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|This popular port is a living museum and a window to America's seafaring past.|
Mystic's lifeblood has been the sea since its settlement in the 1600's. Some 600 vessels were built on its shores between 1784 and 1919, and most of its citizens were shipwrights who worked their farms in the summer and spent the rest of the year building the sloops and schooners that plied the rich New England waters as well as those of the southern states and the Caribbean.
Long an important fishing and whaling port, Mystic changed in 1838 when George Clark and Thomas Greenman set up their shipbuilding business on what would become the site of the Mystic Seaport Museum. Over the next 40 years, the Greenman yard launched almost 100 vessels, including sloops, clipper ships, and steamboats. The nearby Mallory shipyard, now the museum's restoration yard, also built clippers and steamboats.
American's inexorable tie to the sea is nowhere more evident than in Mystic. It's one of my favorite destinations while cruising in New England, and after you stop by, it will surely become one of yours.
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This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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The Nor'west arch, as visible from Christchurch, shows a blue belt of clear sky to the west from which high white cloud streams.
The Nor'west arch is a weather pattern peculiar to the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. For this reason, it is also often referred to as the Canterbury arch, although it is visible in both Otago and Marlborough as well as in the Canterbury Region. It is shown in an apparent arch of high white cloud in an otherwise clear blue sky over the Southern Alps, and is accompanied by a strong hot northwesterly or northerly wind simply known as The Nor'wester. Closer to the Canterbury coast, some distance from the mountains of the Southern Alps, it appears as a clear area of blue above the mountains, with white cloud streaming to the east from it. The phenomenon is similar to the Chinook arch seen in the Pacific regions of the United States and Canada.
How Nor'west arches occur[edit]
Typical shot of a Canterbury, New Zealand nor'west arch during sunset
The northwesterly wind in the South Island is a foehn wind. Warm moist air from over the Tasman Sea is pushed up by the presence of the Southern Alps, causing it to cool rapidly. The area to the east of the divide is in the rain shadow of the Alps; much of the moisture is dumped on the West Coast, and is responsible for the temperate rainforests found there. As the air passes over the alps, the water vapour remaining becomes visible in a band of cloud over the mountains at the top of each wave of air. From the perspective of a viewer on the eastern side, this appears as an 'arch' of cloud. The standing wave or arch is caused by the moisture condensing and becoming visible towards the top of the wave and then evaporating again as the air descends to the trough of the wave.
The Nor'west arch can be seen as far north as Amberley and as far south as Central Otago, but it is at its most prominent on the Canterbury Plains, due to the flat and low-lying nature of the land to the east of the mountains.
The Nor'wester can blow at any time of year, but is less common in winter. Many of the strongest northerly and northwesterly winds blow ahead of cold fronts. A front lying across the South Island will often extend from northwest to southeast, reaching northern parts of the West Coast before it reaches corresponding areas on the east coast. The steep air pressure gradient ahead of the cyclonic system associated with a front gives these nor'westers their strength; they will commonly reach gale force and cause isolated damage to trees and buildings.[1] Once every few years, a nor'wester will approach hurricane strength and cause widespread damage.
Nor'westers caused by cold fronts will often change within a day or two to a cool southerly wind accompanied by rain showers, as the front passes through. In mid-winter, a Nor'wester is often followed by a brief but intense cold snap, frequently bringing thunder, hail, or snow which may settle to sea level.
The heat and lack of moisture characteristic of nor'westers play a major role in the intermittent droughts experienced by Canterbury and other regions on New Zealand's eastern coasts.
The Nor'wester has a deep psychological effect on many people subjected to its hot, dry nature. It has been statistically linked to increases in suicide and domestic violence.[3]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ "Dunedin homes without water as wind topples trees". Radio New Zealand. 21 December 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
 2. ^ Chinooks, Plains Folk, Prairie Public Broadcasting. Accessed 2007-06-17.
 3. ^ Erick Brenstrum, Canterbury's damaging nor'wester, MetService. Reprinted from New Zealand Geographic No.1 (Jan-Mar 1989). Accessed 2007-06-17.
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Rationale and study protocol of the EASY Minds (Encouraging Activity to Stimulate Young Minds) program: cluster randomized controlled trial of a primary school-based physical activity integration program for mathematics
- Published on Aug. 8, 2014
Background: Novel strategies are required to increase school-based physical activity levels of children. Integrating physical activity in mathematics lessons may lead to improvements in students' physical activity levels as well as enjoyment, engagement and learning. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of a curriculum-based physical activity integration program known as EASY Minds (Encouraging Activity to Stimulate Young Minds) on children's daily school time physical activity levels. Secondary aims include exploring the impact of EASY Minds on their engagement and 'on task' behaviour in mathematics.
Methods/Design: Grade 5/6 classes from eight public schools in New South Wales, Australia will be randomly allocated to intervention (n = 4) or control (n = 4) groups. Teachers from the intervention group will receive one day of professional development, a resource pack and asked to adapt their lessons to embed movement-based learning in their daily mathematics program in at least three lessons per week over a six week period. Intervention support will be provided via a weekly email and three lesson observations. The primary outcomes will be children's physical activity levels (accelerometry) across both the school day and during mathematics lessons (moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary time). Children's 'on-task' behaviour, enjoyment of mathematics and mathematics attainment will be assessed as secondary outcomes. A detailed process evaluation will be undertaken.
Discussion: EASY Minds is an innovative intervention that has the potential to improve key physical and academic outcomes for primary school aged children and help guide policy and practice regarding the teaching of mathematics.
Trial registration: Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register ACTRN12613000637741 13/05/2013.

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Some static maps made from the interactive site, including overview maps of the path across Mexico and the US. The green line is the predicted central line, while the blue lines are the predicted limits of the occultation; the asteroid is expected to be only 7 km across, subtending only 0.019". The blue lines are 18 km apart, both because of projection of the shadow on the Earth's surface, but more due to the angular diameter of the star, causing a partial occultation to be visible over a larger area (more on that later). More important in this case are the red lines; they are where the outer limits could be in case of a 1-sigma error in the path, shifting either east or west. With the current prediction, there is only a 7% chance of an occultation at the central line, while this probability falls to 4% at the red "1-sigma" lines. In order to ensure that the occultation is observed, to about 84% certainty, it will be necessary to have observers, or observing stations, spread at, at most, 18-km intervals across the entire 218-km distance between the two red lines; preferably, the spacing would be 9 km or less, so that at least 2 stations record at least a partial occultation of the star. Then, 25 stations are needed to cover the uncertainty zone well enough to have a high probability of success.


