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Olga Marina and Zhandarova Birukova of the Ministry of Justice of Belarus spent three days at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen at the beginning of December 2012. "We wanted to know how these archives work and what documents are available," said Birukova.learn more
"With the original documents in the ITS archives I can now better understand the fate of the Jews from Wolfhagen," said 16-year-old Dennis Hojn during his research at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. Together with five other students of the Wilhelm Filchner school, he is participating...learn more
Five researchers from the Association for the Memorial for Forced Labor in Leipzig searched through the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) for interesting documents for their work, in late November 2011. "We want to update the permanent exhibition at the site of the former arms factory HASAG and...learn more
On 29 November 2012, at a reception for the departure of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from the management of the International Tracing Service (ITS), ICRC President Peter Maurer thanked the German government for their support and collaboration. The mandate, which began with the signing of the...learn more
The educational centre of the Fritz-Bauer Institute in Frankfurt/Main, the initiative "Faites votre jeu!" and the International Tracing Service (ITS) jointly offered teachers and educators an advanced training course on the subject "Deportations – Social Players and their Options for Action" on 22 November 2012. The...learn more
For several months, the Italian journalist Marco Ansaldo had been searching the documents in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) for stories worth to be told. Those were first published as a series in the newspaper "Repubblica" and now in the book "Il falsario italiano di Schindler – I segreti...learn more
Two members of the air force, Lieutenant Colonel Gerhard Roletscheck and Staff Sergeant Helmut Müller, have spent three days at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen viewing transport lists and death books as well as further documents of Kaufering, a subsidiary of the former Dachau concentration camp....learn more
Early in November, Mr Djordje Drndarski, vice director of the International Tracing Service (ITS), held talks in Kazakhstan with representatives of governmental institutions and archives. Aimed at raising the awareness of the ITS services and archival holdings, Mr Drndarski's trip had been prepared and actively...learn more
Between 8 and 10 November 2012 educators who had passed an advanced training course at the Israeli Remembrance Authority Yad Vashem convened a graduate seminar at the International Tracing Service (ITS). It was the second joint seminar and the cooperation with Yad Vashem shall continue in 2013. Eight educators from...learn more
19 senior pupils of "Christian-Rauch" secondary school in Bad Arolsen have spent a project week at the International Tracing Service (ITS) dedicating their learning time and energy to the subject of "Children's Lives during and under National Socialism. Between 'Lebensborn', Germanization, Deportation or Annihilation"....learn more


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Great Britain and Northern Ireland built on their impressive performance at Gateshead on Saturday to claim third place - behind Russia and Germany - on the final day of the European Team Championships.
The stand-out performance on day two came from Sophie Hitchon, who threw a new British hammer record to finish in third place in her competition, and was one of seven members of Team GB to finish individually in the top three on Sunday.
Tiffany Porter claimed Britain's only individual victory on day two after clocking 12.62 seconds in the 100m hurdles, while both men and women's 4x400m relay teams also won their respective finals.
Shana Cox, Meghan Beesley, Eilidh Child and Christine Ohuruogu clocked 3:28.60mins, while the men's quartet of Rhys Williams, Richard Buck, Michael Bingham and Conrad Williams set a new European lead of 3:05.37mins.
Emelia Gorecka finished second in the women's 5,000m while Nathan Douglas, Andrew Osagie, Shara Proctor and Anyika Onoura all claimed third spots in the triple jump, 800m, long jump and 200m.
Elsewhere, Danny Talbot finished fourth in the men's 200m, while William Sharman, Brett Morse and Hannah England each recorded fifth place finishes in the 110m hurdles, discus and 1500m.
Tweeting after the event, Team GB captain for the weekend Perri Shakes-Drayton said: "And that's a wrap. Good team effort. 3rd place finishers. Good job GB. Pleased to be captain of a good team."

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i'm gonna win
i'll take you out
in a minute
step in my flat
see what's in it
i live in the land of wellfare state
my flat used to be section 8
now it's a rat infested cocaine run
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drunken bum
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rats in the hallway again
get up get out go ahead and ride away
sit up our bed up your bed to lay
kick up our rip up this place apart
even when i'm finished i'm back at the start i'm out of line
at adeline st. heat don't keep the crooked beat 4am
no waves breaking what's left of the pm the am has taken
drunken bum
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rats in the hallway again
outside my gate my crew is drinking a 40
oz the asked my if there's still rats in the hallway
i said somethings ain't like the weather
they never change for the better
this girl came up to me she said she would do me no harm
rolled up her sleeve and shoved me the tracks on her arm
i said what's your name she said Mya
she said Tim, wanna take you higher
junkie drunken
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zombie walking kid out on his own with no morals
mr.high leaves the body in comes mr withdrawl
pain is the only thing the body will alow
the kid wants to dance the gangsters knows how
johnny bought some shit down on market
street shoot up boot up the human target
he hit the dirty spike when he hit the scene
it's easy to stay dirty when nothing is clean johnny's a writer
who tags up jackel jackel just clamped on unclampable shackels
rout up shoot up some dope to go
like leagal currancy it's money it's like that
rat tat tat kid got shot point blank in the back my land lord said
not to be bumming he was on cocaine stoop and he had it coming he had it coming?
he was only 12 years old he was in the blizzard he got shot for being cold
it don't seem right tonight hit the lights alright
watch the roaches run into the darkest room
[repeat 2x.]
drunken bum
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A woman who 'lived fiercely, loved deeply'
For almost two hours Saturday, friends, family and colleagues laughed and cried as they told stories about the larger-than-life personality of Jessica Ghawi, an aspiring San Antonio sportscaster who was killed July 20 in the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater.
Twelve people were killed and 58 wounded in the attack in Aurora. Ghawi, who had escaped a Toronto mall shooting just last month, had recently blogged about how precious life is.
Peter Burns, a Denver-based sports radio host who was close to Ghawi, read a statement from her mother as pictures of the vivacious 24-year-old, with a coy smile and fiery red hair, were streamed on televisions at Community Bible Church.
"What we will not do today is focus on how she left us," Burns read. "We will focus instead on how she lived, how she loved family, life, her friends, and how we can keep her spirit of life each day forth."
Ghawi's energy, passion, endearing clumsiness and humor were hallmarks in the speeches given by colleagues, friends and family members.
"Those of you that knew Jessie were absolutely blessed. Those of you who didn't know her or missed opportunities to be a part of her large life missed out big time," Burns quoted her mother, Sandy Phillips. "She lived fiercely and loved deeply and crammed more into her 24 years of life than most of us do in our whole lifetimes."
A devout hockey fan, Ghawi was remembered by colleagues for her love of the game, her determination to succeed in the male-dominated industry — and her clumsiness. A YouTube video showing Ghawi falling during her first on-ice interview as an intern with Sports Talk San Antonio was met with laughter. After each fall, Ghawi is seen laughing off the embarrassment, getting back up and continuing with her interview.
