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Yes, it's back to red wine today, the subject of a post here a few days ago. Why return so soon ? It's due to my having spotted an article by Nic Fleming, science correspondent of the Telegraph, about a particular substance in grape skins that is reckoned to have an anti-ageing, life-prolonging effect - at least in obese mice, and a range of lower life forms ( fish, yeast etc).
The substance is called resveratrol. It's one of those so-called polyphenols. On the right is a model of what the molecule looks like, colour coded to show up key features. Now that's where this particular blogger has great trouble in preparing his day's post. You see, it's like this: he labours under this absurd and masochistic 'duty to explain' where chemistry is concerned .
Duty to bore the pants off, more like it .....
If I were using a pen or pencil, the wastepaper bin would now be full of discarded drafts – either too detailed, or too dumbed down. (I do not envy MSM science writers one little bit their job of making science accessible, but without over-egging the pudding. )
So here's what I propose to do. I'll simply add a few extra sentences for now, explaining briefly what all the excitement is about, and then publish. Those who are interested may find that I have later tacked on some extra information, as and when I can get my act together. Late additions will be in blue.
The obvious question is: how does resveratrol work in mice, and would it have the same effect in people ? That's the interesting thing. Up until recently, it's been supposed that polyphenols might delay ageing, and prolong lifespan, by their antioxidant properties – mopping up the free radicals that are formed when our bodies use oxygen to release energy from food. But there are dozens of different antioxidants in the diet – vitamins C, E etc- so who's to say which is best, under which conditions ? But this particular polyphenol, resveratrol, apparently works by an entirely different mechanism that has nothing to do with its antioxidant properties. It's to do with particular proteins ("sirtuins") that protect DNA.
I'll spare you the details, and just leave it at saying this. It's long been known that one can extend the lifespan of mice by keeping them on a low-calorie diet. And it's believed that works by the second (non-oxidative) mechanism involving those sirtuins. Trouble is, no one knows if calorie-deprivation prolongs human life . That's well nigh impossible to test, except possibly in cooperative lifers in prison ! And even if it did, would you want to half-starve yourself, even if it gained you some extra years ? For what ? The prospect of yet more starvation ?
But here's the good news – perhaps – though it's still early days. Resveratrol is supposed to work by the same mechanism as calorie restriction, ie on sirtuins . If that can be confirmed in humans, it means one could take the stuff as an alternative to starvation, either by increasing consumption of the few items which have the stuff ( notably red wine - yes please- or peanuts) or possibly (and more controversially) in the form of a dietary supplement or pill *.
As indicated, the best source of resveratrol is red wine (especially if made from Muscadine grapes ). But it's not in white wine, or grape juice. Why is that ? Resveratrol is only in the skin of the grape (where it protects again fungal attack). It's not in the juice, and, what's more, cannot dissolve out into the juice, on account of it being virtually insoluble in water. But when the grape juice is fermented in the presence of the skins (to make red wine), the resveratrol is gradually dissolved out by alcohol. So you see why there's no resveratrol in grape juice (skins discarded) or in white wine ( fermented in absence of skins) .
It's been suggested that red wine might explain why French suffer fewer heart attacks than we Brits, despite having as much, if not more saturated fats in their diet.
*Although speaking for myself, I have a strong aversion to the idea of popping pills, just because someone's done some research and found this or that. Who knows what they haven't yet discovered, eg some untoward effects elsewhere in the body ? Some years back, there used to be a dreadful woman who wrote for one of the Sunday papers about health and nutrition, who was constantly scouring the shelves of health food shops for the latest miracle supplement, and concluded each article with the words " So I naturally take two of those pills as well each day". Not surprisingly, she later had to take permanent sick leave, malady unspecified ....
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Heard yet about resveratrol ?
Posted by sciencebod at 1:08 pm
Labels: antioxidants, muscadine grapes, red wine, resveratrol, sirtuins
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There is more detail on it at wikipedia, including foods, supplement info, and the science behind it.
- 29/1/07 3:12 am
- sciencebod said...
Thanks Anthony
I'd almost given up hope getting a comment on this subject ...
Maybe folk don't want to think of wine as medicine !
29 Jan 2007 !
- 29/1/07 7:27 am
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When designing an electrical equipement product, you typically have the following sub-systems to design and integrate together:
For (1,2,3), there are a lot of standard/COTS products available so that you can quickly have a prototype ready using those components (while there is still innovation going on in each of these areas). However, for (4), this is less obvious and knowing that embedded software costs amount for a large part of electronic product design (>50% according to PwC), it has to be carefully planned.
Splitting software into components
Software inside an electronic product can be split into 3 important components: (1) commodity interfaces, (2) specialized interfaces and (3) application software (that may or may not run over an OS) – see image below (taken from my ebook on custom electric motor drive design).
Commodity interfaces are typically packaged with your chip bundle of tools or available at a very low price, unless you are using something that's not standard. Applications software is the software that is specific to your product (a robot, a drone, a medical device, etc.), i.e. "your sauce". Then you have the "specialized interfaces": middleware/drivers meant to work with a "complex" peripheral like a power stage or a camera. Those drivers typically contains very "domain-specific" functions that need advanced knowledge and expertise to be developped.
This is where it becomes tricky because you need to source those interfaces from somewhere: i.e. (1) develop them 'in-house' or (2) get them from a third party IP provider. The sourcing of the specialized interface is influenced by available time, budget, talent and also the type of product you are developping:
Either option may also be influenced by the pressure on anticipated costs/profits and time of development of your product: the higher the pressure is on costs and time of development, the higher the benefits of leveraging third-party IP sourcing (if available and making financial sense against in-house development).
