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The original recipe from Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook was using couscous for the stuffing. I have modified this recipe to use Quinoa. This recipe combines flavors of the Mediterranean with Indian spices (curry powder). A perfect dish for the summer when you can find plump tomatoes. I like to serve this with grilled chicken or fish and a healthy dollop of Apple Ginger Chutney on the side.
1. Begin by slicing the tops of the tomatoes and scoop out the inner pulp from the shells. Discard the seeds but reserve the pulp. Lightly salt the insides of the tomatoes and let them drain upside down on paper towels while you prepare the filling.
2. Rinse and drain the quinoa. Heat the 1 cup water, 1 TBS of olive oil, the cumin, curry powder, paprika to boiling in a small sauce-pan. Stir in the quinoa, bring to boil, cover and reduce heat to low and cook for 10 minutes (until all the water has been absorbed). Shut off stove and leave to rest.
4. Dice the reserved tomato pulp into pieces the same size as the carrots and zucchini.
5. Heat the remaining 3 TBS olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, carrots, zucchini, and tomato pulp and saute for 7 minutes.
6. Stir the oregano into the vegetables. Stir in the quinoa and season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in the parsley and pine-nuts if you are using.
7. Spoon the quinoa mixture into the tomato shells. Place in a baking pan.
8. Bake for 35 minutes, covering with aluminium foil if the quinoa mixture seems to be drying out on top. Serve immediately.


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This is a shingleback lizard (Tilaqua rugosa), named for obvious reasons. It is fairly common in inland areas of eastern Australia. In common with many lizard species, it has the ability to shed its tail if attacked by a predator (the shed tail’s muscles carry on like a pork chop while the residual lizard disappears into the surroundings to grow a new tail).
In the shingleback’s case, as you can see, the head end and the tail end look remarkably similar, which suggests an adaptation that increases the lizard’s chances of survival by enticing the predator to attack the wrong end. In any case, this fella was disinclined to have anything to do with me and rushed off into the undergrowth at a speed that is unusual for a reptile of this type.
A theropod (Buteo jamaicensis) eating a primitive mammal (Microtus pennsylvanicus).
Red-tailed Hawks like to perch on the irrigation wheel lines. They offer good views of substantial areas. The hawk can swoop down for a quick kill — much more relaxing than soaring and diving, and the apparatus makes for fine dining. The number of hawk poops on the wheel attests to the frequency of its use. This particular hawk is pretty tame. It hangs around the house.
A plate showing the leaves of the maples that will be included in my upcoming book. No names! Though I’ll make sure to send you the plate with all the latin binomials when I’m done with the work…These are basically the maples (genus Acer) that grow in Montréal, natives and exotic species, naturally or cultivated. I’m pretty sure all of these are to be found in Chicago!
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Personal favorites- maple and RT hawks – another WEIT miracle!
Put ’em up, put ’em up! Which one of ya furst?!
HA! I heard Bert Lahr in my head saying exactly that when I saw the picture!
Oops! How did that get in there? (But it looks like a Japanese maple).
Shingleback lizard reminds me of one of those double-ender sailboats. They’re great in a following sea, but from a distance it’s tough to tell which direction they’re headed.
I can identify five of the maple leaves, mostly on the bottom row. Starting in the bottom left corner and going right: Norway Maple, Striped Maple, Sugar Maple, Red Maple, and directly above the Red Maple, Silver Maple. The latter four are all native to where I live (New England), while Norway Maple is a widely planted but highly invasive non-native species from Eurasia. I despise that tree!
Nice to see the shingleback – we had four living in a lab in which I used to work, and they are really very nice lizards, intelligent and easy-going.
However, I don’t think that this particular species sheds its tail. It’s of too much use as a decoy for the head.
You are correct – it’s not true that shinglebacks (bobtails here in WA) can autotomise their tails. Spiny-tailed skinks, a relative of bobbies, also do not shed their tail – it is short and spiky and acts as a predator defence and so caudal autotomy (common in mnay species of lizard) has been lost.
Australia has some weird wildlife. I like!
The squirrel is also cute.

