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text: Opening Remarks Good morning, my name is Alex Ciappara and I am the Director of Economic Analysis for the Canadian Bankers Association. I am joined by representatives of the five largest banks in Canada, and we are pleased to be here today representing the CBA, our 55 member banks and over a quarter million employees in Canada. We appreciate the invitation to speak to the Committee as part of your study on research and innovation efforts in the agricultural sector, with a focus today on the financing of farms. The bank representatives here with me today have experience sitting on both sides of the lending desk − working now as bankers, they all have unique agricultural backgrounds. Given this wealth of experience, I will keep my comments brief. I will, however, take a moment to outline how banks work hard to serve farmers, agricultural and rural communities. Helping farmers and rural communities with their banking needs Banks in Canada recognize the important role they play in supporting farmers and rural communities through our financial products and services. Banks provide deposit and operating accounts, insurance, and investments, in addition to operating, term and mortgage loans. Banks also offer the AgriInvest account and CALA loans, and support the Advance Payments Program (APP). Banks provide advice to farmers on matters such as farm loans, economic forecasting, farm business planning and general farm management. Banks also work with producers on succession planning to ensure a viable transition to the next generation. Banks understand that supporting farmers means having to be flexible in order to fit their busy schedules, particularly during planting and harvesting seasons. Banks supply products and services through roughly 2,100 rural and small town branches across Canada. Mobile bankers drive to farms to provide onsite banking assistance. And farmers can access many of these products and services on their smartphone apps, on-line and through telephone banking. On the personal side, banks help rural customers save for their children's education, for their retirement and provide specialized advice, lines of credit, loans and mortgages, as well as everyday banking needs such as chequing and savings accounts. Agricultural and rural customers have access to the same product, services and prices as customers in Canada's largest cities. Indeed, a recent Industry Canada survey showed that rural small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) had a higher approval rate for their debt financing requests than urban SMEs, and when it came to obtaining financing, rural SMEs ranked it as the least problematic external obstacle to growth. Financing farmers Bankers understand the importance of access to credit for agriculture. The sector forms an important part of banks' business lending portfolio with agriculture lending representing 16 per cent of total funds loaned to SMEs by banks. And bank credit represents 36 per cent of the total farm lending market. In addition to the over $25 billion that farmers have borrowed from banks, close to $12 billion in additional credit has been made available to farmers without any additional application. The five banks represented at this table compete vigorously with one another and with credit unions, caisses populaires and finance companies, as well as FCC and provincial government agencies. Canada's banks pride themselves on prudent lending standards and risk management practices. This has resulted in a reputation for safety and soundness that is internationally recognized. It is this approach that fosters financial discipline and contributes to the financial security of the economy, including the agricultural sector. Banks work with farm clients on an individual, case-by-case basis assessing a number of criteria such as their cash flow capacity and requirements, time horizon, business prospects, customer base, and available equity. As a result, bank credit has expanded in line with the agricultural sector's growth. Between 2001 and 2011, the authorization of bank credit has been consistent with, and appropriate for, growth in the sector. This mainly reflects the point that a fairly large portion of the banking sector's lending is for the purposes of working capital and operating lines of credit. This type of financing requires the bank to truly understand its customers and to work closely with them over time. Helping throughout all stages of a farmer's life and business Banks have a long standing commitment to the agricultural sector and know what it means to assist farmers through all stages of their life and business. The banking sector is a major sponsor and supporter of programs and events that attract youth interested in farming, and young farmers themselves. Individual banks have been long-time members, proud partners and financial contributors to 4-H clubs for more than half a century at the national, provincial and local levels. Banks are also sponsors of programs such as the Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture series, Canada's Outstanding Young Farmers Program, Ontario's Farm Family Awards; as well as scholarships offered through the Agricultural Institute of Canada Foundation. Banks sponsor showcase events that attract the next generation of farmers, such as the Calgary Stampede, the International Plowing Match, the Outdoor Farm Show, the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and Canadian Western Agribition. As farmers establish themselves in business, banks work with them through the inevitable peaks and troughs that come in the agricultural sector. This past decade has seen farmers confront BSE, avian influenza, drought, floods, the H1N1 virus and country of origin labelling (COOL). When these events occur, bankers work closely with farmers, taking into account their individual situations to find solutions that are sustainable and in their best interests. Sometimes banks need to have tough conversations with clients so that farmers can make decisions that preserve the capital of their farming operation. The banking industry's work during these events is the tangible demonstration of our interest in contributing to the long-term viability of Canadian farmers. As farmers start thinking about retirement and passing their business to the next generation, banks have the expertise to assist with this transition. Our experience is that few farmers have a written succession plan. Indeed, according to the 2010 Farm Financial Survey, only 9 per cent of farms have such a plan. There are complex issues, often emotional ones, that the family has to address − the viability of the farm operation, adequacy of the income being generated, and a host of other issues. Because of banks' relationship with farmers, they are able to look at the full picture of a farm family's needs to create a succession plan that encompasses everything − from banking and lending services to insurance strategies, investment management and estate and trust planning – in order to protect income and assets for both the younger and older generations. Bankers are able to draw on the knowledge and the resources of the wider bank financial group such as private wealth management and investment teams, and the network of external local contacts in accounting, consulting and legal fields. Conclusion Banks have long, established and strong relationships with farmers across Canada. These relationships have been developed in branches, around kitchen tables and at agricultural events in farm communities. And it is because of these relationships that Canada's banks are well-positioned to work in the best interest of farmers through good times and bad. We would be pleased to answer your questions. Thank you.

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Take a look at the services Lebanon Dental Center can offer you and get an idea of the work you might need done. Our dentist will perform an initial examination during your first appointment to determine the state of your oral health. We can improve the look and health of your smile with our complete range of corrective and cosmetic dental services.
Call 603-448-2100 to schedule your appointment.
Bonding can be used to enhance the aesthetics of your smile and correct gaps or cracks in your teeth. We may also use teeth bonding after a filling has been removed or to cover up stains on discolored teeth.
A composite resin is used on the affected tooth or teeth and is molded and sculpted over an adhesive gel that is placed on the tooth. After the resin has been applied, an ultraviolet light is used to harden the resin, which is then polished to give you a rejuvenated, new smile.
Bonding is a better alternative to unsightly silver fillings, and this material will also last for more than 10 years. It is safe, durable, and affordable.
A bridge can replace a missing tooth or teeth. Your existing teeth are used to create a bridge across the area where your tooth is missing. We will create abutments out of your existing teeth where the bridge will be attached and then we will contour the teeth to provide a base for the bridge. Then we will take a mold of the area and send it to a lab where a custom bridge will be created. While we wait for it to be created, we will install a temporary bridge to protect the abutments and the exposed gum areas so that it looks more appealing than having a missing tooth.
After you adjust to the permanent bridge, you will be able to eat and drink without having any issues.
If your teeth become decayed, cracked or discolored, crowns can restore strength to your smile once more. The crown will be matched to the color of your existing teeth so that your smile looks natural and flawless.
It will take about 2-3 visits to complete the crown. We will reshape the tooth by filling it with enamel so the crown can be placed over it. We will make a mold and send it to a lab where your new crown will be created and your dentist will fit you with a temporary crown in the meantime.
We will place and fit the permanent crown so that you can go back to your daily routine. The crown should be brushed and cared for just like your regular teeth to maintain your oral health.
To prevent oral cancer or root planing, we will perform oral cancer screenings and plaque removal during your appointments. It is our goal to ensure you maintain optimal oral health care, and we work hard to establish those good habits in you. The oral cancer screening is often completed with an ultraviolet light or similar device that allows us to view issues that can't always be detected by the human eye under normal conditions.
We will protect your gums and teeth from disease in any way we can, and if we do find a problem our oral surgeon can work to offer effective solutions for you.
If you are embarrassed by your yellowing or discolored teeth, our teeth whitening treatments are the perfect option for you. Coffee, wine, and smoking can affect your teeth's color and even proper maintenance can still leave your teeth yellow.
We utilize a tray whitening system, which can be completed in 2 steps. The first step is to make an impression of your teeth. With this impression, we'll craft you custom whitening trays that you can use over and over. Finally, you will take the whitening gel and put it in the gel for a short period of time over a period of a few days. This often results in a whiter smile of 4-8 shades!
