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Darrell R. Dickey Football Practice Facility
The football program's practice facilities are literally in the shadow of Victory Hall, the student-athlete residences.
The practice fields are ideally located, nestled between Victory Hall and the Athletic Center - which houses the team's locker rooms, meeting rooms, equipment room, coaches' offices, the Strength and Conditioning Center and the Sports Medicine and Rehab Center - and just steps from Apogee Stadium.
The practice facility encompasses two full-length football fields, with observation platforms and goal posts at either end.
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama made no mention of the man who replaced her husband as president during her first post-White House speaking engagement Thursday in Orlando and appeared to rule out seeking office in the future.
"It's all well and good until you start running, and then the knives come out," she said. "Politics is tough, and it's hard on a family … I wouldn't ask my children to do this again because, when you run for higher office, it's not just you, it's your whole family."
"Plus," she added, "there's just so much more we can do outside of the office, because we won't have the burden of political baggage."
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I don't think I'm being too controversial when I say that, over the last few years, trust in the banking system, banks and bankers (three very different things that have been unhelpfully lumped together by the mainstream media narrative), has taken a battering.
The financial sector as a whole has huge job to do and in my view, social media is going to play a key part in getting it done.
This post will look at two key issues around trust and social media: how to measure it and how to build it.
Measuring trust
First, I want to briefly introduce an idea that scientists call the "fundamental attribution error." It goes thus: when people make mistakes themselves, they tend to attribute the mistake to the circumstances, e.g. "it was the traffic's fault" that they were late.
When, however, people see mistakes made by others, they attribute it to that person's personality, e.g. "He's late because he's disorganised".
Lots of psychologists have looked at this but one particular finding stands out. If people trust each other the fundamental attribution error is reduced, and what's more, there is a sliding scale of trust that reduces it bit by bit.
So, eye contact and body language reduce the error a lot, following that, tone of voice and its perceived 'honesty'. Responsiveness is another key element and this is where it gets interesting in terms of social media.
Just being seen to be listening increases people's trust in you, even if you can't respond with any helpful information. It seems that interaction, even if only for its own sake is a key element of trust.
It's a finding that seems to be borne out by a Vocus survey I picked up on a while ago. Respondents were provided with three fictitious Twitter users. Person A had millions of followers but no real interaction, person B had thousands of followers and some interaction and person C had only a few hundred followers but had a lot of interaction with them.
When asked which person would have a "more measurable effect" on their followers, 57% voted for person C. To me what this shows is that even from an outside perspective, visible interaction reduces the amount of "unknowns" and thus reduces the space for these attributional errors.
The upshot: If you use the fundamental attribution error in your market research you should be able to get a reasonable indicator of whether or not people trust you.
Building trust
We've already covered responsiveness as a key element of building trust and it's easy to see how social media can have an instant effect on a company's ability to be responsive, but there is a lot more.
Studies such as Edelman's trust barometer (and many others), show how trust can be affected by a number of factors. Among these factors is the type of content, the authority of the speaker, and opinions of other people rank highly.
Content is easy, and relates straight back to those factors that affect the fundamental attribution error. So, content that can convey personality such as body language and eye contact rates highly where as content that doesn't, doesn't.
I'd suggest that this means that video statements from senior execs will rank highly on trust scores. This example from Jet Blue, though old, is a great example of how video content can convey personality.
But beyond this, even when you are restricted to text as a medium, it's clear that conveying personality is key to building trust.
How you can make this work for you in real life
- Make content personal.
- Put the author of your Twitter stream's name in the bio.
- Have named authors on your blog, perhaps even use a picture by-line.
Authority is harder to tie down. We know that social media can convey a kind of authority through the pattern of links that pull networks together, and if people can see that others are endorsing your content (for example through re-tweets or Facebook likes) it will help to build trust on a micro-level.
It's important to give them the opportunity to do this, but authority is a lot more complicated than that.
Being able to talk with authority isn't about the channel you choose to communicate through, it's about being able to display a complete and nuanced mastery of your brief.
Social media can help you display that nuance by giving you a diverse set of channels and helping you reach a wider audience but in the end, the only way to talk with authority is to be authoritative.
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Social media involvement is a great way to establish trust. The key is to be active and use the medium correctly. Take the time to have an actual conversation with followers. Using social media only to promote can have the opposite effect, and turn off followers.
You're right: Trust in the financial industry is completely blown. But if banks really want to rebuilt trust with consumers, the formula isn't that complicated. They don't need social media. What they really need to do is stop deliberately trying to screw people over. Until banks stop offering financial products that were engineered to hurt people — manipulative overdraft schemes, universal default clauses, predatory loans — there isn't much they can do with social media besides apologize while doing the backstroke.
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Can you please tell me why my last comment wasn't published?
Irritated. I spent the time to write up a comment that contributed to this conversation to have it deleted. Social media fail.
Hi Jeffry, the comment was picked up by our spam filter, not deleted by us.
I've published it now. Sorry about that.
This is really interesting. I totally agree that banks need to 'personalise' their social media interactions in order to (re)build customer trust.
I guess this raises a new challenge. In a world where a bank has many active participants in social media - how do they project a consistent message and tone of voice? And in parallel, how do they do this without losing a sense of personality?
I'd love to hear your thoughts...
Hi guys - thanks for taking the time to comment.
@ Nick - Totally agree.
@ Jeffry - I agree that social media isn't going to magically fix these
issues overnight, but I definitely feel that it's a great place to start.
If customers can see their bank being more open, and listening and
communicating on a more individual basis, their trust in that brand is sure
to grow as a consequence.
@ Alex - I think we're pretty lucky at first direct in that our tone of
voice is already conversational and informal, especially for a bank! We
entrust our representatives to represent the brand on the phone 24/7/365, so it's only a small step to convert this interaction to the social media world. I think other financial organisations might need to lay some ground work before getting started, but I'd still encourage them to get involved. Perhaps limiting access to people until they've been trained up is the right way to go about it?


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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
"Hot" - compliment, or flagrant objectification?
I asked a bunch of high school at a conference this week what "hot" meant. I tried to get them to offer some synonyms, like "cute" or "attractive." But none of them went there, they said "hot" was different, it was more than cute (one guy even said, "You can be ugly and hot."), it was, in short, a word that describes someone who is sexually attractive.
Did any of them feel like it was kind of an unfair and denigrating word? They were pretty taken aback by my question (even after I explained what "denigrating" meant!), but then just shrugged and said that being hot was a good thing, a compliment, and that any girl, or guy for that matter, would want to be called hot. It seems to be akin to a bit less common but similarly located term, sexy. But at least with that one we all knew what we were talking about.
Hm, I'm certain most people would see using hot is relatively harmless, and let's face it, probably almost everybody does want to be sexually attractive. This is what strikes me about this word: it seems that the familiar use of the word gives permission for leering, lust, and objectifying whomever we designate as hot. Perhaps we did the same thing with sexy, but this one seems to have pushed the envelop farther, and is far more blatant in its goal.
Here's where we seem to stand: to be called hot means that someone is, basically, attracted to that person in terms of sexual potential, and everybody wants to be seen that way. Great.
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- Searching for the Yeti said...
this is a difficult one, chap. and one that does not go away with adolescents. it is a fine line - not wanting to be objectified and yet that strong need within you to be wanted and desired for the WHOLE of who you are (looks, intelligence, humor, abilities, etc.) sometimes it is hard to find the vocabulary...
- August 14, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- chapclark said...
I agree, and as is typical for me, I am a bit hyperbolic here... but on the other hand, I'm pretty fired up about this. There is rampant objectification in the church, and few are willing to look at it, talk about, and make sure we go after it.
Am I against flirting? It depends on what's behind it, and its trajectory if and when it escalates.