However, the lines get blurred when ones uses a "reference design". Those reference designs typically come from a third-party (chip vendor) and are a great start for a project. However, it is important to know that a reference design is not an IP: you need domain expertise to use them otherwise you may get troubles, especially in power electronics applications. This topic is so important that I will make it stand as a future blog post shortly. Stay tuned!
Some of you may have noticed, I have changed the title of this blog from "FPGA Technology and Embedded Software IP in Power Electronics Apps" to "Embedded Software IP & Technology Transfer in Power Electronics Apps" (check the top of the screen). What has happened?
This blog began while I was still doing my PhD. in the field of FPGA-based motor drives in 2008 and lots of time has passed since then. With the recent acquisition of Altera by Intel, we can now think that FPGAs are now "mainstream" chips and their particularity is not that distant with other chips used for embedded computing on the market (as it used to be), other that you have some logic fabric on which you can design custom VHDL functions to work as peripherals to a processor (soft processor like NIOS II on the FPGA fabric or hard processor such as ARM on the chip itself aside the FPGA fabric). Of course this makes them special and unique to develop new type of applications – that you can't do with other chips like DSPs and MCUs – but from the point of view of the embedded system design, especially with SoCs, they are not the "bizarre" chips anymore only reserved to old electrical engineers thinking only in VHDL.
That being said, the continuity with this blog is still "embedded software IP". This is still a passion for me because, I am still amazed how the complexity of embedded software design is still ignored in the process of designing electronic products. Embedded software development for mobile phones, i.e. the "apps", is very well developped and organized but it is pretty much complicated in all other applications where the electronic part is custom. There is still a lot of "electrical engineering" mentality in the approach of designing software for those applications and this is especially true for industrial/power electronics applications.
Because embedded software is so linked with innovation, i.e. little/no value in the hardware and most/all the value in the software, I have shifted the focus of this blog on the other side: on process of getting true innovation from labs to market, also known as "technology transfer". This is where it connects with "intellectual property", i.e. invention, patents, etc. By learning the process of how to really leverage existing intellectual property, a designer can really improve his productivity in developping new products. The designer embracing technology transfer is like the software engineer that learns to reuse existing code and build his application on the top of it (very productive), rather than building everything from scratch (not productive). For me, technology transfer is like "code reuse 2.0".
Hence, at that time of the year I used to write a review of what happened in the field of FPGA, especially for power electronics applications. I won't do it this year. I may come back next year with a similar idea. Meanwhile, I hope you will like this blog's "new flavor". Feel free to let me know what you think !
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Special Sessions: More than 30 Special Sessions on specific, emerging topics are being organized during the conference, and are open for submission.
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While going through this ebook, you will be able to identify key steps in designing your own system using Intel FPGA free EDA Tools. This is a great way to save time and to quickly put your efforts in building your own FPGA-based embedded system! This ebook is great not only for people designing FPGA-based embedded control systems, but to any people planning to design a new electronic product with a Intel FPGA for the first time.
Format: Powerpoint presentation, 59 pages.
2015 has been a big year for power electronics innovations, both from a technical and a business point of view. Of course, Elon Musk has been making the news every week regarding Tesla or other new home battery project closing the gap between its solar power generation business and its EV business. Paris treaty on climate change (#cop21) is also probably a good long-term news regarding the increasing necessity to generate power from renewables sources (=> power electronics) and to reduce energy consumption in every sector, including aerospace ( conversion of hydraulic actuators to electro-mecanic actuators => more electric aircraft, solar powered airplanes => Solar impulse, etc.). Otherwise, here are specific topic/news that got my attention in 2015.
1- Chip vendors: Mergers and Acqusitions (M&A)
The big news of the year for FPGA-based embedded system designers is obviously the acquisition of Altera by Intel last June and closed last month. It has been rumored since a quite long time, especially by journalist Kevin Morris, and it will probably significatively change the dynamic in the FPGA technology business, i.e. the 30 years battle with rival Xilinx. Regarding Xilinx, there also have been rumors to be acquired by Avago (May) and later by Qualcomm and IBM (November). According to this article, "2015 has become a perfect storm for acquisitions, mergers, and consolidation among major suppliers, which are seeing sales slow in their existing market segments and need to broaden their businesses to stay in favor with investors. Rising costs of product development and advanced technologies are also driving the need to become bigger and grow sales at higher rates in the second half of this decade. The emergence of the huge market potential for the Internet of Things (IoT) is causing major IC suppliers to reset their strategies and quickly fill in missing pieces in their product portfolios".
Among other M&A relevant to power electronics applications are: (1) acquisition of Freescale by NXP (March), (2) acquisition of IRF by Infineon and finally (3) acquisition of Fairchild by ON Semiconductors but the last one is not closed yet.
2- Internet-of-things (IoT)
As indicated above, communication between objects – IoT – is now driving a lot of change in the semiconductor industry, including of course in power electronics applications such as power generation, industrial automation and automotive. It has never been more easy to acquire data and to pipe it out onto a SaaS platform to store it and analyze it (check this 5$ Raspberry PI or this 19$ per unit Photon). Value created by this process is amazing: you now have access to data you didn't have before and this data allows you to take better business decisions and also to create completely new functionnalities. The challenge is now to analyze this data and build high-value information out of it: condition-monitoring and fault detection of PV panels is certainly a good example. If you want to learn more on the industrial IoT (IIoT), McRock Capital – a canadian VC firm specialized in this sector – has compiled 30 reports available for download on the subject.
Among the available IoT platforms out there, one did catch my attention: Initial State. This Nashville, TN, startup has managed to build a very easy to use web-based platform where you can stream your product data and quickly analyze it. My firm – Alizem – has even released a new IoT product based on this platform that allows you to connect existing electrical equipment to this platform. The same module has also been integrated as an option to Alizem Motor Control Software for Altera MAX10 FPGA devices and it is – to date – the only IoT software/IP solution available on Altera website.