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the little known jewish influence on the art of funerary violin
Over the past couple of years as I have toured Britain and America giving talks on the history of Funerary Violin I have been asked with surprising regularity if there is any major Jewish influence upon the tradition. Whether this is due to the nature of the audiences that attend my lectures, or perhaps to the superficial notion that Jewish violin music is filled with tragedy and therefore in some ways similar to the Funerary genre I cannot say, but the question is more interesting than one would expect. For, although Funerary Violin itself is profoundly steeped in European Christian Funerary practices, it has, from its very beginnings, been associated with certain notable Jewish musicians, albeit somewhat from the sidelines, without whom it probably would not have evolved into the noble Art practiced by the great masters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Indeed, were it not for the unquestioned reputation of Jewish musicians during the 16th century, a time when professional musicians were almost exclusively either of Jewish or Gypsy origin, it is doubtful whether the tradition would have begun at all, for it is now thought that it was they who unintentionally provided George Babcotte, founder of the Guild of Funerary Violinists, with his violin, an instrument previously unknown in England.
How George Babcotte came upon his violin was for many years one of the great mysteries of the Funerary Violin tradition, however recent scholarship has finally revealed what can at least be considered a most likely scenario. In 1540 Thomas Cromwell was sent to Italy by King Henry VIII with orders to employ a troop of high quality musicians with the intention of improving the standards of music in his court for his impending marriage to Anne of Cleves. Cromwell returned with six Jewish musicians, Alexander, Ambrose and Romano of Milan, Albert and Vincenzo of Venice and Juan Maria of Cremona, who are listed as being "performers on the viol and violin" making them the very first violinists in England. However, it was illegal to practice Judaism in England at the time and the unfortunate musicians were arrested two years later. Privy Council records dated 4th February 1542 record their apprehension by Phillip Hobbin, Sir Edward Kerne and Dr. Peter and Parish records indicate that Joseph Babcotte, George Babcotte's father, was head jailer, and later sheriff to Sir Edward Kerne, and is known to have accompanied his master to conduct the arrests. The inventory of the goods of the individuals involved is also listed; this included 6 viols (of various sizes), 2 violins, 2 violas and a violoncello. It is worth noting that this uneven number of instruments, six viols yet only 5 members of the violin family, was not questioned at the time, but clearly suggests that an instrument may have gone missing. The first known account of George Babcotte "performyng on the vyolyn" is in 1566 in George Gascoigne's play Supposes, at a "carnival" at Gray's Inn, and as there were still very few violins in England, each accounted for, and belonging to the musicians of Queen Mary's court (such an instrument would cost a princely sum (around the yearly salary of 4 serving maids and a cook)), it is a logical conclusion that this was the same instrument that was missing from the 1542 inventory.
Very little is known about specific Funerary Violinists during the following 100 years, largely due to the not inconsiderable social chaos created by the various wars across Europe during the 17th century. And indeed the essentially religious nature of funerary practice meant that the very notion of a Jewish Funerary Violinist was at best unlikely, if not an outright impossibility. By the 18th century a professional class of musicians had evolved amongst the non-Jewish people of Europe and, as a result, many Jewish musicians would hide their religious background, making it all the more difficult to track any Jewish influence upon the Art. However, in 1983 a large box of papers was discovered hidden inside a tomb in the soon to be demolished ruins of a church in Hildesheim, Germany. Now known as the Hildesheim Trunk, its contents included a hand-written Testament by Herr Hieronymous Gratchenfleiss, probably the greatest and most important of all Funerary Violinists, in which he makes passing mention of his early years, and specifically a Jewish violin teacher:
…after much begging and pestering, my father, who, though stern, was not an ungenerous man, finally agreed to send me for lessons. We were not rich, and could not afford the fees charged by Schweitzer, Wolfsburg's violin maestro, but it seems my father had connections in the Jewish Quarter and, if my memory serves, had struck a deal exchanging my lessons for his own occasional services as a carpenter. And so it was that twice a week I made the trip across town to visit Blumenthal, an elderly and somewhat severe gentleman with a long beard, usually encrusted with the remnants from past meals. He was not a great violinist, and I recall his tone was weak by comparison with the wondrous sound that had so inspired me on hearing Kurfürstentrauerviolinistenmeister Schinker a year earlier, but his soul was truly musical, and even today I can hear the solemn tragedy of his playing as I look back upon my youth…were it not for his many severe strictures and particularly his overwhelming concern for melancholic phrasing I may not have set out upon the path which has led me where I am today… [translated from the original German]
Herr Gratchenfleiss was to become the unquestioned grand master of the art, rising to the position of Kurfürstentrauerviolinistenmeister in 1782, and his musical and spiritual vision was to expand the very concept of Funerary Violin from its earlier ritualised form into the rich and varied genre of the early 19th century. Therefore, if his comment about Blumenthal is to be taken at face value it can be said that once again the Jewish influence, though only occasional, was indeed pivotal in the evolution of Funerary Violin.
It is impossible to know how many, if any, Funerary Violinists were amongst the numbers of converted Jews or Jews who hid their Jewish identity, as records do not reveal such information, and, as has been stated, the notion of a openly practising Jewish Funerary Violinist is unlikely, however there is one known exception to prove the rule. Josef Nussbaum, a Viennese Jewish Funerary Violinist who went by the professional name of Adolf Nuß, presumably to disguise his Jewish background, was born in 1782. He first appears on record as a Funerary Violinist in 1806, as having played at the funeral of Karl Kreisky, a notable Viennese cabinetmaker. Although very little is known about his life, a number of his works have survived, and it is these that clearly demonstrate not only that he was Jewish, but that he was interested in bringing the Art of Funerary Violin into Jewish funerary practice, a somewhat misbegotten notion given the overtly stoical nature of Jewish funerals to this day. In 1819 a selection of his pieces was published by the Viennese music publisher Carlo Artaria entitled Jüdische Beerdigungbegleitungsmusik / Shtikelach tsu oysshpiln bay Yiddishe Levayes (Works for Performance at Jewish Funerals) with a preface written both in German and in Yiddish. What sets these works apart from other Funerary Suites of the period is their self-consciously Jewish narratives, which frequently refer to passages from the Torah. Amongst them is a set of two suites now known as the Plague Suites. These follow, to a large extent, the then popular pattern of the seven movement Funerary Suite, (3 marches, Dream, Flight, Panic and Eulogy) however in this case each of the inner movements is subtitled with a passage from the Torah depicting one of the plagues sent down by God upon Egypt. Only two copies of this book are known to exist today, both in the hands of private collectors, however in 1962 an original hand-written manuscript of the second Plague Suite was purchased at auction by the Guild of Funerary Violinists, and is soon to be published in its collection The Art of Funerary Violin.
By 1840 the venerable tradition of Funerary Violin was falling into decline, partly due to changes in funerary practice across Europe, and partly due to the persecution of its practitioners and repression of the form by the Catholic Church, now known as the Great Funerary Purges. Had it continued into the age of emancipation we may have seen a far greater and more open Jewish influence upon the tradition, but of course that is mere speculation. What is clear, however, is that despite the overwhelmingly Christian nature of the form it would not have evolved as it did without the occasional influence of Jewish musicians.

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This paper presents a case study on distance teaching in a school in Greenland. Data from work on Grounded Theory is used to investigate ways of utilizing distance teaching in the school. The analysis draws on a prevalent perspective on distance teaching as providing access to education. The perspective combines with Michel Foucault's concept of "governmentality".
I will show how progressive possibilities are not necessarily to be found in ICT-driven distance teaching. Pedagogical drivers operate behind the choices of ICT equipment and ICT solutions which, in this case, brings ICT under the command of a less progressive pedagogical agenda.
As I will show, the commitment from the municipality and from the teachers was to use distance teaching and ICT for conventional schooling. The case lays the ground for a discussion on the progressivity of distance teaching and the use of advanced ICT solutions in schools. My aim with the paper is to add to the understanding of the scope of distance teaching in schools. Does ICT and distance teaching serve progressive ends per se? What do we learn about distance teaching from this setup in the school in Greenland?
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Many learners in remote regions face communicative barriers to Vocational Education and Training (VET). The barriers can be such as geographical distance, cultural challenges and language.
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What kind of pedagogical concepts or tools could help overcoming the communicative barriers?
How could vocational educators reach learners by using methods utilising modern technology?
How to approach the problem of updating the qualifications of low skilled workers in remote areas?


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Wisselwerkingen: over epilepsie en de psychiatrische opleiding
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M. W. Hengeveld: lnteractions of epilepsy and psychiatrie training
What is the importance for an assistant psychiatrist of working in the Instituut voor Epilepsiebestrijding during his training, and what is the importance of the work of the assistant psychiatrist for the Instituut? This is the double question which will be discussed. The writer has carried out a retrospective study of 88 patients in the observation ward with respect to:
1. neurological and neuro-radiological disorders,
2. the number of those patients with evident psycho-social problems or psychiatric disorders and
3. the number in which the diagnosis of epilepsy could not be maintained.
With the help of literature and own experience of the writer, the problems with differential diagnoses in patients with epileptic seizures are discussed.
Again and again the assistant psychiatrist working in the observation ward has to search for possible neurological or psychiatric disorders and he is contributing much to the tackling of these problems.
He is trained to work with the interaction of physical functioning and behaviour of the patient.
The training for this form of integral medecine is, to the opinion of the writer, the most important thing the Instituut and the assistant psychiatrist can offer each other.


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Beyond such grounding and ambitions, the CRESPAR TD evaluation framework seeks to re–position evaluation in low–income urban contexts as accountable, not only for producing accurate and relevant information on the program being evaluated, but also for enabling and contributing to the program s social betterment and social justice intentions. This re–positioning is effected primarily by a collaborative, co–constructionist model for evaluation in which CRESPAR program developers, implementers, and evaluators along with key program stakeholders partner together in envisioning, implementing, and evaluating programs that are responsive to and make cultural sense in the context at hand. CRESPAR TD evaluators are contextually and culturally engaged and are responsible for this engagement. This volume highlights the approach s five major themes: engaging stakeholders, co–construction, responsiveness, cultural and contextual relevance, and triangulation of perspectives.
1. Building a Contextually Responsive Evaluation Framework: Lessons from Working with Urban School Interventions (Veronica G. Thomas).
The chapter discusses the conceptual underpinnings and overarching themes of the Talent Development evaluation framework and makes recommendations for minimizing evaluation problems in diverse urban settings.
2. Evaluating the Co–Construction of the Family, School, and Community Partnership Program in a Low–Income Urban High School (Velma LaPoint, Henry L. Jackson).
This chapter describes the collaborative evaluation of the co–construction of a school–based family, school, and community partnership program for black students attending an urban high school.
3. A Culturally Responsive Evaluation Approach Applied to the Talent Development School–to–Career Intervention Program (Jo–Anne L. Manswell Butty, Malva Daniel Reid, Velma LaPoint).
A culturally responsive approach in evaluating an urban school–to–career intervention program resulted in both successes and challenges.
4. Successes and Challenges in Triangulating Methodologies in Evaluations of Exemplary Urban Schools (Donna Penn Towns, Zewelanji Serpell).
Triangulating methodologies in evaluation allowed for stakeholder involvement and revealed contexts that a narrower approach might have failed to illuminate.
5. Talent Development Professional Development Evaluation Model: A Paradigm Shift (Constance M. Ellison).
The chapter discusses the Talent Development Professional Development program evaluation design, which is consistent with the Talent Development evaluation framework.
6. Commentary: Do Talent Development Project Evaluations Demonstrate a Coherent Approach? (Floraline I. Stevens).
This commentary examines the extent to which the chapters in this volume used a coherent, contextually responsive evaluation framework. It also offers suggestions about possible alternative evaluation efforts to produce more powerful and comprehensive outcome information.
7. Commentary: Can Critical Theories of or on Race Be Used in Evaluation Research in Education? (Laurence Parker).
This commentary explores the utility of critical race theory in the
evaluation process in education, particularly in regard to the epistemological and methodological perspectives put forth by the Talent Development Model.


