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LANL website receives STC International Summit Award
Los Alamos' website receives The Society for Technical Communication (STC) International Summit Award for distinguished technical communications
The Society for Technical Communication (STC) presented Los Alamos National Laboratory with a 2013 Distinguished Technical Communications award, stating the website "is clearly superior in all areas... an outstanding example of technical communication principles."
Interactivity was cited as a key ingredient of success: "The multimedia portions are masterful. All are interesting, some are riveting. They totally enhance the material."
The website is reviewed and tested regularly for usability, accessibility, and best practices for the web to improve the user experience and meet audience expectations.
Judges' comments: meets highest expectations for design, audience engagement, and usability
"Given the challenge of trying to reach both the general public and industry peers without appearing to condescend, the website mostly strikes the right balance. The site tells the story of Los Alamos well, uses an array of media (the videos are especially effective), and invites readers to support the lab's work in a number of ways.
"The redesign must have been a huge undertaking and was most successful! The new website contains a massive amount of information that is accessible to scientists and the general public. It can be used for research or for hours of enjoyment browsing high-quality information."
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"Really strong design overall."
Site organization
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"The website does a great job of organizing a large amount of information for a broad spectrum of users."
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| Correction of Proofs in "Purely Infinite Simple $C^*$-algebras Arising from Free Product Constructions'' and a Subsequent Paper
Ara, Pere; Dykema, Kenneth J.; Rørdam, Mikael
The proofs of Theorem 2.2 of K. J. Dykema and M. Rørdam, Purely infinite simple $C^*$-algebras arising from free product constructions}, Canad. J. Math. 50 (1998), 323--341 and of Theorem 3.1 of K. J. Dykema, Purely infinite simple $C^*$-algebras arising from free product constructions, II, Math. Scand. 90 (2002), 73--86 are corrected.
| Filters in C*-Algebras
Bice, Tristan Matthew
In this paper we analyze states on C*-algebras and their relationship to filter-like structures of projections and positive elements in the unit ball. After developing the basic theory we use this to investigate the Kadison-Singer conjecture, proving its equivalence to an apparently quite weak paving conjecture and the existence of unique maximal centred extensions of projections coming from ultrafilters on the natural numbers. We then prove that Reid's positive answer to this for q-points in fact also holds for rapid p-points, and that maximal centred filters are obtained in this case. We then show that consistently such maximal centred filters do not exist at all meaning that, for every pure state on the Calkin algebra, there exists a pair of projections on which the state is 1, even though the state is bounded strictly below 1 for projections below this pair. Lastly we investigate towers, using cardinal invariant equalities to construct towers on the natural numbers that do and do not remain towers when canonically embedded into the Calkin algebra. Finally we show that consistently all towers on the natural numbers remain towers under this embedding.
| Transference of vector-valued multipliers on weighted $L^p$-spaces
Blasco de la Cruz, Oscar; Villarroya Alvarez, Paco
We prove restriction and extension of multipliers between weighted Lebesgue spaces with two different weights, which belong to a class more general than periodic weights, and two different exponents of integrability which can be below one.
| Iterated Integrals and Higher Order Invariants
Deitmar, Anton; Horozov, Ivan
We show that higher order invariants of smooth functions can be written as linear combinations of full invariants times iterated integrals. The non-uniqueness of such a presentation is captured in the kernel of the ensuing map from the tensor product. This kernel is computed explicitly. As a consequence, it turns out that higher order invariants are a free module of the algebra of full invariants.
| Addendum and Erratum to "The Fundamental Group of $S^1$-manifolds"
Godinho, Leonor; Sousa-Dias, M. E.
This paper provides an addendum and erratum to L. Godinho and M. E. Sousa-Dias, "The Fundamental Group of $S^1$-manifolds". Canad. J. Math. 62(2010), no. 5, 1082--1098.
| Extreme Version of Projectivity for Normed Modules Over Sequence Algebras
Helemskii, A. Ya.
We define and study the so-called extreme version of the notion of a projective normed module. The relevant definition takes into account the exact value of the norm of the module in question, in contrast with the standard known definition that is formulated in terms of norm topology.
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Kallel, Sadok; Taamallah, Walid
Permutation products and their various ``fat diagonal'' subspaces are studied from the topological and geometric point of view. We describe in detail the stabilizer and orbit stratifications related to the permutation action, producing a sharp upper bound for its depth and then paying particular attention to the geometry of the diagonal stratum. We write down an expression for the fundamental group of any permutation product of a connected space $X$ having the homotopy type of a CW complex in terms of $\pi_1(X)$ and $H_1(X;\mathbb{Z})$. We then prove that the fundamental group of the configuration space of $n$-points on $X$, of which multiplicities do not exceed $n/2$, coincides with $H_1(X;\mathbb{Z})$. Further results consist in giving conditions for when fat diagonal subspaces of manifolds can be manifolds again. Various examples and homological calculations are included.
| Christoffel Functions and Universality in the Bulk for Multivariate Orthogonal Polynomials
Kroó, A.; Lubinsky, D. S.
We establish asymptotics for Christoffel functions associated with multivariate orthogonal polynomials. The underlying measures are assumed to be regular on a suitable domain - in particular this is true if they are positive a.e. on a compact set that admits analytic parametrization. As a consequence, we obtain asymptotics for Christoffel functions for measures on the ball and simplex, under far more general conditions than previously known. As another consequence, we establish universality type limits in the bulk in a variety of settings.
| On Surfaces in Three Dimensional Contact Manifolds
Lee, Paul W. Y.
In this paper, we introduce two notions on a surface in a contact manifold. The first one is called degree of transversality (DOT) which measures the transversality between the tangent spaces of a surface and the contact planes. The second quantity, called curvature of transversality (COT), is designed to give a comparison principle for DOT along characteristic curves under bounds on COT. In particular, this gives estimates on lengths of characteristic curves assuming COT is bounded below by a positive constant.
| Laplace Equations and the Weak Lefschetz Property
Mezzetti, Emilia; Miró-Roig, Rosa M.; Ottaviani, Giorgio
We prove that $r$ independent homogeneous polynomials of the same degree $d$ become dependent when restricted to any hyperplane if and only if their inverse system parameterizes a variety whose $(d-1)$-osculating spaces have dimension smaller than expected. This gives an equivalence between an algebraic notion (called Weak Lefschetz Property) and a differential geometric notion, concerning varieties which satisfy certain Laplace equations. In the toric case, some relevant examples are classified and as byproduct we provide counterexamples to Ilardi's conjecture.
| Proof of the Completeness of Darboux Wronskian Formulae for Order Two
Shemyakova, E.
Darboux Wronskian formulas allow to construct Darboux transformations, but Laplace transformations, which are Darboux transformations of order one cannot be represented this way. It has been a long standing problem on what are other exceptions. In our previous work we proved that among transformations of total order one there are no other exceptions. Here we prove that for transformations of total order two there are no exceptions at all. We also obtain a simple explicit invariant description of all possible Darboux Transformations of total order two.
| On the Bragg Diffraction Spectra of a Meyer Set
Strungaru, Nicolae
Meyer sets have a relatively dense set of Bragg peaks and for this reason they may be considered as basic mathematical examples of (aperiodic) crystals. In this paper we investigate the pure point part of the diffraction of Meyer sets in more detail. The results are of two kinds. First we show that given a Meyer set and any positive intensity $a$ less than the maximum intensity of its Bragg peaks, the set of Bragg peaks whose intensity exceeds $a$ is itself a Meyer set (in the Fourier space). Second we show that if a Meyer set is modified by addition and removal of points in such a way that its density is not altered too much (the allowable amount being given explicitly as a proportion of the original density) then the newly obtained set still has a relatively dense set of Bragg peaks.
| Regularity of Standing Waves on Lipschitz Domains
Taylor, Michael
We analyze the regularity of standing wave solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations of power type on bounded domains, concentrating on Lipschitz domains. We establish optimal regularity results in this setting, in Besov spaces and in Hölder spaces.


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|2013-05-22, 09:21
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I would like 60 FPS for every game please.
Even those that don't need it! Like Atelier! Give Atelier 60 FPS !
|2013-05-22, 09:28
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I think a lot of this is going to come down to specification and price.