Veneers can redesign and reshape your entire mouth. Veneers are a very thin ceramic shell that cover your existing tooth structure. We can fix certain issues such as staining, cracked teeth, spaces, misaligned teeth, chipped teeth and many other issues. Our dentist will take an impression of your newly prepared teeth and send it to a lab for the final product to be fabricated. We will provide you with a temporary solution to wear during this time, and once the veneers are finalized our dental team will fit them to make you feel as if they are your natural teeth.
Dentures can be used as a replacement for missing teeth. The device can be removed and put back into your mouth with ease and comfort. Depending on how many teeth you may be missing, we may recommend full or partial dentures. A hybrid denture, or a partial denture is similar to a bridge, however it is not a permanent fixture in your mouth.
The flesh-colored base of the dentures will be placed over your gums, which may take some time getting used to. Dentures allow you to eat and speak normally. These devices should be brushed and put in cleaning solution.
Wisdom tooth extractions are a fairly common procedure because wisdom teeth often cause problems as they try to protrude through your gums. If your wisdom tooth comes through at an angle, it means your tooth is impacted and can cause pain. Your tooth may come in unevenly or only emerge partially.
When a wisdom tooth only emerges partially, a flap of skin known as an operculum may form over the tooth, which can make the tooth hard to clean. Pieces of food may also get caught under the skin, making it easy for an infection, called pericoronitis, to develop. It will usually go away on its own, but it causes swelling and pain in the area.
We can remove a single tooth or all four wisdom teeth at once. We can administer a local anesthetic to numb the areas where the teeth will be extracted. You may prefer to go under a general anesthetic so that you will be sedated during the procedure.
The gum tissue around the wisdom tooth is cut open to reveal the tooth. The tooth is loosened by gripping it tightly and wiggling it back and forth until it can be lifted out of the gums. In cases where we cannot grip and remove the tooth, it will need to be broken up into pieces before being removed. Depending on the incision and extraction site, we may need sutures to close the area. Soluble sutures are the best option because they dissolve on their own.
Endodontics has to do with the nerves of your teeth. Root canals are one of the most well-known procedures in dentistry and the most common procedure relating to endodontics. When a tooth becomes infected, it is typically related to the nerves in the root of the tooth. The infected nerves need to be removed and if patients leave this condition untreated, an infection can turn into an abscess, which is a much more serious problem that includes bone loss in the jaw.
We will numb the area around the tooth with a local anesthetic to start the procedure. Our dentist will drill down into the tooth to create an opening into the canal and remove the infected tissue and clean the canal. After we remove the infection, we will fill the space with a sealant called guttapercha.
We typically recommended that your tooth be fitted with a crown after your root canal has been performed to further protect your tooth. The crown will also improve the appearance of the tooth.
Inlays and onlays, or partial crowns, use the existing tooth as a base and fit the inlay or onlay onto the tooth. This will strengthen the tooth, restore its shape, and prevent further damage. An inlay will be used when there is no damage to the cusps of your tooth and the inlay can be placed right on the tooth. This procedure is perfect for cases that are a little more extensive or severe.
We will remove the decayed area of the tooth and take a mold of the tooth to be sent to a dental lab. The lab will create a restoration made from porcelain, gold, or a composite resin. The restoration takes about 2-3 weeks to make, so we will place a temporary inlay or onlay on the tooth for that time. The inlay or onlay will be placed into your mouth and set with cement during your next visit and your tooth will look natural so that no one will be able to tell the difference.
If you have decay below your gum line, our dentist may need to remove a small amount of bone and gum tissue. We may ask for this procedure before making a new crown for your tooth. Crown lengthening procedures are done for both restorative dentistry and to improve the aesthetics of your gum line. The procedure adjusts the gum and bone level to expose more of the tooth so it can be restored.
Sometimes this procedure will be used to correct a "gummy" smile because your teeth may appear short. The teeth may actually be the proper length but the excess gum tissue may be covering your teeth. During the procedure, excess gum and bone tissue will be reshaped to expose more of your natural tooth.


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SQLServer on Ubuntu Restore Tests
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Just for fun I decided to test how portable backup files made on the Windows version of SQLServer restore into the Linux version of SQLServer. I used the wizard built in to my SQL2016 SSMS software connected to the Linux version running on Ubuntu 16 on Amazon EC to run the restore. The restore was uneventful. I chose the AdventureWorks2012 database simply because its what I found lying around in the directory I first looked in on my laptop.
The script version of what the wizard generated is as follows…..
USE [master] RESTORE DATABASE [AdventureWorks2012] FROM DISK = N'C:\home\ubuntu\AdventureWorks2012-Full Database Backup.bak' WITH FILE = 1, MOVE N'AdventureWorks2012_Data' TO N'C:\var\opt\mssql\data\AdventureWorks2012_Data.mdf', MOVE N'AdventureWorks2012_Log' TO N'C:\var\opt\mssql\data\AdventureWorks2012_log.ldf', NOUNLOAD, STATS = 5 GO
Interestingly the tool browsed the directory structure ok but for some reason could not find my backup file, even when saying "all files" and no it wasn't perms or anything. I manually typed in the file name to the wizard browser and it worked fine. I am NOT using the recommended version of SSMS for connecting to Linux on purpose. I want to find out what breaks if I don't…. 🙂


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Honestly, when I e-book flights, I use Google Flights, as I are inclined to at all times discover the cheapest flights through the use of it. I love Google Flights, however each now and again I do come throughout better offers on flights from different websites such as Priceline, Orbitz and lots of others. But then most of the vehicles can be hand-me-downs rejected by the new automobile sellers to start with- requiring more repairs or holding much less worth to the client for his or her greenback. I'm in Southern California for a number of weeks so stay tuned for posts that includes the LA and San Diego Regions starting with my next put up all about Costco Business Centers. If you are in search of a least expensive automobile rental rates Philippines with no cancellation and other fees, look for small local automotive rental corporations that supply greatest offers. Car Rental Salta is accessible, where one can easily lease a automobile and be assured of supreme companies.
If credit score is pricey, and you may't buy outright or make large downpayments, used automobiles might prevent cash. Take your pick of quality rental vehicles, from government class sedans to backpacker rental cars, from thrifty hatchbacks to vehicles and vans. Cities would not have developed the way in which they did without automobiles as a result of there wouldn't have been a need for it. Everyone must stay close to every little thing.
Cars hold you out of the weather when the climate is nasty and you have someplace to go. But for essentially the most half I'm really glad that I gave up owning my very own automobile. Luckily for my consumer in London, he had paid for his rental together with his American Express card and they paid for the majority of the claim. In some cases, the minimal age for rental will be as high as 25, even in nations the place the minimum authorized age to hold a driver's license is much lower, e.g. 14,15,16 or 17 in the United States It just isn't unusual for there to be a young driver surcharge for all drivers aged underneath 25.
This allows us to immediately see the difference in energy utilization between electric and gasoline powered vehicles. Worst of all, you possibly can and without the automotive if there isn't a accessible automobiles at no cost sell, if automobiles are beneath reservation. However, a lot of automobile rental companies are making an effort to have inclusive pricing, most notably Irish Car which uses this as its key worth proposition for patrons. You will find way more honesty from the people who prepare the used vehicles on the market than the gross sales staff!…


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CafeMom friends tracies.beans, BoyOHBoy, and tess-n-co (carrie_grace not pictured)
When CafeMom carrie_grace wrote: "Had fun meeting some of my CafeMom friends yesterday!" on her status update, I was dying to know more.
Turns out, carrie_grace and three of her CafeMom friends, tess-n-co, tracies.beans, and BoyOHBoy, all got together in real life (IRL) and had a wonderful time.
Who says the internet can't help make the world a more meaningful place? Read on for this wonderful story about the joy of friendship.
tracies.beans, tess-n-co, and BoyOHBoy (carrie_grace not pictured)
I couldn't have made it through my life, let alone the birth of my children (thanks, K!) or the first year of motherhood, without the love and support of my girlfriends. That's a fact. Even just one good friend in life can help sustain us. When we have more than one good friend, we also get the gift of different perspectives and varying types of support, which is also lovely. Let's face it. Friendship is one of the biggest gifts we can get in this life.
So check out this story of four moms who met on CafeMom, shared and built friendships online, and then got together in person, only to find that what felt like amazing and real friendships were, indeed, every bit as good IRL.
carrie_grace, a married SAHM of a two-year old girl with a baby on the way, joined CafeMom about two years ago. She runs a small Etsy shop called Lily & LOU (handcrafted baby things and designer maternity hospital gowns) and the Handmade Holidays group.