- August 22, 2008 at 2:33 PM
- Kate said...
at last someone says it like it is! - even if it takes me months to read it. Younger teens (at least) crave the definition without really having a clue what is behind it and the consequences.
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American Horror Story Season 7: Theme Revealed!Paul Dailly at . Comments
When Ryan Murphy revealed that the latest iteration of the American Horror Story franchise was going to be a modern-day tale, we had no idea it would be this modern.
American Horror Story Season 7 will make viewers relive the 2016 election.
"I don't have a title, but the season that we begin shooting in June is going to be about the election that we just went through," series creator Ryan Murphy revealed on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live Wednesday.
"I think that will be interesting for a lot of people."
When pressed about whether a character resembling Donald Trump would appear, he replied, "Maybe."
In an interview with E! Online, Murphy touched on his thoughts on the next chapter.
"It's very scary and very fun and very…topical," Murphy said.
"Anybody who voted in the last election will very much enjoy what it's about."
It's certainly a different direction for the series, which has focused on supernatural elements for the past six seasons.
It would be surprising to have the show go on without a supernatural element, but Ryan Murphy likes to pull the rug from under viewers.
It seems like this could be the story some fans were looking for.
Fake title cards were floating around for a new edition of the franchise, which was apparently set to begin on January 20. Yes, that's the date of Trump's inauguration.
It's somewhat surprising Murphy has revealed the theme so early this year.
The theme for American Horror Story Season 6 was kept under wraps until transmission.
Currently, series veterans Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters are slated to appear on the new season.
It is expected that much of the other cast members will be announced prior to the show's return in the fall.
Remember you can watch American Horror Story online right here via TV Fanatic.
What do you think of this new theme?
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Two-liter bottle
The two-liter bottle is a common container for soft drinks, beer, and wine. These bottles are produced from polyethylene terephthalate, also known as PET plastic, using the blow molding process. Bottle labels consist of a printed, tight-fitted plastic sleeve. A resealable screw-top allows the contents to be used at various times while retaining carbonation.
In the United States, the two liter bottle is one of the few cases where a product is sold by a round number of metric units. Since very few other beverages are sold in this exact quantity, the term "two-liter" in American English almost invariably refers to a soft drink bottle. Other common metric sizes for plastic soft drink bottles include 500 milliliters, 1 liter, and 3 liters.
PepsiCo introduced the first two-liter sized soft drink bottle in 1970.[1] The bottle was invented by a team led by Nathaniel Wyeth of DuPont, who received the patent in 1973.[2] In 1985, a three-liter bottle appeared on supermarket shelves. The design is still used to this day by some bottlers.[3][4]
Most modern-day two-liter bottles are one piece of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) with a base that is molded with a radial corrugation to provide strength for the bottom and the ability to stand upright. Most early two-liters had a separate opaque base glued to the hemispherical bottom of the clear PET flask. This base had a coaxial corrugation and drain holes. It was abolished in the 1990s, in part due to difficulties recycling the two separate plastics.[citation needed]
Used two-liter bottles see new life in a variety of uses including carpeting, boat hulls, polyester fabric, filling for jackets, sleeping bags, mattresses, pillows, recycling bins, scouring pads, and on an increasing scale, new soft drink bottles.[5]
Typical dimensions [6]:
- Height ~336 mm
- Diameter ~101.5 mm
Inventive uses[edit]
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- Two two-liter bottles can be used to simulate a tornado by putting water in one and taping the mouths of the two bottles together in an hourglass fashion. Raising the chamber filled with water upright with a swirling motion initiates the vortex.
- A craze in 2006 involved putting Mentos mints into a 2-liter bottle of diet cola to produce a fountain effect (the Diet Coke and Mentos eruption).
- A dry ice bomb can be made from a two-liter bottle, water, and dry ice
- Water rockets often use a two-liter bottle. Fins are attached, the bottle is partially filled with water, and air is pumped in. On release, the air forces out a stream of water which propels the rocket.
- A dry ice water rocket can be made by filling a two-liter plastic bottle about one third with water, putting in some dry ice and forcefully inserting a #3 rubber stopper. Place the dry ice water rocket on its fins with the stopper pointing down or in a paper or plastic tube for firing like a mortar or bazooka. This dry ice toy amuses, but avoids the loud noise of a dry ice bomb that can often bring an unwanted police response.
- A funnel by cutting the bottle in half.
- A drinking vessel by cutting bottle in half.
- An impromptu bee or wasp trap can be created by cutting the bottle in half and inverting the top into the bottom half where soda remains or bait can be placed.
- The bottom portion of early two-liter bottles could be removed from its opaque base, cut off from the top portion, inverted and then reinserted into the base. If air holes were cut in it, this would create a small greenhouse or, if left uncut, a terrarium.
- An empty two-liter bottle sealed with its cap is sometimes used as a bobber for fishing.
- A simple trap for stickleback and other small fish may be made from a two-liter bottle, a one-liter bottle and a few odds and ends (string, tape, and a few inches of rebar or other metal rod).
- A subirrigation system can be created by cutting a plastic bottle in half and inverting the mouth into the bottom of the bottle. A piece of polyester or other synthetic fabric is placed in the mouth (to be used as a wick). Then, soil and a plant is placed above. The plant is watered by capillary action.
- Two-liter bottles are popular improvised targets for shooting practice, causing a spectacular reaction on impact without being too expensive.
- Use as a dispenser for plastic grocery bags. Cut off the bottom of the bottle, place bags (one at a time) into the bottle. Pull out one bag at a time from the neck of the bottle.[7]
- Many 3d-printed objects use soda bottles as components, attaching to them by their PCO1881-style threads.
See also[edit]
- ^ "PepsiCo – Company – History". PepsiCo. 2006.
- ^ Nathaniel C. Wyeth (Filed November 30, 1970, Issued May 15, 1973). "US Patent 3733309 Biaxially Oriented Plastic Bottle, via Google.com". Retrieved 2007-02-19. Check date values in:
- ^ Maidenberg, H.J. (January 13, 1985). "PROSPECTS;Endangered Species". The New York Times. Retrieved May 26, 2010.
- ^ "Alabama Business Hall of Fame to Celebrate 25th Anniversary". C&BA News. September 30, 1998. Archived from the original on September 5, 2006.
- ^ "Best Practices and Industry Standards in PET Plastic Recycling" (PDF). NAPCOR. 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-06-20.
- ^ http://www.mzbn.com/en/sales/information/. Missing or empty
- ^ "Soda Bottle Plastic Bag Dispenser: 3 Steps". instructables.com.


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Lie-Nielsen Low Angle Smoothing Plane
Modeled on the nearly extinct Stanley 164, this short version of the low angle jack has an adjustable mouth and 2" wide iron set at 12°. The ductile iron body is 9-1/2" long. It features a unique Bailey overhead lateral iron adjuster.
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Behind the Scenes: 2015 Spring Collection Photo Shoot
Posted by Kirsten Dickerson (Raven + Lily CEO/Founder) on 5th Sep 2014
I have a new favorite travel crew! Its this crazy group of amazing women who dared to venture with me to the island of Lamu off the East Coast of Kenya.
Lamu was the magical location of our Spring '15 Collection Photo Shoot. I studied here 20 years ago through my university, so I was thrilled to come back to this amazing island on what is known as the Swahili Coast.
The island was a main stopping point on the ancient trading routes, so it has a gorgeous blend of African, Arabic, and India culture and design. There are no cars on this tropical island...only donkeys! The alleyways, courtyards, and architecture are amazing, and we all felt like we were stepping back in time hundreds of years.
