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Two area athletes have been honored by The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA Today High School Sports, as being the top track and field athletes in the state this spring.
Two area athletes have been honored by The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA Today High School Sports, as being the top track and field athletes in the state this spring.
On June 20, Desmond Palmer of Pickerington North was named the Gatorade Ohio Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year and Olentangy Orange's Katelyn Daniels was named Gatorade Ohio Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
Both are 2013 graduates.
Palmer, a University of Pittsburgh signee, helped to score 40 of North's 47 points in the Division I state meet June 7 and 8 at Ohio State, as the Panthers finished as the state runners-up behind Lakewood St. Edward (62) as 62 teams scored.
Palmer won state championships in the 110-meter hurdles (14.03 seconds) and 300 hurdles (36.31) and anchored the winning 800 relay (1:26.14) and the first-place 1,600 relay (3:14.73).
His state-meet time in the 300 hurdles ranked third in the nation in 2013 at the time of Gatorade's announcement.
Palmer also won district and regional titles in all four events and OCC-Ohio Division titles in both hurdle events this season.
"Desmond has great talent and ability athletically, but it's his character that I will remember long after he's gone," North boys coach David Spring said. "He's the most humble, hard-working and coachable athlete I have had in many years."
A Michigan State signee, Daniels won Division I state titles in the discus and shot put for the second consecutive year. She threw a personal-record 161 feet, 7 inches in the discus and a state-record 51-2 in the shot put.
Daniels, who also won OCC-Capital, district and regional titles in both events this season, was the lone state qualifier for Orange and earned 20 points at state for the Pioneers, who tied Reynoldsburg for fifth behind champion Solon (47) as 74 teams scored.
"Katelyn works hard every day of the year," Orange girls coach Ingrid Simpson said. "She really performs in those big meets; she loves that pressure. She's just a phenomenal athlete and a fantastic young lady."
Palmer and Daniels are finalists for Gatorade's boys and girls National Track and Field Athlete of the Year awards.
This is the 28th year in which The Gatorade Company, a division of PepsiCo, has been honoring the nation's best high school athletes.
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Anyone with ancestors who were part of the Peter Robinson settlement of Upper Canada in 1825 will want to see the Journal of the Transport Ship Elizabeth between 4 May 1825 & 21st July 1825
This journal (which adds the comment "during which time the said ship has been employed in conveying the Irish Emigrant Settlers from Cork to Quebec.") consists of 55 pages of detailed notes on each of the 21 Irish passengers Surgeon Power treated.
I have extracted the names, ages, dates of admission, whether the patient died or recovered and a few notes for some patients. Most patients have their illnesses noted in detail, along with medicines given, reaction of patient and other data. The wealth of information is incredible and there are interesting, albeit horrifying, descriptions of life on board the ship as well as some of the more ghastly medical problems passengers presented with - such as a 7 1/2 foot (Yes, I said FOOT, not inches...) long intestinal worm.
This Surgeon's Journal comes from the newly added Surgeons at Sea - Royal Navy Medical Officers' journals on National Archives UK. The series consists of journals and diaries compiled by Royal Navy surgeons and assistant surgeons who served on HM ships, hospitals, naval brigades, shore parties and on emigrant and convict ships in the period 1793 to 1880. Many of the journals were for ships sailing to Australia.
October 28, 2010
Surgeon's Journal for Ship Elizabeth Ireland to Quebec 1825
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- Your Growing Tree said...
Thank you for posting this reference.
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- M.C. Moran said...
Wow! This is a great source. Thanks for posting.
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Babies Are Right: A Little Dirt is Good for You
Article Courtesy of The New York Times
By Jane E. Brody
Ask mothers why babies are constantly picking things up from the floor or ground and putting them in their mouths, and chances are they'll say that it's instinctive — that that's how babies explore the world. But why the mouth, when sight, hearing, touch and even scent are far better at identifying things?
When my young sons were exploring the streets of Brooklyn, I couldn't help but wonder how good crushed rock or dried dog droppings could taste when delicious mashed potatoes were routinely rejected.
Since all instinctive behaviors have an evolutionary advantage or they would not have been retained for millions of years, chances are that this one too has helped us survive as a species. And, indeed, accumulating evidence strongly suggests that eating dirt is good for you.
In studies of what is called the hygiene hypothesis, researchers are concluding that organisms like the millions of bacteria, viruses and especially worms that enter the body along with "dirt" spur the development of a healthy immune system. Several continuing studies suggest that worms may help to redirect an immune system that has gone awry and resulted in autoimmune disorders, allergies and asthma.


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Official word from Toyguru:
January 18th is going to be a mofo on the ol' wallet...Well there is no way around it. Roboto did get assembled with his shoulders swapped.
What can I say. These things happen. I could mention the hundreds of things we do catch and correct before going to production, or all the time we spent making small tweaks based on fan comments such as Skeletor's purple feet or trying to see if both Roboto's arms could be detached (which we didn't have time for but we really tried on!), but none of that changes that in the end a mistake was made.
Luckily in the long run this is not (I hope!) Earth crushing to most. By definition the only change is the pattern of tech on the shoulder. The toy itself functions 100% correctly and is not defective. (that and combined with the fact that the whole production is done means we can't exchange your Roboto for a corrected version, at this time there are no "corrected" versions.)
It doesn't mean we won't try to find a way down the road to correct this. It took almost 4 years but we finally got Sinestro's height corrected in the DCUC line (check out the 2 pack coming to TRU next month with a ton of yellow and green constructs!).
I'd personally like to find a way to fix this but it will take time. We don't have a reissue planned right now but it doesn't mean it is out of the question. I'm sorry for those whom were counting on the tech detail pattern on the shoulder going the other direction. I'll take the fall on this one and just let you know we continue to be vigilant on getting the best collector product out there. Sometimes we hit a problem. But the important thing is we will try to correct this one day. It just won't be in the immediate future.
Oh, and while I have everyone on the line, a few updates:
Jan 18th:
Bow (2011 sub figure)
Shadow Beast (2011 sub quarterly beast/multipack)
Palace Guards (2010 item delated slightly)
Castle Grayskull stands (reissue)
Evil Lyn reissue
Feb 15:
Vikor (2011 sub figure)
Other reissues to be announced
(and ideally Preternia He-Man will ship with the map)
March 15:
King Hssss (sub figure)
Battle Armor Skeletor (sub quarterly variant)
Other reissues to be announced
April 15:
New Male Masters of the Universe member (to be announced soon)
Panthor (quarterly subscription beast)
Weapons Rak ($15.00) (not part of subscription)
Alright, have a great weekend and I'll catch you all after El Segundo Toy Fair.


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In this clip, Jay Leno is loathsome, but Wanda Sykes is awesome: Last night she talked about meeting the First Lady, and noted that when the press asks "When will we see the real Michelle Obama?" what they want to see is for the First Lady to get all necksnappy.
Of course, Sykes didn't use that word; she used her her body to illustrate the physical joke, because she's hilarious. And then Jay Leno went and whined about the burden of the white man and my brain exploded. Clip at left.


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Task Force on the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention
Cette page n'est pas intégralement disponible en français, vous pouvez la consulter en anglais.
The Task Force on the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention was established by the 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee in Marrakesh, Morocco, 29 November - 4 December 1999.
The Committee determined that the Task force, chaired by Canada, would include Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Morocco, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, and the advisory bodies (ICOMOS, ICCROM and IUCN) and a representative of the World Heritage Centre. Australia agreed to act as rapporteur.
Terms of reference of the Task Force:
To identify and propose for consideration of the Bureau in June 2000 priority practical measures for more effective operation of the Convention, taking account of pressures affecting the Convention over the next coming years.
Relevant decisions and documents of the task force will be listed below as they are developed.
