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Synopsisopened January 20, 2001 A poignant and raucously skewed view of suburban bliss After years of baking and folding and coaxing and nurturing, Miriam Buddwing dreams of escaping her family. Today is her birthday and she isn't sure she wants to celebrate. Her eldest son Will is a poet who has been hiding in the woods, her youngest son, Doug is a cop with an itchy trigger finger and she worries that Sannie, her teenage daughter wants to be a lounge singer. Add to that a husband dying too slowly in the next room, an Ecuadorian nurse who has seen the Virgin Mary and a reluctant estate lawyer and you have The Ordinary Yearning of Miriam Buddwing. In a new play commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre, playwright Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros lets loose on marriage, motherhood and the ties that bind.
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- Stage Manager: Anjali Bidani
- Scenic Design: Geoffrey M. Curley
- Dramaturg: Sarah Gubbins
- Sound Design: Andre Pluess
- Costume Design: Janice Pytel
- Directed by: ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro
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Yes, I like soft rock
I make no bones about it and I'm certainly not in the closet with it, if someone asks me I'll tell them. It's not usually something that comes up in conversation because for the main part my sphere of influence, and what I like, is about as noisy as it can get. But I'm just a music fan really, I like all kinds of things. In my formative years I was perhaps a bit more blinkered, but as I've got on I've come to appreciate different things – I even like ambient music, and all sorts of music even more gentle than soft rock. If you ask anyone out there that says they are a music fan I don't think anyone would say that they entirely love just one thing all of the time, the exception would be when you're younger – then you're a bit more like 'Nah, that's shit' or 'Yeah that's great'.
Soft rock encompasses a wide spectrum of artists
I think you could call Radiohead soft rock, and Muse also. Muse I really like, and a lot of their stuff is soft rock, I mean, what else can you call it? I know you can split stuff into sub-genres, but some of it is really, really melodically intense and so there's a whole, huge spectrum of soft rock and it all comes down to definition and perception. This is why I'm always loathed to pigeonhole things – I hate splitting hairs with genres because I don't think it serves a purpose, I think it can get pretty pointless after while. For example, I often have debates with people about what is Grindcore, what is this, what is that and you know what? It's fucking irrelevant. When I go in to make an album I want it to sound like Napalm – I want it to be uncompromising and spontaneous and outside of that anything else kind of pales into insignificance really.
Soft rock or other wise, it's all about the quality of the songs
Like everything – first and foremost the songs have got to be good. It's all well and good having a load of fluffy keyboards hanging about, but it's not going to be any good if the songs aren't there. If you've got a load of plinking, plonking wimpy sounds and no song to hold it all together, for starters its going to last about two minutes in the CD player and then it'll become a drinks coaster and an ashtray after that! And that rule applies to anything: the songs have got to be good. If it aint good, toilet it.
Nothing beats Journey
I think they reached a perfect amalgamation of song writing and guitar work, and of course they had a vocalist that could do things that would just turn you to fucking jelly, just by the pure sonics of his voice.
Yes, I do have a top five of soft rock albums
Number one's always going to be Raised On Radio by Journey. People always trumpet other Journey albums but for me on that one the song writing and the production is perfect. You could take 'Separate Ways' – people always talk about that song – and yes, its one of the best tracks they ever wrote, but 'Raised On Radio' just had everything.
Number two would probably be 4 by Foreigner. Three would be by an obscure one, a band called Open Skies. They had one release on a major that never sold any copies, but was a really good album. Four would be Mark Free actually - Long Way From Love. He's the guy that recently had a sex change, I think it was just after he made that album which is an interesting fact, but that's a really good album, and of course number five would be Vital Signs by Survivor. Yes, they of 'Eye Of The Tiger' fame – that's a classic.
You have to see pictures of Randy Jackson whilst he was in Journey
He's now on that Pop Idol shite, but in Journey 'The Jackster' looked magnificent. You have to see the pictures of him, he had this huge bouffant and he used to wear this spandex jump suit, I mean, its got to be seen to be believed – it's a magnificent piece of kit.
I won't be having any soft rock played at my funeral
I actually wouldn't have any soft rock at my funeral because – and this is probably quite a serious point actually – for me death is not something that is taboo. I would want people to just go nuts at my funeral and it would be Discharge and Motorhead playing. There'd be none of this Simple Minds 'Don't You Forget About Me'. I don't want that sort of shite being played. I want something fucking mad, I want people jumping around and actually having a good time. I think life's to be celebrated. I get sad of course when a relative dies – it's hard to avoid that – but that's not what I'm about. I'm like 'Fuck it. Let's have a fucking blast, let's celebrate this and make it a good time and realise that we've got to move on, and that life is going to go on.'
Modern soft rock? I've no time for that piss!
