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text: Apropos of the discussion to help Jeff write his next column (I'm jealous -- I still gotta do MINE:-) I'm offering the following, which is a column-in-a-box on this sent to me by a couple of folks last year who wanted/want to see this added to my online book as well. So Jeff can use this (and should! CWM is a great venue for making this information available) under the condition that I ALSO get to put it into my book as of the next revision. Note that there is more than just this, and that that recycling old nodes is often not free. Minimally you have to ship nodes to where they can be recycled safely. Duke doesn't AFAIK actually ship old PCB's for recycling, but they do recycle all CRT monitors (which have leaded screens) and currently charge a $10/monitor handling fee back to the grants for this purpose. A University COULD manage full recycling of all Unversity-owned equipment by adding a surcharge like this, but I personally would prefer that this all be bundled together and charged when the hardware is initially purchased simply because the grant that purchased hardware is likely all finished 3-4 years later in any given grant cycle. A few other notes from this series of exchanges will follow without additional explanation. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 07:56:31 -0500 From: Bill Taylor <wataylor at as-st.com> To: Robert G.Brown <rgb at phy.duke.edu> Subject: Fwd: Recycling old nodes without poisoning Indian chlidren I am beginning to get some information about recycling computer nodes. I'll keep forwarding this to you until it appears that we either find a way or approach diminishing returns. Let me know when that appears to be happening. Begin forwarded message: > From: "John Carroll" <carroll at dsuper.net> > Date: December 3, 2004 1:58:22 AM EST > To: "Bill Taylor" <wataylor at as-st.com> > Subject: Re: Recycling old nodes without poisoning Indian chlidren > > Bill, > I respond in two ways to your enquiry abour Noranda Recycling: > > 1. I have identified a few web references that may be useful. > You will probably enjoy a couple of minutes reminding yourself about > some of Noranda's locations and operations by flipping briefly through > the following websites: > > The first is an Interesting introduction to various aspects of > Norandas Electronic recycling .example when you view this first page > click on Introduction (in L.H.side panel) and then click on "Our > Sites" to see a map with current locations.........Rhode Island is the > nearest to you. > > > http://www.norandarecycling.net/Homepage/ElectronicsRecycling.aspx > > http://www.recycle.net/trade/aa026395.html Traders and Recyclers > Directory > > > http://www.recyclingtoday.com/News/news.asp?Id=3707 Electronic > Recycling in Canada (Brampton) > > > 2. I have forwarded your request about Noranda Electronic > Recycling to Tony Nathanson, who has been more directly linked to some > Noranda employee participant in Recycling than I have been. Tony > intends to correspond with you, though this may take a few days > because I know that he is engaged in a hot issue at present. > > Hope some of this is the type of information that may be > interesting/useful to your friend Robert Brown at Duke. > > Regards, > John > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bill Taylor > To: John Carroll > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:47 PM > Subject: Fwd: Recycling old nodes without poisoning Indian chlidren > > This gentleman builds super computers by linking standard PCs into > networks. He does BIG problems so his systems have hundreds of nodes, > each node being a PC. He retires them every 3 years or so so each > year, he has to get rid of a LOT of PCs. He knows a number of people > on his mailing list with the same problem. > > When I read about it, I remembered that Noranda recycles electronic > things pretty effectively. Do you know whom he ought to contact at > Noranda to see how to get stuff to them? Or is he too far away such > that transportation would be prohibitive? > > He dislikes the fact that many PCs are recycled by hand by Indian > children who end up dying of arsenic poisoning and such like. > > Can Noranda help? > > Bill > > PS He wrote a book about what he is doing, go to > > http://www.beowulf.org/overview/howto.html > > This has a link to his book which is available on line. The last few > pages describe the problem of recycling nodes. > > I found his book to be fascinating, I like supercomputers. Your > Noranda background would probably suggest a number of problems which > could be solved with his ideas. > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu> > Date: December 1, 2004 9:59:58 AM EST > To: wataylor at alum.mit.edu > Subject: Re: Recycling old nodes without poisoning Indian chlidren > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Bill Taylor wrote: > > > The Noranda mining company in Canada has a copper smelter which is > right > next to an empty copper mine. They keep it running by sending > trainloads of electronic-ish scrap up there and turning it into > massive > copper ingots. The other stuff burns off; even arsenic, etc. go away > nicely at zillions of degrees. They use very little fuel because the > plastic burns pretty hot. > > Well, arsenic (being an element) doesn't "go away" -- at best it is > oxidized. If it is then dumped into the atmosphere and hence biosphere, > it is a problem in the ecosystem surrounding the mine -- it will > eventually get into the water and the vegetation. Some arsenic (I'm > sure) is natural and normal in the environment. One would have to look > carefully to see whether they are pushing local arsenic levels up. > > There are a few other elements to worry about in such a process (such > as > mercury from e.g. batteries, although I think most PC batteries are > lithium these days -- at least I hope so). Burning plastic and epoxy > and paint and chlorinated hydrocarbons in general can also generate a > variety of nasty stuff