3- Rise of GaN technology
While this blog is on power electronics, we mostly talk about digital control / software innovations related to power electronics applications and it is rare we see true / game-changing innovation on the power electronics device side. 2015 is not like other years with the rise of GaN technology. According to Alex Lidow's led startup EPC, GaN-based transistors "have characteristics very similar to the power MOSFET, but with improved high speed switching, lower on-resistance, and a smaller size than their silicon predecessors. These new capabilities, married with a step forward in high-density packaging, enable power conversion designers to reduce power losses, reduce system size, improve efficiency, and ultimately, reduce system costs." Hence, this is no big surprize that some GaN players are actively involved into Google's Littlebox challenge, including Canada-based GaN Systems who raised 20M$ for its development in May 2015. According to the contest website, we should know about the winner pretty soon (January 2016).
What's up for 2016? With all those major changes in the air, there is no reason to think that 2016 is going to slow down ! Thanks for reading this review and let me know of anything you think I should add up. Meawhile, we are now all set for a new year of innovation in the crazy world of power electronics !
Have you checked the November 2015 issue of IEEE IES Transactions on Industrial Electronics ? There is a special section on the precise topic of "Monitoring, Prognosis and Techniques for Increasing the Lifetime & Reliability of Photovoltaic Systems". Here are the titles of the seven articles selected for this special section:
1- "Operation of cascaded H-bridge multilevel converters for large-scale photovoltaic power plants under bridge failures"
2- "Online two-section PV array fault diagnosis with optimized voltage sensor locations"
3- "Photovoltaic systems reliability improvement by real-time FPGA-based switch failure diagnosis and fault tolerant DC-DC converter"
4- "Model-based degradation analysis of photovoltaic modules through series resistance estimation"
5- "Dual-Kalman-filter-based identification and real-time optimization of PV systems"
6- "A survey on mismatching and aging of PV modules: The closed loop"
7- "Innovative automated control system for PV fields inspection and remote control"
In the context of the rise of PV systems for solar power generation and also the Internet-of-things (IoT), the timing for this publication is very good. This is exactly the type of information that needs to be generated by controllers (and sent to operators via IoT) to maximize energy-efficiency of PV systems AND also reduce any chance of unplanified downtime leading to loss of revenues.
You certainly know already a lots of things about IoT (if not, read this or this), but do you know about the Initial State's IoT platform ? Briefly, that's a web-based platform (SaaS) to which you can stream data out from your electronics devices. The platform is then going to store this data for you and enable you to visualize/report it quite nicely, always through your preferred web browser.
They have had quite success so far in the hobby/consumer space, enabling to easily pipe data out of a Raspberry PI for all sorts of cool applications. The need to pipe out informations from controllers is everywhere, especially in industrial electronics (that's Industrial IoT, IIoT). Hence, this type of feature is a perfect fit with Alizem embedded motor control software products enabling to pipe out informations regarding electric motor's states: temperature, currents, rotor position, speed, etc.
For those reasons, I am pleased to announce the release of Alizem IoT Interface software that's meant to connect new and existing electrical equipment products to Initial State's IoT platform. This new product is now available in two versions: standalone (great for existing products) and integrated into Alizem embedded motor control software (ideal for new products). Both versions include a reference design based on Altera MAX10 FPGA Development kit.
For electrical equipement manufacturers, that's a great way to integrate IoT features easily and quickly and also to:
For more information, please visit www.alizem.com/iot and/or feel free to contact me over this blog.
Best Regards, Marc.
This blog has been originally published here, on LinkedIn.
Dear reader, thank you for reading my blog. I take this opportunity to wish you an happy new year 2015, fulfilled with great new designs and hopefully as few bugs as possible. Like previous years, I will take some time to review – from my perspective – the last year in the excitating world of electronics innovation (device + software) related to power electronics applications.
2014: The SoC year
For me 2014 has been the "SoC" year with main FPGA manufacturers (i.e. Altera & Xilinx) heavily promoting their new ARM processor centric + FPGA fabric devices (the Cyclone V SoC for Altera and the Zynq for Xilinx). While the idea of having a hard processor connected to a FPGA is not new (Microsemi is doing this since a while with SmartFusion released by Actel in 2009 and Xilinx have had hard PowerPC processors in their Virtex II since 2002), the idea of positionning those devices as "software-centric" is new. What it means is: with those SoC devices (Cyclone V & Zynq), you are not buying a FPGA anymore: you are buying a software programmable chip that has a bunch of peripherals around two ARM processors plus some FPGA fabric. That's a radical change of mentality from hardware companies that must be applauded. The typical embedded software guy can now program a "FPGA SoC" device without having to deeply know about FPGA first: they can start programming their application software of the ARM processor and then optimize I/Os & some hardware accelerated functions with FPGAs. This is without mentionning that those device now integrate in the large ARM software ecosystem and all synergies that it provides.
How this impacts power electronics apps ? From an system architecture point of view, a power converter (for motor control and solar power conversion) is only another type of peripheral inside a system (just like an audio or a video peripheral). Electronic product devices typically have three interfaces: (1) a human machine-interface (buttons), (2) a communication interface (for external world data exchange / IoT) and (3) a specialized interface (in the case of a surveillance system, that's a camera in the case of an electric motor drive that's a power stage). Hence, in my opinion, those SoC devices are going to accelerate a convergence toward standard system architecture that include standard interfaces (for HMI and communication) and specialized interfaces (like camera or power converter). In the example of a smart camera system, you can think to have one processor dedicated to the general management of the application, one processor dedicated to extracting image features coming out of the camera and part of the FPGA fabric dedicated to run the multi-axis smart camera motor controller.