They're heading down a totally different road now. Soft rock is a certain sound. The song writing was great on the Journey albums, there was always a great sense of orchestration without it necessarily being orchestral. I think these clipped, kind of very, very condensed things like Nickleback and stuff like that, they're just unlistenable to me. It's just music to clean windows to or something like that. I know it's hard to make a differentiation but to me it's just dull piss! Nickleback, to me, is this kind of very marketable, very easy to slot in there 'for the public' stuff. I mean that 'Rock Star' song! What a gratuitous load of over-obvious nonsense! I Don't quite see the point that they are trying to make with that track to be honest. Maybe they are trying to take the piss out of that whole lifestyle, but it doesn't come across that way. It comes across very smug, and there's nothing worse that fucking smugness! It's a pretty torturous listen really.
I've no time for dross like Dire Straits either
I mean, 'Sultans Of Swing'? That is just one of the most hideous, toe curlingly bad songs. At least Journey were heavy, I mean, not ultra-heavy, but at least they were heavy and they had that real emotional sort of heaviness, but 'Sultans...' is just soporific, fucking piss. It is such a non-event to hear one of their albums. It's hard to put it into words... it's just, well, dire. I can never handle Eric Clapton either, his solo work is so dull to me, that sort of singer songwriter kind of twee shite. I can't listen to it. It's the same with the Beatles – I actually really like some of the Beatles stuff, I think a lot of people do – but when you take some of the solo output, like Paul McCartney's, it's just atrocious.
My soft rock tastes will never influence Napalm Death
My spheres of influence have been set in stone since 1986, but that's not to say that I'm some sort of stubborn bastard, hanging onto that past, it's just because I love that stuff so much and I love doing what I do in Napalm so much. I don't really want to think about doing anything else because who else do you ever speak to after 12 albums that's going to say 'Yeah this song I've done on this album was influenced by Anti Cimex.' Not many people can say that, and I like that uniqueness. I like to know where my influences are and what I can do with them. I don't necessarily have to bang a drum from on high, I just know where they are and I know that I'm always going to be driven by them.
I'm not going to debate whether soft rock is a credible genre or not
At the end of the day we always have to create these debates. I hate debating and arguing over genres and about me as an individual and whether I, in peoples eyes, am living up to being a punk or a metal kid, and the same thing applies to soft rock. It's like, who fucking cares! Be yourself – if you want to be a certain way then you do that, but do it for you, don't do it for other people. To be honest, if someone were to ask me to put myself into a certain characterisation right now, I would say fuck you – I'm not going to answer that question, I will not put myself into any particular box. Let's not forget: If people can't have power they like to have some sort of elitist thing over other people. There will always be those who point their fingers at people and generally feel that they mean less than them because they look a particular way, that's a very typical human trait, one that's not quite so desirable, but people do it. They point fingers like: 'Look at this cunt here, with his poodle haircut' and it's almost like saying 'clearly he's an incarnation of a lesser cultural style' but, I mean, well, who are they then? How are they so non-conformist!?
I can't defend soft rock
Napalm Death's Time Waits For No Slave is released on Century Media on February 2

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Symbols of Trust
The symbol is a fusion of several elements:
It has become clear in exploring ideas of trust that trustworthiness in artifacts is not about the artifact. Software is not trustworthy. It's just software. The hardware is just hardware. The computer system doesn't care and has no volition in the matter of our relying on it. Where we see trustworthiness in software is in evoking the producer's caring, by design, for our purposes and success. (It's that attention and care that I speak of as TROSTing.) Trustworthiness is affirmed in the ways the producer steps in to resolve breakdowns that we may encounter (a reminder I'm grateful to Hal Macomber for).
We do not negotiate with the computer when there is a breakdown, even though there may be support for resolution of problems incorporated in the software. Ultimately we resort to the producer of the product, not the artifact, for resolving the breakdown. We rely on others, whether for rescue or remedy. Even when we say "Word lost my document," we really mean that Microsoft exposed us to that risk in how the artifact is designed to work. The next time some software or computer-related service isn't working for you, listen for who you hold responsible. Is it really the program? Or is it how you feel carelessly dealt with by some anonymous (though named) party?
The symbol of trust says, for me, how I as a producer (of words or software or any other fulfillment of a commitment) am called to be careful—full of care—and have the courage to trust myself and those I deal with in my being trustworthy for them.
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"It became very difficult to hold onto my vision of what TROST and the TROSTing idea supply until I found a single symbol that gave voice to my concerns and interests in championing open-system trustworthiness."
With all due respect, I think you misspelled the last word. It should read trostworthines...!LOL
How are you Dennis. I see you've been hidding from the energetic and full of spunk crowds...LOL I don't blame you I do the same thing.
I appreciate the post and it's content. Trust is a scarce but valuable commodity these days, at least in my book, but hopefully we are evolving and creating and manufacturing and selling and offering goods and services that will give value to it, rather than take from it.
Have a great day!
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April is Financial Literacy Month, and this year it could not come at a more difficult time. The spread of the coronavirus has led parts of the country into a lockdown, skidded economic activity to a near halt, and overwhelmed hospitals with an ever-growing inflow of patients. Although it may feel like a perfect storm, we also need to remember that it is during a storm that sailing lessons prove their worth. And by sailing lessons, I mean the skills that come from financial literacy.
