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horses, a powerful marketing tool
…and that's why the goverment and tourism promotion bureau of the balearics doesn't hesitate to use them as the most alive example of passionate traditions and spectacular devotion of the minorcan people to this "black beauties". Next weekend they are one of the highlights during the May Day bank holiday at a free four-day festival (May 1-4) that will reveal a slice of Spanish life. Soak up the Mediterranean atmosphere in the heart of Manchester in the festival hub on Albert Square. Throughout the weekend you can discover a huge range of entertainment with music, dancing, street performers and of course the amazing dressage with nine fine Minorcan (Pura Raza Menorquina) horses. You don't want to miss it!!
Find more information adn find out at what times they are going to act at the main site, and read here beneath what Citylife for northern souls writes about this wonderful event:
Heartbeat of the Balearics comes to the city
MANCHESTER will dance to a Balearic beat over the May Day bank holidayat a free four-day festival (May 1-4) that will reveal a slice of Spanish life.
The Discover The Balearic Islands festival, on May Day bank holiday weekend, brings food, music, dance and performance to the city centre's streets to promote Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera.
More than 200 performers, musicians and entertainers will be involved in the events, including daily parades with traditional giant costumes, street theatre, juggling, stilt walkers, dancing, contemporary and traditional music, craft displays, fashion shows and Correfoc – daring fire displays performed by 'devils' on the run.
There will also be displays of dressage from Minorca by riders and their specially-bred black horses and a family activity area with performances, storytelling and face painting.
Chef demonstrations
Gourmet food will be available, with free tastings and chef demonstrations.
There will be prepared almonds, orlettes (sweet biscuits), sobrasada (pork red sausage), ensaimada and flao (cakes), herbs, cheese as well as wine and pomada (gin and lemonade).
The festival, which runs from May 1 to 4 in Albert Square, St Mary's Gate and Cross Street, has been staged previously in Berlin and Madrid and will travel to Paris after Manchester.
Event organiser Sy Badham says it's "an opportunity for people to experience the islands without necessarily having to travel there!
Huge Perspex pavilion
''There have been events like this before in Berlin and Madrid where thousands of visitors have flocked in to soak up the atmosphere and, straight after it finishes here, the festival will be travelling on to Paris.
"We chose Manchester for our English visit because it's such a vibrant city – and also because it's so easy for people to get to the islands from here!"
Supporters of the free, family-friendly festival include the likes of tennis champion Rafael Nadal and Hollywood star Michael Douglas.
Organisers are not taking any chances with the weather as many of the events will take place in a huge Perspex pavilion in front of the Town Hall, and is one of the biggest structures planned for Albert Square.
Soak up the Mediterranean atmosphere in the heart of Manchester in the festival hub on Albert Square. Throughout the weekend you can discover a huge range of entertainment with music, dancing, street performers and of course the amazing dressage with nine fine Minorcan horses.
There will also be food and drink sampling and demonstrations of traditional arts and crafts from the four islands. There will be the chance to try a wide range of food and drink including orlettes (sweet biscuits), almonds, sobrasada, cheese and the ensaimada a delicious sweet pastry.
For children and parents we have a family marquee on Albert Square next to the stage area. Storytelling, face painting, recycling workshops and games will take place throughout the day. It will be open from 11am to 8pm on Saturday and Sunday and 11am to 5pm on Monday Please note that children must be accompanied by a responsible adult
Parades of street performers, dancers, Geants, (traditional giant), acrobats and musicians will take place everyday over the bank holiday weekend with performances on Albert Square.
PARADE TIMES Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3, 13.00-13.30, Market Street, Cross Street, Albert Square Monday, May 3 11.00-11.30, Market Street, Cross Street, Albert Square
DRESSAGE WITH NINE FINE MINORCAN HORSES, ALBERT SQUARE Friday 1 May 18.00 and 20.00, Saturday 2 May and Sunday 3 May 11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00, 18.00, 19.00, 20.00, Monday 4 May 11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00, 16.00
Nine fine Minorcan horses and specially trained riders demonstrate their skills in a tradition which dates back to the 14th Century.
CORREFOC DEVILS' FIRE DISPLAY Friday 1, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 21.00h- 21.30h
A band of mischievous devils will appear on Albert Square to perform a spectacular display of fireworks and dance performed in the Islands during festivals. This traditional Correfoc is something for the whole family to enjoy – prepare to be amazed.
FLAMENCO WITH PACO FERNANDEZ, EVA REDONDO AND FRIENDS Friday 1, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 21.30h- 23.00h
During the weekend, each evening ends with an exciting finale by virtuoso flamenco guitarist, international star Paco Fernandez who is joined on stage by friends, musicians, Flamenco dancer Eva Redondo and Foc I Fum Paco. An unmissable fusion of flamenco, jazz and hip-hop.