Speakers given a few minutes to talk about Ghawi often couldn't help themselves from running long. Stories such as one about Ghawi running into David Robinson and another about her being offered an intern gig with comedian George Lopez took time to explain and often left the audience in stitches.
Larry Ramirez, a San Antonio sports anchor close to Ghawi, said he imagined her up in heaven, reporting from the grandest ice rink of all and surrounded by hockey legends who wouldn't initially know what to make of the "fiery redhead."
"I'm sure at one point she'll fall down in front of them all and they'll laugh and she'll be embarrassed, but she'll get up and crinkle her nose and just get that determined look on her face, and she'll prove once again that she can hang with the boys, just like she did here on Earth," Ramirez said.
Ghawi's boyfriend, Toronto junior hockey player Jay Meloff, said she taught him to live each day to the fullest.
"She drank in life and celebrated the little things that made us uniquely us," Meloff said, adding that the two had been excited about building a future together.
Burns, who last talked with Ghawi over dinner at a Denver restaurant, remembered her big heart. He recalled Ghawi excitedly explaining how she wanted to start a charity called "The Little Things" that would donate sports gear to those who lost everything in the Colorado wildfires. Burns said that while Ghawi was uncertain about how to start the charity, she was crystal-clear that she didn't want her name on it.
"If you all know Jessica, that was who she was. That was our Jessica," Burns said.
To support such a charity and to provide scholarships for women pursuing careers in sports broadcasting, her family has started the Jessica Redfield Ghawi Foundation.
Ghawi had adopted the pen name Jessica Redfield to honor her maternal grandmother, an aspiring journalist whose career was cut short by World War II, her mother said in the statement read by Burns.
Ghawi's brother, Jordan, said it was important also to commemorate the others who died in the shooting, especially those killed attempting to save others.
Brent Lowak, a friend of Ghawi's who was wounded in the attack and is hospitalized in Colorado, was mentioned as a "son" and hero by Ghawi family members.
Jordan Ghawi has made it his goal to get the media to reframe how it covers the tragedy, insisting reporters focus not on the alleged gunman, James Holmes, but on the lives of those who were lost.
"If this coward could have done this with this much hate, imagine what we can do with this much love," he said.
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Recently the found footage films have gotten pretty big. Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield and several others have really made it a popular thing to do. What we haven't seen yet is one with big ass dinosaurs. According to Screen Daily, the project is described as "Jurassic Park meets Blair Witch in the style of District 9." But producer Nick Hill also notes: "It's not grainy, grainy hand-held, it will look beautiful and crisp and clear."
The story is about a father-son expedition in the Congo, being followed by a TV documentary crew. After all the parties mysteriously go missing, recovered footage shows stunning images of dinosaurs thought to be extinct for 65 million years.
Another fascinating tidbit is that the film is going to show dinosaurs that we have never seen before.. So basically the are going to create some new species as well. Sounds pretty cool to me. Can't wait to see the marketing campaign for this one. It should be a fun ride.


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And North Carolina is a likely battleground:
The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change science, has joined with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council to write model legislation aimed at reversing state renewable energy mandates across the country. The Electricity Freedom Act, adopted by the council's board of directors in October, would repeal state standards requiring utilities to get a portion of their electricity from renewable power
Here's a copy of the model (cookie-cutter) Legislation, which is riddled with misleading information and outright lies, such as:
WHEREAS, many renewable sources of power currently cost more than traditional electricity generation technologies, and are projected to do so for the foreseeable future
Those state legislatures who created and voted for Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (REPS) knew from the outset that clean and renewable energy generation cost more than the old dirty and dangerous methods. One of their main goals was to jump-start the sector, and through volume and technological advances actually reduce the costs associated. And it's working very well:
Total shipments of PV modules in 2011 hit a record high, increasing from 2,644,498 peak kilowatts (kWdc1 peak) in 2010 to 3,772,075 peak kilowatts (Figure 1 and Table 3). This represents a nearly 43-percent increase from 2010. Growth was spurred, in part, by declining PV cell and module prices (Figure 2 and Table 4) caused by competitive pressures.
So if something is working as designed, and the benefits to our society are obvious, why would there be such fierce opposition? Because renewable energy is by its very nature distributed, making mega utilities less relevant, and it also has the potential to put the fossil fuel industry on a strict fiscal diet. We're talking billions in profits, encouraging millions in investment in astro-turf and pseudo-science:
But the involvement of the Heartland Institute, which posted a billboard in May comparing those who believe in global warming to domestic terrorist Theodore J. Kaczynski, shows the breadth of conservatives' efforts to undermine environmental initiatives on the state and federal level. In many cases, the groups involved accept money from oil, gas and coal companies that compete against renewable energy suppliers.
As part of its effort to roll back renewable standards, ALEC is citing economic analyses of state policies co-published by Suffolk University's Beacon Hill Institute and the State Policy Network. Both groups have received donations from foundations funded by the Koch brothers.
"You push the legislation to state legislators and then you fund reports to support the argument and convince state lawmakers," Elsner said, "and all without any transparency or disclosure about the sources of this funding."
David G. Tuerck, executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute and chair of Suffolk University's economics department, said Koch funding did not determine the report's conclusions about renewable energy.
"Koch certainly has not had the only role in funding these studies," Tuerck said, adding the other donors had asked to remain anonymous.
Really? The fact that there are other secret donors is supposed to make us feel more secure about your "research"? Apparently integrity isn't the only thing missing from this "Institute". There seems to be a gaping void where logic used to reside, as well.
What I want for Christmas
is for Jesus to come back to earth and kick the shit out of these money-grubbing assholes.
I'm afraid that's a job
I'm afraid that's a job that's being left to us. Start kicking!
117 politicians who are
117 politicians who are members of ALEC lost their seats this year. People want renewables, so this may well lead to more of ALEC's toxicity rubbing off on the remainder.
One can hope
It should cost them their seats. If for no other reason than their eagerness to trade their responsibilities as elected officials for the comfort of a lobbyist's embrace.
For the life of me, I can't understand how any clear-thinking individual could vote for a person who allows (and helps) corporations write our laws for us. Especially voters who claim to be concerned about protecting our Constitution and individual rights and such.
When you hand over the power to write laws to those who have not been elected, we have a Republic in name only.
The truth
So ... via the correction that is now at the top of this Washington Post story, Ms. Eilperin was in error about The Heartland Institute's funding by at least a factor of 10 on Exxon and an astonishing 400 on the Kochs. Can we agree that is not a small thing — even if it blows up the false narrative peddled around here that Heartland is heavily funded by fossil fuel interests?
