 employees in almost 40 countries
Roran Language Services Co., Ltd.
Roran Language Services Co., Ltd. was founded in September 2003, which provides complete technical translation and training courses by foreign experts and well-experienced translators and educators, respectively in our Translation .....
Shanghai Yizhou Interpreting Co., Ltd
We are a professional interpreting company in Shanghai, providing more than 100 languages translation.
Shenzhen Donghong Logistics Co.,Ltd
Donghong Logistics has branch offices in each main port of China. If you want profession, Shenzhen Donghong logistics will be your best choice. Choosing Shenzhen Donghong logistics means choosing the best service and best rate.
Shenzhen Hansea Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. Shunde Branch
We are mainly exporting Furniture,Ceramic, Sanitary,Home decoration and do Shipping to all ports. Ten Service: Suppier Inf.Provider,Translation, Purchase order processing,QC,Payment, Loading, Trucking&Customs, Shipping, Do export doc., Business updated.
Sherwood Language Centre EIRL
We provide translation and interpretation services at the most competitive rate in latin america.
Sima Intertrade (Thailand) Co.,Ltd
Air and Sea International services. Inbound and Outbound services. Door to door services. Logistics services. Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) Consolidate shipment from China. Courier both document and goods. Insurance services in transpo
Suzhou Hengshunda weaving Co.,Ltd
our company is a specialized in both domestic and international orders,We import many advanced weaving looms.currently,over 70% of out products are export aboard,we are good at 100%polyester,nylon,cotton,etc. expect to do business with you! April
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Mathematics has a long tradition of using counter-examples as a way of illuminating structure in theory. Especially in more abstract areas like topology, canonical counterexamples provide a quick way of teasing out fine structure in sets of axioms and assumptions.
A brief foray through Amazon.com revealed catalogues of well known counter examples in topology, analysis, and graph theory. On the web, there are pages on counterexamples in functional analysis, Clifford algebras, and mathematical programming.
What would be good candidate areas for a list of counter-examples in theory ? Complexity theory springs to mind: simple constructions (diagonalization, what have you) that break certain claims.
In combinatorial geometry, one might be able to come up with a list of useful structures. Personally, I find the projective plane to be a useful example to demonstrate the limits of combinatorial arguments when reasoning about geometric objects.

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April 2, 2009
Birthday party season
It has been a crazy week so far. Busy as usual - just a normal week except for an emergency dental appointment on my behalf - but with K. gone for most part of this week things have been a little wild for me. Today he'll be back, though! Everything back to normal...sort of. The girls have busy calendars right now - with sports events dominating last weekend and birthday parties the weekend to come - three to be precise (good two of M.'s friends have decided to have their parties together!)! So, we'll be busy wrapping presents the next few days. We got all of the presents yesterday, so that's a good thing, and the girls will take care of the wrapping. They like to do this themselves. They love to decorate their friends' presents and to write little messages on them. I always keep a stock of (colored) plain wrapping paper or craft paper at hand. With that and colorful markers they come a long way in giving the presents a little personal touch!
A couple of times I've also sewn a fabric bag to wrap the presents in. And that's exactly what I've been doing yesterday evening for H.'s best friend, whose birthday is coming up next Sunday. H. made a portrait, which I scanned and reduced and then printed on - yes, you've guessed it - iron-on transfer paper (I didn't forget to mirror-print this time - isn't that amazing?!). The result you can see above. I'm actually really pleased with the way it turned out. Making a drawstring bag like this is fairly easy. What makes this one special are the details, not in the least the nice portrait H. drew. She used opaque pigment markers which I got a long time ago. They're meant to be used on terracotta, tile, wood... but we've used them for many other "applications" as well, like decorating wrapped up presents... and now this portrait. They have this velvety look, almost like when using soft pastels, only they don't rub off like soft pastels do. And because of their opacity they are extremely well suited for scanning pictures, I noticed. Something to remember.
The bag was just hands-on sewing. Took the scissors - cut the fabric (linen and cotton, same as usual) - sewed the seams and that's basically it. I might write everything down, as I plan on making one for H. too. I did a drawstring bag for M. a long time ago (she liked it and is still using it!) but H. never got one of those. First, however, I need to make two more for M.'s friends. Though I think I might go for an even simpler version, without the lining to start with...
Labels: crafts, iron-on transfer, kids projects, sewing
6 comments:
- jane said...
How lucky are H.´friends! Hey my b-day is coming up...:) Have a great day!
- April 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- NoeKs blogt... said...
I just discovered your blog, it is so great! I will definitely bookmark you!
- April 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM
- Shannon said...
The bag turned out great! I love the idea of the picture on the front - so cute.