For more reading on the topic, I invite you to read Kevins Morris articles on this topic (this one, this one and this one). Also, don't miss Adam Taylor's MicroZed Chronicles: he did an amazing job of releasing ~60 blog articles in the last year on using Xilinx Zynq SoC devices.
Google Little Box Challenge
Last July, Google has launched an amazing power electronics system design challenge called the Little Box Challenge. Basically it means to "figure out how to shrink an inverter down to something smaller than a small laptop (a reduction of > 10× in volume) and smaller than everyone else". Cash price is 1M$. According to Don Tan – president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) – "the inverter will have to have an efficiency greater than 95 percent and handle loads of 2 kVA. It also has to fit in a metal enclosure of no more than 40 cubic inches (655 cubic centimeters) and withstand 100 hours of testing". This is a great opportunity for wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors device manufacturers to show their energy-efficiency benefits and for the best power electronics system designers to show their talent and creativity. The grand prize winner will be announced sometime in January, 2016.
Altera MAX10: Getting some A2D to PLDs
Back to the electronic device world. Last September, Altera has announced the availability of a new type of device: the MAX10. From my understanding, this device positions at the high end of the MAX PLD family and the low-end of the Cyclone family. Hence, this is a very low-cost device (as typical MAX PLD) but has full-featured FPGA capabilities (as Cyclone device) which means that you can embedded a NIOS II soft processor in this device (not possible with previous MAX PLDs). The most important feature – that is especially relevant to power electronics control system design – is that this devices integrates 1 or 2 analog-to-digital (A2D) converter blocks, depending on the device model. In the design of a FOC electric motor drive for example, those A2D can be obviously used to sample phase currents. Typical DSP and MCU have integrated A2Ds and this was missing into the low-cost FPGA space (the notable exception being Microsemi's mixed-signal FPGAs, but those are not positionned as 'low-cost' devices).
Again, you can read Kevin Morris on this topic.
Alizem COTS software for mission-critical motor electric motor drives applications
You know my firm Alizem innovates in the field of power electronics embedded software. The goal being to help system/product designers to spend less time reinventing the wheel and spend more time and money building their true product differenciation by reusing pre-tested software. In 2014, Alizem has released a brand new product meant to reduce energy loss and increase fault robustness of PMSM and BLDC motors. This new product is based on a technology developped over the last 10 years at the Canadian Space Agency. This is a great fit in aerospace applications (i.e. "More Electric Aircraft" technologies) that are always looking for ways to reduce airplane fuel consumption (they can achieve same performance with 20% smaller motors, hence reduced weight, space and fuel). Same logic applies for automotive industry. This is a perfect example of how EDA/IP industry can help OEM to integrate more innovation (value) in their products while reducing developments costs, risks and time-to-market.
My ebook on "How to design a custom electric motor drive system using COTS components ?"
That's something I wanted to write since a long time because there are a lots of books on the market on the different aspects of electric motor drive design (i.e. electric machine design, power converter design, controller design) but none treating specifically on the embedded software of this application with a practical approach. While it may be improved, I am glad of the result and I invite you to download it for FREE. I would be more than happy to receive your comments about it (send me an email).
This review is for sure incomplete but – in my opinion – it gathers important points of 2014. Please let me know if you think I forgot something important. Again, happy design for 2015!
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Spring in Chicago brings with it high winds, random snow flurries, and torrential downpours. Some how through this, new plant life sprouts up all around us. From the first little green buds on the trees, to the little green sprouts of daffodils poking through the snow. The Science Giants at Al Raby are excited to get started on March 14th, we will get to continue exploring the amazing Garfield Park Conservatory and will be able to give a full tour of the Conservatory by the end of the semester. We will also be learning about springtime in Chicago. At Al Raby there are a few small gardens that have become overrun with weeds and garbage. At the end of the winter semester the students and I decided that we wanted to help fix up these gardens this spring. We will be learning about plants that are native to the Chicagoland area and planting them in these gardens. We would love show the community a small sample of what springtime in Chicago may have looked like before the settlers came here.
This is an exciting time for the Science Giants, the ten students who finished the program with us in the winter have all decided to return! We will have the opportunity to add five amazing new students to our program. The new students are all excited to get started, while the old students are excited to help take on the responsibility of helping teach the new students what Science Giants is all about. During interviews I was able to touch base with the returning students and it was great to hear how excited they were to get started. Jabria had a bunch of great ideas of things she would like to do this semester, "for the new students could we do the fruit lab we did last semester, but outside as a picnic!?" It was exciting to see how they were not only glad we were starting again, but had ideas of how to include the new students!


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Blacksmith Freight are proud to sponsor the Benchill Celtic under 12's football team from Manchester, one of the biggest and longest established clubs in the Wythenshawe area. Roger Black Managing Director says 'we are delighted to offer our support to such a very important community project'.
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Johan Sverdrup is now open. That's good news for our investors, for Norway — and for emissions.
Our record-breaking Johan Sverdrup field was officially opened by Prime Minister Erna Solberg on January 7. Now we're creating value, benefitting Norwegian society and reducing emissions. Find out more here.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg carried out the official opening of Johan Sverdrup on January 7th.
It's Norway's third largest oil field—ever. But what about the climate?
The Johan Sverdrup field is a technological triumph and a milestone for the Norwegian oil industry, supplying the world with energy, and creating value for society. It is expected to increase production to 470,000 barrels per day in Phase 1, at unprecented low cost and high quality.
Some people are saying we should stop producing oil altogether, for the sake of the climate. But we believe Johan Sverdrup is a prime example of exactly why we shouldn't do that. Find out more below.
We know that the world must reduce use of hydrocarbons. So why are we so proud of our new oil field?
Less than 4%
Emissions per barrel produced, compared with world average
18 kg CO2
World average emissions per barrel produced
0,67 kg CO2
Emissions per barrel produced at Johan Sverdrup
Less than 4 %.
