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Benedict XVI reveals his true self through the projections he makes on a multitude of nameless people that he has no idea who they neither are nor cares to get to know through dialogue. Benedict XVI is exactly as he describes his understanding of Judas to be. For Benedict XVI being over 30 years in the Vatican, as he describes in this address – he was not and is not about faith or love. It is Benedict XVI who had the secret intention of taking vengeance on the Master, which in his case is Christ, Pope John Paul II, anyone who opposed him and then by default all of humanity. It seems practically every time Benedict XVI speaks out against a speck in someone's eye or group or nation he reveals far more about who he is. This is why his public addresses come across so twisted and confusing. They only seem to make any sense when they are reverted back to him. They become an almost clear description about who he is. Being oblivious to one's plank in his or her eye is a form of dissociation from reality can render that same person to be in so ways blind and delusional – almost like living in a make believe world. For someone like Benedict XVI this type of delusional thinking has disastrous consequences for all of humanity. Photo
B16 Covert – Ruthless & Deceitful
For more than 30 years, inside the Vatican - as Cardinal Ratzinger, and then in an ever more brazen "no-holds-barred" manner that is ruthless and deceitful after he became pope 2005 - Benedict XVI seems to secretly kept himself hidden in the shadows behind close doors and took his convoluted vengeance out anyone who disagrees with his false understanding about what truth is. These people who were targeted by Benedict XVI many were gay friendly and supportive they mainly were bishops, priests, sisters, academics, etc. These targeted church people were by Benedict XVI's elaborate design in great secrecy were more than just systematically removed. They were attacked in ways that seem to have been methodically thought out that would ensure their almost complete silence. They were severely harmed - lives were destroyed and many left in near destitute situations that caused unbelievable stress culminating in stressed related illnesses and for some premature deaths. It is the most shocking reaction to realize that these devious attacks were coming from the least likely place anyone could imagine – the Vatican and in particular from Cardinal Ratzinger himself.
Not a pretty picture all done in secrecy - leaving the unsuspecting targeted victim completely dumfounded, as their lives were being instantly reduced to ashes. Many would find themselves for some odd reason isolated from their family and friends and their credibility instantly destroyed without having any real reason, why or how did it happen? However, as with most dark devious crime against humanity as like with all Benedict XVI clandestine activities, e.g. 30 some years of child sexual abuse cover-ups, the Vatileaks, his deliberate orchestrated smoke screens and lack of transparency (seemly whipped up whenever he needs to divert public attention), and his unending Character Assassinations of his perceived opposition (as the news media continues to report) – all his crimes globally are now coming home to roost in the Vatican. We remember the tsunami wave in 2010 in what seemed as an never ending accounts of child sexual abuse cover-ups that basically highlighted Benedict XVI as the master mind behind these child sexual abuse cover-ups.
A quite similar phenomenon happened to President Nixon, but he was only the leader of the USA. Benedict XVI in contrast is a global leader. And he is finding out all too quickly that not even with all the money and strategic planning in the world including even hiring the best and the brightest PR personnel from Fox news – can he stop the magnitude of this tsunami, which is made up of all his deceit from engulfing the entire Vatican, including the hierarchy. This has the distinct feeling of Noah and the Ark mixed with the fairytale of Humpty Dumpty. Photo
Fr. Marty Kurylowicz being attacked by Benedict XVI
I am next in line to be one of Benedict XVI casualties. As a gay Roman Catholic - I have absolutely no recourse regarding my situation – except to make mu case all public. This of course will not stop the Benedict XVI and W. Hurley violent covert operations against me. But it can become a small window into the cloak-and-dagger routine of corruption that is now undeniably characteristic of Benedict XVI, his hierarchy and all their accomplices. In this way Catholics and friends of Catholic can help see that the likes of Benedict XVI's clandestine activities, child sexual abuse cover-ups, etc. are therefore prevented from ever happening again. Also, I hope it will bring out publically the true stories of all those bishops, priests, sisters, academics, etc. who were on B16's list to be secretly sabotaged into silence and then later are removed without any public notice or recourse.
Pope Blasts U.K. Anti-Discrimination Laws - February 2, 2010 – In Speech, Benedict Raises Fears that Vatican Could Be Prosecuted for Stances Against Gays
Gay Catholic Priest, Fr. Marty Kurylowicz, 1997 "Coming Out" for "Protection of Children From Antigay Social & Religious Norms" – Vatican Ordered REPARATIVE THERAPY for the gay priest – August 2012
GAY MARRIAGE – Propaganda Tactics|B16's Naturalistic fallacy & Homosexuality - Dehumanizing, Depriving Civil Rights, Silencing Gays - Covering Up B16 Crimes Against Children 30+yrs? |PART 5
VATICAN: GAY DISCRIMINATION Document Released - July 24, 1992 "…that said homosexuals could legitimately be discriminated against in employment, housing and the adoption of children."
Vatican attacked for opposing gay decriminalization - December 2, 2008
Vatican OPPOSES UN Declaration on DECRIMINALISATION of HOMOSEXUALITY – December 12, 2008
Sister MARGARET FARLEY - in St. Louis, at the CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA - A "profoundly important" question for Catholic theologians, Farley said, is: "SHOULD POWER SETTLE QUESTIONS OF TRUTH?" …her students [at Yale] asked…why she stayed in a church…Because the church "is still a source of real life for me," she would tell them. "It's worth the struggle. It's Worth Getting A Real Backbone That Has Compassion Tied To It." – Her book, "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Social Ethics" - 61112
SR. MARGARET A. FARLEY - emeritus professor of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School – defends her book - "JUST LOVE: A FRAMEWORK FOR CHRISTIAN SEXUAL ETHICS" respecting and supporting GAY MARRIAGE - from Benedict XVI Approved Homophobic Attacks made by Vatican - 60412 Photo
APATHY is a Killer
of all that is
True and Good and Loving
If people's apathy remains untouched (which is form of collusion) that lets Benedict XVI and his hierarchy ruthless and deceitful tactics to continue unchallenged in their illicit affairs that has already significantly and severely harmed children globally would then further jeopardize in the future the lives of children – all due to our apathy. Remember that there is no civil court in the world that would prosecute Benedict XVI and his hierarchy. Because for decades they truly believed they are above the law, the results now are indicative of their present indifference, arrogance and smugness.
The only stimulus for reform in this regard of the above-described hierarchical corruption rests completely with us that is all the people. Not as a hysterical and frenzy mob – but as individuals who have faithfully studied all the variables involved – including making a personal rigorous self-examination. It is not anti-Catholic to expect the hierarchy including Benedict XVI to remain accountable to the highest degree to Christ and all his teaching as spelled out in the Gospels. It is not only - not anti-Catholic to publically hold accountable our Church leaders – but our sacred duty in the name of Jesus Christ. What is equally important in times like these – that will help us to avoid the grievous sin of self-righteousness that Jesus endlessly condemned throughout the gospels – is first to take the plank out of our own individual eyes – before presuming to do the same to our Church leaders.
The Catholic Church does not belong to Benedict XVI, to do as he pleases - like playing house in early childhood. It is absolutely amazing how Benedict XVI reacts to being brought into the light – much like a vampire. It appears that Benedict XVI to avoid any exposure to the light – takes off in lightening speed to remain hidden in the dark and then from the false security of this darkness he appoints others to do his dirty work. With all due respect - it seems that essentially Benedict XVI is a coward. If we allow Benedict XVI to bully people around - children will not be safe. It could then set a precedence for those who come after him that Benedict XVI's questionable behavior – is acceptable by all members of the Catholic Church, including our sisters and brothers from other Christian denominations.