if it isn't done "right". So one hopes that they > use a thoughtful process that really does break the plastic down and > burn it in such a way that the active carcinogen production is minimal. > > Otherwise this sounds like a lovely operation. > > > The ship the copper back to Montreal and electro-refine them using > cheap > hydro electric power. This results in 99. they won't tell me how many > nines pure copper and all the gold, cobalt, etc., are separated out > rather neatly. > > The trouble is shipping the computers up there. They get a lot of old > phones and electronics from Canada, but the US lags. > > In a pure dollar point of view, the US imports more from Asia than it > exports so empty containers go back mostly for free. It costs nothing > to ship old computers to India so the Indian children can recycle them > toxically by hand; it costs something to ship them to Canada where > they > could be recycled more completely and with no illnesses. > > But I have friends who know the Noranda company well if you'd like to > get some details to put in that part of your book. I don't know what > could be done, but I could ask my Noranda-ites. These particular > individual happen to be interested in recycling, so they might dig > for a > solution. > > I'd be happy to put a section on their operation into the book. Duke > does recycle old systems and monitors, and even charges money back to > grants to do the monitors (which contain quite a bit of lead in their > screens). Duke is eco-sensitive enough to use biodiesel in their buses; > one hopes that they they are equally sensitive in their PC recycling > (but I admit that I don't know). > > > Neat book. > > Thanks. I'm HOPING to have enough time over xmas break to do a bit of a > new revision and add, complete, revise this and that. Too many blank > chapters, not enough pictures, and the times, they are a changin'...;-) > > rgb > > > > Bill Taylor > > > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu > >


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On July 26, the Bakersfield Flying Club in Bakersfield, California, provided a club tour and free simulator rides to more than 20 children from the Society of Disabled Children as part of that group's STEM program.
All of the children and their families were able to tour the Meadows Airport in the vicinity of the Atlantic FBO. Many loved sitting in the club planes and others loved flying in the club's new full-motion flight simulator.
A few weeks after the tour, I was given the opportunity to volunteer at the Society and teach the kids about flight and the different aspects of aviation. Their program is called STEM, which allows for the kids to learn new curriculum. That week just so happened to be focused on flight at my request to their executive director.
I was able to teach these kids the phonetic alphabet and many learned quick enough to spell their names using the alphabet only five minutes into the lesson. The next day, I brought a desktop flight simulator and gave each child the opportunity to fly any plane they wanted. I could not keep count of the numerous smiles and happy expressions that each child showed as they flew their respective planes.


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Pulmonary Contusion
Pulmonary contusion is an injury to
lung parenchyma, leading to oedema and blood collecting
in alveolar spaces and loss of normal lung structure &
function. This blunt lung injury develops over the course
of 24 hours, leading to poor gas exchange, increased pulmonary
vascular resistance and decreased lung compliance. There
is also a significant inflammatory reaction to blood components
in the lung, and 50-60% of patients with significant pulmonary
contusions will develop bilateral Acute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome (ARDS).
Pulmonary contusions occur in approximately
20% of blunt trauma patients with an Injury
Severity Score over 15, and it is the most common
chest injury in children. The reported mortality ranges
from 10 to 25%, and 40-60% of patients will require mechanical
ventilation. The complications of pulmonary contusion
are ARDS, as mentioned, and respiratory failure, atelectasis
and pneumonia.
Pulmonary contusions are rarely diagnosed
on physical examination. The mechanism of injury may suggest
blunt chest trauma, and there may be obvious signs of
chest wall trauma such as bruising, rib
fractures or flail chest. These suggest the presence
of an underlying pulmonary contusion. Crackles may be
heard on auscultation but are rarely heard in the emergency
room and are non-specific.
Severe bilateral pulmonary contusions
may present with hypoxia - but more usually hypoxia develops
as the pulmonary contusions blossom or as a result of
subsequent ARDS.
Chest X-ray
Most significant pulmonary contusions
are diagnosed on plain chest X-ray. However the chest
X-ray will often under-estimate the size of the contusion
and tends to lag behind the clinical picture. Often the
true extent of injury is not apparent on plain films until
24-48 hours following injury.
Computed Tomography
Computed tomography (CT) is very sensitive
for identification of pulmonary contusion, and may allow
differentiation from areas of atelectasis or aspiration.
CT also allows for 3-dimensional assessment and calculation
of the size of contusions. However, most contusions that
are visible only on a CT scan are not clinically relevant,
in that they are not large enough to impair gas exchange
and do not worsen outcome. Nevertheless, CT will accurately
reflect the extent of lung injury when pulmonary contusion
is present.
L pulmonary contusion
L pneumothorax
lung contusion at
Managment of pulmonary contusion is
supportive while the pulmonary contusion resolves. Most
contusions will require no specific therapy. However large
contusions may affect gas exchange and result in hypoxaemia.
As the physiological impact of the ocntusions tends to
develop over 24-48 hours, close monitoring is required
and supplemental oxygen should be administered.