A brand new mom looking for some local mommy friends, carrie_grace first met CafeMom tess-n-co through a local search on the site. They communicated back and forth for awhile and found they had a lot in common, so they met up for coffee with their babies.
Looking back, tess-n-co says, "It was best friend at first sight. I love carrie_grace and her family. She is stuck with me, and we see one another all the time."
tess-n-co is also a SAHM, and she has two kids. Her daughter's almost three, and her son is almost one. Her husband is the executive chef of one of Cleveland's top catering companies and works long hours, so when her daughter was about a month old, she found herself on CafeMom A LOT.
On CafeMom, just before meeting carrie_grace, tess-n-co met tracies.beans and BoyOHBoy in February 2007, and she introduced the three women to one another.
tracies.beans, a married SAHM to four kids, between one year to six years old, has been on CafeMom a little over three years. "I found CafeMom right after moving from Ohio to New York. It was a godsend. Being 8 hours away from family friends with 4 kids and a husband who worked 12-hour shifts, 5 days a week, the days were long and lonely. BoyOHBoy, was one of my first friends on here."
BoyOHBoy, a recently divorced mom to her 4-year old son has been on CafeMom since January 2007. She's currently a SAHM with plans to begin job hunting soon. "I am not sure who I connected with first on here, but I do know that tracies.beans and tess-n-co were some of my first CafeMommas, and carrie_grace and I connected through tess-n-co," says BoyOHBoy. "We all really just connected and totally hit it off. Our friendships evolved from CafeMom Journals and ChatterBoxes to personal emails to live phone calls."
carrie_grace told us a few weeks ago, "tracies.beans threw a birthday party for two of her girls and invited our little CafeMom crew to get together for the first time all in one spot." And that's how it the CafeMom meetup between four women happened. "It just made it all more real," says carrie_grace. "I felt so at home and comfortable among these ladies, and all of their beautiful children were just as I had imagined.
BoyOHBoy holds tracies.beans birthday girl, all covered in her birthday cake!
"My CafeMom friends were EXACTLY as I pictured them. No real surprises," said tess-n-co. "I think the thing that excited me most was FINALLY watching our children all play together. It was great."
tracies.beans says, "The thing that surprised me the most was how easy it was. It was more like meeting up with old friends than meeting someone for the first time. We've watched each other's kids grow up. We've talked about almost everything going on in our lives. It was wonderful to finally hug them and chat with them face-to-face."
"I drove from NY to Ohio for this meetup... 9 1/2 hours... and it never even crossed my mind that it was 'weird' to do so considering that I had never met any of these ladies in person," boyOHboy adds. "I walked in and instantly recognized the girls, their children, their husbands... It was wonderful finally meeting them in person... giving them a hug, hearing them laugh, seeing our kids all interact and play together, and knowing that these friendships were as solid IRL as they were online."
I asked all four CafeMoms what they say to people who don't believe you can find true friendships online or on CafeMom. And here's what they had to say.
carrie_grace: "It is very possible to make lasting friendships on CafeMom. We have all been there for one another in the best and the worst times of the last two years. They virtually celebrated my wedding with me. These three wonderful women helped me get through a miscarriage I had last year. I feel very lucky that I have had the opportunity to meet these wonderful mommy friends on CafeMom. I haven't had as much luck on other social networking sites, but there is something special about CafeMom."
tess-n-co: "I've never doubted online friendships or online dating, but I do get some looks from people when I tell them that some of the BEST people I have ever met, I met online. We've grown pretty close over the last two and a half years. Lots of ups and downs, excitement, sadness. Sometimes it was easier to talk with someone online than a real live breathing person in front of you. So we opened up a lot to each other. I'm so lucky to have found all my CafeMom gals. They've all been there for me countless times, and I hope I have been there for them just as much. I love all of them. I really truly do."
tracies.beans: "You can find some amazing people on CafeMom. It's harder and easier at the same time. It takes a bit longer to get to know each other, but at the same time, I felt it was easier to just be myself. I am closer to these women than anyone. I consider them my closest friends. I am so thankful for CafeMom. It has brought me a lot of sanity over the past few years and some wonderful friendships."
BoyOHBoy: "When I signed onto CafeMom the first time, I had a 19-month old baby and was a SAHM in the boonies in Connecticut. I signed on looking for other women with small children who I could chat with and exchange stories, advice, and insight. This little squad of ours, they are a special bunch and I am blessed to have found them here. We swap tales, share photos, pass along books, swap baby clothes, and turn to each other when things are tough or when we have things to celebrate. I consider these ladies to be some of my closest friends, and they brighten my life daily. They have been supportive through some difficult times, humorous when I was having a hard time finding the funny... You never know where you will meet someone who just changes your life... and here on CafeMom, I've met several.
The four women have already planned the next meetup, tess-n-co's son's first birthday party at the end of September! And they've invited two more CafeMoms they all know. Plus, there's even talk about spending an October weekend together.
I love this story so much. It just goes to show you that real, meaningful mama friendships can bloom on CafeMom — and even bigger, richer family friendships that have the possibility to last a lifetime.
tracies.beans son with BoyOHBoy.
BoyOHBoy's son and tracies.beans' daughter
tracies.beans' son snuggles with tess-n-co
tracies.beans' and tess-n-co's daughters play together
Have you met any of your CafeMom friends in real life? Tell us about it.


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John W. Antonelli of Westwood, a highly decorated World War II veteran, died Friday [March 26, 1999]. He was 81.
Born in Lawrence, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., in 1940. He was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant. He reported for duty with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, later designated the 1st Raider Battalion.
With the Raiders, he embarked for duty overseas in April 1942. In May, he was promoted to captain. He served as a company commander at Tulagi, Guadalcanal and Savo Island.
As a major, he became commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division. He led the battalion during the Iwo Jima campaign, where he earned the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism and the Purple Heart during battles from Feb. 19 to March 16, 1945.
He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in May 1945 and later took part in the occupation of Japan.
After the war, he served as executive officer of the Marine barracks in Boston until June 1947. He then began a three-year assignment as instructor and midshipman battalion officer at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
In July 1950, he was assigned to the staff of the commander, Cruisers Atlantic, operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. He was subsequently assigned to the senior course, Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Va., graduated in May 1953.
Brig. Gen. Antonelli served many tours of duty. He assumed command of the 4th Marine Regiment at Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, from 1959-1961. He was at the National War College in Washington, D.C., and was then assigned to the J-3 Directorate, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, until April 1964.
Husband of the late Lillian (Ferrera), Gen. Antonelli is survived by two sons, John W. Jr. and James R., both of Norton; two daughters, Lois M. Howe of Westwood and Karen M. Cook of Kingston; three sisters, Christina Loffredo of Newport, R.I., and Constance Ippolito and Jane Wilson, both of Andover; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. tomorrow at Saint Margaret Mary's Church in Westwood.
Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery.
Arrangements by Holden-Westwood Funeral Home, Westwood.


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As the year comes to an end, the fate of immigration reform remains stuck in a bitter political impasse and faces an uncertain future. Nonetheless, there are many individuals and organizations here in New Mexico that are deeply committed to bridging the gap between the United States and Mexico. I would like to say a year-end thank you to three that I've worked with that are located in Santa Fe.
First is La Casa de Amor Para Niños, an orphanage located in Palomas, Mexico just across the border from Columbus, New Mexico, the town that Pancho Villa raided in March, 1916. For more than fifteen years now, the orphanage has been managed and supported by a coalition of churches in Santa Fe, Deming, Silver City, Durango, Colorado and Palomas. The leaders are Jim Noble, an immigration lawyer here in Santa Fe, his wife, Pat and Eunice Herrera, a young law student who formerly worked in Noble's law office.
They travel to Palomas (pop. 4,500) the second weekend of every month and take food and supplies not only for the orphanage but for the many poor people there. This is a frustrating process that requires enormous patience and persistence because the Mexican customs officials are constantly blocking their progress and demanding excessive fees to bring food in for the needy.
In addition, they have a scholarship program that enables over 100 young people to go to school.