Reports and Papers
* Final Report of the Task Force, submitted 12 May 2000
Rapport du Groupe d'étude sur la mise en œuvre de la Convention du patrimoine mondial
* Report on the Meeting of the Task Force at UNESCO Headquarters, 17 April 2000
* Comments of ICCROM
* Comments of the Belgian Delegation
* Recommended Changes to the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention
Draft Discussion Paper, submitted 31/03/2000
* Comments of ICCROM
* Comments of the Belgian Delegation
* Draft Report 22 February 2000
* Comments from IUCN to the Task Force
* Draft Report of Rapporteur
* Report of the Meeting of the Advisory Bodies and the World Heritage Centre, 21 February 2000


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A good social media policy is like good art. It's often hard to explain, but you know it when you see it, which makes it pretty frustrating for companies trying to create policies for their employees. Many of the experts we've interviewed have told us the purpose of social media policies is to get folks to use good common sense. So, um, don't put proprietary information in your Facebook status updates. Don't get too snarky with your tweets.
The key to a good social-media policy is finding the right balance for your company. That'll likely depend a lot on your specific corporate culture and your industry. It's safe to say a lot of companies won't be comfortable with Zappos' seven-word policy: Be real and use your best judgment. But many will find social-media guidelines like those issued by Dow Jones to be too restrictive.
Perhaps the most important thing to remember about a social-media policy is to communicate it clearly and ask employees to sign off on it. And of course, all social-media policies should be consistently enforced.
In this slideshow, you'll find a list of points that you should at least consider while crafting your company's social media policy – even if you decide some of them do not need to be directly addressed in the final document.
For more guidance and to save lots of time, check out these helpful social media policy tools available as free downloads from the IT Business Edge Knowledge Network.
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Tap into the communication power provided by social networking and Web 2.0 technologies.
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Results from a social media planning survey conducted by Digital Brand Expressions (DBE).
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(HONG KONG) Dragonair today announced the appointment of Ms Grace Lee as its new Head of Corporate Communication. Ms Lee, who took up the post on January 4, is responsible for the operation and strategic direction of the airline's network-wide corporate communication, including all public and media relations, public affairs and corporate social responsibility programmes.
Prior to taking up her new position, Ms Lee was Marketing Director for the Hong Kong Design Centre, responsible for raising the importance and awareness of design among businesses and the general public through diversified communication channels, and the marketing of Hong Kong's design expertise worldwide.
Ms Lee has extensive experience in the areas of marketing and communications, including media and stakeholder relations, corporate communications, publications, event management, sponsorship and fundraising, and business matching. She has worked in both the business and public sectors for organisations involved in tourism, banking, sports, education and the design industry.
Ms Lee graduated from the Hong Kong Baptist University and later gained a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom.


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North America is a continent in the Earth's Western hemisphere. The continent is made up of Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico.
Canada is home to three of the most accomplished Quidditch teams in the modern day: the Haileybury Hammers, the Moose Jaw Meteorites, and the Stonewall Stormers.
The Fitchburg Finches have won the U.S. Quidditch cup seven times.
Salem, Massachusetts is famous for its seventeenth-century hysteria over witchcraft and it's witch trials, though sections of it broke off to form new towns and cities like Peabody and Danvers (formerly Salem Village) and it is now a typical suburb of Boston. There is still a witches institute in Salem though.
The Sweetwater All-Stars are a U.S. Quidditch team that gained international notoriety when they defeated the Quiberon Quafflepunchers after a five day match.
North America is Native to an abundance of creatures, such as the Dugbog, Gnomes, Jarveys, Jobberknolls, Knarls, Nogtails, and Re'ems, most of their populations in Canada. The Doxy and Clabbert are native to the U.S. though.
A large number of North Americans visited England in 1994 for the Quidditch World Cup.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - The University of California is considering proposals to raise student tuition by 8 percent, expand financial aid and reduce pension benefits for future employees.
UC President Mark Yudof offered the proposals in an open letter to California and discussed them on Monday.
He said tuition hike and pension changes are needed to help close a $1 billion budget shortfall.
The UC Board of Regents is scheduled to vote on the measures next week.
If approved, annual tuition for California residents would increase by $822 to $11,124. About one third of the money would be set aside for student aid.
Yudof wants to expand UC's financial aid program so that students from families earning less than $80,000 would not have to pay any tuition.


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Goddamnit kitkat, you make me look late
Funny thing about those shields: They were there for 10 centuries or more. That's the reason why their cities are shaped like satellite dishes (besides keeping foliage out).
Considering that was totally out of character and really made no sense, I had to come up with something, hence the pathogen thing.
As for logistics, the whole of the space fleet of the Photos comprises about a million vessels, spread out into task forces of 25 ships.
"Agh, let the sweeper units find that little rachet in the works. For now we have an invasion to cripple." Ryo'lis said, peering out at the mass collection of ships that had collected at his command; he had given order for every Photos ship in the galaxy to gather at this location, and the armada numbered in the millions.
1 Transport (Hothgar, only been seen as a Waratica mech' transport, but it's really a big hauler retrofitted for Waratica use)
Now that it's for the most part cleared up, I'll hopefully have those up soon.
Fear factor and what not may apply,
but you've still got to factor that it's a fire magnet for everything within a few nautical miles, including those nice, big, heavily armed naval vessels floating in orbit.
Are there planetary shields? Because I think that would really help out justifying ground troops. Actually, I think we already established them when Alkara blew up; they're the reason Khuris wasn't entirely incinerated.
I have a lot of things about the Bino that I never got the opportunity to tell.
So was there a precursor species that put up the shields, or are the Bino technologically slow in development like Harry Turtledove's Race?
The Nameless Invasion wasn't real all along, remember?
Anyway, what's this Infection thing again?
Building space cities is safer?
You make it sound like one has to cover their couch, chandelier and bookcase in tinfoil when all you need to do is cover the roof with it.
With Dyson Ring satellites to collect solar power, the energy should be no problem. Put up a big spherical electromagnetic field, and you're set.
I should note that gravity is definitely a worse choice than electromagnetism when it comes to shields and such. After all, gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces. You should probably only use it when the enemy uses gravity-based weaponry, which is rare outside tractor beams. Just sayin'.
Orealyianis and Atomna I can understand, but you don't touch the GPA, man. It's not yours anymore; it belongs to everyone, and like I said was crucial to the last few years of galactic development.
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What is this, Donkey Kong Country in Space?
Oh come now, Lurk.The internet is a magical place, where linguistic and dialectic possibilities are endless. Why not embrace those variations and see where they lead you.
Drake's Theory is bull****. That said, I like UFO's idea. 'The Classical Expanse' actually sounds like some awesome ****. In an area of 1000 LY with a hundred different species sounds a lot more fun than a whole galaxy with the same amount.
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Korn Offer Preview of 'The Path of Totality'
Korn have been rocking ear drums for quite some time and they'll continue to do so with their upcoming release 'The Path of Totality.' Lucky for old school and new school Korn fans, the band has released a preview of the highly anticipated record on YouTube.
The seven minute clip offers roughly about 30-45 seconds of each track. The band has already released three full songs from the record, including their two singles 'Get Up,' 'Narcisstic Cannibal' and the latest tune 'Sanctuary.'
'The Path of Totality' is Korn's 10th studio album and their first dubstep infused disc. It features contributions from Skrillex, Kill the Noise, Downlink, Excision and many others. Korn have been busy this year after co-headlining this year's 'Music As a Weapon' tour, as well as headlining 'The Path of Totality' tour.


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Appistry has announced expanded support for developers and architects building applications for cloud computing environments using the Microsoft .NET Framework. Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF) 3.9, which is availabe for immediate free download, lets developers deploy new or existing Microsoft .NET components to the cloud without code changes. In doing so, developers can more easily bring highly scalable cloud-uenabled solutions to market.