Does market volatility affect your pension choices?
Published: September 1, 2020 by Jennifer Armstrong
If you're retiring this year, you may be worried about what the market volatility caused by Covid-19 means for your options.
The good news is that Pension Freedoms, introduced in 2015, means you can choose how and when you access your retirement savings.
Market volatility may have affected the value of your pension but that doesn't mean your overall plans have to be adjusted. However, it's important that you understand the impact it could have.
The impact will depend on how you intend to access your pension.
1. Taking a lump sum
Once you reach retirement age, it is possible to take your pension through lump-sum withdrawals. You can even choose to withdraw the entire amount, though this isn't appropriate for most retirees.
Usually, you can withdraw up to 25% tax-free. If you've intended to take a lump sum out of your pension to take advantage of this, it's worth assessing if your pension value has fallen. Withdrawals that exceed the 25% tax-free lump sum will be taxed as income and could push you into a higher Income Tax bracket. As a result, taking a lump sum may not be the most efficient way to access money.
2. Purchasing an Annuity
An Annuity is a product you buy with your pension savings that delivers a lifetime income. As a result, if the value of your pension has fallen, you may find that the income you can purchase is now lower. But it is an option that can provide financial security throughout retirement.
The amount paid out will depend on the Annuity rate. For example, a 5% Annuity rate would pay out £5,000 every year for every £100,000 initially paid.
The Annuity rate you're offered varies depending on a range of factors, including your age and health. You can also choose to purchase a joint Annuity, ensuring your partner would continue to receive an income if you passed away first, or one that rises alongside inflation to maintain spending power. These options would typically mean a lower level of income to begin with.
If you'd like to use an Annuity to fund retirement, you'll need to assess how recent volatility has affected your overall pension value. This means you're able to see what Annuity rates mean in terms of income. Take some time to shop around, different providers will offer varying rates. The good news is that with a guaranteed income, you won't have to worry about market volatility affecting income in retirement.
3. Using Flexi-Access Drawdown
Flexi-Access Drawdown allows you to take a flexible income that suits you, usually, the remainder will stay invested until you make another withdrawal.
This is the option where investment volatility can have the biggest impact. As your savings remain invested, you need to be aware of how your investments have performed. Continuing to take the same level of income during a downturn, as you did previously, will mean you need to sell more units to receive the same amount. This can deplete your pension quicker than expected if you haven't considered it beforehand.
As you're responsible for how and when you access your pension, you also need to ensure it lasts throughout your life, which will undoubtedly include some periods of short-term volatility. Therefore, you must consider downturns as part of your retirement plan.
Remaining exposed to the markets isn't all negative though. Historically, markets have recovered in the long term. Keeping your pension invested means you have an opportunity to benefit from a recovery as well as long-term gains.
Creating a retirement plan
How and when is the 'right' time to access your pension will vary between retirees. It's a decision that should focus on your retirement goals and long-term plans.
Remember, you don't have to access your pension as soon as it becomes available. If you don't need the savings yet, leaving your pension invested can give your investments a chance to recover in the long term and perhaps grow further.
You also don't have to choose one of the above options exclusively. You can mix and match the options to suit you. For instance, you could withdraw your 25% tax-free lump sum at the start of retirement, use a portion to create a base income with an Annuity, and use Flexi-Access Drawdown to access the remainder at different points.
If you'd like to discuss your retirement plans, whether this is how current circumstances have affected your initial plans or you're starting from scratch, please get in touch.


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Ultrafast Dynamics of Isolated Phenylcarbenes Followed by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Velocity Map Imaging
journal contributionposted on 02.04.2009, 00:00 by Bastian Noller, Lionel Poisson, Raman Maksimenka, Oliver Gobert, Ingo Fischer, J. M. Mestdagh
The ultrafast dynamics of two carbene model systems, chlorophenylcarbene (CPC) and trifluoromethylphenylcarbene (TFPC), has been studied in a molecular beam. Velocity map imaging aids optimizing the pyrolysis conditions for a clean generation of reactive intermediates by supersonic jet flash pyrolysis. The dynamics was followed in real time by time-resolved mass spectroscopy and photoion and photoelectron imaging. CPC was excited at 265 nm into the 3 1A′ state, corresponding to excitation from a π-orbital of the aromatic ring into the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital, which contains the p-orbital at the carbene center. The experimental results suggest a three step deactivation process in agreement with computations. TFPC exhibits two absorption bands in the 36000 cm−1 and 41000 cm−1 range and gives rise to very similar dynamics, although it has a triplet ground state. The experimental data were augmented by computations.


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South Side schoolyard transformation mitigates flooding, improves water quality, learning environment and play areas
Space to Grow benefits Mann Elementary in the South Chicago neighborhood
Space to Grow partners officially unveiled a new schoolyard transformation, taking an old barren playground area and converting it into a vibrant place to play, learn and benefit from the power of green infrastructure by soaking up more water.
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) President Kari K. Steele and MWRD Commissioners Debra Shore and Kimberly Du Buclet joined Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Pedro Martinez and Space to Grow partners from the Chicago Department of Water Management, CPS, Openlands and Healthy Schools Campaign to celebrate the completion of a new schoolyard at Horace Mann Elementary School, at 8050 S. Chappel Ave. Space to Grow transforms Chicago schoolyards into beautiful and functional community spaces for physical activity, outdoor learning, environmental literacy and engagement with art. The spaces also address neighborhood flooding issues by using special surfaces and design elements to capture more rainwater.
"We are thrilled that in addition to all of what is below the ground that these talented students now have a beautiful space to play above ground," said MWRD President Kari K. Steele. "Thank you to all of the partners and the entire school community that helped build and will maintain this beautiful space."
Mann's schoolyard can hold 271,203 gallons of stormwater per rain event and includes: an artificial turf field, porous playground surfacing, two large rain gardens, a nature-play area, and an outdoor classroom with permeable pavers. The campus renovation reduces basement backups, reduces the load on the combined sewer system and educates students and neighbors about green infrastructure techniques and purpose.
"As a former CPS student who attended neighborhood schools, I truly understand what this beautiful new outdoor space at Horace Mann will mean for student learning and the entire community," said CPS CEO Pedro Martinez.
"The green schoolyard at Horace Mann will incorporate landscape features that capture a significant amount of rainfall, helping keep our water resources clean and resulting in less neighborhood flooding," said MWRD Commissioner Du Buclet. "We thank our Space to Grow partners for their commitment to educating our students and protecting our water environment."
Space to Grow has now completed 27 schoolyards, with three more set to be completed in the fall. These 30 schoolyards bring the grand total of storage volume to 5.6 million gallons per rain event, equal to 8.4 Olympic-size pools or 111,108 bathtubs per rain event.
"Like the students at Horace Mann Elementary School, we have been anxiously awaiting the completion of this state-of-the-art schoolyard – a beautiful place for children to play, which will also capture stormwater, reduce flooding, and improve water quality in our streams and waterways," said MWRD Commissioner Debra Shore. "We hope students and their teachers and families enjoy this wonderful space to grow."


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Atheer Galdagon is a trainee patent attorney in our Electronics, Computing & Physics group.
Atheer has experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the UK and Europe for clients in electronics and software fields. This includes telecommunications, semi-conductor devices, computing devices and signal coding. As well as exposure to methods used for biomedical image processing and analysis, he also studied advanced image analysis technologies such as image segmentation, registration and morphological analysis.
Atheer graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. His final year project involved building an electromagnetic transmission system for a passenger vehicle. The project included designing electromagnetic actuators using finite element analysis and building a control system for the transmission system to operate in a shift-by-wire fashion. Atheer also, studied the principles of biomedical imaging, including the basic physics and mathematics associated with the different modalities, including X-ray CT, SPECT, PET, and MRI.
On a personal note...
Outside of work Atheer trains and competes in athletics as a sprinter over the short distances, which he has been doing for the last few years.