The vast majority of Heartland funding comes from individuals, foundations, and corporations without a financial stake in the climate change or renewable energy debates. For 28 years, Heartland has promoted free-market solutions in many areas of domestic policy — education, health care, budgets, taxes, finance, insurance, legal affairs, technology, and more. On the environment, like on every issue, Heartland promotes scientists and scientific studies that are skeptical of AGW alarmism out of principle. The Heartland Institute has compiled thousands of pages of peer-reviewed studies in two volumes (with another on the way) toward the end of finding out what is really happening to the Earth's climate, and why.
How about we deal with the science?
Jim Lakely
Director of Communications
The Heartland Institute
Chicago, Illinois
For 28 years, Heartland has been "for hire"
to create and (attempt to) legitimize opposing views for all sorts of issues. That diversification of propaganda is what has kept you going for so long, but it's definitely not proof of any sort of purity on your part.
And as far as your "science" is concerned:
Billboards in Chicago paid for by The Heartland Institute point out that some of the world's most notorious criminals say they "still believe in global warming" – and ask viewers if they do, too…The billboard series features Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber; Charles Manson, a mass murderer; and Fidel Castro, a tyrant. Other global warming alarmists who may appear on future billboards include Osama bin Laden and James J. Lee (who took hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in 2010).
These rogues and villains were chosen because they made public statements about how man-made global warming is a crisis and how mankind must take immediate and drastic actions to stop it.
You might want to get your apparently grossly overpaid idea men to look up the term cum hoc ergo propter hoc, before you lose all your misguided donors.
It's actually very ironic (even funny) that he tried twice to
link to Heartland's climate documents and both links go to "page not found". I find it exceedingly appropriate that their climate "science" is entirely absent.
Also, you'd think a communications guy could set up a link properly. Shoddy work all around.
I actively oppose gerrymandering. Do you?
Since you don't actually reveal your donors and the amounts they contribute, including millions from anonymous donors, your "rebuttal" has no more validity than the original claim.
With all due respect
... this is utter bullshit.
On the environment, like on every issue, Heartland promotes scientists and scientific studies that are skeptical of AGW alarmism out of principle.
Just what principle is it that you're talking about? The principle of corporate dominance over public good (aka free-market solutions)?
As you suggest, how about we deal with the science instead of your agenda?
Heartland's latest idea, the documents say, is a plan to create a curriculum for public schools intended to cast doubt on mainstream climate science and budgeted at $200,000 this year. The curriculum would claim, for instance, that "whether humans are changing the climate is a major scientific controversy."
It is in fact not a scientific controversy. The vast majority of climate scientists say that emissions generated by humans are changing the climate and putting the planet at long-term risk, although they are uncertain about the exact magnitude of that risk. Whether and how to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases has become a major political controversy in the United States, however.
Nice try.
Watch out for the egg nog, Jim
Dearest earnest Jim,
So sorry that the nice folks at Blue NC are causing you at the Heartburn Institute some indigestion. if you re going to drink too much eggnog, make sure to buy you some Tums first. Those generic Tums are no good. they are made from Chinese leftovers from burning coal to make us nice toys for Christmas and Happy Meals. I sure do love me the cheeseburger Happy Meal, don't you?
It sure does take a lot science to make a Happy Meal, but why can they not go ahead and put a Tums in that meal? Even little kids need some medicine in addition to the toy. Taco Bell should come with Immodium or at least Peptones Bismol. If that was real beef at Taco Bell it would stay in your body more than 20 minutes, am I right? Of course!
Am so happy that the folks working to keep us from heartburn are finally standing up to the liberal media. How about you find some way to make coal ash into Tums! Or maybe Preparation H, since that seems to be the orifice with which you are most familiar. Think athat you can be the spokesman for cream to spread on infllamed anuses. Heartburn Institute can make Tuck's pads!
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Members of the Calamos Research Team recently traveled to Latin America to meet with company management teams from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. We came away with valuable first-hand insights about the regional macro environment and how companies are capitalizing on this landscape.
The feedback was fairly uniform, with most company management teams expecting a challenged consumer in 2014. The optimists expect a pick-up in consumer activity during the second half of 2014, and most are more positive on 2015. Despite this headwind, there are other regional secular trends and company-specific catalysts that may result in growth opportunities for select companies, and the Calamos portfolios.
Mexico. Uncertainty around the recent "sugar tax"* and the increase in the maximum tax rate to 35% make it more difficult to forecast consumer activity, but most management teams expect weakness at least through 2014. The tone is more optimistic about recent reforms, but managements are realistic that these policies will take time to implement and their benefits will likely be a 2H2014 or 2015 story.
Our consumer exposure within Mexico continues to be around bottom-up growth opportunities with company-specific near-term catalysts. As Mexico has become a consensus overweight among global investment managers, attractive valuations have become more scarce. We are taking an opportunistic approach, and when Mexico has sold off alongside the broader emerging markets region, we have bought selectively.
We have exposure to Mexican financials, which we believe will realize more near-term benefits from reform initiatives. Select companies offer attractive bottom-up growth potential, as credit penetration increases in this country. We have also identified industrial and materials companies that feed into the energy supply chain, while further benefiting from Mexico's close ties to the improving U.S. economy.
Brazil. The consumer remains highly levered. Actual debt-service costs are likely 1000 basis points higher than what the central bank reports because popular installment loans are excluded from its calculation. While debt-service costs began to fall in the second half of 2013, the central bank has been forced to increase interest rates as inflation remains above target levels. This in turn should negatively impact debt-service costs. Economic growth has now become the Brazilian government's third most important policy outcome, behind inflation targeting and maintenance of the country's credit rating, although the government understands the need to keep growth a very close third.
Despite this dreary economic outlook, there are still opportunities. Most of the macro concerns are already priced into valuations. The Brazilian index is off nearly 50% from its 2011 peak, with currency depreciation playing a significant role.
Within the Brazilian financial sector, we believe there are many underappreciated growth companies that can benefit both from recent changes in government policies and from incremental economic improvements. Where else can you invest in emerging market banks that consistently return more than 20% on equity with loan-book growth in the low-double digits—for less than two times book value?
In recent years, private banks have faced challenges, including a crowding out by public banks that were providing credit more indiscriminately in an attempt to spur economic growth. This resulted in lost market share and slower growth for the private banks. As government has adjusted its policies in 2014 to focus more on inflation and the country's credit rating, private banks can remain selective in their underwriting policies and potentially see an improvement in growth as the lending environment becomes more rational. Despite these positive developments, valuations for the private banks remain attractive. Many global portfolio managers utilize these liquid institutions as proxies for country exposure and are significantly underweight Brazil, given its negative near-term economic outlook. We are also underweight, and while we are monitoring macro developments for a potential inflection point, we maintain some exposure through companies that also have significant near-term bottom-up catalysts that we believe could result in outperformance regardless of exactly when the economic backdrop improves.