BIG YU YU Friday 1 May 18.20, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 14.25 and 19.25
Ten piece rock band fusing blues and contemporary style and currently receiving rave reviews internationally check them on big yu yu.net
XALANDRI Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May, 11.25 and 15.25, Monday 12.20
Six musicians formed Xalandri to keep the unique style if music and traditions of the Balearics alive. Their repertoire is made up of songs by Minorcan composers, romantic ballads, songs based on ancient legends and music with its roots in the island's sea faring past.
S´Estol del Rei en Jaume Friday 1 18.30, Saturday 2 13.25, Sunday 3, 17.00 and the daily parades
The group S´Estol del Rei en Jaume (King James' Gang) is made up of nine characters inspired by Father Alcover's traditional Mallorcan tales. In the early 1990s, the Alcúdia Town Hall had set itself the goal of reviving Mallorca's most popular ancient traditions and commissioned one of the island's finest artists Josep Fluxa to create these amazing papier mache figures.
These characters, all of them original, symbolise Mallorca's historical past with these figures from literature, and other larger than life characters.
Event times: Friday, May 1, 6pm-11pm; Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May, 11am-11pm; Bank Holiday Monday, May 4, 11am-5pm. For full performance times follow link right.
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Former Massey Energy Co. executive David Hughart, 53, of Crab Orchard, W.Va., pleaded guilty to two federal crimes today in connection with an ongoing investigation of the company's actions uncovered during the Upper Big Branch disaster investigation.
Hughart, the former president of Massey's Green Valley Resource Group, admitted that he conspired to impede MSHA investigations and conspired to violate mine health and safety laws.
"Mine safety and health laws are not optional," said U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. "This prosecution reiterates the message that mine safety violations are very serious crimes."
Hughart admitted that he and others at Massey conspired to violate health and safety laws and concealed those violations by warning mining operations when MSHA inspectors were arriving to conduct mine inspections.
The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Labor Office of Inspector General, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., which acquired Massey's operations in a June 2011 merger, is continuing to cooperate with the investigation.
Hughart faces up to six years in prison and a $350,000 fine when he is sentenced on June 25, 2013 by United States District Judge Irene C. Berger. Hugart is the third person to be convicted from the UBB investigation.
Hughie Elbert Stover, head of security, was sentenced to three years in prison for lying to investigators and destroying documents from the UBB mine (19 MSHN 139). His conviction was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.
Former UBB mine superintendent Gary May was sentenced to 21 months in jail and a $20,000 fine under the conspiracy statute (20 MSHN 43).
Counsel to the United States Attorney Steven Ruby is handling the prosecution.

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Luzon is the largest island of the Philippines and one of the three island groups in the country, the other two being Visayas and Mindanao. Luzon has 104,688 square kilometers and nearly forty million people, making it the fifteenth island in the world by land area and the fifth by population. It houses the country's capital, Manila, and the most populous city, Quezon City.
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text: The inspiration for the design of this armchair is rooted in the great classics of Cassina, once again the benchmark or its ability to create highly expressive models with high-end artisanal and industrial content. These are the foundations for a 4-legged armchair that immediately stands out for the strong contrast between its minimalist, rigorous and highly elegant rigid supporting structure, produced from aluminium with extruded profiles, specially created for this model, and the seat: very soft and welcoming seat, produced entirely from down, which almost seems to be propped up. The comfort of an armchair for a dining table chair that invites the user to sit and relax. A rich project with great design and production value due to its minute attention to detail, suitable for domestic use, around the dinner table, or in broader contexts, around meeting tables. The aluminium supporting structure comes in different versions: lacquered matt black or natural anodised, or in the colours matt red, matt greyblue, green or copper. The internal padded part is in polyurethane foam covered with a soft and comfortable down quilt, upholstered in fabric or leather.


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The inside scoop on indoor positioning technology
17 Mar 2016
Spatial and surveying professionals nationwide are set to converge on the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 12 – 14 April for the annual Australian and New Zealand Locate Conference.
Locate16 provides a platform to stimulate the ongoing discussion relating to technology developed within the spatial and surveying communities, and highlights ways to use these products to build smarter societies.
This year's conference program will emphasise why geospatial science and surveying are essential to providing critical location information which improves business opportunities, public safety, environmental and political decision-making, and sustainable development.
Reflecting this focus are four unique conference streams – prosper, protect, sustain and build – with informative presentations, inspiring keynotes and networking events all set to feature during the three-day event.
MapData Services Business Development Manager Lukas Divis is presenting at the national conference as part of the prosper stream – showcasing how location technology can improve the management of valuable property within organisations.
During his presentation – 'Indoor positioning and mapping of high value assets' – Mr Divis will explore some of the facts and myths about indoor positioning, and discuss ways the technology can be applied in real-world situations.
He will also introduce the various products being used to deliver indoor positioning solutions, and explain how many leading Australian organisations are now benefitting from real-time insight.