- April 2, 2009 at 7:40 PM
- cindy : quaint said...
i love the bag ... the drawing is wonderful!
- April 3, 2009 at 12:02 AM
- Cathy said...
Cool bag you have.. I like it.. and Happy birthday H!
- April 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM
- Sharon said...
I noticed the loop at the bottom - is this actually a backpack? I love the idea of the loop vs. grommet (as I'm too cheap to buy grommet pliers right now!)
- November 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM
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January 16, 2002
The President Signs H.R. 3061, Making Appropriations
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On January 10, 2002, President Bush signed into law H.R. 3061 (Public Law 107-116), Making Appropriations for the Departments of Labor, HHS and Education, FY 2002. The bill includes the following provisions of interest to SSA:
- Provides that any previously appropriated funds unobligated as of the end of fiscal year 2001 are available to continue the evaluation of SSA's demonstration projects to promote Medicare buy-in programs
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Dany vs The Sens
The first game (and only game this season) where Heatley faced his former team became a very big media event. The amount of coverage normally seen in San Jose was doubled due to the Canadian interest. Sportsnet did a special half hour pre-game show and TSN dispatched a crew to cover the game and the story.
It turned out there really wasn't much of a story to cover. Despite being riddled with questions neither Heatley nor anyone else said anything new or different about the circumstances of his departure from Ottawa. He spent a good deal of time telling everyone how happy he is here in San Jose. The bulk of the emotion left in this divorce will bubble to the surface next season when (with the cross over schedule) the Sharks visit Ottawa. The fans will get their first chance to vent directly at Dany and they will. With Alexei Yashin out of the NHL there will be a new "most hated" man at SBP.
Ultimately the fans will get to spray venom at the man who spurned their team and their city, but frankly I don't get the sense that Heatley cares at all. He will expect the boo's and they wont hurt his feelings. Dany appears to me to be a person who wants what he wants and doesn't particularly care how it might affect anyone else thus he wont care about the boo's.
Sharks fans might want to take notes on how all this works. Dany's history indicates there is a good chance the same thing will happen eventually in San Jose. When that day comes the person I will feel sorry for is Sharks GM Doug Wilson. Every sports TV network will pull out his statements when the deal was done. Wilson said he had no concerns about Dany's character or commitment when he arrived from Ottawa. When Dany pulls the chute in Northern California he will again have very little if any concern for those affected by it, but Wilson will be harshly judged for mis-judging the character of a high priced star player.
See you at the rink.
4 comments:
- Phil Green said...
I think your insight is right on Dean. Of course I don't really know but I get the same sense about Kovalev.
Kudos to character guys like Alfie, Fisher and Neil (and others) who like being here.
- December 3, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Amen Dean!
I'm just curious how did Dany interact with you guys, who used to cover him when he was in Ottawa?
How was it when you ran into him in the hallways, at practice or at the press conference?
Was there any awkwardness on either side? Did he ignore you guys? Did he say a sheepish 'hello'? Or did he just say "wassup" as if nothing ever happened?
If I was Heatley, running into the Ottawa media would like running into and old ex-girlfriend I abruptly dumped and havent spoken to since.
But then again Healtey's brain seemingly doesnt work like most people's...
- December 3, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Dean Brown said...
Dany was no different than he normally is. I only saw him for a moment and I felt awkward but I dont think he did. I dont beleive he beleives he has anything to be awkward about. I beleive he beleives most of the ottawa media are either stupid or petty or both, and thus he seems to have an air of superiority when talking to us.
- December 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM
I'm going to be honest Dean, most of the venom I've heard is coming from the media...personal attacks and rumours and anger.
I just don't get it.
I care about a few things. Two points in the standings and my local team; I was thus baffled when Carkner (I think) attacked Downie because of the McAmmond incident. McAmmond isn't on my team so he gets shuffled out of my mind's drawers.
Same with Dany...he's in San Jose, he's not with us, thus I could care less.
I'm really more concerned with the fact the Senators need to win two straight games (granted the Anaheim one is very winnable) to come back .500.
Heatley, Yashin, whomever...not on my team, don't give a crap if they play or retire.
- December 4, 2009 at 12:27 PM


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- It's all in the details: Car Detailing
A car full of crumbled Cherios, spills from a 'sippy' cup, and sticky fingerprints on the window doesn't really scream dating-diva like she deserves. Get her car detailed to make her feel like a princess in a (clean) carriage.
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This little invention can do wonders for the bottom of a lady's pride and joy- her designer purse. The hook grabs onto the table top and provides a cradle for her purse, preventing the "bag on the floor vs. bag on the lap" dilemma.