Standing Up Against All Odds
We Become A Part Of Something that is Greater Than Ourselves
Every now and then – we must be willing to stand up against all odds, first, by acquiring a well-informed conscience – by thoroughly studying all sides of an issue (though not all the way Benedict XVI describes, which is essentially his demanding absolute blind obedience - the blind leading the blind). Secondly, we must enter into the most sincerest form of pray with Christ – as he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Benedict XVI Modus Operandi
Pope John Paul II seemed in all sincerity to have trusted Benedict XVI; (then as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) however, Benedict XVI appears from documented data to have taken great pains to keep secret his activities as the grand inquisitor. This may be his personal style of doing business, which seems to be the case as it has been revealed in the news media since he was made pope in April 2005. However, B16 has been and continues to be surrounded by unending scandals though not all unfounded as it relates to him. There is a substantial amount of documented evidence that indicate his orchestration of the child sexual abuse cover-ups, which would be enough for anyone else to be tried in a civil court. However, because of his diplomatic immunity the search for the truth is a mute issue and as he says in this address it allows him to keep secret his most serious crime of falsehood. This has and continues to be Benedict XVI modus operandi as can be seen in his letter to his bishops demanding total secrecy regarding his child sexual abuse cover-ups. Benedict XVI lives in a perpetual state of secrecy, lacking transparency in all his dealings that is clearly found in his maintaining a constant vagueness in all his addresses – never being clear and direct. This perpetual plank of his lifelong INSINCERITY logged in his eye that he seems unwilling to make any attempt to remove – is as he states himself – "the Mark of the Devil."
It is utterly audacious of Benedict XVI to narcissistically have been allowed to conceive the idea that he owns the Catholic Church "lock stock and barrel." The poor dear man – how it must hurt to be so off balanced and out of touch with the Catholic Church [the people] to be so terribly alone. It grieves one to have say that - Benedict XVI clearly hasn't the slightest clue - what it means to conform oneself to Christ. What appears to be significantly more true is that Benedict XVI wants the whole world to conform to his ways unquestionably – a global blind obedience to him. This is his problem and what a doozie of a delusion of grandeur he has – a most serious false impression of his own importance that is unbelievably harmful to millions of people, globally. How in the name of God was he ever allowed to become pope??? What is so terribly wrong with our Catholic hierarchical system that allowed this catastrophe to take place??? This is an area in the name of all that is good and holy – cries to the heavens to be investigated and to make sure this never ever happens again – for the protection and well-being of children globally. This is the responsibility of every Catholic member of the Church.
GAY MARRIAGE - An 8 Part Series Professionally providing Reliable Authoritative Data & Research – that Challenges the Accuracy & Truthfulness of Benedict XVI & Hierarchy – Public Antigay Attacks, Tactics – 2012
Benedict XVI Anti-Gay Obsession | DISSOCIATIVE - HOMOEROTIC Feelings - NOT Catholic Church DOCTRINE | Crackdown U.S. Nuns Gay Marriage & Permanent Removing Gay Priest 1997 for his efforts to Protect Children
Gay Marriage - No Mystery – Only TRUTH about Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups Will Set Benedict XVI Free – not FOX NEWS NETWORK PR in an USA Presidential Election Year – A 30 year Web of DECEIT & RUTHLESSNESS is Unending Expense & Global Violence Against Children!
APATHY is a Killer
FLOW, the SECRET TO HAPPINESS – positive psychologist - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "...understanding what contributed to a life that was worth living...you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources does not increase happiness." "You know that what you need to do is possible to do, even though difficult, and sense of time disappears. You forget yourself. You feel part of something larger." "BOREDOM begins to be very aversive and APATHY becomes very negative: you don't feel that you're doing anything, you don't use your skills, there's no challenge. Unfortunately, a lot of people's experience is in APATHY. The largest single contributor to that experience is WATCHING TELEVISION…" video & transcript 2004
JK ROWLAND (author of Harry Potter book series), delivers her Commencement Address, at Harvard 6/05/08 - The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the IMPORTANCE OF IMAGINATION – "…many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know… those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own APATHY." JK ROWLAND - Harvard University – 60508 – video


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Journal of Engineering
Volume 2013, Article ID 310748, 7 pages
Prospective Engineering Applications of Dynamic Transfer Processes Possessing the Self-Organized Fractal Interfaces
1KTH, ITM/MSE, Division of Energy and Furnace Technology, Brinellvägen 23, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
2BSU, Observatory, Nezalezhnasty Avenue 4, 220030 Minsk, Belarus
3Ukrenergoproduct, Balzack Street 8/31, Kiev 02225, Ukraine
Received 30 December 2012; Accepted 6 May 2013
Academic Editor: Run-Cang Sun
Copyright © 2013 Aliaksandr Yurievich Alevanau et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
General formulation of practically applicable fundamental approach for development of engineering applications in systems with dynamically appearing and disappearing fractal structures is proposed. The approach is illustrated on the low-temperature pyrolysis of butane/propane mixture being pumped via the liquid tin and bismuth alloy preserved at the temperature 200 ± 20°C in the U-shaped test glass. Other prospective engineering applications of the approach are proposed on the base of analysis of selected experiments described in literature.
1. Introduction
It is well known from such classical books as [1] that fractals appear in a big variety of natural phenomena. Important emphasis on analysis involving fractals is put to their self-organized character in such works as [2, 3]. Despite the fact that initially the self-organized dynamics in open systems were considered without special attention to the fractals [4], we would like to note that such basic theory as scale relativity [5] considers the space as a fractal. In the theory [5] the geodesics of elementary particles, which form substances, are considered as having fractal dimensions, which are changing with the scales. Nottale notes in the chapter 2 of his work [5] that the fractal dimension of paths for particles analyzed by Feynman in the quantum scale equals 2.
What might be found regarding the geodesics of elementary particles in the bigger scales?
The obvious answer to this question is the note that there should be a possibility for interaction with motion of energy along these geodesics, as its fractal characteristics may coincide with the fractal characteristics of the self-organized dynamic systems in the bigger scales. In such a case the feedback of this interaction may be found on the both macroscale of a dynamic system with the fractals, and in the quantum scale of elementary particles and structures, which are formed by the particles in this scale.
Such a possibility is really close to the engineering applications on both scales. Exploration of this hypothetical possibility on several engineering examples is an objective of this paper.
2. Approaches to the Systems with Hypothetical Interactions between the Self-Organized Structures on Different Scales
Recent achievements in the experimental researches of the systems, which produce dynamically created and self-organized fractals, allow consideration of such systems as a basis for prospective development of new energy sources. The basic approach for this is in organizing possibilities for energy transfer along the fractal geodesics, which span along several scales, among which one is considered as transmitting energy and the other one as receiving it. If the transmitting scale is the quantum microscale, the structures on this scale may undergo changes, which can be classified as their transmutation or nuclear reactions providing with energy of motion for the self-organized structures in the bigger scale. If the self-organization on this bigger scale involves motion of electric charges, the possibility for direct generation of electricity becomes most prospective possibility regarding the approach for creation of new energy sources. In such a case there is no need for the generation of heat from nuclear reactions, then for electricity generation from the heat using steam turbines, and so forth.
The necessary note regarding this ideal possibility should be in careful separation of two stages of the whole process. The first stage is an intentional creation of the self-organized fractal structures in some construction in an engineering scale. These structures have their main task to enter into an interaction with the motion along the fractal geodesics of elementary particles, which form some fuel substance. This interaction has to have disturbing character on the geodesics resulting in a decay or transmutation of the fuel substance. The second stage of the process is to obtain a feedback of this disturbing action to the bigger scale possessing moving and charged structures, which are applicable for extraction of energy coming from the nuclear transmutation in microscale.
These two interconnected tasks have to be joined in the same construction in the bigger scale using the self-organized fractal processes.
We describe two currently available engineering approaches to accomplish these tasks in the following two subsections.