The XBox One may have a slightly lower specification that the PS4 (depending on CPU and GPU speeds?) but can it undercut it significantly enough on price? How much money can Microsoft lose to try and capture market share above Sony?
Because they do seem much of a muchness, and we've not really seen the PS4 yet.
Certainly I've not heard anything that makes me want to buy one. No Microsoft, I do not want to control my television by waving my arms around and shouting at it, I have a perfectly functional remote control unit with buttons on it that give me all the control I need.
I suspect most of this functionality will never really work properly outside of the US, anyhow.
The thing that first appealed to me about consoles was that you bought a game, put it in the console, and started playing.
But those days are over, even in the current generation (more with PS3 than XBox 360) you need to go and make some tea while waiting for the game to install, then maybe wait a bit more for updates to download and install, and it could be half an hour before you can actually start playing. It's as bad as the old PC days when you had to handcraft your CONFIG.SYS file for each game you bought!
(DR-DOS 5 was best for that, anyone remember?)
I think I'd much rather have one machine that plays games and does it well without any messing, than something like the XBox One which is trying to be too many things at once and won't do any of them as well.
But I do think it will come down to pricing, the cheaper machine could get more market share.
On the subject of specs, this article suggests the PS4 scores more here.
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|2013-05-22, 10:29
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Try playing in a True 120hz display... can't ever go back to 60hz again.
Now THAT would be truly revolutionary.
|2013-05-22, 11:05
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 32
I can build a high end PC with 3 monitors for less than $1200 and this PC will last for years or even decades.
On my own PC I built a long time ago I watch movies, TV shows, downloads, do work, play games and it's been running with me for almost 5-8 years and still kicking and it can play games like Crysis 3 no problem. I'll be using it a lot more than an Xbox so it pays off in the end.
The only time I watch on my big screen TV is when I buy Blu-ray movies for my PS3 which I barely use for gaming.
To me it PC seems a heck of a lot cheaper because I can already do everything on it anyways. It's more efficient because computers are almost a necessity now a days and very efficient. Xboxs, PS3s, etc. are NOT necessary to have in the household and you can live without them. Try living WITHOUT a PC in this day and age.
Which brings to my point about this Xbox 1, the PS3 does quite a bit but to me I barely even use it so why would I go for the Xbox 1? Surely I cannot be the only one.
When I go to Bestbuy there's this talk about Smart TV's that can hook onto the internet but why? If you have a PS3 or something why do you need to pay extra for a TV that does the same or when it's easier to go through a computer? A lot of these things are simply overlapping with each other I think it's getting out of hand. As a result it's driving the costs of these appliances up when they can just keep it simple and focus on what really matters.
|2013-05-22, 11:21
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Overpriced? Then spend 700$ in a proper SLI setup, multi-display setups demands high performance afterall. A decent CPU? There goes more 300$. Now, you could half-convince me if you somehow get the rest of the components for 200$
I think you're understimating how fast technology advances.
|2013-05-22, 11:25
|Link #349
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Well, do note that most people have no idea how to build a PC and don't even use google for advice on parts. They also don't have the time for it and prefer to just buy it and have it come in all together in one piece with no real set up needed other than plugging things in.
|2013-05-22, 11:30
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First, your 3 monitors will have to be budget TN panel screens, not what I'd consider high end or even consistent, and even then it'll still eat up at least 1/4 to 1/3 of your budget, probably more.
This leave you with little room for SSDs or the higher end GPUs, not to mention a good CPU/Mobo/PSU. Not to say you can't build a decent performer from the roughly 7-800 or so you have left, but it'll be a decidedly mid-range rig at most. My old Bloomfield (920) rig is still trucking after almost 4 years, but only because I've updated the GPU, and even with it OC'd to 4.0Ghz on water, I have no illusions about it being able to remain serviceable for another 6 years for gaming purposes.
TBH, if you're going to spend only $700 on a SLI, I'd rather just go for the $500 single card solution, more consistent performance across titles and less issues, not to mention the reduced heat.
But yea, pretty much what you said there, don't forget how much a quality PSU costs, too many people skimps on those only to have it come back and bite them in the ass later.
|2013-05-22, 11:51
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Join Date: Nov 2003
PC games tend to go online a lot more often than console games though. It's not too rare to snag an entire bundles of games from a Steam sale for less than $20. So depending on how how often you do buy games, it's possible that PC gaming can be cheaper than console gaming.
Secondly, this isn't the early 2000's where PCs go obsolete in the span of one year. A several year old PC can still play many current releases with no real issues. Hell, my E6600 and 460 GTX was able to run Saints Row 3 with no issues at all on high quality. While I do understand that someone seeking to play Crysis 3 will likely need to upgrade, not all games are as processing intensive as Crysis 3.
I'll likely end up getting both the PS4 and Xbox One whiling keeping my PC as my primary gaming rig, which console I buy first will depend on which exclusive catches my eye first.
|2013-05-22, 12:16
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Granted it'd still be more expensive than a gaming console, by far, but it isn't as if you have to get the most expensive thing available.
|2013-05-22, 12:17
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I read people here talking about $400 xbox one, but according to a good insider source mentioned earlier this thread, the standalone price will be $500. That or a I think it was #300 plus mandatory two year xbox live gold subscription plus $10 a month for a year I think. Either way, the xbox one is not cheap, relatively speaking.
Also the kinect will be contributing to those prices, but the ps4 will be shipping with the PS eye by default as well I believe.
|2013-05-22, 12:30
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Why are you including the cost of monitors into the equation. You might as well add the price of a HDTV to the console then.
|2013-05-22, 12:50
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Location: Within my mind
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Part of the reason it isn't that expensive to buy a gaming PC these days, is that very few games out there actually take full advantage of PC's capabilities. Far too many recent games are ported from console, which means most of them can be run on 5 year old PCs, though not on the highest resolution.
Extreme high end PCs for games exist. But you can count games that need such hardware with one hand.
|2013-05-22, 12:59
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The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 32
The fact is is that this was for someone else and not me. I do not need 3 monitors but it doesn't change the fact that it's not that expensive when you look around. It's no more different than say going to Walmart or Bestbuy to find a good priced TV.
As others have pointed out, technology becomes obselete very quickly as newer ones are always coming out so there's very little reason to spend over $150 for a new GPU card. There are always deals lying around that you can take advantage of.
I mean do you really need to spend $5000 on a GPU card? No you don't because as VCV pointed out most games will never reach that level. Plus do you need to keep everything on Ultra? No you don't as most wouldn't even notice the difference.
For me, as long as the game runs decent that's good enough for me.
I had a back projector TV for almost 10 years and I only upgraded to an LCD HD 50 mainly because the projector TV broke. That's my point, why do you need to keep upgrading? As long as you find that middle point the games will still run fine. Likewise I'll keep using this computer which played Tomb Raider and Far Cry 3 with zero issues until it finally breaks down and it's still going strong for over 5+ years.
For example, the iPhone 4, do you really need to upgrade to an iPhone 5 right now?
Plus the fact that you have to pay a subscription fee to use the Xbox online really gets on my nerves. *Note* I dont' have an Xbox.
|2013-05-22, 13:10
|Link #358
Many RPGs, Little Time
And personally, I think if you're not going to upgrade for better, either from a console or older PC, then it's just not worth spending on a PC.
I've never heard of anyone "upgrading" to mid/low-range parts... If so, then either the system was very old and defective, or the guy's still playing ancient games.
Playing on MAX Settings at decent framerates is the PC Dream, and eventually everyone goes for it
But you're right, a single 660Ti is enough to max most games... if not bottlenecked
|2013-05-22, 13:19
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The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
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I said building a new rig with current tech. You can find a decent GPU card in the $175 range and it'll play the newest games on high standards with little issues. They're expensive but they get cheaper as the months go on.
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When Bryce Schaffter wanted to start brewing beer in his Northland home six years ago, he had to make a deal with his wife. He would also make cider, one of her favorite drinks.
When he opened North Kansas City's Cinder Block Brewery at 110 E. 18th Ave. in late September 2013, his wife had a similar "mandate."
"She said, 'You're going to make cider, right?' I told her that it was a lot of work to make both beer and cider," he said. "Then she said, 'You're going to make cider, right?"