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When M. von Laue left Munich in the fall of 1912 to go to Zürich, W. Friedrich remained as experimental assistant to Sommerfeld at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. P. Knipping obtained his doctoral degree soon after the publication of the Laue-Friedrich-Knipping paper and took a job in the Siemens Laboratory in Berlin for development work on Coolidge type X-ray tubes. He later became assistant to J. Franck in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Physical and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem during the war, and after that settled in Darmstadt as Lecturer at the Technical University; in one of the following years, however, he had a fatal collision with a truck while riding his motorbicycle.
Friedrich left Munich in 1913 to become the X-ray specialist in Prof. Krönig's Gynaecological Section of the Freiburg University Clinic, then - as today - famous for its advanced methods of operating and of radium and X-ray treatment. Friedrich was soon fully absorbed by the medical problems and eventually became Head of a special medical X-ray Institute attached to Berlin's most renowned hospital, the Charité.
The Munich equipment remained in the hands of Ewald, but was soon diverted from its original purpose by being transferred (including Ewald) to an emergency hospital which was set up in a Munich elementary school at the outbreak of war. The initial experience in medical use led, a year later, to the appointment of Ewald (and similarly to that of Glocker and other physicists) to the newly created position of Field X-ray Mechanic of the Army. While Glocker, Regener, Spiess and others saw heavy fighting and had plenty of work on the frontier with France, Ewald was assigned to the northern part of the Russian front and when he arrived by the fall of 1915, fighting had practically ceased. The tranquillity, together with the isolation of the field hospital enabled Ewald to carry through his dynamical theory of X-ray diffraction which he then used as thesis (Habilitationsschrift) for becoming a lecturer (Privatdozent) in Physics at the University in Munich in 1917.
Compared with the progress made by W. H. and W. L. Bragg by August 1914, the progress made in Germany was not spectacular. The Munich group worked exclusively with 'white' X-rays and Laue diagrams. The photographs could be explained in detail, once the crystal structure was known, but they proved little suited for finding the structure. On Friedrich's excellent Laue photos of pyrites (FeS2) and hauerite (MnS2) Ewald developed a method of determining a parameter with great accuracy, but this could only be achieved while checking the type of structure found by W. L. Bragg. Much later work, by Parker and Whitehouse in Manchester (1932) confirmed by Fourier methods the accuracy of the parameter determination.
In Röntgen's Institute his senior lecturer, E. Wagner, took up diffraction work. Wagner was an experimentalist who had great understanding for physical argument and practically none for mathematical proof. He would not be convinced by any formula that a diffracted ray in a Laue diagram contains only a single wave-length or perhaps also an overtone or two. So he asked his student, R. Glocker, to analyse one of the rays by reflecting it on a second, parallel crystal. When the second crystal gave a diagram with only a few spots, this finally convinced Wagner. Later (1920) Wagner did important work on X-ray spectra; in particular he showed the influence of the silver bromine absorption edges on the photographically recorded spectral intensity. In the course of this work he found that spectra, obtained from a slowly rotating crystal, were traversed not only by the dark lines of the intensive characteristic radiation, but also by faint white lines ('Aufhellungslinien'), less dark than the continuous background. These were either parallel to the dark lines or inclined at definite angles. The faint lines, it was soon shown, occur whenever the Bragg condition is fulfilled for more than one atomic net plane, so that energy is deviated into a further direction. O. Berg, working in the laboratories of the Siemens concern in Berlin, made a very thorough study of these 'Aufhellungslinien' in 1926.
During the war, 1914-18, experimental research came to a near standstill, except in Göttingen where P. Debye, of Dutch nationality, and a Swiss postgraduate worker, P. Scherrer, were not affected by conscription. They discovered in 1916 the method of powder diagrams while trying to obtain evidence of the electron clouds surrounding the atoms in lithium fluoride - but this story is better read in Part VII in Scherrer's Personal Reminiscences. The enthusiasm which this method provoked is well shown by the remark of one of the leading crystallographers, A. Johnsen, then professor in Kiel, later in Berlin. When he explained the method to the writer, he ended up by saying in all seriousness - to his listener's horror - : 'We have now got rid of all troubles of finding crystals good enough for structure analysis, we simply go to the collection of minerals and grind up whatever crystal we find, good or bad.' Two interesting papers in Physikalische Zeitschrift 1917 and 1918 on the indexing of powder diagrams appeared, by C. Runge the first, and the later by A. Johnsen and O. Toeplitz.
At that time the nature of the brightly coloured colloidal metals was still unknown and a matter of speculation by Szigmondy, the Professor of Colloid Chemistry in Göttingen. Scherrer, employing his new means of investigation, showed that colloidal gold gave essentially the same diagram as gold filings, but with much broadened lines. The broadening he interpreted as due to very small particle size and developed a formula by which the particle size could be determined from the broadening. This opened up a field of research which was to lead later to many important applications, especially in relation to catalysts (R. Brill).
Also during the war, H. Seemann, then in Würzburg, began an extensive series of studies of the geometry of image formation by the diffracted rays. This led him to the construction of new types of cameras, both for the conventional methods of obtaining photographic diagrams, and for wide-angle and 'complete' diagrams. He later manufactured in his own laboratory, and still does so, demountable X-ray tubes and cameras of many types and great workmanship. The wide-angle method gives no easily interpreted intensity data and is therefore not so suitable for structure analysis as for the precision determination of lattice constants.
After the war many changes took place. E. Wagner became professor in Würzburg and, after Röntgen's death in 1923, organized a small museum in memory of Röntgen's discovery in the very house where it was made. This museum, later looked after by Wagner's successor H. Ott, miraculously survived the fierce bombing which destroyed large parts of Würzburg in 1945 in one of the last bombing attacks of the Second World War; it has now been partly transferred to the museum in Röntgen's birthplace Lennep.
1) Metal structures and textures, in particular hardening by annealing, and the effect of impurities on recrystallization.
2) From about 1935 onwards, the X-ray determination of stress in built-up parts, for instance in the girder of a bridge in situ. Portable X-ray tubes and backreflection cameras were constructed and tested in the laboratory.
3) The study of the photographic and biological action of X-rays, and later of penetrating electron rays.
4) Dosimetry and radiation protection. As a long-time member of the Association of Radiologist's Commission on this subject, Glocker and his co-workers made valuable contributions to the definition of the practical units like the röntgen and rad, and to the correct method of their measurement.
Among the many long-time co-workers of Glocker are U. Dehlinger (Stuttgart), K. Schäfer (now at I. G. Farbenindustrie, Ludwigshafen), R. Berthold (now manufacturing X-ray equipment in Bietigheim), H. Kiessig, W. Frohnmayer, L. Graf, R. Glauner, E. Oswald. In fact, this institute, besides those in Dahlem, was the main seed-bed for X-ray crystallographers. Structure analysis was only incidental and remained on a primitive level; the emphasis lay on problems of an engineering type which require a physicist's training for their solution. When a Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Metals was created in Stuttgart in 1932, it was built next to Glocker's Institute which then became an independent section of the K.W.I. for Metals, and this is its present state. The close association works out well to the advantage of both parties. Under the direction of Köster and with the aid of Scheil, Nowotny (now in Vienna), Schubert, etc., a great number of intermetallic systems were investigated, their crystal structures and other physical properties determined. Glocker, supported by Richter, Hendus and others, was in addition interested in the structure of liquid metals and alloys. Dehlinger, Ganzhorn and Bader developed a theory of bond structure of transition elements in respect to their ferromagnetic properties. In the section of Grube, Kubatschewski (now in England) and Weibke did research on the physico-chemical properties of metals and alloys; Kochendörfer pointed out a theory of fracture and elastic constants of crystals in relation to vacancy energy and surface energy. Seeger in his section has published several papers about the electron theory causes of defects in metals and the interpretation of small-angle scattering of X-rays in plastically deformed metals. A recently opened section for 'Sondermetalle' is going to investigate systems of alloys of uranium, zirconium, etc. - Glocker's textbook on the Testing of Materials with X-rays, now in its fourth edition, and Dehlinger's book Theoretische Metallkunde, 1955, should be mentioned as a valuable outcome of the Institute's work.
In 1930 an Institute for Theoretical Physics was established at the Technical University in Stuttgart, headed by P. P. Ewald, and modelled after the Munich example in that it provided for modest experimental work, mainly on crystals. The experimental assistant was M. Ruhemann (now in Manchester), who had just graduated under F. Simon in Berlin. His construction of a simple low-temperature camera for the growing of nitrogen crystals in a capillary tube at the centre of the camera was a very original contribution which may be well worth resuming and developing further. After two years Ruhemann was succeeded by M. Renninger (now at Marburg) who constructed a double-crystal spectrometer for the investigation of the intriguing 222 reflex of diamond which was first noticed by Sir William Bragg and which, since it cannot occur for point atoms, gives an indication of the actual shape of the carbon atom in diamond. In the course of these experiments Renninger discovered that the intensity reflected under the Bragg angle from an octahedral face of the crystal varied, if this face is turned in itself, that is, by changing the plane or azimuth of incidence without changing the Bragg angle. The normally very weak 222 reflexion becomes ten times stronger under certain azimuths. It was soon shown that this happened when by simultaneous reflection on other planes energy was being chanelled into the direction of the direct 222 reflection; this phenomenon, named 'Umweganregung' (simultaneous reflection), is thus a counterpart of the faint lines which Wagner found crossing the spectra.
The theoretical work at this institute comprised the collection of known structures (Strukturbericht) by Ewald and C. Hermann, the co-editing of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, the planning, and later the editing of the International Tables for the Determination of Crystal Structures (Hermann), review articles on X-ray Diffraction in Handbuch der Physik and on Solid State in Müller-Pouillet, and C. Hermann's papers on Structure Theory which paved the way for the replacement of the Schoenflies space-group symbols by the more systematic modern ones. H. Hönl developed the theory of the atomic factor including dispersion, which, very much later, gave the theoretical foundation of Bijvoet's elegant method of distinguishing the atomic arrangements in d- and l-crystals of optically active compounds.
Before Ewald left Germany in 1937 Hermann had already joined R. Brill at the I. G. Farben Laboratory in Oppau and Renninger soon followed; the Institute passed to the hands of U. Dehlinger and was closely linked to the K.W.I. für Metallforschung. It was fully destroyed by a direct hit during the bombings of Stuttgart.
One of the most brilliant physicist-crystallographers in Germany was Walter Kossel who, after his graduation with Lenard, came to Munich at the end of the First World War, joining Sommerfeld's group. He, as well as the Munich professor of physical chemistry, K. Fajans, discussed the early examples of crystal structures from the point of view of chemical and electrical bonding forces, charges and polarizabilities of the atoms according to the early stages of the Bohr theory. In 1921 Kossel became professor in Kiel, and later the head of the physics laboratory at the Technical University in Danzig. It was here that he developed the 'crystal source diagrams', diffraction effects not of plane X-waves, but of the spherical waves emitted by atoms within the crystal on excitation by electron bombardment or by the incidence of harder X-rays. One of M. v. Laue's most elegant papers discusses these diagrams in terms of the dynamical theory of X-ray diffraction. Among Kossel's pupils and co-workers in Danzig are Möllenstedt, Borrmann and Voges. After the Second World War Kossel became professor of physics in Tübingen, where he died in 1956.
A very important centre of X-ray diffraction developed in Berlin-Dahlem (see the Reminiscences of H. Mark and M. Polanyi in Part VII). From 1920 onward the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Faserstoffchemie under R. O. Herzog was foremost in the application of diffraction methods to the study of fibres and other high-polymers. Herzog himself, and W. Jahnke, who had, while working with Scherrer in Göttingen, acquired the art of constructing reliable dismountable X-ray tubes, began the work and they were soon joined by M. Polanyi. Following the lead given by Nishikawa and Ono as early as 1913, diagrams were obtained of fibres of cellulose, silk fibroin and other materials which lent themselves to being partially orientated by stress. The repeat distances along the fibre axes could be determined, and Polanyi, Mark and Weissenberg were stimulated to using rotation diagrams also in single-crystal structure determinations.
Weissenberg developed the idea of spreading a single layer line to a picture in two dimensions in the goniometer, and he constructed the first such instrument. Meanwhile the analogy between the diffraction pictures of fibres and of work-deformed metals prompted Polanyi to investigate the deformation of single metal crystals. He and H. Mark discovered the slip properties of single-crystal tin, and soon after that E. Schmid found the dynamical condition of slip, namely the law of the critical shear stress component along the slip direction in a slip plane.
When Herzog's institute was discontinued in 1927, its buildings and installations were taken over by W. Eitel for a new K.W.I. for Silicate Chemistry. Mark, who had brought into being a vigorous school for crystal structure analysis, left Dahlem in 1927 and created a prominent industrial X-ray laboratory in the Ludwigshafen works of the I. G. Farbenindustries. This firm had already one X-ray laboratory at its Oppau works, headed by R. Brill.
After F. Haber's dismissal (see Laue autobiography, pg. 298) the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut for Physical and Electro-chemistry in Dahlem came under the direction of Thiessen. Here M. v. Ardenne developed a universal electron microscope, which was used mainly for research on high polymers. Later on, the name of this institute was changed into 'Fritz-Haber-Institut' and Max von Laue was its director until February 1959. In his section on X-ray optics G. Borrmann studied the effect, named after him, of anomalous transparency of a crystal under the conditions of Bragg reflection, adding later to his observations those on the effects of deformation and temperature gradients on the transparency of the crystal and the path of the energy flux in it. The latter was the subject of important theoretical studies of von Laue. A field electron microscope was developed by Müller at the Technical University in Berlin (now in Pennsylvania State University). His work is being continued in the Haber Institute by Drechsler. In the section of Molière, the interference-refraction of electron beams, especially in MgO crystals, was one of the important problems. Besides the structure determination of claudelite, complex cobalt compounds and some organic substances, Stranski's section continues the calculation of surface energy of homopolar crystals and studies the influence of different conditions of crystallization and nucleation on the face combinations and other physico-chemical properties.
Hosemann and collaborators were interested in several fields: the calculation of the electron-density distributions in crystals with the help of convolution operations, the analysis of small-angle scattering by means of the folding operation (Faltungsintegral), and its application to high polymer and colloidal substances, paracrystalline structure, etc. His work with S. N. Bagchi on the theory of Fourier transforms and unfolding procedures has recently been summarized in a book Direct Analysis of Diffraction by Matter (North-Holland Publ. Co., 1962).
In 1959 the Fritz-Haber-Institut came under the direction of R. Brill, who returned from the U.S.A., where he had gone in 1946. Among many other topics he is interested in the influence of bonding electrons in diamond on X-ray intensities (anisotropic atomic scattering factor). A new section for the determination of crystal structures has been created in the institute, including a group for neutron diffraction.
Among the other Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes, the Düsseldorf K.W.I. for Iron Research should be mentioned because of the intensive study of iron alloys phase diagrams and deformation properties of iron and steel there undertaken since 1922 by F. Wever.
The main industrial laboratories for X-ray work, besides those of the I. G. Farben, were those of the electrical industry, especially the Siemens and the Osram works. Metals were also investigated in the Materialprüfamt (Materials Research Station) in Gross-Lichterfelde, close to Dahlem. G. Sachs worked there for some years before he joined the Metallgesellschaft in Frankfurt/Main.
In the Universities, crystallography was coupled to mineralogy, and some of the Departments of Mineralogy used X-ray methods, for instance R. Gross in Greifswald. In Leipzig F. Rinne and E. Schiebold developed the teaching aspect, contributed to the development of methods and instruments (the Schiebold-Sauter goniometer) and had a fair number of advanced students, among them E. Onorato (structure of gypsum, 1927).
Niggli with his broad and excellent survey of mineralogy recognized very early the importance of mathematical crystallography for the study of morphological, physical and chemical properties in crystals. Between 1915 and 1918 he was in Leipzig in Rinne's Institute. A year later he wrote in Tübingen Geometrische Kristallographie des Diskontinuums. In his famous textbook Lehrbuch der Mineralogie und Kristallchemie, which appeared in three editions, he pointed out the importance of crystal chemistry to mineralogy, geochemistry, etc. Besides his Grundlagen der Stereochemie (1945) he published in the following years (1949/50) a complete condensed symbolism of space groups which later formed the main subject of the book by P. Terpstra Introduction to the Space Groups (J. B. Walters, Groningen 1955).
In 1929 V. M. Goldschmidt in Oslo accepted the chair of mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Göttingen; here he continued his fundamental work on the radii of elements and ions by the investigation of crystal structures. His results are published in the fundamental series Geochemische Verteilungsgesetze der Elemente by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Oslo. At that time, Ernst, Laves and Witte were his assistants. Early in 1935 V. M. Goldschmidt had to leave Germany for political reasons. The investigations of crystal structures were mainly continued by these three assistants who became lecturers later on. Laves together with Witte and Wallbaum did important work on intermetallic compounds. In addition, he developed his nomenclature of structure types, which is used in many textbooks.
Machatschki, who had been working with V. M. Goldschmidt in Oslo and also with W. L. Bragg in Manchester, became Professor of Mineralogy at the University in Tübingen, where he continued his work on structure analysis of silicates and oxides, the discussion of the chemical formulas of silicates with respect to their atomic structures and the relationship between silicate structures. After a three years' period in Munich, he became director of the Mineralogical Institute in Vienna in 1944.
After the Second World War, Laves began to create a centre for structure analysis in Marburg/Lahn, by expanding his Mineralogical Institute with the assistance of Jagodzinski and Hellner. In 1947 he succeeded in negotiating with the Government the creation of a second part of the centre, a new Institute for Crystal Structure Research which was headed by C. Hermann.
Hermann's work was mainly theoretical, applying group theory to mathematical crystallography in three and more dimensions and devising a nomenclature for lattice complexes. In connection with Ludwigshafen, in particular with H.-U. Lenné, he also did interesting structural work on urea adducts. At the beginning of the war, Hermann and Renninger had both been working under R. Brill at the Oppau Laboratory of I. G. Farben. It was here that the well-known investigation was undertaken by Brill, Grimm, Hermann and Peters (Ann. d. Phys., Lpz., 1939) to learn as much as possible of the electron distribution in simple crystals by accurate intensity measurements and critical discussion of the Fourier syntheses. Renninger made additional intensity measurements at 20°K on rocksalt, but owing to the war, publication was delayed. Now, having joined Hermann at the new institute in Marburg, Renninger constructed a three crystal spectrograph with which he measured the reflection curve of a near-perfect crystal with greater accuracy than ever before.
At the end of 1948 Laves left Marburg for Chicago, and H. Winkler succeeded him. He discovered the crystal structure of eukryptite and of some alkali-fluoroaluminates in connection with the structural discussion of thermal polymorphism. E. Hellner started his research on sulfide structures in Marburg; after a short interlude in Chicago, he is now continuing them, since 1959, in Kiel.
O'Daniel became director of the Mineralogical Institute in Frankfurt in 1947 where he continued to investigate problems of cement and other silicates which he had begun at the K.W.I. für Silikatforschung. Together with Th. Hahn he created a new school for the X-ray investigation of analogues of silicate structures, such as the fluoroberyllates. The programming of electronic computers and the correction of measured X-ray intensities were other fields of interest.
As a student of A. Johnsen in Berlin, G. Menzer succeeded 1926 in the structure determination of garnet. At the end of the Second World War - after seven years in the K.W.I. of Physics - he left Berlin and became after a two years' stay in Tübingen Professor of Crystallography in Munich at the University, where he continued his structural work together with Dachs and others. Like that of C. Hermann, his interest belongs to homometry, nomenclature of space groups and lattice complexes. As a possible example for homometry the structure of bixbyite was reexamined. Besides X-ray work he applied neutron diffraction to the location of hydrogen atoms in crystal structures.
In Göttingen a new center for X-ray analysis grew up, when Zemann became director in 1952. A large number of structures of silicates, phosphates and sulfates have been determined in his school.
Apart from the application of X-ray analysis, much of interesting work is being done in mineralogical institutes in such classical fields of crystallography as crystal growth and solubility, twinning, epitaxy, etc., for instance by Neuhaus in Darmstadt, later Bonn; Spangenberg in Breslau, Kiel and Tübingen; Seifert in Halle and Münster; Kleber in Bonn and since 1953 in Berlin, etc.
A number of institutes of inorganic chemistry took up the determination of crystal structures. Thilo, since 1938 in Berlin except for a short period in Graz (1943-46), was interested in the chemical and structural properties of silicates and their analogues, the phosphates and arsenates. After the Second World War an Institute for Crystal Structure Research was founded with the aid of the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, in (East-) Berlin, headed by Mrs. K. Boll-Dornberger. Besides structure determination she is especially interested in disordered structures and their interpretation by 'order-disorder' or OD-groupoïds.
Starting with the investigation of alcali alloys in liquid ammonia, Zintl (1933) created a school for inorganic and physical chemistry at the Technical University in Darmstadt. He was especially interested in the crystal chemistry of alloys of those elements which form anions in crystal structures (Zintl-Grenze). A lot of new structure types were found. Zintl died in 1941, at the age of only 43. Brill became his successor up to the end of the war. After the war Witte succeeded Brill and together with Wölfel he reexamined the Fourier synthesis of NaCI, LiF, Al etc. by measuring the intensities even more accurately.
Another inorganic school was founded by Klemm, first in Danzig and after the Second World War in Kiel and later in Münster; he correlated magnetic properties and crystal structures. A book (Magnetochemie, 1936) gave first results in this field and a lot of inspiring suggestions.
A centre for structure investigation of organic and biochemical substances was founded in 1959 in the Max-Planck-Institut für Eiweiss und Lederforschung headed by W. Hoppe, who is also lecturer in the physico-chemical institute of the Technical University in Munich. The interpretation of diffuse thermal-wave scattering outside the directions of Bragg scattering, and the determination of crystal structures by the convolution molecule method are two of his favourite subjects. A goniometer for automatic recording of X-ray intensities of single crystals is under development. In addition schools were created by Bauer in Freiburg (1944), by Juza in Heidelberg (1942) (since 1952 in Kiel); and by Krebs in Bonn.
The important theoretical development represented by Max Born's books Dynamik der Kristallgitter (1915) and Atomtheorie des festen Zustands (1923) opened up the understanding of many of the physical properties of the solid state, first based on the principles of classical dynamics, and later on quantum and wave mechanics. A new field of physics developed rapidly and concurrently with, if not always closely related to, the increasing knowledge of crystal structures. In the work of Mott and his school in Bristol a second great step forward was taken in the 'years before World War II. A. Smekal in Halle had stressed the difference between physical properties which are explainable by the model of a perfectly periodic crystal, as used by Born, and the 'structure-sensitive properties' (by this he meant properties determined by imperfections, impurities, or domain structure of crystals) for which Born's theory is evidently inadequate. Among the latter are mechanical strength, diffusion, fluorescence and phosphorescence, often dielectric properties and surface tension, etc. The new ideas applied by Mott centered around the energyband picture of the crystal as a wave-mechanical system; besides, for the explanation of the mechanical properties 'dislocations' of various types in the crystal structure became essential. During and after the Second World War the structure sensitive properties of Smekal's classification underwent intensive study, especially in U.S.A., because of their technical importance (phosphors, rectifiers, transistors, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials). But also the German industrial laboratories, especially those of the Siemens concern, now near Erlangen, contributed their share to these advances.
The various facets of solid state physics and the New Crystallography were repeatedly summarized in the well-known German Hand- and Yearbooks.
Before ending this report the support of the entire field of research by the 'Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft', now renamed 'Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft', which began more than four decades ago, should be gratefully acknowledged. This support included in 1956 the first electronic computers, and in 1960 also an IBM 704, available for basic research.
In recognition of the need to promote basic research in Germany the 'Wissenschaftsrat', a council created by the President of the German Federal Republic, recommended in 1960 an expansion in German universities, especially with respect to the number of staff and assistants, but also including facilities and housing. It may be expected that this improvement will prove beneficial also to the field of crystal structure research.