Friday, June 06, 2008
Amory Lovins and His Nuclear Illusion – Part Two (Big Plants vs. Small Plants)
Two days ago I began a series that critically looks into Amory Lovins' and the Rocky Mountain Institute's latest paper against nuclear energy. Today's post discusses the claim that small plants (termed "micropower") are turning in a "stunning performance" and are the way to go. There are two parts to this post: exposing the flaws in their "micropower" data and discussing the differences of big plants and small plants.
Does RMI's data fit their definition?
From RMI's condensed version:
Despite their small individual size, micropower generators and electrical savings are already adding up to huge totals.
After reading and researching RMI's data, it is still unclear to me what size power plants RMI counts as "micropower." Here's RMI's definition on page 11 (pdf):
So I'm assuming that the size of "micropower" plants is 10 MW or less. The only problem with this is that the data and sources RMI uses do not tell you the size of the plants. According to the data from the 2005 WADE Survey (pdf) that RMI uses, there are about 300 GW of decentralized capacity in the world. The WADE Survey does not mention the average size of the plants included in their data. So basically we don't know if the data includes all large plants, all small plants, or a mix. If RMI's original source doesn't tell us, how can RMI claim that the data is "micropower"?
According to data from Ventyx/Global Energy Decisions (NEI subscribes to their large energy database), the size of the average co-generating power plant in the U.S. is 54 MW. There are a total of 80 GW of co-generating capacity operating in the U.S. (same number reported in WADE's 2005 Survey on page 27). Of the 80 GW, only 3 GW are less than 10 MW in capacity. Based on just the U.S. data, the majority of the co-generating plants don't meet the size criteria of "micropower."
Distributed (decentralized) renewables are the other half of the definition of "micropower." The problem is that RMI's data includes centralized renewables. RMI's Excel spreadsheet shows that the world added 11,471 MW of wind capacity in 2005. According to page 35 of the 2006 WADE Survey (pdf), only 5 percent of this wind capacity is distributed:
On-site wind systems: according to the Global Wind Energy Council, 11,769 MW of wind capacity was installed around the world in 2005. WADE has assumed that about 5% of this is DE [decentralized energy] based, translating into 0.93 TWh based on an 18% load factor.
It seems RMI's own data doesn't meet its definition.
One more point. If "micropower" is supposedly turning in a "stunning performance," then it is clearly not happening in the U.S. The chart below shows how much and what type of power plant capacities have been added in the U.S. since 1950. The chart also shows the average plant size built each year.
If "micropower" is recently turning in a "stunning performance," then the average new plant size shouldn't be as high as it is. The average plant size for the U.S. should at least be down in the 20-40 MW range, but it isn't. The two times the U.S. has built a substantial amount of capacity during a short period of time also saw a scale up in the average plant size being built. RMI could argue that the rest of the world is flourishing with "micropower," but their data so far hasn't shown it.
The Virtue of Big Plants
From RMI's condensed version:
Indeed, over decades, negawatts and micropower can shoulder the entire burden of powering the economy.
The keywords are "can shoulder" a big economy. It doesn't mean the economy should be run by small plants. The fact is that big plants yield greater efficiencies and economies of scale than small plants. From page 59 in The Bottomless Well:
Bigger systems are easier to keep hot because they have less surface per unit of volume, and because they can be surrounded by materials like concrete and steel that can both contain and survive the heat. There is, of course, much more than that to engineering efficient power plants. But first and foremost, the rule is simple: bigger can be hotter, and hotter is more efficient. So, decade by decade through the first century of electricity, power plants grew bigger, and in so doing grew more efficient.
Amory Lovins and RMI proclaim the benefits of efficiency all the time. What is perplexing is why they would be against bigger plants considering bigger plants are more efficient than smaller plants.
Here are the numbers. According to data from Ventyx/Global Energy Decisions, of all U.S. cogeneration gas plants, those smaller than 100 MW have the lowest thermal efficiencies. Their average heat rate is about 11,600 Btus/kWh and their average thermal efficiency is 30.1 percent. Nearly one-quarter of the U.S.' gas plants are 100 MW or less and their average thermal efficiency is 29.3 percent (includes cogen and non-cogen plants). Thermal efficiencies dramatically improve for gas plants greater than 200 MW.
Nuclear plants average a 10,400 Btu/kWh heat rate which calculates into a 32.7 percent thermal efficiency. Newer and bigger nuclear plants are expected to operate at greater thermal efficiencies nearly matching today's combined cycle power plants. Mitsubishi's 1,700 MW Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor is designed to achieve a thermal efficiency of 39 percent. Westinghouse's AP1000 is designed for a 35.1 percent thermal efficiency. GE's ESBWR is designed for a 34.7 percent thermal efficiency. And AREVA's EPR is designed for a 36-37 percent thermal efficiency depending on site conditions.
From RMI:
Small, quickly built units are faster to deploy for a given total effect than a few big, slowly built units.
Well of course smaller plants can be built faster than larger plants. But how small are we talking about and is it practical?
As stated above, small supposedly means 10 MW or less. A new nuclear plant ranges from 1,100 MW to 1,700 MW. If we need 1,100 MW to meet demand, is it practical to build 110 small plants or just one big plant? If 1,110 MW was all that was needed, one could argue 110 small plants are practical. But 1,110 MW is not all that's needed.
According to EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2008, the U.S. needs to build another 260,000 MW of capacity by 2030 to meet growing demand. It's not practical to meet that demand by building 26,000 small plants when we can build 260 large plants - especially since larger plants yield greater efficiencies in the first place.
Now this isn't to say small plants aren't worthwhile to build. The size of the plants needed depends largely on the market demands. But when a country operates about one million megawatts of capacity like the U.S., a lot of small plants simply are impractical to build. Especially when one large plant like a nuclear plant is small compared to the overall market it serves.
If economies of scale and greater efficiencies do not exist with bigger machines, then the wind industry would still be building kilowatt wind turbines instead of megawatt wind turbines. Contrary to what RMI believes, there is no one-size fits all solution.
Anonymous said...
If large power plants apparently have a high efficiency, how come that large, inflexible nuclear power plants only have an efficiency of 33% (not including distribution losses) and flexible, combined heat and power plant an overall efficiency of over 80%?
Why use the electricity generated in a large power plant to power wasteful electric heaters, when one can use the waste heat of a smaller plant directly?
Anonymous said...
How come the small, flexible 0.05 MW combustion engine in the Toyota Prius has a higher efficiency than a inflexible 1600 MW nuclear reactor?
Kirk Sorensen said...
My guess would be higher heat of combustion. Basic Carnot principles.
Anonymous said...
A CHP (combined heating power) plant does not produce electricity at 80% thermal efficiency. It just uses the waste heat to do things such as heat water. You cannot compare the "efficiency" of a CHP to a NPP: that's just misleading.
The prius will get an optimum of 30-35% thermal efficiency, that's nothing special of an internal combustion engine, especially one of such small displacement.
I will say that NPP efficiency is nothing special. Super critical coal plants achieve 45%. Natural gas combined cycles achieve 50%+.
Luke said...
"Combined heat and power" is simply referring to re-using the waste heat from any thermal engine, and thus increasing the overall energy conversion efficiency of the process.
You can apply that idea to any thermal engine using any heat source - natural gas for example, or coal, or a nuclear reactor - it doesn't matter.
It's just as feasible to, say, capture the waste heat from a nuclear heated Brayton cycle gas turbine in an organic


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NOAA has 16 USHCN stations in Maryland, but they have stopped collecting data from all but four of them. One of the disappearing stations is at Laurel, which has been collecting since 1895 – but no data reported since August 2015.
Laurel raw data shows no warming over the past 60 years, but Beltsville (at I-95 and The Beltway) is five miles closer to Washington DC and shows two degrees warming during that period as the city has expanded. Beltsville is one of the four stations still reporting.
The fact that 75% of the stations in Maryland are missing doesn't stop NOAA from fabricating temperatures for the 12 missing ones. Laurel is located midway between Washington DC and Baltimore, where another one of the four active stations is located.
NOAA generates the fake Laurel temperature data by interpolating from the neighboring stations, which in this case would be UHI infected Beltsville and Baltimore. The graph below shows how Laurel temperatures are adjusted by USHCN. They cool pre-1975 temperatures and warm post-1975 temperatures. The exact opposite of what would be expected.
But here is where the NOAA fraud really gets ugly. Beltsville raw temperatures have warmed two degrees over the last 60 years due to Urban Heat Island effects. But instead of adjusting recent temperatures downwards to compensate, they do the exact opposite and massively cool the past.
The final temperature graph for Beltsville shows almost five degrees warming over the past 60 years, when in fact there has been none.
This level of fraud defies explanation, but is standard operating procedure at NOAA and NASA.