It has been 16 years since April was declared Financial Literacy Month. Its advocates hoped it would spark federal, state, and local governments, as well as schools, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals, to celebrate the month with financial literacy programs and activities. Over time, Financial Literacy Month has also played an integral role in the national strategy for financial literacy, not only in the United States but in other countries as well.
By dedicating a month to financial literacy, policymakers acknowledged its importance well before subsequent financial crises unveiled, in painful ways, the price that individuals, families, communities, and our country pay when financial knowledge is lacking.
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Margaret Elizabeth "Betty"" Gallow Bazzi
Margaret Elizabeth "Betty" Gallow Bazzi passed away in the early hours of September 8. She went, as she would say it, "to the next world" in the same way she lived her life in this world, with peace, compassion, love for all, zest for life and a deep spirituality that was an inspiration to all who had the privilege of knowing her.
She was born to Walter and Elizabeth Gallow in Winnipeg, Canada. She never lost her love of the "prairie" and to her last days fondly recalled her love of the winters she experienced as a child growing up. When her sister moved to Santa Barbara to marry, her mother encouraged her to follow. She did and eventually met Joseph Bazzi, the son of Italian immigrants. They had three children and were married for almost 57 years at the time of Joe's death in 2007. Betty spent the remainder of her life in Santa Barbara. Betty's life was taken up with her family and the other great love of her life…her art.
A life-long self-taught artist, her paintings have been exhibited around Santa Barbara and Goleta throughout the years. She was a charter member of the Goleta Art Association and participated in Gallery 113 since its founding. Over forty years she attended art classes through the Adult Education and made many lifelong friendships with fellow local artists. Her plein air watercolor landscapes of local scenes beautifully captured the scenic appeal of the Santa Barbara area.
Betty was an active person, ice-skating and playing softball in her youth, swimming in the ocean in her adult years, riding her bicycle until she was 86, and making a daily loop around the block with her walker and regularly attending the Goleta Senior Center dances into her 90's. Above all, Betty was a beautiful and gracious soul who blessed all who met her with her warm heart, love of life and gratefulness.
She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Joseph; son, Dean Paul Bazzi; parents, Walter and Elizabeth Gallow; sister, Miriam "Myrnie" Boaden.
She is survived by her daughter Linda Bernson of Santa Barbara; son and daughter-in-law Craig and Gail Bazzi of Silverton, Oregon; grandchildren, Rachel Bernson, Jessica (John) Gill, Tyler Bazzi, Grace (Nathanael) Parson, and Julianne (David) Reeher; great-grandchildren, Alexa Sanchez, Dillon Fogarty, Caitlin Gill, Lauren Gill, Solomon Parson and Rainer Parson.
In lieu of gifts/flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care of Santa Barbara whose wonderful staff provided such compassionate care in her last days. Online at www.vnhcsb.org or by mail to VNHC Foundation, 509 East Montecito Street, Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93103


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As traditional high schools shift to virtual learning, the transition can leave students scrambling to manage. Large class sizes, limited support, generalized assignments, and heavy workloads can result in students struggling with school.
The Beekman School has responded to the challenge of COVID-19 by transitioning our students entirely into remote online learning. Our commitment to personalized, quality education and small classes continues with this transition. Students who are enrolled at Beekman can maintain their tailored courses of study and work toward their academic goals.
Our school has always offered students flexible, customized plans for learning. This flexible approach has allowed us to make optimal use of our remote learning resources. Class participants benefit from our student-focused classes and our ongoing commitment to provide personalized learning during COVID-19 social distancing. If your child is struggling to succeed in their "new normal" virtual classroom, learn more about how they can experience more personalized distance learning by transferring to Beekman at any time.
Smaller Remote Learning Classes for High School Success
The smaller class sizes at Beekman suit the distance learning format. With our classes, students can participate actively in the learning experience. They may also have the opportunity for social interaction with other students.
At Beekman, we are taking advantage of the specific strengths of virtual classrooms. Teachers in our classes are comfortable providing online instruction and facilitating discussions. Students have access to the learning materials and class information they need to complete assignments and prepare for assessments. With the challenges of COVID-19, we can also make accommodations for students who need to work at their own pace. Our faculty is ready to provide prompt feedback and ongoing support.
Our goal is for students to maintain a continuity of learning, so they are prepared to move back into the traditional classroom when that time arrives – motivated and on-target for accomplishing their tasks.
Enrolling in Virtual High School Classes
Struggling with your high school or its virtual classes? Our private high school offers rolling admission throughout the year, along with summer programs. This means a student can enroll in the fall or at any time. Contact us for solutions to academic challenges during COVID 19.


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For more information on the event on Sept. 10, please visit the _Taste of the Broncos event page_. _Tickets are available for purchase through Ticketmaster_.
Ben Swanson: What is it you really enjoy about being part of Taste of the Broncos presented by King Soopers?