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I have a question. I’m searching for an author that wrote first in a series I liked but don’t remember the name of, a really nice and funny book.
It’ about a female lawyer, returning to her southern hometown in some kind of disgrace. She’s drinking too much, sitting on her porch into the night. She doesn’t work and people around her are worried about her drinking. No boyfriend, no parents I think, and she’s forced into some kind of work to find a murderer.
If any of you know who this author, or the mystery series could be, please post a comment. Thank you!
This series rings a bell but can’t think right off. give me a few days. i should remember this series. seems to me it is a good one, different but good.
Danna and Inga, Once again I answered someone’s question without really reading the whole question. I failed to see that Inga said the cozy was a funny one with a woman who is drinking and sitting on a porch solving mysteries. All I read was a woman sitting on a porch drinking.
I don’t know the author of the book Inga was trying to recall but in the one that I was referring to our main sleuth is indeed sitting on the front porch of a house that she had inherited (close enough) from a father or grandfather, drinking some sort of whiskey. As she is sitting there a town cop, deputy, something like that pulls up in front of the house. He tells our sleuth that a certain judge in the area needs her for a particular case. Our sleuth refuses because she failed to get a certain person aquitted during her early years as a lawyer. This person is executed for a crime that was later to be found innocent. But the judge insists.
Because this woman still holds a lawyer’s degree(whatever it is called) the judge wants her to be a public defender of this one particular case. If I recall this right (and that is anyone’s guess) our sleuth was set up to fail.
I am very sorry if I am messing this up. I know I just read this book in the last 2 to 3 months but can’t for the life of me think what it is.
After this debacle with these two books I most assuredly will keep a list of the books I read; the author who wrote it, the sleuth’s name and where the story takes place, and above all, the title of the book!!
If all of you will forgive me these two very bad mistakes, I PROMISE, I PROMISE, I PROMISE I will keep these lists.
One good thing about it though, while I was going through the Cozy lists and reading the short descriptions that Danna gave with each one, I have discovered there are a number of books and writers that I do want to read. So maybe all isn’t lost.
Must be having more senior moments. I do make a lot of mistakes but I will admit that. Plus, I think we are to have some sort of eclipse tonight, aren’t we? I can blame my mistakes on that!!
Hope Inga doesn’t judge all Americans by my actions.
Oh, please, Linda C>>> This blog area is not set up so that people feel badly about things they say! Rest assured that we enjoy hearing from you, and appreciate it when you come up with the “mystery authors” and even when you don’t!
Well, I hope you can come up with a title because I am quite intrigued and would like to read that book.
Was it the Bay Tanner series by Kathryn Wall?
is it cathy pickin’s avery andrews series?
by the way danna we got beat in extra innings. sorry i haven’t been here since last week but the end of school, graduation on mon. sports banquet on tues., baseball banquet on thurs. a very busy week but school ended today. I finished reading Josie Belle book and Lucy Arlington in the last three days.
Ginger, that’s too bad about your girl’s team not doing so well in the extra innings, but it must have been a very close game to get that far.
This sounds very similar to the Sarah Booth Delaney mysteries by Carolyn Haines.
Cozy, funny, quirky but with a somewhat annoying (to me) and nagging ghost.
She is broke, unemployed, unwed and does sit on her porch a lot and her friends are concerned about her.
Sounds like Carolyn Haines, she is from Mississippi & is so funny. Sarah Booth DeLaney series, The Bone Series.(Hallowed Bones, Bones Of A Feather etc). Also, try Anne George’s Sister Series, Murder On A Bad Hair Day, Murder At The BootScoot,ect). These are sure to bring a smile.
You may be thinking of Southern Fried (I think that’s the title) by Cathy Pickens. It won the St. Martins Malice Domestic Award for best first traditional novel several years ago. There were five books in the series. Hope that helps.
This book sounds so familiar to me, too, but I can’t remember the title or author, either! Let’s hope someone solves this little mystery quickly because the suspense is killing me. 🙂 Seems to me that I liked the book well enough but not enough to continue the series, so that’s probably why I can’t remember the details. This is my excuse, anyway.
The book is “Wishful Sinful” by Tracy Dunham.
If I am correct, the title is “the bootleggers daughter ” by Margaret maron. Judge Deborah knott is the main character and it begins with her sitting on the porch, drinking something and being called to fill in for a judge by her friend dwayne who is a deputy sheriff.
Thank you, ALL, for responding to Inger’s question. We have several possibilities of authors who could have written this particular series. Here’s hoping that between all of us, we have come up with the correct author.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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When people talk about the US National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA), the talk usually centers on privacy, with good reason. Still, it’s not the only subject worth discussing. The volume of data collected by the NSA and the associated costs make it the ultimate in Big Data case studies. What can it tell us about data and business? What can it tell us about business risk and the potential benefits and consequences of Big Data investments?
The agency’s exact budget is a government secret, but estimates put it around $10 billion per year. Although not all of that is devoted to surveillance, it’s reasonable to conclude that something in the ballpark of $5 billion goes to fund NSA data gathering each year. This may not be the clear-cut biggest Big Data application (Google’s revenue was $66 billion last year, for example), but it’s substantial, focused and paid for by the public. We ought to discuss what we’re getting for the money.
The budget is not the only cost of any Big Data program. Data gathering and analysis has an impact on public perception and everyday business practices. Do it wrong, and you could run into a lot of costs you never expected. NSA programs have led to costs that the government and public may not have anticipated: correcting functional problems, lost business to US companies, additional security costs to US individuals and businesses seeking to protect private data and the lost influence due to damaged credibility of US government and businesses.
Spies have always depended on communication surveillance to obtain information. Stealing documents, listening in on conversations and cracking the codes of secret messages are basics of the profession. Electronics have been part of the mix for decades: the British used an elaborate electronic surveillance system to listen in on captured German officers during the 1940s. What’s new is the volume and breadth of information gathered.
Everybody’s a target. There’s the thing about Big Data. When you collect heaps and heaps of data, you may expect you’ll know all about everybody, but in practice, it may not end up that way.
When I was researching data sources for my book, Data Mining for Dummies, I gathered data on myself from several providers. These sources offer a lot of personal information. They can tell you, for example, that I’m single, a fan of gardening and aerobics, a pet owner, and a regular user of American Express and Discover cards. They can tell you my income and what month my insurance payment is due. What a lot of detail! Think of what you could do with information like that. But you won’t get the results you want, because every bit of that information is wrong.
When the NSA obtains communications data, it has advantages that you do not. It can get communication data directly from the source, and that’s good behavioral data rather than self-reported or other secondary sources, which are consistently of inferior quality. But huge volumes of data come with huge problems. The data management burden is stupendous, and most of that data is irrelevant to the intended purpose. Most people, and most communications, are not involved in government spying, terrorism or other crimes of interest to the NSA.
Because Big Data sources usually are not specific to any particular application, they are not necessarily the best data resources for solving any particular problem. A small volume of data, carefully collected for relevance and quality may offer more power.
So what do the NSA’s Big Data programs provide us in return for our money?
But not everyone shares that view of the results. Some claim the agency is simply overwhelmed with data. When Senator Feinstein told us that terrorist events were stopped and arrests made in the US, I found myself wondering why she wasn’t talking about convictions. I wondered why all that data wasn’t adequate to prevent the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Traditional research methods and resources sometimes produce better results than massive data sources. The successful hunt to find Osama Bin Laden, a man with considerable resources and motivation not to be found, was done the old-fashioned way. Trained analysts, working with documents and other sources thoughtfully researched the target over a long time. It was unglamorous work, and not highly appreciated during much of the time it went on. In early 2001, similar techniques provided warnings of a threat months before the attacks of September 11.
We talk a lot about privacy implications of Big Data, as we should, but we don’t talk much about the costs and the quality of the results. As a statistician and data miner, I appreciate the value of data analysis, but also appreciate its limits. When we invest in data, whether in government, business or any aspect of life, we ought to put serious thought and discussion into what value we’re getting for out money and effort.