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Thanksgiving Dinner Math Activities
How many people are coming over? How much food should we buy? How many pies should we make so each person gets a piece? These are the typical questions I hear each year. Many families prepare large meals for their family and friends; so it can be the perfect time to involve your children in dinner preparation to incorporate real-life conceptual understanding of mathematics. Here are some activities!
- Have your child determine what size turkey you need to feed everyone coming for dinner. (How many pounds should you purchase if you have 10 people attending and 1 ½ pounds per person?)
- Already purchased a turkey? Have your child calculate how much each person can have. (You have a 20 pound turkey and 8 people coming for dinner. How much turkey will each person be able to have?)
- Review elapsed time by helping your child write down the times that the turkey went into the oven and the time it came out. Younger children might need a little help calculating the number of hours if it crosses a 12.
- Setting the table. Simply counting out forks, knives and spoons can be helpful practice for many early learners.
- Math with pies can be extra fun! If everyone eats 1/8th of a pie, how many pies do you need to serve 14 people? And if you have 8 slices of pie, and two are left over, what fraction of pie is left over?
Incorporating math into everyday activities can help strengthen a child's conceptual understanding. What Thanksgiving activities do you do at home or in the classroom that encourage math learning?


hundreds of thousands of trees have succumbed to their untimely death in this way.
This has created huge amounts of lumber and wood that can be used as commodities. This is where the rising demand for hardwood floors comes in. When a person wants a hardwood floor installed, someone or some company has to provide that wood. However, in the state of Colorado, rather than having to cut down virgin or old growth forests, companies can now harvest the wood from the trees the pine beetles have killed. This helps to solve the problem of the pine beetles because at least the trees that they are killing are being used to save trees elsewhere.
This wood, from the trees the pine beetles have killed, is known as reclaimed wood. It is great for the environment because it helps to decrease the need to continue cutting down forests all across the state.
Many hardwood floor refinishing companies in Denver, like T&G Flooring, use huge amounts of pine beetle wood. In fact, T&G Flooring uses the largest amount of any company in the state of Colorado. The wood looks fantastic, as it is coming from pine trees that potentially could have been cut down anyways, and it serves the dual purpose of protecting the environment as well.
These types of tactics, such as the use of reclaimed wood, are essential to the future of our planet. As more and more people continue to populate the earth, and as more and more societies develop into modern ones, the demand for raw resources and materials will continue to rise. Therefore, it is crucial that companies adopt practices like using reclaimed wood. The environment will continue to change and adapt as our climate changes, and in order to ensure the future of humanity we must adapt along with it. So the next time you are considering replacing your carpet with hardwood floors, look for reclaimed wood first.
In Colorado, There is No Better BBQ than Texas BBQ.
Texas BBQWhen it comes to barbecue, there are few states that can compare with Texas. Texas BBQ, as it is often called, is one of the most delicious and popular styles of barbecue. Of course, you can always take a trip to Texas, to sample some delicious examples of Texas barbecue. On the other hand, the one thing better than having to drive all the way to Texas, for barbecue, is to eat delicious Texas BBQ, right here, in beautiful Colorado. Furthermore, in Colorado, there is no better Texas BBQ restaurant than Bennett's Bar B Que. Their slow smoked meats and unique, delicious sauces will ensure that you never have to travel all the way to Texas, just to get amazing Texas-style barbecue.
Like any other good barbecue restaurant, one of the biggest factors that sets Bennett's BBQ apart from other barbecue restaurants is the quality and flavor of the meat. The meat itself, is always excellent, and they smoke it for a long time, to fully infuse it with smoky deliciousness. Though they have a variety of meats, all of them are hickory smoked to utter perfection. Plus, in addition to their wide array of traditional barbecue dishes, they also have some new additions to the menu that are every bit as tasty as the classics. One of their signature toppings, which is featured in various different items is their pork green chile, a Colorado favorite. It is available as both a dipping sauce and a topping, for various different appetizers and entrees. Few other Texas barbecue restaurants have that. Of course, if sauce is what you are after, their signature sauces. In addition to serving them with their delicious entrees, you can also purchase bottled sauces, for your own barbecue purposes. Their first and most classic sauce is the Bennett's Original 1985 BBQ Sauce. This is a tasty and well-rounded sauce that will satisfy any barbecue lover. Of course, what would a good BBQ place be, without choices? That is why there are two other sauces available for purchase. Bennett's Colorado Kickin' Sauce is their spicy jalepeno sauce, which is perfect for those who like their BBQ with a kick. Finally, for those who prefer a sweeter sauce, they have a Sweet Surrender Sauce, which includes brown sugar.
In addition to the food, itself, there are few other qualities any good barbecue establishment should have. First of all, BBQ should be available in large quantities. There is nothing wrong with eating a BBQ lunch, but it cannot be denied that BBQ is often best enjoyed in the company of others. That is why Bennett's Bar B Que also provides catering and family-sized entrees. That way, you can have delicious Bar B Que, at your next gathering. You may get so involved in your meal that you forget what you are celebrating. Needless to say, since they have catering, they also allow pick-up orders, of any size. Not only are they among the best BBQ restaurants, in the country, they are also one of the best carry out restaurants, in the Denver area.
Nonprofits utilizing a SEO firm will be more visible.
I feel like I have learned a ton of information through my current job and that is one of the things that I like the most about working where I do. It is a privilege to be able to come to work each day and impact the community. There are many nonprofit professionals that feel just as I feel and I think that the thing that sets them all apart is the opportunity for more and more people to start investing in the community. The more people that invest in the community, the more opportunity there is for individuals to make an impact in the place that they call home. To get people to invest in the community, the nonprofit often has to do a marketing effort to attract new investors. It is not like a stock or something like that where people may or may not see an immediate return. Rather, the investment in a nonprofit is a return on investment that will be seen over the course of many years. Nevertheless, there are a couple of things that a nonprofit can do to increase their visibility in the community. One of the items that they can do would be to develop a website that is well-designed and attracts investors. There are several ways that a nonprofit can start to do just this.
non profit web designThe first way to develop a website that people want to go to would be to create a site map. That is the opportunity to sit down and develop a way that people might want to experience the website. There will be resources, success stories, and ways for individuals to develop a keen understanding of what it is that your nonprofit does in the community. The second thing that I would recommend is the development of a nonprofit brand. My organization does a great job of this and I think that it comes around every few years that we need to be clearer about what we do in the community. Creating a marketing plan for your nonprofit allows for you to clearly specify what your organization does and why people should feel comfortable investing in your organization. It is a way for your nonprofit to develop its own narrative and to allow for people to recognize everything that you do in the community. I would be very surprised if more people did not seek out nonprofit online rather than in person. Another strategy to be considered by a nonprofit would be to utilize a SEO firm to increase visibility. Doing so is a very promising way to increase the visibility when someone is trying to research a certain issue. It allows the nonprofit to show up on Google if there is a specific term that is typed into the search area. I think it's a great way of attracting new investors for the nonprofit. I am not sure what the return on investment is, but I have to imagine that it is a good one best more clicks generally means more dollars.
Harley-Davidson parts can be found for a reasonable price.
I am one of those people that believes in getting something, a product, that will last you for a long time. My car is Japanese, I own a house that is going to be around for a long time (I hope), and I work somewhere that has already be around for more than 125 years. It is a perk to know that all of what I am doing on this planet is contributing to something that is larger than me. When thinking about the different motorcycles out there, one of which I am interested in buying, I have to consider the longevity of the product. Will it last me as long as many of the other products at which I am looking. That is the question at hand and the thing that is most pressing for me. Fortunately, I have found that there are a variety of support systems in place for the product that I am looking to buy. When I think about the ideal product, it usually ends up being a motorcycle that I can use for a very long time. The motorcycle is something that I would love to be a part of and take on a very long journey.
harley-davidson partsI have a friend that recently took his Harley-Davidson motorcycle across the country. Can you believe that? He was able to take this one machine all 3,000 plus miles across the country and it still probably works like it was brand new. With that in mind, I think that the testament of a good machine is that kind of longevity. I would hope that I would be able to find something that fit my needs like that. It would allow


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One of the decisions facing the 2013 session of the Legislature will be whether to lift a sunset date for the state's "clean fuels" initiative, otherwise known as the Oregon Clean Fuels Program.
The initiative, intended largely to help combat climate change, means well. But it's not clear at all whether it will have any impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the likely downside is significant: A hefty increase in the amount consumers and businesses will pay at the pump.
When the Legislature enacted the program in its 2009 session, it set a sunset date of 2015. That date still stands, unless the Legislature takes action in this session to remove it.
The Legislature should keep the sunset date in place.
Already, the program has imposed a batch of new paperwork regulations onto businesses: The state Environmental Quality Commission earlier this month gave a green light to the first phase of the program, which requires that fuel distributors begin reporting the carbon content of car and truck fuel used in the state. The department itself figures the cost of compliance with these regulations at more than $2 million a year for fuel producers and importers, and our guess is that the estimate is low.
Guess who will be picking up that tab.
And these regulations are the cheap half of the Clean Fuels Program.
The department will approach the 2013 session about the second half, in which fuel providers and importers would be required to cut the carbon content of that fuel by 10 percent a gallon by 2025.
The goal is to push alternatives to gasoline and diesel — options such as ethanol, biodiesel, natural gas and electricity. A side benefit might be to give a boost to Oregon's nascent biofuels industry.
But the almost certain result between now and 2025 would be to hammer consumers and businesses at the pump.
The program does contain a mechanism that would, in theory, serve to protect consumers from ruinous price increases, but the mechanism is so convoluted and cumbersome that it seems unlikely to provide any timely relief.
Gov. John Kitzhaber has said the state won't go ahead with the second half of the program unless the Legislature removes the 2015 sunset date.
Here's a case where legislative inaction likely is the best course.