New capabilities in Appistry EAF 3.9 include:
- Expanded support for Microsoft .NET, including the ability to support Plain Old .NET Objects (PONOs) without modification
- Transparent .NET remoting which allows developers to remotely call methods on load-balanced objects deployed to the cloud
- Improved support for sharing .NET assemblies across multiple .NET-based fabric applications
- New asynchronous API calls for .NET Client
- Improved .NET Application Configuration
- An improved and simpler Appistry EAF Windows installer
"Appistry EAF is simply the strongest cloud platform for .NET. With the release of 3.9, we're further simplifying the deployment of .NET applications to cloud environments," said Appistry's Sam Charrington. "Beyond simply saving money, enterprises are looking to the cloud to help them scale their applications for larger and more demanding audiences. To do that, they must ride on the shoulders of their developers and architects. We provide the muscle to help them shoulder that responsibility."


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Professor Sari studied Experimental Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology at Istanbul University (1968-l973) and completed her Medical Sciences Diploma in 1977.
Assistant researcher at the Department of Medical History and Ethics, Cerrahpasha Medical School (1973-1983); Ph.D Thesis on Ottoman Medical Ethics (1977); Thesis for Associate Professorship: Melancholia and its Treatment by Ottoman Physicians (1983); Assistant Associate Professor (1983). Head of the Department of Medical History and Ethics of Cerrahpaşa Medical School since l983; Professor (l988). General Secretary of the Turkish Medical History Society (l984-l990); President of the Turkish Medical History Society (2000-2005); Vice President of the International Society for History of Medicine (ISHM, l999-2003); Representative of Turkey for ISHM (l999-2003); Vice President of the International Society for History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM) since 2000.
Professor Sari has published about 350 Publications and Presentations on medical history and ethics; Founder of the Medical History Museum of the Cerrahpasha Medical School, (l985) and re-founder in 2004; Editor, "History of Medicine Studies" Yearbook since l986; Paper, "Sabuncuoghlu Serefeddin, an Outstanding Personality in Turkish History of Pediatric Surgery" awarded a medal of history of pediatric surgery (l988); Holder of United States and International Patent on "methods for treating neo-plastic disorders (l997); Successful Researcher Certificate, Istanbul University Research Fund (l996); President of several Congresses on Medical History, e.g., 38th International Congress of ISHM.
Outside medicine professor Sari has a particular interest in Turkish-Islamic miniature painting and illuminated art.


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Staff :
Director: Hiroshi Nagahama
Music: Toshio Masuda
Original Manga: Yuki Urushibara
Character Design: Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Art director: Takeshi Waki
Chief Animation Director: Yoshihiko Umakoshi
OP : "The Sore Feet Song" by Ally Kerr
Animation Production: Artland
Production: Mushishi Production Committee
Cast :
Yuto Nakano : Ginko
DVD edition :
DVD limited edition :
Official site : http://www.mushishi.jp/
Avex site : http://avexmode.jp/animation/mushishi/
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Information on ANN
I watched episode 8 and it was great. What I really love about this series and what I think makes it stand out above the rest is that since theres no real continuious story arc like other anime they have to build a story from sctach every episode and hope it pulls the viewer in.
And they always pull it off, every episode about 2-3 minutes in my thoughts are drifting I'm not too heavily into it because they are introducing the characters, setting, and plot of that episode. But after 7-10 minutes I'm tottaly engulfed into the world of the Mushihi's and the tragic story of the human intertwined with them.
I really don't know of any other animes that can pull off such brillant 20 minutes short stories time and time again.
The story telling style is mind boggling. It's so simple a formula that you are tempted to dismiss it off hand. I almost didn't start this series when it first was released, but I had a slow week so I gave it a chance and am constantly kicking myself for almost letting it pass. Episode eight contianed one of the best stories to date. The subtlty of the story, no playing for simple melodrama, allowed me to really humanize the characters.
When is Mushishi?
I wonder when Mushishi takes place? The only character I've noticed so far wearing Western clothes is Ginko, and his backpack isn't exactly modern. I'm guessing late 1800s or early 1900s? Thanks if anyone knows!
I'm not exactly sure... judging from a lot of things in the episodes... I'd say that it is definitely not modern... and it seems the main mode of travel is probably by boat, and in episode 8 the boats we saw weren't very advanced... Also the style of the houses seems to be old, and they all have that thatched roofing type of thing going on... So I'd say its set around the 1800's... but that's just my guess.
I think it is right before the Meiji revolution in the 1850s when Japan just opened up to the west(hence why you see a trace of the west in Ginko's clothing). By the 1900s they were heavily industrialized. RK which took place in late 1800s was pretty industrial so I think it was before or during Bakumatsu.
I must say, I'm with the general consensus regarding this series. Originally (after the first episode) I had found it pretty boring and was going to leave it. Then someone over at 4chan likened the series to a story that an old story teller would tell a younger person, with each story having an underlying meaning. With this mindset I went back and loved it. Odd how one's mindset can bring about such a change ;)
Just one question...
Spoiler for Regarding episode 8...:
Wow this series is great guys! C1 is releasing top notch subs. I just love travelling anime like this. Despite the dangerous nature of mushi, I still find this series very light-hearted. Ginko rules!
Started watching a later then most other shows, lost a fair bit of interest in some of the newer shows been watching last season, though I've only watch the first two Episodes of Mushishi It stands out from the rest, Mushishi is story telling at its best A true jem so far. Well I'm a little worried if I will like all other single story Episodes, but after hearing good feedback in this thread, I'm looking forward to it.
Alot of shows I watch only for a few reason, but Mushishi has alot going for it. :) ~ one thing is the animation, its really pleasant to watch, nice backgroud detail & the use of colour Green is done Extremely well.
Some people asked about the time period. Urushibara Yuki addressed this in the notes to the first volume of the manga. She said that it takes place in an imaginary time period between Edo and Meiji; when Japan was still a closed country.
The one exception is episode 2 (chapter 4 of the manga) -- Ginko's use of a syringe, and the references to eye doctors and other modern medical terminology suggest a different time period. Urushibara said that at first, the chapters were coming out quarterly, so she didn't put much stock in continuity. This chapter takes place in present day (supposedly).
In the same place, Urushibara said that Ginko's modern clothes are meant to be a visual representation of how he never seems to fit in with the places he visits.
So then does this mean that Ginko is an immortal? :D
Watched the first episode and it BLEW ME AWAY. Oh god, this is quality storytelling, the music and concept is great, although reading this thread made me aware that this was really an episodic sort of anime. Regardless, I hope the quality is sustained in successive episodes; I'm going to watch as much as I can tonight.
It's also suprising despite it being in episode 8 or so, there are only 11 posts in this thread. Seems like it doesn't have much of a fanbase. That's mind blowing, as well.
I've watched all currently released episodes, and Mushishi is nothing less than OUTSTANDING.
Probably one of the best series I've ever watched, and it's very consistent too. I thought with all the great initial stories, it'd have to flap later, but so far all eight have been great tales. I'm also one that prefers a developing storyline, but the case-by-case episode structure here works really well. No complaints.
I need more. :D
I'd say a helluva lot more on it if I wasn't quietened by the hacking. Somehow I can't bring up the spirit to post a lot (and like mentioned, this isn't the kind of show that can generate rabid fanboyism, it calls for quiet reflection.).
But I can tell you I really am loving this show right now; as a reader of the manga (I actually got all the 6 volumes that are out right now, and I don't even have any other manga) I am extremely happy with the treatment it's getting.
So I shall write what I think about it so far. (Now I can conjure up some spirit...)
The animation, while not "ZOMG FANTASTIC", is actually quite smartly handled, by having restrained movement (but not so much that it is very unnatrual) and making it careful and smooth. In some eps it's actually quite good (episode 8's snakes and water). Anyway, this way they can save money but not make it look really bad. It fits the series, too. Slow, careful movement...