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There's a difference between gardening and yard work… and one sounds a bit more glamorous. Have a professional yard crew come clean up any extra weeds or overgrown shrubbery on the lawn. You could also hit up the nearest home improvement store and surprise her with a few hours of manual labor and yard-freshening flowers.
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Most mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures raise no significant antitrust issues. On the other hand, any deal that involves one of your company's competitors — no matter how small the deal or how minimally the companies compete with one another — can raise antitrust risks, and it is wise to seek antitrust advice before closing. Two recent enforcement actions by the US antitrust agencies demonstrate just how risky and costly it can be when companies consummate a transaction, only later to find that their transaction faces a serious merger challenge.
The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforce Section 7 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits transactions that substantially lessen competition in any line of US commerce. State attorneys general and private plaintiffs also have rights to obtain relief under the statute. Even when a deal is not subject to the procedural provisions of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, either because its value falls below the current reporting threshold (which in 2014 is $75.9 million) or because it is exempt from premerger filing requirements for another reason, the transaction may still be challenged. It is most important to note that, once a deal has been consummated, the buyer will own the assets and therefore will bear the entire burden of defending the transaction. This means that the seller will walk away with the purchase price, while the buyer will face all of the costs of a post-closing remedy on its own, rather than being able to share the antitrust risk with the seller.
Post-closing remedies can be quite costly, as they evidently have been for the internet-based software provider that was the defendant in United States v. Bazaarvoice, Inc. In mid-2012, Bazaarvoice, which sells ratings and review platform software for website commerce sites, acquired PowerReviews, Inc. for $168 million. The transaction was not reportable under the HSR Act because PowerReviews revenues were below reporting thresholds. However, six months after the deal closed, the DOJ filed suit alleging that Bazaarvoice had acquired its primary competitor and that the acquisition was illegal under Section 7 of the Clayton Act. Following a full trial, Judge William Orrick of the US District Court for the Northern District of
California agreed, issuing a decision and scheduling a hearing to determine the appropriate remedy.
As a general rule, the most appropriate remedy in horizontal merger cases is to re-create the competitive structure of the industry that would have existed had the acquisition not taken place. Following the district court's unfavorable decision but before the court had determined what remedy to impose, Bazaarvoice agreed to sell off all of the assets it had acquired from PowerReviews to Viewpoints LLC. Bazaarvoice's divestiture also included additional important assets, such as perpetual licenses to Bazaarvoice's patents and the ability to use its trade secrets, know-how and other proprietary information, so that Viewpoints will be able to assume the competitive position that PowerReviews would likely have achieved by the time of the divestiture had it not been acquired nearly two years before that date. Although Bazaarvoice presumably recouped at least a portion of its investment in PowerReviews from this sale, it was later required to provide its new competitor with additional assets important to its business. As the defendant, Bazaarvoice also had in the meantime borne not only the costs of litigation but also the significant disruption to its business that any litigation brings.
Similarly, as is apparent from Federal Trade Commission v. St. Luke's Health System, Ltd. and its related litigations, the costs of an antitrust remedy post-consummation can come from several sources. Despite an ongoing investigation by antitrust enforcement authorities, at the end of 2012, St. Luke's Health System acquired Saltzer Medical Group, both of which are based in Boise, Idaho. The FTC and the Idaho attorney general challenged the consummated transaction three months after the parties had closed their deal, alleging that the acquisition gave St. Luke's an 80 percent market share of the primary care physicians in Idaho's second largest city, Nampa. Two competitors of St. Luke's also had already filed suit to unwind the transaction, and the actions were tried together before Judge B. Lynn Winmill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. He found in favor of the plaintiffs in January 2014. The judge ordered that the parties immediately unwind the transaction, despite their request for a stay pending appeal to the 9th Circuit. In addition, the Idaho attorney general and private plaintiffs are seeking more than $10 million in reimbursements from St. Luke's to recover their attorneys' fees, a claim that is allowed under the Idaho Competition Act.
Both of the above cases show why a look at possible antitrust risks need to be undertaken in connection with any transaction, particularly those between competitors. In addition, the costs could be increased if either of the antitrust enforcement agencies decided that the transaction was an appropriate case in which to seek disgorgement. Both the DOJ and the FTC have made clear that, in appropriate circumstances, they may seek also to disgorge ill-gotten gains in consummated merger challenges — in addition to a divestiture — if the merged firm has reaped benefits of reduced competition during the period before the remedy is imposed.
Experienced antitrust counsel can evaluate and provide advice about the possible risks of a particular transaction. Although antitrust cases themselves are often long, drawn-out litigations, the evaluation of antitrust risk for most transactions can be conducted quite expeditiously and during the same timeframe that the parties are doing due diligence and negotiating the purchase agreement. The statement that buyers should beware certainly holds true in these instances, and any costs of seeking early antitrust advice are far less than the possible costs of bearing a full antitrust defense.