Many of these patients will also have
a significant chest wall injury, pain from which will
affect their ability to ventilate and to clear secretions.
Management of a blunt chest injury therefore includes
adequate and appropriate analgesia. Tracheal intubation
and mechanical ventilation may be necessary if there is
difficulty in oxygenation or ventilation. Usually ventilatory
support can be discontinued once the pulmonary contusion
has resolved, irrespective of the chest wall injury.
The classic management of pulmonary
contusion includes fluid restriction. Much of the data
to support this comes from animal models of isolated pulmonary
contusion. However, while relative fluid excess and pulmonary
oedema will augment any respiratory insufficience, the
consequences of the opposite - hypovolaemia are more severe
and long-lasting. Prolonged episode of hypoperfusion in
trauma patients will result in inflammatory activation
and acute lung injury, and may result in ARDS and multiple
organ failure. Hence the goal for management of patients
with pulmonary contusion should be euvolaemia.
Pulmonary contusions will usually resolve
in 3 to 5 days, provided no secondary insult occurs. The
main complications of pulmonary contusion are ARDS and
pneumonia. Approximately 50% of patients with pulmonary
contusion develop ARDS, and 80% of patients with pulmonary
contusions involving over 20% of lung volume. Direct lung
trauma, alveolar hypoxia and blood in the alveolar spaces
are all major activators of the inflammatory pathways
that result in acute lung injury.
Pneumonia is also a common complication
of pulmonary contusion, blood in the alveolar spaces providing
an excellent culture medium for bacteria. Clearance of
secretions is decreased with pulmonary contusion, and
this is augmented by any chest wall injury and mechanical
ventilation. Good tracheal toilet and pulmonary care is
essential to minimise the incidence of pneumonia in this
susceptible group.
R pulmonary contusion
(Chest wall injury)
ARDS after
R pulmonary contusions
Cohn SM. 'Pulmonary contusion:
review of the clinical entity.' J Trauma 1997;
Trinkle JK, Furman RW, Hiushaw MA et
al. 'Pulmonary contusion: pathogenesis and effect
of various resuscitative measures.' Ann Thorac
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Bongard FS, Lewis FR. 'Crystalloid
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Am J Surg 1984;148:145
Miller PR, Croce MA, Kilgo PD et al.
'Acute respiratory distress syndrome in blunt
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Am Surg 2002;68:845-50
Miller PR, Croce MA, Bee TK et al. 'ARDS
after pulmonary contusion: accurate measurement of contusion
volume identifies high-risk patients.' J Traum
Tyburski JG, Collinge JD, Wilson RF
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Episode #101 · Claus visits a pig farm to learn about the inner workings of this intriguing business. Afterwards, Claus makes pork chops, a carrot drink with wild rowanberries and bakes celeriac (celery root) in hay over an open fire in the very heart of this root vegetable paradise.
Ice Water Cooking
Episode #102 · In this Artic adventure, Claus journeys to Greenland to fish for shrimp and ice fjord halibut, which he later prepares with capers, crabmeat and potatoes. He then transforms musk ox meat into a delicious tartar, then, atop the inland ice, concocts a vodka-based drink made with Greenlandic angelica and ice.
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Cooking of Light
Episode #104 · Claus ventures to the chic port of The Skaw, the northernmost point of Denmark, to serve up some stylish fish cakes with rye bread and his own remoulade. After visiting a lively fish markets, Claus prepares flatfish with potatoes, butter sauce and pickled berries.
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Episode #105 · The island of Bornholm's spectacular scenery serves as the backdrop for this episode. After biking down to the rocky shore, Claus barbecues herring, pickled green strawberries and mustard seeds. Later, he visits a smokery before serving up an unforgettable menu of golden pancakes, strawberries and vanilla parfait.
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White Gold
Episode #107 · Claus discovers an 800-year-old salt-boiling tradition on the small islands of Samsoe and Laesoe, and then shares his recipe for boiled potatoes. Later, at the beautiful port of Vesteroe, Claus bakes freshly caught crayfish in salt with shallots and sweetens them with honey from a nearly extinct species of bees, then makes a delicious dish with the legendary Laesoe ham.
Waters of Shells
Episode #108 · At a local festival, Claus celebrates the town of Logstor's first blue mussel catch of the year. In addition to delicious blue-mussel dishes, Claus also makes a parsley oyster soup and a salad with Jerusalem artichokes, apples, chervil and berries.
Food Where The Lilacs Bloom
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"A couple of weeks ago, you may recall that the legendary Hideo Kojima Tweeted about how he asked one of his character designers to intentionally create more "erotic" characters for the purpose of cosplay and figurine sales (If you have forgotten, you can see the Tweets here). Kojima later said that his true meaning was lost in translation, and that he simply meant sexier, especially regarding the new female sniper in Metal Gear Solid V known as Quiet (See below for a "scandalous" pic)." Stealthy Box
I bet more than half the people bought Halo 4 because of Cortana. I remember watching a trailer and man, did I find her....
