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Do I want to go swimming with dolphins?🙂 There is a wonderful childlike exuberance in this card. The child is relishing its moment on the waves and doesn’t seem scared at all. It is a time of plunging into new experiences without thought to outcome but simply enjoying the process. Riding the wave and seeing where it takes you.
I definitely need to develop this approach – I used to throw myself into new experiences without worrying about outcomes when I was younger. I had a real zest for life and wanted to explore. With adult responsibilities, I’ve become much more cautious. Time to let the child out to play.
Something to do – Woman of Painting
Lots of creative processes going on in this card. We have a painter, someone drawing, a stonemason and someone who looks deep in thought. A figure stands at the front handing out olive wreaths. This is Athene. It is about valuing your talents, feeling secure in your self-worth and working to make your ideas tangible. There is a pleasure in the process of creation and a practical approach.
Something to love – 10 of Painting
🙂 I did pull these cards completely randomly and have ended up with a triple whammy of Painting. Time to pay attention to this area.
This card’s subtitle is ‘Delight’ and it shows a group of people celebrating merrily. There is great joy and a sense of completion in this card. Earth and Heaven have come together. I can celebrate my good fortune and prosperity. Not only that, but the other two cards together with this one, strongly suggest that I can be the architect of my own prosperity. Keep a lighthearted, joyful outlook, combine it with a practical application to make those ideas a reality and prosperity is the result.
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Here in the UK we are currently experiencing a drought. It can be hard to believe this happens in a country which has a reputation for soggy weather.🙂 Nevertheless, after a very dry winter, some regions have been told that they are officially in drought. This means no use of hosepipes to wash cars or sprinkler systems to water gardens.
Yesterday evening we experienced our first significant rainfall for ages. It came down so hard, you could hear it clattering on the windows and doors. Stepping into my garden this morning, everything feels refreshed.
In celebration of the rain:
What do I need to water? XIV Forgiveness
This is such an interesting card to come up. I’ve been reading a book called 12 Steps to Compassion by Karen Armstrong and forgiveness is a key idea. Like many people, I can forgive others most things (although there are still some things which really push my buttons) but find it hard to be quite so forgiving of myself. I’ve been wondering why that is…why do I merit less compassion than other people?
This card has Jesus as a central figure who Blake saw as a personification of human imagination – the divine spark in us all. Forgiveness as an action is the beginning of healing.
How will it refresh me?  8 of Poetry
This card represents the ability of imagination to transcend the limits of our temporal world. It finds meaning in the universe and tries to communicate this. It’s a time of energy and falling in love with work. The mind races with ideas and time seems to alter as you work with them. It passes quickly, ‘2 hours already!’ or seems to stretch so that you can fit more in. Time as we usually measure it ceases to exist. Timely coincidences, great energy and fast communication of ideas are indicated.
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I’m looking forward to 2 weeks off work and I’d like to use this time to work on my writing. This is a simple 3 card spread to get me reflecting on my writing skills. I’m using the William Blake tarot created by Ed Buryn.
What is my strength as a writer? XV Error
This card takes the place of the Devil in other decks. The word ‘error’ implies that it is our own mistakes and choices which cause our unhappiness. We are all fallible and sometimes we need to see the error of our ways. By continually making the wrong choices, we harm ourselves and others around us. I like that this card has come up as a strength as I do try to develop rounded characters. People with flaws, people who seem thoroughly unlikeable but are still recognisable as human beings, heroes who make the wrong choices…
What skill do I need to develop? Man of Poetry
This card represents those moments of sudden clarity, where the ‘Big idea’ suddenly hits. There is a clear sense of purpose to the story and an over-arching theme which ties it all together. It makes perfect sense for this to be here. I wrote my current project as part of Nanowrimo as a way to get past my procrastination and inner critic. It was extremely valuable to force myself to write even when I didn’t really feel like it or when I would usually make an excuse not to do it. However, going back and editing this piece of writing, it is obvious to me that I haven’t communicated the ‘Big idea’ in a way which is clear to others.
What should I prioritise in the next couple of weeks? 7 of Music
This card is subtitled ‘Fancies’. It is an urging for me to explore the realm of imagination, to allow the alternate reality I’ve created in my story to really take over and speak. Exploring different possibilities and allowing my flights of fancy to find a concrete expression is important.