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Pollen Calendar for Fairbanks Alaska
A standard pollen calendar is presented for the benefit of allergic persons, physicians and others in the Fairbanks area. It is a graphic device showing the range of possible atmospheric pollen concentrations for each day of the main pollen season, late April through July, based on data from past years. It can be used for predicting probable daily average concentrations when the weather is relatively warm, dry, and breezy, and it shows when there almost certainly will be some pollen in the air. A core pollen season of prophylactic and clinical urgency is defined from May 10 to June 5, the same as in Anchorage.
The 40 or so species in the vegetation of the Fairbanks area contributing significant quantities of airborne pollen are grouped into five generic (alder, willow, poplar/aspen, birch and spruce) and one family (grass) taxonomic categories, plus an "Other" pollen category comprising the weeds lamb's quarters, plantain and wormwood, among others.
A standard pollen calendar must be based on a multiyear data set encompassing the full range of natural variation in pollen season severity and the timing of pollen release and dispersal. Because the present calendar is based on only six seasons' data, _PHONE_, and most of these are from only one sample location, it is considered prototypical. Continued sampling in Interior Alaska, part of a broader aerobiology research program, will result in a more nearly standard and meaningful pollen calendar.
This calendar shows possible allergenic pollen content of the air for each day based on the past activity. It incorporates data from six years of sampling at the University and two at Fort Wainwright.
James H. Anderson, MLIS, PhD
Institute of Arctic Biology and BioSciences Library
University of Alaska Fairbanks


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Contactless Angular Measurement Sensor (CLAS)
Contact-less angular measurement technology has been developed for future European telecommunication satellite mechanisms under an Artes 5.2 project. Use of capacitive coupling to resolve down to 0.01 degrees (16-bit) within the space environment with no mechanical deterioration of its parts has been achieved. The sensor is available for use in applications such as multibeam antenna pointing.
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Electrically Coupled Angular Encoder for Long Life Mechanisms: Contract number _PHONE_/12/NL/AD under the Artes 5.2 program for the European Space Agency.
Contact-less angular measurement makes use of capacitive coupling to resolve down to 0.01 degrees (16-bit) within the space environment with no mechanical deterioration of its parts.
The technology can be used for rotary or linear position sensing in which a series of plates are cut or etched along the measurement axis. As another plate moves across them, the capacitance of the circuits along the axis varies indicating the relative position of the two parts.
The sensor has been developed to deal with the new challenging applications required by European satellite manufacturers such as multibeam antenna pointing, precision solar array pointing and ion thruster control.
Innovations & Advantages
- Avoids past angular sensor failure mode seen in space applications.
- Resolves to 0.01 degress (16-bit) within the space environment
- No mechanical deterioration of its parts.
- Low power consumption
- The encoder is based on ESCC qualified EEE parts
- Radiation hardened guaranteed up to 100Krad.
- No ITAR constraints are applicable.
The first prototypes have been already manufactured and characterized. Engineering models as well as the launch of the qualification campaign and manufacturing for the flight units were carried out at the end of 2011/early 2012.
Current and Potential Domains of Application
- Multibeam antenna pointing
- Solar array mechanisms.
- Ion thruster pointing applications.


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The picture below shows the most common locations for serial numbers.
Pianos often have numbers other than serial numbers.
(Such as part numbers, series numbers etc.)
It sometimes helps to use a flashlight when looking for the serial number.
The big S indicates where to look.
Grand Serial Locations
Picture courtesy of Pierce Piano Atlas
If you cannot find the serial number in any of the normal places, check underneath the piano.
If that doesn't work, it is possible it is inside near the action.
| How Old Form | Vertical Serial Number Locator |


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University of dundee kiss of death
A kiss of death to drug the 'undruggable'
Scientists at the University of Dundee have reported a major breakthrough in targeting the causes of many diseases, using a 'kiss of death' to destroy proteins which had previously been regarded as 'undruggable'.
Much is known about proteins such as Ras and Myc, which are known to be culpable in human cancer, and Huntingtin, which causes Huntingdon's disease, but as yet they have proved stubbornly resistant to efforts to find ways of tackling them with drugs.
Now researchers led by Professor Alessio Ciulli in the School of Life Sciences at Dundee have found a way of targeting similar proteins, using a small-molecule approach in an unconventional way to target 'bad' proteins by binding them to neutralising agents to start a process of degradation, and thereby removing them entirely.
"We know of many proteins which are active in causing diseases, but which we have been unable to block from going 'rogue' or to stop them when they do," said Professor Ciulli.
"The major problem is that we have been unable to find the small molecules which can successfully bind to these proteins and at the same time hamper their function. It is a highly complex area – these proteins can often fool regulators within the cell and be extremely difficult to pin down with inhibitors.
"Research in our lab in the past few years has contributed towards establishing a different approach, one that has been theorised for many years but which is only now fully realised by this latest work. Instead of using the small molecule to try and disable the bad protein, we have developed a way of modifying it so that it can be used to attract the neutralising proteins, which then bind to their bad neighbour and act against it, starting a cascade process of degradation.