Facility and operational executives, GIS and IT decision-makers, event coordinators and customer service managers are encouraged to attend Mr Divis' presentation to learn more about the advancements relating to this technology.
For a full event overview, including speakers and scheduling, please view the Locate16 program.


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I wrote on Monday about the $205 million offer from home improvement retailing giant Lowe's (LOW) to buy certain assets of Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH), a West Coast retailer boasting a $12 million market cap and a $270 million enterprise value.
That got me thinking about another small company that continues to struggle with its own turnaround, restaurant operator Cosi (COSI). Cosi is a $37 million dollar chain of fast casual restaurants inspired by Parisian cafes and offers an array of freshly made sandwiches, soups, salads, and its signature flatbread.
Cosi has been often compared to Panera Bread (PNRA). As of Dec. 31, 2012, Cosi operated 125 restaurants. Most are located in the northeastern U.S. in New York and Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic states.
Cosi shares have punished investors for years. After a one-for-three reverse stock split recently, shares now trade for $2. In the past five years, the stock has steadily declined from over $11 a share to just above $2 today. The company has been unable to generate any form of profitability. In the past three years, the company has lost nearly $15 million.
Operating cash flow over those three years has been a negative $8.4 million. Stock sales have been the company's tool of choice in raising new capital. Since 2008, shares outstanding have increased from 40 million to over 60 million today.
Cosi continues to struggle to find the right leadership. Less than two years after her hire, CEO Carin Stutz resigned recently. To say that Cosi is trying to find its direction and niche paints a pretty accurate picture.
Despite these very valid concerns, the company does have some things going for it. The concept -- fresh fast casual food -- seems to be attractive. Although revenues have experienced a slow decline, the company still pulls in $100 million a year in sales. Cosi also continues to pursue a growth effort centered on franchising its brand.
Many stores are located in high traffic desirable food cities like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Simply getting a foot hold in those locations could be very attractive to a brand like a Panera or other restaurant concept. In this case, the balance is clean. At March 31, 2013, Cosi had over $12 million in cash and virtually no debt -- giving the company an enterprise value of $25 million.
Cosi's struggles have been well documented. But the company seems to have a unique concept that is missing that one key ingredient. Perhaps it's a matter of opening more profitable locations. With 125 units, Cosi is dwarfed by fast growers Chipotle and Panera who each boast well over a 1,000 locations and are adding more each year.
Perhaps Cosi needs the right leader, one who has a fresh perspective on doing things. Or maybe Cosi is better off in the hands of a competitor or private equity. Restaurants, with somewhat stable revenues and cash flows, are attractive buyout targets. With a cash rich balance sheet, Cosi offers patient investors what could perhaps be a very lucrative option on a turnaround.


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Friday, I got my final payment slip from the local hospital, and I stood in the living room with the cheque in one paw, and the envelope in another; and I said: "I really don't want to send in this last payment. I'm not ready to go back to the hospital yet."
Witnesses pooh-poohed.
Sunday morning, at or about 03:45, I was helping Reno strap a selection of fishing poles into the back of his pick-up in preparation for a run to Lake Texoma, when a sudden piercing pain in my face announced that Something Wasn't Quite Right.
"Reno, I think I just hooked myself."
"Oh, yeah. I hooked myself good."
Quick work with a Leatherman -- the carbon-steel American Express card -- and I hauled butt into Reno's bathroom to discover a hot-pink jig buried shank deep in the side of my nose.
Well, to make a long story short, we expended not a small amount of my blood to discover that extracting said jig was a wee bit beyond our powers.
On a side note, I can testify that Mustad makes a damned fine hook.
So, off to the local ER we go.
Thankfully at 0400 on a Sunday morning, the local Emergency Room is blessedly short of customers.
I walked up to the triage desk, and the Sweet Young Thing in the Hot Seat asks, "What is the nature of your ..."
I silently point to my now-dripping snout
"... holy [deleted]!"
Attracted by the yelp, several ER staff immediately descend upon the triage desk. "How did you ..." "You did ..." "What the hell ..." "How in the hell did you get a fishing lure stuck in the side of your nose?"
"Well," I announce, as the adrenaline started to short out the old mouth-brain connection, "There I was, minding my own business, when this little bit of pink wanders across my path, and I couldn't help myself."
Note to self: if you wander into a deserted ER at four in the morning with a fishhook sticking out of your nose -- everybody is going to come take a look.
So. There I am, on the hospital bed, surrounded by twelve -- count 'em, twelve -- nurses, paramedics, techs and such when the doctor enters the room, announces, "What do we ..."
Long pause.
Somewhere near the front of the room, I hear a late comer, "How in the hell did .."
The doctor pokes my snout a couple of times with his forefinger.
Reno murmurs, "Trolling ... pink ... jump on it every time."
Doc sayeth, "Hmm."