I also know a friend who never bought Halo 1-3, but when I asked him why he only got 4, he simply said, "better graphics and realistic characters." When I started talking about Cortana, he went fantasy mode. I guess you can say that as technology improves, we will find more naked women. Then again, Halo 4 guy really came off as a hypocrite.
I noticed this, too.
Cortana is basically holographic fan-service. A few female journalists even noted how "naked" and curvacious her body was. She's definitely rocking more sex appeal than Quiet... but then again, what do I know? I'm not a SJW with a biased slant and an agenda to push.
Yes Cortana was overly sexualized this last game but she was a fully developed powerful female character . I doubt Kojimas character will be more than tits with a big gun and will be pretty shallow compared to the depth of Cortana


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The easy way — for polluters at least — would have been to pass bipartisan legislation that gave goodies to corporations and helped them manage the transition to a clean energy economy.
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Corporations have left the congressional negotiating table ever since the BP spill broke apart the enviro-business climate coalition, as disagreements over drilling policy quickly became a chasm. And Republicans won't budge unless their corporate donors lean hard on them. They've given Obama no choice but to do it the hard way.
Of course, it's not quite that easy.
Conservative lawyers are readying their lawsuits, so the EPA has to be meticulous or risk a Supreme Court smackdown.
And President Obama wants to be careful not to spark a political backlash by slapping businesses with severe and abrupt regulations that cause unnecessary short-term economic pain.
Without buy-in from the utilities, the resulting political backlash in coal-heavy swing states could set the stage for a 2016 Republican takeover, and the very quick demise of these critical EPA regulations.
To avoid backlash, Obama needs a negotiated agreement with the power plants. Fortunately during the 2010 "cap-and-trade" debate enlightened utility industry CEOs showed their willingness to accept reasonable regulations and receive in return greatly desired long-term certainty.
Furthermore, the EPA is working a plan based on flexible state-by-state standards, designed to get that agreement. This deal is doable.
But as New York magazine's Jonathan Chait previously observed, it's not an agreement that's going to be forged in the streets, let along Congress. It's going to quietly hashed out behind closed doors. Don't expect historic speeches, and don't assume a lack of speeches means a lack of interest. In fact, a quieter process is more likely to keep the Fox News crowd from upending the negotiating table.
Once the deal is done with the relatively compliant power plants, the warning shot will have be fired across the bow of the oil and coal industries. This will happen. You're next. Once again: do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way?
This is a big deal, a much much bigger deal than whatever happens with the Keystone pipeline.
Power plants account for 40% of American's greenhouse gas emissions. Placing a carbon cap on them is a major building block toward establishing an economy-wide cap, which will be a major step toward forging an international agreement.
All the pipelines in the world can't roast us so long as we have sufficient caps on carbon pollution, at least, before it's too late. Thankfully, we are on our way.


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Steel Diver Review
Steel Diver began as a tech demo for the Nintendo DS, to show off the system's unique touch screen functionality. Six years later, the game's 3DS release proves that some relics are best left at the bottom of the ocean.
Nintendo trivia buffs might recall that Steel Diver began as a tech demo for the Nintendo DS, to show off the system's unique touch screen functionality. Six years later, the game's commercial 3DS release proves that some relics are best left at the bottom of the ocean.
The legacy of the early DS becomes Steel Diver's biggest weakness. When the DS debuted, we saw a glut of games with strict touch-screen controls, before the passage of time helped developers realize that it wasn't always appropriate. As we approached the end of the DS lifespan, touch-only controls were usually reserved for adventure or puzzle titles, while other genres mixed traditional controls with a few touch features.
Welcome back to 2004. Steel Diver shoe-horns touch controls into a side-scrolling action game. You control one of three submarines by touching virtual sliders (one for up and down, another for left and right), and buttons for missile launches and cloaking. The resulting controls are clumsy and ill-equipped to handle the hectic on-screen action of later missions. I'm not sure why it doesn't at least give an option for d-pad or analog pad controls, but the game suffers for it.
Bad situations frequently get worse -- if you bumped a wall using a d-pad, you'd naturally just stop pressing in that direction, but with slider controls I'd often continue to crash, adding damage until I could plug a leak and then move the slider. The awkward controls add some playtime due to the challenge, but for all the wrong reasons.
Not that the game is particularly long anyway. The main campaign consists of 7 missions, which take 5-15 minutes each. The final two are locked until you complete the others with each of the three available submarines, which for better or worse feels like the developers trying to squeeze some extra minutes out of the campaign.
Each mission is followed by a periscope sequence that makes use of the 3DS accelerometer. You turn in a circle, in real life, to locate enemy ships and shoot them. This is a pretty fun diversion in short bursts, even if the pack-in 3DS software Face Raiders accomplishes the same goal (with better results). You earn decals to decorate and power-up your sub, and the mini-game is offered as a separate mode.
You can take part in some time trials, navigating your subs through tight corridors. These courses are distinct from the campaign, but since the controls still rely on the touch sliders, these stages also suffer the same issues.