Our model Robyn was from South Africa, but she looked like she belonged to this Swahili Coast. The rest of the lovely crew was Melinda DiMauro (photographer), Tiffany Schwedland (MUAH), and Danielle Gano (founder of my PR company Elle Communications and a talented assistant stylist for our shoot). We had way too much fun on this adventure and vowed to do something together again soon!
Can't show you too many details yet...you'll have to wait till early 2015. Just know that, everyone that's seen a sneak peek of our photos thinks its our best photo shoot and collection yet!


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J-1 Student Employment: Academic Training
Please note that these instructions are intended for J-1 students on the Howard J program. If you are a J-1 student but your DS-2019 is issued by an agency or institution other than Howard, you must contact your program sponsor to gain authorization for academic training.
I. What is Academic Training?
Academic training is a type of employment directly related to your major area of study that is authorized by your J-1 program sponsor who issues your DS-2019 form. It is designed for students to apply knowledge and skills learned at school.
II. Who May Engage in Academic Training?
All J-1 students in degree or non-degree programs may apply for academic training either during the course of study or after completion of studies. Students may work part-time while school is in session and full-time during the summer and winter breaks.
III. Approval from your J-1 Responsible Officer
To qualify for "academic training," you must first obtain approval in writing from the OISS. If your J-1 sponsor is another agency, and if you are uncertain how to reach your J-1 Responsible Officer, the staff at the OISS can help you find out, but has no authority to grant employment permission.
IV. Eligibility
- You must be in good academic standing at the school named on your Form DS-2019.
- The proposed employment must be directly related to your major field of study.
- Throughout your "Academic Training" you must maintain permission to stay in the United States, in J-1 student status, and apply for extensions as necessary.
- You must maintain health insurance coverage for yourself and any J-2 dependents throughout your Academic Training.
V. Duration of Academic Training
- Your employment may be authorized for the length of time necessary to complete the goals and objectives of the training, provided that the amount of time is approved by both your academic adviser and your Responsible Officer. It may not exceed the amount of time it took for you to complete your full course of study, or 18 months, whichever is shorter. If you receive a Ph.D., however, your post-doctoral training may last as long as 36 months, provided you have a postdoctoral position in an academic institution.
- Part-time employment for "Academic Training" counts against the 18 or 36 month limit the same as full-time employment.
- You may have only one opportunity for Academic Training regardless how many degrees you receive.
- Academic Training before completion of studies will be deducted from the total 18 or 36 months.
VI. How to Apply
- You must apply for Academic Training before the ending date on your DS-2019.
- A job offer letter from your prospective employer that includes: job title, a brief description of the "goals and objectives" of your "training program" (your employment), the dates and location of the employment, the number of hours per week, salary, and the name and address of your "training supervisor" (the quotations come from the regulations). Make sure that your employer's letter includes all of these details. (
- Academic advisors recommendation. Give a copy of your employer's letter to your academic adviser for use in completing the advisor's recommendation form which is in the academic training application packet..
- Bring the job offer letter and the advisor's recommendation form to the OISS. The OISS advisor will write you a letter authorizing the academic training. The OISS may also issue you a new DS-2019 form extended for your academic training, for no more than 18 months at a time.


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General Frequency Considerations
The frequency response of an amplifier refers to the frequency range in which the amplifier will operate with negligible effects from capacitors and device internal capacitance. This range of frequencies can be called the mid-range.
• At frequencies above and below the midrange, capacitance and any inductance will affect the gain of the amplifier.
• At low frequencies the coupling and bypass capacitors lower the gain.
• At high frequencies stray capacitances associated with the active device lower the gain.
• Also, cascading amplifiers limits the gain at high and low frequencies.
Bode Plot
A Bode plot is a graph of the logarithm of the transfer function of a linear, time-invariant system versus frequency, plotted with a log-frequency axis, to show the system's frequency response. It is usually a combination of a Bode magnitude plot (usually expressed as dB of gain) and a Bode phase plot (the phase is the imaginary part of the complex logarithm of the complex transfer function).
Figure 1(a): The Bode plot for a first-order (one-pole) highpass filter; the straight-line approximations are labeled "Bode pole"; phase varies from 90° at low frequencies (due to the contribution of the numerator, which is 90° at all frequencies) to 0° at high frequencies (where the phase contribution of the denominator is −90° and cancels the contribution of the numerator).
Figure 1(b): The Bode plot for a first-order (one-pole) lowpass filter; the straight-line approximations are labeled "Bode pole"; phase is 90° lower than for Figure 1(a) because the phase contribution of the numerator is 0° at all frequencies.
Cutoff frequency
In physics and electrical engineering, a cutoff frequency, corner frequency, or break frequency is the minimum frequency or energy of an incident wavelength required by an electron to overcome its binding energy.
Typically in electronic systems such as filters and communication channels, cutoff frequency applies to an edge in a lowpass, highpass, bandpass, or band-stop characteristic – a frequency characterizing a boundary between a passband and a stopband. It is sometimes taken to be the point in the filter response where a transition band and passband meet, for example as defined by a 3 dB corner, a frequency for which the output of the circuit is -3 dB of the nominal passband value. Alternatively, a stopband corner frequency may be specified as a point where a transition band and a stopband meet: a frequency for which the attenuation is larger than the required stopband attenuation, which for example may be 30 dB or 100 dB.
In the case of a waveguide or an antenna, the cutoff frequencies correspond to the lower and upper cutoff wavelengths.
Cutoff frequency can also refer to the plasma frequency.
In electronics, cutoff frequency or corner frequency is the frequency either above or below which the power output of a circuit, such as a line, amplifier, or electronic filter is the power of the passband.[1] In electronics, decibel numbers refer to power. When directly comparing two powers P1 and P2, this is simply 10 * log(P1 / P2). However, one frequently compares two different voltages V1 and V2. In this case, the decibel is defined as 20 * log(V1 / V2). (In many circuits, power is proportional to the square of the voltage; this square results in multiplying the logarithm by 20 instead of 10.) The 3dB point refers to the point at which the power is -3dB of the unattenuated signal. -3dB corresponds to 1/2 the unattenuated power; when comparing voltages, this corresponds to of the unattenuated voltage.
A bandpass circuit has two corner frequencies; their geometric mean is called the center frequency
Roll-Off of Gain in the Bode Plot
The Bode plot not only indicates the cutoff frequencies of the various capacitors it also indicates the amount of attenuation (loss in gain) at these frequencies.
The amount of attenuation is sometimes referred to as roll-off.
The roll-off is described as dB loss-per-octave or dB loss-per-decade.
Roll-off Rate (-dB/Decade)
-dB/decade refers to the attenuation for every 10-fold change in frequency.
For attenuations at the low-frequency end, it refers to the loss in gain from the lower cutoff frequency to a frequency that is one-tenth the cutoff value.
In this example:
fLS = 9kHz gain is 0dB
fLS/10 = .9kHz gain is –20dB
Thus the roll-off is 20dB/decade
The gain decreases by –20dB/decade
-dB/octave refers to the attenuation for every 2-fold change in frequency.
For attenuations at the low-frequency end, it refers to the loss in gain from the lower cutoff frequency to a frequency one-half the cutoff value.
In this example:
fLS = 9kHz gain is 0dB
fLS / 2 = 4.5kHz gain is –6dB
Therefore the roll-off is 6dB/octave.
This is a little difficult to see on this graph because the horizontal scale is a logarithmic scale.
Miller Capacitance
The term "Miller capacitance" is often seen when reading about guitar amplifier circuit design. It refers to the effective multiplication of the plate-to-grid capacitance in a triode tube (or transistor) by the gain of the amplifying stage.