Doc leaves. Reno takes the opportunity to snap pics with his camera phone.
Doc comes back with an armful of stuff, suggests dryly that I might want to close my eyes.
I'll give the man props: I didn't feel the needle slide into my nose one little bit. Of course, when the local anaesthetic lit off a bonfire in my snout it kind of ruined the whole effect ...
What really concerned me was when the doctor mused, matter-of-factly, "Looks like it's already been used" just before something smelling strongly of fuel oil clamped onto the jig.
One would tend to thing that an ER would have a set of side-cutting pliers on-hand -- so to speak -- rather then having to pilfer the janitors tool box, but that's a minor quibble.
Lots of tugging as the doctor proceeded to drag me by the nose all over the bed, accompanied by a chorus of "Eep", "Ook", "Jee-zus" and the like from the twelve fascinated bystanders.
I would like to thank various approved deities for modern pharmaceuticals, because --despite the comments to the contrary from the peanut gallery -- I didn't feel a bit of pain.
I was a bit worried that the doctor was attempting to rip my nose of my face to get access to the hook, but when it became all-to-apparent that the hook wasn't coming back out the way it went in, the doctor paused his 'Dog-dragging activities, announced, "Huh", and changed grips.
A sudden firm wrench, an odd popping sensation, and I'm pretty sure we lost a tech or two when the doctor twisted the point of the hook out through the top of my snout.
Ah, well.
He clamped a gauze pad on the holes, took my hand and said, "Firm pressure here and here until the bleeding stops. Tetanus booster."
"That's it?" I asked.
"Well, and a 'scrip for antibiotics. And some lortab -- your nose is going to be bruised."
"Hell with the lortab, I'll take a tylenol. Direct pressure?"
"Anything mild enough to be treated with pressure means we can still make the lake while the fish are biting. Thanks, doc!"
You know, one wouldn't think that particular statement would generate the sheer number of rolled feminine eyes that it did, but then the distaff side of the species has always been a pleasant mystery to me.
Fishing wasn't bad, either.


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Berry Ricotta Breakfast Burritos
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Small Churches: Part 2
|April 28, 2016
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Another on the list of reasons Small Churches are Wonderful (and Vital) from a workshop that Bishop Chilton Knudsen lead for small churches is that they, "may not have a 'children's program' as larger churches know it, but all children know they have a place and feel comfortable, and participate fully in congregational life." St. Christopher's hasn't had a Sunday School in a number of years. We do not have some well designed acolyte training program for an army of children. We don't have a summer vacation Bible school. We do, however, care deeply for the children who worship here and they know we do. We don't have a program to teach the principles of our faith. But our children do learn from watching us acting on our faith.
Even from a very young age, the children who have worshipped here have taken their places as ministers of the church (we are all needed). We've had a gardener, an acolyte, hospitality, choir, even liturgical dancers pop up in worship, fellowship, and in outreach following the examples of the adults in community.
Children in the wider community – in our schools and neighborhood programs know of our care of them because people from St. Christopher's show up for them and pay attention to their needs (see the post about the exercise balls below).
A church that is grounded in faith and mission can have a deep impact on the lives of children. We share our faith with our lives in relationship with those around us. Programs alone cannot do this improtant work without people.


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Strong Quake Rocks Malukus
JAKARTA ~ A 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Wednesday, prompting the brief issuing of a tsunami alert, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.
The earthquake, which struck at 4:32pm, was centered 300 kilometers northeast of the East Timorese capital Dili, some 23 kilometers under the floor of the Banda Sea, the agency said in a statement.
A tsunami warning was issued, but lifted about one hour later.
Suharjono, from the agency headquarters, said the quake had tsunami potential "because it was shallow, at 23 kilometers. The area that should be on alert is around Timor."
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the quake at 6.2, at a depth of only 10 kilometers under the sea floor.
Witnesses in Dili said the quake was not strongly felt there. There were no initial reports of damage or casualties.Filed under: The Nation


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More about KIF ? Checkout Video
KIF is an internationally accredited official organizer of exhibitions. It has been able to occupy a prominent place among the regional exhibition centers in an effort to reach the world, where the company is a proud member of Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI).
The company supervises and organizes local and international events such as:
- exhibitions, conferences, camps, concerts, plays, meetings and more.
- In addition to providing consultations to its clients.
Kuwait International Fair has topped its counterparts in the region in being the first exhibition organizer in Kuwait and the region since 1971, where its infrastructure has unfolded over 650 thousand square meters.


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Holmes Report 05 Jan 2017 // 7:08PM GMT
NEW YORK — Citizen Relations has made a series of first-time hires — including Cohn & Wolfe's Scott Cocchiere (pictured) — to expand its service offerings under the relatively new US leadership of Nathan Friedman.