Finally, the game offers an entirely separate "Steel Commander" mini-game, a hex-based strategy mode and the only piece with multiplayer via Download Play. Large ships escort a submarine and supply ship. The supply ship is defenseless, but the submarine can attack, and losing either will lose the game. Attacks echo the periscope sequence, and the sub gets attacked by depth charges if it occupies the same spot as an enemy ship. It's a pretty decent offering with more nuance than I expected from an extra mode.
Steel Diver makes a poor showpiece for the new system. It doesn't take advantage of the Spot Pass feature, and the periscope strikes aren't very awe-inspiring next to Face Raiders. Worse yet, the 3D effect itself is extremely subtle even on its highest settings, often looking like foreground and background planes instead of rich depth. Problems like these only accent that the game was retrofitted for the 3DS, instead of developed for it.
At best, Steel Diver is a temporary diversion. At worst, it's frustrating, short, and an extremely hard sell at the asking price of other, more fully-featured 3DS launch games.
[This Steel Diver review is based on a retail review copy of the game provided by Nintendo, played on a Nintendo 3DS.]
Comment on Steel Diver Review, by Steve Watts.
While I don't think Steel Diver is worth the $40 price tag, is too short, and doesn't use the 3D well, I'm still enjoying the game. After about four runs I started to get used to the controls, and now I can fly through the missions with little damage in about half the time as when I first started playing.
The controls are what make the game fun for me as you really need to take the time to think about what you are doing. If you just want a quick game with easy controls.. don't bother getting this game as you'll probably like it as much as Steve did. If it seems interesting, I would pick it up used or wait until it's half the price.


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How we're fighting conflict and fragility where poverty is deepest
For the first time in history, the number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen below 10%. The world has never been as ambitious about development as it is today. After adopting the Sustainable Development Goals and signing the Paris climate deal at the end of 2015, the global community is now looking into the best and most effective ways of reaching these milestones. In this five-part series I will discuss what the World Bank Group is doing and what we are planning to do in key areas that are critical for ending poverty by 2030: good governance, gender equality, conflict and fragility, creating jobs, and, finally, preventing and adapting to climate change.
By 2030, more than half of the world's poorest people will live in very poor countries that are fragile, affected by conflict, or experience high levels of violence
These are places where governments cannot adequately provide even basic services and security, where economic activity is paralyzed and where development is the most difficult. It is also where poverty is deepest. The problems these countries face don't respect borders. About half of the world's 20 million refugees are from poor countries. Many more are displaced within their own country.
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I had cervical cancer in 1996 resulting in a radical hysterectomy and radiation treatment. The lymph nodes were also removed. I am experiencing weakness in one leg that will give out without warning or pain. Can lymphedema cause this weakness? I do have slight swelling but keep it at bay with exercise. Should I visit an oncologist for this?
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VEVEY, Switzerland (Reuters) - Food group Nestle expects to see underlying sales growth pick up to 5-6 percent next year, in line with its long-term target, Chief Executive Paul Bulcke told a media and investor meeting on Thursday.
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We partner with a third party ad network to either display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising; you will continue to receive generic ads
Cookie and Other Tracking Technologies Information
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by UpWell Health and our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
Like many companies, we use cookies for a variety of purposes to enhance your online experience, for example by remembering your log-in status, your preferred content types, etc. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.
Violation of UpWell Health' Privacy Policy and/or Terms of Use for this site may result in a user being temporarily or permanently banned from the site and UpWell Health's entire network. To prevent a banned user from being able to re-access the site by merely deleting browser cookies and creating a new login, UpWell Health may use other types of cookies to store information that would identify a banned user. Use of such cookies would constitute UpWell Health's sole use of said technology for the exclusive purpose of identifying banned users and denying site access, and said technology is not used in any other instance for tracking, profiling, or storing of user data.
Local Storage Objects
Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity use LSOs such as Flash to collect and store information.
To manage Flash LSOs please click here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
How UpWell Health Uses Your Information
In our mission to empower consumers and help enable a more consumer-centric healthcare industry, we utilize the information collected to give you more choice and tailor information to your interests. Some of the services we provide based on the information you have given us are described below:
To allow you to create an account
To create a profile for you based on information that you have provided to us
To contact you about site updates, informational and service-related communications, including important security updates
Display relevant content we think you might be interested in based on your onsite activities and selected preferences
To provide you additional communications, information, and promotions such as newsletters
To generate internal reports about the use of our site
To enable you to provide feedback, to contact us, and for us to respond to you
To conduct surveys, questionnaires, promotions and contests, and to provide the results of such activities such as success stories and contest winners
To inform you of other offers, services, or websites available from UpWell Health or third parties including our advertising partners
To tailor advertising to you both on our site and other sites on the web based on cookie information collected on our site
Submission of your Personally Identifiable Information and accessing our sites provides you with a wealth of information including discussions, ratings and reviews, and blog postings. In most cases, this information is retained and used, for instance, so you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update your community membership information, a backup copy of the prior version is kept for a reasonable period of time to enable revision to the prior version of that information should the need arise.