We continue to see a strong secular growth opportunity within the Brazilian education industry. With college graduation rates nearing 20%, Brazil remains far behind other Latin American countries, such as Mexico (about 40%) and Chile (about 60%). This is due in part to Brazil's less-developed education system, with some state-run universities reporting lower acceptance rates than Ivy League institutions. Given the limited supply of college-educated workers, the unemployment rate for these grads is effectively 0%, and wage inflation is above average. This has provided a powerful tailwind for private education companies, a tailwind that strengthened when the government began providing subsidized student loans at negative real rates two years ago. Although enrollment has increased, many students are not yet aware of the program's benefits. We expect the program to provide a longer-term catalyst for companies in the education industry, with improving utilization rates in the next two years as initial classes work through their four-year degrees, as well as longer term as a higher graduation rate brings Brazil more in-line with many Latin American peers.
Colombia. We heard universal optimism about Colombia's economic potential, including predictions that Colombia will become the second "rich" Latin American country, joining Chile. Colombia continues to move up in the Heritage Foundation's Economic Freedom Index—the result of recent improvements in trade, business, and fiscal policies. Colombia has moved into the "mostly free" category, ranking behind only Chile within the region.
The opening of peace negotiations with the FARC insurgency has contributed to optimism about further improvements in national security, although only two of five agenda points have been agreed to thus far. Colombia also has strong ties to the U.S., the destination for nearly 35% of its total exports. Better U.S. economic growth prospects could have a positive knock-on effect for Colombia.
To date, our exposure to Colombia has been primarily indirect, as many of our Brazilian, Mexican, and Peruvian holdings generate revenues from this country. However, we are researching several new growth opportunities that may warrant an allocation of capital later this year.
While economic policies and inflationary headwinds create near-term headwinds for Latin American companies, we believe we are getting closer to an inflection point for the region. Meanwhile, our team has identified growth companies we believe can outperform regardless of the economic environment. Drawing upon the insights we've taken from our recent meetings with strong Latin American corporate management teams, we are comfortable allocating capital to select bottom-up growth opportunities. As the economic situation improves, we believe these companies are positioned to benefit from those tailwinds as well.
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Monitoring of Fresh Water Bodies Pedro Robles | added on Jul 13, 2011 | Puerto Rico Water monitoring of fresh water bodies by public school students from elementary, intermediate and high school students. Undergraduate students of Caribbean University are also participating in the water monitoring program.
Experimental Show Rosalind Boulton | added on Jun 21, 2011 | Australia Fire and ice, smoke and explosions galore - come and celebrate the International Year of Chemistry with our chemists who are sure to excite and entertain you in this spectacular show that demonstrates what chemistry is all about!
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Ten Experiments and questions out of the field of chemistry Frank P. Dietrich | added on Mar 19, 2011 | Germany Visitors of the "Maimarkt" in Stuttgart-Wangen will have the opportunity to do ten experiments and find answers to questions. concerning chemical issues.
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The Rare Earth Chemical Element Card Game Jim Macdonald | added on Mar 02, 2011 | Canada The Rare Earth Chemical Element Card Game is a new game designed to teach middle school and high school students the fundamentals of the periodic table.
Super Science Saturday: Celebrating Chemistry – Past, Present, Future Kathy Agee | added on Jun 16, 2010 | United States This event will provide educational activities and opportunities for students and their families to experience the science of chemistry. These activities will focus on understanding the foundational elements of pure chemistry, its connections with the other sciences and our culture, and the career opportunities available.
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JERUSALEM: Egypt brokered a ceasefire on Thursday aimed at ending a flare-up of rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli towns and Israeli air strikes in the Palestinian enclave, the Islamic Jihad militant group said.
There was no immediate word from Israel, but a senior Defence Ministry official said earlier in the day he expected the fighting to die down soon.
"Following intensive Egyptian contacts and efforts, the agreement for calm has been restored in accordance with understandings reached in 2012 in Cairo," Khaled al-Batsh, an Islamic Jihad leader, wrote on Facebook, referring to a truce that ended an eight-day Gaza war two years ago.
Batsh said Islamic Jihad, which began launching rockets into Israel on Wednesday after Israeli soldiers killed three of its fighters a day earlier, would hold its fire as long as Israel did the same.
Minutes before Batsh posted word of the truce on Facebook, Israeli aircraft struck targets in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt, wounding three Palestinians, witnesses said. The Israeli military said "seven terror sites" had been hit.
Hours earlier, sirens sounded in the southern Israeli towns of Ashkelon and Ashdod. Police said rockets had landed in open areas, causing no casualties.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military carried out 29 air strikes and fired tank shells at militant targets in Gaza after Islamic Jihad launched 60 rockets towards Israel in the heaviest such barrage in nearly two years.
No casualties were reported on either side of the frontier in Wednesday's incidents.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that Israel would "hit back with increasing force" against anyone who tried to ruin celebrations over the next few days of the Jewish holiday of Purim.
Palestinian sources noted that Gaza's ruling Hamas Islamist movement had not joined in the rocket attacks – a sign that it hoped to avoid widening the conflict.
But, the sources said, Hamas also had not moved immediately to try to stop the launchings, apparently concerned it would be seen by Palestinians as less committed than Islamic Jihad to confronting Israel.
Islamic Jihad has strong ties with Israel's arch-foe Iran and is the second largest faction in the enclave.
Last week Israeli forces seized a ship in the Red Sea which it said was carrying missiles to armed groups in Gaza. Officials said the arms may have been intended for Islamic Jihad.
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Computex: Off the Beaten Path Products
While there are a lot of mainstream products at Computex, I also like to discover the unusual things. Here are some that I found at this year's show:
Asus showed its PadFone, essentially a phone that plugs into the shell of a clamshell. Motorola has had a similar concept with its Atrix.
Canonical displayed a similar solution: when you plug your Android phone into a monitor, it then runs Ubuntu, which has an interface more tuned for the larger display. Either solution sounds intriguing, but far from mainstream.
Securifi exhibited a wireless router with a small touch screen called Almond. It runs its own software, designed to make setting it up as either a router or a range extender very easy, with no PC required.
I was impressed by Pixel Qi's displays, which draw very little power and are readable in direct sunlight without a backlight. When the backlight is on, though, they look quite sharp. So far, this is in production up to a 10.1-inch 1024x600 display, but the company was also showing a newer 1280x800 model. Quantities are limited, and this has mainly found its place in specialized machines for industrial or government use where outdoor readability is at a premium.
PhotoFast showed an interesting little device called an i-FlashDrive that acts as a flash memory key for an iPhone. With a standard USB port on one side and an iPhone dock connector on the other, it lets you use a free app to move files between the memory key and the iPhone. This recently started shipping, with a retail price of about $75 for an 8GB version. It's a little pricey, but still quite useful.
One of the more unusual demos I saw came from Via, the smallest of the x86-compatible processor makers. It packaged its Mini-ITX boards—very tiny motherboards—together with a 3D printer, so you can design and print prototypes on a single machine.
Finally, I'm unsure why underwater demonstrations are so popular, but my guess would be that they're a way to prove how rugged some devices are. At this year's Computex show, I noticed a number of such demos.