Cocchiere joined this week as Citizen's first-ever executive creative director, leading and overseeing campaign development, content creation and brand storytelling. Most recently he held the same role at WPP's Cohn & Wolfe and has worked on brands like Bank of America, Dannon, KFC, Philips, Unilever and others.
"With the strong creative team we have in place in the US, which will continue to report to Chief Integrated Marketing Officer Jim Joseph, we have no plans to fill Scott's position," said C&W CMO Jill Tannenbaum.
Also this week, the Citizen Relations brought in Alex Castro as its first executive producer and video content lead for North America. Based in Los Angeles, Castro is tasked with building out Citizen's content creation capabilities while drawing upon his experience working on broadcast programs for companies like Harley Davidson, Nestle and Verizon. In another first, Rachael George joined as the firm's experiential director from Amplitude Marketing Group. There, she worked on using insights and research for integrated campaigns for clients like FanDuel, Pepsi, MetLife and T -Mobile. At Citizen, she will partner with account leaders to direct key activations and develop creative programs that go beyond traditional PR.
"We have a clear plan and are on a growth and innovation trajectory," Friedman said. "2016 was all about building the foundation and we did just that with a significant increase revenue and multiple new clients. We will accelerate our plans in 2017, continue to hire team members with diverse backgrounds, roll out new offerings and deliver top-notch creative programming for our client partners."
In the US, Citizen added 22 people last year and 12 new accounts. In the US, Friedman has also prioritized diverse hires — or those who self-identify within a minority group. Friedman joined the firm as US general manager in April 2016.
In the US, the $36.6 million-dollar firm has three offices in New York, Los Angeles and Irvine. Its work is primarily in the consumer arena with P&G among its major clients. He reports into North America president Nick Cowling.
In late 2014, BlueFocus Communications Group, the Chinese public relations giant acquired a majority position in Vision7, parent company of Citizen Relations.


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Chris began his investment banking career as a financial analyst at Lazard Frères, executing a range of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring assignments. During his time at Lazard, he was promoted directly to associate and worked across a variety of groups in the Chicago and New York offices.
Chris graduated cum laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Geography, as well as a minor in Music Performance (double bass). While at Northwestern, he also studied at New Zealand's oldest university, University of Otago, in Dunedin.
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Contributed by the Aircraft Engine Committee of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR GAS TURBINES AND POWER. Manuscript received November 22, 2015; final manuscript received December 18, 2015; published online March 15, 2016. Editor: David Wisler.
This paper presents the development of an integrated approach which targets the aerodynamic design of separate-jet exhaust systems for future gas-turbine aero-engines. The proposed framework comprises a series of fundamental modeling theories which are applicable to engine performance simulation, parametric geometry definition, viscous/compressible flow solution, and design space exploration (DSE). A mathematical method has been developed based on class-shape transformation (CST) functions for the geometric design of axisymmetric engines with separate-jet exhausts. Design is carried out based on a set of standard nozzle design parameters along with the flow capacities established from zero-dimensional (0D) cycle analysis. The developed approach has been coupled with an automatic mesh generation and a Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) flow-field solution method, thus forming a complete aerodynamic design tool for separate-jet exhaust systems. The employed aerodynamic method has initially been validated against experimental measurements conducted on a small-scale turbine powered simulator (TPS) nacelle. The developed tool has been subsequently coupled with a comprehensive DSE method based on Latin-hypercube sampling. The overall framework has been deployed to investigate the design space of two civil aero-engines with separate-jet exhausts, representative of current and future architectures, respectively. The inter-relationship between the exhaust systems' thrust and discharge coefficients has been thoroughly quantified. The dominant design variables that affect the aerodynamic performance of both investigated exhaust systems have been determined. A comparative evaluation has been carried out between the optimum exhaust design subdomains established for each engine. The proposed method enables the aerodynamic design of separate-jet exhaust systems for a designated engine cycle, using only a limited set of intuitive design variables. Furthermore, it enables the quantification and correlation of the aerodynamic behavior of separate-jet exhaust systems for designated civil aero-engine architectures. Therefore, it constitutes an enabling technology toward the identification of the fundamental aerodynamic mechanisms that govern the exhaust system performance for a user-specified engine cycle.