2.1. Retroactive Force Loop Proposed by Nottale
The first approach is to apply the proposal for hydraulic macroscale experiment described by Nottale and Lehner [6]. This approach has its partial support in our own experiments with the low-temperature pyrolysis of gaseous hydrocarbons to be described in the third section of this paper. It assumes the creation of so-called macroquantum oscillating wave packet in the engineering macroscale, which has to obtain its form being dynamically tuned according to the theory [5] to elucidate the fractal character of space and existence in it of so-called generalized quantum potentials [7] appearing opposite to the potentials driving some transfer processes. Such processes in our engineering system may be the processes of dynamically changing heat and mass transfers, which are created by change of global gradients of corresponding physical potentials in the system. For example, with reference to the heat transfer considered in [7] as diffusion, the diffusion driving potential:
Corresponding generalized quantum potential:
Here, the constant is equal to for the quantum scale. It may take other values for the other scales. The is the Plank constant and is a mass of the system. The constant is the heat conductivity for a temperature . is the quantum-like force of the generalized quantum potential.
The proposal for physical experiment in [6] includes an example of one-dimensional system with the harmonic oscillations represented by the standard equation . The oscillations should be iteratively governed by the retroactive force loop to approach the form of macroquantum wave packet with its energy written as:
Accordingly to the simulations in [6], once the oscillations approach the form governed by the predicted quantum-like force, the macroquantum wave packet becomes more stable with regard to the simulated external perturbations.
From our point of view, such a situation may also bring some side effects to the oscillations in lower scales. We hypothesize in our work [8] that, due to an existence of the dynamically changing global gradients, the atomic and molecular ensembles on micro- and mesoscales may have a special character of harmonic oscillations with slightly deviated potentials between their interacting parts because of link with the oscillations in bigger scales.
Because of this possibility, a wide class of engineering systems utilizing pyrolysis and gasification, which have possibilities for the self-organized oscillations on the fractal geometries spanned on several scales [9], may be applied for research of this link and corresponding energy transfer between the oscillations in different scales.
Main recommendation for engineering applications regarding this possibility is to provide these systems with an intentional modulation of basic energy transfer processes in reactors to direct their internal self-organization towards appearance of the macroquantum wave packets having connection with the same packets and oscillations in lower scales. Such a connection may bring lower activation energies for the reactions of thermochemical decomposition in these reactors.
Obvious note regarding totally different time scales of the presumably connected oscillations in the different spatial scales brings us to the conclusion about existence of some kind of a fractal transformation governing the energy transfer between the scales. This energy transfer may be considered analogous to the self-organized appearance of electromagnetic waves in resonator from background electromagnetic fluctuations in it. A wide spectrum of these fluctuations creates oscillations, whose frequency is determined by the spatial and construction parameters of the applied resonator.
This is, however, only an analogy. The energy transfer along the dynamic fractal spanned on several scales might be much more complicated than this. To describe the second approach of the section, one may discuss the disturbing side effects of this energy transfer towards microscales on some known experimental examples of so-called low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), many of which are accompanied by the transmutation of involved substances.
2.2. Self-Organized Dynamic Transfer Processes Possessing Fractal Geometries as Origin of LENR
Generally saying, the approach to the space in the theory [5] may be considered as an integral approach. Even if main description of a fractal character of the space refers to the concept of geodesics of elementary particles, a main part of the analysis in the theory [5] is devoted to the integral properties of such a space in application to the systems in relatively big scales. There is, however, definite evidence, that the fractal properties of space reveal itself not only in the mass distributions in astrophysical scales, considered in [5], but also in structuring in the quantum microscales, where geodesics of elementary particles form nuclei, atoms, and molecules. Because of uncertainty principle, one may freely assume that the geodesics of elementary particles span in the scales of engineering macrosystems. Due to this, the interaction of such macrosystems with presumably very fast motion of energy along the geodesics looks possible. Analysis of basics of the theory [5] provides with two main conditions for that(1)fractal character of the geodesics,(2)change of the fractal dimension of geodesics with change of the scales.
We would like to note that many dynamic processes on interfaces between gases, liquids, and solids provide with a fractal form of the processes. This form is also dynamically changing during the processes. This change may provide us with an accomplishment of the basic condition (2) leading to disturbing interaction with geodesics of some kind of elementary particles located in the spatial range of our engineering system, which contains fractals being dynamically created and changed.
By our opinion, there are several historically first examples of such engineering systems, which were described in the papers [10–12] with a misleading explanation of origin of LENR taking place in the systems. First of all, these systems are the systems with dynamically developing cracks in the solids doped by hydrogen or deuterium. Such a doping and detection of emission of neutrons and other elementary particles lead to search of possibilities for the hydrogen or deuterium fusion taking place with the help of a crystal lattice of the solids. By our opinion, this search is misleading. Main reason for this is well-known property of both gases to make the experimental solids brittle. Presence of atoms of these gases in a crystal lattice is presence of the defects, which promote development of fractures and cracks possessing a fractal geometry of their surfaces. An interaction between the fractal geodesics of elementary particles constituting substances of the solids and the fractures being dynamically developed in the solids provides with disturbing side effects on the structuring of the substances on a nuclear scale.
This interaction is also an alternative explanation for the transmutation phenomena observed in result of an explosive electrochemical destruction of metal foils in the experiments described in [13, 14]. The main characteristics of the dynamically changing fractal interfaces in this case are not the interface between atoms of gas and solid, but the interface between atoms of gas and liquid, or between the electrons being moved by electromagnetic field and conductor, which form system with varying constraints.
The term constraints here is analogous to the same term in [15, 16], which generalizes results of experiments with relativistic electron beams focused on solid targets. Detailed outputs of the experiments are described in the book [17]. The interaction of a targeted substance with the high-energy focused electronic beam being constrained by the substance creates conditions for its transmutation and even for creations of super heavy nuclei, which are considered in [16] using the concepts of fractal isomers and clusters.
Despite the high energies involved, we may characterize these experiments as possessing the same general character of interaction between the competing agents forming mass transfer as in the case of generation of so-called fractal fingers, which are considered in the book [1] on the case of expunging of highly viscous liquid by the less viscous. The process is characterized as inherently nonequilibrium. It creates the dynamically changing fractal interface between two interacting substances. By our opinion, the dynamic properties of interactions between substances on two different sides of such an interface play the most important role in establishing interaction with the fractal geodesics.
An argument to support this conclusion may be found in the special dependencies of two closely connected phenomena taking place in the collapsing bubbles. The process of a bubble collapse may produce light [18] and neutrons [19]. In the first case the emission of photons from bubbles in water is highly dependent on presence of argon in the bubbles [20]. In the second case the dependence has been moved to another side of the interface—liquid. The latest experiments on generation of neutrons from the bubbles being created by powerful ultrasound [21] make evident critical dependency of this generation from the presence of salts of Fe in water. These experiments of the group researching the so-called piezonuclear reactions in the paper [21] support our conclusion about importance of the self-organized dynamics determined by the interacting substances residing on two sides of a dynamically changing fractal interface. This group recently has conducted experiments [22] using bar of steel subjected to a powerful ultrasound having the same frequency as applied to the salts of Fe in water. The same output as in [21] was detected in the form of bursts of neutrons. Authors of [21, 22] argue that neutrons are emitted in result of piezonuclear reactions, which are caused by extreme pressure and subsequent dislocations of adjacent atoms in the cases of imploding bubbles and violently deforming lattices of solids. Transmutation of substances in the steel also was detected in the latest experiments of the group [22]. The theory [23], which stays behind the experiments, considers the metrics of space time as dependent on energy values being involved into interactions. This is generally close to our own approach. Main difference, however, could be noted with regard to the engineering practice. The hypothesis of inherent fractal structure of space allows search of technically more feasible possibilities to alter its metrics. By this hypothesis the super-high concentrations of energy in pretty small spatial areas are good, but not necessary for initiation of piezonuclear reactions.