That's how little CO2 the Johan Sverdrup field emits compared with the world average for oil production. Thanks to largely hydroelectric power from shore, we will avoid emissions of more than 620,000 tonnes of CO2 every single year.
On average, around the world, there are 18 kg of CO2 emissions for every barrel of oil produced. On the Norwegian continental shelf, the average is much lower, but still around 9 kg. At the Johan Sverdrup field, emissions will be a record low of 0.67 kg — or 4 % of the world average — per barrel produced.
World energy demand continues to rise, and we will still have a significant need for oil and gas in the foreseeable future. But not all barrels are created equal — and it's important that the oil which is produced, is produced as cleanly as possible. That's why Johan Sverdrup is a prime example of how technological innovation can provide solutions, and why Norwegian oil and gas are important in a climate perspective.
Johan Sverdrup is now supplying countless countries with energy and raw materials. And benefitting society economically.
The world must fulfil the Paris Agreement — but we still need oil, to fill the gap left by rising energy demand and declining production. The Johan Sverdrup field will supply millions of people with the energy they need to live their lives, and in its estimated 50 year lifespan it will also generate significant financial income for Norway, thanks to the 78% marginal tax rate on the Norwegian oil industry.
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Oil has widespread uses, not just as a fuel — but also for medicines, plastics, textiles, technological products, as well as in the iron, steel and cement industries.
The oil and gas industry creates positive economic ripple effects, not only for the many tens of thousands of people directly employed by the oil industry, but for all Norwegians, in the form of significant tax revenues for the state.
With the help of technology developed over five decades on the Norwegian continental shelf, Johan Sverdrup will have low emissions to sea and air and a high recovery rate. Furthermore, we're aiming for a high recovery rate of more than 70 percent, meaning that we can contribute to securing growth, jobs and industrial development for decades to come.
Johan Sverdrup creates economic ripple effects in Norway:
in the development phase
of contracts
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The development and operation of Johan Sverdrup will provide revenue and employment to new generations of Norwegians for five decades to come.
But we're not doing the job alone. We have a whole industry with us; our partners and suppliers' experience, and the authorities' ambitions for the Norwegian Continental Shelf — enabling us to create positive ripple effects for the entire country.
The Johan Sverdrup development can generate more than 150,000 person-years of employment during the construction phase of 2015—2025. In the first phase of the development, 70% of the contracts were awarded to suppliers in Norway. And in the operational phase, Johan Sverdrup may contribute to employment of more than 3,400 people each year—as well as generating income for the Norwegian state exceeding NOK 900 billion over the lifetime of the field.
Johan Sverdrup: a pioneer in digitalisation
The Johan Sverdrup field is also a pioneer in the use of technology and digitalisation. Equinor operates a "digital twin" of the field, which enables us to have an continuous overview of what is happening on Johan Sverdrup, helping to increase safety, maximise returns and reduce emissions.
By leveraging large quantities of data, application developers can increase efficiency and reduce downtime, enabling our employees to do their jobs more safely and sustainably.
Find out more about digitalisation in Equinor in the stories below.
Johan Sverdrup news archive
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July 7, 2020
Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig returning to Johan Sverdrup
Equinor and its partners have signed a letter of intent with Odfjell Drilling for the Deepsea Atlantic rig to drill 12 wells during phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup field development, following its work on phase 1.
March 30, 2020
Expecting faster ramp-up to higher plateau production on Johan Sverdrup
The North Sea Johan Sverdrup field expects to reach plateau production for the first phase in early May, earlier than anticipated.
January 7, 2020
The Norwegian prime minister opened the Johan Sverdrup field today
Norway's prime minister Erna Solberg performed the official opening of the Johan Sverdrup field centre today, and the Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Sylvi Listhaug, also attended the opening.


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Is fatigue during exercise caused by tired muscles? Or, could it actually have more to do with your brain than your body?
In the 19th century, physiologist Angelo Mosso proposed the notion that fatigue had little to do with your body and nearly everything to do with your mind. (1)
At first blush, this idea seems ridiculous. Anyone who has exercised to the point of exhaustion would argue that the muscles physically fatigue and cannot contract any longer. Those of you suffering from adrenal fatigue, CFS, or any other condition where fatigue plays a prominent role will also likely be rolling your eyes. And rightly so.
Could fatigue really just be in your head?
What exactly is fatigue?
Fatigue can be manifested as difficulty or inability initiating activity (perception of generalized weakness); reduced capacity maintaining activity (easy fatigability); and difficulty with concentration, memory, and emotional stability (mental fatigue). (2)
A 2-week cross-sectional survey done in the United States found that 38% of people suffered from fatigue. (3) To be clear, this number represents pathological forms of fatigue. If we were to include people who also suffer from fatigue during their workouts, the number would likely be near 100%.
This post is related to fatigue experienced during exercise. This is an entirely different type of fatigue than chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or adrenal fatigue. Both CFS and adrenal fatigue describe underlying physiological processes that cause fatigue.
In this post, I focus on how fatigue during exercise could actually be a brain-derived condition and have little to do with your muscles. For those readers with CFS and/or adrenal fatigue, you may find some of the below content very interesting. I'd encourage you to read on!
What causes exercise fatigue?
Fatigue can be the result of a chronic illness – it is exhausting being sick for a long time. Fatigue can be a side effect of a medication. Or, fatigue can be the illness unto itself – like in conditions such as adrenal fatigue, hypothyroidism, iron deficiency anemia, or chronic fatigue syndrome. Exploring all the potential causes of fatigue is beyond the scope of this post. Instead, I want to focus on fatigue framed through the lens of your brain during exercise. This is called the central governor theory.