So six months after opening, Cinder Block Brewery now has two ciders on tap.
Cider Block (French) is described as having "bright, fresh apple flavors and aromas from the local Missouri apples used to make it. It starts with a fresh apple flavor and finishes with a sweet but balanced tartness."
Cider Block (cherry) also is a French style but it is described as finishing with the tartness of a dark Oregon cherry.
"You hear a lot about craft beers but this was an opportunity to give craft ciders some exposure," Schaffter said. "Cider has a lot attributes similar to creating wine — the apple selection, the blending, using different apple varieties. We are really proud that we were able to use a lot of local apples."
Next up will be an English-style pub cider. Cinder Block also is aging cider in 10-year-old brandy barrels that could be ready in six months.
"It's a taste-as-you-go thing," Schaffter said.Quick bites
• A new North Kansas City restaurant is turning away people as it prepares to open.
The hungry consumers are looking for Kansas City SmokeShack BBQ, which recently closed in the spot at 900 Swift Ave., less than a year after opening.
Now Paul and Ybel Davalos plan to openEl Burrito Loco Mexican Cafe
in the building by early April.
They are still working on the menu but it will include burritos, tacos, quesadillas, Mexican-style panini, chicken wings and tenders, seafood, and more.
It also will make use of the former barbecue's smoker to smoke its chicken, pork and brisket to use in the dishes.
"Traditional Mexican dishes and traditional Cuban styled foods as well. Our chef is from Cuba and is well seasoned in Latino styled foods," said Paul Davalos. "We'll have fried green banana that to me tastes like french fries. We are thinking outside the box."
The Big Rip Brewing Co.
also is a tenant of the building and the two businesses plan some cross promotions.
The Big Rip, which will be a year old on May 17, also is expanding.
It is going from a two barrel system (64 gallons) to a four barrel system (128 gallons).
Even though it is only open on the weekends it would still sometimes run out of beer. The bigger system will allow it to expand hours this summer and have more beer on tap, as well as more beer to take to festivals.
It also plans to add a beer garden in April.New barbecue for 39th Street's restaurant row
Rob Magee spent three decades working in food and beverage for top area hotels. But on the side, he entered and won barbecue championships across the country.
Now he's ready to showcase his passion in a new barbecue restaurant called Q39, scheduled to open in early April.
Magee took over the former Oriental Feast spot — at 1000 W. 39th St., just west of Southwest Trafficway — last summer. He's gutted the 5,623-square-foot space and will reopen it with an "urban rustic" feel with brick, exposed ceilings, stained concrete floors, distressed wood and an open kitchen with smoker and wood fired grill, a look designed by Arizona-based Realm Architecture + Design, (which also did the designs for BRGR Kitchen + Bar and Gram Dun).
Barn doors will open to a private dining area in back. It also will have a separate to-go area with its own entrance. A garage door in front can be raised during nicer weather.
The full-service bar will feature original cocktails and select craft beers and wines.
Magee and his wife Kelly, along with their competitive team, Munchin' Hogs, have won numerous first place awards for barbecue competitions across the country. They were entering as many as 40 competitions annually before starting work on the restaurant.
The Q39 scratch kitchen menu will feature soups and salads, sandwich plates, "competition" barbecue plates (prepared with the same specifications used in the awards), grill-fired brisket burgers (made from ground brisket, ground chuck and USDA certified Black Angus beef) and wood-fired grilled plates (featuring steak and seafood).
"Our goal is to bring barbecue up to the next level — full-service, competition barbecue, upgraded beer and wines," he said. "I'm going to continue the same preparation and techniques that I used in the competitions at Q39."Ward Parkway Center updates
Rue21, a discount retailer of contemporary clothing for young men and women, plans to open in Ward Parkway Center.
The store is scheduling a May 15 opening in a 5,140-square-foot space in the center at 8600 Ward Parkway. It will be next to Garry Gribble's Running Sports.
The company said the "rue" in its name comes from the French word for "street" while the "21" embodies "the age that everyone wants to be."
Rue21, which is based in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa., has about 1,000 stores in 47 states, including area stores in Independence and Blue Springs. Inventory includes lingerie, yoga wear, shoes and accessories, fragrance and beauty, and swimwear.
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Author Notes: There's no pasta here, but slicing the veggies into paper-thin ribbons creates an al dente texture when they're sauteed in butter and olive oil. A few touches of herbs and spices, and you've got a beautiful plate of golden "fettuccine." —mrslarkin
Serves: 2 or 3
pound carrots, peeled and trimmed
pound parsnip, peeled and trimmed
tablespoons unsalted butter
tablespoon olive oil
a few swipes of fresh nutmeg on the microplane grater
pinch of white pepper
tablespoons heavy cream (optional)
sprigs fresh thyme
sea salt
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- With a vegetable peeler, make long thin ribbons with the carrots and parsnip. Use a light hand for the thinnest ribbons. I stop peeling when I am almost at the middle woody section of the carrot/parsnip. Munch on the leftover pieces while you cook! Place ribbons in a large mixing bowl. Toss with a sprinkling of sea salt.
- Heat butter and olive oil in a large saute pan to medium - medium/high.
- Add veggies to pan and saute, turning the ribbons to coat in the butter/oil. Cook for a few minutes.
- Grate the nutmeg over the veggies - just a few swipes. Be frugal with the nutmeg, or the taste will be too strong. Toss to combine.
- Add a pinch of white pepper. Toss to combine.
- Taste the veggies, and when ribbons are al dente (softened, but with a tiny bit of crunch), move pan off the heat and stir in the cream. Strip the thyme leaves off the sprigs and sprinkle over the veggies. Taste for salt and pepper.
- I like to plate the ribbons like pasta. Using tongs, pick up a bunch and place it on a dish, turning the tongs slightly to create a nice pile. And use a fork to twirl as you eat, of course! Buon appetito!
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Very rarely are any two PV systems the same, and even ones that are similar present their own challenges and nuances. Before you move forward with an installation, you need to spend some time designing the system and evaluating your options, including component choices.
After modules, inverters are the most important PV system component to consider. The recent resurgence of microinverters and the release of DC-to-DC optimizers and other "distributed architecture" products have changed design choices—but they haven't eliminated the need for careful, proper design (see "Distributed MPPT" in HP137). This article focuses on standard grid-tied string inverters and their design parameters. For a complete list of inverter design factors, see the "Buyer's Guide" in HP133.
Breaking down the decision process into smaller parts makes the design process easier and less risky. Each decision can build on the previous, allowing you to grow the entire design logically.
Start with the specs provided by both module and inverter manufacturers. Make sure you are using the correct specifications for the products you'll be using—many companies make similar-looking models that have different electrical characteristics.
First, determine the PV array's location. The available area for the modules, shading issues, the need for using multiple roof orientations, and other physical limitations will dictate the overall PV array size. These site limitations will also play a role in determining what inverter is appropriate for your location (see "Solar Site Assessment" and "Optimizing a PV Array" in HP130).
Grid-tied inverters are most commonly rated by their continuous output (AC) power capability—the watts the inverter can output continuously. In the National Electrical Code (NEC), a continuous load is defined as "a load where the maximum is expected to continue for 3 hours or more." All circuits associated with grid-tied PV systems, on both the AC and DC sides of the inverter, are considered continuous.
This continuous power output rating dictates the PV array's maximum power value. Grid-tied inverters will limit their power output—if you design an array that supplies more power than the inverter's maximum, the inverter won't be able to process all the power. Instead, the inverter will waste any excess power as heat. As is the case with all electronics, generating unnecessary heat may reduce the inverter's life.
Deciding on how large a PV array to connect to the inverter requires predicting output over the course of a year. Generally, PV arrays produce less than their STC rating, due mostly to conditions that differ from STC—like higher cell temperatures, lower irradiance, and module soiling. When predictable system losses are taken into account, a PV system owner can expect their array to operate at around 80% of the STC rating. Since these losses are consistently present, the size of the PV array can be designed to exceed the inverter's power rating.
Many inverter manufacturers specify simply that a PV array's STC rating should be no more than 125% of the inverter's continuous output rating—known as the "sizing ratio." For example, if an inverter has a continuous output rating of 5,000 W, the maximum array size that would be connected using a sizing ratio of 1.25 would be 6,250 W (5,000 W × 1.25).