By our opinion, the dynamic excitation of relatively big internal fractal structures of steel by ultrasound with subsequent development of fractal cracks accompanied by interaction between the atoms of Fe and atoms of some gas on the fractal interfaces might be responsible for the neutron bursts and transmutation. The same could be noted with regard to the fractal interfaces between gas and liquid in collapsing bubbles.
In addition to the considerations presented above, we would like to note that the discovered in [21, 22] side effects of the interactions between the fractal geodesics of constituents of experimental substances and their fractal interfaces may take place not only at the nuclear scale level. To find out such interactions, which create disturbing actions at some other scale levels of structuring of experimental substances, one may reproduce or conduct new experiments, which are close by their idea to the experiments described in the next section.
3. Low-Temperature Pyrolysis of Hydrocarbons Using Dynamically Changing Fractal Interfaces
Historically such pyrolysis, as designated in the title of this section, was conducted first by the owners of patent [24]. There was another theoretical explanation of the process. This explanation has put its main emphasis on the combinations of constituents of composite substances being in contact with the hydrocarbons, which were subjected to simultaneous action of dynamic potentials driving the heat and mass transfers. This theoretical explanation is presented on a personal site of one of coauthors of this paper (O.I. Vyhoniailo), who is also coowner of the patent [24]. Another explanation, which is presented in this paper, is illustrated by the following report about the concept of proof experiment. Next subsection after the report represents a short description of experimental predecessors for this experiment joined with a discussion.
3.1. A Concept Proof Experiment
The experimental setup for a concept proof experiment on low-temperature pyrolysis of gaseous hydrocarbons is presented in Figure 1.
The heating wire has been attached to the source of direct current. The number of heating wire windings around the test glass was tuned to support its constant temperature around the 200 ± 20°C with the approximate flow of gas via the melted alloy 1 mL/sec. No thermocouple was submerged into the alloy. The setup was designed for a concept proof experiment. Therefore no gas composition measurements on output were made and estimations of the gas flow were performed using visual observations of the size and frequency of gas bubbles flowing from bottom of a volume with water to the open atmosphere via the output tube.
Such a simple experimental setup allows tuning of the gas flow via the alloy with direct observation of the carbon appearing on top of the metal from the right side of U tube. Typical result of a short (10–15 minutes) experiment is shown by the photo in Figure 2. Here the alloy is cooled down. The temperatures measured by the three thermocouples were 186°C of gas coming to the alloy from the left input to the U tube, 204°C temperature of a heating wire, and 82°C of gas coming to the outlet at the right side of U tube. Short video of this experiment is presented in the Supplementary Material available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/310748.
The thermocouples were inserted to the U tube via the gummy locks having drilled holes. As the thermocouples had two wires in a plastic insulation, they were inserted not totally tightly into the locks. Achievements of the stable temperature and gas flow regimes allowed the removal of the thermocouples and application of tightly set solid gummy locks. This allowed the detection of slow diffusion of gases remaining in the slang between the right side of U tube and the volume with liquid. The diffusion was into the solidified alloy, which obtained high porosity with presumably fractal internal surfaces of the pores with carbon on their walls. One can see it in Figure 3 in the photo taken after 8 hours after the end of the carbon producing experiment. Water from the volume with it was sucked into the alloy.
We exclude significant effect on the sucking from a thermal decrease of a gas volume in the tubes due to the cooling, because we could not observe significant change of a water level in the volume on output during the time of complete cooling to the room temperature of all the parts of experimental setup.
Exact reason of this phenomenon is unknown, as detailed characterization of the alloy and its pores was not conducted. It was possible to observe using an optical microscope the highly developed fractal geometry of the pores with carbon on the metal after breaking of the glass with it. No analysis of internal porosity of the alloy was conducted. We make preliminary conclusion that main reason of sucking of water into the alloy might be in presence of a big internal volume in the fractal pores inside the alloy, which had mainly hydrogen and carbon during its solidification.
3.2. Experimental History and Discussion
Historically the same process (by the hypothesis) under the same temperatures took place in the experiments conducted prior filling of application for the patent [24]. The gas (methane) was moved by a mixer in the glass bulb along the surface of a mixture of fractured solids and porous salts, which were lying on the bottom of the bulb being heated by an electrical heater beneath the bulb. It is assumed from the common knowledge about fractals [1] that the substances lying on the bottom of the bulb possess the fractal geometry of their surface and pores. Temperature inside the bulb was monitored by a thermocouple inserted together with the mixer via lock at the top of the bulb. Carbon particles were formed directly in gas. Then they flew out of the bulb to the same volume with water as in the above-described experiment. With progress of methane pyrolysis the volume becomes dark being filled by the trapped particles. A short video of this experiment is presented in the supplementary material of this paper.
One may note that such an experiment has a difference with an alloy-based experiment in respect to the fractal interfaces. Here the interface is between the gas and solids, whose surfaces are assumed (not proved) to have a fractal geometry. The solids are also relatively stable. In contrast to this, the convective surface layers of gas being heated and moved in the bulb by a mixer with unavoidable turbulence definitely possess fractal properties of temperature and pressure fluctuations accordingly to many researches referenced in [25].
This note adds some ambiguity to the consideration regarding unstable fractal interfaces between the gas and liquid, as both phases may contribute to the dynamics on their interface. Yet it may provide another aspect to research of turbulence towards finding out of such possibilities, as described in the beginning of Section 2.
For example, if one will find out such a special regime of turbulence in the ionic flame-based magnetohydrodynamic generators, which obtains its support from accelerated reactions in lower scale of the fractal geodesics being disturbed, one may directly produce electrical energy from the energy of disturbed and decayed structures in lower scales. With regard to such a possibility one may develop an alternative explanation of acceleration of chemical reactions in reactive turbulent flows in comparison with the explanation based on the idea about an increase of mixing in turbulence.
Furthermore, if one will apply the approach to control the dynamic chaos of turbulence by the external perturbations analogous to the controlling actions of Nottale's hydraulic experiment [6], one may achieve intensification of the whole process and of the energy transfer process between the scales. By our opinion, such intensification takes place in the experiments with combustion of wood powder, which are described in [26]. The external perturbation, which stabilizes the flame, is applied to a burner in the form of low frequency sound (around 17 Hz). It makes combustion much more intensive, and it increases the levels of NOx generation in the process. The large-scale dynamic parameters of the flame are changed drastically. Therefore it might be reasonable to conclude that analogous application of low-frequency sound in the same burner of a magnetohydrodynamic generator might bring unexpected increase of its efficiency.
Another prospective engineering system to explore the discussed side effects may be built using intentional creation of dynamic fractal structures in sound waves. This proposal logically follows from the notes about general ways of geometrisation of physics, discussed also by Nottale in his works. In context of these discussions, the geodesics may become the only entity, which is considered. In such a case the main meaning of the concept moves from the approach based on consideration of geodesics for particles in empty space to the approach based on consideration of purely relative differences between the geodesics, which are entangled in motion at several scale levels to form the space itself and to support their steady structures in the forms of particles and matter.
With respect to this particularity in the theoretical considerations, the self-organized fractal structures in turbulent flows and in convective surface layers become totally analogous to the fractal structures to be intentionally created in sound waves. Here the main role has to play the spatially oriented fractal structure of differences in pressure along some number of sound wave periods, many of which may have intentionally introduced disturbances of harmonic wave forms to create a dynamic fractal.
We do not know real engineering systems, which exactly utilize such an approach.
There is, however, one example of electromechanical system [27], which by opinion of its inventor and producers acts destructively on the hydrogen bonds in water. This destructive action is in possibility to produce atomic hydrogen, whose flows out of water purges various impurities from it. One may see various salts expunged from ordinary drink water on the photo in supplementary material of this paper. The photo of the device is presented along with another photo of volume with purified water having voltmeter in it. It shows 1.4 Volt of potential difference between the electrode in center of volume and metallic volume itself. Inventor of the device argued that this electric potential and cleaning of water appear due to the generation and motion of atomic hydrogen. As inventor was a medical doctor, the device has received its application as a physiotherapeutic device, which is certified for medical use in Kazakhstan. Nowadays this device is also applied for a fabrication of biologically active and purified bottled water.