Lastly, they hold huge community events every Mother's Day and before Christmas. The whole community is invited and there is music, games for the kids and a meal for all. At this year's event on December 13, a group of clowns came up from Casas Grandes to provide the entertainment--Margie and Orlando Roybal from Santa Fe were in charge of the cooking and Randy Murray, also from Santa Fe was the Santa Claus as he has been for many years. What makes them so important to Palomas is that they have a mission and simply don't give up.
Lydia Pendley and her volunteers from St. Bede's Episcopal Church have been building houses in the Anapra section of Juárez, also for more than fifteen years. This is an area of dirt streets, shacks, a lack of running water and extreme poverty. In mid-January, Lydia and her team of volunteers will make another trip to Juárez to provide a ray of hope for a needy family.
"Each build is more rewarding and heart wrenching," says Mike Wirtz, a volunteer who has been to Juárez nine times. "You see the joy and love on their faces when the keys are given to them."
Another Santa Fe volunteer, Jane Peacock, describes how this house building project got its start. Her mother who lived in El Paso asked her children to join her in Juárez to build a house on her 75th birthday in 1998. Using that model, St. Bede's began its work in 2000. Like the leaders of La Casa de Amor, Pendley and her volunteers don't give up.
Carlos and Hector Garcia were both born in Juárez but came to Santa Fe at young ages and have been successful businesspeople here, Hector as the owner of Aztec Upholstery and Carlos with Don Juan's Paint and Body and now in real estate. Their commitment, however, has always been to help Juárez and they seem to spend almost as much time there as in New Mexico. For example, they have a program there called Amigo Fiel that does home construction, has academic programs and offers an orphanage for street kids. They are also in charge of the Mexico portion of Operation Christmas Child, a non-profit that distributes Christmas gift boxes to needy children in 130 countries around the world. The project in Mexico alone involves organizing the gift boxes (shoe boxes containing hygienic items like combs and toothbrushes as well as toys and educational supplies) at a warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, then transporting the boxes to Mexico in semis. The actual distribution of the gift boxes in the Juárez area is done by volunteers who come from all over the United States stay in Carlos' compound where there are dormitory rooms. When I joined them for the first time, the volunteers were from a church in Chino, California and most of them never been to Mexico before. So this is a life changing experience for them as well as for the kids who receive the gift boxes.
The program, however, involves all of Mexico; in other areas local churches selected by Carlos and Hector distribute the gift boxes. This year, more than 700,000 gift boxes will be distributed.
As 2014 comes to an end, I want to thank these three organizations and the many others like them for the work they do in Mexico and wish them the best for 2015.


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Lotsa buzzing in political circles the past week or so, regarding the possible existence of a "Plan B" on health care reform. A mysterious Plan… from beyond the limits of our galaxy… threatening the American Way of Life™ with its hideously alien ideas… Who Can Stop This Menace From The Stars?…
Er. Ahem. Sorry.
Word of this Plan B came first from VPR's Pete "Scoop" Hirschfeld, who got hold of a memo written by Ken Thorpe, health care expert for hire, and the Legislature's chosen consultant at a cool 10 G's a month (nice work if you can get it) to explore ways to achieve universal coverage in Vermont. Or a reasonable facsimile, anyway.
For those just tuning in, Thorpe is a nationally established expert on health care policy who worked in Vermont several years ago on the creation of Catamount Health. Thorpe's memo, as reported by Hirschfeld, outlines an idea very different from Governor Shumlin's vision for single-payer health care:
…it doesn't create a single, universal insurance plan; and it doesn't rely on the multi-billion-dollar tax structure Shumlin wants to use to fund his single-payer system.
… The memo details a reform concept that would maintain the premium-based model in place now, and use federal and state subsidies to pay for coverage for uninsured and under-insured Vermonters.
Based on a January report from Hirschfeld, written at the time of Thorpe's hiring, it looks like the guy is definitely not a fan of single-payer:
Thorpe said that if Vermont can't reduce the chronic diseases responsible for skyrocketing health care costs, then financing reforms like single-payer aren't going to solve the problem.
"So at the end of the day, no matter where you want to go in terms of cost containment, if we don't have a statewide capacity to really prevent the growth in chronic disease and more effectively engage and manage chronically ill patients, the only other option you have for controlling costs is just by slashing payment rates," Thorpe said.
That's a pretty stark choice. To judge by this statement, Thorpe sees single-payer as a sideshow. And he views the reform effort as a way to rein in costs, not ensure universal access. Which, y'know, is kinda-sorta the Governor's primary goal.
I don't really care whether Thorpe's memo constitutes a Plan B or not, much as the question seems to fascinate our political media. The question I have is this:
Why did the Legislature hire a single-payer skeptic (if not outright opponent)? Why hire a guy who has one big idea on reform? The qualities you need for this job are (1) expertise and (2) an open mind. Thorpe has the former, but he falls far short of the latter.
Which begs the question: do legislative leaders have an open mind? Or are they searching for a way around the Governor's commitment to single-payer?
Last month, Senate Penitent Pro Tem John Campbell rightly received a lot of grief (some from these quarters) for making statements that seemed to throw cold water on single-payer. He told Hirschfeld (that guy again?) that single-payer "may not be… politically viable in this legislative body, due to the costs involved" and that he wants "to make sure that we have a place to go if this doesn't work out, you know, the single-payer itself."
In a later interview with WDEV's Mark Johnson, Campbell appeared to base his definition of single-payer success entirely on cost: If the total cost of single-payer is equal to or less than the total cost of the current system, then he's fine with it. But if the cost is any higher than that, single-payer is out. (Campbell's answers were so lengthy, circuitious, and downright obtuse, that it's difficult to pin down his exact position. Which, I suspect, is exactly what he had in mind.)
Campbell's statements bear a striking resemblance to the thrust of Thorpe's memo: cost control first, universal access if we can afford it. Which would seem to indicate a meeting of the minds under the Golden Dome, a common ground at odds with Shumlin's vision.
Furthermore: Campbell caught heat for his apparent readiness to throw single-payer under the bus, and make cost control his top priority. But the funny thing is, House Speaker Shap Smith said almost exactly the same thing in January when Thorpe was hired:
… Smith said he'll be looking to Thorpe to determine whether Vermont's current reform programs are reducing the rate of growth in health care spending fast enough. And if they aren't, then Smith said lawmakers need to reassess whether single-payer is such a good idea.
"Everybody agrees that we want to make sure that we have quality health care, we're doing things to bring down the rate of growth for costs," Smith said. "And if we don't have those two things, we don't want to move forward with the single payer."
Game, set, match: If single-payer is no costlier than the current system, fine. If it's not, then it's dead in the Legislature.
Given those statements, the hiring of Thorpe makes all the sense in the world. Top lawmakers have, as Shumlin would say, a laser-like focus on cost.
The problem with this — aside from the ethical and moral issues of universal access — is that the cost savings of single-payer will take time to fully develop. We'll (hopefully) see an immediate impact in administrative costs, claims processing and paper-shuffling. In ensuing years, we'd see an impact as the system no longer has to bear the costs of care for the uninsured. And, gradually over time, we'd see the biggest impact in a healthier and more financially secure citizenry.
I can make a very strong argument that, even if the immediate cost is a bit higher, the cost curve will bend down significantly in a fairly brief time frame. To me, it looks like Smith and Campbell are evaluating the whole project on the immediate cost. That's a short-sighted view.
I'm sure that, if you asked Smith or Campbell why they hired Ken Thorpe, they'd say something perfectly reasonable like, "He's a nationally known expert who's familiar with Vermont from his work on Catamount." Sounds like an ideal fit, no?
Well, no. For two reasons. First of all, the situation was very different last time around. Back then, the Dems and Progs were trying to craft a health care reform plan that would do some good for the uninsured, but also pass muster with then-Governor Douglas. There wasn't a snowball's chance of passing single-payer at the time, so Thorpe's position on single-payer didn't matter.
Second, since his last Green Mountain gig, he's established a big, well-connected nonprofit organization to promote his health care bugbear: prevention and management of chronic conditions. The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease seems to be a vehicle designed to disseminate the brilliant insights of Ken Thorpe, Ph.D., with a little help from a whole lot of deep-pocketed friends. The PFCD's 80-member (!) Advisory Board includes a lot of establishment voices from the health care industry and the business community, plus some names less likely to raise liberal hackles, plus a few odds and ends. A sampling:
The Good: Planned Parenthood, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Latina Health Network, American's Agenda: Health Care For All, the National Patient Advocate Foundation, and a former head of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
(Physicians for a National Health Program, a doctors' advocacy group for single-payer, is conspicuous by its absence.)