Troy Guard: "First of all, it's for a great cause — Food Bank of the Rockies. And taking care of people is my number-one thing. That's why I'm a chef. I love to cook for people. And with people not being able to have a great meal or even a meal, it means a lot to me because I'm in the food business. So, first of all, the charity means a lot. Second of all, getting all our community together — all the chefs. We have 30-plus restaurants coming, some of the best. And then partnering with the Broncos — everybody loves football — and to me, it brings everything together. The Broncos are a team, Food Bank of the Rockies are a team doing good things, our restaurants are all teams. So it's a team community outreach to help people, and it's just a fun gathering to raise money. I love football, too, I love eating and I love helping people — so those three things combined make Taste of the Broncos exciting for me."
Lon Symensma: "Other than cooking, my favorite thing in the world is football. And any time I have the opportunity to mix football and food together, that's like my best-case scenario. Taste of the Broncos is an amazing event. You get to meet a lot of the players. It's probably one of the best lineups of chefs that we do in Colorado. So just the camaraderie-ship of seeing a lot of your friends, being a part of what's going on with the Broncos and then just celebrating football by serving great food."
BS: Among the chefs, is there a fun, competitive spirit at the event?
TG: "Yeah, there always is. These guys are great chefs, and there's a lot of amazing chefs in Denver. Always, we want to have people talk about our restaurants or ourselves the most, but at the end of the day, we want to do it together. And as much as competitiveness there is in us, just like in football teams and businesses and restaurants, at the end of the day we all want to make each other better and bring out the best in each other."
LS: "Yeah, absolutely. We always want to show up and have a great dish, something that we're super proud of. I know as chefs, we want to bring our best every time, and it's fun to go around and taste everybody else's dishes. Everybody has different palettes and different strengths that they cook toward, and it's really fun to see what everybody comes up with for these kinds of events."
BS: For the uninitiated, do you develop recipes specifically and separately for Taste of the Broncos?
TG: "Usually I make it different, but for this one, I just opened my brand-new restaurant, FNG, and it's kind of rock 'n' roll American. I invited the Broncos team up to have a meeting, and we had these sliders, and they were like, 'We've got to get these on the menu.' They really, really enjoyed them. Normally, I'd do something different, but it was nice to take something from our restaurant and really dial it in. Not only that, but I'm going to have staff and cooks from my restaurant here, every football game, making sure that the consistency is up to the Troy Guard brand."
LS: "My rule of thumb for whenever I do events is to do things that aren't on my menu at my restaurants. So when I go and do an event, I want to do something special and unique and different. I'll bring something that's completely different from what we serve at our restaurants."
BS: If you could make one dish for Von Miller or John Elway or whoever your favorite Bronco is, what would that be?
TG: "Good question. First, I'd have to ask what they like. They might not like a certain thing. But if they wanted to do something — I've actually had John Elway into our restaurants before, Von's been in to our restaurants. I would love to cook whatever they want. If they like fish, chicken, steak, I would make it awesome and they'd be blown away."
LS: "It's funny, I've become pretty friendly with Brandon McManus over the last couple years. He's super into food. He writes about us on his blog sometimes. Really into food. So he comes into ChoLon a lot, and he's pretty adventurous. So it's fun to cook off the cusp and make exciting things. Like, one dish in particular, people that play football and travel around a lot, they're seeing the best of restaurants from all over the country, I'm sure, as they're in different cities playing different teams. So just to be able to have the Denver dining scene be elevated now and being excited about what's going on in our food and our restaurants, as well as the food being offered at the stadium, it's starting to rival some of the best in the country, which is exciting for Denver and for all of us, too."
BS: If you can pair a player with your stand at Taste of the Broncos, who would it be?
TG: "I think any football player could probably take down at least a dozen of those, but I really like Derek Wolfe. He's an animal. I like that guy. I'm excited for Case Keenum. He's fun, energetic, smart and I'm excited to see what they'll do. But obviously my favorite is Von. He's just a great character and amazing at defense."
LS: "Well, we had Von Miller last year in our tent. Von came over, and he's a super, super personable guy and was fun to talk to. He rolled up his sleeves and cooked with us, so he wasn't shy around the cooking, either. It was pretty exciting."


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The Annual EITC Birthday Party
Thanks to the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program, more than 40,000 students each year are able to choose the school that best fits their needs. The annual birthday party is a way to thank legislators for their support of the program and to remind them of PA families impacted by the EITC.
Each year, in early May, the REACH Foundation celebrates the EITC's birthday by gathering on the steps of the State Capitol. The party attracts thousands of parents, children, teachers and legislators who celebrate this landmark program and urge the General Assembly to expand it. We would love for you to join us next year!
WHO: All students, parents, EITC organizations, school choice supporters and legislators welcome
WHERE: The Harrisburg Capitol. Front steps, rain or shine
Buses are welcome. Free lunches and t-shirts will be provided.