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industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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The Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs projects that the world will add another 2.5 billion city dwellers by mid-century, mostly in Africa and Asia. Observers have worried about the impacts of urbanization since the acceleration of industrial development in the nineteenth century, but the scale of change is especially daunting today. How will we provide services and integrate new residents into urban society, especially in the face of rising environmental stress? How will we build and protect the physical systems that keep cities living and livable communities?
In this talk, Carl Abbott will contrast two of the strongest themes in current city planning. One planning vision is Robot City, the city planned around the ability to gather and process vast amounts of real time information for both centralized control systems and dispersed systems that make dumb objects smarter, like automated trains to self-driving vehicles. The second vision is Natural City, the city planned at human scale and with environmental resilience in mind. This is a planning vision that emphasizes nature and neighborhoods. These two approaches may seem diametrically opposed, but the talk draws on the history of city planning ideas, current trends in urban development and planning, and ideas from speculative fiction to argue that we can seek to blend the best of both approaches.
Carl Abbott is recently retired from teaching Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University in five decades (not fifty years!) and has also held endowed visiting professorships at George Washington University and the University of Oregon. He has written several books about Portland, city and regional planning, the history of American cities, and science fiction. His shorter articles have appeared in online publication such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Smithsonian.com, Atlantic CityLab, and Clarkesworld Magazine. His most recent book is Imaging Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them. The Chinese translation was launched by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in November. His favorite SF films are Forbidden Planet, Alien, and Serenity.