While this is a handy rule that covers a wide range of installations, it doesn't deal with when the PV array is able to produce more power than what the inverter can process. This can happen when the array is operating in a cold and sunny environment, which will make output higher than usual. If the inverter is already operating at its maximum, the total power output will be limited.
Given that the inverter's cost in the entire system is relatively low, most PV designers apply a more conservative sizing ratio, like 1.10 to 1.15 (10% to 15% above the inverter's output rating). In most climates, this allows your inverter to process the PV array's power without clipping the power output for most of the time. Some PV designers match the PV array's STC rating to the inverter's output rating (a sizing ratio of 1.0). This makes sense for sites with commonly cold temperatures and higher irradiance (like at higher elevations), practically removing the inverter as the limiting factor, except for brief times when the array output goes beyond STC rating, like from the "edge-of-cloud" effect.


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Mildred F. Tucker Rust Carnes, 90
Mildred F. Tucker Rust Carnes, 90, of Allentown, died at 5:50 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 in the Wapakoneta Manor Nursing Home.
She was born April 14, 1923, in Elida, a daughter of Henry Edgar and Lucy Frances Stemen Tucker, who are deceased. Her step-father, Delbert Huey is also deceased. On Nov. 24, 1946, she married M. Devon Rust, who died June 27, 1950. Then on April 12, 1961, she married John H. Carnes, who died Aug. 19, 1989.
Surviving are four children, Thomas J. (Bev) Rust, of Columbus, Ind., Judy Ann (Mike) Deeter, of Tipp City, Herman K. (Stephanie) Carnes, of Wapakoneta, and Edward H. (Marife) Carnes, of Fort Drum, N.Y.; five grandchildren, Savanah Carnes, of Columbus, Michaela Carnes, of Wapakoneta, Stephanie (Brian) Rawlings, of Columbus, Ind., Matt (Tracie) Helmbrecht, of Fishers, Ind., and Trisha Galon Carnes, of Fort Drum, N.Y.; two great-grandchildren, Claire and Nathan Rawlings, of Columbus, Ind.; a sister, Luella Stutzman, of Batavia, Ill.; a brother-in-law, Orvie Stirn, of Cridersville; a sister-in-law, Yvonne Tucker, of Lima.
She was preceded in death by an infant son; an infant granddaughter, Jacqueline Carnes; three brothers, Harold, Gerald and Dale Tucker; a sister, Dorothy Stirn; a sister-in-law, Martha Tucker.
Mrs. Carnes had attended the Allentown United Methodist Church and also the Bethel Christian Union Church. She enjoyed sewing, quilting, baking, reading and travel. She was a 1941 graduate of Elida High School, then worked at the DWG Cigar factory and then at Stenographer at Westinghouse in Lima until 1961.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Monday in the Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home in Spencerville Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5-7 p.m. Sunday and after 9:30 a.m. Monday at the F. H.
Memorial contributions may be made to Face to Face Ministries, St. Rita's Hospice or to the donor's choice.


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Ease Into the Day the 'Morning Person' Way
Our internal clocks are mysterious, often frustrating biological mechanisms. While some folks pop right out of bed with a spring in their step, many find waking up early to be a daily exercise in self-torture. There are plenty of remedies that aim to shock you, such as Nanda's 'Clocky' alarms that run and roll away to lure you from bed, but I'm no fan of rude awakenings. Here are a few ways technology can ease you into becoming more of a morning person.
Ease into it
If you want to start waking up earlier, suddenly shifting your morning alarm back a couple hours may be as effective as running a marathon without training. We're creatures of habit, and your body simply may not be ready. Instead, try easing into a new schedule by setting your 8AM alarm back to 7:55 for a week, followed by 7:50 the week after, etc. Another important part is better understanding your personal sleeping patterns. For this, consider a JawBone Up — a simple, stylish bracelet that monitors your sleeping activity patterns and wakes you with a gentle vibration. The bracelet communicates with a companion smartphone app to help you learn about your body and tune your schedule.
Light up
We're biologically inclined to respond to the day's natural lighting cycle. Just as excessive use of glowing screens at night can keep us from falling asleep, a dark room in the morning can make waking difficult. Consider a daylight alarm, which simulates the sunrise to ease you out of your slumber. These lamps, such as Philips' Wake-up Lights, gradually illuminate your room before your alarm, and are an elegant ally against winter hours or gloomy skies.
Follow your nose!
Now that your ears and eyes are waking more gently, get out of bed nose first with an aromatic lure! If you rely on coffee for your morning jolt, try using a coffeemaker that automatically starts brewing on a schedule. The feature is practically standard on electric drip coffeemakers from most major brands. If coffee isn't your style, consider an aroma diffuser such as the Opus from MadeByZen. This little pod releases the scent of your favorite essential oil at a time you specify via simple touch controls. Now to find essential oil that smells like freshly baked bread...
Late to bed, early to rise?
Lets face it, the elephant in the room is your bedtime. You stay up past midnight watching late-night TV, then wonder why you can't wake up at dawn. Look, I love Comedy Central too — my college thesis was about Colbert — but with services like Hulu and iTunes, "time shifting" is easier than ever. You don't need to sacrifice comedy in search of a good night's sleep!
Are you a reformed over-sleeper? If you had tried jarring and blaring alarms in the past, what techniques or products finally worked for you? Let us know in the comments.
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We are a family owned and locally operated business specializing in Granite, Marble and Quartz Countertops in the Portland Oregon area. We are committed to provide our customers the best countertop purchasing experience. Our company has built a solid base of customers by providing beautiful countertops and impeccable craftsmanship. Attention to detail is the key in all our projects. We know and understand the importance to have the job done right and in a timely manner. This is the reason, we detailed our work and offer same day tear-out and installation on all of our projects.
Our goal is to have satisfied and happy customers
We do our outmost to have our customers happy and satisfied. Our company has fabricated and installed kitchen countertops, vanity tops, fireplaces and tub surrounds for thousands of happy customers. We have worked for KGW channel 8, restaurants, doctors and dentist as well as many other residential and commercial applications in Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, North Plains, Aloha, Tualatin, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Tigard, West Linn, Lake Oswego and around the Portland area.
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Virtual Worlds User Interface for the Blind is a prototype user interface that enables blind users to participate in virtual world environments. It provides communication, navigation, and perception functions using GUI elements. As a way of enriching the virtual environment with descriptive semantic information, sighted users contribute annotations of virtual objects using a scripted gadget equipped by their avatar. These annotations are then made available to the blind users through the special user interface.


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Frisco Imaging Center
Welcome to Envision Imaging of Frisco, Texas
At Envision Imaging of Frisco, our team of radiologists and healthcare professionals specialize in state-of-the art imaging and provide the highest quality patient care in the marketplace. We provide diagnostically superior images, short scan times, fast appointments, and outstanding guest comfort. We excel in both quality of care as well as superb hospitality and patient experience. We pride ourselves on enhancing the quality of your health and your life through our exceptional services and education.
Envision Imaging of Frisco is revolutionizing imaging with the foundation of efficiency and consistency. Our promise to our community is unmistakable quality and spectacular service. Once you try us we think you'll agree that Envision Imaging of Frisco has "raised the bar" of service and quality.
mission is to provide "customer delight" for its patients, to support our referring physicians in a way that enhances the efficiency of their medical practices and to remain a cut above anything else available in the area. The team is a group that has joined together, combining their professional expertise in medical diagnostic imaging, to meet the unique healthcare needs of this community. We have hand-picked a staff possessing over 80 years in the industry. From scheduling your appointment through reporting results, our goal is to exceed physician and patient needs.
When you choose Envision Imaging of Frisco, you will enjoy:
- Speaking directly with a professional (not a machine) when you call the center.
- The flexibility of same day, early and late day appointment scheduling.
- Excellent customer services.
- A warm and welcoming environment as you walk through the door.
- Having professionals care about you as a whole person, being attuned to your specific needs, exceeding your expectations, and helping to find the medical answers you need.
- Complimentary refreshments & WiFi service.
Envision Imaging of Frisco offers imaging services in MRI, CT, Ultrasound and X-Ray. The MRI is located in a room filled with light and windows creating a bright serene location.