Originally appeared in InsideCounsel on July 2, 2014.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
How Many Books? by Andy Scheer
9 comments:
- Cheryl said...
Oh, I could barely guess at this point. On one of my Kindles I have close to 300 books. The other Kindle, has 50 or so now that I'm using the new one. Between our mish-mash of bookshelves-twelve at last count--in various sizes, sometimes loaded two deep and sinking in the middle, I would definitely say more than a thousand books. I can't even think about what's in the basement or tucked into closets.
- February 21, 2012 at 10:49 AM
- Davalyn Spencer said...
My husband is a brave man. By trade, he was a rodeo bullfighter for several years, and then a cop. But the other day he walked into my office and said, "Why don't you get rid of some of these books. You've read them all."
He's still alive, but wiser now. Bulls and bullets may be challenging, but the importance of a wife's beloved books is nothing to mess around with.
- February 21, 2012 at 12:11 PM
- Joanne Sher said...
We have a library in our house. In that room alone? Eight bookcases, most of them between six and seven feet tall. All full. Plus books on the floor, four more bookcases in the living room (also full), and more in the kids' rooms, and on top of my headboard.
I'm not even gonna guess what that adds up to. But A LOT.
- February 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM
- Kathryn Elliott said...
Our small entryway contains floor to ceiling shelves with approximately 800 books. What amuses me most is their arrangement. Top 5 shelves; classics left to me by my late grandfather, cookbooks (which I hoard) and stories I've worn thin with re-reads and cannot part with. Bottom three shelves; anything Dr. Seuss ever wrote, seven books about "the big boy potty" and enough pop-up books to blanket China.
- February 21, 2012 at 2:09 PM
- Katherine Hyde said...
We have bookshelves in every room and hallway of the house (except the bathrooms, and they usually have odd stacks). The living room, office, and bedrooms have multiple bookcases. I once added up how many feet total, but I've forgotten the number now. Anyway, the number of books is constantly growing, so why bother?
- February 21, 2012 at 3:47 PM
- Rick Barry said...
I enjoyed these heart-warming answers. Someday people will describe their book collection by the amount of memory used in their electronic devices, but for now I still have an affinity for real paper and real ink.
- February 21, 2012 at 5:08 PM
I've yet to hear what people with only an electronic version of a book do at an author event. Perhaps they bring an engraving tool so the author can "sign" their Nook?
- February 21, 2012 at 6:31 PM
- Joe Lalonde said...
Oh wow, between my wife and myself I have no idea. I have an overflowing bookshelf in our living room with books in stacks on the floor. My wife has a room dedicated to her books. Plus a couple of boxes stuffed into the basement.
- February 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- Linda Glaz said...
Oh yeah, enough books to keep my allergies going for years. My husband can't part with any of them, so I pop a claritin each night and deal with it...
- February 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM


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Resource people can and should play a vital role in changing communities. City governments, community institutions, organizations and groups are often confronted with issues that make special knowledge and assistance a must in forming intelligent decisions.
Printed materials assist in exploring information that adds meaning to community decision making. But, many community issues cannot be resolved by canned or packaged programs. It is impossible to design a program to fit every local community situation. Complex or technical problems can best be explored with the help of experts or consultants.
Many community issues require people with special training or competencies. When their knowledge or experience is consulted and weighted by local working groups, many pitfalls can be avoided.
There are many recognized authorities available to communities concerned about specific issues. Communities searching for an authority may be confronted with difficulties if the community problem is only identified in general terms. A generalist may be needed to assist local people in specifically identifying the issue in question. This type of resource person should be competent in community development principles and techniques — the problem solving process, group dynamics and other related skills.
A generalist can often be found in the community. Local institutions and agencies often have trained people who can assist. The University system has area community development specialists who can be contacted through your local MU Extension center. Many other local institutions, organizations and agencies may be points of contact for general community concerns.
There are many public and private organizations with specialists that may be consulted on community issues. In specific situations authorities (because of training, experience and special focus of their agencies' programs) may disagree on principles or procedures. Such disagreements may be frustrating to local groups who consult a number of experts. However, different points of view and various approaches allow the study committee to choose the best solution or to develop a new solution from the several features.
There are six criteria in considering the selection of a technical expert or resource person:
It is difficult to find a person with these six factors to assist a group in decision making. Experience working as a resource person with similar groups, issues and situations is invaluable. Firsthand knowledge of experience of other groups with the expert may also be helpful.
Other important considerations in choosing resource persons are:
MU Extension community development specialist are a good source of information on trained and experienced experts.