The central governor theory suggests that your brain regulates your exercise intensity to a level that is thought to be safe for your body. (4) This means that it's your brain that stops you from pushing through to do an extra rep on your back squats or to run an extra mile. It is thought that your brain tries to keep the intensity of physical activity (exercise) tightly controlled so that the exercise does not threaten your body's homeostasis.
Have you experienced the feeling of not being able to do any more reps at the gym?
That's the central governor at work. Your brain stops you from doing one more rep by reducing the recruitment of muscle fibers in a given muscle group. It's this decrease in muscle fiber recruitment that causes you to experience fatigue in your muscles. But it's not your muscles that are tired. It's your brain's effort to protect your muscles and body from further damage.
The central governor theory was suggested to help explain fatigue after prolonged strenuous exercise in long-distance running and other endurance sports by Tim Noakes in 1997. (5)
Your brain on exercise
What does your brain do while you're exercising?
That's the area of study Tim Noakes specialized in. In Tim's studies, it is thought that your brain is continually monitoring the power output of muscle groups. If your brain notices too much power going to a specific group of muscles, it will decrease the number of fibers firing in that group. You'll experience the decreased firing of fibers as muscular fatigue.
If you're doing lunges, you'll (likely) start to feel fatigue in your quadriceps and gluteal muscles. Soon, you'll need to either stop the movement or decrease the weight. If you're running, you may feel the fatigue in your calves, hamstrings, quadriceps, and/ or glutes; your running pace will start to slow.
Your brain is often preparing you for a worst-case scenario. Think back to the days of your hunter-gatherer ancestors. During these times, it would be foolish to use up all of your energy reserves doing any one activity. If you did, you'd have no energy left to deal with sudden threats. In this era, the threats were more likely to be life-threatening – lion/tiger/bear encounters, invasion of a warring tribe, food shortages, etc. If you used up all of your energy, you would have likely died.
It is this same cautious approach that your brain uses today. Even though you (hopefully) no longer have life-threatening situations to deal with, your brain still wants you to keep some energy in reserve. (6, 7) In order to do this, your brain makes you experience fatigue. When you feel tired, you're more likely to stop. All of this happens outside of your conscious control.
What (really) causes your muscles to fatigue?
Don't your muscles fatigue because they're lacking oxygen and/or glucose?
Yes. And no. Here's why:
When you exercise, the mitochondria in your muscles cells need to create ATP. Think of ATP as energy for your cells. In order to do this, your mitochondria take glucose from your blood go through a complex chemical reaction called the Krebs cycle. The series of chemical reactions in the Krebs cycle creates ATP, or, energy for your muscle cells to use; which in turn allows you to continue exercising.
ATP is needed for all muscular movement. If you're exercising at a rapid rate, your body may not be able to produce enough ATP (energy) to keep up with the demands of the workout. If your body struggles to keep up with ATP production, lactic acid will accumulate in your muscle tissue. Too much lactic acid build up in muscle results in muscular fatigue – or, your inability to do another rep.
If you want to continue exercising, you'll need to slow your pace or take a short break. This will allow the lactic acid in your muscles to be replaced with ATP. Which gives your muscles the energy they need to continue exercising.
Contrary to popular belief, it is not lactic acid that causes soreness in your muscles. By the time your breathing rate has returned to normal, your cells have converted lactic acid back into glucose through another part of the Krebs cycle. The soreness you experience after exercise is due to tiny tears in your muscle fibers.
The healing of these tears causes an increase in muscle size as well as the number of mitochondria found with the tissue. This should (in theory) allow your muscle(s) to workout harder and longer after they have healed. Remember to allow your muscles time to recover after exercise. They need rest in order to grow new mitochondria.
How your brain intervenes during exercise
Now, you're familiar with the detailed intricacies that go on in your muscle cells during exercise.
So, how does your brain meddle with this process?
Do you remember earlier in the post when I talked about how your brain is able to decrease the number of muscle fibers your body can recruit? Let's imagine a simple example where you have 100 muscle fibers in your biceps muscles. You've done 10 bicep curls at the gym of a challenging weight. You're utilizing all 100 of your muscles fibers for the first ten reps. But now, you start to notice slight fatigue in the muscles.
This fatigue is your brain signaling to decrease the number of muscle fibers firing in your biceps. Instead of 100 fibers, now your brain has reduced your capacity to 75 (these are arbitrary numbers used solely to better illustrate this example). At 75 fibers, you have 25% fewer mitochondria helping energize your muscle cells.
What happens next?
The next few reps become very challenging. In response, your brain decreases the number of fibers firing even more. Now, you're down to 50% of mitochondria and muscle fibers. At this point, you'll likely only be able to squeeze out one or two more reps. Then, it's time to rest.
Your brain interjects your workout to ensure you:
a) Save some energy for later
b) Don't do permanent damage to your muscle(s)
In all likelihood, your body is more than capable to exercise much longer and more intensely that you believe. Many high-performance athletes have trained themselves to push through the muscle fatigue and discomfort in order to achieve amazing feats.
For the rest of us, whose ambitions are more aligned with health and wellbeing as opposed to the highest performance, try leaning into the discomfort just a little longer than you're used to! Instead of stopping when you start to experience muscle fatigue and/or soreness, see if you can stay with that discomfort for just ten more seconds. This is how you'll continue to experience improvement in your given exercise pursuit(s).
Remember, don't push it for too long. And always ensure you're taking recovery days. Overtraining can be a sneaky cause of fatigue.


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The incident happened at 221 Park Street Friday afternoon.
Police say a woman driving the car lost control and slammed through the side of the Master Builders of Iowa building.
According to police, the woman driving the car and a male passenger both suffered minor injuries. No one inside the building was injured.
Witnesses reported the car swerving and then going airborne. After the crash, several people rushed in to help.