Adata has hard drives and flash drives that are designed to be waterproof. I can see why this would be useful, though after the flooding in Thailand, I'm not sure it was appropriate.
Technica House submerged an "industrial panel PC" in a tank of water, validating that it can make ruggedized PCs.
Another company revealed a dual-band outdoor wireless access point called the OWL 620, and also decided to show that underwater.
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VIDEO: Trade Deadline: Pacers and Sixers Trade
The Indiana Pacers provided a little excitement at the end of what was an underwhelming deadline day. There was a flurry of action on Thursday, but none of it all that meaningful. But then, after the 3 p.m. ET trade deadline had passed, news broke that Indiana had acquired Evan Turner and Lavoy Allen for Danny Granger and a second round pick.
Now, Turner's per-game numbers are somewhat inflated by the Sixers' pace. They lead the league at 102.5 possessions per 48 minutes. He's generally been a disappointment as a former No. 2 pick in the Draft. And though his efficiency has increased *this season, he still ranks 161st of 196 players who have attempted at least 300 field goals with a true shooting percentage of just 50.4 percent. His free throw rate has gone up, but is still below the league average, and he has shot 29 percent from 3-point range.
* Over the summer, we pointed out Turner's ridiculous mid-range-to-3-point attempt ratio of 3.1 last season. It's down to 2.3 this year. Still pretty bad (James Harden's is 0.5), but not quite as mind-boggling.
As much as Granger has struggled in his return from almost a full season off, he's shot better (49.5 percent effective FG%) than Turner (47.1 percent) on catch-and-shoot opportunities.
But Turner can't hurt the Pacers' bench offense, which has struggled again this season. While Indiana's starting lineup has scored a solid 106.4 points per 100 possessions, all other Pacer lineups have scored just 99.5. And with C.J. Watson (better suited to play off the ball) as their back-up point guard, they could certainly use another guy who can create off the dribble.
A few other contenders and next-level squads made moves at the deadline, but they were relatively minor. The Warriors added bench help, the Spurs added depth at the wing, the Rockets added some athleticism, the Clippers shed salary, and the Heat created an open roster spot. Nobody made a move that will move the needle all that much. Omer Asik, Luol Deng, Pau Gasol and Rajon Rondo are still where they were 48 hours ago.
And that's good news for Miami, Indiana, San Antonio and Oklahoma City, who remain the clear big four in the NBA hierarchy.
— John Schuhmann
Below is a live blog of how things went down on deadline day.
Highlights: Pacers swap Granger for Turner | Spurs get a wing | Clippers shed salary | Nuggets and Rockets make minor trade | Andre Miller to Washington | Bucks, Bobcats make deal | Kings sticking with McLemore | Heat unload Mason | Hawes to Cleveland
Brooks approves move to Denver, 3:55 p.m.
Aaron Brooks had the ability to veto his trade to Denver, but he's agreed to the deal.
Pacers swap Granger for Turner, 3:33 p.m.
Spurs get a wing, 3:09 p.m.
Clippers shed salary, 3:00 p.m.
Will Brooks approve trade?, 2:30 p.m.
From our Fran Blinebury…
Aaron Brooks would have to approve any trade and said yesterday that he wouldn't. He wanted badly to stay in Houston.
The Rockets have reportedly agreed to send Brooks to Denver for Jordan Hamilton, but because Brooks signed a one-year contract and his early Bird rights would disappear upon being traded, he can veto the deal.
Clippers anxious to deal, 2:10 p.m.
More from Scott Howard-Cooper…
The Clippers continue to be very proactive in hopes of closing a deal before noon in Los Angeles, with Reggie Bullock turning into a name of the moment around the league.
This is no surprise. For one thing, Bullock is one of the few available Clippers trade chips. For another, Bullock has a real future for a No. 25 pick, a rookie averaging just 8.5 minutes a game because he is a young wing on a team in win-now mode but a 6-7 guard-forward who improved his shooting every year at North Carolina and can defend. He is not an All-Star in waiting, but he is a legit prospect who can bring something in return when L.A. is not expecting to add a starter.
The quest is to bolster the rotation for the playoff push. The Clips are anxious to make a move. If they leave today empty, the next step will be to hope a player of value is bought out and can be signed as a free agent. That is one reason the basketball operations headed by Doc Rivers has kept the roster at 14.
Nuggets and Rockets make minor trade, 1:40 p.m.
Jack should have his bags ready, 1:10 p.m.
More from Scott Howard-Cooper…
Still a strong sense from teams that Jarrett Jack, while not the big name of Luol Deng or the medium name of 2012 first-rounder Tyler Zeller, is the most likely Cavalier to be on the move today.
Jack has two more full seasons left at $6.3 million per, a big number for someone shooting 39.3 percent and probably a backup wherever he goes. But he has playoff experience, loves the big moment (sometimes wanting it so much that he forces it) and has the additional value of being an available point guard. There is also the versatility that Jack can play shooting guard.
The 39.3 percent? He was at 45 the last two seasons, in New Orleans and Golden State, and 40.4 on threes in 2012-13 with the Warriors. Interested suitors now have the easy explanation to write off the current troubles: He plays for the Cavaliers, so of course there's going to be problems.
Andre Miller to Washington, 12:40 p.m.
The Washington Wizards' offense falls off whenever John Wall goes to the bench. They've scored 104.5 points per 100 possessions with Wall on the floor and just 92.8 with him off the floor. So they were in the market for a back-up point guard, and they got one…
Bucks, Bobcats make deal, 12:37 p.m.
Kings sticking with McLemore, 12:35 p.m.
From our Scott Howard-Cooper…
Kings general manager Pete D'Alessandro, bothered to an extreme by the rumor, took the unusual step of going out of his way to speak to media members to shoot down a rumor, insisting they had not offered rookie Ben McLemore to the Celtics as part of a package for Rajon Rondo. In what has been a rough transition to the NBA, with McLemore shooting 36.5 percent and unable to hold the starting job earlier in the season, management didn't want him to start wondering about the team's commitment.
More than McLemore's availability could have been shot down, though. Not only are the Kings fully invested in McLemore and rightfully see a high ceiling despite the slow start, there is no way a rebuilding organization gives up two first-round picks, their 2013 lottery selection and Isaiah Thomas, the reported offer, for Rondo early in the comeback from knee surgery and with one full season left on his contract. Whether bad rumor or Celtics dream, it was never going to happen.
Miller to Washington?, 12:15 p.m.
Clippers and Cavs talking, 11:50 a.m.
Sessions for Neal swap?, 11:45 a.m.
Heat unload Mason, 11:20 a.m.
Deng is available, 11:15 a.m.
Earl Clark, Henry Sims heading to Philly, 10:45 a.m.