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industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Tears, people. And partial bafflement.
Yesterday I finished Blindness, by José Saramago. Toward the end of my commute to work I finished a particular heartbreaking scene and held back tears while making sure my fellow commuters didn’t see how distraught I was. On my commute home I read another scene that brought joyful tears to my eyes.
This morning I finished The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate. She won the Newbery Medal in 2012. This book also made me cry, also because of sad and happy moments.
Excellent writing about important issues. Call to action and most definitely to contemplation.
I highly recommend both novels.
I don’t know what your political leanings are, but there is one side that does whatever they want, and then there’s the other side with principles.
As I observed this conversation, I realized I was the other person, and the one person was talking to me. Approximately 67 trillion assumptions bounced around in my head, attracting and repelling each other until an image formed — like the kind with a magnet and iron shavings — of a big question mark. I didn’t say anything, because there were stray thoughts circling this question mark, trying to find a niche but also seeming to defy the magnetic force. In this defiance, these stray thoughts kept my brow from furrowing; they allowed me to have mercy on the one person’s soul. And if all I wanted to say was, “Huh?” I know that the one person’s “principles” would have tried to replace my metal shavings with shavings made of soap. Because the one person stands on a box of soap. Which is fine. I respect the one person’s opinion and I won’t treat the one person like less of a human being. This kind of understanding and regard is a principle the one person and I have in common. So we’re actually on the same side.
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The AS9100C standard was developed by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) to standardize the quality management requirements of all levels of the supply chain in the aerospace industry. The standard establishes requirements for airworthiness, safety, product conformity, and reliability. These requirements include configuration management, design, purchasing, product realization and product monitoring and measurement. The standard also emphasizes the use of risk management and mitigation, supply chain monitoring, project management, and procedures for management and prevention of nonconforming product.
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industry_corpus2: Aerospace