T-Shirt Contest
Every year we invite every school to participate in our t-shirt design contest. The winner will not only get their design printed on hundreds of t-shirts to be worn by everyone at the birthday rally, but will also win $500 for your school and an honorable mention at the rally.
Keep in mind: you are allowed to use the color black plus two colors of your choice. The design can only take up one side of a t-shirt. The original design must be related to the EITC program and mention the 14th year anniversary of the program.
All submissions must be sent to paschoolchoice.org
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Shares of Phoenix Motor (NASDAQ:PEV) stock are up a staggering 45% today on news that ATIF Holdings (NASDAQ:ATIF) has taken a stake in the electric vehicle (EV) startup.
ATIF Holdings has announced that it has invested in Phoenix Motor without disclosing the amount. However, news of the investment is enough to send shares of PEV stock sharply higher today. Phoenix Motor held its initial public offering (IPO) on June 10, raising about $16 million from the share sale.
What Happened With PEV Stock
In a news release, ATIF Holdings, which is a business and financial consulting firm with operations in Asia and North America, said that it has made an investment in Phoenix Motor to deepen its portfolio of technology securities.
"We believe PEV brings a unique value proposition to ATIF and its shareholders. I am happy that ATIF participated alongside the other investors in their IPO and look forward to their continued growth," said ATIF CEO Jun Liu in the news release.
Founded in 2003, Phoenix Motor designs and builds electric vehicles and EV chargers for the commercial and residential markets in the U.S. As of last December, the company had delivered a total of 104 electric vehicles. These consisted of 91 shuttle buses and 13 delivery trucks. The company is headquartered in Anaheim, California.
Why It Matters
The investment by ATIF Holdings is a vote of confidence for Phoenix Motor after its recent IPO. The IPO was viewed as a bust for the EV company. While backers of the company initially hoped to raise $150 million from the public debut, they ended up revising those expectations to $20 million. In the end, PEV stock ended up raising only $16 million.
PEV stock's IPO price was $7.50, but the shares began trading at $6.50 and quickly fell below $5. However, the company's share price jumped 70% higher yesterday and is up another 45% today. This suggests it might be caught in a short squeeze or that investors are pushing the stock up sharply higher following its market debut. News that ATIF Holdings has invested in the company should not be enough to increase Phoenix Motor's share price this much. That's especially true given that ATIF did not disclose the amount of the investment.
What's Next
Phoenix Motor stock is trading at a volatile and seemingly irrational level. Given its disappointing market debut, the company's stock should not be rising this quickly. Investors should be careful with PEV stock and remember that what goes up can quickly come down.
On the date of publication, Joel Baglole did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.


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William Lyon Mackenzie King (Prime Minister; Secretary of State for External Affairs; President of the Privy Council)
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I think my hon. friend must have mistaken the High Commissioner to whom reference is made. The communication, as I understand, was sent to His Majesty through the High Commissioner for Canada in Great Britain, Mr. Massey, and not through the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Canada. That is a method of communication which has been followed at times in the past and will be followed in the future.
There are two methods of communicating with His Majesty the King. One method I have just mentioned, through our High Commissioner in Great Britain. That was the method which as a matter of fact was adopted at the time His Majesty was asked to proclaim a state of war existing between Canada and Germany. The communication from the government of Canada was sent to the High Commissioner to be communicated to His Majesty the King. There are other occasions on which communications are sent through His Excellency the Governor General to His Majesty the King. They may be replied to by the king through his excellency. I assume that His Majesty, in having a communication transmitted direct to the Speaker of the House of . Commons, felt that it would be an additional compliment to the house and adopted that method.


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One of the common issues posed in the practice of civil engineering is how to estimate the volume of holes - porous volume - between more or less regular solid particles. Sometimes this hot topic originates long debates with reluctant contractors and picky consultants.
Recently, I have needed to give a number for the spare space in a stone wall like that in the image below. In the project, the interstitial space was required to be filled with cement mortar until certain height to ensure the stability of the base. A bit of mathematics and Wikipedia were useful to justify the necessary amount of the concrete.
Left: Masonry wall in a Roman path somewhere in Germany. Right: Well, needless to say that those are oranges.
The majority of the stones in a wall have similar weight and appearance and, in fact, they are usually defined by a characteristic diameter. If we assume that stones are like oranges -I mean spheres- and that the maximum density of packaging is achieved, the problem can be transformed into the Kepler's conjecture that was proved by Prof. Thomas Hales a decade ago.
It is clear that stones are not spheres -ellipsoids would be a better approximation- but this value of the porosity is close to experiments referred for coarse non-graded gravel in several books. At least, if the on-site engineer asks for the origin of the famous 25% of holes I will have something interesting to say.
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Packaging of stones
One of the common issues posed in the practice of civil engineering is how to estimate the volume of holes - porous volume - between more or less regular solid particles. Sometimes this hot topic originates long debates with reluctant contractors and picky consultants.