The photo of volumes with water was taken from a report in popular Russian magazine about the technical exhibition, where the device was presented [28]. Photo of the device in a cabinet for physiotherapy was taken from one of the sites of its sellers [29].
By our opinion, the special action of the device on water is created by a passage of initially harmonic infrasound (around 14 Hz) via specially designed composite substance. This composite substance modulates the infrasound in a special way due to its nonlinear mechanical properties. We may hypothesize about destructive effect on water from an excitation of internal fractal structures in the composite substance by the sound, and from modulation of this sound. Despite such an ambiguity, the effect on water being subjected to the sound, which is produced by the device [27], may be considered as analogous to the effect on hydrocarbons from the fractal structures in the convective layers between the gaseous hydrocarbons and Sn : Bi alloy in our own experiments, or the sound waves resemble the form of macro quantum wave packets.
4. Conclusions
We have presented a general description of relatively rare engineering systems utilizing side effects arising from the dynamics involving self-organizing fractal interfaces. Both theoretical and practical backgrounds to explore and develop such systems were presented. We encourage readers to develop their own prospective engineering applications based on the presented theoretical approach and experimental examples, which were interpreted using this approach.
The authors would like to express their gratitude and thanks for a public discussion and experimental cooperation to another coowner of the patent [24], Shostak Taras Anatolievich, and to the Sintos Systems OU for financial support of this work.
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Successful trends (hip-hop, reality television, expensive bottled water) can last forever. But failures die a quick death and, like deposed Soviet leaders, get airbrushed out of history.
Successful trends (hip-hop, reality television, expensive bottled water) can last forever. But failures die a quick death and, like deposed Soviet leaders, get airbrushed out of history. Just last summer, CBS touted its next surefire hit, "Kid Nation," a "social experiment" about a group of self-governing tykes on a ranch. They were so sure of its success that they moved it from the summer schedule to September in hopes that it would kick off the fall season with a bang.
It didn't. And while "Kid Nation" didn't fail ignominiously or as suddenly as "Viva Laughlin," it merely limped along and vanished into memory's leach pit without so much as a gurgle.
This brings us to "The Baby Borrowers" (9 p.m., NBC), another "social experiment." This one invites five teen couples to test their relationships and their individual maturity by pretending to be adults. They have to set up a house and even fake pregnancy (by wearing something called an "empathy belly") and attending prenatal classes. At the end of their lessons, real parents "volunteer" their babies and toddlers into the arms of the newly trained teens.
Once again, reality TV turns the natural order on its head. Television was supposed to be something to entertain the babysitter. Now we're supposed to be entertained by watching babysitting.
I guess we should be grateful that instead of the meaningless and often mean-spirited gamesmanship we see (and many enjoy) on "Big Brother," we see teens wrestling with life's many big questions. But a bigger question remains: Is this entertainment? And why is the Tammy Wynette song "I Don't Wanna Play House" running through my head?
It's interesting to note that "Borrowers" had the exact opposite programming trajectory as "Kid Nation." It was originally supposed to air during the regular season, but NBC yanked it and has dumped it into the summer, where it takes its place among such meaningful fare as "Celebrity Circus" (10 p.m., NBC).
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson returns for six new episodes of "NOVA scienceNOW" (9 p.m., PBS). The series discusses complex and challenging ideas and discoveries using a mix of interviews, graphics, humor and music in an effort to make science and scientists seem a little hipper and more understandable.
Tonight's three stories include a discussion of the notion of "dark matter"; experiments that may help us rediscover lost memories; and new technologies that may enable us to detect fake photographs in the Photoshop era.
The documentary "When I Knew" (7:30 p.m., Cinemax) interviews dozens of men and women from all over America about the moment they discovered that they were gay. The stories range from the amusing (a youthful fixation with the man on the Doan's Pills box) to the tragic (parental disapproval and being disowned) to the poignant (parents who knew all along).
On three "Ghost Hunters" (Sci Fi, r), serious overtime (8 p.m.), lifeless in Seattle (9 p.m.), a really holy ghost (10 p.m.).
Friends and colleagues gather for "The AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty" (9 p.m., USA).
Scheduled on "Primetime: Crime" (10 p.m., ABC), the story of an "accidental" death does not hold up.
Hairstylists compete on the second season of "Shear Genius" (10 p.m., Bravo).
A night of Sophia Loren movies includes the 1964 epic "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (10 p.m., Eastern, TCM), with Christopher Plummer, Stephen Boyd and Alec Guinness.
Drew Carey hosts "The Price Is Right" (8 p.m., CBS) ... Two more hours of "So You Think You Can Dance" (8 p.m., Fox) ... A pig farmer and a belly dancer meet on "Wife Swap" (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) ... Tyra Banks hosts "America's Next Top Model" (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) ... Murder in the suburbs on "Criminal Minds" (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) ... Daddy's little girl is a monster on "Supernanny" (9 p.m., ABC) ... The cattle are lowing on "Farmer Wants a Wife" (9 p.m., CW, TV-PG,L) ... A murder plot in diplomatic circles on "CSI: NY" (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).
Coldplay is booked on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" (11 p.m., Comedy Central) ... Abigail Breslin, Barry Sonnenfeld and Tift Merritt appear on "Late Show with David Letterman" (11:35 p.m., CBS) ... Jay Leno hosts Jarod Miller and Los Lonely Boys on "The Tonight Show" (11:35 p.m., NBC) ... Mike Myers and the All-For-Nots appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (12:05 a.m., ABC, r) ... John Krasinski, Bode Miller and Cobra Starship chat on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (12:35 a.m., NBC, r) ... Craig Ferguson hosts Sigourney Weaver, Stanley Bing and Three 6 Mafia on "The Late, Late Show" (12:37 a.m., CBS).
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TV Guideline Magazine has just released a list of ten television shows in America that were rejected for the 2011 season.
TVGM senior writer Avalanche Bandicoot actually viewed each one of the ten pilots and she reported that the only one that she really and truly felt may have had a chance to go up against some of the half dozen CSI's and half dozen NCIS's was Guess That Smell starring Heidi Montag.
When Bandicoot was asked what made her feel that the Heidi Montag show could be a hit. She smiled and said that she knows it would have definitely been watched by males between the ages of 16 and 96 because in most of the scenes Heidi was not wearing any panties and if one paused the particular scene one could see the very distinct outline of her crotch region.
The List of Ten Television Shows That Were Rejected For 2011
- The Real Housewives of Detroit
- Cooking With Kirstie Alley
- Two and A Half Lesbianites
- Survivor: Baghdad
- Counting Lindsay Lohan's Freckles
- Botox Gone Wild
- So You Think You Can Get Pregnant?
- Grey's Groin Anatomy (A Spin-Off)
- Hannah Montana's Bong Addicted Grandmother
- Guess That Smell (Starring Heidi Montag)
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Virtual Iron Software, one of the main competitors to VMware in the enterprise server virtualization field, has secured $20 million in new venture equity financing. The funding "will be used to accelerate product development and expand global sales, marketing and distribution efforts."
According to its press release:
Virtual Iron is the only competitor to VMware in the market that has the features to support the high value use cases for virtualization such as dynamic workload management, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery," said David R. Skok, General Partner at Matrix Partners. "Virtual Iron's product is differentiated from VMware in several important ways including its ease of use, scalability and use of a standard storage architecture.