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Elmore Leonard died over the summer, and it feels like a fitting tribute that "Justified," based on one of Leonard's best characters, and with a writers room whose motto is "What Would Elmore Do?," would return with an episode largely split between the two quintessential Leonard locales: Detroit and South Florida. (Though he tended to write about Miami more than the Everglades.)
Neither place is introduced out of the blue, since Raylan used to work in Miami, and we've heard him talk to Dewey Crowe about his cousins, and since Boyd's been interacting with representatives from Detroit for a few seasons now. But it was still interesting, and often fun, to start the season off on two separate road trips, rather than with an hour set mainly in Harlan and Lexington.
Dewey has been one of this show's most reliable recurring characters, but we haven't seen him at all since his kidney-related misadventures early in season 3. He returns to prominence in a big way here, winning a big settlement from the U.S. Marshals for the pain he's suffered each time he's crossed Raylan's path, buying Audrey's off of Boyd (and installing the Bizarro Raylan, Wade Messer, as his bartender), and providing a new destination for his scheming cousin Daryl after his sugar-smuggling business in Florida falls apart. It's always fun to watch Damon Herriman cower at the sight of Timothy Olyphant, and here to see Raylan find a way to hurt Dewey without physically harming him (shooting up the pool where he plays naked Marco Polo with the hookers).
Raylan's trip back to Florida was a quintessentially Leonard kind of story, with criminals (including Amaury Nolasco from "Prison Break" as Elvis and Edi Gathegi from "House" as the Haitian) of varying degrees of intelligence plotting to screw each other over, all while Raylan tried to avoid being worked over by Daryl and his tramp-stamped paralegal sister Wendy. It was maybe too much a standard Leonard kind of story, in that "Justified" has told so many variants on it over the previous four seasons, but I also can understand the creative team's desire to kick off a new season with a back-to-basics sort of plot.
The issue I have is with the casting of Michael Rappaport as Daryl. Rappaport's a good actor, but he's a very specific type, and that type is not a Florida swamp rat. He has the right clothes and works at an accent other than his familiar New York one, but he never really fits into the role in the way that, say, Mykelti Williamson did as Limehouse. We'll see how he does later in the season, now that Daryl seems headed for Harlan to get his share of Dewey's newfound fortune, but in the early going it doesn't seem the best fit of actor and part.
Boyd's story is by far the darker of the two, and not just because he's scrambling to get Ava out of prison. The trip to Detroit was suitably macabre and weird — I especially enjoyed the constant refrains of "That was last week" every time Boyd or Wynn looked over at the room filled with mannequins —


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Thanks Mike… I love lists and I like to be organised, but schedules just stress me out – I must be a left and right thinker! 🙂
I like a pen and paper too, but I have about 3 notepads which I scribble in, if I needed to find anything important I’d be stuck. Anything important I write on my whiteboard right next to my desk. I wish I could get through my email inbox, it’s improving, but certainly could do with more attention. 🙂


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Good morning all. Nice to know that we are all busy either packing for our sp's, making something for our sp's or anticipating to receive from our sp's. Not feeling well today so I'm staying home. I'm always off on Mondays but I do recognize a dear salute to all of our veterans, past present and future. My son is one of them :) To all of you going through illness, losing loved ones be sure that you are in my prayers.
Good to hear that Krystyna is ok. And I do believe in heavenly miracles! ladybug 1938 I sent you a pm requesting her addy but things are wacky with the pm's :( Ok getting off here to go and make something special for my sp. Everyone have a great and blessed day! Sharon Anne glad to know you're doing well!


’s’s choosing, meaning that it won’in ‘as withdrawn’
I think 602 would probably last longer with 150,000 worth of tlc lavished on her
Unbelievable small minded posturing.
If 602 has already been reconditioned previously to keep it in operation once, then I fail to see how historical integrity would be compromised by doing the same again.
Next time anyone is minded to leave a legacy to TMS I hope their legal advisers will apply a caveat and alternative strategy so that such generosity is not completely lost to the movement.