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Ah, the beautiful world of the packing problems :) Even if that answer must be more than sufficiently accurate for your purpose, I presume the problem must become quite complicated when you start thinking in terms of the distribution of sizes of the oranges, I mean, stones.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSunday, February 03, 2008
So the proof transfroms Kepler's conjecture into T.Hales' Theorem!!ReplyDelete
Interesting topic. I imagine David is right and it gets even more interesting when you try to find the distribution of diameters that gives you the highest compacity. (Of course subject to a constraint in the smallest diameter you can use or something like that, otherwise a monkey could get holes=0%).
In that case I wonder how it would compare to Füller and Bolomey.
Hales's Holes' Theorem?ReplyDelete
Off-topic: One of the items showing in News at iCivilEngineer on the right navigation bar of this blog, "River plants may play major role in health of ocean coastal waters", refers to research being done in our Fluids Group at MIT :)ReplyDelete
May I "put my little grain of sand" (or add my two cents -of sand-, if you prefer)?ReplyDelete
If we have 1kg of of gravel with diameter 1 and we add 20/4*(1/3)^3 kg of gravel with d=1/3 plus 20*(1/6)^3 kg of gravel with d=1/6 we get a density of packing of 94.62% (if I'm not mistaken). Is that interesting?
Iago, how do you calculate that? Do you:ReplyDelete
(1) place the largest spheres in close packing,
(2) look at the geometry of the holes between those,
(3) compute how many spheres of the next size you can put in close packing in those holes,
(4) go to (2)
If you follow this procedure (which may not be optimal), I would expect the diameters to form a geometric series (1,1/3,1/9,...). How did you come up with 1/6 for the third diameter?
Exactly. Yes, I am not saying that it is an optimal solution (of course, the problem is too complicated to be solved during my break!! :) )ReplyDelete
I just wanted to get "a value".
Yes, you put the spheres, and then you see that you can place another sphere of d=1/3 in the holes. Once the holes are filled the biggest sphere you can put is of d=1/6. It is not a geometric progression because the last sphere touches 2 of the d=1/3 spheres and also 3 of the d=1/6. So you are not repiting the same pattern.
If you want to find the next d you can fit, you are welcome, but the calculations start to get cumbersome. Good luck!!
I see... Well, at least I can say that the next d is grater than or equal to d=1/9, which is the diameter I can fit in the holes of the d=1/3 spheres :)ReplyDelete
Sorry, I didn't get that. A priori, the next diameter could be greater, equal or less than 1/9, because you are not filling the holes of the d=1/3 spheres: They are not in contact to each other.ReplyDelete
By the way, my number is optimal in some way: Given the amounts of material that I said and the diameters I chose, the maximum density we can get is 94.62% (unless I'm mistaken, of course).
But as I said before, in order to talk about an optimal solution with different diameters we would first need some constraints, otherwise the problem is not well posed and the 100% is easily attainable.
Oh, sorry, I forgot that you only have one d=1/3 sphere between the large ones. You are right.ReplyDelete
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Guinea-Bissau has an ethnically diverse population. The majority of the population of the country belongs to the Fula and the Mandinka-speaking people; these groups are found in the north and northeast areas of the country. The Balanta and Papel people; Manjaco and Mancanha are the other major ethnic groups. There are also people of mixed Portuguese and African descent, including a Cape Verdean minority and a few Chinese.
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Who are the political leaders of Guinea Bissau?
The government of Guinea Bissau is a semi-presidential republic.
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What is a Performance Review?
A performance review, also referred to as a performance appraisal or performance analysis, maybe a formal assessment within which managers evaluate associate degree employee's work performance, establish strengths and weaknesses, supply feedback, and set goals for future performance. In the past, several organizations command performance reviews annually for the whole workforce; but, additional and additional firms are moving toward a frequent feedback performance management system within which managers conduct reviews quarterly, monthly, or perhaps weekly. In fact, some organizations do away with formal performance reviews altogether in favor of additional casual manager check-ins and one-on-ones.
When done right, performance reviews will facilitate staff perceive what they're doing well, however, they'll improve their work aligns with larger company goals, and what's expected of them in their given role. On the opposite finish, managers United Nations agency use performance reviews effectively will additional simply acknowledge high playacting staff, correct problems before they become insurmountable, communicate expectations, encourage growth and development, and foster worker engagement.
8 Essential Objectives Of Performance Review
Listed below are the top 8 objectives of performance appraisal applicable not only for performance reviews but also any formal meetings with your employees:
1. Goal setting is integral to systematic evaluation
Goal setting is a vital method to make a superior performance appraisal system.
- No matter what you look for to realize together with your performance appraisal system, goal setting is its start.
- Employees ought to apprehend specifically what's expected of them. Goal setting makes it easier to line the quality performance levels.
- During goal setting, you would like to form it clear on what basis can the duty performance be evaluated. Describe specifically what you're searching for from the worker.
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2. Provide frequent feedback for increased job performance
The operating of a performance appraisal method starts method before the particular performance analysis.
Here, constructive feedback plays an especially important role to staff development.