The resource person's training and experience will greatly affect what he or she thinks he or she is expected to do. Many experts believe their role is to tell, advise, inform or give answers. Others believe their role is to consult, to assist in consideration of the possible solutions, to give information and facts, but to leave the decision to the group.
Local groups with little experience in working with resource people may expect absolute answers. Because of lack of competency regarding the complexities of the issue, local people may fear to display ignorance by asking the expert questions.
Community decisions involve more than the technical aspects of the issue. The expert may not know about local customs, local needs and local ability to implement proposals. Non-tangible and often unobservable feelings, beliefs, values and attitudes are important to continuing, ever-changing community development programs.
Technical assistance in a cooperative effort with local people is often the most fruitful approach to community development. Both the expert and the local people have a vital role to play.
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Recently pulled into the spotlight by starwars.com, the white prototype armor for Boba Fett was first seen in a 1978 screen test.
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In the clip, sound editor Ben Burtt introduces the viewer to Boba Fett, as portrayed by assistant editor Duwayne Dunham. In later photos, Alan Harris models the suit.
In the video, they test out a lot of Boba Fett's armor and weapons. He also temporarily has a Star Wars beach towel.
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A weeklong bombing campaign by Israel has pushed Gaza's biggest hospital to the brink — beds filled with the critically injured, the wails of relatives filling the air and supplies running short.
In one bed sat Na'ema Al Battch, the matriarch of a Palestinian family that lost 20 members in an airstrike. She had a broken arm, but spoke only of the pain of seeing sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, nieces and nephews killed.
"May Allah avenge you, Israel," she said as she was comforted by two other women who survived the attack. "You left no one of my family."
'Chaotic and Intense': Inside a Hospital in Gaza CityJuly 15, 201401:14
A doll with a red dress and a head scarf lie next to Shayma'a Al Masri, a three-year-old girl with an IV in her arm and bandages on her torso.
Her father, who fingered a string of beads as he spoke, said he lost his wife and two teenage children in an Israeli airstrike on July 9.
The family was walking on the street when the bomb hit. He survived only because he had run back into the house to grab some belongings before they escaped the violence.
His eldest daughter, 17-year-old Aseel, was engaged to be married when she was killed. "We had arranged her clothes, gold, and everything was planned. It was just a matter of time," he said. "Praise be to the lord who has chosen her."
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Another patient, 11-year-old Ahmed Shamalakh, took shrapnel in the chest after an airstrike hit as he was picking dates in the yard by his family home. His mother brought him homemade squash soup because he would not eat hospital food.
A 15-year-old named Sally, who has cerebral palsy, was living in a home for the disabled that was attacked. She suffered burns on 25 percent of her body and the doctors at the overburdened hospital said they were struggling to keep her alive with a dwindling supply of ointments and bandages. Two women were killed, and six others were injured in the attack.
Over 180 Palestinians and one Israeli civilian have been killed since hostilities flared up a week ago.
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There is a time and place for parents to buy things for their children and help them financially. But that time and place has a different cut-off for everyone.
For some, it's the age of marriage. For others, it's 18, period, end of story. For others, it's much murkier. They have parents who continue to take them shopping, pay for their children's day care and private school tuition, and even supplement vacations and other extravagances. Wow.
A heated discussion on CafeMom brought this question to the forefront and it's a good one. As a mom myself, I can't imagine helping my 30-something child raise their child. But tuition? I would give that in a heartbeat if I could afford it. Education is education, after all. Nevertheless, as a grownup, I would have some issues taking money from my own parents. So here are 7 great reasons NOT to take cash from your parents as an adult:
- Your kids will expect it, too: If you take money from your own parents to raise your kids, they will expect to get money from their grandparents their whole life. So who will be on the hook for their kids and so on and so on. It only perpetuates itself.
- There are ALWAYS strings: Money is a complicated issue and anyone who says there are no strings is as wrong as can be. A grandparent who pays tuition may feel they should be allowed to select schools and on and on it goes.
- There is bound to be some shame: Come on now. You are a GROWN up taking money from your parents. That's embarrassing.
- The lack of independence can hurt you: When you can depend on someone else to fix your problems, it becomes very easy not to fix them yourself. At a certain point it really starts to hurt you.
- It's not REALLY yours: You know that feeling when you get something you didn't earn? Yeah. It's not so hot. It feels a little like ... it's not yours at all. If you accept gifts from your family, that is the way it would always be. Stuff you earn yourself just FEELS better.
- Your won't be able to shake your own kids financially: You will look like a giant hypocrite if you don't pony up college cash, shopping money, and eventually help pay your grandkids' daycare. It's only fair, right?