As 602 was built to operate in service in the first place, putting it back into running order would be a perfect way of demonstrating its all-electric VAMBAC system as it was intended to be used. It would be a running example of how tramways were needlessly abandoned in Leeds just when new technologies were emerging, and could be exhibited as part of the wider history story of how Leeds failed twice to get modern light rail; firstly failing to get its subway system built after World War II and then the second-generation system which was nearly constructed in the 2000s before being cancelled.
As ever it proves one essential aspect of the lovely TMS.
“Nobody tells the Board what do here!”’ose of it’.
About 10 or 15 years ago Leeds 602 was running at Crich and I rode on it. It seemed to run OK. This was the only time in 56 years of visits to Crich that I have seen it running. I wonder how many trams at Crich are capable of being run after a small service but never are. ‘the part’ I have no connection with the group thankfully, so I feel free to make these comments.
It would be excellent to see this car up and running again for 2017, Sixty years since its withdrawal in Leeds or 2019 probably more realistic to comemmorate 60 years since the Leeds System closed.
Crich needs to once again reconsider this decision.
I bet I am not the only TMS Member or Enthusiast to think the same.
Crich will lose a damn sight more than £250,000 unless attitudes change.won’t be the genuine article?.
There are more missing links in the tramway world than any other, and when one considers the new builds recreating history in the steam railway field, the Manchester potential alone shines out A Bogie and a Pilcher at Heaton Park would very soon find subscribers, I am certain.
TMS is not the only potential user of voluntary funds. ‘missing links’ – le? I’’t be There are parallels to the decision though. I understand that the NRM is highly unlikely to ever restore Mallard, Evening Star, the Deltic prototype, Stirling No.1, maybe even Green Arrow. All bar the deltic have ran and had work done in preservation, yet I believe are now conserved due to their historic importance and areas of originalityn’t. But my question is this – shouldn’t
As for 602 information is conflicting at sparce about what was actually done to it previously – many sources say enough for it not to be considered ‘original’. Now surely as the National Museum Crich have a duty to display a working VAMBAC equipped car as part of the story of the Tram, rather than an arrow pinting to 602 with VAMBAC – its in there on it!
DDA only applies to public transport vehicles in everyday use. Educational demonstration and historic artefacts are not caught by these nonsensical regulations which cause so much heat and light, but which can be complied with at far less cost than many industries have seen necessary.
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The usual proof of renormalizability using the Callan-Symanzik equation makes explicit use of normalization conditions. It is shown that demanding that the renormalization group functions take the form required for minimal subtraction allows one to prove, without imposing normalization conditions. Scalar field theory and quantum electrodynamics are treated.
An elegant and compact proof of the perturbative renormalizability of scalar field theory can be given using the Callan-Symanzik equation[1,2]. This proof constructs the renormalization group functions and renormalized correlation functions order-by-order without ever encountering an infinite quantity. The drawback in this proof is that it makes explicit use of normalization conditions. This makes it awkward to establish the existence of renormalized Ward identities in theories with nonlinear symmetries, whereas these identities are trivially obtained if one uses minimal subtraction. Of course, on general grounds, one knows that there is a finite renormalization that takes one from the renormalized theory with normalization conditions to the renormalized theory with minimal subtraction of infinities. However, it should be possible to show the renormalizability with minimal subtraction directly, instead of via the construction of the finite renormalization. This is the aim of the present paper.
where a(g,ϵ),b(g,ϵ),c(g,ϵ), and d(g,ϵ), are power series, at least O(g), which we shall show to be finite as ϵ↓0. These three 1PI functions are the primitively divergent vertex functions in this model. We let Ar stand for any quantity A computed up to order gr in the perturbative expansion.
The proof proceeds by induction, so it is important to make explicit the g dependence of all quantities at the lowest order. β(g)=O(g2), η(g)=O(g2), η2(g)=O(g), and δ(g)=O(g)[2]. Furthermore, b=O(g2), a,c,d=O(g), Γ4,1=O(g2), and Γ2,2=O(g), as can readily be seen from the lowest order diagrams.
The induction hypothesis is that the primitively divergent vertex functions have been rendered finite up to and including O(gr), except for Γ4,0 which is assumed finite up to order O(gr+1). This implies that ar,br,cr, and dr are finite. Further, we assume that βr+1 is finite, as are ηr,η2,r,δr.