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1 How to Make a Game Like Space Invaders
2 What IS Space Invaders? a SHMUP (shoot-em-up) Player has one ship, enemy has many Player and enemies interact by shooting at each other Top-down 2D (usually)
3 Concepts
4 Video Frames/Ticks A film is made of 24 still pictures per second Motion is achieved by small changes to each picture, but 24 fps is still fast
5 Video Frames/Ticks 2 Video games are usually 30 or 60-80 fps Video games achieve movement by moving each screen object a little bit every frame
6 Shmups are very object- oriented Ships are objects Bullets are objects The player is an object Explosions are objects Levels can be objects (certainly made of objects)
7 Question How many bullets can be on the screen at once? Space Invaders = 1 for player, 2 for enemies Modern = completely arbitrary
8 Lists A great way to store and organize objects Most beginners get hung up here Conceptually harder than arrays C and C++ use linked lists (with pointers) BlitzBasic has list:TList
9 What is a ship? Is-dead flag Health value X and Y positions Path logic and data Reference to the art Animation state Bullet/missile launch state Bullets and Explosions are very similar to ships!
10 What is a player ship? Not as much, surprisingly Path logic is in your fingers, not in code So keyboard state checks (for avatar control) go here
11 What is a bullet/missile? Like a ship, but (usually) simpler movement Erased when it goes off screen, not when it reaches the end of its path State: Player shot or Enemy shot Each Player-bullet collides against every enemy Each Enemy-bullet collides against player
12 So, to make space invaders… Make a player Make a bunch of enemies Move them every frame, have them create bullets Move the bullets every frame Check for enemy-bullet collision every frame Keep going, even if all the enemies or the player is dead
13 Programming
14 Main loop in Pseudocode Main() { SetupEverything(); CreatePlayer(); CreateAllEnemies(); done = false; while (done == false) { TickPlayer(); TickEnemyList(); TickBulletList(); DrawPlayer(); DrawEnemyList(); DrawBulletList(); if (EscapeKeyPressed() == TRUE) done = TRUE; WaitForNextFrame(); } ShutDownEverything(); }
15 Timer callback version TimerFunction() { TickPlayer(); TickEnemyList(); TickBulletList(); // some systems, like Flash and Torque, do the drawing for you DrawPlayer(); DrawEnemyList(); DrawBulletList(); if (EscapeKeyPressed() == TRUE) done = TRUE; }
16 TickBulletList() { ForEach( bullet) { x = x + dx; y = y + dy; if (BulletOffScreen()) { isDead = TRUE; } ForEach(enemy) { if (Collides(enemy, bullet)) { isDead = TRUE; DamageEnemy(enemy); } RemoveDeadBulletsFromList(); }
17 Basic Math
18 Vectors and Offsets Where is your Ship? X and Y
19 Vectors and Offsets 2 Where is your bullet? Also X and Y Where is your bullet in relation to your ship? bulletX – shipX and bulletY – shipY
20 Vectors and Offsets 3 How far apart are they? Pythagorean theorem (sqr(a) + sqr(b) = sqr(c)) This requires a slow square root function
21 Vectors and Offsets2 What direction from the ship to the bullet? Arctangent Atan2(bulletX – shipX, bulletY – shipY)
22 Arctangent Usually gives a direction in radians, from 0- (2*PI) PI is 3._PHONE_ (= 180 degrees) Radian to degrees = dir / (PI*2) * 360
23 Vectors and Offsets3 So you can describe the relationship between two objects on the screen in two different ways
24 Offsets Offset = x and y coordinates (or differences)
25 Vectors Vector = direction and distance
26 Translate Offsets to Vectors Get distance with Pythagoras Get direction with Atan2 (Arctangent)
27 Translate Vectors to Offsets X = sin(direction) * distance Y = cos(direction) * distance
28 Vectors & Offsets = important Shooting bullet directly at the player Homing missiles Collision detection (is bullet close enough?) Enemy follows path
29 What is TurnTowardsPoint() If you want the homing missile to turn slowly towards the enemy (instead of instantly) what do you do? The answer is the TurnTowardPoint() algorithm.
30 Designing Your Game
31 Bosses Traditional part of shmups Each one is a love letter to the player Multiple weapons Multiple parts Multiple Modes Its a boss, not just an extended enemy
32 Powerups Functionally just like Bullets Give expanded powers to the player Key to one of the basic metagames
33 The Game Modes Play mode Start mode Results mode (you are dead, howd you do) Pause mode Credits mode Options mode
34 Game Modes 2 Recognize that game modes are just states Completely different states than game states
35 Scrolling Background Space Invaders background was black Galaga and others had winking, scrolling stars Zaxxon and others started making the background complex and interactive Treasure games are famous for complex, puzzle-like environments
36 What are Shmup levels? Hand-crafted definitions of when each enemy shows up The things that happen before a boss shows up Divisions of art Scoring opportunities
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5 Beautiful Stages of Emotional Cycle Of Change
We as humans are in different stages of the emotional cycle of change. Change is the only constant in everyone's life. The word Change itself triggers a lot of emotional responses. Setting a goal included an abundance of change in the emotional cycle of change. But to grow, improve and become a better version of yourself change is necessary. To change effectively, thoughts emotions are involved.
Whether you are learning to ride a bike learning new skills, delving your interest emotions are the first things that change, that involve the emotional cycle of change.
What is the 'emotional cycle of change'?
Emotional cycle of change
The emotional cycle of change is a psychological model developed by Don Keeley and Daryl Conner. In this model, they have explained how humans face, react to, and deal with changes in their lives. The emotional cycle of change occurs in five stages:
1. Uninformed optimism: This is the stage when were are excited about a new change We have plans and see the advantages of the change, but we don't know what it is going to take from us. Here, the benefits of the change are observable. You are so overwhelmed with the thought of change coming ahead, you start to brainstorm and start to strategize things about your future.
2. Informed Pessimism: Change is the only constant, in Uninformed optimism, there was excitement and happiness for the change that is going to happen. But when in reality it occurs the changes come with difficulties and challenges, there the informed pessimism starts. Emotions that are going to occur are as frustration and anxiety kick in and you start to question if the change is really needed or not. Between the 2nd and 3rd steps lies the valley of despair.
3. Valley of despair: This is the lowest stage of the emotional cycle of change, the person enters the Valley of despair. This is the stage where most people give up. The pain of change is felt. the quickest way to deal with this stage is to end the discomfort and go back to the way you did things before the change was introduced.
This phase or stage is also known as Hopeful realism, which means that the sun will shine again. What I mean is that, visit the past once, where all the things were good, you will get back to stage one. If you can identify and persevere why are you making the change? You will have a car idea what are your future vision.
4. Informed optimism: This is the fourth stage of the emotional cycle of change, in this stage, the chances of the positive emotional zone and the possibility of success increase. One starts to plan the actions again in the hope to have a bright future and your plan and actions are the benefits of your actions are starting to bear fruit. The only key here is not too stuck in the negative situation or to the emotional state of mind, struggling with the negative emotional cycle of change.
5.Success and fulfillment: in the final stage, where you feel and see the results of the change, you will find yourself reaching your desired goals. Here, the positive actions resulting in a flabergasting change in your behavior pattern and the cost of change have been perceived as worth it.
The Personal Cycle of Change
The Personal Cycle of Change
The emotional cycle of change is something that everyone goes through and some are obfuscated of what are the changes, why are we stuck at one? Many people set goals but couldn't get complete them on time and get frustrated.
Let us understand the personal change cycle, that seeks to lift the covers on the mysteries of emotional change.
 1. Awareness: Awareness is something, we only try to do from the outside. sometimes it is difficult to become aware of our internal behavior that is causing problems sometimes. we keep on changing the outside one that is, to change our external behavior without making any change to how we are seeing the situation on the inside.
When internal behavior doesn't, we get emotionally frustrated, we tend to have reminders, someone to nag us to make sure we keep up with the new behavior. When we truly connect with the change from the inside out the change becomes so much easier. The very step of change is to built awareness or to have an informed pessimism.
The first stage of the emotional cycle of change is embarking on a significant change is building a real-time awareness by asking yourself what is the exact change you need? why you need that change, ensuring yourself that you are connected to your emotional brain more rather than connecting more to the logical brain.
2. Conscious Choice: Once you have a deeper awareness of why you want the emotional change. once you are clear with the change, why the change is so important in one's life, by having the accurate answer of what change and why you need it to have a strong by creating an emotional vision of what looks good and by checking the commitments towards that change. it is the stage of Informed optimism.
3. Conscious Change: Most people make this mistake of thinking that has decided to change a few steps in a direction and think they have to attain success. The most successful change happens only when people change things consciously and creates the right environment for the change to happen.
4. Final reality check: If you are thinking to have a personal emotional change to have a life of success and fulfillment, then go to the stage of conscious Change and rethink how deep you have gone? and the level of commitment of how much you want it. no judgment!
Questions to Ask Yourself with the personal cycle of change
During the process of change emotionally here are some questions that one asks himself/herself to keep a track of their emotional state:
 1. Awareness: For awareness, or to keep track on awareness of your self here are some questions that you can ask is
A. What is your current mindset or behavior pattern?
B. When do you notice it most?
C. What is the specific change you want to make?
D. How will this change serve you?
E. What are the changes you are applying to have a better life
2.Conscious Choice
a. what are the benefits that you will be having after hanging?
b. What do you lose by not changing?
c. What is your level of commitment to change?
d. What is getting in the way? Barriers?
e. Reasons you may have failed before?
f. What is your conscious choice?
3.Conscious Change
a. What action do you need to take to make the change?
b. Do you need to make changes to your home or work life to support the change?
c. what routine you are going to follow that will make your changes easier?
d. What will be your process for review and reflection?
e Do you need to acquire some specific skills or knowledge?
How to Have A Good Control On your Emotions?
How to Have A Good Control On your Emotions
There are ample things around that are not changeable, like for example the traffic, someone else's behavior, but there is one thing that can definitely be changeable. The meaning we take away from events. Meaning connects to our larger life blueprint.
Here comes the implementation of the five stages of the cycle that includes, the Uninformed optimism, valley of despair, Informed Pessimism, Informed optimism, Success, and fulfillment.
It is all about controlling your emotions, maintaining the emotional Cycle Of change when you learn to control your emotions in the right way, you seem to you can derive more positive, productive meanings, even from seemingly negative events.
When you have the master of emotions, it is critical to understand that they are your emotions. By letting emotions run and attaching the negative meaning to the emotions we can damage our relationships and our lives.
Life is full of ups and downs when facing any situation that is elicitating strong feelings from you, pause to consider what meaning you're going to attach to it. You can develop emotional control by using one of the following tactics:
 1. Take a deep breath: Instead of reacting immediately to the situation just take a deep breath, just take a long deep breath, give yourself a moment to process what just happen, take a step back before reacting.
 2. Find out what you feeling: it is very easy to say that "I am sad or angry because they have hurt me or they made me angry"? Dig deeper into your emotions and search for an answer that is you are angry because of their actions or maybe you are afraid of being wrong or they are right? Emotions are very complex in nature, they make us go into doubt at times. Doubt towards the clarity of our goal, worth.
 4. Channelize your energy: Humans' emotions are indelibly powerful. Channelizing your energy in some sort of physical activity like running, going for a walk, running.
 5. Exploring the emotions: Do the major questions arise when you start identifying Why do you feel the way you do? Talking with a trusted friend or family member can help you understand why you're feeling what you do. Once you understand an emotion, it's that much easier to control it.
What are the actions that make up our lives?
The way we feel in a certain way, we do certain things. From negative ones like smoking to positive ones like going to the gym, our patterns of behavior stem from our desire to meet some of our six human needs.
The behavioral pattern becomes our life story and what we tell ourselves about who we are and why we are that way. Instead of practicing emotional control, we likely feel adrift and powerless.
Well, we can't control the triggers but we can shift the meanings that we extract from the triggers. Emotional control is making meaning