Our most valuable service is our customer service. Once you try us, we think you'll agree.
Come experience the EIF difference.
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Experience the Envision Imaging Difference.
In a time of fast-paced, impersonal medical services, Envision Imaging of Frisco has committed to making sure that your imaging experience is as warm and enjoyable as possible. We have revolutionized diagnostic imaging, raising the bar on what you can expect from your imaging provider...
We work together with you to ensure that:
- Insurance coordination is completed accurately.
- Your appointment is as convenient as possible (scheduling and timing).
- You have a memorable, special guest experience.
- You have the tools and resource you need to live a full and healthy life on an ongoing basis.
- Patients are treated with the utmost respect.
- We are committed to being timely, friendly, and helpful.
- Our services are in elegant, light-filled, comfortable offices.
- We cater to your needs with compassion and promise to make your imaging experience pleasant and accurate.
Envision Imaging of Frisco offers the highest quality MRI Scans, CT and other medical services in the marketplace. We not only provide the very best in imaging services, but also strive to enhance the health and quality of life of our patients through our varied services and educational information. We invite you to visit us to experience our hospitality and expertise, and to see for yourself why we are the market leaders in quality of care and patient satisfaction!
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Envision Imaging of Frisco
3211 Internet Blvd # 120,
Frisco, TX 75034-1948
Phone: (972) 334-0908
Fax: (972) 335-0375
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To schedule your appointment at Envision Imaging, please call the center directly at (972) 334-0908.
We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for choosing Envision Imaging, where our guest experience exceeds your expectations.
Monday - Friday: 6:30am - 11:00pm
(closing time and hours differ by exam type, please call center to verify or make an appointment)
Saturday: 8:00am - 4:00pm
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To save you time when you arrive for your appointment, we provide many of our required forms online. This allows you to complete these at your convenience, before arriving for your appointment.
If you would like to save time during your exam, please print and fill out the forms corresponding to your exam and bring them with you to your appointment.MRI Required Forms
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Envision Imaging is an in-network, preferred provider for most major health plans, as well as many other health plans. As a service to our patients, we are happy to verify your benefits prior to your appointment. Please feel free to contact us at 972-334-0908 with your individual insurance information.
Please bring your current insurance card and a form of identification with you to your appointment.
Services Provided at Envision Imaging of Frisco
- MRI – High Field (1.5T)
- MRA (MR Angiography)
- CT Angiography
- CT Urography
- Ultrasound / Sonogram
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Soraya Torres
Director of Operations
(817) 819-8180
Jessica Cathey
Center Manager
(972) 273-0656
Gena Ross
Marketing Director
(972) 835-8440
Dustin Sedatole
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Tyler Scimeca, MD - Medical Director
Medical School - University of Texas Southwestern Medical School: Dallas, TX.
Internship - University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN.
Residency - Methodist Healthcare University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN.
Fellowship - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Musculoskeletal Radiology.
Board Certification - Radiology
Special Interests - Musculoskeletal Imaging
If you would like to share feedback about your visit to our center, we would love to hear from you. You can visit us on Facebook to share your thoughts.
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- Envision Imaging is honored to have the privilege of teaming up with the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America in an ongoing partnership that helps to provide patients with affordable imaging.
- Envision Imaging is proud to support and be members of both the Tarrant County Medical Society and Dallas County Medical Society, both of which provide care to impoverished Texans.
- Envision Imaging of Frisco is excited to be newly involved with Project Access. Project Access is an organization of the Collin Fannin Medical Society, partnering with eight different hospitals to provide free, short-term care to those in Collin County who qualify as 100% below the poverty line.


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VP: Chavez's 2nd radiation treatment 'successful'
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's vice president says Hugo Chavez's second cycle of radiation treatment was successful.
Elias Jaua says Chavez plans to return to Venezuela on Wednesday after receiving treatment in Cuba.
Chavez has vowed to beat cancer to win re-election in October.
Chavez has not identified the type of cancer he is trying to overcome.
The socialist leader has said he choose to undergo treatment in Cuba because it's where his cancer was originally diagnosed and where his surgeries have been carried out.
Chavez expects to be traveling to Cuba for treatment for several weeks.


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A prompt this week to write about something in a health-care context brought out this story which, despite having been told over and over in my head, had heretofore not made it down in writing.
It wasn't quite 5:30 am and Janice was already waiting for me on the main floor of Union Station. Her husband Randy, who drove her in from Ancaster, needed to get to work but first back to his parents who had been drafted to baby-sit the two kids.
Janice and I hugged, exchanging exasperated greetings, then continued the conversation from late the previous night.
Our brother Craig had been walking to his home in Montréal's Le Plateau neighbourhood, arms weighed down with food and other birthday party necessities for Claude, his partner of sixteen years who turned 54 that 24th of April 2007.
As Craig approached their three-storey stone walk-up, he tripped and fell, almost instantly smashing his head on the sidewalk. The owner of a small store directly across the narrow street saw Craig go down and rushed to his assistance. He was clearly unconscious, his head bleeding profusely. She called 9-1-1 and eventually Craig was taken to the city's well-known Neurological Institute (think "I smell toast, Dr. Penfield!")
Claude was contacted at St. Luc Hospital, where he worked, and he rushed to the Neuro calling my sister Lynn in New Brunswick on the way. Janice phoned me after hearing the grim news from Lynn. They decided that Janice and I should go and stay with Mom at this critical time; that having seen Craig and Claude just a couple of weeks earlier over Easter she would be upset enough without rushing to Montréal. So Janice and I took the train to Kingston and then a taxi the eighty kilometres or so to Perth. Janice phoned Mom from Kingston, gently breaking the news and giving Mom a bit of time to absorb some of the shock before we got there.
I couldn't believe it. Craig and I had both survived HIV/AIDS since the early 1980s, watching many loved ones die. But not like this!
Over the next few days Lynn kept us up-to-date on Craig's condition which was critical at best. When our uncle told us he had to be in Montréal over the weekend, and offered to take any of us along, Janice and I decided to go.
The drive up the steep hill of University Street from the Ville-Marie Expressway seemed to take an eternity, not that traffic was especially bad but because of the pits of anticipation in our stomachs.
George dropped us off at the front door and Janice and I found our way to the Reception area of the Critical Care Unit. The hospital screamed, "Demolish me!" with its cracked interior walls and historic odours. Lynn stepped out of Craig's room.
"I just want to prepare you as best I can for how you're going to see Craig," she said. "Whatever descriptions I've been able to give you over the phone this week really don't count for much in person."
She was right and, one at a time, Janice and I found out.
I went in first, Claude walking over in tears with a big hug and kisses on both cheeks. He made small talk in his broken English until I asked a few questions.
One of the first things I noticed about Craig was how the swelling of his brain had inflated his face to a preposterous size. His eyes were wide open and couldn't shut even if he wanted them to. There was a large flap of gauze on one side of his skull, taped at the top but left unattached at the bottom to let the emergency surgery to relieve swelling of the brain do its work.
The most telling piece of equipment in the room, which was expanding his chest and belly the way his brain swelled his face, was the respirator and its associated oxygen pump, which rhythmically forced air in and out of Craig's chest because he could, and ultimately would, not breathe on his own.
The artificial breathing made up in noise what the strained but quiet breathing of Claude and I did not.
Claude stood closer to Craig and shouted the news that Janice and I had arrived, at which point he gave the "thumbs up" sign. I eventually saw that to be his only method of communicating, and I now wonder if it wasn't just some involuntary impulse of the brain.
Claude and Lynn reviewed what doctors had told them. Craig was in no pain, and no pain relief was necessary. They could tell this by the fact that he wasn't restless at all. It almost went without saying that pain sensors in his brain were damaged, if not destroyed. Even in their earliest assessments, the doctors had told Claude and Lynn that if Craig survived he would not be the same person.
Janice and I stayed for an hour or so and then we all walked back to Claude's (and Craig's) place on de Grand-Pré. It was a cathartic walk, one which we would repeat, through the edge of the McGill campus, around Molson Stadium, and up Park Avenue, cutting across Fletcher's Field to avenue Mont-Royal and Boulevard St-Joseph.