The Bad: Two top executives from Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the Naqtional Pharmaceutical Council, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Healthcare Leadership Council ("a coalition of chief executives from all disciplines within American healthcare"), at least two Bush Administration appointees, healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth, and the National Retail Federation.
A mixed bag at best. And, even with the presence of some worthy individuals, the PFCD Advisory Board has a decidedly establishment smell to it. Plus, as I said earlier, he obviously views health care reform through this single prism. Given all of that, I question the Legislature's choice of him as a consultant.
But apparently Shap and Co. are pleased with their man. Thorpe's $10,000/month contract was originally a four-month deal. But now, Hirschfeld reports…
Smith says the Legislature may decide to extend his contract through the off-session as well.
Which would bring Thorpe's total remuneration to a cool $120,000. For his inarguable, but clearly biased, expertise on the subject of single-payer health care.
Or should I say, for his help in providing a plausible exit strategy for timorous lawmakers?


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Unfortunately, Target has fallen short in both categories.
Although rival Wal-Mart has faced similar challenges, Wal-Mart has figured out ways to offset weakening sales and softer comps. Making matter worse is Target's management has issued meager guidance, which has resulted in several analyst downgrades.
At this point, Target investors are unsure of what to make of the stock. Management has not been able to quickly respond. But unless management figures out from where Target's next leg of growth is going to come, this stock may become target practice for the bears for the foreseeable future.
Target has always proven to be an extraordinarily smart company by the way it has been able to appeal to both the frugal shopper and those with an appetite for the "upscale high-end" category. This model has benefited the company while Target still held true to its strategy of offering great products at discounted prices.
It seems, however, that this advantage is now slowly evaporating as there wasn't much to like in the company's recent earnings report. Sales were up half of 1% to $16.6 billion. As with other large retail chains such as Lowe's , which recently reported flat sales and weak comps, Target attributed the weaker sales (in part) to adverse weather.
Interestingly, rival Home Depot , which posted 7% increase in sales to go along with a 4.3% growth in comps, reported no such concerns. While I do believe that weather can have an adverse impact of retail traffic, the relative performances of peers makes this reason hard to grasp.
Comps, or same-store-sales, is the metric that tracks the sales performance of stores that have been opened at least one year. Target posted a 60-basis-point decline in that category. It's not a great number. But I'm willing to give management credit here for outperforming Wal-Mart, which posted 1.4% decline.
Profitability was somewhat mixed at Target despite the 7.5% decline in operating income. Gross margins advanced by 50 basis points to 30.7%, while adjustments to vendor agreements contributed (in part) to a 20 basis-point improvement of that total.
Adjusted earnings per share looked worse than it really was -- falling 5% to $1.05 per share, which was below the company's target. But one-time items such as an early debt retirement absorbed 41 cents per share during the quarter.
The company's CEO Gregg Steinhafel was pleased with the performance. He said:
"Target's first-quarter earnings were below expectations as a result of softer-than-expected sales, particularly in apparel and other seasonable and weather-sensitive categories. While we are disappointing in our first-quarter performance, we remain confident in our strategy, and we continue to invest in initiatives, including Canada, our digital channels and CityTarget, that will drive Target's long-term growth."
Those were certainly encouraging words, but management still cut Target's full-year fiscal 2013 outlook. The company is now projecting earnings between $4.70 and $4.90 per share, down from its prior EPS guidance of $4.85 to $5.05. Management does not seem confident that comps will get back up at any point this year.
Analysts responded by issuing "sell" recommendations on the stock. But I wouldn't overreact here just yet. As with the struggles that are affecting Lowe's, I still see long-term success here for Target especially given the fact that we're still in an economic climate that has yet to fully recover. The fact that management has margins trending in the right direction is also a positive sign.
That said, management's main challenge is, among many, is to figure out ways to restore growth and position the company to compete for effectively not only against Wal-Mart, but also against the likes of Costco and Kohl's .
I believe shares of Target are fairly priced today. That's not to be interpreted as a bad thing. But to the extent that Canadian store expansion and the company's CityTarget initiative can post "decent" growth numbers while also expanding margins, I believe patient investors will be rewarded.
That's a tall task. Investors should not expect these improvements to happen overnight. But I believe the company has the management in place to do it.
At the time of publication the author had no position in any of the stocks mentioned.
This article was written by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.
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"Gimmie the Similac and no one gets hurt!"
Ok, maybe it's not that bad. But after a semi-sleepless night with your baby cradled in your arms you're in no mood to bargain with anyone about the price of your baby's formula.
You want the formula and you want it NOW!
What if there was a way for you to get the Similac baby formula you want and get a great deal on it at the same time? Would that be worth something to you?
What if instead of having to shuffle around the store with your baby, the EXACT formula you want was delivered right to your door?
Look, it's not that getting ready to go out into the world when you feel like a zombie doesn't sound great. The idea of showering, putting together an outfit and slapping some makeup on your face when you feel like the walking dead is just terrible. I've been there.
Did I mention trying to find a shirt that doesn't have a stain or spit-up anywhere on it?
Formula can cost a fortune!
My story: When my husband and I realized just how much formula was adding to our monthly expenses we moved (and moved quickly) to find the formula we wanted at the lowest possible price.
We searched everywhere, called all sorts of big-box stores, clipped coupons and surfed the web. It took us a while to do all the comparisons but in the end what we found thrilled us!
Buying formula online is definitely the winner
That's right, not only is ordering via the web convenient (delivery to your door, you don't need to go to the store, etc) but it also saves you the most money!


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Blotter information is compiled from reports filed with the Lubbock Police Department. To report information about these or other crimes, call Crime Line at 741-1000. In some cases, cash rewards are offered. Callers may remain anonymous.
2500 block of Parkway Drive
A woman was transported to Covenant Medical Center on Friday night following an argument with another woman.
Police arriving at the scene saw about 20 people in a parking lot and several fights breaking out.
A woman yelled that a woman was being stabbed in the street. The victim said she was stabbed with a long kitchen knife by a woman she had been feuding with for the past two months.
The woman had a stab wound to her lower right leg. The victim and a witness reported seeing the person who did the stabbing.
5000 block of 50th Street
A man damaged a woman's truck after she honked at him for blocking traffic Friday afternoon.
The passengers in the car were talking to another car's occupants in the 3800 block of Quaker Avenue and blocking traffic. The woman honked the horn, then drove past the car.
The vehicle caught up to hers near the 4000 block of Quaker Avenue.
A passenger in the man's vehicle hung out of the car and made an obscene gesture directed at the woman. She then continued to travel toward her destination followed by the other car.
After arriving at her destination and searching for a parking space, the man pulled up beside her truck and struck it three times with a tire iron. The man then drove out of the parking lot.
3500 block of 103rd Street
About $8,100 in jewelry was stolen from a residence between Monday and Friday.
The burglar is believed to have entered the house through a bedroom window.
The jewelry was stolen from a bathroom and a bottle of cologne was stolen from a bedroom. Nothing else was disturbed, the homeowner told police. Police believe the burglar might have left palm prints on a window.
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With three key veterans in Curtis Glencross, Jiri Hudler and Matt Stajan having recently returned to the lineup, the Calgary Flames fans have been treated to an offensive burst over the past two games.
Friday night in Calgary saw the Flames succumb to the Nashville Predators 6-5. The Flames had less than 24 hours to regroup, as they traveled north to take on the Edmonton Oilers in the Battle of Alberta. No one, NO ONE, could've foreseen the merciless beating the Oilers would receive at hands of their bitter, provincial rivals as the Flames left victorious thanks to an 8-1 pummeling.
Having used a variety of forward lineup combinations and call-ups over the past month or so, the Flames have received welcomed news with Glencross (ankle), Hudler (lower-body) and Stajan (personal) all back in play for head coach Bob Hartley.
Despite only getting two of a possible four points from the back-to-back, Flames fans have to be impressed with the output of 13 goals in two games from the NHL's 21st-ranked offense. The impact of Glencross, Hudler and Stajan, who have been playing on the same line together, cannot be overestimated; Glencross notched a hat-trick in Edmonton while Hudler and Stajan combined for two goals and five assists over the two games.
Combining this two game, offensive delight with the fact that the Flames have now won four of their past six games, it appears Calgary could be picking up a little momentum heading into the final three weeks of the season, for better or worse.