As is standard[1,2], this assumes that the limit p↓0 does not introduce any pathologies into the integral over α, so that the finiteness already proved for cr+1 suffices to render eq. (6) well defined. In perturbation theory, for m>0, this regularity at low momenta is physically reasonable.
with f1 finite to O(gr+1), given the finiteness of (η+η2)r+1 and dr+1.
where E(ϵ,g)r+1 is finite. As above, we deduce that there exists a unique solution of (8) with br+1 finite and ηr+1 finite and independent of ϵ. Then with the known finiteness of (2ηg−β)r+2, and (η+η2)r+1, we find that β is finite to O(gr+2), with η2 finite to O(gr+1).
Observe that there is no way to determine δ−η2 independent of a−d. This should be expected. In minimal subtraction δ=η2 is equivalent to Zm=Z2, (Zm and Z2 are the multiplicative renormalization constants for the mass and the −12ϕ2 insertion, respectively). In fact, in any scheme Zm/Z2 is a finite quantity[2]. In our present approach, we only deal with finite quantities, so we can consistently set δ=η2, thereby determining a unambiguously (since d is already known)††1 There exists another solution of (9) for (a−d) with the O(gr+1) term having an essential singularity at ϵ=0. In our present framework this solution cannot be ruled out, but it prevents the induction from proceeding beyond tree level. Using the explicit form of dimensional regularization, this solution can be rejected because an essential singularity in ϵ cannot occur at any finite order in perturbation theory.. It is possible to let δ=δ(g,ϵ) and impose a=b, i.e. let m be the actual physical mass.
is finite, but this is obvious from the behaviour of ^f for |p| small.
We have therefore completed the induction step, showing that the Callan-Symanzik equation can be used to prove the renormalizability of ϕ4 theory in the minimal subtraction scheme, without ever imposing normalization conditions.
We turn now to an extension of this reasoning to the case of quantum electrodynamics. This was considered by Blaer and Young[3], but the existence of renormalized Ward identities seems to have been assumed without discussion in their work. In our formulation, since we use minimal subtraction, the existence of renormalized Ward identities is automatic. In the following, we show how the Ward identities constrain the renormalization group functions. The remaining steps then follow more or less as in Ref. 3, and are not reproduced here.
relating the proper vertex with n photons, k electrons, and l insertions of ¯ψψ to the proper vertex with one additional insertion of ¯ψψ at zero momentum. There are 7 independent renormalization group functions in this equation, α,β,ηA,ηψ,ηm,δ,η2, all functions of e,ξ,m/M, with no ϵ dependence.
where a,b,c,d are all functions of e,m/M,ξ, and ϵ, finite as ϵ↓0. Note that the presence of a photon mass ensures that there are no pathologies associated with these conditions, and that we may assume analyticity at zero-momentum. The rest of the analysis follows Ref. 3, with changes appropriate to minimal subtraction as discussed above in detail for scalar field theory.
In future work, we plan to apply this method of construction of renormalized gauge theories to non-Abelian gauge theories, using the Curci-Ferrari action[4].
V.P. was supported in part by NSF grant PHY96-00258. M.V.R was supported in part by an NSERC PGSA Fellowship. J.N..


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A report by Shamaoma Musonda titled "ZABF seeks retired boxers'services" must truly be the kind of news any retiree should cherish given that in real life, rarely is this group of people seen as useful for anything after its best-before-date expires, including boxing activities. At least in Zambia.
Here at home, Anthony "The Preacherman" Mwamba has been highly successful after hanging up his gloves to train and manage icon and multi-division titlist Esther.
So, the news that some 40 retired boxers some of whom may be bedfellows with the streets will be recruited to help out with the technical aspects of the sport, especially coaching where boxing has a dearth of skilled coaches to tutor amateurs, is not only progressive news, but it's very inspiring news, coming as it has, at the beginning of a brand new year.
But thanks must goich is beginning to resist the usual by evolving an amateur boxing strategy whose ultimate goal is to multiply the numbers of amateurs who are going to stay longer in this category and possibly start earning a living!
The idea of paying amateurs is, of course, a brilliant one as a motivation factor to the aspiring professionals.
I do not have the full details of the mechanics of how this whole payment system will be handled, but a plus under the system will certainly be the longer stay of boxers in the unpaid ranks.