Furthermore, we provide you with a variety of options for you to take control of your health by providing you with promotions and offers through our partnerships. When you "opt-in" to one of our partner advertising offers and you provide your Personally Identifiable Information to receive an advertising offer within or hosted on our site we are committed to providing the information you submitted to our advertising partners.
When you make such request, you provide consent for us to disclose (share, sell, rent or trade) your Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name, address, phone or address, to said third party who may then use your Personally Identifiable Information to contact you; and provide you the information, materials, products or services you requested.
In such specific cases, you may also specifically grant UpWell Health and said third party permission to contact you by telephone, mail and/or email, including phone calls that may use computer assisted technology and/or pre-recorded messages.
Occasionally we may utilize this information ourselves in an aggregate basis to understand your preferences or disclose this same information in aggregate with our sponsors and advertising partners to provide better service to you.
We respect your privacy in the utmost and commit never to pursue the following activities:
Disclose your private online communications; however, information you choose to post in public forums or comments on our sites is open to the general public and search engines. We do however provide the ability for you to de-identify your conversations through tools that we provide like anonymous Connect posting or offer privacy solutions featured in the user profile.
Share, rent, or sell or trade your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties except where you have positively and explicitly "opted-in", to an offer within or hosted on our site requesting information, materials, products or services from a third party, such as our advertising partners.
In certain circumstances we may share Personally Identifiable Information for the following purposes:
We may employ other companies and individuals, as our subcontractors, to perform functions on our behalf. These companies and individuals may not share any Personally Identifiable Information with any third party. All such subcontractors are contractually obligated to use and maintain
The authentication and verification of Personally Identifiable Information to prevent fraud on our platform.
Disclose Personally Identifiable Information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the site's Privacy Policy and/or Terms of Use.
This same disclosure policy also applies to those cases where we believe an individual may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or property of UpWell Health, other site users, of anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Disclose or access Personally Identifiable Information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, and for administrative and other purposes deemed necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
If UpWell Health ("UpWell Health") is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
Your Obligation As a User
In accordance with our mission to empower consumers and help enable a more consumer-centric healthcare industry we rely on you to contribute to the user-generated platform. As you interact within the community site, you may post User Content. You do this at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access by other site visitors to your profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may (1.) choose to share your pages, and (2.) directly provide Personally Identifiable Information and personal information to. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.
Personally Identifiable Information, personal information, and other information you post in public areas of the site becomes User Content and can, in some instances, be edited but not everything posted can be. We ask that you provide references for any medical information posted which isn't your own personal experience (something you have personally undergone). User Content you post will be accessed, used, and stored by others around the world, including countries that might not have legislation that guarantees adequate protection with respect to your country of residence. By providing User Content for inclusion in our database, you acknowledge that you consent to your User Content being used as described herein. While UpWell Health takes measures to safeguard your Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized access or inappropriate use by third parties, UpWell Health does not control these third parties and we are not responsible for their use of User Content you post or otherwise make available in public areas of the UpWell Health sites. Accordingly, you should ensure that you do not post Personally Identifiable Information or sensitive personal information in a public area of any UpWell Health site or alternatively use tools that we provide like anonymous Connect posting or offer privacy solutions featured in the user profile.
If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information relevant to the invitation process, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. We do not store this email communication or your any information you provide about your friend.
Our website offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our site in addition to other endorsements. With your consent we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Social Media Widgets
Our website includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button, Pinterest widget, etc. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Your Rights As a User; Access/Choice
You control which (if any) of the details of your membership profile can be viewed by other members of the community.
Accessing/Updating Personally Identifiable Information
If at any time your Personally Identifiable Information changes, you may correct, update, or amend it by logging in and editing your profile's information in the "About Me" tab. If you no longer desire our service, submit your request to firstname.lastname@example.com; which will ensure the complete removal of the Personally Identifiable Information within our community websites as well as removal from our email databases. If at any time you wish to withdraw your consent to having your Personally Identifiable Information used or disclosed to third parties please contact us at email@example.com and we will remove you immediately.
Data Retention
We will retain your Personally Identifiable Information as long as your account is active, or as needed to provide you services, or until you opt-out. However, we may retain certain data you provided as we deem necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data, account recovery, or to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements. UpWell Health disclaims any liability in relation to the deletion or retention of information. UpWell Health does not control when search engines update their cache, which may contain certain information that has since been removed from UpWell Health's publicly viewable database.
Choice / Opt-Out
You may choose to stop receiving UpWell Health newsletters or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or you can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. You may also opt-out of the community by following the instruction in the Updating Personally Identifiable Information section above.
UpWell Health Response Timeframe
We will respond to your request to access within 30 business days.
Our Advertising Partners and Our Relationships to Other Companies
In our effort to empower consumers and help enable a more consumer-centric healthcare industry, we are committed to providing a free and independent service. As a result, our site may contain information, links to other sites and advertisements of healthcare services and partners that may help you make educated healthcare choices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such websites but encourage you to evaluate their specific commitment to you.