Jamey Holt is a Calgary Flames writer for RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @sportsthinktank or add him to your network on Google.


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The annual Owen County Christmas Parade was held Sunday. This year's theme was "Joys of Christmas." This year's church float winner was Hesler Assembly of God, Royal Rangers (top left). The first-place award in the civic adult category was Owen County Relay for Life and second place civic was Hard Rock of Owen County Search Dog Team. The first-place civic youth category winner was Girl Scout Troop 1030 and the first-place business category went to Dolly's Doggie Den. The overall grand champion was Hesler Assembly of God, Royal Rangers.
Saying goodbye to a friend hasn't been easy for many Owen County High School students, but they are determined to keep her memory alive in all school activities.
The Owen County High School National Honor Society, in partnership with the Kentucky Blood Center, will hold its second blood drive of the school year Monday, in memory of senior Rebekah Gaines who died Oct. 16.
"Rebekah donated blood last year before she got cancer," Owen County High School senior Rianna Gayheart said. "And she was a recipient of blood during her treatments."
Across Owen County, volunteer firefighters are ready to risk their lives to help and protect their communities.
This sense of duty is a full-time commitment.
The Christmas season is no different.
The Owen County volunteer fire departments and the Owen County Search and Rescue are holding their first-annual food and coat drive to give back to the community that is always supportive of its volunteers.
Owen County Volunteer Firefighters Jeff Wright and Daryl Hearne are spearheading the drive, which continues through Dec. 17.
An Owenton man has been sentenced to four months behind bars after pleading guilty to cutting a man with a pocket knife Nov. 6.
Daryl Andre Thomas, 52, pleaded guilty to the charges of fourth-degree assault and second-degree wanton endangerment in Owen District Court Friday.
Thomas was originally charged with first-degree assault but the charge was amended to fourth-degree Friday.
He was sentenced to one year for each charge, but could serve only 120 days. He will be conditionally discharged for the balance.
Two Owen County men were recently arrested by Owen County sheriff's deputies following separate alleged burglaries.
Bradford L. Wilhoite, 30, of Owenton, allegedly broke into the home of Ricky and Judy Williams on Cull Road.
The alleged incident took place Nov. 21.
"(Williams) had a bunch of jewelry and a shotgun taken," Owen County Sheriff Zemer Hammond said. "We were able to recover some of the stuff."
An Owen County magistrate was recently arrested on the charges of first-degree driving under the influence and speeding 15 mph over the limit.
Fourth-District Magistrate Troy Bramblett, 40, was arrested at approximately 11:58 p.m. Nov. 26.
According to police records, Bramblett was traveling north on U.S. 127 in Franklin County, near Shadrick Ferry Road when a Franklin County sheriff's deputy allegedly observed him traveling at a high rate of speed.
The heavy rains over the last few days, along with the predictions of some colder weather, remind us that it's probably time to start thinking about strategies for winter feeding of livestock, since it is a necessary part of nearly all operations.
By Rick Morgan
For the News-Herald
It's "winter-weather awareness" time again in the commonwealth. As the winter weather season is approaching, Owen County Emergency Management, Kentucky Emergency Management, the National Weather Service and the Kentucky Weather Preparedness Committee would like to remind the public to "be aware - be prepared – have a plan."
Don't be caught unprepared as thousands were due to an early snowstorm that paralyzed much of the northeast and left millions without power.
Owen Electric Cooperative will be performing geographical information system field verification and inventory of its facilities in northern Owen County, southern Gallatin County, western Grant County and northern Boone County from December 2011 through March of 2012.
Currently applications for Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program are being taken for the 2010 crop year. A signup deadline has not been announced. SURE provides benefits for farm revenue losses due to natural disaster that were incurred starting in the crop year 2008 through Sept. 30, 2011.
To qualify for a SURE payment, the producer's operation must be located in a county that was declared a disaster, either as a primary or contiguous county, for 2010 and have at least a 10-percent production loss that affects one crop of economic significance.
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Canadian Superior Energy Waves Goodbye to COO
Canadian Superior Energy announced that Leif Snethun, Chief Operating Officer, will be leaving the company effective May 4, 2010.
"On behalf of Canadian Superior's Board of Directors, I would like to thank Leif for his contributions to the company, and wish him well for the future," said Marvin Chronister, Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Snethun was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer on April 30, 2009. He initially joined the company in February 2008 as Vice President, Western Canada. Until a replacement is in place, Mr. Snethun's portfolio will be managed by Mr. Bill Dirks, who has been retained by Canadian Superior on a consulting basis, with the support of Canadian Superior's Board of Directors.
Bill Dirks has 29 years of E&P leadership experience, with an expertise in the North American onshore basins of the US and Canada. His recent background includes roles as Managing Partner of Tecton Energy; President of Samson Canada, and Vice President of Business Development for Samson Resources (2001-2002). From 1981-1999 he worked for the Royal Dutch / Shell Group of companies in a variety of roles.
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- Canadian Superior Energy Posts 1Q10 Results (May 13)
- Canadian Superior Energy Waves Goodbye to COO (May 05)


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Atomistic methods, such as molecular dynamics and direct simulation Monte Carlo, constitute a powerful and growing set of techniques for fluid-dynamics simulation. The more fundamental nature of such methods, which exhibit nonlinear transport effects and small-scale fluctuations, extends their modelling accuracy to a significantly wider range of scales and regimes than the more traditional Navier–Stokes-based continuum fluid-simulation techniques. In this paper, we describe the current state of the art in atomistic fluid simulation, from both a theoretical and a computational standpoint, and outline the advantages and limitations of such methods. In addition, we present an overview of some recent atomistic-simulation results on fluid instabilities and on the physical scaling of atomistic techniques. Finally, we suggest possible avenues of future research in the field.
1. Introduction
Traditionally, the dynamics of fluids are described by a set of partial differential equations defining the fluid as a continuum (Drazin 2002). These equations—for example the Navier–Stokes equations—are solved numerically on a grid that defines the resolution of the solution. A pioneering example of continuum simulation for a wave problem was performed by Harlow et al. (1965) in the 1960s at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since then, the range of applications has increased enormously to include complex flows in industrial applications and fluid instabilities such as the Kelvin–Helmholz (Kelvin 1871), Richtmyer–Meshkov (Richtmyer 1960; Meshkov 1969) and Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) (Rayleigh 1882; Taylor 1950) instabilities.
Molecular dynamics (MD; Alder & Wainwright 1957) and direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC; Bird 1994) describe fluids on the most fundamental level, i.e. that of atoms or molecules. The dynamics of the atoms or molecules are explicitly calculated, and fluid properties, such as the flow velocity or density field, can be calculated as averages over the trajectories of the particles. These methods are computationally expensive, and the computational effort increases linearly with the number of particles and the physical time scale simulated. Stationary hydrodynamic problems, such as Rayleigh–Benard convection or Taylor–Couette flow, have been investigated by the MD approach and successfully compared with continuum-based simulations, even with a relatively small number of particles (Puhl et al. 1989; Rapaport 1989, 2006; Hirshfeld & Rapaport 1998, 2000). For more challenging, non-stationary flows, such as the RT (Kadau et al. 2004) and Kelvin–Helmholtz (Glosli et al. 2007) instabilities, a larger number of particles is required to describe the full complexity of the mixing process. In addition, MD has been applied to a number of other problems in microscopic fluid dynamics, e.g. shock-driven turbulence (Root et al. 2003) and swimming by micro-organisms (Rapaport 2008).
What is the motivation for describing these problems by atomistic methods, given that the largest available supercomputer architectures are often required? Recently, it has been shown that there is a significant difference between the continuum and MD treatment of nanojets. In particular, fluctuations were found to be important in the breakup and stability of such jets (Moseler & Landman 2000). Fluctuations, such as those that stem from molecular disorder and collisions, arise in a natural manner in atomistic methods, but are usually lacking in continuum descriptions. For an instability problem, small fluctuations can be amplified by many orders of magnitude, and dynamic fluctuations—in particular at the interface—may be of importance. Recent large-scale MD and DSMC simulations of the RT instability show similarities and disagreements with continuum descriptions, and compare favourably to experiments. Furthermore, fluctuations were found to be important for the RT problem (Kadau et al. 2007).