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If Svante wouldn't eat so much, he wouldn't be so fat. In the United States, we can hear a chorus of comments from the right wing ridiculing soccer every time there's a World Cup. Everyone's someplace else. People can easily start loving, but not so easily stop. Fay tried to kill himself yesterday. We loved him. Miek was ruthless. God has been very kind to the shark. Corey didn't keep her promise to help Stanley. I've been praying for you.
He has a perfect command of English. As the elevator is out of order, we must go down the stairs. I asked Marc why he did it. The wedding will be held in a 17th century church. It'll break. Carsten put on his hat. The city is two miles away. I've never liked them. Meeks is a landscape designer. It's not like her not to call.
Penny slept on the floor. Anton looked at me triumphantly and said, "Checkmate." We make much of the changing of the seasons in Japan. She didn't get the joke. I know you probably don't want to go out with me, but I'd love to go out with you. We're not working for Elwood. See you again very soon. The road roller is levelling the street. He's a master at the curveball. No one's here.
I'd like to help them prove it. These books aren't for children. Elisabeth would have been very proud of you. Are you sure you don't know Rob? He's very strong. Don't you know that he has been dead for these two years? Should we try it out? A child was run over here last night. He's out of the office because he's in Osaka on business. Daren remained still.
He was a poet and a diplomat. The eye of a hurricane is its center. I believe in having a good heart and being kind to others. This deposit bears three percent interest. Charleen doesn't look very much like his father. We may not have enough uniforms. Clive wants to be an electronic engineer. He has bad eyes. Neville is John's only son. They sent us to the administration office of the factory.
Please stop it! She has lost faith in the doctor. Did you touch anything? It took us a long time to decide what to do. Rainer has been causing a lot of problems. Chris is in a risky situation in science class. I'm looking for my cellphone. The desk is covered with dust. I thought you'd be interested in this. I prefer being poor to being rich.
I love my family so much. Let's continue the game after lunch. I just wanted another chance. My sister doesn't know the difference between a goose and a duck. It was clean. Irvin, is it true you're dating Ariel? Manuel reported Konstantinos missing. Her name came up in 42 separate entries in a Google search. I know this much about him. I thought you were going to keep Tollefsen happy.
Can you understand French? I think you've practiced enough. Connie wondered if Real was as nervous as he was. During the war, we had to do without sugar. There is not much traffic on this road. You should be very careful in crossing the road. Fishing is prohibited in the lake. Here are large amount of minor mistakes and tiny misunderstandings that distort the meaning of the original sentence. Today I walked 10 kilometers. We have lots of snow in the winter.
That's for sure. How old are you now? We will be in trouble. Alan isn't in the hospital. I have to visit her. A few minutes' walk brought me to the shore. The situation has taken on a new aspect. Why don't you sit with him? I just need more time. She made herself up.
We take it seriously. Could there be a connection? Hon doesn't care what I do. It's really weird. Booze is the answer, but now I can't remember the question. Do what's best for him. I was busy the whole day. I believe it right to tell the truth. Wolf was troubled. I caught an earlier flight.

industry_corpus2: Others


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industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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This salad is really delicious even though it has the strangest combinations of ingredients I've ever seen. Green tomatoes, peaches, cucumbers, parsley and basil dressed in vinaigrette are the perfect thing for a hot summer's day.
This may be the quickest dinner in his entire book. I whipped it up in about 15 minutes late tonight after my husband and I arrived home from separate parental duties, one PTA meeting and one trip to the local wine bar to solicit a donation for the PTA fundraiser.
My kids love tuna salad. My son makes me explain, over and over again, why he cannot eat it every day. He recently realized the connection between mercury in tuna and thermometers, which is really exciting to me, as his mother. But more importantly, I know he and his sister will always eat this toxic fish.
Another quick and easy pasta dish for late summer, or any other time you can find good cherry tomatoes (which is most of the time). These little sweeties do better in colder weather, so not only will they grow in my foggy garden, but just about anywhere else that isn't below freezing, too.
This is a favorite recipe that both my kids love, which is highly unusual. Most of the time one loves it and the other hates it. But in this case, they both ask for "that pasta with grated sauce" whenever we have tomatoes on the kitchen counter.
Summer in San Francisco doesn't come until very late August, at the earliest, when we're guaranteed to have the best fruit on earth filling our kitchen. And from now through the end of October it will be warm. Hot, even, if we get lucky.
I went out, the kids ate pesto pasta.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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text: This is a PDF journal with a goal to practice the power of gratitude in a difficult season and showcase how it helps. This is a 21-day journal (similar to the Daniel Fast). By entering into a period of extended prayer and writing down what you're thankful for, you will enter into a deep spiritual experience with God so He can work in your life and on your behalf.