Certain products and services marketed through the site are made available by the trusted partner companies of UpWell Health with which we have a strategic alliance. To obtain these products and services you may be required to visit another company's website or a site they share with the site. When ordering, registering for, or purchasing products or services from these partners, you will be entering into an agreement with that partner, and not with UpWell Health. In these cases, this privacy policy does not apply; instead, the privacy policy of the partner providing the goods or services will apply.
We urge you to read and understand our partners' policies before entering into agreements with them. We are committed to partnering with companies that share our privacy concerns. UpWell Health, however, cannot control the way these partners collect or use information.
If you have questions about our partners' privacy policies or the privacy policies of these other sites, we encourage you to contact them directly.
All UpWell Health offers are subject to participation by the advertising partner, product availability, and any applicable state or federal laws that govern such offers. Any offers shown are reasonable facsimiles, and participating advertising partners reserve the right to withdraw offers, substitute another product, or modify offers at their sole discretion.
We use secure technology, privacy protection controls, and restrictions on employee access in order to safeguard your Personally Identifiable Information.
We use a secure, respected hosting provider for all of our sites, which are housed in a SAS 70 TYPE II certified data center.
We also use firewalls and other access controls on our servers that are monitored to help protect against security vulnerabilities.
When Personally Identifiable Information is entered or displayed on registration forms and pages, we encrypt that information. We exclusively use 2048 bit SSL certificates.
Each and every one of our employees servicing our sites are obligated to abide by the Privacy Policy. Only authorized employees servicing our sites are permitted to have access to your Personally Identifiable Information, and such access is limited by need.
Since the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to UpWell Health. There is no guarantee that the information may not be accessed, copied, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
Any improper collection or misuse by unauthorized third parties of Personally Identifiable Information, or other information provided on the site is a violation of the terms of use and should be reported to email@example.com.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time, so please review them frequently.
If we make material changes to either our Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, we will notify you here, or by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective.
Although this Privacy Policy is not a contract and does not create any legal rights, it does serve as an expression of our commitment to protecting Personally Identifiable Information.
The most current version of this Privacy Policy, which supersedes all previous versions, can be reviewed by clicking on the Privacy Policy at the bottom of each page of this site.
Your use of the site and any services provided by UpWell Health after any changes to this Privacy Policy are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of any such changes. This Privacy Policy came into effect on the date shown as the Last Updated date at the beginning of this document.
We do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information for children 12 and under. We do not associate cookie data with Personally Identifiable Information about children. If we become aware that a child has circumvented this policy, we immediately terminate the related account and delete all information/date associated with the account.
Your California Privacy Rights - Notice of Compliance to California Residents
California law requires that we provide you with a summary of your privacy rights under the California Online Privacy Protection Act ("California Act") and the California Business and Professions Code. As required by the California Act, this Privacy Policy identifies the categories of Personally Identifiable Information that we collect through this Site about individual consumers who use or visit this Site and the categories of third party persons or entities with whom such Personally Identifiable Information may be shared.
Depending on the visitor's activity at this Site, certain "Personally Identifiable Information" (as that term is defined in the California Act) may be collected, in addition to information set forth in other sections of this document. For purposes of the California Act, the term "Personally Identifiable Information" means individually identifiable information about an individual consumer collected online by us from an individual and maintained by us in an accessible form, and may include any of the following:
A first and last name.
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town.
An e-mail address.
A telephone number.
Contact information
Any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual.
Information concerning a user that the website collects online from the user, and maintains in personally identifiable form, in combination with an identifier described within this privacy policy.
See section above entitled "Updating Personally Identifiable Information" for a description of the process that we maintain for an individual consumer who uses or visits this Site to review and request changes to any of his or her Personally Identifiable Information that is collected through this Site.
See section above entitled "Changes to This Privacy Policy" for a description of the process by which we notify consumers who use or visit this site of material changes to our Privacy Policy. The effective date of this privacy policy is the date shown as the Last Updated date at the beginning of this document.
California Shine the Light Law (SB27) Compliance Statement
Under California S.B. 27 ("Shine the Light" Law), California residents have the right under certain circumstances to receive, once a year, information about third parties with whom we have shared information about you or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, and a description of the categories of personal information shared. To make such a request, please send an email to email@example.com and please include the phrase "California Privacy Request" in the subject line, the domain name of the website you are inquiring about, along with your name, address and email address. We will respond to you within 30 days of receiving such a request.
How to Contact Us
We welcome your input and feedback about our sites and the services that we provide to you. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or related Terms of Use, you may contact us via:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
• Mail: Attention: Privacy and Compliance, UpWell Health, LLC., 10855 South Riverfront Pkwy #250, South Jordan, UT 84095
Phone: 801-355-6002


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Physical Sciences
Research Highlights
August 2009
Electron Demolition Derby
How electrons respond to radiation can radically alter material properties
Scientists were surprised to find that electrons jump between ions when material is exposed to low levels of radiation, and how the charged vacancy, shown in yellow and indicated by V+, is formed.