When Janice and I again visited Craig the next day before our ride back to Perth, I had a very tearful intuition, if not realization, that this would be the last time I saw Craig.
One attempt to see if he could breathe on his own had already failed. Staff hoped to try, or at least Lynn and Claude were certainly going to encourage another try, in the next few days. We were all in agreement, as much as feelings can be, to accept the results.
Ultimately the attempt failed and, while Lynn and Claude were out of the room having lunch, Craig died on May 9, 2007 – six days shy of his fifty-second birthday which that year also happened to fall on Mother's Day.
That unimaginable Sunday was spent travelling to Montreal with Mom for the funeral service the following day. Then on Tuesday it was back in to two cars for the drive to Perth where a sunset burial was held at Scotch Line Cemetery next to the plot owned by Mom and Dad.
Later that spring, Claude bought a headstone with Craig's birth and death dates as well as Claude's birth date. The inscription described Claude as Craig's "compagnon de vie", the first openly gay – and surely among the first bilingual – grave-markers in the town's three or four cemeteries.


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How To Force Paperwhite/Narcissus Bulbs Indoors
OK, before we begin I have to confess that the smell of fully bloomed Paperwhites makes me ill, but nevertheless the beautiful — and easy!— growing process and the bit of life they bring to the dreary winter months keep me growing a constant rotation of them all winter long. And believe me when I say that even those with the blackest of thumbs are guaranteed success.
While researching instructions before I attempted my first set of bulbs (I'm now on my third successful round this season) I found a million different approaches, but the easiest proved to be the most fail-proof.
•vase/container/cup (I love seeing the root systems develop so I used a clear cylindrical vase and two scotch glasses)
•stones/river rocks (I used Hoffman's Marble Maze River Gravel, which I initially found at Johnson's for another project, but larges smooth black stones would look lovely)
•Paperwhite bulbs (almost all florists and garden centers carry them this time of year and they generally range in price from 30 cents to 2 dollars a bulb)
• 1. Arrange a layer of pebbles that is at least 1" deep on the bottom of the vase.
• 2. Place bulbs root side down (you should see a knot where the roots will eventually appear from) into the pebbles so that the bottom centimeter is surrounded.
• 3. Pour water to the top of (but not above) the pebble line (tip: the bulb should not be touching the water or it will rot. Eventually the roots will grow to "find" the water)
• 4. Water every few days as you notice the water line dip below the pebbles.
• 5. Watch roots sprout and shoots grow and flowers bloom!
You should start to notice roots sprouting from below within a few days of planting. Shortly after you will notice the green shoot begin to emerge from the top of the bulb, and within 4-6 weeks you will see your first bloom. During the last two weeks, the stems grow quite rapidly, so if you are using a short container you might want to try staking them with a stick (or chopstick) and a twist tie or thread. However, because of the smell I'm usually about ready to ditch them by the time they get that tall ;)
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After going winless last year and starting this season with losses in its first seven matches, the Pilgrim tennis team picked up a pair of victories last week, the team's first wins since moving up to Division II last season.
On Tuesday, the Pats beat Shea 6-1 to notch their first win. The Pats lost at No. 1 singles, but got victories from Thomas Greenberg at No. 2, Jacob Anderson at No. 3 and Sam Adamo at No. 4. The doubles teams of Dan Gillis and Jack Howland and Michael Holton and Christopher Minett also won, while Andrew Allen and Matt Johnston won by default.
On Friday, the Pats kept up their winning ways by edging Tolman 4-3. Ian Giuttari scored a tough, three-set victory over Jake Sawyer at No. 1 singles to clinch the match. The Pats also got singles victories from Greenberg and Adamo. On the doubles ladder, Matt Morris and Matt Johnson won at No. 3.


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Part of entertaining graciously is not losing your cool when guests arrive too early—or dinner is taking longer than expected. To the rescue: easy appetizers. Check out our suggestions below. You'll also find several Healthy Living options to choose from in our collection of appetizers and sides videos; while you're at it, take a peek at the entertaining essentials videos. For still more recipes, check out these Healthy Living appetizers and snacks.
Sometimes guests arrive early or the bird is done late. The trick to keep everyone satisfied: yummy appetizers you can make ahead.
When it comes to making dinner, timing everything right can be difficult, even on the best of days. During the holidays, it can be nearly impossible. Even if your guests and your turkey are ready on time, you'll still need something to offer hungry people until all of that food makes it to the dinner table. You may even need a little snack yourself to keep your blood glucose stable, especially if you take diabetes medicines and will be eating dinner later than normal. The solution: Set out some delicious appetizers.
There's one hitch, though. You need to choose the right appetizers—otherwise you will simply be making more work for yourself on party day. What you need are simple dishes that you can make ahead of time and that fit into your healthy eating goals.
Here's a family favorite: Vidalia Onion Dip. This blend of cheeses and sweet onions is best served warm with woven wheat crackers. Another classic is Spinach-Stuffed Mushrooms. Kids love to help spoon filling into the caps, even if they won't be eating them later. Both of these can be baked ahead of time, then reheated just before serving.
If you're not this year's Thanksgiving hostess, offer to supply a tray of Baked Crab Rangoon appetizers. These elegant starters take 20 minutes to assemble and another 20 in the oven, but their flaky, rich flavor makes them worth every minute. Be sure to take along the recipe for folks who want a copy.
Easiest of all is serving an appetizer that won't require any warming up, like our Favorite Topped Deviled Eggs. This is another kids-in-the-kitchen favorite: They love squirting the creamy filling into the egg halves.
For more great ideas, browse through our featured recipes for Appetizers & Snacks.


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Ragnarök is not to be confused with any other units with the same name.
Ragnarök managed four albums on Silence Record in the early 90's and a new album in 2008. They are a typical example of atmospheric and melancholic prog like only Sweden can produce them. Their first album is a real classic known as a minor classic among progheads and they will participate to another group (KUNG TUNG - much harder) before doing their second album where those influences from that group will leave a mark. It is reputed to be as good as their debut. The later albums listed here remain of a good standard. Among the non-listed albums is "Well"(91) and is rather new age and sometimes industrial - not much to do with the earlier works.
Peter Bryngelsson answered my questions.
Your biography has been covered in your ProgArchives profile so let's bypass the biography details. But why did you choose that name and which bands were you influenced by ?
It was a must to have a name. In the very beginning we actually had nearly the same name as Robert Plants first band ; Band of joy, but in Swedish . I think I was the one that saw Ragnarök in a dictionary.
We were certainly a part of the leftish movement and influenced by the idea that we could change the world through culture. In our hearts I think that we thought that everything was divided in black or whites, good or bad and according to that we were very hard on judging music aesthetically. For us Abba and Hoola Bandoola was equal in having bad aesthetics on music and we saw ourselves as being on the same side as King Crimson or Kebnekajse. I think we even thought that Genesis was wrong and Crimson was right .
What was the whole ethos for your band ?
Over to your albums. Please tell us more about your first album Ragnarök from 1977
We arrived to the Decibel Studio with only a couple of tunes and tried to fill the album with things we came up with during the sessions. We could not find a proper drummer so our drummer mostly played on the cymbals as a music design and sometimes guitar so all the melodies was allowed to take the biggest place in the music . Suddenly we found a sort of very cool and relaxed way of playing we did not have before .
Please tell us more about your second album Fjärilar I Magen from 1980
Unfortunately the first band broke up shortly after the release of the album but a big dream came through when we established a colleboration with the group Älgarnas Trädgård . Dan Söderqvist and Kjell Karlgren became new members of Ragnarök as well as we became part of the synth-band Cosmic Overdose. Also Thomas Wiegert was now the drummer and for ever . The music started as a Theatre play music and we perfdormed it as that for a year . Dans wonderful guitar-playing was very influential and I played both guitar and bass . Henrik and Staffan left for studies in composing and architecture .
The group toured for two years and then broke up and restarted again 1981 with me ,Thomas ,Kjell Karlgren ,Magnus Jarlbo and Peter Breife.
Please tell us more about your third album Fata Morgana from 1981
Please tell us more about your fourth album 3 Signs from 1983
We were much into Talking Heads and tried to do a modern album with Guitar Synthesizers and Emulator . The singing was a new thing and was caused by our touring iun other countries .