Notional axisymmetric housing geometry for a very-high bypass ratio (VHBR) turbofan engine with separate-jet exhausts
Upper-level overview of the developed software architecture
Individual terms comprising Bernstein's polynomial for n = 8
Employed parameters for the parametric geometry representation of an exhaust system: (a) duct geometry and (b) nozzle geometry
Employed CFD domain and BCs
Mesh generation and topology definition: (a) overall view of derived computational mesh and (b) mesh close-up
Graphical illustration of force accounting for the computation of gross propulsive force FGexhaust
Engine model used for the grid sensitivity analysis: (a) model geometry, (b) computational mesh, Ncell≈4.76×105, and (c) Mach number contours at midcruise conditions, M∞=0.85, Alt.=13106.4m
Grid sensitivity analysis for the described engine model: (a) bypass nozzle discharge coefficient CDBypass, (b) core nozzle discharge coefficient CDCore, and (c) overall exhaust velocity coefficient CVOverall
Comparison of predicted nozzle performance parameters with experimental data reported in Ref. [34]: (a) normalized bypass nozzle mass flow m˙bypass/m˙bypassref, gross propulsive force FG
Model validation: (a) Mach number contours for FPR = 1.6, M∞=0.17, (b) isentropic Mach number Misen on the bypass and core nozzle inner walls—comparison with experimental data from Ref. [34]
2D axisymmetric geometries of investigated engine architectures: (a) design representative of future engine architectures (E1) and (b) design representative of current engine architectures (E2)
Mach number contours for the baseline exhaust system designs at DP midcruise conditions: (a) design representative of future engine architectures (E1) and (b) design representative of current engine architectures (E2)
Design space definition: (a) bypass duct outer line position ybpout=Rbpout/Lductin, (b) ybpin=Rbpin/Lductin, (c) nozzle CP to exit area ratio Aratio=ACP/Aexit and length ratio κlenin=LinNozzle/h2, (d) outer line slope at the CP θCPout, (e) CP inner/outer curvature radius ratio κCPin/out=RcurveCP,in/out/h2, (f) core cowl length lcrcowl=Lcrcowl/Rfan, (g) zone 3 vent exit position lz3exit=Lz3exit/Lcrcowl, (h) zone 3 exit Mach no. Mz3exit, and (i) core cowl angle θcrcowl and outer line angle θnozzleout
Correlation of performance metrics for the future E1engine: (a) CDBypass and CVOverall, (b) CDBypass and FN, and (c) CVOverall and FN
Correlation of performance metrics for the current E2engine: (a) CDBypass and CVOverall, (b) CDBypass and FN, and (c) CVOverall and FN
Linear correlation estimation between design variables and performance metrics: (a) future E1 engine and (b) current E2 engine
Exhaust design improvement for the E1 future engine architecture: (a) baseline exhaust nozzle and (b) improved exhaust nozzle
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The company previously known as HP spent $11 billion to buy software maker Autonomy, only to write off most of that purchase a year later and claim fraud.
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I'm scared of pie.
That's right, you read that correctly. I am scared of its soft, sweet center and its crunchy crust. Eating too much pie this Thanksgiving weekend has both Austin and I wincing at the idea of food in general. And unfortunately, neither of us have escaped the food fallout from Thanksgiving.
In our fridge? More than 16 slices of pie, cheesecake, and tiramisu, pawned off to us from family members and friends.
Throwing away the pie is not an option. Not only do Austin and I hate the idea of wasting food, but wouldn't it be horribly ironic to throw away food from a holiday that's all about being thankful for food? At a time when the global food market is still highly unstable and many Americans are turning to food banks for help, we must appreciate the fact that unlike many others, we still have the luxury of eating when we are hungry.
Unfortunately, food banks and community shelters only take non-perishable food items, not half-eaten pies. At a time when some have so much and others so little, what can we do to minimize that gap? And how do we do it without putting further strain on our natural resources?
Some may say to donate food and money to those in need, but I think that's just a short-term fix. Simply giving food to the starving doesn't provide a lasting solution.
Others say that the problem lies in the government, the industrial food system, overpopulation or a culmination of all three. One issue only seems to lead to another and everything only seems to get more and more complicated. I wish I could say I have a solution, that while sitting here at my computer in Kansas, I came up with a way to solve world hunger.
Rather, what I want to say is this: Thanksgiving comes but once a year to remind us to be thankful for what we have: from family and friends to food and football. Just because the leftovers now sit in stacks of Tupperware does not mean that the feeling of thanks must also be stored away until the next year.
Giving thanks for every meal, not just the important ones, does two things. First, it reminds us of how lucky we are. Second, it changes our mindset from one that perceives food as packages, brand names, and calories to one that appreciates it for what it does: satiating our hunger, helping us grow, and giving us something to enjoy.
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Sometimes I take leftovers with me on my way to school or work and give them to homeless people along the way. I have a hard time wasting food too. There are plenty of pepople that will eat your pies and leftovers…you don't have to take them to a shelter.


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The distinctive sound of Ladysmith Black Mambazo is one of the finest expressions of African music. As one of the better-known musical groups from southern Africa, Ladysmith has for more than 30 years popularized Zulu traditional music. Although founder Joseph Shabalala and his fellow a capella singers are now internationally recognized (with the help of Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland), the group began during the apartheid era and became local favorites as they sung songs that invoked hope, joy, and pride in being African at a time of institutionalized racism.