When a tube is amplifying a signal, it has to work against the plate-to-grid capacitance, charging and discharging it as the signal changes. Because the grid is a high impedance, and doesn't sink or source any current, this charging current must be sourced or sinked through the driving source resistance of the previous stage. This forms a lowpass filter, with a corner frequency determined by the source resistance of the previous stage and the input capacitance.
The Miller capacitance in a triode tube is equal to the plate-to-grid capacitance multiplied by a factor equal to the stage gain plus one. Pentode and tetrode tubes don't suffer as much from the effects of Miller capacitance because of the shielding effect of the screen grid, which drastically lowers the plate-to-grid capacitance?
Why is it important?
The majority of the input capacitance of a triode stage is made up of the combination of the grid-to-cathode capacitance, plus the Miller capacitance formed by the grid-to-plate capacitance multiplied by the stage gain plus one. The formula for determining the total input capacitance of a triode stage is as follows:
Cin = Cgk + Cgp*(A+1)
Where: Cin = input capacitance
Cgk = grid-to-cathode capacitance, composed of the internal tube capacitance plus the stray capacitance
Cgp = grid-to-plate capacitance, composed of the internal tube capacitance plus the stray capacitance
A = stage gain
The typical interelement capacitances are very small, but, as can be seen from the above equation, the grid-to-plate capacitance is multiplied by the gain of the tube stage plus one, so if the gain is large, the capacitance can very easily become significant, resulting in audible rolloff in frequency response.
For example, a typical 12AX7 stage has the following capacitances and gain:
Cgk = 1.6pF + 0.7pF stray = 2.3pF
Cgp = 1.7pF + 0.7pF stray = 2.4pF
Therefore, the total input capacitance would be:
Cin = 2.3pF + (61+1)* 2.4pF = 151.1pF
Effect on frequency response
The input capacitance of the tube, in conjunction with the source impedance of the previous stage, forms a simple, single-pole RC lowpass filter with a -6dB/octave (-20dB/decade) slope, and an upper -3dB cutoff frequency equal to:
f = 1/(2*pi*R*C)
The -3dB point with a 68K resistor (such as at the input stage of an amplifier) would be:
f = 1/(2*pi*68K*151.1pF) = 15.5kHz
This is not too bad, considering the frequencies involved in guitar amplification. However, if the source resistance were increased to 470K, the cutoff frequency would be:
f = 1/(2*pi*470K*151.1pF) = 2.2kHz
This would result in considerable rolloff in the upper part of the passband at guitar frequencies. Note that the Miller effect applies to any triode, not just small signal triodes. Pentode output tubes operated in triode mode will exhibit less high frequency response because of the higher input capacitance of the tube in triode mode. This, in combination with the normally lower level of higher order harmonics in triode mode, will cause the overall tone to be less bright than pentode mode.
What to do about it
Miller capacitance can kill the frequency response rather easily, so there are a few things to consider when designing guitar amplifiers. If you desire to minimize the effect of the Miller capacitance on frequency response, you can do the following things:
- Reduce the output impedance of the previous stage. This can be accomplished by lowering the value of the plate load resistor, using a tube with a lower internal plate resistance, or lowering the value of any series or shunt attenuation resistors. Obviously, all of these things will affect the gain of the stages, so this must be taken into account as well.
- Reduce the gain of the stage. The Miller capacitance is proportional to the gain of the amplifying stage, so using a lower stage gain will reduce the Miller capacitance, thereby increasing the frequency response.
- Use a pentode or cascode stage instead of a triode stage. Both the pentode and cascode configuration suffer very little from the effects of Miller capacitance because of the AC grounding of the screen grid in the pentode, and the AC grounding of the upper tube grid in the cascode, which drastically lowers the plate-to-grid capacitance in both configurations. The cascode configuration has the added advantage of lower noise, when compared to the pentode, because it does not have the "division" noise created by the screen grid of the pentode.
- Use the Miller capacitance to your advantage. Since the Miller capacitance forms a lowpass filter in conjunction with the output resistance of the previous stage, it can be used as a "free" lowpass filter, thus saving the cost and trouble of adding a capacitor or RC network in the amplifier when a tailored frequency response is desired. This is commonly used in a not-so-apparent manner in the typical input stage of most guitar amplifiers. The input resistor, in conjunction with the input capacitance, forms a lowpass filter that reduces the susceptibility of the tube to parasitic oscillations, such as those that can occur when the input stage is being driven by a long guitar cable. As shown in the example above, the typical cutoff point of this lowpass filter, when using a 68K resistor, is around 15.5kHz. Also, some high-gain guitar amplifiers have a distortion channel that uses large value series resistors in front of the grids of the preamp tubes. These resistors not only aid in minimizing blocking distortion, they also act as lowpass filters to reduce some of the high frequency content of the distortion signal, in order to reduce some of the "buzziness" in the tone. As shown in the above example, the typical cutoff frequency using a series 470K resistor would be 2.2kHz, which would roll off most of the upper harmonics, producing a subjectively smoother distortion tone.
Multistage Frequency Effects
Each stage will have its own frequency response, but the output of one stage will be affected by capacitances in the subsequent stage. This is especially so when determining the high frequency response. For example, the output capacitance (Co) will be affected by the input Miller Capacitance (CMi) of the next stage.
Summary of frequency response of single-stages:
CE/CS: suffers from Miller effect
CC/CD: "wideband" -- see Section 10.5
CB/CG: "wideband" -- see Section 10.6
(Wideband means that the stage operates to near the frequency
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Square Wave Testing
In order to determine the frequency response of an amplifier by experimentation, you must apply a wide range of frequencies to the amplifier.
One way to accomplish this is to apply a square wave. A square wave consists of multiple frequencies (by Fourier analysis: it consists of odd harmonics).
Square Wave Response Waveforms
If the output of the amplifier is not a perfect square wave then the amplifier is 'cutting' off certain frequency components of the square wave.
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About the event: A recent event that was produced for Mardi Gras at Carnivale as part of their roll out for more evening culture based events. The goal: to light up every corner of the room with colorful and energetic entertainment, matching the color and vibrations of Carnivale (the restaurant AND the holiday).
What we provided: We hired a talented and elegant collection of dancers, The Teasers from the Original Tease, and spent 4 weeks training with a renown Samba coach to make sure the ladies were spot on in their movement and grace. We sourced beautifully styled authentic Samba costumes from a local designer, and used the entire 8000 sq ft space as our stage.
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News from the Greek energy market:
• RAE has submitted to public consultation a proposal-suggestion by the Network Operator about the ways to address the issue of electricity thefts in the interim, until the Network Management Code enters into effect, at the same time making available all notifications and opinions of participants in the 2nd NMC Consultation on the respective article (hereto attached) (Α.1)
• Moreover, RAE has submitted to public consultation the first edition of the Code of transactions for auction-operated forward electricity market, until Friday, 26.08.2016. (Α.2)
• The approval of the progress report on achieving the country's energy performance goal in 2015 is now available to the public. (Α.3)
European news:
• EURELECTRIC stresses the importance of eligibility requirements for RES tender procedures, also considering the relevant report by AURES, an EU-funded research project on auctions for RES. As pointed out, sanctioning is not likely to guarantee project implementation. On the contrary, establishing the appropriate eligibility requirements can increase project implementation (Β.4)
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If you haven't played Tera Online in a while, then you might be surprised to hear that Tera is going Free-2-Play as of Feb 5th, 2013 (today). But everything is not going to be a bed of roses. Instead, watch out for the thorns. Tera is actually going what's called Pay to Win. What this means, is that if you pay for items in the game, you will have a statistical advantage over those who simply play and don't pay anything. As far as the Asian community is concerned, this is a worthwhile plan. Western European and North Americans have a different view, however with the control being in the hands of the Asians, as far as design and building this will be a micro-transaction model which could prove either disastrous or very lucrative, depending on how the world sees this change as far as f2p MMO's goes.