I was very dissatisfied about the album and left the band 1983 together with Dan Jonsson and we formed a new band called Triangulus together with Hans Bruniusson ( Samla ) and Ove Karlsson ( Arbete och Fritid ) Actually on the first Triangulus it is Ragnarök who plays on half of the album .
Please tell us more about your fifth album Well from 1991
I was not a part of this work . It is Thomas ,Kjell and a new member called Kent Ohlsson who created this album.
After a very long break, you returned again in 2008 with the album Path. Please tell us more about the comeback and this album.
2002 a fan contacted our web site for autographs and to make this I invited all the old members of the first group to a dinner to do this signing . Then we talked about a consert and after 8 succesful reunions we were contacted by a Swiss IT millionaire who said he could pay for a new album with the old band .
We did a concert in May but are now very busy doing other composing projects .
What was the creative process in Ragnarok from coming up with a theme/riff/idea 'till you got it down onto an album ?
Often someone comes up with a simple melody . It is very strange but we 5 have a unique sound that you can hear on both the first album and path and when we rehearse we very easily get in to that combined sound .
A bit melancholy ,pure and simple instrumental outstretched jam -oriented proggmusic
I love the internet contact way and our website created the new interest for our music
Henrik is a classical composer , I do a lot of theater and film-music ,Peder do Theater music, Staffan is an architect and Thomas is a drum-teacher and session musician
To wrap up this interview, is there anything you want to add to this interview ?
No not really . Only that for more info; go to our website
Thank you to Peter for this interview
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Cool! I love this band, especially their 2nd album.
Peter has a fantastic solo album called "Lyckliga Stjarna" which features a huge orchestra and is a mixture of classical, folk, world music, and prog jam. Rare, but great if you can find it!
Also, in the introduction, the 4 Silence albums were not from the early 90s.
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Their first album is excellent!
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Both teams competed against about 21 other universities. Although still in early season training, the teams are showing themselves to be very competitive and a lot of Personal Records have already fallen.
The highlight for the Lady Bisons was sophomore Jenny Randolph's meet victory in the women's mile. Randolph ran a strong race, putting in a great surge with 200m to go in the last heat of the mile to build a gap, then held off a late attack to claim an exciting victory in a time of 5:12.08. Her mile time was a 22-second personal record over her best 1600m time, and is faster than her best 1500m time.
"Jenny ran a very intelligent race and is learning that she has the ability to do great things this year and in the years to come," said head coachBill Taylor. "It was a very exciting race and really set the competitive tone for the day with both teams. This is just the beginning for Jenny as she learns to understand her talent and believe in herself. The greatest part is that as she does that, others will follow."
Not to be outdone, on the men's side Steven Lindsey continued his already strong freshman season with an event victory in the high jump, clearing 6 feet 8 inches and establishing a new all-time personal record.
"Steven is having a terrific freshman campaign," said Taylor. "He faced some adversity, missing at 6-6, but regrouped and soared over 6-8. He showed he can clear 6-10, just clipping the bar with his legs on at least two of his attempts and looked to achieve a peak height above 7 feet.
"Jumps coach Buford Williams is doing a terrific job with Steven. Even greater things are coming for him. I expect to build a really strong jumps program under Buford's guidance."
In other events, freshman Andrew Jones made a statement in the 800m, posting a time of 1:57.88 on the un-banked 200m track for seventh place overall. Teammate Jonathan Williams, a sophomore, ran right around 2:00, though the timing system malfunctioned, so an exact time was not available. Equally impressive was Clint Carter's 800m DMR split of 1:57.9. Freshman Nathan Brame won his heat of the men's mile, finishing third overall in a time of 4:32.04. Tyler Youngs finished 21st in the mile with a personal best of 4:38.90.
"Andrew stepped up today," said Taylor. "We see his ability in practice all the time, but some nagging injuries and a bit of sickness this season have held him back. He started to show his ability today.
"The exciting thing for Andrew and our team is that he hasn't even come close to his potential yet. If he believes and keeps training like he has been, he is going to nail some amazing times this year. I was also impressed with Jonathan Williams effort in the 800m. He ran a very smart race and showed that he has developed mentally over the past year and a half. I wish we had an official time for him, but he'll just have to run it again and faster at the next meet."
Taylor also had high praise for Clint Carter.
"He is running so well this season and is not letting the young guys get away," said Taylor. "His leadership is apparent in the rapid development of the youngsters, and his competitive fire is an inspiration to the whole program. What I like most is his team focused attitude as he fights to make both relays and make both relays great!"
The men's and women's distance medley relays dramatically improved their best times on the season, both finishing fourth overall. The men posted a time of 10:41.62, a more than 30-second improvement despite not having Ryan Chastain, the teams best distance runner, due to a knee injury.
The women went 12:59.29 and fought hard. The men's 4x400m B team was also impressive, running just two seconds off the A teams best time this year. Unfortunately the A team had an accident during their heat with the second leg runner falling to the track, and did not finish.
"I think the A team was keyed up to run seriously fast," said Taylor. "However, they may have been a bit too keyed up. Both teams are definitely fighters and our relays are setting the tone so far.
"I really like the fight and teamwork everyone is showing, and the fact that everyone wants a relay spot. It makes my job of selecting relays tougher, while it makes the program stronger. I hope we get Ryan back for conference, however we have good depth and will be strong no matter what."
In the men's 5000m a trio of freshman Lipscomb entries set new all-time 5-K personal records. Trace Carlson finished sixth in a time of 16:03.08, Chad Roberts went 16:24.97 and Cormac Carolan-Tolbert went 16:44.51.
"Wow!," said Taylor. "Seriously, I would prefer not to have anyone running the 5000 meters in January. TSU limits entries in every event, so we had to fill out the 5-K for the men. These three freshman ran amazing for this time of the season.
"Trace set the tone up front, Chad kinda let go for a bit in the middle, then responded with a huge charge forward during the second half of the race that should boost his self-confidence, and Cormac is actually training as a 1500-meter runner this season, yet he ran the event strong and also set a PR. I was absolutely thrilled with their efforts and feel like all three can break 15 this outdoor season."
The men's sprint core also continued to improve, with Joey Lever posting a time of 7.54 in the 60m and 24.25 in the 200m (both season and lifetime bests). Sophomore Mike Knox posted the fastest 60m time on the day with a 7.32, then ran 52.22 in the open 400m. Freshman Brock Lutes ran 52.11 in the open 400m as well. Steven Mason posted a 200m time of 25.04 in his first track meet since middle school and off of just two weeks of training. Chad Roberts ran a 50-second 400m split on the DMR.
"All these guys are 400-meter runners and are using these meets to work on speed," said Taylor. " So our 60m times are for fun, yet they are improving every meet. I train the 400m crew for their workouts, and Buford works on their starts and helps with technique.
"The combination is working and I am so happy with the way the whole group is attacking workouts and fighting through the tough days. I've made them pretty sore, yet they talk about how much faster they are going to be and how bad they want to be on the 4x400 relay."
The members of the 400-meter relay team are all highly competitive with each other, but they also support each other. "They are tight teammates who motivate and congratulate each other as well," said Taylor. "It's exactly as it should be.
"Then you have someone like Steven Mason walk on two weeks ago, get hammered in workouts catching up with the rest of the group, and come out and put it all on the line posting a solid time given the circumstances. That toughness inspires the group. The 400m crew's effort and attitude has made an impact on the entire program and will set the tone for our future success across the board."