Clark is technically under contract for $4.25 million next season, but that doesn't become guaranteed until July 7, 2014. Sims' $915 thousand salary is also non-guaranteed. So the Sixers are basically getting back two expiring contracts. Anderson Varejao's health was a reason for the trade…
Zeller on the block, 10:00 a.m.
Hawes to Cleveland, 9:55 a.m.
Cleveland is over the cap and doesn't have an exception that can absorb Hawes' $6.6 million salary, so there has to be a player or two heading back to Philadelphia.
Teams after Andre Miller, 9:45 a.m.
Jimmer on the block, 9:35 a.m.
Ainge talks, 9:30 a.m.
The Race For Jordan Hill, 8:50 a.m.
The Los Angeles Lakers have the fourth highest payroll in the league and are 18-36 after getting waxed at home by the Rockets on Wednesday. Dumping Jordan Hill for nothing can lower their luxury tax payments quite a bit, and there are a couple of teams willing to take Hill off their hands. As we wrote yesterday, the Nets are looking to strengthen their bench, and have a disabled player exception that can absorb Hill's $3.5 million salary.
But so does New Orleans, whose frontline has been decimated by injuries.
The Gary Neal deadline, 7:50 a.m.
Gary Neal makes just $3.25 million and the Bucks don't want him. Yet somehow, trading him is a complicated process.
UPDATE, 6:09 a.m.
Report: Rockets making push for Rondo: Like many teams in the league right now, the Houston Rockets are interested in acquiring Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo. And, like a lot of teams in the league right now, the Rockets are having a hard time coming up with the framework for a trade that is to the Celtics' liking. ESPN.com's Marc Stein reports that Houston's potential unwillingness to give up Chandler Parsons is what may be hanging up a deal.
Report: Kings eyeing Cavs backup guard Jack: A day after sending shooting guard Marcus Thornton to Brooklyn for veterans Reggie Evans and Jason Terry, Sacramento might be looking to make another trade. According to ESPN.com's Marc Stein, the Kings have expressed interest in working a trade for Cavaliers reserve guard Jarrett Jack.
Thibodeau would be surprised if Bulls make deal: Echoing the words of GM Gar Forman and team president John Paxson a little less than a week ago, Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau tells the Chicago Tribune's K.C. Johnson he'd be stunned to see the team make a trade today.
Saunders shoots down talk of Love on trading block: A smattering of Kevin Love stories came out yesterday, from a snippet from a new GQ interview in which he talks about having fun playing for the Timberwolves to a tweet from Peter Vescey that made it seem as if the All-Star wants out from Minnesota. But Wolves president of basketball operations Flip Saunders shot down all that talk with one tweet last night, writes Andy Greder of the Pioneer Press.
Report: Lakers' Young safe from being dealt: ICYMI last night, the Lakers shipped veteran point guard Steve Blake to the Golden State Warriors for youngsters Kent Bazemore and MarShon Brooks. In short, L.A. is continuing in its rebuilding efforts, but according to BasketballInsiders.com, it seems unlikely that the team's No. 2 scorer, Nick Young, will be dealt today.
Players discuss their trade deadline-day experiences: The folks over at BasketballInsiders.com caught up with a couple of notable players — including Dwight Howard, Kyle Lowry and Chris Kaman — to have them share what it's like for a player to go through trade deadline day. Nice little read here this a.m.


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Justice (6-6, 317) started 12 games at right tackle in the 2012 regular season. In San Diego, he would provide an insurance policy behind rookie D.J. Fluker, whom the club sees as a right tackle.
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States with the biggest decreases:
North Carolina: Down 3,782, due to fewer layoffs in the transportation equipment, electronic and machinery industries
Tennessee: Down 1,756, no reason given
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This past week I read articles in the New York Times, Aug. 27, by author Ann Patchett saying that bookstores are not dead and by Karen Heller in the Inquirer, Sept. 7, decrying the end of our Borders store. I urge you to read them yourselves.
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President Obama has made a counteroffer to Speaker Boehner that puts the two men within shouting distance of a deal that Boehner could present to his caucus. But much shouting — or at least much negotiating — remains before such a deal could be finalized. With that in mind, Boehner appears to be seeking whatever incremental leverage might be had.
On the dealmaking side, Obama now says he will settle for raising taxes only on those making more than $400,000 per year. For Boehner, the magic number is $1 million. Obama now says he will settle for $1.2 trillion in new revenue, although Boehner reportedly thinks that the president's details show him seeking $1.3 trillion, in reality. This is down from $1.4 trillion.
On the savings side, Obama apparently would agree to a less expansive measure of the cost of living that would save $225 billion over the next decade, about half of it in Social Security savings. He would also agree to additional spending cuts and to end the payroll tax holiday. Obama still clings, however, to his demand of new stimulus spending, to the tune of $80 billion.
Finally, Obama wants a two-year respite from having to negotiate over a debt ceiling increase. Boehner has offered him one year.
The bottom line for Boehner appears to be $1 trillion in new revenue and $1 trillion in spending cuts/savings. Obama is $200 to $300 billion north of that figure in terms of revenue and south by perhaps a bit less in terms of spending/savings.
On the leverage side, Boehner met today with his caucus to report on the status of negotiations and to try to sell the idea of tax increase on "millionaires." No doubt, the idea met with plenty of resistance. Thus, I imagine, Boehner can now tell Obama that the best House Republicans can do is to increase the rate for "millionaires."
To reinforce this message, Boehner has announced that House Republicans will move their own bill that would hike tax rates on income above $1 million. This is the long awaited "Plan B." Boehner explained:
The White House just can't seem to bring itself to agree to a 'balanced' approach, and time is running short. Taxes are going up on everyone on Jan. 1. They're baked into current law. And we have to stop whatever tax rate increases we can. In the absence of an alternative, as of this morning, a 'modified Plan B' is the plan.
Until now, Democrats have had plenty of leverage in the fiscal cliff talks. But compared to Boehner, Obama has less of the incremental leverage that comes from fear that he can't sell a deal to his "constituents." That's a downside — one of the few — of having a Party that, for now, marches largely in lockstep.


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The long narrow plate arrived at her table, and, like any good food blogger, Shauna James Ahern paused to take it all in: roasted red piquillo peppers — plump with a lentil stuffing — alongside graceful strands of quick-pickled green beans and red onions, and emerald pools of cilantro-ginger sauce.
"When people hear 'gluten-free,' the reaction can be 'poor thing,' and I just want to say, 'Look at what's on my plate — does this look like deprivation to you?'"
In the blogosphere, Ahern, 44, is best known as Gluten-Free Girl. She's a Pacific Northwest blogger who was diagnosed in 2005 with
, ending decades of mysterious ailments and endless medical exams and tests. At one point, she was largely subsisting on jarred baby food because she was too sick to cook for herself. She says the crippling symptoms vanished, overnight, when she stopped eating wheat, barley and rye and anything else that contained gluten.