As computational power is more than doubling every 18 months, larger and larger atomistic simulations can be performed. We have used the high-performance large-scale Scalable Parallel Short-range Molecular (SPaSM) dynamics molecular dynamics code, which recently performed the first trillion atom simulation on the BlueGene/L system (Germann & Kadau 2008), to simulate the RT instability with system sizes up to seven billion atoms (Kadau et al. 2007). In this review, we outline the results of these simulations, and present some of the theory behind atomistic simulation.
2. Theoretical background
Atomistic methods such as MD represent a framework for describing fluids at a particular level of detail. This framework fits into a hierarchy of theoretical and computational descriptions of fluids, each requiring its own set of approximations and having its own range of applicability. It is instructive to review the various levels on which the dynamics of a fluid may be characterized, and the relationships between them.
Consider a fluid of N interacting atoms or molecules (here referred to generically as 'particles') having positions and velocities xj and vj, respectively, where 1≤j≤N. The most fundamental level at which such a fluid (or any other material) can be described is governed by the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE), 2.1 Here, ψ(x1…xN,t) is the wave function for the N particles, V (x1…xN) is the interaction potential, mj is the mass of the jth particle and is Planck's constant. Although equation (2.1) is, in principle, the most generally applicable description of a fluid, the direct numerical integration of equation (2.1) for more than a few particles is computationally prohibitive. For this reason, application of equation (2.1) in this context has historically been limited to the simulation of very small collections of atoms or molecules via some approximate or reduced version of 2.1 (Öhrn & Deumens 1999).
Fortunately, the full power and generality of equation (2.1) is not often required. In many cases, the size of the quantum-mechanical wave packet representing each particle is reasonably small compared with the average distance between particles. This condition can be characterized by a dimensionless number equal to the ratio of the de Broglie thermal wavelength of a particle to the average distance between particles (Hansen & McDonald 1986), 2.2 Here, n is the number density of particles, T is the temperature and kB is Boltzmann's constant. As examples, for liquid water at room temperature and liquid hydrogen (H2), B≈0.07 and 0.97, respectively.
When B is reasonably small—as in the case of water, although not for hydrogen—we can neglect quantum effects in describing the atomic nuclei and pass to the classical limit (Shankar 1994), in which the variables {xj,vj}—nominally random quantities under the TDSE—are replaced by their mean values, to yield the familiar Newtonian equations of motion for MD, 2.3 Since this is a system of ordinary differential equations, rather than a many-dimensional partial differential equation as in equation (2.1), equation (2.3) is comparatively straightforward to integrate numerically. It is for this reason that MD has become such a useful and popular material simulation method in many different contexts.
It is often the case that a fluid spanning macroscopic length scales must be considered. Hybrid methods (Garcia et al. 1999), in which the essential parts of the problem are modelled by MD and the remainder by continuum methods, may be capable of capturing such scales in certain contexts. However, such a scenario is currently beyond the reach of MD, due to the large number of particles present in a macroscopic fluid parcel. For example, a cubic metre of water at room temperature contains approximately 3×1028 particles, which is 16 orders of magnitude greater than in even the largest MD simulation to date (Germann & Kadau 2008). For this reason, it is often preferable to approximate a fluid as a continuum rather than as a collection of particles. Such a description can be derived directly from equation (2.3). Consider the probability density function f({xj},{vj},t) of the positions and velocities of the N particles. We define the continuum mass density and velocity fields of the fluid as 2.4and 2.5 respectively. Note that these fields are related to averages of the microscopic densities of various quantities. For this reason, the continuum approximation may just as accurately be referred to as a moment or mean-field approximation.
Via a sequence of mathematical steps known as the Irving & Kirkwood (1950) procedure, it can be shown that u(x,t) obeys 2.6 Here, σ=σ(x,t) is the stress tensor at x, for which an expression exists that is too complex to reproduce here. Although equation (2.6) exactly describes the evolution of the moment u(x,t) whenever MD is valid, it is not always an accurate description of the fluid in question. The use of equation (2.6) in this context requires that the actual behaviour of the fluid be the same as the dynamics of its mean. In order for equation (2.6) to be accurate at a particular length scale Δx, the statistical fluctuations in the mean velocity field at that scale must be small compared to the average variation in u(x,t) across a distance Δx. The ratio of these two quantities is given by the dimensionless number 2.7 where S is the magnitude of the shear rate in the flow under consideration and ρ0 is its average mass density. If C is not small, statistical fluctuations cannot be neglected, and the continuum mean-field approximation is invalid. For a flow of liquid water at room temperature with a shear rate of S≈1 s−1 (a typical macroscopic value in everyday experience), C≈0.01 when Δx≈0.13 mm. A cubic volume of this size contains approximately 7×1016 water molecules. As an important aside, it is not necessarily always the case that a continuum description such as equation (2.6) can be substituted for MD when C is small. As noted in the introduction, it has recently been suggested that microscopic fluctuations may play an important role in fluid instabilities, even on the macroscopic scale (Kadau et al. 2007), and the possibility that thermal fluctuations may affect the development of turbulence has been known for decades (Betchov 1961; Hosokawa 1976).
Although equation (2.6)—along with its counterparts describing the evolution of ρ(x,t) and the energy density e(x,t)—is the most general continuum description of a fluid, it is of little use as it is written, since there exists no explicit closure for σ in terms of ρ, u, e and the pressure, p. In Chapman & Cowling (1960), it is shown that, in cases where the dimensionless Knudsen number 2.8 (where λ is the mean free path of particles in the fluid) is small, the general expression for the stress tensor σ reduces to 2.9 Here, μS and μB are the shear and bulk viscosities, respectively. For liquid water at room temperature, Kn≈0.01 when L≈10 nm. A cubic volume of this size contains approximately 30 000 water molecules. This expression for the stress tensor characterizes a Newtonian fluid, and results in the familiar compressible Navier–Stokes equation, 2.10 This equation is the most popular framework for the simulation of fluids in general practice.
A schematic Venn diagram is shown in figure 1, detailing the relationships in parameter space between the various fluid descriptions outlined here. Note that the validity of each approximate method depends on the accuracy of the method from which it is derived, and that there exists a dimensionless number (B, C or Kn) characterizing when each approximation is allowable (although the precise ranges of these numbers required for each description will vary widely depending on the problem). Note also that this diagram takes into account only theoretical applicability, and ignores practical concerns, such as the actual length scales or numbers of particles describable via each method, with today's computational capacity.
The list of fluid descriptions outlined in this section is by no means exhaustive, as there exist numerous hybrid methods that do not fall neatly into such a schema. These include, for example, DSMC (Bird 1994), which is a method similar to MD, except that the interparticle interactions are modelled stochastically via random collisions in which momentum and kinetic energy are exchanged. Due to the simplified nature of the interactions involved, DSMC is generally 10–100 times faster than MD, depending on the fluid density. The main drawback of DSMC is the fact that it is restricted to the description of fluids with an ideal-gas equation of state. DSMC has traditionally been used primarily for the description of rarefied gases in aerospace and industrial applications. More recently, however, DSMC has been applied to more diverse problems in fluid dynamics, such as the Rayleigh–Taylor instability simulations reviewed in this work (Kadau et al. 2007), as well as to the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (Barber et al. 2007), vortex shedding (Usami et al. 2008) and astrophysical problems (Zhang et al. 2003). Since DSMC is nominally derived from the Boltzmann equation, its region of validity straddles the boundary between MD and continuum methods. In addition to DSMC, lattice methods, which are particle-based schemes for the solution of the Boltzmann or Navier–Stokes equations (McNamara & Zanetti 1988), have also been used extensively in fluid-dynamics simulations.
3. Rayleigh–Taylor instability
The RT instability occurs when a heavy fluid with density ρh lies on top of a light fluid with density ρl in the presence of a gravitational field g. The two fluids subsequently interpenetrate in an archetypical example of turbulent fluid mixing. The incursions of the light fluid into the heavy fluid are generally referred to as bubbles, and those of the heavy fluid into the light fluid are known as spikes. By linearizing the Navier–Stokes equations, one can derive the exponential growth rate n(k) for modes on the interface as a function of their wave number k (Chandrasekhar 1961). This initial exponential growth is well described by both continuum and atomistic methods (Kadau et al. 2004; Barber et al. 2008; see also figure 2). Once the bubbles and spikes become larger and begin to interact and merge, the penetration depths hS and hB of the spikes and bubbles, respectively, are usually modelled as growing according to a free-fall type law, hS/B(t)=αS/BAgt2, where the αS/B are dimensionless coefficients and A=(ρh−ρl)/(ρh+ρl) is the Atwood number, which characterizes the density difference between the fluids (Sharp 1984).