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===What is BigBlueButton?===
[_URL_ BigBlueButton] is a free and open source web conferencing system, primarily targeted towards online lecturing, and small group collaboration. It provides by providing a virtual classroom environment for instructors to teach, and tools for students to collaborate in small groupsgroup collaboration. However, BigBlueButton is by no means limited to classroom settings and small groups; it just means that the core features and components of BigBlueButton were developed with this target demographic in mind. The BigBlueButton name comes from the notion that starting a web conference should be as simple as pressing a metaphorical big blue button.
===Who Develops BigBlueButton?=== BigBlueButton was started in 2007 by Richard Alam, who at the time was a Master's student at Carleton University. Since then, many other individuals and organizations have become involved. The core team of developers come from [_URL_ Blindside Networks] and [_URL_ Seneca CDOT]. ===What Features Does BigBlueButton Have?=== BigBlueButton contains a set of components, called "modules", each containing a bunch of features. Such modules include and features include:
*The users module, that contains and displays the list of users in a meeting, along with their state (whether they are a presenter, moderator or normal viewer, whether they are sharing any media, whether their permissions are restricted in some way, etc..).
*Lock Settings, which allow moderators of a meeting to restrict some users' access of the modules. For example, a moderator can disable webcam sharing, or chatting between participants.
 Try out BigBlueButton for yourself at _URL_ Just enter any user name in, and play around for yourselfwith it!
==BigBlueButton Architecture==
===Background Information===
BigBlueButton was initially a Flash application. The server, written in Java (now moving to Scala), sat on a Flash media server called Red5, and the main client was a Flash web application (the "Flash client") that was downloaded by the browser upon joining a BigBlueButton meeting. As a Flash clientapplication, this meant that users had to install a Flash Player into their web browser in order for them to use it (like old YouTube videos). Though the main BigBlueButton client is still Flash based, all of the new features that HTML5 requires browsers to be able to support natively (without having to install plug-ins) allowed developers to begin development of work on a second client for BigBlueButton, that used only the built-in capabilities of web browsers (the "HTML5 client"). Additionally, around late 2013, development began on a cross-platform mobile application for Android and iOS that allowed people to join a BigBlueButton meeting from mobile devices (the "mobile client"). Both the HTML5 client and the mobile client are still under development.
===Server-side===
See [_URL_ this] for a recent overview of BigBlueButton's server-side architecture. Behind the scenes, the BigBlueButton server uses the following frameworks, technologies:
*[_URL_ Red5]: a Flash Media Server, with "room management" (a Red5 room corresponds to a BigBlueButton meeting) allowing easy handling of message sending and streaming to only those users who connected to a specific room. Red5 holds the following BigBlueButton components:
*[_URL_ BigBlueButton-Web] running on [_URL_ Grails] and [_URL_ Tomcat]: BigBlueButton's web API, allowing programmers to create meetings, join meetings, get [_URL_ configurations] for a meeting, get information to set the state of the client when joining a meeting, to use the presentation services for uploading presentations, and to use the recording services to record meetings.
*[_URL_ Redis]: a key-value database store used by BigBlueButton to communicate between the different server-side components, and to record all of the events of a meeting. Redis provides a publish and subscribe ("pub-sub") messaging system, that allows applications to subscribe to channels, which means every message published to that channel will be received by all subscribers of that channel.Try this [_URL_ interactive Redis tutorial!]
*[_URL_ FreeSwitch]: used by BigBlueButton as a VOIP server to manage voice conference calls between WebRTC audio clients, connecting them and streaming their audio data to others in the same conference. Additionally, since Flash Audio and WebRTC audio use different audio codecs (Speex vs Opus), FreeSwitch is used to transcode between these two codecs, and send the audio data to BBB-Voice for repackaging and delivery to those Flash clients that are using Flash audio (Flash clients needn't use Flash audio, but can now use WebRTC audio).
*[_URL_ Meteor.js] on [_URL_ Node.js]: Node.js is JavaScript environment which is not a web browser. This is the server to which HTML5 clients connect. It communicates with Red5 through Redis.

*[_URL_ Nginx] (pronounced "engine-x"): used as a reverse proxy, to forward HTTP requests to other applications on a BigBlueButton server, depending on the structure of the URL.
==BigBlueButton Development==
===For New Developers: Getting started on BBB===
'' <span styleIf you would like to start voluteering or working for CDOT, please read these step by step instructions for setting up your environment, as well as a tutorial for how to create a react component within BigBlueButton: [_URL_ Starting at BBB] To read the documentation about BigBlueButton written for Employees of Blindside Networks, visit this link: [http: red;">//docs.bigbluebutton.org/ BlindSide Networks BBB documentation] First, you will likely want to subscribe to the following BigBlueButton mailing-lists: *_URL_ constructionhttp://groups.google.com/group/bigbluebutton-users Next, since all of the source code for BigBlueButton is hosted on GitHub, you should try to gain a rudimentary understanding of how to use Git. Nothing too fancy, but at the very least, you should know how to clone repositories, create and navigate local branches, add files to the staging area, commit staged files, pull changes from remote repositories, push your changes to remote repositories, and submit pull requests. If you get stuck, or get some weird error message, usually you can [http: write something here!!//www.google.ca Google] the message and read forum posts or [_URL_ Stack Overflow] answers, as other people have likely encountered the exact same issue before. Some good Git resources include: *[_URL_ A free online book] - The first three chapters should be sufficient*[_URL_ A cute interactive tutorial]*<[http:/span>''/chadpilkey.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/making-a-change-to-bigbluebutton-with-git/ A blog post from Chad Pilkey,] on the usual git work flow used by BigBlueButton developers After that, the resources you will need will depend on which parts of BigBlueButton you want to develop. For the steps on setting up a BigBlueButton version 1.0 development environment for the server, and for the Flash client, see _URL_ For the steps on setting up a development environment for the HTML5 client, see _URL_ For the steps on setting up a development environment for the mobile client, see _URL_ As of September 2014, the most important component of BigBlueButton that has yet to be implemented is the video module for the HTML5 client. This is because there is no suitable WebRTC live video streaming server that BigBlueButton can use. The way the Flash client does this, is by capturing webcam media, encoding it in H.264, and streaming it to BigBlueButton-Video using the RTMP protocol. BigBlueButton-video is Flash based, and can handle the re-streaming of this video stream to the other Flash clients. The HTML5 client does not use Flash, but instead uses WebRTC to capture and stream media. The philosophy of WebRTC is to use completely open and non-proprietary codecs and protocols, and both the RTMP protocol, and the H.264 video codec are proprietary. The most widely used WebRTC video codec is VP8.


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Tutorial: Connect to an Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4 cluster
In this tutorial, part two of three, you will connect to an Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster running OpenShift 4 as the kubeadmin user through the OpenShift web console. You learn how to:
 - Obtain kubeadmin credentials for your cluster
 - Install the OpenShift CLI
 - Connect to an Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster using the OpenShift CLI
Before you begin
In previous tutorials, an Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster was created. If you have not done these steps, and would like to follow along, start with Tutorial 1 - Create an Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4 Cluster.
If you choose to install and use the CLI locally, this tutorial requires that you are running the Azure CLI version 2.6.0 or later. Run az --version to find the version. If you need to install or upgrade, see Install Azure CLI.
Connect to the cluster
You can log into the cluster using the kubeadmin user. Run the following command to find the password for the kubeadmin user.
az aro list-credentials \
 --name $CLUSTER \
 --resource-group $RESOURCEGROUP
The following example output shows what the password will be in kubeadminPassword.
{
 "kubeadminPassword": "<generated password>",
 "kubeadminUsername": "kubeadmin"
}
You can find the cluster console URL by running the following command, which will look like _URL_.<random>.<region>.aroapp.io/.
 az aro show \
 --name $CLUSTER \
 --resource-group $RESOURCEGROUP \
 --query "consoleProfile.url" -o tsv
Launch the console URL in a browser and login using the kubeadmin credentials.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift login screen
Install the OpenShift CLI
Once you're logged into the OpenShift Web Console, click on the ? on the top right and then on Command Line Tools. Download the release appropriate to your machine.
Screenshot that highlights the Command Line Tools option in the list when you select the ? icon.
You can also download the latest release of the CLI appropriate to your machine.
If you're running the commands on the Azure Cloud Shell, download the latest OpenShift 4 CLI for Linux.
cd ~
wget _URL_
mkdir openshift
tar -zxvf openshift-client-linux.tar.gz -C openshift
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/openshift' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
Connect using the OpenShift CLI
Retrieve the API server's address.
apiServer=$(az aro show -g $RESOURCEGROUP -n $CLUSTER --query apiserverProfile.url -o tsv)
Login to the OpenShift cluster's API server using the following command. Replace <kubeadmin password> with the password you just retrieved.
oc login $apiServer -u kubeadmin -p <kubeadmin password>
Next steps
In this part of the tutorial, you learned how to:
 - Obtain kubeadmin credentials for your cluster
 - Install the OpenShift CLI
 - Connect to an Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster using the OpenShift CLI
Advance to the next tutorial:


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The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reports that a small earthquake of magnitude 2.3 occurred at 11:18 PM yesterday evening, October 9, 2020 (MDT). The shock was located 6.6 miles beneath the northwestern part of the Salt Lake Valley, 2.9 mi E of Magna, UT. This earthquake was an aftershock of the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that occurred in the same area on March 18. Today's aftershock was felt by hundreds of residents of the Salt Lake Valley. To date, the University of Utah Seismograph Stations has located 2,498 aftershocks from the March 18 earthquake, including 115 of magnitude 2.3 or larger and 40 of magnitude 3.0 and larger. In recent weeks there has been, on the average, approximately one aftershock per day large enough to locate, most of them smaller than magnitude 2.0. Aftershock activity is expected to continue for months, but with the rate continuing to decrease with time.
Anyone who felt the earthquake is encouraged to fill out a survey form on the US Geological Survey website: earthquake.usgs.gov.
Date (UTC): October 10, 2020 Time (UTC): 05:18
Date (local): October 09, 2020 Time (local): 11:18 PM MDT
Latitude: 40 42.71′ N
Longitude: 112 3.24′ W
Preferred magnitude: 2.3 Ml


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The 14th Seminar on Power Electronics and Control, SEPOC 2022, organized by the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, will happen fully online on November 12 – 15th, 2022.
The main objective of SEPOC 2022 is to provide interaction among academia and industry to discuss the latest cutting-edge technologies on Power Electronics and Control and their applications. In 2022, the main topic of the seminar will be "Intelligence and Connectivity" applied to Power Electronics, Distributed Generation and Smart Grids. The event is open to the national and international community, being a great opportunity for technical discussions and bringing together researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and students.
SEPOC 2022 will feature panel and plenary sessions, as well as technical papers presented in online sessions. This year, the conference special topics will cover: i) Optimization ii) Artificial Intelligence and iii) IOT for Power Electronics, Distributed Generation and Smart Grids.
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