The press release jumped at me, because I have a friend in the IT industry who told me just last week that her company is seriously evaluating Virtual Iron in lieu of VMware, which is "too expensive." Now, I am not at liberty to name the organization, but it is not a small one, with capital reserves of over 14 billion Singapore dollars as of financial year 2007.
Are you using VMware or Virtual Iron in your organization?
Free evaluation copies are available for download at http://www.virtualiron.com/free.
Full Bio
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A Consultant Meteorologist, Mr. Idowu Adebayo, said Nigeria is prone to severe hurricane, typical of that being experienced in parts of America, Europe and the Caribbean.
Adebayo said this in a chat with the News Agency of Nigerian in Lokoja.
He said the evidence of climate change in different forms like the recent flood disasters was enough indication that Nigerian was more prone to severe storms.
It would be recalled that several states were devastated by flood, killing many people, destroying property and submerging several houses and farmlands.
The meteorologist is an expert who has long years of collaboration with the United Nation International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) in Geneva.
He told NAN that many of the storms, being experienced in America and Europe, actually originated from the West and Central Africa.
"Storms from West and Central African regions move systematically with different intensities into the Atlantic and across the East Coast of America and the Caribbean,'' he said.
Adebayo said that the Hurricane Katrina and Sandy Storm, which recently swept across the America, had not been scientifically established to have originated from the West and Central Africa.
He said that Nigeria had been experiencing hurricanes but that the intensity only became noticeable on July 31, 2000.
"That was when a severe hurricane swept through the country, causing substantial damage to farms and the environment and without hitting the cities.''
Adebayo, who was shortlisted for the UN SASAKAWA Award in 2011, said that severe storms had since been passing through Nigeria without attention paid to them by the government.


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Nuts and Bolts
It's time, at last. You know it. But are you prepared for September and the frightening chance for rebirth?
The year's fourth quarter now begins. I began with a series of steps: some small, some not--all decisive. I began, Seattle-style: with a fine-tuned blend of passion, strategy and faith. The fourth quarter is the time for bigger and bolder decisions. And so...
--I dealt a major blow to one personal flaw that disgusts me: a tendency to surrender when dreams begin drifting away. Now, it's good to be a dreamer--but not a wan and listless one, the kind that used to populate bad 19th Century romances. The slipping dream that most tormented me was my plan to re--begin traveling by train as often as I can. Though I moved cross-country last autumn by train, I'd traveled in coach and had been anxiety-ridden. The last time I'd traveled properly--and I mean first class--on a train? Almost thirty years ago. Soooo...last month, like Caesar, I did it: made reservations for a first-class, cross-country trip next year. Destination: Buffalo. My first visit there since...I cannot recall. Next: I'm looking into a visit to L.A. Another dream I've drifted from: a reunion with an old school friend. Reb MacRath, train travelin' man.
--I manned up and admitted that my vaunted, self-made daily planner wasn't working for me: too bulky and too high-maintenance: the blank journal required designing the pages for each new week. Since I hate admitting that I'm wrong, I admitted I was wrong. Proof: I hardly looked at it. I need something I can carry and look at through the day. And so this sometimes penny-pinching honorary Scot paid the bucks required for the planner he'd come to love best:
--I decided to stop stalling and begin exploring other employment opportunities. Goal: to reach the salary I'd had in mind when I moved here (at least $15 an hour), plus holidays and Sundays free--in a less stressful, non-call center setting. Secondary goal: to work fewer hours a week. Through a coworker on the present job I learned that the Mayor's office has a program devoted to finding work for Slightly Older Guys and Gals. Am filling out the forms required prior to my meeting them.
Seeking a far better balance between:
City Beats
Seattle is:
--Walgreens. The legendary 3rd and Pike location.
The country's grungiest Walgreens has had a major face lift this year. Two floors now instead of one, with an escalator and an elevator. Hardwood floors instead of filthy, cracked linoleum. And a layout less conducive to smash-and-grab gangs of thieves. The corner itself is undergoing major reconstruction: sidewalks closed, bus stops moved further south, alleys closed or monitored, newspaper boxes (drug drop-offs) removed, etc. But is the city's favorite steal-from store really now predator-free? Not likely, since the staff are forbidden to stop known thieves or even demand return of clearly boosted merchandise. Anyone who's worked there will tell you their own stories: violent brawls at the entrance, a female security guard who was shoved and then fired for daring to hit back, an assistant manager punched in the face, cashiers receiving death threats, huge men snatching shopping bags and loading them up with high-end merch, then threatening to kill anyone who stood in their way...Good luck to Walgreens in its effort to transform this location from a dangerous hole in the wall to a toney site with sushi bar. It may prevail. But thieves who've been looting the store for years won't give up easily, though they may have to wait a while. The safe money's on betting that the tough cops now manning the entrance won't be there forever or even day and night. Not unless the face lift is something more than a face lift: say, a step up from exclusive thoughts about the bottom line.
If you think I'm joking about the massive 'shrinkage' at the store, check out the following link to theft deterrent procedures at a branch store in San Francisco's Haight. At Third and Pike, thieves wouldn't care--they'd smash the cases, load up and run.
--Barnes & Noble, 600 Pine Street, has earned its place a second time in the Seattle Hall of Shame.
Their official listing is as impressive as its location, near the ritzy Pike Place pavilion: The world's largest bookseller offers a vast selection of titles, with more than 10,000 publishers. Shop here for an variety of books, NOOK and the new NOOKcolor, NOOKbooks™, eclectic accessories and gifts to enhance any book lover's collection and reflect on their personal style. Barnes & Noble is a great place to relax and read, with a comfortable cafe, unique children's section, and calendars of events featuring author appearances and discussion groups. We have free Wi-Fi, allowing customers to surf the web.
BUT...Huge BUT: As mentioned in a previous edition, their really huge cafe has just two pairs of outlets--on a single post. Others who need to plug in for Wi-Fi are just plumb out of luck. AND: The bastards have walled off their washrooms. That's right: not restricted their use to paying customers or required tokens for their usage--no, they have completely walled them off, as in a tale by Poe. So shop and spend hundreds...savor the cafe's delicacies...and enjoy the Wi-Fi if your battery still has some juice. But if you or your kids need to pee? Hit the road.
--Then again, there is a choice.
The world-famous Elliott Bay Book Company, in Capitol Hill, has a superior assortment of books, staff who really love their jobs, a terrific cafe--and bathrooms. Keys for these are obtained at the cafe register.
SOS's of the Soul
September is the time to listen to SOS's of the Soul. Spring and summer have left us again, as they do every year, bringing us annually closer to the winter of our lives. This year we have the short stretch of this fall to get it right while there's still time.
My own SOS's are legion: terrifying thoughts of losses that might become fatal if I quit on my dreams or give less than my best...or simply drift too far from goals. Financial SOS's. Creative SOS's. Social SOS's.
For me, in the fall of 2015, the greatest SOS is this: the fear that, unless I am careful right now, the sense of romance will be squeezed from my soul by new practical concerns. And so I focus with all of my might on images like these that help me stay on track:
Entertainment Kick of the Month
Eureka! New DVD tactic. To keep up with the movies I've already bought, I'd have to watch one a night for a while. But I don't have the time to watch more for than an hour a night, sometimes less, whereas some of the films run to three hours--and contain hours of extras. Sad to say, but some evenings I can only afford half an hour.
Weekly combination strategy:
1) Watch two 2-hour film per week, each film broken down into two viewings.
2) Select two fave TV shows. Night 5: one episode from #1. Night 6: #2. Running time per episode should be about 45 minutes.
3) On my Tired Night, one episode of a classic half-hour show.
Starting September lineup:
Week one's movie:
TV shows: one episode of each per week:
Am nearly through each of these. So will need replacements in October.
Tired Night's half-hour classic:
I own several seasons. And they'll last me a long time at one show a week!
Finished reading: Darkness by Bill Kirton. Very aptly named. A riveting, gut-wrenching mystery that's left me in need of a break. No more reading till October.