- You will OWE your parents: At some point, you will be expected to do things for your parents. If your parents are ungenerous scrooges, you get to say, "sorry I am busy" when they need you. But if they are giving you money? Forget it. You are at their beck and call. Night and day.
Do you take money from your parents?
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How to survive the oncoming train of technology
Be warned: the light at the end of the tunnel is a train! Control engineers are being dragged back into the world of manufacturing with new technologies that will affect both how and where they work.
Dan Hebert, Senior Technical Editor,
Larry OBrien, research director for process industries, ARC, and
Gregory K. McMillan, CONTROL Columnist
THIRTY YEARS AGO, we began a quest to completely change the manufacturing process. Along the way weve improved quality, reliability, throughput and uptime, and created the most profitable manufacturing sector in history, with nearly all of these productivity gains coming from automation and connecting the plant floor to the enterprise. Congratulations, colleagues, we did it.
Lynn Craig, one of the founders of WBF (the Forum for Automation and Manufacturing Professionals) and a member of the Process Automation Hall of Fame, says that from his years in manufacturing management, control engineers isolated themselves from the rest of the manufacturing world, and were able to get away with it for a very long time. But that time is over. Control engineers are being dragged back into the world of manufacturing, Craig concludes, by standards like S88 and S95.
David Beckman, retired Senior Vice President of Emerson Process Management, talked about the future of manufacturing and the role of process automation professionals in that future in his keynote address at WBF this year.
"The worm has turned," Beckman said. "For years, the trend was that, increasingly, the profits we generate go to financial analysts on Wall Street. Profits have evaporated from the people who do the work."
This is about to change. The drug industry has had a meteoric rise, pulp and paper seems to be rebounding, the oil picture appears that we are in for a long period of increasing oil prices, and every one of these growth sectors is going to require more, not less, engineering. As the first world, and increasingly the third world, nations tighten environmental regulation, this will require even MORE engineering.
But even the big engineer-constructors like Fluor, Bechtel, Jacobs and Foster-Wheeler don't have the expertise to do the projects that are currently on the drawing boards. We tried to save our way to success by cutting staff and reducing training. What is clear is that this is no longer working. Beckman showed a slide of a "new operator," with spiked hair and a tongue pierce, and asked, "What is the potential that they will be able to take over from us?"
Engineering graduate demographics in North America and Europe are dropping dramatically. "When was the last time you saw a television show that featured the 'engineer guy' as the hero?" Beckman asked. He quotes Dr. Ken Cooper, adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, who studied a recent graduating class of engineers at UP, and discovered that none of them could successfully define PID. Almost all of them knew that the "P" was for proportional, less than half knew that the "I" stood for integral, and NONE of them knew that the "D" was for derivative.
"Industry has to take a strong hand in convincing academia that there is a crying need for control specialists," Beckman admonished. This is an almost eerie dovetail with a CONTROL editorial ("C'mon Vendors, Let's Step Up!" CONTROL 2005). If end user companies and vendors aren't careful, there won't be enough engineers to make stuff work.
In the old paradigm, the corporation is the master, we are the slaves. In the new paradigm, the means of production is knowledge which is owned by the knowledge workers and is highly portable.
In the new paradigm, a large number of employees will become knowledge workers, working under contract as professionals. "Job security," Beckman opined, "is in what you know, not who you work for. I can't tell you all of what the new paradigm will look like," Beckman said. But we can.
The new paradigm is headed toward process automation professionals very fast. As Rich Merritt said in his column in the August issue of CONTROL, the technologies and techniques I wrote about have hit our industry like a freight train. Thats right. While the process industries have been reviving and jobs have been increasing, the new paradigm is expanding and the light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
The DCS Revolution Started It
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Distributed Control System, or DCS. The development of the DCS closely mirrors that of process automation itself, moving from proprietary technologies and closed systems to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components, industry standard field networks, and Windows operating systems. But the most important transformation was from a system focus to a focus on business processes and achieving operational excellence (OE) in process plants. The control engineer has been dragged into the world of manufacturing.
The DCS was introduced in 1975 by both Honeywell and Yokogawa, who had each produced their own independently designed products, the TDC2000 and the CENTUM systems. This marked the dawn of the system-centric era of the 1970s. Central to the DCS model was the inclusion of function blocks, which continue to be the fundamental building block of control for DCS suppliers, and fieldbus technologies.
In the 1980s, users began to look at DCSEs as more than just basic process control. Suppliers began to adopt Ethernet-based networks, with their own proprietary protocol layers. The 1980s witnessed the first PLCs integrated into the DCS infrastructure, as companies such as Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider and others entered the DCS market. The 1980s also witnessed the beginning of the Fieldbus Wars, continuing to this day.