Ideally, the performance review mustn't be the primary time Associate in Nursing worker hears regarding his job performance. The performance review ought to act as an outline meeting wherever the worker is supervised on however well he took and acted on the given feedback.
The quality and amount of feedback given drastically improve the performance appraisal method. Your best staff, likewise because the poor activity ones, want timely feedback to achieve their full potential.
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- Gets a continuing update on his/her work performance. Thus, the worker gets an opportunity to appear and improve upon his strengths and weaknesses.
- Positive feedback motivates staff to boost their performance.
- Regular feedback makes it easier to assess the info later throughout the performance analysis.
To get the foremost out of a feedback method, invest in one thing additional meaningful than the normal feedback method. 360-degree feedback may be an additional fashionable and systematic analysis of analyzing feedback.
Here, feedback is collected not solely from the manager however additionally from anyone UN agency deals with the worker on a daily basis. This ensures that the feedback received is additional all-around and correct.
3. Simplify promotion awarding decisions
Every worker seeks to climb up the company ladder and additional their career development.
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The performance appraisal system helps to spot the highest performers of a team. This, in turn, helps in guaranteeing that the highest positions get stuffed by the foremost worth candidates.
4. Encourage quality and quantity work performance
This is one in every of the foremost common reasons for corporations to own a performance appraisal method.
- A performance appraisal method helps to extend the performance of the staff within the following ways:
- A performance appraisal system helps set the quality performance necessities from staff across the full organization. This, in turn, motivates staff to try and do quality and amount work.
- If staff get a transparent report of their job performances, they get a concept of their strengths and weaknesses.
- When managers take trip to investigate and discuss the performance analysis, it sends a message to the worker that he is valuable.
- In the case of poor performers, performance reviews give the wakeup decision required to be ready and work harder towards their goals.
5. Counsel poor performing employees
The arduous truth is that not everybody can meet your structure standards.
Delivering Associate in Nursing worker performance analysis for a poor entertainer may be a troublesome task for any manager.
Low performance is often attributed to the subsequent factors:
- A lack of correct goal-setting.
- Lack of performance despite a robust effort. may well be a result of low skills or data.
- Lack of motivation.
However, discussing solely the negatives of someone's work performance might lead the worker to resent you. The key to delivering a performance review for a poor entertainer is to balance out the strengths and weaknesses.
More typically poor performers area unit aware that their job performance isn't optimum. rather than obtaining ridiculed (as they may be expecting), a manager ought to instead counsel the low performers.
Counseling in itself may be a two-way method. The manager must work with the worker to grasp the reason behind the unacceptable quality and amount of labor.
6. Determining training and development needs
A performance appraisal system helps you get a decent understanding of however associate worker is faring against their performance expectations.
Thus it becomes easier to spot and prioritise the employees' development wants.
An economical performance review can assist you verify the necessity for coaching staff to add their skills and competencies. this can build staff higher equipped to contribute to their organization.
Similarly, when the performance analysis managers have a stronger read of wherever the workers are insulation behind. This, in turn, helps managers to make your mind up the kind and quantity of coaching that's needed on a company-wide basis.
7. Creating A Plan To Improve The Performance Of The Employees
Identifying the areas of strengths and weaknesses of your hands is simply the primary step.
The next step is to create a concept to boost the performance of the hands. Here, a performance appraisal provides a good base to start out.
Holding a performance review makes it easier for managers to obviously communicate their expectations. These plans would possibly embody additional coaching and development, extra mentoring or additional economical goal setting. The manager ought to ensure that the worker is unbroken within the loop with continuous feedback.
8. Suitable Recognition
A formal performance appraisal method makes it easier for managers to reward and acknowledge the organizations high performers. Rewards is within the style of bonuses, pay hikes or financial incentives.


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Just 40 years ago, most Americans rubbed elbows with neighbors from a fairly wide cross-section of income levels. But today's rich, Census data show, are keeping everyone else at arm's length — and more . . . Subsidies from Uncle Sam for America's rich and famous . . . U.S. family mobility before and after the Wall Street meltdown.


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Incredible 1858 Seated Liberty half dime looks new
- Published: Apr 17, 2018, 7 AM
A newly discovered example of an 1854-O Coronet gold double eagle graded Extremely Fine 45 by Numismatic Guaranty Corp. realized $204,000 and topped bidding at Heritage's March 29 Premier Session of its Dallas U.S. Coin Auction. It was one of two dozen examples of this rare New Orleans Mint issue individually traced by Heritage in its catalog entry for the three-day auction that realized nearly $6.2 million.
Isn't there more to talk about at a show than grades? Brad Karoleff laments the changing nature of conversations at shows, which have veered toward incessant discussions of grade. Also this week, some points to consider before bidding.
But not all of the big prices were for large-sized, high-denomination coins. Here is a silver half dime in a top grade, one of several small coins that impressed bidders.