Keep reading for the changes coming to Tera Online...
The first major change that will happen in Tera Online that affects previous gamers is the removal of Master Alkahest, and spellbind from the specialty vendors. The reason for the change is mostly because Korean Tera Online has moved towards a pay to win style shop and En Masse does not have development control over the Tera Online game. While En Masse has claimed they will not be going pay to win by providing buy-able advantages over other players they still plan on making the change.
Currently both items are very easy to obtain and looking at how other patches have been modified for US players making it much more of a grind then normal chances are we will end up getting very limited ways of obtaining it making it much harder to upgrade gear in the future.
The other bad part of this is that it opens the door for En Masse to introduce pay to win in the future either by making players feel like they want to have that buy-able advantage over free players by lowering drop rates making it so hard to grind the items and so expensive to buy enough to upgrade with or by the publisher Bluehole forcing changes that cannot be modified by En Masse giving them an excuse to go pay to win. If they can make the community ask for pay to win then they can bring it on without losing most of the player base.
The positive side of F2P
Everyone knows that the economy which we are stuck in is not very good and F2P does mean that people who don't have money to buy the game can still to play it. Which in turn, also means a larger community, which can be a good thing even though the quality of the community does allow for botting, gold farmers and players that cannot speak English well you will have a lot more players.The PvP servers will be filled with a lot more people to kill in the open world PvP.
The other positive thing is they seem to want to add more content, this is the one thing the game has lacked the most over anything else. In a mmo like Tera Online content is king! It keeps players active on a server and for a pay to play game Tera did not fit the bill with the amount of content which was released.
Along with the free to play patch they are adding a new dungeon with varying difficulties as well as 3v3 arena style PvP something which was much needed and should have been implemented near the start of the game. They also are talking about adding progression based raids a month or two in the future and even the Korean servers seem to be publishing more updates at a much faster rate. If they continue to provide newer content patches at a much faster rate they can improve the gamers experience for the new and the old players and make Tera Online one of the best F2P mmo's.
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Welcome to the first Episode of The Human Condition. This story is about a young man in rough spot in his life. The loss of his father has Nathan Funds questioning everything he knows. As the story progresses Nathan must make choices which may compromise his morals and religious beliefs. Will Nathan keep his faith? Or will he find a new way to survive?


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Code refactoring (wiki: "disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior") is a very common method of self-improving our existing code.
Doing this is extremely important and there are many resources, articles and forums discussing this topic.
Our SQL Code (procedures, functions etc…) is no different than any other regular code
And yet, we don't see this common practice popular enough among SQL Developers.
It is important to distinct between query refactoring, which would usually aim at reformatting the query to better readability and in some cases – better performance, and actual code refactoring.
Frequently refactoring your code helps you make sure you (and other developers in your team) don't get lost in long, spaghetti, unstructured code as your project grows.
In addition, you'll be surprise of how much potential bugs you may find, fix and prevent during this process.
So, here are the common items you should be aiming towards:
- Renaming (at least the internals that are not exposed to the outside application)
o There are many tools, including Visual Studio, which will help you detect any rename any references to the renamed object. I strongly advise to use those
- Keeping your procedures and functions small.
o I personally saw too many of those 1000+ lines procedures. This is always a bad practice
o And by the way, the solution is not to split a long procedure into [n] pieces J
- Keeping the same structure/pattern. I'm referring to formatting, variable declaration, naming convention and more
- Using schema prefix for different DALs. (this is a trick we're using to divide the code into sub-systems) For example:
o Common.BatchDelete()
o CallsDAL.StartTraceCall()
o Etc…
Last but not least – during and after refactoring, always make sure that your project:
- Compiles and builds with no errors
- Deploys successfully
- Passes all relevant unit-tests (to make sure backward compatibility and logic are not harmed)
This is another big topic which I'll cover in the near future.


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PRINCETON, N.J. – The following eight referees and nine linesmen have been selected to work the Conference Finals in the 2013 Kelly Cup Playoffs.
As approved by the ECHL Board of Governors at the 2012 Annual Meeting, the ECHL will utilize a two-referee system for all games in the Conference Finals and Kelly Cup Finals.
Referees: Tom Chmielewski, Don Jablonski, Frederic LeBlanc, Nic Leduc, JM McNulty, Geoff Miller, Ryan Murphy and Joe Sullivan
Linesmen: Ryan Daisy, Brent Martin, Shaun Morgan, Brian Oliver, Mike Sheehan, Zach Thornton, Francis Trempe, Michel Voyer and Steven Walsh
Eastern Conference Finals (Best of Seven)
#1 Reading Royals vs. #2 Cincinnati Cyclones
Game 1 – Friday, May 3 at 7:05 p.m. ET at Reading
Game 2 – Sunday, May 5 at 4:05 p.m. ET at Reading
Game 3 – Wednesday, May 8 at 7:35 p.m. ET at Cincinnati
Game 4 – Friday, May 10 at 7:35 p.m. ET at Cincinnati
Game 5 – Saturday, May 11 at 7:35 p.m. ET at Cincinnati (If Necessary)
Game 6 – Monday, May 13 at 7:05 p.m. ET at Reading (If Necessary)
Game 7 – Tuesday, May 14 at 7:05 p.m. ET at Reading (If Necessary)
Western Conference Finals (Best of Seven)
#3 Idaho Steelheads vs. #4 Stockton Thunder
Game 1 – Friday, May 3 at 7:10 p.m. MT at Idaho
Game 2 – Sunday, May 5 at 5:10 p.m. MT at Idaho
Game 3 – Wednesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. PT at Stockton
Game 4 – Friday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m. PT at Stockton
Game 5 – Saturday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. PT at Stockton (If Necessary)
Game 6 – Monday, May 13 at 7:10 p.m. MT at Idaho (If Necessary)
Game 7 – Tuesday, May 14 at 7:10 p.m. MT at Idaho (If Necessary)
Premier 'AA' Hockey League Fast Facts
• Watch games live on America One Sports, the "Official Broadband & Mobile Broadcaster" of the ECHL.
• The ECHL celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2012-13 and is the third-longest tenured professional hockey league behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League.
• ECHL began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be a coast-to-coast league with 23 teams in 16 states in 2012-13.
• The league officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
• 512 players have played in the NHL after playing in the ECHL including 23 in 2011-12.
• 22 ECHL players have made their NHL debuts this season: former Trenton Titans right wing Jason Akeson (Philadelphia on April 27), former Gwinnett Gladiators forward Matt Anderson (New Jersey on Jan. 29), former Stockton Thunder center and 2011 ECHL All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Mark Arcobello (Edmonton on Feb. 6), former Utah Grizzlies defenseman and 2010 ECHL All-Star Victor Bartley (Nashville on March 8), former Charlotte Checkers, Wheeling Nailers, Pensacola Ice Pilots, Florida Everblades and Augsuta Lynx left wing Patrick Bordeleau (Colorado on Jan. 19), former Cincinnati Cyclones forward Cory Conacher (Tampa Bay on Jan. 19), former Trenton Devils goaltender Jeff Frazee (New Jersey on March 9), former South Carolina Stingrays and Reading Royals goaltender and 2013 ECHL All-Star Philipp Grubauer (Washington on Feb. 27), former Cincinnati Cyclones left wing Kevin Henderson (Nashville on April 19), former Toledo Walleye goaltender Carter Hutton (Chicago on April 27), former Trenton Titans defenseman Matt Konan (Philadelphia on April 25), former Ontario Reign and Orlando Solar Bears goaltender Darcy Kuemper (Minnesota on Feb. 12), former Toledo Walleye defenseman Brian Lashoff (Detroit on Jan. 21), former Toledo Walleye goaltender Petr Mrazek (Detroit on Feb. 7), former Las Vegas Wranglers, Toledo Walleye and Idaho Steelheads defenseman Steve Oleksy (Washington on March 5), former Alaska Aces right wing Anthony Peluso (Winnipeg on Feb. 12), former South Carolina Stingrays center Steve Pinizzotto (Vancouver on March 14), former Ontario Reign right wing Jon Rheault (Florida on March 5), former Reading Royals left wing Antoine Roussel (Dallas on Feb. 1), former Florida Everblades right wing Jared Staal (Carolina on April 25), former Wheeling Nailers center and 2011 ECHL All-Star Ben Street (Calgary on Feb. 9) and former Toledo Storm right wing and 2007 ECHL All-Star Jamie Tardif (Boston on Feb. 2).