From the 1980s and 1990s forward, suppliers discovered that the hardware market was shrinking, commoditizing, and becoming saturated. Larger suppliers found themselves competing with second tier suppliers, including some whose DCS emulation software ran completely on COTS products, like Wonderware, Iconics, Citect and others. The key large suppliers began to make the transition to a software and value-added service business model.
Just as it became apparent that the simple application of automation to manufacturing processes was not delivering the return on investment that it once did, suppliers began to offer new applications such as production management, model-based control, real-time optimization, plant asset management and real time performance management tools such as alarm management, predictive maintenance, and many others. In addition, suppliers began to offer the consulting services necessary to make all these new applications work.f
In the 2000s, weve seen a dramatic shift from system-centric and technology oriented approaches to a business-centric approach. Users now look at the overall business value proposition, with elements such as asset utilization, return on assets, and increased plant performance coming to the forefront. Technology for technologys sake is no longer an effective argument for justification of automation products. Again, the control engineer is being dragged into the world of manufacturing.
What Time Is On Your Watch?
You can think of what has happened to our profession this way: In the early days, we were all concerned with how to build the watch. Knowing how to build the watch was critical to success.
Later, it became imperative to also know how to tell time. So your skill set expanded. Later yet, we realized that it wasnt enough to be able to know how to build the watch and tell time. Now we needed to know what the benefits of being on time were, and the consequences of being late. So the skill set expanded once again.
That is where lots of process automation professionals are: we know how sensors work, we know how loops work, and we know how to control a process.
Unfortunately, the required skill set has expanded once again. Now it isnt enough to be able to build the watch, tell time, know what happens when youre late, and why you should be on time. Now we have to be experts on scheduling, because everything below that has become transparent.
Our primary value now is seeing to it that information from the plant is transmitted to the enterprise. You see, what has happened to process automation is that it is now working in fourth order concepts. Many of you arent there yet, and some of the new technologies arent quite there yet either. If you dont get there, and soon, that train will flatten you like a penny on the track.
Disruptive Technologies R Us
We cover these disruptive technologies regularly, so we will just list them here:
- Collaborative engineering
- Integrated simulation and design/draw software
- Remote server applications, XML, B2MML and web services
- HMI and human factors engineering
- Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) technologies like RFID
- Robust wireless systems for monitoring and control
- Mobile computing
- More and better online analysis systems
- Smart sensors and final control elements
- Real-time performance management
- Real-time asset management
Looking a great deal like George Jetsons control room, this is a three-dimensional display currently working in an ExxonMobil facility. Source: 3D-Perception AS
The operator will be a supervisor most of the time, reacting to upset of the control system and the plant process (See Figure 1). Ian Nimmo, human factors guru and president of User Centered Design Services LLC, says, In a properly run plant, the operator should not have to intervene in the plant operation except in the case of an upset, and any time the operator has to do anything, it is an upset.
What Should You Know, and When Should You Know It?
Not only is there a shortage of competent process automation professionals, both in the end user ranks and in the ranks of vendors and vendor service groups as Dave Beckman pointed out, there is a significant need for advanced process automation training. WBF, ISA and other organizations have highly developed training courses aimed directly at the process automation professional, many covering the disruptive technologies weve identified. Yet, as our July Control Poll indicates, over 45% of you wont pay for training that your employer doesnt provide. It isnt a good bet that more training facilities will become available if this trend continues. And it is a good bet that, if you dont get training on these new trends, you will be out on your ear, regardless of the shortage.
How to Survive the Oncoming Train
Our Inescapable Data vision suggests that it is not just advances in each of these technologies, it is the combination of these fundamental elements that will break barriers and magnify gains to levels not yet anticipated. We think these new combinations will lead to an explosion of benefits driving both higher personal and economic satisfaction. This is from a new book, Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence out of IBM Press, by Chris Stakutis and John Webster. Stakutis is the IBMer, CTO for emerging storage software. Webster is founder and Senior Analyst for Data Mobility Group, a TLA consultant based in Boston. Their thesis is that the convergence of technologies and ubiquity of data will drive a revolution. Applying this to process automation, we get the vision of tomorrows plant weve given you. If you want to live long and prosper in this new world of inescapable data, you will need, as Rich Merritt encourages in his column, to get your mind right about technology, and start thinking in fourth order terms. Remember, nobody cares how the watch is built, or how time is kept.
What If? Virtual Plant RealityBy Gregory K. McMillan, CONTROL columnist
THE CHEMICAL industry has had the software since the turn of the century to create a virtual plant where the actual configuration of DCS resides in a personal computer with a dynamic simulation of the process that has evolved to be a graphically configured process and instrument diagram (P&ID). At the same time, the retirement of experienced engineers and technicians at the plant, the disengagement between the operator and process from the use of advanced control, and world wide competition has created a greater than ever need for training and optimization. Potentially, the virtual plant can go where the real plant hasnt gone for good or bad reasons and replace myth with solid evidence and engineering principles.