There's some nice background work and great colour coordination, also. There's usually some kind of predominant colour scheme that is evident in the animation colours and the background. It's nice, because for once there is no disparity between the colours and you get a complete kind of picture. The colour also suits the story/mood...
But what I'm most happy with is the music. The music adds a great deal of flavour and character to the show and it has worked brilliantly so far, I feel. It's simple and yet effective. I like how there is a 'theme music' for each episode, too.
I also think the undramatic voice acting is working extremely well; it is quite convincing and realistic. One of the most remarkable jobs, IMO, was in episode 6 by Yuka Imai as Nagi in episode 6 (island episode). I think Yuka Imai's one of the best seiyuus out there anyway; her Jinto Lin in the BotS series is just awesome and is one of the voices that can convincingly bring me to tears (BotS II...). Ginko's seiyuu Yuuto Nakano is also a perfect fit for Ginko's character, IMO, and he sounds very different from the usual easygoing guy in anime. He can convincingly sound serious and yet have an air of affability around him. I don't know how he does it...
Episode 10 is going to be nice too, I hope they do the steam/fog effects nicely. But I'm just really hoping they do the episode with the shadow that eats memories.
EDIT: But I REALLY want to watch episode 13... Hitoyobashi!! I loved the art in that chapter, I hope they do it rightly... The first thing I thought when I finished it was "If done properly, this could possibly be near Ghibli-level".
Ep 12 is also one to watch out for, alright... it's about the 銀蠱.
Didn't realize Nagi was voiced by Yuka Imai, one of my favourite seiyuus ^^' - thanks wao.
Am slowly savouring this series, and have only watched till ep 6. And I have to say out of the 6 I was most disturbed and unsettled by this one. The story, the presentation, and yes the seiyuu - the whole mood was incredible. I don't know if it's only my imagination but there were certain moments, Nagi's determined tone, just the look on Akoya's face - so understated and yet so powerful.
Love this show, one of my favourites of the season.
i like everything, its really a nice anime to relax with and enjoy.
Wao: as you seem to know what episodes 10, 11, 12, and 13 will be... can you tell me which manga chapters they correspond with? I'm curious as to whether the rest of volume 2 will be animated or whether the series will just leave the "missed" chapters alone...
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Geri Schuler, 76, rural North Manchester, died at 8:47 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 29 at Wabash County Hospital. She was born Jan. 28, 1937 in Wabash County to Clyde Pries and Lavaughn (Overly) Pries Clupper.
Geri was a 1955 graduate of Wabash High School. She married John P. Schuler on June 12, 1955 at the South Side E.U.B. Church in Wabash. She was a retired trust officer at Wells Fargo Bank where she worked for 32 years. She also drove an MSD school bus for 10 years while raising her family. She was active in the family farm, loved to garden, enjoyed being outdoors and was an avid IU fan. She most enjoyed spending time with her children and grandchildren and attending their many activities. She attended Wabash First United Methodist Church where she was a member of the Margaret Wilson Circle. Geri was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She was the last of her breed and she leaves a legacy as large as her heart. All that knew her will miss her. We are so fortunate to have had her in our lives. She believed in God and we know she is with him today. Don't mourn her; she would not want that. Celebrate her life and keep a memory of her in your heart of this distinguished lady we all loved.
She is survived by her husband, John P. Schuler, North Manchester; four children, Debbie (Dan) Schuler Kistler, Peru, Deanna Schuler, North Manchester, Mike (Andrea) Schuler, Roann, and Scott (Kelly) Schuler, North Manchester; 10 grandchildren, Natalie, Eli, Jake, John, Ellie, Hallie, Attie, Will, Annie, and Lily Schuler; a brother, Don (Marty) Pries of Kokomo, step-sister Barb (J.R.) Ansel, Wabash. She was preceded in death by her parents, stepfather, Cecil Clupper, stepsister Betty Clupper, and granddaughter Amelia Schuler.
Funeral services were held 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 3 at First United Methodist Church, 110 N. Cass St., Wabash, with Pastors Kurt Freeman and John Cook officiating. Burial was in Roann Community Cemetery.
Preferred memorials are to Margaret Wilson Circle at Wabash First United Methodist Church or Roann Community Cemetery.
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PIERRE - The Stanley County School District has hired a Wyoming school principal to be its new superintendent.
Dan Martin currently serves as the high school principal in the Fremont County School District in Shoshoni, Wyo.
School board and community members interviewed three finalists for the post on Wednesday, and the board announced its decision on Thursday.
The district says that Martin, who has South Dakota roots, will begin his superintendent duties on July 1.
Stanley County School District superintendent Don Hotalling announced his intent to retire at the end of this school year.
Martin previously lived and worked in central South Dakota. He tells KCCR radio that becoming a superintendent has been a goal of his and he looks forward to returning to South Dakota.
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Dateline: Thailand—Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is furious over news that one of his Cabinet ministers has had penis enlargement surgery. The allegations came from a woman who is being sued by a plastic surgery clinic for defamation after she claimed it gave her a face-disfiguring silicon injection. The woman, named Rawiwan Sitharat, claims that a prominent member of Shinawatra's Cabinet had received a penis enlargement injection at the same clinic and urged him to come forward as a witness for her defense. Sitharat held a press conference on the steps of Government House last Tuesday and said to the unnamed politician, "The problem with my face is bigger than the problem with your penis." According to The Nation newspaper, Shinawatra demanded to know who had the manhood-enhancing procedure at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting. "This has affected the reputation of the Cabinet, because the news went around the world. I don't want the people to think the Cabinet members are obsessed with this kind of thing," the newspaper quoted Shinawatra as telling his ministers. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Agriculture Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said no one had owned up to the enlargement.
Dateline: England—Score one victory for psychotic, grave-robbing animal lovers. Chris Hall, owner of the Darley Oaks Farm in Staffordshire, has announced he will shut down his farm by the end of the year. Now can he please have his dead mother-in-law back? Hall, who owns the farm with his brothers David and John, has been subjected to a six-year campaign of intimidation by animal rights activists who are upset by the fact that Darley Oaks breeds guinea pigs for use as, well, guinea pigs in medical research. Last October, animal-loving extremists dug up the remains of Hall's 82-year-old mother-in-law, Gladys Hammond, from St. Peter's churchyard in nearby Yoxall. Since then, the Halls--who have been in business for more than 30 years--have been receiving letters from a group calling itself the Animal Rights Militia, which say Hammond's dead body will be returned once the farm closes its doors. A spokesperson for Staffordshire police said the investigation into the theft of Mrs. Hammond's remains would continue. He said the episode did "nothing to forward the cause of animal rights."
Dateline: Turkmenistan—Don't expect to see Ashlee Simpson touring the former Soviet republic any time soon. Saparmurat Niyazov, the controversial and authoritarian president of Turkmenistan, has now banned lip-synching throughout his central Asian nation. Citing a "negative effect on the development of singing and musical art," the president's office outlawed the practice last Tuesday. Under Niyazov's order, lip-synching is now prohibited at all cultural events, concerts and on television--as well as all private celebrations, including weddings. In 2001, Niyazov banned opera and ballet as "not corresponding to the national mentality." Last year, he urged all young people not to get gold teeth and ordered authorities to crack down on young men growing beards and long hair.
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Dateline: Minnesota—Police in Goodview say 86-year-old Pauline Lillian Meyerhoff went for a Sunday drive last week--right into the town's annual parade. Meyerhoff allegedly approached from a side street in her red Cadillac, then turned onto Sixth Street, the town's main drag. There, she ran head-on into the Goodview Days parade. Instead of stopping, police say Meyerhoff sped up to nearly 50 mph, and headed down Sixth Street, scattering children, adults and the girls' gymnastics team. In all the confusion, police weren't able to stop the vehicle. But, since Goodview only has 3,300 people, it wasn't too hard to track down the Cadillac's owner. Police officer Robert Koch got to Meyerhoff's house not long after she did and gave her a ticket for reckless driving. Apparently, Meyerhoff wasn't exactly sorry for her behavior and took the opportunity to berate the officer for not clearing people off a street she wanted to drive on. The town of Goodview has asked the state to re-evaluate Meyerhoff's eligibility to drive.