Results: Radiation can come in a seemingly benign form like sunlight or in a more destructive form to materials, as in nuclear reactors and outer space. Either way, radiation interacts with the materials it touches. Understanding how those interactions damage or affect the properties of the material has challenged traditional computer modeling and simulation approaches. Now an international team led by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shown that how electrons respond to radiation in a solid can alter the way permanent damage is created in the material and radically affect its mechanical, magnetic, electrical, and optical properties.
Why it matters: Hard materials such as the steel used in nuclear reactors or natural minerals such as diamond look stable, but radiation exposure kicks the material's atoms off their highly organized lattices as ions that move freely inside the lattice. Previous studies led scientists to believe that the ions smashed into each other like cars in a demolition derby, with each ion car being a hard particle with immovable electrons embedded in the car's surface.
At the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, scientists like Dr. William Weber, Dr. Fei Gao, visiting scientist Dr. Haiyan Xiao, and their colleagues in Germany and China are finding that simply isn't the case. Instead of being embedded in the ion cars, the electrons sit like a cloud of exhaust around each ion, and they can actually leap from ion to ion and back again. The way they leap affects how the ions react to each other. Ions may move farther apart or closer, speed up or slow down.
"We need to understand at a fundamental level how energy is transported by both electrons and ions," said Gao, one of the key material scientists on the team. "We used much higher-level theoretical calculations to look deeper than the level of the atom to understand the response and role of the electrons."
"Understanding how defects are formed helps us understand how material is changed by radiation, which is important for safe nuclear power and space exploration," added Weber, who is a Laboratory Fellow and a Fellow in the Materials Research Society.
Methods: In a relatively new approach, the scientists used a single blast of low-level radiation to create damage, or atomic defects, in a silicon-based material so they could study the movement of both the electrons and silicon ions. Using supercomputers at EMSL, a DOE national scientific user facility, and the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center, the researchers found that electrons jumped back and forth from the moving silicon ion to surrounding atoms. This movement ultimately created permanent defects, or damage, in the material. The researchers also found that electrons can be trapped by the defects created.
The work is the first time such intensive calculations could be performed. The team, which included researchers from China's University of Electronic Science and Technology and Germany's Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, modified state-of-the-art software and took advantage of recent advances in computer hardware to perform the calculations. "When we bring together our strengths," said Weber, "we can rapidly advance the science."
What's next: Weber and Gao and their colleagues hope to apply the work to more complex materials to look at how trapped electrons affect the way defects move and interact with each other when the material is exposed to more than one blast of radiation over longer times in much larger systems and at higher levels of radiation. Improved understanding and modeling of how electrons and ions respond to radiation will lead to improved materials and performance in safely managing nuclear fuels and waste forms.
"Our current work is a snapshot," said Weber. "We want to fill out the whole picture."
Acknowledgments: This work was a collaboration among the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which was supported by the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences; the Department of Applied Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; and the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research in Dresden, Germany. Some calculations were performed on the supercomputer at EMSL, a DOE national user facility.
Reference: Gao F, H Xiao, X Zu, M Posselt, and WJ Weber. July 2009. "Defect-Enhanced Charge Transfer by Ion-Solid Interactions in SiC using Large-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations." Physical Review Letters 103(2):02745. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.027405


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The votes have been counted. We know you are anxious to find out the winners of some of your favorite Best of Bluffton categories.
BT's Best of Bluffton special section will publish June 6.
In the meantime, check blufftontoday.com, our Facebook page and the newspaper for a sneak peek at some of the winners.
TODAY'S QUESTION: Which is the best annual Bluffton event or festival?
ANSWER: The Arts and Seafood Festival won with 43 percent of the votes. The Bluffton Village Festival, which takes place on Saturday, came in second.
Who is the best mechanic? Mr. Morris at Morris Garage won with 17.4 percent of the votes. Stephen Bev Brodie came in a close second.
When you have guests visiting from out of town, where do you take them? Calhoun Street and Old Town Bluffton won with 25.1 percent of the vote
Which is the best public golf course? Hilton Head National with about 17 percent of the votes.
Where is the best place to watch the sun set? May River Church of the Cross with nearly 50 percent of the votes.
What golf course is the most challenging? Palmetto Bluff with 22 percent of the votes.
Which golf course has the best greens? Palmetto Bluff with 26 percent of the votes.


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Product features:
Set of 4 drawers, with different materials and finishing. The handles are made of polished brass, nickeled and gold plated.
Arts and Techniques: Joinery, Carving, Foundry, Lacquering, Beveling, Varnishing and Application of Golden and Copper Leaf.
Materials and Finishes: Ebony geometric mosaic veneer finished in a matte varnish and encased in a smoked glass box. (2) Hand carved wood finished in mirror. (3) Burl wood veneer finished with a high gloss varnish. (4) Hand carved wood finished in a high gloss black lacquer and encased in a tempered translucent glass box. Base: Gold leaf finished in a high gloss varnish Hardware: Handcrafted brass pulls finished in natural polished brass, or coated in gold or silver.
Product Options: MASTER BEDROOM COLLECTION, Singular Products.
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