In hindsight, the diet overhaul was pretty easy. Ahern wanted nothing to do with the breads and the pastas that had been making her so sick. "After I was diagnosed, I just kept it simple. I just ate 'real' food. One of the first things I remember eating was a plate of spinach sautéed in garlic and olive oil and with a little salt. And I just remember looking down at how gorgeous it looked and the feeling of hot food going down my
. I was so grateful for it."
Harder, though, has been convincing skeptics who greet the term "gluten-free" with an eye roll, or the newly diagnosed who fear it is a culinary death sentence. They all turn to Ahern — who has become one of the highest-profile food writers on the subject — for answers.
Ahern usually does it with a sense of humor: "I know there are people who think, 'gluten-free? That's a fad, it's all about the celebrity,' but I'm like, 'Do you
think I'd give up pizza and pasta unless I had to?'"
"I think of the day of my diagnosis as my birthday, because life started all over for me again on that day," Ahern adds. "Before, the food was making me sick…. Now, I eat better than I ever did before. I know food in a way I never knew before."
The simple beauty of butter softening on her kitchen counter now gives her delight.
Her blog has become an online coffeehouse for people who share the digestive condition, which prompts the body's
to attack the lining of the small intestine. But don't expect a lot of moaning and groaning and symptom-swapping. In fact, it's easy to forget that the blog revolves around gluten-free eating because there are so many gloriously decadent food photos. And because Ahern is determined to celebrate what she can eat — not what she can't. (Recently, her recipe for homemade Oreos — pretty chocolate wafers clutching rich buttery icing — went pinging through the food blogosphere. That the cookies happened to be gluten-free was a mere aside.)
Same goes for her new cookbook, "Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef," which is as much a guidebook for new cooks in the kitchen — it covers basics such as how to select ingredients, properly season foods and make sauces — as it is a collection of gluten-free recipes.
Woven around dishes that celebrate seasonal eating and locally sourced ingredients — blackberry-peach crumble, braised veal cheeks with stuffed squash blossoms, roasted chicken with apricot-corn relish, and mussels with rosemary, cream and mustard — is her story: her illness and recovery, her romance with the titular chef, Danny Ahern, how he taught her to cook, their marriage and more.
"You know what it's like when you fall in love. You want to feed each other. We had this immediate connection through food."
So did readers. In fact, roughly half of the nearly 500,000 visitors to Ahern's website each month don't suffer from celiac disease. They just want to know what will happen next for Gluten-Free Girl. Readers are so invested in the storyline that Ahern sees the comments section light up whenever the Aherns' daughter, Lucy, now 2, makes an appearance.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think people would want to follow along with all of this," says Ahern, whose online popularity also led to the 2007 memoir, "Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back … and How You Can Too."
Ahern is now a stay-at-home mom and full-time writer on rural Vashon Island in
, where her husband is the chef at a restaurant called the Hardware Store. He's expanded the restaurant menu to include gluten-free dishes, such as those piquillo peppers. "I'm a writer, so when I started the blog I just did it as an outlet, as a way to get my thoughts down and document this. And then people started finding the blog — I have no idea how that happened — and I realized, 'Hey, I can help people with this.'"
She says that before her diagnosis, life seemed like one revolving doctor's appointment.
Ahern, who grew up in Claremont and Pomona, remembers being 15 and doubled over with intestinal pain. Symptoms dogged her through her teens, 20s and early 30s, following her as she settled into a high school teaching career and lived at various times in London and
. Along the way there were days when she could barely get out of bed, as well as repeated bouts with pneumonia, MRIs, CAT scans, a memorable day where she had both an endoscopy and a
, and, once, the words, "We think you have ovarian
And what did Ahern often do during these dark times? Curled up with comfort food such as a bowl of mac 'n' cheese — no clue that the gluten-filled wheat in the pasta or pizza or cake was the very substance that was causing her body to turn on itself.
And then in early 2005, a friend from
called and said, "I was listening to this interesting story on
. It's about this thing called celiac disease."
Today, Ahern keeps a gluten-free home and almost never yearns for the forbidden. Instead, she and her husband develop recipes that can scratch that comfort food itch, such as chocolate-peanut butter brownies that use gluten-free oat flour, or a crusty bread they make with almond flour. They are addicted to the trial-and-error of it all. He, after all, is a chef always in search of a new dish. And she's a food writer who uses it as fodder for the blog. The pair toiled for months to develop their recipe for homemade pasta. (They use corn and quinoa flours.) "For us, that is fun in the kitchen," she says.
"I just never get over the amazement at looking down at the food on my plate and realizing that food can be a great way to heal yourself."


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Despite the frequent assumption that hydraulic fluid is incompressible, the fact remains: All fluids have some degree of compressibility. Granted, fluid compressibility may be neglected in systems that do not require tight control of response and where operating pressure and fluid volume are moderate. However, when applying high pressure to a large volume of fluid, a significant amount of energy can be expended to compress the fluid — essentially squeezing the fluid's molecules closer together.
The result can be delayed response — a loaded actuator may not move until upstream fluid has been compressed, and the energy stored in the fluid may cause the actuator to continue moving after its control valve has closed. Bulk modulus is a property that indicates the compressibility of a fluid. With many of today's hydraulic systems operating at pressures 5000 psi and higher, ignoring bulk modulus can compromise response time of a system.
Applied pressure should directly affect the action of the system rather than compress the fluid. This is why it is so important to design systems with as little fluid as possible beween the control valve and the actuator.
What is bulk modulus?
Most substances diminish in volume when exposed to a uniform, externally applied pressure. A typical plot of volume, V, versus pressure, P, is shown in Figure 1. The curve shows that volume of the fluid is a function of applied pressure, compressibility of the fluid, k, and initial volume of the fluid, V0:
V = f (P, V0, k)
V0 = initial volume, in, l, or m3
P = pressure, psig, Pa, or bar
k = compressibility, usually negative, in.2/lb
(V - V0) ÷ V = specific volume, commonly used for x-axis
The term bulk modulus usually means the reciprocal of compressibility and defines the slope of the curve when plotted against specific volume, Figure 1. Because specific volume is dimensionless, units of bulk modulus are the same as pressure — psig (bar, Pa, N/m2). Thus, the bulk modulus is a measure of resistance to compressibility of a fluid. A flat slope signifies a fairly compressible fluid having a low bulk modulus. A steep slope indicates a stiff, or only slightly compressible fluid.
Figure 1. Increasing the pressure applied to a fluid decreases its volume.
Defining bulk modulus
The plot in Figure 1 is not a straight line, so its slope changes from point to point. Two common methods are used to define the slope, or bulk modulus1:
Secant bulk modulus is the product of the original fluid volume and the slope of the line drawn from the origin to any specified point on the plot of pressure versus specific volume (the slope of the secant line to the point).