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One of the benefits of the advanced printing capabilities built into Oracle Application Express is that users are able to include application and page level item values in their print documents along with the actual report result-set. These values can be used to filter the report result set when used as bind variables in the where-clause. And they can also be used as additional dynamic data shown along with the report result-set, e.g. dynamic page headers and footers or showing the master record of a master detail form.
A common challenge users face when integrating page level items is that values need to be written to session state first before they can be referenced in the print document. If your print button or link is located on a different page than your page items, this won't be a problem because when navigating to the print page, your item values get written to session state. But in some scenarios, you have both the page items and your print button or link on the same page, an example would be a search form and report page, where you use your search form to limit your search results, another example would be a form & report page (e.g. master-detail), where you want to fill in some values into the form, and then print the document without navigating to another page.
An easy way around the session state issue is actually writing session state without leaving the page. This can be done by performing a submit action, but then, rather than redirecting to another page (or reloading the current page), you would directly initiate the PDF download. When working with report queries, this can be achieved very easily. Rather then specifying the print URL as the redirect target of a button, you would make the button a submit button, and then define a branch to the pseudo page 0 and use a special request string, referencing your report query.
The syntax for the request string is:
PRINT_REPORT=[your report query name]
So if your report query were called "employees", then your request string would be:
Similar to report queries, this technique can also be used when working with report regions. This is particularly helpful when working with search or filter regions and you want the filter to be applied to both your result-set on your web page as well as the print document. In this case, you would print-enable your report query (on the print attributes page) but not specify a print link. Instead you would create a submit button similar to the sample above and create a branch that is executed when this button gets pressed. In this scenario, the target page of your branch would be the current page, and just like shown above, you would define a special request string:
FLOW_XMLP_OUTPUT_R[Report Region ID]
This request causes the page not to reload but initiate the PDF download instead. To specify this request, you need to lookup the region ID of your report regions. So if for example your report region ID is 90104803966374878, then the request would be:
In summary, there are cases where item values are not available in session state when you need them for printing your documents. And in order to make sure you write them to session state on time, always perform a submit action before initiating the download of your PDF document.


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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was the most famous female classicist of her day, and perhaps of any day. Mary Beard, a Cambridge don and author of the best Harrison biography now available, has even called her the first female "career academic." She was also Hope Mirrlees' tutor at Newnham College and later Mirrlees' mentor, living partner, collaborator, and very close friend for many years. She deserves a proper introduction, but I don't have the time to assemble one quite yet, so please forgive me for referring you to her Wikipedia page for details.
The influence of Harrison's ideas on Mirrlees' work is immediately visible once you start looking at Harrison's extensive and groundbreaking work on ritual, myth, religion, and art—sometimes startlingly so, as in Lud-in-the-Mist—and I think anyone seriously interested in Mirrlees, and in Lud, should try to dunk themselves pretty thoroughly in Harrison. Not because it's important to validate Mirrlees' work by affixing it to the respectable texts of a more famous writer, nor because it's useful (or true) to imply that Mirrlees 'lifted' her ideas from someone else, but because it opens up passages to the subterranean chambers of ritual and folklore that give Lud so much of its resonance. To those more interested in Mirrlees' other works, a reading of Lud alongside Harrison's work also reveals the womens' interplay of ideas and casts more light on the extraordinary relationship the two women maintained until Harrison's death.
There will doubtless be quite a few Harrison posts up here over the next few months, but for now, I just want to post an excerpt from Harrison's 1925 incredibly charming autobiography, Reminiscences of a Student's Life. This section falls toward the end of the book, which is short enough to read in a single happy afternoon, and resonates quite clearly with the inner life of Lud-in-the-Mist.
I have elsewhere tried to show that Art is not the handmaid of Religion, but that Art in some sense springs out of Religion, and that between them is a connecting link, a bridge, and that bridge is Ritual. On that bridge, emotionally, I halt. It satisfies something within me that is appeased by neither Religion nor Art. A ritual dance, a ritual procession with vestments and lights and banners, move me as no sermon, no hymn, no picture, no poem has ever moved me; perhaps it is because a procession seems to me like life, like durée itself, caught and fixed before me. Only twice have I seen a ritual dance, and first the dance of the Seises before the high altar in the Cathedral at Seville. It was at Carnival time I saw it. I felt instantly that it was frankly Pagan. Its origin is, as the Roman Church frankly owns, "perdue dans la nuit des temps"—we can but conjecture that it took its rise in the dances of the Kouretes of Crete to Mother and Son. The dance was accompanied by a prayer to the setting sun, a prayer for fight and healing. The movements executed by six choristers are attenuated to a single formal step. It is decorous, even prim, like some stiff stylized shadow. But it is strangely moving in the fading fight with the wondrous setting of the high altar and the golden grille, and above all the sound of the harsh, plangent Spanish voices. Great Pan, indeed, is dead—his ghost still dances.
Only last year I saw a wondrous ritual procession, a marked contrast to the Seville dance. It is held at Echternach each year, on the Tuesday after Pentecost. It is, I think, the most living survival of the ritual dance to be seen in Europe. Thanks to the kindness of a Luxembourgoise lady, Madame Emil Mayerisch de Saint Hubert, I was able to observe it in every detail. The dancing procession is held now in honour of our Saxon saint, St.Willibrord, but obviously it goes back to magical days. The dancers muster at the bridge below the little town and, gathering numbers as they go, dance through the streets, halting here and there and ending in the Basilica. As the dance is magical, it is essential that the whole town should be traversed. The clergy are in attendance, any one and every one dances or rather leaps, for it is a jumping step; like the Cretan Kouretes they "leap for health and wealth." I saw an old, old woman, scarcely able to walk, but she "lifted her foot in the dance." I saw a woman with a sick baby in her arms, and she danced for healing; but most of all it was the young men, the Kouretes, who danced.
The ritual dance is all but dead, but the ritual drama, the death and the resurrection of the Year-Spirit, still goes on. I realised this when I first heard Mass celebrated according to the Russian, that is substantially the Greek rite. There you have the real enacting of a mystery—the mystery of the death and resurrection of the Year-Spirit which preceded drama. It is hidden, out of sight; the priest comes out from behind the golden gate to announce the accomplishment. It is the coming out of the Messenger in a Greek play to announce the Death and the Resurrection. The Roman Church has sadly marred its mystery. The rite of consecration is performed in public before the altar and loses thereby half its significance.
I mention these ritual dances, this ritual drama, this bridge between art and life, because it is things like these that I was all my life blindly seeking. A thing has little charm for me unless it has on it the patina of age. Great things in literature, Greek plays for example, I most enjoy when behind their bright splendours I see moving darker and older shapes. That must be my apologia pro vita mea.


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So, I figured since there are probably a lot of people trying to stick to New Year�s resolutions, I would continue with the healthy food theme.
So, I figured since there are probably a lot of people trying to stick to New Year�s resolutions, I would continue with the healthy food theme.
I found this recipe in another book from the library, �Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook: Family Classics Collection." The Comfort Food Diet has apparently really taken off since it was introduced a few years ago � an Amazon search yields many cookbook editions to go along with it. The front of the book includes information about how to follow the diet and sample meal plans, and the rest of the book contains recipes organized by meal and calorie count. The book seems very easy to use and contains recipes that are very accessible and family-friendly.