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WAR!: AGE OF IMPERIALISM (Eagle Games, 2 to 6 players, 2-3 hours; $49.99)
The late 19th and early 20th Century was a time of vast expansion as major powers sought to increase their influence and holdings throughout the world. In War! Age of Imperialism, that world comes to life as players compete to build the largest empire in the world.
War! Age of Imperialism comes in a large deep box and, like its sister game The American Civil War (featured in the Spring 2002 GA REPORT), is designed and created by Glenn Drover with stunning artwork by Paul Niemeyer. The game comes with a huge 46″ x 36″ mapboard, over 800 detailed plastic miniatures, play aids and a comprehensive rulebook containing three sets of rules: Basic, Standard and Advanced.
The map of the game depicts the continents of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia divided into regions and sea areas. (Land regions are "color-coded" to show their Global Region affiliation, which becomes an important consideration in the Standard and Advanced rules). Unlike many of your traditional war games, area movement rather than hex movement is the norm.
Two main types of pieces populate the game: those that move (armies [subdivided into infantry, cavalry, artillery and leaders], ships and explorers) and those that cannot (buildings and markers).
Each player begins with a set number of regions (from 10 in a two player game down to 4 when six players are competing). Regions are claimed by the players, one at a time, by placing an infantry piece in it. One native and one resource marker is then placed face down in each unclaimed area. Now, players may "build" their starting forces.
Players begin with a "bankroll" of 120 Production Points. Infantry, the weakest army piece, costs 10 PP, cavalry 15 PP, artillery 20 PP and a Leader, the most powerful piece, a pricey 40 PP. Explorers costs 10 PP while ships require 25 PP to be built. All buildings (which include cities, ports, railroads, factories and forts) cost 20 PP. Buildings not only give advantages to the controlling player (e.g. ports allow the production of new ships), they PRODUCE (with the exception of forts) Production Points each turn. New pieces begin in any claimed area of the player. After that, although infantry may be placed in any area belonging to the player, ships may only be placed in areas with ports while cavalry, artillery, Leaders and explorers may only be placed in areas containing a city. (Forts are an exception to the rule of only one building per area.)
Three phases make a game turn. The first phase is a movement round where each player moves any or all of his forces and then resolves any battles that may occur. The next phase is ANOTHER movement round where, once again, forces are moved and battles resolved. The last phase is production. Players total up the production points they have generated (from regions, resources and buildings) and use them to purchase more pieces.
Military pieces can move from 1 to 3 areas (and an additional area if a railroad is present). Explorers can move up to 2 areas and are extremely useful in helping add territory to your empire and discovering resources.
When an explorer enters an unexplored area (an area not claimed by a player that has face down native and resource markers), the native marker is flipped over. Native markers are marked with a number (ranging from 4 to 12) to indicate the number and aggressiveness of the tribes living in the area. The explorer rolls two dice. If the number rolled is equal to or greater than the native number, that region joins that player's empire and the native marker is removed from the board. The resource marker is then turned over and reveals the number of Production Points the area will generate during the next production phase. Should the number rolled be less than the native number, the explorer is ELIMINATED! (That piece is removed from the game!) Should a native region be invaded by a player's forces, the natives will fight back!
Native forces are comprised of infantry (an equal number to the number on the native marker and sometimes cavalry (half that number rounded up should a + symbol be found on the marker). Occasionally, natives will even have an artillery unit to use against the invaders! Battles against the natives are resolved in the same manner as battles against an opponent's forces.
Any time two opposing forces occupy the same region, fighting erupts. Battle resolution follows a series of steps. Both players choose one piece from their forces and they each roll two dice. Any modifiers inherent to the piece (for example, a Leader adds +3 to a die roll) are added to the roll. The player with the lowest modified dice roll LOSES and his piece is eliminated. (Ties are re-rolled.) In the Basic game, combat continues until one side has NO pieces left in the fight. (No retreats are allowed.) Battles at sea are resolved differently.
Ships of different powers may peacefully co-exist in a sea area. Should they choose to fight, however, the combatants roll two dice for each ship in the battle. A roll of 9 or better is a hit and eliminates a ship. The last player to have at least one surviving ship wins.
The game ends either at a set time, after a set number of turns (in which cases, under the Basic and Standard rules, the player with the most regions under his control wins) or when only one power is "left standing".
The Standard rules make a few changes to the Basic game. In the Basic game, a player that has a "set" of buildings (city, factory, port and railroad) earns an extra 20 PP. This bonus is now eliminated. However, each "Global Region" under the control of one player earns that player a hefty additional 30 PP. The Standard rules also introduce engineers (used to build buildings more cheaply) and schools (to give a player an advantage on "military technology" which equates to a positive modifier on battle dice rolls.) The Advanced rules add a few more wrinkles to play including "westernizing" the natives and the possibility of native rebellion, new technology research and allowing forces in combat to be in reserve and to retreat. In addition, the winner is not necessarily the player with the most regions but the player with the most Victory Points (based on regions controlled, Global Regions completely controlled, buildings and forces). Keeping the differences in the rules straight is helped by two large charts provided with the game that highlights the differences.
War! Age of Imperialism owes a debt to Risk in its similar combat system (with a lot of die rolling) and the awarding of bonuses for area control. The incredibly detailed miniatures only add to the playing pleasure (although it can be a job in the initial set-up as you have to remove the pieces off the "trees" and put the artillery pieces together). But its use of Production Points to generate reinforcements, its exceptional graphic design and the multi-tier strategy levels as you move from Basic to Standard to Advanced rules, add elements to play that make this game a demanding one for armchair generals.
Eagle Games has rapidly created a name for itself for gorgeous games with The American Civil War. War! Age of Imperialism follows the same mold (pardon the pun) with a generous helping of molded plastic figures, beautiful artwork and solid game play. – – – – Herb Levy
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Another good one is Shoothill FloodAlerts which has an excellent flood warning map. Just put PO22 in the search to see our area. You can also download a free flood app for your Windows 8 device.