Mathematically, secant bulk modulus, BS, is:
Tangent bulk modulus is the product of fluid volume at any specified pressure and the derivative of fluid pressure with respect to volume at that point (the slope of the tangent line to the point). Mathematically, tangent bulk modulus, BT, is:
BT = V0 (dP/dV)
Before giving some typical values for bulk moduli, we must take one more variable into consideration, namely, temperature.
Temperature and bulk modulus
Temperature is important because a fluid compresses as its temperature rises. As the temperature rises, the fluid attempts to expand, which, in turn, creates additional pressure. This can occur rapidly or slowly. Compressing the fluid very slowly allows generated heat to dissipate. This bulk modulus is called isothermal (constant temperature) bulk modulus. Adiabatic or isentropic bulk modulus occurs by compressing the fluid rapidly and measuring the pressure — even though it results from both compression and thermal expansion.
Because we are concerned with rapidly moving, tightly controlled systems, most hydraulic applications are considered isentropic. Therefore, most of the bulk moduli discussed here are isentropic. Table 1 shows values of isentropic secant modulus for some typical hydraulic fluids at a fixed pressure and temperature.
Effect of air on bulk modulus
Designers should be cautious before using published bulk modulus values. The values usually are determined by laboratory methods that take special precautions to degas the fluid before it is trapped and compressed.
However, hydraulic fluids typically become aerated in use. Aeration has a significant effect on bulk modulus because air is much more compressible than oil. George Totten2 discusses estimating the effects of air in oil on compressibility and bulk modulus. Also, realize that the solubility of air in fluids increases with pressure. Air dissolved in a fluid at high pressure can form bubbles when pressure drops — a phenomenon that can cause cavitation.
Predicting bulk modulus
Several sources are available for predicting the bulk modulus of hydraulic fluids2,3.
Volume lost in pumps and actuators — The output of a pump or the positional relationship of master and slave cylinders varies with the bulk modulus of the fluid. In the case of pumps, the percentage volume loss in the output is seen as a loss of horsepower. For master-slave cylinders, the volume loss is seen as a reduced stroke from the slave.
Figure 2. Power lost at 3000 psig for 1 in.3 of cylinder volume over time for various bulk moduli.
Figure 3. Power lost at 3000 psig for 1 in.2 of piston area and 10-in. stroke during short time intervals for various bulk moduli.
|Figure 4. Power loss to total system power available.
|Table 1. Values of isentropic secant modulus for typical hydraulic fluids at a fixed pressure and temperature.
|Table 2. Raising the temperature of commercial hydraulic fluid by 100° F alone reduces its bulk modulus to 61% of its roomtemperature value. Introducing 1% air by volume reduces the bulk modulus to 55% of its room temperature value. If these two conditions occur simultaneously, the net effect is to reduce the bulk modulus by 67
Stopping a moving load — If a cylinder moves a load at a uniform velocity (that is, constant flow to the cylinder), the cylinder has momentum that the fluid and the system must absorb when a valve controlling upstream and downstream flow is suddenly closed. The downstream fluid pressure will rise from some nominal value to some peak pressure as energy is absorbed. Assuming the cylinder and hydraulic lines to be rigid, and a linear rise in pressure, the fluid's bulk modulus will determine peak pressure. Thus, for a specific maximum pressure, the stiffer the fluid, the less energy is absorbed and the less overshoot. Fluids with higher values of bulk modulus have less energy absorption and less piston overshoot, which translates to better position accuracy.
Fast load reversals — Because most fluids are compressible, the fluid in an actuator must be compressed before the cylinder or piston will move a load. In other words, an amount of fluid equal to the compressed volume must be added to an actuator before a load will move. Because this process does not do useful work, it is lost work:
WL = f × d where WL = lost work
f = force
d = distance
Distance refers to an increment of cylinder stroke, so:
WL = âP × âV0
where âP = change in pressure
âV = change in volume (increment of stroke × piston area)
But âV = âP × (V0 ÷ B), so:
WL = (âP2 × V0 ) ÷ B
To calculate lost power, divide by time:
WL = (âP2 × V0) ÷ (Bt × 6600)
Because power loss can be significant at higher pressure ranges, let us examine a typical 3000 psig system, that is, âP = 3000 psi.
hpl = (1363 V0) ÷ (B × t)
It is now possible to plot lost horsepower versus time for 1 in.3 of cylinder volume for various bulk moduli, Figure 2. Lost power increases as cylinder size increases and response time decreases.
Figure 3 illustrates lost power versus response rate for various bulk moduli. The loss in power may look relatively small until we consider an average cylinder. If we assume a bulk modulus of 200,000 psi, a response of 100 Hz, and a stroke of 10 in., the power loss is 6.75 hp / in.2 of ram area. Figure 4 relates power loss to total system power available. For example, a 3000-psi, 3.8-gpm system that can supply 6.75 hp cannot move a load at 100 Hz with a 1-in.2 piston because all the power is used in compressing the fluid.
Resonance of hydraulic systems
The natural frequency of a springmass combination is:
ƒ = (1 ÷ 2π) × (kg)1/2 ÷ W
Where: ƒ = frequency, Hz
W = weight, lb
k = spring rate, lb/in., and
g = acceleration due to gravity, 32.2 ft/sec2.
To equate this to a hydraulic system, we only need to substitute bulk modulus for spring rate. Thus, a low modulus also lowers the natural frequency of a system. For example, if 1% air content changes the bulk modulus by 50%, its natural frequency decreases by 30%. This greatly reduces the stability of the system.
Why bulk modulus is important
We can conclude, then, that the absolute value of the bulk modulus of a fluid can seriously affect system performance in relation to position, power level, response time, and stability. Two factors that figure prominently in the control of bulk modulus are fluid temperature and entrained air content. For example, Table 2 shows that raising the temperature of commercial hydraulic fluid by 100° F alone reduces its bulk modulus to 61% of its room-temperature value. Table 2 also indicates that introducing 1% air by volume reduces the bulk modulus to 55% of its room temperature value. If these two conditions occur simultaneously, the net effect is to reduce the bulk modulus by 67%.
In view of today's requirements for higher power and response time, it is more important than ever to pay attention to bulk modulus.
1. ASTM D6793 "Standard Test Method for Determination of Isothermal Secant and Tangent Bulk Modulus," ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa.
2. Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology, edited by George E. Totten, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000.
3. Hydraulic Fluid Power — Petroleum Fluids — Prediction of Bulk Moduli, ANSI.NFPA T2.13.7 R1-1997 (R2005) National Fluid Power Association, Milwaukee.
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So I hate to get analytical, but this new sailcloth is as "strong as aluminum"? I mean, is it as strong as Reynolds Wrap? A Pepsi Can? A door panel on a Ford pickup that you can dent with one finger? This is a meaningless comparison. I would venture that most kite fabrics might be stronger than a piece of aluminum the same thickness.
With all kites designed pretty well now, and many of them made by the same factory in China, I think we're seeing the beginning of a marketing war of immense proportions, and the B.S. will be flying fast and thick.
Then, the mergers will begin...


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