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After recently experiencing and being frustrated at our electricity being cut after every oh so many hours, I was happy to hear Eskom announce that loadshedding was over for now. We just reached home on Saturday (after going to Park Rynie ) for the day & we experienced the last bout of load shedding, little did we know, that we had nothing really to be excited about..
During the early hours of Sunday morning (I’m always up the earliest and sometimes, I never sleep), I noticed that the water pressure was extrrrrremely low. Considering this as just one of those things, I plugged on my washing machine and waited for the machine to fill. My machine took an HOUR, yep, a whole entire ONE HOUR to fill water for the first fill ONLY. I was annoyed. I mean with three kids, a dog and a husband, I really didnt need any more drama on my hands.
Going to shower was my last straw.. the water was barely coming out of the shower.. it was as though someone was dropping the water, one drop at a time through a medicine dropper. I managed to shower, in a very bad mood too, mind you and then it just all fell apart. Dishes were in the sink and I was ready to wash them except now, they (yes, the powers that be) had COMPLETELY cut off our water.
Residents of our area did contact the municipality who replied by saying that they were not sure when water would be restored as a dam with low water levels was supplying our area. They were however dispatching water tankers.
Water tankers? Yipppeee right? WRONG. Because I have THREE small children and STAIRS to get to the road AND still a small driveway.. now, you want me to carry water up and down there? How would I manage? To make matters worse, this miracle water tanker was NOT coming to every road; instead it was parked off in one area for people to come collect.
But it gets better.. The place that this tanker chose to park would require me to walk up a hill with three small children (mind you, Myra is two months old..she would need to be carried), fetch water and then carry the baby and watch the other two while carrying a heavy bucket of water AND I cant even carry two because what about carrying baby? What about the elderly? How would they manage to do this? Those with walking sticks and wheel chairs?
Every month we pay our electricity and water bill on time. Im sure its not just us, most people do this. Yet look at the trouble that we are having; the services that we pay for are services that we receive when the Government decides to let us have them.
I heard on TV a statement about how the people are bad but the organization is not, okay, fine, agreed but what is the organization is doing to change? Is the organization not made up of those same bad people? Why is an entire nation suffering for the bad decisions taken by a few people?
I know, I know, people are apparently also to blame because they have voted for the ruling party and thats how the party got elected to make all these decisions that affect us BUT these people were also lead to believe that the party was capable of making good, informed decisions on behalf of its people. This belief was also generated by the fake promises that were made by said party.
I may not be too smart but as a woman, I use this thing called a BUDGET.. also, when budgetting, there are certain luxurious things that I may leave out if I feel that our spending is going overboard. For example, I need Lights and water to survive. So I won’t spend MILLIONS OF RANDS within this particular year to build a statue/monument but instead, I will use that same money to help in whatever way possible to KEEP THE LIGHTS on and potentially solve the electricity crisis. I can always build my monument later, its not like we dont have any at all.
Now as much as it sounds like all I’m doing is blaming the Government because hey, who doesn’t want to blame the government. They HAVE provided FREE WATER & sanitation to areas that have squatters etc. Sadly, these free necessities are NOT TAKEN care off. The water that we so desperately need is being wasted. Tongaat went without water for THREE days but in certain places, water is just flowing with no one to care to turn off the tap. Dont even THINK that I’m joking, I have VIDEO proof.
I have NO FRIKKEN idea on how to fix this country because I don’t even think we know its TRUE state of affairs.. to be honest, unless you’re in the presidential seat, I don’t think you or I will ever know.. so how will we work together to fix South Africa? Do any of YOU have a plan? Do you have an opinion? Does the wastage of our basic needs make you as mad as it makes me? Let me know in the comments about how you feel.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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Sasan Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is located to the southeast of Junagadh, at a distance of 65 km, and southwest of Amreli at a distance of 60 km.
· Nearest Airport: Rajkot - 170 km; Keshod - 101 km; Dui - 76 km.
· Entry Fee: Indians - INR 400 (Mon-Fri), INR 500 (Sat-Sun), INR 600 (Holidays); Foreigners USD 40 (to be paid in Indian Rupees).
Sasan Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is a popular amongst the native and foreign travelers as this is the only shelter of the Asiatic Lions (Panthera Leo Persica). The Nawab of Junagadh state recognized the area of the Gir forest as ‘Protected’, during 1900s. This motive of this initiative was to safeguard the population of lion that had sharply dropped to 15. The survey of 2010 states 411 lions in Gir. This data was 52 more than the data collected in 2005.
According to the survey made in the year 1964, about 500 plant species were recorded to be in the Gir forest.
· Non Teak Forests: Terminalia Bellerica (Bahedo), Butea Monosperma (Khakhar), Zizyphus Mauritiana (Bor), Bombax Ceiba (Semal), Bauhinia Racemosa (Asundro), Diospyros Melanoxylon (Timru), Terminalia Crenulata (Sadad), Anogeissus latifolia (Dhavdo), Sterculia Urens (Kadayo), Phyllanthus Emblica (Amla), Acacia Catechu (Khair), Acacia Nilotica (Babul), Lannea Coromandelica (Moledi), etc.
· Mixed Deciduous Forest: About 70% of the protected area of the park is covered by Tectona Grandis (Teak).
· Moist Riverine Forest: Syzygium Cumini (Jambun), Ficus Racemosa (Umro), Ficus Bengalensis (Vad), Pongamia Pinnata (Karanj), Holeptelia Integrifolia (Charel), Tamarindus Indica (Imli), Mitragyna Parviflora (Kalam), Albizzia Lebbeck (Sirus), etc.
· Coastal Plantation Belt: P. Juliflora (Gandobaval) and Casuarina Equisetifolia (Saru).
There are almost 300 species of birds (native and migratory), enjoying shelter in the Sasan Gir Wildlife Sanctuary. Some of the birds in the park are Crested Hawk-Eagle, Black-Headed Oriole, Crested Serpent Eagle, Brown Fish Owl, Pygmy Woodpecker, Bonelli's Eagle, Indian Eagle-Owl, Vultures, Rock Bush-Quail, Indian Pitta, Crested Treeswift, etc.
The Sasan Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is praised for its count of distinct fauna species, which was recorded to be 2,375. This count included 38 species of mammals, 37 species of reptiles, 300 species of birds (native and migratory), and 2,000 species of insects.
Carnivores Group: Asiatic Lions, Ratels, Jungle Cats, Indian Mongoose, Sloth Bears, Striped Hyenas, Golden Jackals, Indian Palm Civets, Desert Cats, Indian Cobras, Indian Leopards, Rusty-Spotted Cats, etc.
Herbivores Group: Nilgai (Bluebull), Chinkara, Four-Horned Antelope, Sambar, Chital, Wild Boar, Blackbucks, etc.
Smaller Mammals: Hare, Pangolin, Porcupine, etc.
Reptiles: Marsh Crocodile, Tortoise, Snakes, Monitor Lizard, Pythons, etc.
The climate in the Gir Forests is typically dry and arid. Monsoon is the time to see the lush greenery in the forests. The months of summers, i.e., from April to June, are hot with temperature rising to 40°C. The months of winters, i.e., from December to February are pleasant and cool. Light woolens are suggested to be carried during the summers and during winters, heavy woolens are advised.
To explore the best of the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is between the months of October to Mid June. This time is pleasant to explore the forests and during this time, various migratory birds find their shelter in the sanctuary.
The safari is allowed in The Devaliya Park, which is open throughout the year (Wednesday Closed). The safari timings are 06:00 am to 09:00 am in morning and 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm in the evening.
· Adequate beforehand travel information is important.
· On the park trip, take official guides with you.
· Wear simple and loose fitting clothes of subtle colors that blend with the surroundings of the park.
· Carry enough water with you.
· Do not feed, disturb or provoke wildlife.
· Smoking is strictly prohibited in the park.
· Intrusive or flash photography is not allowed.
· Picking plants from the park is prohibited.
· Hiking or walking in the park is not allowed. Traveling is vehicle is safe and a guide is also advisable.
· Sudden and quick moves are also to be avoided as that would scare the wildlife.
· No littering in the park. Trash to be disposed in proper containers.
· No camping or picnicking in the park.
· No hunting weapons or devices allowed.
By Air: Rajkot, Keshod and Dui are the nearest airports to the Sasan Gir Wildlife Sanctuary. On your arrival to the respective airports, shared or private taxis are available to fetch the tourists from the airport to the sanctuary.
By Rail: Sasan and Rajkot are the nearest railway stations to the Sasan Gir Wildlife Sanctuary. Tourists can hire private taxies from railway stations to reach the wildlife sanctuary.
By Road: The Gir wildlife sanctuary is also accessible through road. Some of the popular destinations located close to the sanctuary are Ahmedabad (331 km), Rajkot, (170 km), Junagadh (111 km), Veraval (71 km), and Diu (73.5 km).
For the proper and comfortable accommodation, there are hotels, resorts, lodges and cottages available to meet the specific requirements of the guests. These accommodation options are equipped with facilities and services that lead to pleasurable stay for the guests.


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Thanks to half a century of ceaseless work, Norberto Gómez has gained a privileged place in Argentine contemporary art. Esteemed by his peers and by critics, this solo exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is a milestone. It is not only an honor for the institution, but also an opportunity to make his art known on a mass scale and to reread the course of his work from a particular perspective. This exhibition constitutes an anomalous retrospective insofar as it brings together two bodies of work, one from the sixties and one from the present, separated by over forty years. Together, they formulate a paradox: the striking similarity of aesthetic concerns in bodies of work from two distinct periods. The suspension of the time that divides the two productions—or, perhaps, its annulment—reopens the question of the agelessness of art (or of its relative ahistoricalness, which amounts to the same thing) when it manages to free itself of the ties that the critics and culture of its era would impose.
The exhibition consists, then, of geometric constructions from the sixties, almost all of which had been destroyed, works that Gómez painstakingly recreated; and current works envisioned as a continuation of those earlier pieces. The dialogue formulated between the two extremes of the artist's production gives rise to reflection on time and on the changing nature and fragility of the often capricious readings that each historical moment proposes. It also points out art's astonishing potential to pierce the layers of meaning of time and of criticism and to continue, in its enigmaticness, to question and appeal to the viewer.
Gómez retraces the path of representation, expression, and meaning to delve into simple interrogation of space, movement, and light. He wholly eschews the pursuit of any icon, of any gesture towards a predetermined meaning. His geometries entail, among other things, the simple act of showing the material's ability to insinuate the basic dilemma of existing in an eternal present, with no attributes, no opacity, no history. The sheer being of the world in its most simple and bare form. Once art is rid of its common afflictions (reflecting or inventing the real, metonymizing or denying it), all that the non-metaphorical object, pure form, can do is come before us in its nameless corporality.
These dreamlike geometries are the consummation of the rigor of pursuits always at odds with passing trends. Despite their patent materiality, they seek the sacred; reduced to their purest core, they reconcile the states of an oeuvre that has encompassed and marked the last half a century and that sheds light on what the future might hold.