• The ECHL has had 320 players reach the NHL since 2002-03 when it changed its focus to become the primary developmental league for the NHL and the AHL. The ECHL had 97 players reach the NHL in its first 10 seasons and 215 in the first 15 years.
• 256 ECHL players have played their first game in the last eight seasons for an average of 32 per year.
• ECHL had a record 87 players on NHL opening-day rosters in 2012-13, surpassing the 81 from 2011-12 and marking the 10th year in a row that there have been over 50 former ECHL players on opening-day rosters.
• ECHL has affiliations with 25 of the 30 NHL teams in 2012-13, marking the 16th consecutive season that the league had affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
• 30 coaches with an ECHL background are working behind the benches of teams in the NHL including Anaheim Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau, Pittsburgh Penguins head coach and 2011 Jack Adams Award winner Dan Bylsma, New York Islanders head coach Jack Capuano, Dallas Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan, Philadelphia Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette and Winnipeg Jets head coach Claude Noel. It is the seventh consecutive season that there have been 11 or more coaches with an ECHL background working in the NHL. Boudreau, who coached Mississippi for three seasons winning the Kelly Cup championship in 1999, was named NHL Coach of the Year in 2007-08 becoming the first former ECHL coach to receive the award.
• 26 former ECHL officials are scheduled to work as part of the NHL officiating team in 2012-13 with referees Darcy Burchell, Francis Charron, Ghislain Hebert, Jean Hebert, Marc Joannette, Trent Knorr, Mike Leggo, Dave Lewis, T.J. Luxmore, Wes McCauley, Jon McIsaac, Dean Morton, Dan O'Rourke, Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock, Kyle Rehman, Chris Rooney, Graham Skilliter, Justin St. Pierre and Ian Walsh, and linesmen Steve Barton, Matt MacPherson, Brian Mach, Tim Nowak, Bryan Pancich and Jay Sharrers.
• ECHL was represented for the 12th year in a row on the Stanley Cup champion in 2012 with Los Angeles Kings assistant coach Jamie Kompon, players Dwight King, Jordan Nolan and Jonathan Quick, manager of communications/broadcasting Jeremy Zager and scouts Steve Greeley, Mark Mullen and Mark Yannetti. Quick was named the recipient of the Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, marking the second consecutive year a former ECHL player won the award.. There were 43 former players and 13 coaches on the 16 teams competing in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Playoffs, marking the seventh year in a row that there have been at least 30 former ECHL players and the ninth consecutive season that over 25 players with ECHL experience have competed in the NHL postseason.
• Former ECHL broadcasters working in the NHL include John Ahlers and Steve Carroll of the Anaheim Ducks, Tom Callahan of the Nashville Predators, Dave Goucher of the Boston Bruins, Chris Kerber of the St. Louis Blues, Jack Michaels of the Edmonton Oilers, Dave Mishkin of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Bob McElligott of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
• Ryan Stanzel and Jeremy Zager, who were both recipients of the ECHL Media Relations Director of the Year award, are working in the communications department for the Minnesota Wild and the Los Angeles Kings, respectively. Former ECHL assistant director of communications Joe Siville works in the communications department for the Philadelphia Flyers.
• ECHL has affiliations with 25 of the 30 teams in the American Hockey League in 2012-13 and for the past 23 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup Champion.
• In the last seven seasons the ECHL has had more call-ups to the AHL than all other professional leagues combined with over 3,500 call-ups involving more than 1,800 players and in 2011-12 there were 10 times as many call-ups from the ECHL to the AHL than all other professional leagues.
• The ECHL averaged 4,695 fans per game in 2012-13, the highest single-season average since 1999-2000, and marking the ninth consecutive season and the 21st time in the last 23 years that the ECHL has averaged over 4,000 fans.
• Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.


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Please click here (or from the the download section below) for a copy of the Year 11 Intervention Timetable 2016-17
Post-16 Progression Evening is on Wednesday 12/10/2016 - information will be presented by Senior staff - To view the presentation, click on the Resource on the right hand side of the page
- Open Evenings for local Sixth Forms and Colleges
- Government news about apprenticeships
- New management scheme to be launched by Thomas Cook
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As treatment taker of your animal, you are additionally obliged to protect them from the problem of fleas and also ticks. There are more than a thousand identified types of fleas but paradoxically, just one is bane to pets, the ctenocephalides or pet cat fleas. Ticks affix itself to the pets as well as expand larger as they continuously suck the host's blood.
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1. Frontline toolbox of flea and tick control. Frontline plus is topically used flea and tick control for canines and also pet cats. It consists of two different active ingredients: the fipronil which eliminates grown-up fleas as well as the (S) methoprene which kills just larvae and eggs. Various other items are Frontline Top Area and Frontline Spray.
2. K-9 Advantix eliminates 98-100% of fleas on canines within 12 hours and also continues to avoid infestation for a minimum of 4 weeks. Its primary function is to eliminate fleas, ticks and also mosquitoes.
3. Benefit flea control is for pets as well as for young puppies not much less compared to 7 weeks. It is guaranteed to eliminate 98-100% of fleas within 12 hours. It is used monthly. Advantage is likewise made use of for cats.
4. Capstar is a tablet which removes fleas from both dogs as well as cats. It begins eliminating 98% of fleas within 20-30 minutes after dose.
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6. Preventic Tick Collar kills and removes ticks from pet dogs. When the collar is used, it prevents an assault of ticks and this works for 3 months. It is not able to eliminate and manage the flea population. It is water-resistance as well as resilient. It is not suitable for cats.
7. Proticall for dogs has 65% permethrin for rapid activity in killing ticks, fleas and also other insects. It fends off ticks from skin surface area. It remains efficient even after brief water immersion. An affordable, safe and easy to apply fluid, Proticall has to be used every 4 weeks.