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BBQ Pulled Pork Recipe with Jerk Seasoning
BBQ Pork Recipe
Like any true southerner, I love a good BBQ pork recipe. With an electric smoker, some BBQ wood, and a good BBQ rub, it's pretty hard to mess up a Boston butt pork roast. The smoker and the fat in the meat do most of the work for you, so you'll just need to help them along with some seasonings, and maybe with a great sauce. Yesterday, I tried something a little different. Instead of my usual BBQ pork recipes and my favorite BBQ rub, I used jerk spices on the pork, and I also made a batch of Jamaican jerk sauce to combine with the pork once it was pulled. Even if you don't like the heat of jerk sauce, I guarantee that you'll like the Jamaican jerk seasoning I used as a rub for this BBQ pork recipe.
Jerk Seasoning – Jerk Spices
My family and I enjoy jerk seasoning on pork and chicken. Jerk spices sort of create a party in your mouth, with reggae music playing in the background. Jamaican jerk seasoning is perhaps the most famous of all, but Jamaica isn't the only place that uses traditional jerk seasoning. I've never been to Jamaica, but I've dined on meats seasoned with jerk spices on a couple of other Caribbean islands. I also had a student several years ago who was from Jamaica, and he was nice enough to bring me some samples of his mom's jerk pork and jerk chicken. He wasn't nice enough, however, to share the family recipe, but he did tell me about the ingredients his mother used. Her jerk seasoning and jerk sauce included allspice, scotch bonnet peppers, thyme, green onions, garlic, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, lime juice, and brown sugar. He said sometimes she added rum and vinegar to her jerk sauce, too.
Okay, so I had the ingredients, but I had no idea of the exact amounts. I had to do some "kitchen experiments" on my own. I created a BBQ rub and a jerk sauce, which I'm sharing with you here.
BBQ Pulled Pork Recipe with Jerk Seasoning
This BBQ pulled pork recipe is slow cooked on a meat smoker. We use a Brinkmann electric smoker, with chunks of pecan wood for flavor. Traditional jerk is cooked over pimento wood, but that's pretty hard to come by for most Americans. Instead of pecan wood, you might prefer oak, hickory, peach, apple, or lime wood.
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- 5 or 6 pound Boston butt pork shoulder roast
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons allspice
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon habanero powder
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 cup dark rum
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- Rinse pork shoulder and pat dry. Don't remove the layer of fat that you'll find on one side of the roast. The fat cap will add lots of juicy flavor to the meat as it smokes. Once the meat is cooked and ready to eat, you can remove the fat cap then.
- Combine all the dry ingredients. Mix with lime juice and rum to make the jerk seasoning. Rub the butt all over with the BBQ rub paste.
- Wrap meat tightly in foil and refrigerate overnight.
- About two hours before meat is ready to smoke, soak BBQ wood in water.
- Prepare smoker by placing wood on burner and filling water pan. Plug smoker in to heat for 20 minutes, with lid closed. Remove meat from fridge and unwrap. Let pork sit at room temperature for 20 minutes.
- When the smoker has heated, it's time to put on the butt. If your smoker has a thermostat, set it to 220 degrees. Place meat, fat side up, on top grate.
- Smoking time will vary. For this particular BBQ pork recipe, we cooked the shoulder for ten hours and refilled the water pan after about six hours. The internal temperature of the meat is what you need to watch. The pork will be safe to eat at 165 degrees, but it's easier to pull if you let the butt reach 185 degrees before removing it from the smoker.
- Take butt off smoker and wrap it in foil. Allow it to sit for 10-15 minutes before serving or pulling.
Recipe for Pulled Pork
Once the smoked pork butt has rested, remove the fat cap and the blade bone. If the meat is sufficiently cooked, the bone will lift out easily. Use two forks to shred the BBQ pork. You want lots of small fibers because that means more surface area, and more surface area makes it possible for more sauce to cling to the meat. By the way, I use a large metal roaster for pulling the pork.
Once all the pork has been pulled, combine ¼ cup apple cider vinegar, 3 tablespoons lime juice, 3 tablespoons brown sugar, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, and 1 teaspoon garlic salt. Stir until smooth. Pour over pulled pork and toss to mix well.
If you like, combine seasoned pulled pork with your favorite BBQ sauce. If you're brave and adventurous, you might want to try mixing the shredded pork with my Jamaican jerk sauce.
Jamaican Jerk Sauce
2 tablespoons peanut oil
4 green onions, with tops, sliced
2 scotch bonnet peppers, sliced
½ cup ketchup
½ cup brown sugar
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
¼ cup dark rum
¼ cup lime juice
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 teaspoons ground allspice
2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground ginger
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon nutmeg
Directions: In a skillet, heat oil, green onions, and peppers. Cook until onions and peppers are soft but not brown.
Cool slightly and add contents of skillet to blender or food processor.
Add remaining ingredients and puree.
Cover and store in fridge until ready to use. This can be used as a finishing sauce or as a marinade for pork, chicken, or goat.