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Richmond fleet buys and maintains a wide range of vehicles and equipment, from mowers and snowplows to vans for youth programs and trucks for Parks crews.
Almost 18% of fleet is made up of light-duty cars and about 37% is light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs. Another 25% of fleet is medium and heavy-duty trucks like big crew cabs, dump trucks and crane trucks. The rest of Fleet’s assets are equipment. The Fleet represents 32.7% of the City’s total emissions, second only to buildings, offering a tremendous opportunity to achieve the City’s targets through green fleet solutions.
When it comes to a fleet, not all vehicles are alike, and as a result they have different requirements that affect fuel consumption and emissions. For example, cars and light-duty trucks use gasoline, larger fleet vehicles like a bulldozer use diesel fuel and some specialized equipment like forklifts use propane, diesel or electric power. Driver behaviour can also influence fuel use and GHG emissions due to speed, vehicle loads and vehicle maintenance. Richmond's Green Fleet Action Plan includes an inventory of its fleet, fuel consumption and GHG emissions with data from 1995, 2007 and 2010 to help track progress towards its goals.
Where do the Fleet's Green House Gas Emissions Come From?
Passenger cars are responsible for only 7% of Fleet emissions, in part because by 2010, over 50% of Richmond's passenger cars were already green fleet vehicles (hybrids or Smart Cars). Most of Richmond's fleet are trucks, which have a higher share of emissions, due in part to diesel fuel, fewer green fleet vehicle options in the market, and service requirements that often include idling.

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Coming to venues across UK and Ireland in autumn 2016 is the hotly anticipated tour by the acclaimed Professor Brian Cox, OBE.
The show will take audiences on a dazzling journey through space and time, delving into ‘high science’ and freewheeling on the edges of the known cosmos.
Whether an avid science reader or a total novice, Professor Brian Cox Live will test the limits of our knowledge and make highly complex ideas accessible to all. Always captivating, continually surprising and forever pushing the boundaries, Professor Brian Cox takes science to a new dimension in this new stage show, plus get up close and personal with the man himself with an interview hosted by his The Infinite Monkey Cage co-host Robin Ince.
Joe Dolman returns with his new single and a solo UK tour this autumn!


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One thing that my husband has been up late working on is patches and fixes due to the Heartbleed bug, information about which was publicly disclosed at the beginning of this week. What is it, and how does it affect you?
Basically, an error in the coding of a system called Open SSL meant that a person could send a query to a server and receive in return a random chunk of the server’s memory. With enough querying over time, this same person could eventually gain enough clues to compile information about the users whose information is stored on the server.
See that last panel? If you read the small print of the server’s text balloon, you’ll see that it states: “User Karen wants to change account password to…” It’s that kind of information that gets stored on a server, and that kind of information that can now be acquired due to this bug.
So, which sites and which services are affected by this bug? Mashable has a great list of popular sites and services here: The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now.
Change the passwords that you use on the sites mentioned on the Mashable list, immediately.
If you used those passwords on other sites (because it was easier in your mind), change all of those passwords, too. Do not use the same password for different sites going forward.
If a site or service which uses a secure certificate (you see https:// in your address bar at the top of your browser window when you browse to it rather than just http://) is not on the Mashable list, go to that site’s homepage to see if they have a comment on their News section about whether or not they use(d) Open SSL and/or if they’ve patched the problem. If they have, change your password. If they have not, inquire and keep hounding them until you get an answer.
In closing, please make sure you’re always using best and safe practices when using the Internet. Like going to the dentist, changing all your passwords is a tedious and unpleasant chore, but it must be done at least twice a year.
Your teeth—and your information security—will thank you for it.


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Are you looking for a free alternative of Norton Ghost for your MacBook ? On a PC, Norton Ghost makes an image of the entire hard drive which you can save it else where for restoring later.
Carbon Copy Cloner is a free software for MacBook, which clones your hard drive just like Norton ghost. This freeware clones, and creates backup of your original drive by cloning one volume to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source volume. So, in short this software can be called a free Norton Ghost for Macbook.
Unlike Disk Utility, CCC creates file to file backup which can be accessed offline and also makes the Macbook backup bootable. This Macbook image could be stored in PC and again restored to different Mac as well.
Cloning Mac OS X into an external hard drive, avoids the risk of data loss in case of hard disk crash. Also you can resume your work immediately by booting off your external hard drive or USB flash drive.
Simplest method of migrating to a new Macbook without dumping your original Mac OS.
Incremental Backup option copies only files that have changed or introduced newly since last backup.
Backup hard drive to disk images.
Creates automatic backup at schedules time without logging in.


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Promotion photo of the Sun-Kraft Health Lamp in action.
UV light therapy for treatment of "head colds, discomfort caused by sinus pains, rheumatism, arthritis, and neuritis," etc.
The Sun-Kraft Wireless Cold-Quartz Ultraviolet Ray Health Lamp is a cold quartz mercury-vapour lamp, invented by Frank Furedy and originally sold through Sun-Kraft, Inc., for use in ultraviolet light therapy (which you certainly could've figured out from the name of the product). Bathing in the radiation of the Sun-Kraft UV lamp was promoted as a treatment for "head colds, discomfort caused by sinus pains, rheumatism, arthritis, and neuritis," in addition to "clearing up skin ailments, such as eczema, acne, athlete's foot, and ring worm," and promoting healthy skin and hair. As with many similar products making such lofty claims about its efficacy, the Sun-Kraft health lamp was subject to FDA misbranding charges in the late 1940s.
US 2348617, Furedy, Frank, "Ultraviolet Ray Generator", assigned to Sun-Kraft, Inc.
US 2439787, Atkins, Carl E., "Ultraviolet Ray Generator", assigned to Sun-Kraft, Inc.
US 2510017, Furedy, Frank & Carl E. Atkins, "Radio-Frequency Oscillator for Ultraviolet Ray Generators", assigned to Sun-Kraft, Inc.
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Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Nanjing, Second Military Medical University, Nanjing, China*Lin Xu and Wen-Kui Yu contributed equally to this article.
Acute traumatic coagulopathy (ATC) may trigger sympathoadrenal activation associated with endothelial damage and coagulation disturbances. Overexcitation of sympathetic nerve in this state would disrupt sympathetic–vagal balance, leading to autonomic nervous system dysfunction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the autonomic function in ATC and its influence on inflammation, endothelial and coagulation activation. Male Sprague–Dawley rats were randomly assigned to sham, ATC control (ATCC) and ATC with sympathectomy by 6-hydroxydopamine (ATCS) group. Sham animals underwent the same procedure without trauma and bleeding. Following trauma and hemorrhage, rats underwent heart rate variability (HRV) test, which predicts autonomic dysfunction through the analysis of variation in individual R-R intervals. Then, rats were euthanized at baseline, and at 0, 1 and 2 h after shock and blood gas, conventional coagulation test and markers of inflammation, coagulation, fibrinolysis, endothelial damage and catecholamine were measured. HRV showed an attenuation of total power and high frequency, along with a rise of low frequency and low frequency : high frequency ratio in the ATC rats, which both were reversed by sympathectomy in the ATCS group. Additionally, sympathetic denervation significantly suppressed the increase of proinflammatory cytokines, tumor necrosis factor-α and the fibrinolysis markers including tissue-type plasminogen activator and plasmin–antiplasmin complex. Serum catecholamine, soluble thrombomodulin and syndecan-1 were also effectively inhibited by sympathectomy. These data indicated that autonomic dysfunction in ATC involves both sympathetic activation and parasympathetic inhibition. Moreover, sympathectomy yielded anti-inflammatory, antifibrinolysis and endothelial protective effects in rats with ATC. The role of autonomic neuropathy in ATC should be explored further.

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