In flipping through the cookbook, I found a lot of recipes I wanted to try, from breakfasts to dinners and desserts. For this column, I settled on Grilled Italian Meatball Burgers, which sounded like something my family would enjoy. Well, they were a hit with 3/4 of us � that�s a good percentage, I think, when you have kids to feed.
One of my sons loved them so much he had them two nights in a row, but the other one didn�t really like them at all � I think because of the Italian herbs and garlic. I think anyone who really enjoys Italian food, especially meatballs, and likes burgers, too, will really love these. My husband really liked the marinara sauce on top, but says �just don�t overdo it.�
I didn�t think they tasted like �diet food� at all. The hubby, who doesn�t like turkey or chicken burgers, didn�t even notice that they were made of half turkey meat and half beef! That�s saying something
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup seasoned bread crumbs
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. dried basil
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. dried thyme
1 pound lean ground beef (90-93 percent lean)
1 pound Italian-seasoned ground turkey, or Italian-seasoned turkey sausage links, casings removed
3/4 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
8 kaiser rolls, split, or hamburger buns
1 cup spaghetti sauce or marinara sauce, warmed
In a large bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Crumble beef and turkey or sausage over mixture and mix well. Shape into eight burgers.
Using long-handled tongs, dip a paper towel in cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack, or if using an indoor grill, coat with nonstick cooking spray. Grill burgers, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 inches from the heat for 5-7 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer reads 165 degrees and juices run clear.
Sprinkle burgers with cheese; cover, grill or broil 2-3 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Remove and keep warm.
Serve burgers on rolls, topped with spaghetti sauce/marinara.
ABOUT THIS RECIPE: Adapted from �Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook: Family Classics Collection"
Michelle Reynolds writes for the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg. Her at-home food critics are her husband and twin sons, who mostly enjoy her experiments. One of them is a picky eater and another has a refined palate for a 9-year-old, so she understands the challenges many cooks face when making meals for family members with different tastes.


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Better Nuclear Bombs for a Safer World
Is the U.S. getting ready to wage the Cold War again? If one believes the critics, thats the aim behind a planned $10 billion modernization of the B61 nuclear bomb, the backbone of the Pentagons tactical nuclear arsenal.
Actually, there are some other reasons for the upgrade: to reinforce global deterrence, to provide options against a range of future threats, and to make the U.S. stronger and safer. Achieving those goals is worth the money.
As wonderful as the idea of a world without nuclear weapons is, it isnt going to be a reality any time soon. For now, the appropriate U.S. approach is to have the smallest arsenal possible, made up of weapons that will deter a weak rogue state -- think North Korea or Iran -- from developing a nuclear capability. Achieving this goal means working with Russia to get rid of as many intercontinental ballistic missiles as possible, while maintaining a small, but effective, core of tactical weapons that, with their limited fallout, could be used with great precision in combat.
The B61s utility in this regard comes from its so-called dial-a-yield technology, meaning its explosive power can be set at a range of less than a kiloton to several hundred kilotons. (The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotons.) No other nuclear device comes close in terms of flexibility of reach, power and exactitude.
While actual data are classified, it is believed that the military has about 1,000 active B61s, many held at bases in Europe, of which 400 or so will be refurbished. The 11.5-foot, 700-pound armament can be carried by bombers, such as the B-1 and B-52, and fighters, such as the F-15, the F/A-18 Hornet, some NATO aircraft and (most likely) Lockheed Martin Corp. (LM)s next-generation F-35.
What needs improving? One weapons manager told the Washington Post that the entire arsenal was built with less computational power than that of an iPhone. Engineers have resorted to scouring EBay to replace circuits and vacuum tubes to keep the bombs operational. The first stage of proposed modernization will be to give the bomb a new tail kit similar to that of up-to-date precision-guided missiles, for which Boeing Co. (BA) received a $178 million contract in November. The entire upgrade -- in which the four current variations of the B61 will be morphed into a single, maximally flexible bomb -- will take three years.
Opponents of the program, mostly well-meaning but misguided arms-control advocates, have taken two lines of attack. One is to point out that most B61s are deployed in Europe -- even though the Soviet threat disappeared long ago. Two responses: First, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies involvement in their own nuclear defense binds together a vital organization in an era of increasingly fragile ties. Second, geography isnt very relevant as the weapons can be moved around the globe quickly: A B61 in the bomb bay of a B-2 based in Missouri can quickly be a threat, and thus a deterrent, to North Korea and China.
Another criticism is that the program is a disingenuous workaround. Some say its not really a retrofit, but the creation of an entirely new weapon, and therefore a cheat on official U.S. policy, which states that life-extension programs will not support new military missions or provide for new military capabilities. Semantics can work both ways, we think: Yes, most of the components are newly designed and will help give the bomb new capabilities, but it is hardly an entirely new weapon.
And, while the price tag is high, the B61 project could make possible large-scale, money-saving reductions in high-yield warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles. We think that strategic arsenal could quickly and easily be cut by more than half. In the universe of nuclear logic, the creation of a smaller, safer, less-powerful nuclear arsenal intended to stem the atomic ambitions of rogue nations, is pretty much the most sensible act of nonproliferation one could imagine.
Source: Bloomberg News - 26 December 2012
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This is a new set of XML combinators for Xtract, not standard, but based on the standard set in Text.Xml.Haxml.Combinators. The main difference is that the Content Filter type becomes a Double Filter. A Double Filter always takes the whole document as an extra argument, so you can start to traverse it again from the root, when at any inner location within the document tree.
The new combinator definitions are derived from the old ones. The same names have the equivalent meaning - use module qualification on imports to distinguish between CFilter and DFilter variations.
|double content filter - takes document root + local subtree.
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|lift a CFilter combinator to a DFilter combinator
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Journal of Energy in Southern Africa
On-line version ISSN 2413-3051
Print version ISSN 1021-447X
J. energy South. Afr. vol.25 n.3 Cape Town Aug. 2014
Practical considerations for low pressure solar water heaters in South Africa
Oelof De MeyerI; Richard OkouII; Adoniya Benaya SebitosiIII; Pragasen PillayIV
IDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa
IIDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
IIIDepartment of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
IVDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
This paper presents the results of the design parameters that affect natural convection of Low Pressure (LP) Solar Water Heaters (SWH) in South Africa. Fluid flow plays an important role in the heat transfer process associated with natural convection. Three partial differential governing equations were considered. These equations are non-dimensionalized and a similarity solution was applied to obtain two coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations which are solved in MATLAB. Two scenarios were considered for the simulation, a vertical wall with a constant wall temperature and a vertical wall with a constant heat flux. The temperature and velocity profiles were obtained for both scenarios and compared. The effect of the length, diameter and tilt angle of the tube in relation to the amount of heat transferred to the water was investigated specifically for Cape Town. These results are used to discuss design and installation considerations for LP SWHs and are presented in the paper.
Keywords: solar water heating, temperature profiles, tilt angle, tube length and diameter, vertical wall.
1. Introduction
South Africa is endowed with good solar radiation receiving 2 500 hours of sunshine per year and an average solar-radiation of between 4.5 and 6.5kWh/m2 per day. For this reason, solar energy is an alternative source that can be effectively utilized. Solar water heating for domestic users is popular as one of the major Demand Side Management (DSM) programs run by the main utility, Eskom. In South Africa, approximately 44% of all household energy is used to heat water. If a solar water heating system can deliver this energy, then in theory it will reduce the energy usage of the household by 44%. However, these solar water heating systems are not optimized and hence unable to achieve the energy savings expected despite their geographical locations and annual solar radiation received. Thus, these systems can be optimized based on the consumer's needs, geographical location and the amount of solar radiation received during summer and winter. Various SWH systems are available on the market; however, this paper focuses on a LP SWH as seen in Figure 1.