In the works: Caesar's Ghost, the novel that came to me on my March visit to San Francisco. I've just begun the third draft of this real genre blender. Or let's call it a Mhistory that's also a tale of possession. And then repossession. Oh hell, enough of that, Let's just call it Caesar's Ghost
Deep Thoughts
--I like even a bad book that is what it is. But when a bad book seems not what it isn't--watch out.
--Abstinence makes the fond grow harder.
--Poverty ennobles the spirit, they say...between sales of Florida swamp land.


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Gurus Respond to: So What Is A Work Schedule?Just What Is A Document: theorieteil masterarbeit Be Sure
So what is a mission program is regarded as a unique official report which might be specially designed so that they can handbook both the handle and setup from a unique venture.
This report can be described as primary that make a task powerful, precisely what is alot more, also, it is needed for commencing any mission not just in an industry of personal functions. Just what venture approach is mainly as used by the many different corporations which includes a purpose to speak the venture targets in addition to information the stakeholder merchandise, to manipulate the resolved arrange and steps involved in distribution, or possibly to predict and control the possibility dangers.
The The introduction should really produce an ideal writeup on the undertaking, as a result, it offers a top-top quality brief description of your particular job and offers its targets and gains. There is absolutely no ought to secure the Intro while using exclusive extra points since the upcoming crucial portions could display these facts. Nevertheless, this part is expected to have a summarized record for the work that need to be executed.
The section is estimated to always be designed in a kind of a professional Conclusion, so, it truly is frequently designed to reflect the accessible organization tactics essential for the setup of the a task. It ought to also show you the positions and key requirements of the people in an organisation, and will include their list of firms that can offer the important sources to induce the achievements of an individual endeavor.
The several portion decides the control over bills within a daily life pattern of your selected mission, in addition, it confirms the normal style as well as the other principles that contend with the size within the attainable expenditures. These tips is required to be advisable for many associates along with a aim for to energize the work beneficial enactment. The Price Tag Relief Program can also establish the sensible many people when planning on taking a control of the pointed out expenditures, or folks that will obtain a opportunity to agree the possibility shifts in connection with your budget with the undertaking.
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A study normally takes a large number of sorts. It may be a technological statement, which proves the effects with the undertaken play around, a journalist state, which is certainly articles or stories bulletin with regards to a modern necessary community affair, a company analytic survey, which might report a companys sales and profits, and many more. One might determine that records are recommended as the cause of information and facts in several subjects for instance training, scientific research, solutions, drugs, bank, home business, administration, nation-wide politics, record, sociology, and in essence in a different other sphere of our rehearse. The single most popular categories of stories is undoubtedly an scholastic statement a type of an task that needs the pupil to show his/her modern conclusions in the specified subject of review. Assessments may also be both the mouth and created, and also consider the different types of balances, once-a-year studies, sales and profits and spending budget evaluations, assessments, army studies, strategies, studies, as well as other beneficial displays. Aside from wording, records regularly have other computer data which include charts and graphs.
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Here in the Abbondanzieri Lab, we are interested in how enzymes recognize, assemble on, and organize nucleic acids. These interactions are fundamental to all living systems.
Our particular areas of interest focus on two areas: (1) Enzymes from HIV and other retroviruses which are major targets of antiretroviral drugs and (2) DNA protection enzymes from bacteria which rearrange the bacterial genome in response to cellular stress.
We are excited to be located in the new Department of Bionanoscience at TU Delft. We are also part of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience.


text: An uncooled short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) InGaAs camera has been introduced by Sensors Unlimited Inc. The 25-μm-pixel SU-LDH digital line-scan camera uses an LC linear array that provides correlated double sampling, integrate-while-read snapshot acquisition and low noise. The SU1024LDH produces a high dynamic range at frame rates of >46,000 lines per second and quantum efficiency >70% from 1.0 to 1.6 μm. The solid-state detector offers wavelength response from 0.8 to 1.7 μm. The camera features 14-bit digital capture and is available with a Camera Link interface.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A playful or amusing act; a prank. See Synonyms at joke.
- n. A frolicsome or frivolous mood: spoken in jest.
- n. An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.
- n. A witty remark.
- intransitive v. To act or speak playfully.
- intransitive v. To make witty remarks.
- intransitive v. To utter scoffs; gibe.
- transitive v. To make fun of; ridicule.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An act performed for amusement; a joke.
- n. Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
- v. To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A deed; an action; a gest.
- n. A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
- n. Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.
- n. The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
- intransitive v. To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.
- intransitive v. To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To tell stories or romances. See gest, verb
- I can not geste, rum, raf, ruf, by letter
- To trifle (with); amuse or entertain by words or actions; treat as trifling.
- To say or do something intended to amuse or cause laughter.
- To take part in a mask or sport; engage in mock combat; just.
- To utter in jest or sport.
- To apply a jest to; joke with; banter; rally.
- A common dialectal form of just.
- n. An act; deed; achievement; exploit; gest. See gest, n.
- n. A tale of achievement or adventure; a story; romance. See gest, n., 2.
- n. A mask; masquerade; pageant.
- n. A spoken pleasantry; a laughable or intentionally ludicrous saying; a witticism; a joke; a sally.
- n. An acted pleasantry; a, jocular or playful action; something done to make sport or cause laughter.
- n. The object of laughter, sport, or mockery; a laughing-stock.
- n. Synonyms Jest, Joke; quip, quirk, witticism, sally. A joke is often rougher or less delicate than a jest, as a practical joke, but jest often suggests more of lightness or scoffing than joke, as to turn everything into jest. Joke is the word to be used where action is implied; jest is generally applied to something said.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
- v. act in a funny or teasing way
- v. tell a joke; speak humorously
- n. activity characterized by good humor
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Reverting to Baby-Talk nicknames, even in jest, is just another nail in the coffin of this blogs masculinity.
The other thing I say only mildly in jest is that the more you know about the Emmys, the more plugged-in you feel you are, the worse you do in your predictions.
Here's How They Chose the Emmys This Year: Stick Hand Into Hat. Remove Piece of Paper. Open Paper. Read Name. Repeat.
The only way to know if councillor John Dixon was saying in jest would be to ask him.
The day before, Francis Maude described Danny Alexander as to his right – OK, half in jest – but he is backed up by Michael Gove who is also telling anyone who will listen that Alexander is the most right wing member of the cabinet.
The column was written in jest for the Hollywood crowd.
Bryan, the "human cloning" quip may be in jest, but it's typical of the wrongheaded thinking about how to "solve" liberal media bias - the value of access to cloning obviously can't be restricted to libertarians.
Lovecraft, Sutter, and the Media, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn't help the company's growing image problem with comments during an interview last week when he said, perhaps in jest, that those concerned with its photographing if streets and homes to "just move."
Google CEO says he 'misspoke' on Street View privacy concerns
But it was all in jest, the mayor's loyal aide assured.
It was meant in jest and most people take it in jest.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Kynnaston's Review Forum
Wow, it is amazing how one word, spoken in jest, brings out the bigot in people.
Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch


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By Jeffrey Tsao
Updated 03/25/2007
A small demonstration for teaching and practicing the point-slope form for a line. Hide the line and input a point, and the disk will indicate whether or not it is on the line. Or black-out the disk by clicking on it, and then check guesses that way. It's best to learn by experience - play around with it!
CA Standards
Algebra I: 7.0
Copyright © Spring 2010


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What to Do if You're Denied a Promotion
By Robin Reshwan
Rejection is miserable. It doesn't matter if it's being turned down by the cute girl you asked to dance or losing to your nemesis at work for an ideal role. Being rejected after you stick out your neck hurts, no matter your age or experience. How you react after the "no" can say a tremendous amount about who you are.