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Human brain activity invokes a complex interplay of neuron activity and spatiotemporal variations in metabolism, blood flow and blood oxygen level. These processes are functionally connected in neurovascular units of the brain, which are composed of integrated networks of neurons, astrocytes, and vascular smooth muscle cells. Impaired neurovascular coupling is implicated in stroke, hypertension, epilepsy, Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases and is the subject of intense biomedical research on network-level dynamics of human brain function. Current strategies for noninvasive neurovascular imaging focus on combined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) and to a lesser degree on combined near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and EEG or magnetoencephalography (MEG). There are however some fundamental limitations to existing multimodal neuroimaging approaches. The temporal resolution of fMRI, on the order of 0.5 Hz, limits the temporal precision of investigations into the dynamics of neurovascular coupling. NIRS overcomes the rate limitation of fMRI but is only sensitive to the outer regions of the cerebral cortex. Subject exclusion is a concern with MRI, which is unsafe for individuals with certain metal implants and is poorly tolerated by individuals with claustrophobia. Engineering advances are urgently needed to deliver spatially resolved, high-speed, matched imaging of neural and hemodynamic physiology. The objective of this project is to develop a new neuroimaging technology that meets these needs. The proposed system uses an innovative approach to integrating two capabilities of the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID): biomagnetometer measurement of magnetic susceptibility and magnetoencephalography (MEG). Measuring neural activity with MEG is based on detecting the magnetic fields produced by active neurons. SQUID susceptibility measurement detects changes in the level of deoxygenated hemoglobin in the blood, similarly to fMRI, but with faster temporal sampling. An added benefit is that the proposed system is capable of high-precision dynamic imaging of magnetic nanoparticles, which opens up novel applications for targeted cancer therapies. Since the proposed system uses ultra-low field magnetics it may also be used to study neurovascular function in epilepsy for patients with implanted electrode arrays and in Parkinson disease for patients with implanted deep brain stimulation devices. This project specifically aims to optimize the spatial resolution and sampling rate of the proposed MEG-susceptometry system and to perform a comparative analysis between MEG-susceptometry and EEG-fMRI. The technological innovations from this project have the potential of delivering unprecedented precision and resolution in multimodal neuroimaging that will enable fundamental breakthroughs in neurovascular brain dynamics in normal and pathophysiological conditions. 1
Human brain activity invokes a complex interplay of neuron activity and variations in metabolism, blood flow and blood oxygen level. Understanding these components of brain physiology dynamics is fundamental to advancing brain research and to developing new treatments for brain injury and neurological diseases. This project aims to develop an instrument for studying the interaction between brain activity, blood flow and oxygenation, and also delivers the needed level of precision for future translational research on brain health.
|Ficko, Bradley W; NDong, Christian; Giacometti, Paolo et al. (2017) A Feasibility Study of Nonlinear Spectroscopic Measurement of Magnetic Nanoparticles Targeted to Cancer Cells. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 64:972-979
|Ficko, Bradley W; Giacometti, Paolo; Diamond, Solomon G (2015) Nonlinear Susceptibility Magnitude Imaging of Magnetic Nanoparticles. J Magn Magn Mater 378:267-277
|Ficko, Bradley W; Nadar, Priyanka M; Diamond, Solomon G (2015) Spectroscopic AC Susceptibility Imaging (sASI) of Magnetic Nanoparticles. J Magn Magn Mater 375:164-176
|Ficko, Bradley W; Giacometti, Paolo; Diamond, Solomon G (2015) Extended arrays for nonlinear susceptibility magnitude imaging. Biomed Tech (Berl) 60:457-63
|Ficko, Bradley W; Nadar, Priyanka M; Hoopes, P Jack et al. (2014) Development of a magnetic nanoparticle susceptibility magnitude imaging array. Phys Med Biol 59:1047-71


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Tomahawk Creek Trail is a 18.2 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Leawood, Kansas that features beautiful wild flowers and is good for all skill levels. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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A paved trail connecting to the longer Indian Creek Trail. Popular and perfect for beginner - serious cyclists, runners, and walkers.
Nice paved trail providing a continuous workout - moderately used.
Great walking trail with wide enough paths for the bike riders to pass by. Loved walking next to Indian Creek and crossing over several bridges. I just walked this back to back days and plan to be a regular...glad I found this trail.
Another great trail for biking, running or walking. This trail connects to the Indian Creek trail.
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Additive manufacturing, often referred to as the 3rd Industrial Revolution, is becoming a widespread phenomenon due to the manufacturing flexibility, cost and material savings it offers.
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Much to our delight The Education Network has recently signed a contract to provide teaching staff to Secondary Schools in Norwich, Norfolk. We are now looking for teachers to work in short and long term contracts starting immediately.
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The Education Network is resourcing for several secondary schools throughout. Norwich, Norfolk Our client schools are unique in every way with versatile open learning spaces, bringing the best of different education models and the latest technologies together to help students achieve at the highest personal and academic level.
Our secondary schools aim to provide the best educational experience, that in turn promote confident ambitious learners who are forward thinking and well equipped to take on the challenges that they will face as the move through the school system. As a valid contributor to the education of the children in Norwich this is the ideal role for you to develop your skills and contribute to the success of local schools while working there on short and long term assignments.
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Working as a Supply Teacher with The Education Network puts you in control of how many supply bookings you complete each week. Also, you can choose the locations that you work in and build up a portfolio of schools that you enjoy working in. The Education Network pay our Supply Teachers amongst the most competitive daily rates and offer the option to claim back work-related expenses.
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Playing the Tolerance Card
How Obama is like JFK.
In the first round of the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama has, to some people's surprise, been drawing less enthusiasm from black voters than from upscale whites. (Black voters, despite some recent shifts, still prefer Hillary.) Efforts to explain this discrepancy have focused on the reaction of black voters to Obama; one hypothesis holds that Obama, as the son of a Kenyan, strikes many blacks as unrepresentative of them. But the flip side of the question hasn't really been asked: What explains Obama's robust showing with white liberals?
Some elements of the answer are obvious: his high-toned oratory, his promises of reconciliation in a divisive time, a background in community organizing that suggests both idealism and a talent for problem-solving. But another clue may lie in the presidential bid of a figure Obama's devotees love to invoke: John F. Kennedy.
When answering the charge that the Illinois senator lacks the record of achievement befitting a White House aspirant, Obama's backers often stack him next to JFK. Obama is 44, they note, older than JFK was when he ran. Skeptics derided JFK, as they now do Obama, as callow and ill-versed in substantive issues. And yet Obama, similar to JFK, manages to inspire people with sex appeal, cerebral cool, and a message of generational change. Like all historical analogies, this one has limits: JFK had logged 14 years in Congress when he became president, compared with the four Obama will have by 2008. For all these surface similarities, however, the most important aspect of Kennedy's campaign mirrored in Obama's may be the way that JFK handled his Catholicism. In the 1960 campaign, Kennedy turned his religion from a liability into an asset. Obama seems to be doing the same thing with his race.
When Kennedy began eyeing the presidency in the late 1950s, no Catholic had led a national ticket since 1928, when New York Gov. Al Smith was routed by Republican Herbert Hoover. Although the seven fat years that preceded that election sealed Hoover's win, anti-Catholic sentiment—latent and overt—hurt Smith. Even 32 years later, experts thought that many Protestants wouldn't pull the lever for a Catholic. Kennedy's aides debated what to do. Most wanted to dodge the issue and hope that the toleration that had prevailed in America since World War II would keep Kennedy's creed from deterring too many voters. Some advisers even feared that raising the religion issue would only fan it.
The alternate strategy was to deal with voters' concerns explicitly. Only a minority of Kennedy's aides preferred this approach. But one was Kennedy's influential pollster, Lou Harris, and Kennedy came to agree with his advice. They chose the West Virginia primary, a state that was just 5 percent Catholic, as the forum in which to take on the issue. Kennedy's rival was Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey, a favorite of labor and of liberals—and a Protestant. Kennedy invested a fortune in the state, but as the May 10 primary neared, he found himself down 20 points. Previous primaries that year had trained media attention on Kennedy's religion, lowering his numbers in Appalachia.
To climb back, Kennedy staged a half-hour televised interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. FDR's name was gold in the poor mining state whose residents remembered the New Deal with deep gratitude. For about one-third of the broadcast, JFK answered frank questions from FDR Jr. about his Catholicism. The candidate said that if elected president, he would take his oath to uphold the Constitution on a Bible—and thus if he broke that vow, he would not only deserve impeachment but would also be "sinning against God."