2. Low pressure solar water heating
These systems use natural convection as means of heat transfer. The system comprises a storage tank and vacuum tubes as the main components. The vacuum tubes are connected directly into the storage tank allowing the water to fill the tubes as seen in Figure 1. The vacuum tube consists of two concentric glass tubes, sealed at the one end with an annular vacuum space to reduce heat loss. The inner glass tube has a selective absorber coating on the outside. Thus, solar radiation is absorbed by the tube and transferred to the water inside the tube. Due to increase in temperature, a density difference drives the hot water upwards into the storage tank; this phenomenon is known as natural convection. The fluid flow is induced by the buoyancy effect.
3.Natural convection
3.1 Basic theory
Heat transfer can occur either by radiation, conduction or convection. In this section, a brief understanding of the physical mechanisms of natural convection is discussed. As a hot object enters a colder fluid (gas or liquid), the outer temperature layer of the object will drop as the surrounding fluid temperature rises. A density difference between the hot and cold fluid causes the hotter fluid to rise creating a natural convection current. Heat transfer is enhanced as a result of the natural convection current. The same phenomenon occurs when a cold medium enters a warmer fluid; however, the natural convection currents are reversed.
3.2 Velocity and temperature profiles (2D)
The governing equations associated with natural convection are used in the simulation model in this paper. The three partial differential equations are reduced to two ordinary differential equations by applying a similarity solution. The two coupled ordinary differential equations are obtained for flow induced by a vertical wall with either a constant wall temperature or constant heat flux. In 1911, Pohlhausen was the first to solve these equations for a vertical wall with constant wall temperature. By 1930, Schmidt and Beckmann had solved these equations for Pr = 0.733. In 1953, Ostrach increased the solution to Prandtl numbers ranging from 0.01 to 1,000. Sparrow and Gregg (1956) obtained a similarity solution for a vertical wall with a constant heat flux and investigated Prandtl number ranging from 0.1 to 100.
3.2.1 Vertical wall with constant wall temperature
The dimensionless velocity and temperature distribution was developed by Ostrach. Values for dimensionless velocity distribution, f"(0), and temperature distribution, (0) were obtained from solutions provided by Ostrach as seen in Table 1.
A MATLAB model was developed to solve these equations and the results compared to the solutions obtained by Ostrach. The model was able to provide the velocity and temperature profiles for a vertical wall with any wall temperature and length. Further, the model was able to adapt for various fluids given that the fluid properties are available. These graphs offered valuable insight for a basic understanding in fluid flow where a vertical isothermal wall is considered with water as fluid medium. The dimensionless temperature and velocity distribution graphs are shown in Figure 2 and 3.
The results were compared to those from Ostrach, aclear correlation is observed as in Table 2.The model is thus accurate in solving the ordinary differential equations with boundary conditions.
The velocity and temperature profiles, for a given wall temperature and length, are obtained by using the similarity parameters as seen in Figure 4.
The wall has a length of 10 cm and temperature of 19oC. The fluid medium is water with a temperature of 15oC.
3.2.2 Vertical wall with constant heat flux
For a vertical wall with constant heat flux, the values for the dimensionless velocity distribution, /"(0), and temperature distribution, 9'(0) were obtained from solutions provided by Sparrow (1956), as seen in Table 3.
For this case, a MATLAB model was developed to obtain the velocity and temperature profiles for a vertical wall with a certain length and constant heat flux. The model was adapted for various fluids. The graphs offered valuable insight on the basic understanding in fluid flow where a vertical Isoflux wall is considered. The dimensionless temperature and velocity distribution graphs were simulated by the MATLAB model as shown in Figures 5 and 6.
When these results were compared to those from Sparrow, (1956), correlation was observed as in Table 4. The model was thus accurate in solving the ordinary differential equations with boundary conditions.
The velocity and temperature profiles for a given wall flux and length, were obtained by using the similarity parameters as seen in Figure 7. The wall has a length of 10 cm and the heat flux applied was 1kW/m2. Water at 15oC was considered in the scenario.
A difference was noted between the velocity and temperature graphs from the simulations for an isothermal and isoflux vertical wall. In both simulations, the Prandtl number was 7.5.
To obtain the same Prandtl number, the wall temperature and heat flux were adjusted. In the isothermal case, the temperature distribution reduced gradually further away from the wall with almost uniform layers. In the isoflux case, the temperature distribution grew along the wall and reduced gradually away from the wall. A higher velocity was achieved for the isothermal case.
However, if the length of the wall is increased significantly, the velocity and temperature of the isoflux scenario will be greater for the same given wall length in the isothermal case. This is due to an increase in energy per unit length from the constant heat flux. In LP SWHs, the isoflux scenario can be applied to the vacuum tubes. The vacuum tubes are exposed to the solar radiation throughout the day and for any given instance, a constant heat flux is observed on the tube wall with a flux distribution (Window, 1983) around the circumference as in Figure 8.
3.3 Velocity and temperature profiles (3D)
The geometrical shape of the vacuum tubes found in LP SWHs are three dimensional while the model developed only accounted for flow in the two dimensions. Nevertheless, the model is a good representation of the flow that occurs in the tubes. For cases where the diameter was very large compared to the length of the tube, natural convection flow currents over a flat plate can be considered (Lighthill, 1953), and thus the model can be applied. The main purpose of the model is to validate the theory found in literature and provides a visual understanding of the flow found in natural convection. In the three dimensional realm, the governing equations and boundary conditions are adapted to account for the extra added dimension and geographical shape of the object as in Figure 9.
3.4 Mass flow rate
In 2005, Budihardjo developed a correlation for the natural circulation flow rate through single-ended tubes (at the tube opening). The flow rate correlation is based on the solar input the tube receives, the tank temperature, the collector's tilt angle and tube aspect ratio.
3.5 Tilt Angle
To maximise the annual energy collection from the collector, the tilt angle of the collector should be mounted at an optimal tilt angle. In 2009, Tang investigated the optimal tilt angles of all-glass evacuated tube solar collectors and developed a detailed mathematical procedure for calculating the collected radiation on a tube for any given tilt and azimuth angle. It was found that south facing collectors only rely on the optimal tilt angle for maximum annual energy collection. The optimal tilt angle for these collectors are generally less than the site latitude, and the optimal tilt angle decreases with an increase in the central distance (B) between adjacent tubes as in Table 5a and 5b, where D1 and D2 are the inside and outside diameter respectively.
According to Tang (2009), for areas with a high solar radiation index, the optimal tilt angle is close to the site latitude, whereas areas with a low solar radiation index, the optimal tilt angle is lower than the site latitude. If the site latitude is larger than 30, the optimal tilt angle is 10o lower than that of the site latitude.
Vacuum tube collectors are different to flat-plate collectors which are generally installed with the same tilt angle as the site latitude. South facing tube collectors should thus be installed with a tilt angle lower than the site latitude to ensure maximum annual collectable radiation. If two cities in South Africa are considered, Johannesburg (26.12S 28.4E) and Cape Town (33.55S 18.22E), the total annual energy collection for these cities would vary, thus an optimal tilt angle is required for these cities. The fixed tilt angle of 45o commonly used for most LP SWHs should hence be reconsidered for increased energy.
3.6 Length-radius ratio
Lighthill (1953) developed methods to predict the flow and heat transfer caused by natural convection in vertical heated tubes. From these methods, a prediction could be made irrespective of the flow, i.e., laminar or turbulent and irrespective of the boundary layer of the heated fluid filled the tube or filled the tube with a stagnant region near the end. Lighthill discovered that the flow depends on a modified Grashof number and on the length-radius ratio. If a stagnant region occurred in the vacuum tube, that section would become inactive resulting in lower heat transfer in the tube (Budihardjo et al., 2004). The parameter defining the existence of a stagnant region as developed by Lighthill is:
Where Ra and L/r are the Rayleigh number (based on the radius of the tube), tilt angle from the vertical and length-radius ratio respectively. When T < 350, a stagnant region forms.