Here are a few immediate moves to try after you are passed over for a promotion:Cool off. Start by taking a little time to calm down and get your emotions in check. If you are really shocked by the decision, you may need a day to two to simmer down before you are ready to have a rational conversation. In other cases, you may just require a minute to collect your thoughts. Either way, make sure you are able to approach any conversations with a cool head and an open mind.
Request a meeting with your manager to get feedback. The thoughts in your head rarely match reality, so ask to discuss how the decision was made. In a perfect scenario, you can get the information you need at the time the decision is announced to you. But often, the first explanation given can be very surface level, like: "You did a great job. It's just that another candidate had more experience." While that may be part of the reason, usually there are more contributing factors. After all, they knew you had less experience before they accepted you into the process. That alone implies a less experienced candidate could be an option.
Ask for specifics and suggestions. The true purpose of your feedback request is to learn what's required for professional advancement. Evaluate why you were passed over to determine if these are things you can (and want to) develop in your current role or company.
Should you stay or should you go? Consider your options. What are the benefits of your current role or employer versus the pros and cons of other roles and employers? List them out so you can weigh the pros and cons reasonably.
Emotions, like feeling scorned, pass – but regret from bailing on an otherwise great position or employer can come back to haunt you. At the end of the day, your employer will move on. You have the most to lose if you act hastily.
Additionally, you need to assess if your employer can or will change his view of you when you demonstrate the necessary growth. Like it or not, sometimes there is just too much history to change perception. If your work relationships resemble those in your personal life where your big sister or parents always see you as you were when you were little rather than as you are now, it may be time to move on.
Have a plan. If you really must leave, know that you are always more employable when you are already employed. Create a networking strategy that will enable you to look for a new role while still doing great work at your current employer. No matter how disappointed you feel, don't tarnish your long-term reputation by reacting badly or performing poorly.
As much as it burns to be passed over for a promotion, it happens to everyone – OK, most everyone – at some point in his or her career. Managing how you react to the bad news can move you closer to your next opportunity more quickly or set you back considerably. We see great examples of this in sports all around us. You won't regret your choice to make the most from what seems to be an undesired outcome.
Consider this quote from Michael Jordan: "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."


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This week, I'm positively smitten with:
1. Mums: There are so many reasons to love the fall season, and I love it so much that I could spend my entire smitten list going over all of them. Instead, I'll pick one of my favorites – the very first sign that fall has arrived in my yard: "mums". My new tradition since moving into my home is indulging in chrysanthemums at the end of summer to sprinkle around my yard. In fact, I'm actually OK when my summer flowers die off (sorry, pretty flowers…most of you I'll see next year). I'm so ready for the red, orange, purple, and yellow blooms to dot my yard. I adore the plump shape of these beauties, and they even have a distinct, pleasant smell. I planted eight this weekend and each and every one of them made me smile. No other flower makes me this happy!
2. Cooking Shows: There's something both mesmerizing and inspiring about many of the shows on The Food Network or The Cooking Channel. I have my favorites (Farmhouse Rules; Barefoot Contessa; Trisha's Southern Kitchen; Giada at Home; Pioneer Woman) that I record to play for a later time when I need cooking inspiration. I'll even put them on in the background while I keep busy around my house. I just love watching good cooks work their magic in the kitchen – rattling off cooking advice while not measuring their ingredients, using butcher knives like a boss, and swiftly navigating their countertops, cupboards, and drawers. Someday, I'll be like them 🙂
3. Cameos: Recently I was given a cameo by an older relative, who had received it from her mother-in-law. I strung it on a gold chain and wear it proudly, knowing that I'm wearing something that's been passed around a few generations. I'm into anything vintage, romantic, feminine, and dainty, so I think they're so charming. These "little carved portraits" (as I call them) come as broaches, rings, necklaces, bracelets, and barrettes. They make a great fashion statement. Check out some of these beautiful cameos, and if you've got one, pull it out and give it some attention!
What are you positively smitten with?


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Too queer to be true
A silly, soppy book on gay love that overlooks the real problems of the community.books Updated: Sep 25, 2010 01:44 IST
Hostel Room 131
R Raj Rao Penguin
R250 pp 240
Imagine Enid Blyton fornicating with any author from the 'Mills and Boons' stable and ending up with a gay son who aspires to follow in his parents' footsteps. Scary? But this is roughly what Raj Rao's Hostel Room 131 reads like.
It constantly reminded me how gay men don't seem to grow up; they are lost in the juvenile whirl of going to parties, discos and bars and building up their networks in either cyber cafes or local chai ka addas. Of course, like our hero Siddharth — an academic — a gay man can cry like a schoolgirl for his lover in the middle of a street.
It's amazing how a brilliant academic like Raj Rao, one of the few openly gay Indian professors I have known — who started India's first gay and lesbian studies faculty in Pune University — can write such a book. To write about a love affair between a college lecturer, who bursts into tears at being separated from his lover Sudhir — a local "vernac" and an engineering student in Pune — is quite engaging. But to make it a la-di-dah book in the Mills and Boon tradition is a bit thick.
The plot is slightly more robust than a famine victim's account. A footloose professor lands up with his friend in a hostel room in Pune's Engineering College. He meets a rural bumpkin and they have some rather tepid sex, followed by more steamy sex. They end up in a filmy-style relationship where Mr Country Bumpkin is tutored in English. The lessons are essentially Bollywood songs translated into English.
Mercifully the book ends, but with more bizarre things like a crazy scene in a police station that sent shivers down my spine (I've been in so many by now that I hate being reminded of them).
What I'd love to analyse aren't the characters in this silly book, but why Rao is caught in a time warp. Why is the gay movement slowly becoming a bourgeois 'backseat-driving' one after the Delhi High Court judgement of July 2009? Sorry for the psychobabble, but is this what it's all about: perpetually seeking love — even in the era of HIV/Aids? By the way, there is no mention of the disease that is the biggest killer of homosexuals in India today.
Pardon me for asking Raj Rao why we faggots get so driven by 'love' when the rest of the world falls in (and out of) it and carries on like it's just another hearty breakfast? Why does Siddharth have to lodge a complaint of his adult lovers' parents actually abducting him? It's a bit irritating to not find a single instance of violence against gay men, which is a routine for them in hellholes like police stations.
It's suffice to surmise that this book won't be burnt by the Shiv Sena or the Vishwa Hindu Parishad or even the Jamiat-e-Islami. It might actually become an essential reading for a nerd in Jawaharlal Nehru University to write a dissertation on 'The Transgressions of Class and Caste in Gay India after the Delhi High Court Judgement'.
It can't get more futile than this, can it? The next time I meet Raj Rao I will hit him with the book. Thank god it's a paperback; a hardbound would have done too much damage to his scholastic skull.
Ashok Row Kavi is the founding Executive Editor of Bombay Dost, India's first gay magazine
First Published: Sep 25, 2010 01:41 IST


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desde 838,65 $ USD
Not long enough.
Taman Negara is well worth the trip and but 3 days is a bit short -- 4 to 6 days would be much better. The lodge offers good but rough accommodations, good food and interesting activities. However, the tour with Viator was a big DISSAPOINTMENT! It was expensive and not well organized. We were picked up at our hotel and taken to another spot and left there for about an hour -- unattended ,uninformed and alone. The person who left us didn't know anything except that we were to wait there. Finally someone picked us up and drove us to the boat landing (where we waited about 1 1/2 hours). This was a 4 to 5 hour ride and lunch was NOT included. When we finally did meet the boat, we had to pay a porter or carry our own bags down (about 100 steps) to the boat landing! We also had to pay a small amount for a park pass! On the return we had the same wait times and were dropped at the same spot to be picked up and taken to our hotel. We felt that the trip was expensive enough that they could have attended us better and given lunch. The lodge was good but Viator's part of the trip was poor. It might be easier to fly into Kota Bharu and take public transport or a taxi.