Why are process simulators so far behind flight simulators?
What if a virtual plant offered the ability to explore new operating regions and abnormal conditions and help develop and prototype new control systems while meeting the basic but growing need of keeping operator and process engineer skills fresh?
Simulations Behaving Badly
The results in the chemical industry have been spotty at best with some notable successes but with too many disappointments. Dynamic simulations of sufficient fidelity to design control systems and train personnel in process operation often require an investment in software and engineering of more than $100K, so when the behavior of the model is erroneous, you have unhappy customers. A misleading simulation is worse than no simulation.
Unfortunately, so called high fidelity process simulators show bizarrely unrealistic dynamic responses and may even develop fatal numeric errors for startup, shutdown, extremely abnormal situations, and instabilities. These process models behave analogous to a flight simulator that is great if the plane is cruising but would be erratic or crash during a takeoff, landing, wind-shear, or rudder problem.
Forget about trying to accurately simulate batch operations and exothermic reactors with simulators designed for continuous steady state operation. Empty vessels, zero flows, non-equilibrium conditions, and process non-self-regulation are not properly addressed.
Even at normal operating conditions, the total loop dead time is often off by 1000% or more. Since the integrated absolute error in most key control loops is proportional to the dead time squared, the simulation gives no inkling of the control problem. The mismatch between the process time constant of the plant and model fares somewhat better but errors of 50% or more are quite common. The process gain is the generally the most accurate, but even then it is not suitable for direct use for tuning or model predictive controller.
Why are process simulators so far behind flight simulators?
Flight simulators can focus on the servo response of hydraulic controls for well-defined components in air or the ions in space, whereas chemical processes have significant dead times, pneumatic actuators, and thousands of poorly defined compounds. The physical properties (e.g., density, mass heat capacity, and boiling point) as a function of composition, pressure, and temperature of mixtures are missing. Often hypothetical compounds must be created and the simulation obligated to estimate the relationships. Just try to find hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide in a physical property package. If you combine this data problem with the uncertainties, disturbances, nonlinearities and slowness of the process, control valves and sensors, you are set up for a failure.
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Chemical processes have significant dead times and thousands of poorly defined compounds.
IF YOU LOOK at the block diagram in Figure 1 of a control loop (above), good physical property data and a high fidelity simulator can yield an accurate process output for a process input at steady state. When process simulators are developed by process engineers for process design, this is the beginning and end of quest. You have a design point and the information you need for a process flow diagram (PFD).
However, control engineers want to know the time response of the process variables to changes in controller outputs and disturbances. The first order plus dead time response for the loop in manual (open loop) is the simplest way of representing the dynamic response and can be used for the tuning of PID controllers or the set up of model predictive control. The overall open loop gain is the product of the valve, process and measurement gains; the total loop dead time is the sum of the pure dead times (time delay) and small time constants (time lags); and the open loop time constant is the largest time constant in the loop, wherever it exists.
Process simulators typically dont address mixing and transportation in delays in the response of the process and the sensor. They also dont include lags or delays for different types of sensors or actuators, or the installed characteristic, deadband (backlash), and resolution (stick-slip) for various control valve and positioner designs. The thermal lags of coils and jackets may not even be simulated and non-equilibrium conditions are ignored. In other words, the parameters most high fidelity process simulators focus on are the gain and primary time constant of a volume when the continuous process is up to speed.
Process simulators may not even get the process gain right because the manipulated variable used by the process engineer might be a heating or cooling rate, which neglects the dynamics associated with utility system design and interactions. The vapor is also assumed to be instantaneously in equilibrium with the liquid by means of a flash calculation. A dynamic process simulator often shows the temperature response of a perfectly mixed volume to an instantaneous change in heat input or removal rate for equilibrium conditions, which for columns and evaporators is after the mixture reaches its boiling point. Wouldnt it be grand if real plants started up or responded this rapidly and ideally? Wouldnt it be super if the severe discontinuities of split range valves and the lags and upsets from fighting utility streams were just a bad dream?
Taking Control
Control engineers who understand the importance of dead time and loop dynamics need to take the lead in the development of the models in dynamic simulations. A new definition of model fidelity is needed that emphasizes the dynamic response of a change in process variables to changes in manipulated or disturbance variables. It should cover unusual and non steady operating conditions during startup and batch sequencing, even though this may mean a sacrifice in the match between a given process input and output at design conditions. If we define and seek fidelity in terms of what a control system and operator sees and has to deal with, the promise of the virtual plant can be fulfilled.
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