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1858 Seated Liberty half dime, MS-68, NGC Star, CAC sticker
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It can seem incredible that a coin more than 150 years old looks almost as good today as when it left the Philadelphia Mint. This 1858 Seated Liberty half dime graded Mint State 68 by Numismatic Guaranty Corp. with both an NGC star and a green sticker from Certified Acceptance Corp. attesting to its tremendous appeal. Its diameter of 15.5 millimeters places it among the smallest U.S. coins. For comparison, other small coins include the Coronet gold dollar (Type 1 , 1849 to 1854) measuring 13 millimeters, later Type 2 and Type 3 small-sized gold dollars measuring 15 millimeters, and the silver 3-cent coin that measured 14 millimeters. A current circulating Roosevelt dime is nearly 18 millimeters in diameter.
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NOIA: U.S. Gov't Move Against Offshore Oil & Gas Lease Sales 'Devastating to Americans'
Erik Milito, president of the U.S. National Ocean Industries Association, said this week that the U.S. government's decision not to hold offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Cook Inlet was expected, but also "devastating to Americans."
"This decision is not surprising at all. As early as March 2020, then-candidate Biden made it clear that he would stop federal oil and gas development if elected. This was followed by additional formal campaign declarations, a pause on federal leasing that continues today, and continued statements by the Administration that it is their intent to stop additional federal oil and gas development," Milito said.
"The Administration absolutely has the ability to hold these lease sales. They also have the ability to prepare a new leasing program for the 2022-2027 program. This has been proven by the actions of all past Administrations, including the Obama White House," he said.
Devastating to Americans
Milito said: "These decisions are devastating to Americans. Restricting American energy development will quite simply lead to reduced American supplies, higher prices, lost investment, destruction of high-paying jobs throughout the country, harmful geopolitical consequences, and a reversion to dependency on foreign suppliers – such a Russia, Iran, and China – with little interest in reducing emissions and protecting workers and the environment.
The adverse consequences of the explicit decision to suspend U.S. oil and gas development are being felt in a very hard way by everyday Americans and by our allies around the world."
According to a Reuters report, the U.S. Department of the Interior said it wouldn't hold the lease sale in Alaska's Cook Inlet "due to lack of industry interest in leasing in the area." It also said two sales in the Gulf of Mexico would be canceled due to "conflicting court rulings." Reuters reported.


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Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically and to Permaculture principles, which we share with Chickens, Cats and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!
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Invasion of the Hens...the Sequel!
Just for Aromatic...............this is me trying to get the Hens out of the house.....and ...you can hear their funny sounds!
Oh and I forgot to mention in the other post...Ginger has worked out how to use the cat flap..so I guess they will be inside a lot now......
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Oh compostwoman, that video has had me in stitches!! They're just like my 'girls' - I love to hear the sound of their little feet "pat, pat, patting" on the kitchen floor! One of them has a really high-pitched warble, doesn't she? .... just lovely!ReplyDelete
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Hi Willow..the very high pitched one is Genghis hen..she is over under the window, near the guitar box....ReplyDelete
She makes that noise ALL the time, pretty well!...and when she is off to lay an egg, or after...well it gets very noisy around her!
Thank goodness we don't have a cat-flap!! We did get a turkey knocking at the door a couple of times before they were confined to the field and a swallow flew in twice in the summer.ReplyDelete
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Ginger has already taught Henny about the cat flap...so far the two of them have only got inside the boiler room...BUT they don't seem to have mastered GOING OUT AGAIN........which is a fairly critical part of cat flappery..........................ReplyDelete
oh dear...I forsee problems with this......
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Flashback Friday: A Gentleman's Game of Faro
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Photo Credit/ National Archives and Records Administration. Caption: American West# 185 / Local Identifier: 111-SC-93344. "Orient Saloon at Bisbee, Arizona..Faro game in full blast. Recognized: Left to right-Tony Downs (standing with derby) part owner; Doyle, a concert hall singer at corner of table, sitting, with derby; back of him standing is Dutch Kid; Sleepy Dick, the porter, to right with light felt; Charlie Bassett, with soft felt hat in rear next to wall; dealer is Johnny Murphy, and Smiley Lewis in silk hat." By C. 5. Fly, ca. 1900.
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Scientific seminar of post-doc Najoua Sbei «A facile one pot synthesis of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-1-carbonitrile via the electrogenerated acetonitrile»
The nitrogen heterocycle presents a very important use in the pharmaceutical and agrochemicals synthesis. In this case the substituted tetrahydroisoquinoline has a broad range of biologicals activities.
The synthetic study of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-1-carbonitrile was reported in different condition by using the cyanopotassium (KCN) with 2-methyl-3,4-dihydroisoquinolin-2-ium iodide in acetonitrile.4,5 In this work our approach is focused mainly on developing new and safe strategy for the conversion of 3,4-dihydroisoquinolin-2-ium iodide substrates into these highly valuable 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-1-carbonitrile derivatives that proceeds through a process with good yield and is promoted by a high current efficiency EGB (as shown in the scheme).
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