Recipe for Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Now that your pork is ready to eat, you might want to try this recipe for pulled pork sandwiches. Hubby is from North Carolina, and this is his favorite way to eat pulled pork. Personally, I like my pulled pork sandwiches without onion and coleslaw. For me, coleslaw goes on the side – not on the sandwich! By the way, my North Carolina friends and family members like this recipe for pulled pork sandwiches, too. Hey – I'm from Georgia, and I don't want slaw on my sammie, but you might like this Carolina version!
Hamburger buns or onion rolls
Black pepper
Garlic salt or garlic powder
Thin slices of red onion
Seasoned pulled pork, with or without sauce
Directions: Open buns or rolls and place on cookie sheet. Spread each with mayonnaise. Sprinkle one side of bun with black pepper. Sprinkle the other half with garlic salt or garlic powder.
Toast bread with the oven set to "broil."
Remove bread and add pulled pork to the bottoms of the rolls. Top each with red onion slices and a scoop of coleslaw.
I read this Hub a couple of day ago and got hooked on the notion of pulled pork. I didn't know what pulled pork was, I had never had the opportunity to partake of the tasty looking dish, so I went out and bought a frozen boxed version of BBQ Pulled Pork.
I ate it today. I doubt that it was anywhere near the delicacy you described but I at least now know what "pulled pork" is. Thank you for the new life experience.
You've got me wanting a smoker, too, Holle! I need to decide if I would use it often enough to warrant getting one. This does look good - I'll convert it to a chicken version, though!
My mouth is watering! What a fantastic idea for pulled pork.
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Here's a great app I recently stumbled across that has really changed the way I've been developing on the Mac, CodeKit.
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I've recently been doing a lot of design work with WordPress and in particular it's use of taxonomies. Here's a great snippet I picked up over at WordPress for Beginners that allows you to display the child taxonomy of another taxonomy.
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One of the most recent tools in my web design arsenal, and I'm not sure why I didn't see it before, is PNG masking. Basically the techinque requires 2 images, a PNG with transparency to act as a mask and a background image. The PNG mask is positioned after the background image and a negative […]
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by Naomi Ishisaka
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"Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an 'alien' element."
– Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
Living on the "borderlands" of racial identity can provide a unique vantage point from which to view the rigid orthodoxies and mores of our racialized society.
For me – a mixed-race woman of Japanese American and white parentage raised in Seattle – not "fitting in" to any racial category afforded the opportunity to connect with people from a range of backgrounds and challenge conventional perceptions of "whiteness" and "blackness." In our binary society, multiethnic people can work to be accepted as "normal" by their dominant ethnic group or push out the borders so that society's very definition of race is challenged and interrogated.
For me, being mixed race is a blessing, not a curse. Unbound by external determinants of who I am or what I should do (how could anyone say "date your own kind" when the likelihood of meeting someone of my specific ethnicity is slim to none?) the true absurdity of what one writer called "racial patriotism" comes into sharp focus.
Yet this is not to oversimplify the complexity of racial identity, ethnic pride and the need for dogged preservation of culture and history. For many reasons brought from within and without, many ethnic minority groups feel a fierce sense of protection for maintaining racial homogeneity. Today, many African Americans, long under genetic assault from unconscionable acts of exploitation and rape, frown on certain interracial relationships for perpetuating Eurocentric notions of power, beauty, desirability and the continued devaluation of blackness. In the Asian-American community, a completely lopsided gendered phenomenon of Asian American women marrying white men has come under sharp scrutiny for its fulfillment of stereotypical exotic, submissive, Asian female archetypes.
Yet does the backlash to these patterns and adherence by communities of color to the rigidity of the "one-drop rule" really move us forward? The competing motivations, power dynamics and issues of privilege further complicate these unspoken issues.
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Raheem Sterling's incredible form this season is a big reason for Manchester City's Premier League success – what an improvement.
Credit for the title triumph will go to Pep Guardiola, the manager, as well as the sensational Kevin De Bruyne and rightly so, but talkSPORT.com is focusing on Sterling.
Time and again the 23-year-old has been the hero and he is quite rightly on the PFA Young Player of the Year shortlist and probably should be in the running for the Player of the Year gong, too.
Sterling's prowess in front of goal this season has also been notable. Finding the back of the net has been a problem for him in the past and it is understood Guardiola told him he should be a 20-goal-a-season player. At the time of writing he has found the back of the net 22 times in all competitions, including 17 in the Premier League – more than his previous two seasons combined.
"It is definitely my best season in terms of goalscoring," he said in December. "Who wouldn't enjoy this? It's something I've always wanted to do and I've always wanted to improve on and get better at. I'm just happy to bring that to pass and hopefully I can carry on."
And as you can see from the numbers below, courtesy of The Times, his performances this season have improved dramatically compared with his previous two campaigns.
Who has been your standout Manchester City star this season? Let us know below…