In a continuum simulation of the RT instability, the otherwise perfectly flat initial interface must be perturbed in order to become unstable, and various studies have examined the dependence of the mixing process on the initial spectrum of perturbations (Cook & Dimotakis 2001; Cabot & Cook 2006). In an atomistic simulation, on the other hand, one has the option to start with an almost perfectly flat interface, perturbed only on the length scale of an interatomic distance (figure 2). Furthermore, thermal fluctuations will excite all possible interfacial modes in a random fashion, and they will subsequently grow (on average) according to the continuum linear-stability prediction (Barber et al. 2008). After a short period of time, modes near the mode of maximum instability dominate (figure 2). Subsequently, the flow becomes more complex, and interaction and merging processes between neighbouring spikes/bubbles occur. It is in this stage that the αS/B values described above can be measured. MD and DSMC simulations have shown that these values compare favourably with experiments, even though the macroscopic length scales of experiments and the nano- to micrometre scales of the simulations differ by many orders of magnitude (Kadau et al. 2004). However, an analysis of atomistic simulations at later stages of the mixing process reveals that the initial orderly merging process becomes increasingly unsynchronized, resulting in spikes that grow thinner and thinner. This leads to a process in which the spikes break up and detach from the main body of the heavy fluid to form droplets. These disconnection events, which have also been observed experimentally (Kadau et al. 2007), seem to dominate the front progression at later stages (figures 3 and 4). Most of the atomistic simulations were performed in a quasi two-dimensional thin-slab geometry. The thin out-of-plane dimension allows for three-dimensional transport properties in what is an effectively two-dimensional hydrodynamic flow. A few fully three-dimensional simulations have been performed that did not reveal any significant statistical differences in integrated quantities such as the αS/B values or the observed break-up mechanisms. Future studies with larger fully three-dimensional geometries are needed to investigate the difference between two- and three-dimensional hydrodynamic flow.
The flow Reynolds number for an RT instability can be defined as , with h=hS+hB and ν the average kinematic viscosity of the two fluids. Fully three-dimensional (3072×3072×(256−3072) grid points, with the vertical grid expanding in time) direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equation reached Re=32 000 on the BlueGene/L supercomputer platform (two weeks on 65536 CPUs; Cabot & Cook 2006). With the compressible atomistic method DSMC, we reached Re=12 000 for a quasi two-dimensional thin-slab geometry (1×32768×9856 cells) simulation performed on 65536 CPUs of BlueGene/L for two weeks (figure 3). This suggests about a factor of 50 more effort for DSMC when compared with DNS. The larger effort in DSMC simulations stems from the about 20 particles per cell and the smaller integration time step needed to capture fluctuations.
4. Scaling
As alluded to in the introduction, these simulations of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability and other atomistic simulations are confined by the current limits of computational capacity to the description of length scales of the order of microns. In order to ensure that the insights gained from such simulations are relevant on the centimetre or metre length scales of experiments or everyday experience, it is important to investigate the degree to which the results of atomistic computations physically scale. To illustrate what is meant by this notion, consider the Navier–Stokes equation with gravity, 4.1 Here, ρ is the mass density, u=u(x,t; g) is the velocity field of the fluid, p=p(x,t; g) is the pressure field, μ is the shear viscosity and g is the acceleration due to gravity. This is a canonical example of an equation with solutions that display various types of scaling. Of particular relevance is the fact that any solution {u(x,t;g),p(x,t;g)} to equation (4.1) remains a solution under the transformation , , , , , where a>0 is any constant. For example, the results of a fluid simulation accomplished via the numerical solution of equation (4.1) will just as accurately represent a system twice as large, provided that the material properties of the fluid (i.e. ρ and μ) remain the same, the time scale is increased by a factor of 4, gravity is decreased by a factor of 8, the velocity is decreased by a factor of 2 and the pressure is decreased by a factor of 4.
This type of physical scaling—as opposed to the very different notion of algorithmic or computational scaling—ensures that arbitrarily large scales are at least nominally amenable to description by equation (4.1). In the system of ordinary differential equations constituting MD, or in the set of rules describing DSMC, however, no such physical scaling is immediately apparent or rigorously derivable. It is therefore of great utility and interest to empirically check whether the dynamics of a fluid simulated via MD or DSMC displays the same scaling as that described above for the Navier–Stokes equation.
We have performed such an empirical check in the context of DSMC simulation of the RT instability (Kadau et al. 2008). The results from such a simulation can be rendered dimensionless through the use of two quantities: , the wavelength of maximum linear instability for perturbations on the interface and τ the exponential growth time of that most-unstable mode. We are aware of no closed-form expressions that exist for and τ in the general case. However, we can assume that these quantities depend solely upon g, ρh and ρl, as well as upon the shear viscosities μh and μl of the heavy and light fluids, respectively. (For a justification of this assumption, see Chandrasekhar (1961)). Under this assumption, it can be proven via dimensional analysis (Kadau et al. 2008) that 4.2and 4.3 where is the averaged shear viscosity and f1 and f2 are unknown dimensionless functions of the Atwood number A and the viscosity ratio V =μh/μl. The nature of this dependence on g is such that any two systems obeying the above physical scaling should become equivalent when non-dimensionalized in this way. Non-dimensionalized images from several DSMC simulations with different gravities are shown in figure 5 for each of several dimensionless times. Note that intensive quantities—such as the temperature, densities and viscosities—were held fixed between these various simulations, as were algorithmic constants such as the time step. In addition to the gravity g, only the size of the domain and the amount of time simulated were allowed to vary. Due to the stochastic nature of DSMC, we should not expect the images from these different simulations to be identical, even in the case of perfect physical scaling. Instead, the equivalence of the dimensionless results is manifested in the fact that the shape of the interface has the same qualitative character at the same dimensionless time in each simulation. This notion can be made more quantitative by considering the fractal dimension of the interface in the last frame shown for each gravity, which—within fluctuations—is approximately the same for all.
The various simulations shown in figure 5 span nearly an order of magnitude in length scale (and more than two orders of magnitude in gravity). However, another even larger simulation (not shown here) is still only 45 μm in width (figure 2). To establish whether this physical scaling extends to the macroscopic scale, we have compared the evolution of the spike penetration depth hS(t) in a magnetic levitation RT experiment (Carlès et al. 2006) to that in the corresponding DSMC simulation. The dimensionless results are shown in figure 6. Despite the fact that the two systems differ by factors of approximately 42 million, 70 thousand and 10 billion in length scale, time scale and gravity, respectively, the two curves lie nearly on top of one another. This result demonstrates a strong scaling relationship for atomistic simulations of the RT instability across many orders of magnitude in size. Furthermore, since the RT instability is in no way exceptional among examples of turbulent fluid mixing, we expect this result to hold in a more general context, implying a profound connection between the results of microscopic MD/DSMC simulations and fluid behaviour on the scales with which we are most familiar.
5. Conclusion
We have shown that, with today's computational capacity, it is possible to describe complex non-stationary hydrodynamic flows, such as the RT instability, by atomistic methods achieving Reynolds numbers up to 12 000. Remarkably, we have found that these simulations can be scaled up to describe larger systems, and can even be compared with macroscopic experiments many orders of magnitude larger than the atomistic simulations themselves. The importance of fluctuations in the description of instabilities has been explained (Kadau et al. 2007). An alternative approach to the use of atomistic methods is the inclusion of fluctuations into continuum descriptions (Landau & Lifshitz 1959). Preliminary work along these lines has been promising (Moseler & Landman 2000; Bell et al. 2007), and such techniques would allow macroscale simulations to include fluctuations, if necessary. Furthermore, as computational capacity continues to increase, greater and greater challenges in fluid dynamics will be accessible by atomistic simulations. These include high-Reynolds-number three-dimensional turbulence and complex mixing processes that include combustion. For example, atomistic methods including chemistry would be promising for the description of inertial confinement fusion (ICF; Rosen 1996; Lindl et al. 2004), an important potential source of clean energy production. This problem is not easily describable by traditional methods, as ICF involves a complex coupling between fluid instabilities and combustion processes at very small length and times scales.
This work was carried out under the auspices of the National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract no. DE-AC52-06NA25396 with funding from the ASC project.
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