At one level, Kennedy seemed only to be pleading that his loyalty to country preceded his loyalty to any religious dictates—that he could be trusted. Indeed, Kennedy, of all politicians, had the best chance of defusing what anti-Catholic bigotry remained in America, since he didn't fit the negative, atavistic Catholic stereotypes that some people harbored. In words that evoke some recent unfortunate comments about Obama, David Halberstam noted that to voters in 1960, Kennedy looked "stylish and fresh and clean, his tailoring and his coiffing reeked of elegance and tradition, the first Irish Brahmin, the Irishman as Wasp." Hard-core haters would never back him, but to mildly intolerant Americans, "the sight of the young, slim, modern, attractive Kennedy, free as he seemed to be of restraints and prejudices of the past, erased their suspicions."
Beyond defensively reassuring the slightly prejudiced, however, Kennedy was also making a more ingenious, offensive play. Harris conceived a strategy of framing the Catholicism issue as one of voters' open-mindedness. As Theodore H. White wrote in The Making of the President, 1960:
Two Democratic candidates were appealing to the commonality of the Democratic Party; once the issue could be made one of tolerance or intolerance Hubert Humphrey was hung. No one could prove to his own conscience that by voting for Humphrey he was displaying tolerance. Yet any man, indecisive in mind on the Presidency, could prove that he was at least tolerant by voting for Jack Kennedy. The shape of the problem made it impossible for Humphrey, the most tolerant of men, to run in favor of tolerance. Only Kennedy could campaign on this point and still win in good taste and without unfairness.
After the TV interview with FDR, Harris' surveys showed a sharp switch, reflected in the pollster's own encounters with West Virginians. "I remember going back to one particular one the Monday before the election, after the TV speech on religion," Harris told White. "And she took me in and pulled down the blinds and said she was going to vote for Kennedy now. 'We have enough trouble in West Virginia, let alone to be called bigots, too.' "
Outplayed (and outspent), Humphrey lost badly. Late on the night of the primary, he withdrew his candidacy for the nomination. "I think," Kennedy said at a press conference, "we have now buried the religion issue once and for all." West Virginians hadn't exactly voted for Kennedy because he was Catholic. Indeed, he had needed to dispel their biases against Catholics simply to gain a hearing. But once he had gained that hearing, he flipped the issue on its head, and thereafter his religion subtly enhanced his other appealing qualities—including the message that as an emissary of a new generation, freed from the constraining assumptions of the past, he would offer new solutions to America's problems, including those of diversity and toleration.
In subsequent years, members of minority groups seeking high office have emulated this strategy. When Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman sought the vice presidency in 2000, the presence of a Jew on a ticket provoked much chatter, especially since Lieberman (unlike most American Jews) is Orthodox. Most of us had expected that the first Jew on a national ticket would be someone whose religion would go largely unnoticed, like Dianne Feinstein or Arlen Specter—picked because his or her Judaism didn't matter. Lieberman was picked because his Judaism did matter. It mattered, in part, because it tacitly invited voters to feel ennobled by voting for a visibly devout Jew—an invitation the candidate extended in a convention speech that declared, "Only in America." Although by 2000 few voters remained who were likely to be moved by anti-Semitism, Lieberman still turned his religion from a nonfactor into a net plus.
Similarly, few people support Obama solely, or mainly, because he's black. But if his strategists are thinking as Kennedy's did in 1960, they may be calculating that his race can subtly enhance his other attractive qualities. Having passed a threshold among most white voters, his race can implicitly encourage them to feel that a vote for Obama is a vote for tolerance, for a future free of the constricting prejudices of the past, and for a sense of hope that Jack Kennedy once evoked.


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Women remain underrepresented in scientific and technological fields. It is important to address this inequality. - Helen Lawton Smith, Professor of Entrepreneurship in Birkbeck's Department of Management
(PRWEB UK) 27 February 2014
Staff at Birkbeck, University of London, are championing the role of female academics in scientific subjects as part of a five-country European project. The new initiative involves testing a blueprint designed to raise the status of women in scientific and technological organisations. There is a particular focus on encouraging women during the early stages of their scientific careers.
The total project is worth €3,284,000 and also involves institutions in Italy, France, Spain and the Czech Republic. Birkbeck will receive €400,000 for its participation in the Transforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research (TRIGGER) grant. The project is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (€2,179,000) the Italian Government (€700,000) and the partners involved.
As part of the four-year applied research project, nine actions will be taken at Birkbeck. These include:
- Systematic observation of potentially discriminating formal/informal behaviours and recommendations for action
- Promoting the inclusion of women scientists in external collaborative arrangements
- Developing a permanent mentoring programme and handbook of best practice
- Mainstream teaching module on gender for PhD courses
- Creation of structural opportunities for the commercialisation of women's work in research and innovation
The activities mainly involve Birkbeck's School of Science, and the Departments of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, and Computer Science and Information Systems in Birkbeck's School of Business, Economics and Informatics (BEI).
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The project builds on Birkbeck's existing commitment to promoting female academics. Its efforts have already been recognised as Birkbeck's School of Science won an Athena SWAN award in 2012. The Athena SWAN Charter recognises and celebrates good employment practice for women working in science, engineering and technology (SET) in higher education and research. It aims to assist the recruitment, retention and progression of women in SET.
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Helen Lawton Smith, Professor of Entrepreneurship in Birkbeck's Department of Management, is leading Birkbeck's participation in the project. She said: "Women remain underrepresented in scientific and technological fields. It is important to take action to address this inequality. As well as supporting women's careers, this project will study the impact of our actions. It will also be fascinating to compare our experiences with institutions elsewhere in Europe."
The TRIGGER project at Birkbeck is managed by a board of 14 staff, including academics and employees from the School of Science, School of BEI and Human Resources. A research assistant and PhD student are also part of the research project. Information about applying for the PhD studentship is available online.


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Toast the almonds on a baking sheet in the oven until they are golden brown, about 10 minutes. Cool and then coarsely chop, either by hand or in a food processor.
Put the egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixer and add the salt. On the second highest speed of the mixer, beat the egg whites until they come to medium peaks. With the mixer running, gently sprinkle in the sugar and cinnamon. Beat until stiff peaks form, then remove the bowl from the mixer. Gently fold in the chopped almonds in 3 additions.
Drop the batter in 1-inch balls, onto 2 parchment-lined cookie sheets. Bake until light brown all over, firm to the touch, and they lift cleanly off the baking sheet, 35 to 40 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through. Remove from the oven and cool on the baking sheets. These cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to a week.
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Trading at Settlement (TAS) is an order type that allows a market participant to buy or sell futures contracts during the trading day equal to the yet-to-be determined settlement price, or at a price up to four ticks above or below that price.
For Corn, Soybean, SRW Wheat, or HRW Wheat Futures, the minimum price fluctuation or tick size is ¼ cent per bushel. A trader seeking to lock-in the settlement price before it has been determined may enter any of the following TAS orders at any time during that trading day:
A beef producer wants to sell one April live cattle futures contract at the settlement price.
The trades are matched. Later that afternoon at 1:00, April Live Cattle settles at $160.875 per hundredweight. The resulting executed price to the buyer and seller is therefore $160.850 (settlement price minus $.025)
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Soybean TAS (SBT)
Soybean Oil TAS (ZLT)
Soybean Meal TAS (ZMT)
Chicago SRW Wheat TAS (ZWT)
KC HRW Wheat TAS (KET)
|Sunday - Friday,
7:00 p.m. - 7:45 a.m. CT
Monday - Friday,
8:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. CT
|First three listed futures contracts, plus the new crop month when not already represented in the first three
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First two consecutive calendar spreads Highly-liquid old crop-new crop spreads*
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|Live Cattle TAS (LET)
Feeder Cattle TAS (GFT)
Lean Hogs TAS (HET)
|Monday - Friday,
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. CT
|First two listed futures contracts (outrights)**
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|First consecutive calendar spread
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*Please refer to the Cycle Guide
**TAS is not offered on the May Lean Hog contract
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