Lipscomb results:
Jenny Randolph 5:12.08, Caitlin Anderson 5:31.88, Carolyn Latham 5:33.44
Nathan Brame 4:32.04, Tyler Youngs 4:38.90, Hunter Hethcoat 4:47.74
Mike Knox 7.32, Joey Lever 7.54, Dustin Little 7.67
Joey Lever 24.25, Steven Mason 25.04, Josh Baker 27.59
Valerie Winkler 64.08
Brock Lutes 52.11, Mike Knox 52.22, Jacob Nelson 53.54
Shannon Shoemake 2:31.66, Meagan Hoar 2:38.30, Laura Stewart 2:38.31
Andrew Jones 1:57.88, Jonathan Williams 2:00
Trace Carlson 16:03.08, Chad Martin 16:24.97, Cormac Carolan-Tolbert 16:44.51
4x400m Relay:
B team: Clint Carter, Jacob Nelson, Andrew Jones, Paul Wright, 3:32
Distance Medley Relay:
A team: Caitlin Anderson, Valerie Winkler, Laura Stewart, Jenny Randolph 12:59.29
B team: Carolyn Latham, Paloma Floden, Louisa Van Batavia, Shannon Shoemake 13:19.46
A team: Nathan Brame, Chad Roberts, Clint Carter, David Wolfe 10:41.62
B team: Paul Wright, Aaron Todd, Tyler Youngs, Jeff Nelson 11:00.00
High Jump:
Steven Lindsey 6-8
Weight Throw:
Kristin Ratzlaff 8.78m, Jessi Marshall 7.39m
Alex Jerkins 10.55m
Shot Put:
Kristin Ratzlaff 9.19m, Jessi Marshall 7.40m
Alex Jerkins 44-11


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Investors should own gold as a bet on global liquidity, FX Concepts Chairman John Taylor said Tuesday.
"I believe very much that you should own gold right now," he said. "Basically, there were two targets for gold on the downside in that quantitative technical game sense. One was 1,400. The other was 1,250."
On CNBC's "Fast Money," Taylor noted that the 1,400 level for gold was held. "And now we're headed up."
Taylor also said that either the bottom in gold prices was a big one or at the very minimum it was a bottom for the next six to eight weeks, "which is good for 1,500, anyway."
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Taylor called the recent gold selloff as getting "a little out of hand" and said he was still positive on the precious metal.
"I look at it as a leader and a lagger," he said. "It's a perfect liquidity trade. It tells you what's going on with liquidity, and liquidity has gotten tighter, not looser."
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Taylor challenged the idea that gold was now a bearish haven.
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Back in the day, when I was a university student, I had a tiny budget and just a small, squidgy make up and skincare bag which would house a few cheap essentials and some rather more expensive goodies, that I guarded with my life.
I actually remember to this day having a conversation with a flatmate about Stila Lip Glaze, which used to be about £20 and we were saying how one click was a quid or something…
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They say:First created in 1930 by Elizabeth Arden to soothe skin, Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Skin Protectant became an instant and overwhelming success.
This skincare classic restores, calms and helps relieve chapped, cracked and dry skin. It works efficiently to sooth roughness, redness and minor skin irritations.
I used to take this everywhere with me, I used it as a lip balm, and intensive dry spot cream!
I guess the main thing about this product is that it has that unusual oily, thick texture, that yellowy colour and that smell.
It's medicinal alright – some people hate it some people like it. If you hate it then you may want to steer clear and check out the other products in the 8 hour range instead. I personally love it! Yeah it reminds me of deep heat plasters.
I do like this product a lot and it's been a whilst since I've had a tube but I've been using it for all sorts, like my cuticles, lips, on my eczema and…you don't wanna know.
Any downsides? Well I think one tube is quite economical, it will certainly last you a year but it's dearer than I remember at £25 for a 50ml tube.
It has that strong smell and it's very oily/waxy so it's not something to use on any large patches of skin.
I guess these days there are hundreds of products out there that are multi use but you gotta give Arden credit for being one of the first! Oh also, I always buy the Limited Edition jars of this stuff, they usually come in retro patterns and they don't cost any more than the usual tube.
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You can buy it at Boots or it's £20 at Cult Beauty!
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U.S. stock-index futures posted solid gains on Tuesday amid hopes central banks won't halt their easy-money policies too soon, and a round of strong U.S. economic data.
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As of 9:08 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 81 points to 14669, S&P 500 futures gained 10.8 points to 1577 and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 19.5 points to 2862.
The markets have taken a pounding in recent weeks, with the Dow and S&P 500 selling off to their lowest levels since April 22 on Monday. Still, both market barometers are up more than 10% for the year. The latest leg lower has been driven by continued fears about an end to the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program and new concerns about a credit crunch in China.
"It seems that the rush for the exits has come to a halt for now, but, like the proverbial parrot, this bout of risk aversion may not be dead, but just resting," said Rupert Osborne, a futures dealer at IG in London. "It is still a struggle to work out the real outlook for markets, since the dust kicked up by last week's Fed meeting will take weeks to settle."
Commentary suggesting central bankers won't be ending the easy-money policies too soon helped sooth investors' nerves on the day. In particular, The Wall Street Journal reported a People's Bank of China official as saying the country's central bank will guide interest rates in a "reasonable range."
Several Fed members also suggested asset purchases won't be ending too soon.
There are several important economic reports due out on the day.
The Commerce Department said orders for long-lasting goods jumped 3.6% in May from April, topping expectations of a 3% gain. Excluding the transportation segment, orders rose 0.7% compared to expectations it would hold steady.
The S&P/Case-Shiller report showed home prices in 20 major U.S. metropolitan areas climbed 2.5% in April from March, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, topping expectations of a 1.1% gain. Prices were up 12.1% from the year prior, beating forecasts of a 10.6% jump. The report is a lagging indicator but is seen as a critical gauge of activity in the U.S. housing sector.
Another important housing report slated for release at 10:00 a.m. ET is expected to show sales of new, single-family homes having increased to an annual pace of 462,000 units in May from 454,000 the month before.
On the corporate front, Walgreen (NYSE:WAG) revealed quarterly profits and sales that missed Wall Street's expectations. Lennar (NYSE:LEN), the homebuilder, posted results that topped analysts' forecasts.
Meanwhile, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) was dealt a victory, with an adviser to the European Union's top court saying the search giant doesn't need to remove sensitive results from its search engine.
Commodities were broadly higher. Gold climbed $8.10, or 0.63%, to $1,285 a troy ounce. Oil was up 46 cents, or 0.49%, to $95.65 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline climbed 0.49% to $2.751 a gallon. In Treasury markets, the benchmark 10-year yield fell 0.034 percentage point to 2.505%.
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The Euro Stoxx 50 rallied 1.4% to 2545, the English FTSE 100 jumped 0.93% to 6085 and the German DAX soared 1.6% to 6085.
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Anthony Decuir, Ph.D., associate dean of the College of Music and Fine Arts at Loyola University New Orleans, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Professional Contributions from the American Music Therapy Association. Decuir, associate dean since 1990, has taught in the music therapy program at Loyola since 1974.
The award recognizes his work as a music therapy clinician in mental health. As an active vocalist, clinician, teacher, researcher and advocate, Decuir's extensive music therapy career spans four decades.
He served as president of the National Association for Music Therapy from 1986 to 1988, providing vital leadership at a time of transition and financial challenges. During his term, the organization's board was able to preserve its financial integrity, and the association established an independent office just blocks from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Since then, Decuir has served both the National Association for Music Therapy and the American Music Therapy Association.


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Holder plans to make a final decision within the next few weeks, a Justice Department official told The Associated Press on Saturday night. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on a pending matter.
Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller said Holder planned to "follow the facts and the law."
"We have made no decisions on investigations or prosecutions, including whether to appoint a prosecutor to conduct further inquiry," he said. "As the attorney general has made clear, it would be unfair to prosecute any official who acted in good faith based on legal guidance from the Justice Department."
A move to appoint a prosecutor is certain to stir partisan bickering that could create a distraction to Obama's efforts to push health care and energy reform. Obama has repeatedly expressed reluctance to having a probe, saying the nation should be "looking forward and not backwards" when it came to Bush-era abuses.
Newsweek magazine, which first reported the development on Saturday, said Holder was aware of the political implications of having a probe and preferred not to create unnecessary trouble for the White House. Still, the attorney general was troubled by what he learned in reports about the treatment of prisoners at the CIA's "black sites."
The probe would focus in part on whether CIA personnel tortured terrorism suspects after Sept. 11, 2001. Holder has said those who acted within the government's legal guidance will not be prosecuted, but has left open the possibility of pursuing those who went beyond the guidance and broke the law.
Holder has discussed with his staff the possibility of a prosecutor, saying he needed someone with "gravitas and grit," the magazine reported. In the end, the attorney general asked for a list of 10 candidates, five from within the Justice Department and five from outside.
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