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AN ATW panto puts an unusual and local slant on some traditional favourites. Often written or adapted by our own talented members, these are great fun for all the family with a special children's matinee performance on Saturday afternoons.
Casting for Panto gives all members – from age 8 and upwards – the chance to take to the stage in full costume and make up and the end result is amazing fun for the cast and audience alike.
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I would have to say that the biggest things I accomplished yeterday is the discovery of my true Indian name.
Nevermind that I'm Scottish. Everyone should have a name that connects them to Nature - I think - so instead of calling it an Indian name, I'll call it a Nature Name.
Mine may be "Naps with Cats."
There is a HUGE difference between taking a catnap, and taking a nap with cats. I highly recommend the latter.
Exhaustive studies, which were quite refreshing, conducted in my own home, have led me to the conclusion that one sleeps better, deeper, longer, and more snuggly with a cat stretched out on or beside you.
And that's what I did yesterday. It may also help that yesterday was rain rain rain.
Well, I did make a good-sized list of things to do and, let's see, . . . I did three and a quarter of them. Groceries, Bills, Laundry, Bank, Knit. (Laundry and knit are still incomplete).
I will consult the great list today as well.
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We have a long history of working with businesses of all sizes, but it's always something special when you're sitting across the table (or, in this case, coffee table) from a fellow startup. Allurion Technologies is a biotechnology startup comprised of Harvard graduates who have developed a completely revolutionary, non-invasive weight loss procedure that they are in the process of bringing to market. We were captivated and inspired. The website was meant to be mostly informational, but we saw it as an opportunity to bring a cutting-edge look to the brand, which was still in its formative stages.
The website we produced ended up taking them for the ride to fame: after we launched the website, they launched several important press releases that landed them news spots across the country and the world. The website received tens of thousands of hits over a couple days and was prepared for the traffic, with everyone heading there to find out more about the breakthrough medical device. The product is still on it's way to market in the US but we look forward to one day hearing about someone getting "The Elipse" and knowing we were there from the beginning.
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What's more iconic for Fourth of July than colorful, sparkly fireworks? Nothing. And yet, the same beautiful blasts of color we like to watch for an hour or more this weekend can also cause irreparable damage to our ears.
A sound at 85dB can result in hearing loss, and fireworks can be as loud as 150dB! According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), permissible noise exposure limits for sounds at 115dB are 15 minutes per day. That means that if you're watching fireworks without hearing protection, you could be hurting your hearing.
Remember to protect your hearing this Fourth of July and listen carefully by using hearing protection. Maybe you can even buy some red and blue ear plugs for the whole family so you can listen carefully in patriotic style!


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General Studies – 1
Topic: The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country.
1) Analyse the role played by moderates in securing press freedom during the Indian national movement. (250 Words)
India's Struggle for Independence, Chapter – 8
General Studies – 2
Topic: Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure, devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein
2) In a federal polity like India why is it important for states to have both financial and cultural autonomy? Do you think it's time for India to become a federation of states? Analyse (250 Words)
Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India's interests
3) In the light of the recent developments that are taking place in the Korean peninsula, India should stop being a passive observer of the Korean geopolitical theatre. Analyse. (250 Words)
Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India's interests
4) Differentiate between global order and international order. Is it in India's interest to seek or acquire greater responsibilities in the international order? Comment. (250 Words)
Topic: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India's interests, Indian diaspora.
5) Discuss the significance of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) for India which was recently signed by the US President. (250 Words)
General Studies – 3
Topic: Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country,
6) Can shift in cropping and consumptions patterns reduce India's micronutrient deficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Examine. (250 Words)
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Question: I am now eligible to begin a pension within my SMSF. My husband, and only other trustee, will be eligible on 1 August 2018. Receiving the pension income is not a determining factor in what date we should each begin our pensions. Until July1 2017 we were both in TTR phase, but because we didn't need to draw a pension we reverted to Accumulation. Both of us are now 60 years of age.
- Is there any advantage (eg tax) for me to begin a pension now or would it make no difference if I waited until we are both eligible. I turned 60 in January.
- We will both reach our Transfer Balance Cap (TBC). At what date is this determined? If I begin a pension today – is it the value of my Super today (5 April) or is it taken from end of financial year tax records i.e June 30 2017. Because of the dip in the value of equities, and especially as we own a large percentage of Australian banks which have dipped even more, the date to determine the TBC will make a difference.
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- Yes, there is an advantage in starting a pension now. The tax rate on the investment earnings of those assets supporting the payment of the pension will fall from 15% to 0%. Because your husband's "assets" will still be taxed at 15%, your SMSF tax rate will fall below 15% (an actuary will calculate the actual rate). The disadvantage, of course, is that you will be required to withdraw from super at least the minimum amount (4% of the account balance).
- The Transfer Balance Cap (or your first credit towards it) will start on the day you commence the pension. In your case (example), it will be the market value as at 5 April.
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Robert Kirkman is best known as the creator of The Walking Dead, but for Outcast—his new show on Cinemax—the story won't revolve around a world that has gone to hell. Instead, it'll be about people who have gone to hell…sort of literally. Outcast is based on a comic series created by Kirkman and Paul Azaceta, and it's about a guy whose family has a tendency to get possessed by demons. It's advertised as more of an outright horror story than The Walking Dead, and it definitely looks like that's the tone Cinemax is going for with this TV adaptation. Patrick Fugit is starring as the main guy, with Philip Glenister playing a reverend he teams up with in hopes of learning more about all of this demon stuff. The trailer also shows off a creepy kid and some spooky floating, both of which are classic demon moves.
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