4. Simulation results
A simulation model was developed for LP SWHs. This simulation model was used to assess the effects of various tilt angles, length-radius ratios, effect of water temperature and solar radiation received. The model was based on the theory covered in Section 3 and results obtained offered valuable results for practical considerations of LP SWH system design and installations. The flow patterns in a thermo siphoning tube were investigated by Budihardjo (2005) and results obtained indicated that a tube with uniform top heating induces flow as a single stream to the bottom of the tube and back to the top in a loop. For large heat fluxes, flow could become transitional or turbulent but the counter-flowing stream characteristic still held (Schmid et al., 1986).
4.1 Tilt angle
The tilt angle of a collector plays a very important role in solar collectors. Literature shows that extensive research has been done to determine the optimal tilt angle for solar collectors such as flat-plate collectors. However, collectors such as the LP SWH systems consist of tubes and this track the sun passively due to the tube geometry, thus having a higher peak solar window. It is favourable for any collector to intercept the direct radiation of the sun perpendicular to the absorber surface of the collector; this reduces the amount of rays being deflected away from the surface, losing in effect useable energy from the sun. A transverse and longitudinal incidence angle modification is thus desired for the tube geometry of the LP SWH collector (Zambolin, 2010). A simulation model was created in TRNSYS to determine the optimal tilt angles for a collector. It was found that the tilt angle of 45° was indeed not the optimal tilt angle to use throughout the country. Four geographical locations where chosen for the simulation. These cities include Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Upington. The maximum annual energy is observed when the tilted surface is equal to the site latitude as seen in Figure 11.
This theory is a well-known fact in the solar industry and considered by many solar collector installers and manufacturers. However, the consumer does not benefit as much from this tilt angle in the winter seasons when the demand for hot water increases. Thus, the tilt angle needs to be adjusted to accommodate the need for hot water in the winter seasons. It was found that a tilt angle approximately 15-20° higher than the site latitude would be more beneficial. This corresponded with the sun path during winter seasons. It is clear that the collector tilt angle should be adjusted seasonally to maximize energy output as seen in Figure 12.
Table 6 shows the increase in energy by adjusting the tilt angle to accommodate the sun.
4.2 System performance
The LP SWH simulated in TRNSYS had 21 vacuum tubes of inner tube diameter = 34 mm and tube length = 1.42 m and 153 litre tank. Details of the system are presented in (Budihardjo, 2005). Figure 13 shows the effect of tank temperature increases on the mass flow rate within the tubes and the energy collected by the collector (a tilt angle of 45o). The topmost subplot represents the energy collected by one vacuum tube.
It was clear that an increase in the tank temperature affected the mass flow rate and this was attributed to the effect of the Prandtl number. As the tank temperature increased, the Prandtl number decreased because the viscosity and specific heat decreases, and the thermal conductivity increases. A lower viscosity ensures less resistance in fluid flow and thus a larger mass flow. The high thermal conductivity ensures that heat is conducted more efficiently throughout the fluid and the higher buoyancy force results in the lower specific heat, requiring less heat to raise the temperature of the fluid by one degree (increasing the density difference within the fluid). On a clear sunny summer day in Cape Town, the collector would increase the tank temperature from 20o to 50o.
Similarly, the amount of solar radiation the collector utilizes affects the tank temperature and mass flow rate as seen in Figure 14. These simulation results are from a typical winter day in Cape Town.
The parameters (tube length, tube diameter and tank size) of the system were changed to illustrate its effects on the system performance. It was found that if the 21 tubes were replaced with 12 tubes with a diameter of 47 mm and length of 1.8 m, similar results were found as in Figure 15. The energy collected by the collector was the same, however, the power rating of each tube increased from approximately 40 W to 70W. This was attributed to the increase in diameter and length of the tube. This change greatly affected the mass flow rate within the tubes as represented in the following graph.
Research in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the University of Cape Town is investigating the performance of a LP SWH with the following specifications; tank size of 100 L with 12 tubes, tube inside diameter 42 mm and length 1.8 m. The collector's performance was monitored in two geographical locations (Cape Town and Johannesburg). Tests were done on the system to determine the heat loss coefficient of the tank and tubes, and the optical efficiency of the collector.
These results were used in the TRNSYS simulation program. Simulation results give a good approximation of the system performance when attributes of the system components are changed. These results can be used for design considerations and installations of LP SWHs to accommodate the consumer's needs and maximization of solar radiation received.
5. Design and installation considerations for LP SWHs
The most influential factor in selecting a solar collector is the geographical location specific. Each location is unique with varying weather conditions throughout the year and the site latitude. Thus it is important to perform a detailed solar resource assessment of the site. Various data bases on the Internet are available to obtain reliable information regarding weather data and annual solar radiation availability. As seen from the simulation results, the tilt angle of a collector should be adjusted to accommodate the winter and summer seasons. For fixed tilt angle, which account for large number of installations, an optimum tilt angle is recommended. However, this 'optimal' angle should offer adequate hot water during the winter when the hot water is needed most. If the location is prone to more cloudy weather conditions, where solar radiation is limited, for example, Durban, more tubes should be considered to deliver the same system performance of a collector of the same size situated in a more favourable location, for example, Upington.
Importantly, a detailed hot water usage profile should be taken into account. This profile should reflect the number of family members in the household and their hot water use habits. Table 7 shows a sample guide that can be used to determine the size of the solar tank.
The following procedure can be followed to determine the tank and collector size for a family. For example, for a family of 4, the volume of the tank can be determined by equation 2:
The heat required to heat up the water from 15°C to 45°C every day is:
Hence a collector delivering 7kWh/day can provide the family with sufficient hot water. Power ratings of the tubes can be determined from the tube dimensions. For example, a tube with an inner tube diameter of 47 mm and tube length of 1.8 m, can provide approximately 450 W/day of power in the summer and 380 W/day in the winter for Cape Town weather conditions. This translates into 16 tubes required during summer and 19 tubes in the winter. The results of these calculations were considered in the simulation model and results shown in Figure 16 agree.
The flow rate in the tubes can be altered by changing the tube dimensions as earlier shown in Figure 14 and 15 with the smaller tubes delivering a lower mass flow rate than the larger tubes. This is because an increased number of smaller tubes are required to deliver the same amount of heat; however, this could increase system costs. In such circumstances, it is recommended that the tube dimensions are changed, rather than the tilt angle of the collector due to the possibility of losing available solar radiation.
6. Conclusion
In this paper, the natural convection phenomenon has been investigated. Two scenarios were considered, a vertical wall with a constant wall temperature and a vertical wall with constant heat flux.
Similarity solutions where applied to the governing equations to transform partial differential equations to ordinary differential equations. These equations were solved in MATLAB to obtain velocity and temperature profiles. The figures provided a great insight in the natural convection taking place in these scenarios. It was observed that the scenario of the constant heat flux along the wall would better represent solar radiation found on a vacuum tube from a LP SWH.
Further investigations showed that the two dimensional model is a good representation of the thermo-siphon process observed in single ended vacuum tubes. A simulation model was developed to ascertain the system performance of the LP SWH. In the simulation results, it was clear that the tank temperature, tube dimensions (length and diameter) and solar radiation absorbed by the tube, affect the mass flow rate. Through simulation, the optimal tilt angles for different geographical locations were identified. At least two tilt angles are required (summer and winter) to maximize the solar radiation utilized by the collector, thus the standardized 45 degree angle is not the optimal tilt angle to use throughout South Africa.
An increase in efficiency of 11% to 14% is observed if tilt angles are adjusted seasonally. The optimal tilt angle for Cape Town during winter seasons was found to be approximately 52.5o. From the simulation results, a guide to deployment of LP SWH could be obtained and has been included in this paper to assist LP SWH manufacturers in their design and installation considerations.
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Received 27 June 2012
Revised 11 March 2014


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