ZABF president Thomas Chileshe was quoted as saying AIBA had directed his executive to scan the crop of yester-year's pugilists and pick 40 of them in readiness for training to be conducted by an international expert who would be sent to Zambia.
I trust that Dan Chiteule who has been assigned the task of recruiting the former boxers to be turned into coaches will be objective, and not do a hash job, but take his time, without wasting it, so that he does not leave out any candidates worthy of this exciting development in Zambian boxing.
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In this paper the case for subsidies for solar energy to counter inefficient pricing practices of electric utilities, hidden subsidies to non-solar fuels and tax law biases are examined. The conclusion reached for two of three regions in the USA in the case of solar energy replacing electricity for hot water heating is that, far from offsetting biases against solar energy, current subsidies reinforce pre-existing biases in favour of the use of solar energy systems.
Do oil producers act as 'Oil'igopolists?
In this paper, I analyze an oligopoly model of exhaustible resource extraction and develop predictions about relative extraction patterns of different producers. Using the ‘oil’igopoly model of bury (Internat. Econom. Rev. 27, 285-301 (1986)), one can show that producers with large stocks produce a larger amount, but a smaller percentage, of their stocks than producers with small stocks. I extend Lomy’s model to cases where extraction costs differ among producers and where costs are a function of cumulative extraction. An increase in extraction costs for a producer causes it to produce less relative to its rivals. When extraction costs rise with cumulative extraction, producers with large reserves tend to have lower...
A method is investigatedreducing environmental emissions, focusing on utility-scale cogeneration and the contributions of nuclear energy. A case study is presented for Ontario using the nuclear and fossil facilities of the main provincial electrical utility. Implementation of utility-based cogeneration in Ontario or a region with a similar energy system and attributes is seen to be able to reduce significantly annual and cumulative uranium and fossil fuel use and related emissions, provide economic benefits for the province and its electrical utility, and substitute nuclear energy for fossil fuels...


Mobile World Congress in Barcelona came to an end this week, but there was no sign of Motorola's affordable Moto E5 series as rumors had anticipated. While details about the official launch of Moto E5, Moto E5 Plus, and Moto E5 Play smartphones remain uncertain, more information about the budget phones continues to emerge.to E5 series, which leaves little to the imagination. Based on the information we are able to gather, Moto E5, Moto E5 Plus and Moto E5 Play will compete against some of the best-selling budget smartphones from brands like Xiaomi, Nokia and others.
Moto E5 Play will be the next model after the E5 Plus and also the first time the Motorola is bringing a Play model to its E-series. It will be more standard than its Plus variant with a 5.2-inch HD display with 16:9 aspect ratio. The handset would boast a 12MP rear-facing camera and a 5MP front snapper.
Under the hood, the Moto E5 Play is expected to have 2GB RAM, 16GB storage, and a 4,000mAh battery. If the rumors are to be believed, there will be a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and a front flash.
So here's your #motoE5 selection.— Andri Yatim (@HeyAndri) February 27, 2018
2. Moto E5: 3-32GB, 5.5" 720p, 3028mAh, 16+5MP.
Several details about the Moto E5 series are still a mystery, such as the phones' pricing and exact launch date. We'll know more when Lenovo-owned Motorola unveils the handsets.


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19 Comments to "All the Commandments of the Blessed Holy One: You Shall Love Your Fellow as Yourself"
רֵעֲ (Rea), fellow, can designate any human being (Genesis 11:3) or denote a person with whom one has an intimate relationship such as a friend (e.g., Exodus 33:11; 1 Chronicles 27:33) or a lover (e.g., Hosea 3.1; Song of Songs 5:16). Often רֵעֲ (rea) refers to a person encountered in everyday life: Proverbs 3:29 explains that רֵעֲ (rea) is someone who lives trustingly beside you; in Jeremiah 9:1–5 the prophet berates his people for the widespread deception among neighbors. In Deuteronomy 19:14 and 27:17 רֵעֲ (rea) refers to a landowner with whom one shares a boundary. It is therefore not surprising that the term רֵעֲ (rea) figures prominently in the legal literature of the Tanakh, for neighbors rely on laws to regulate their relationships. In the context of biblical law the term refers to a person with whom one has a legal relationship (e.g., Exodus 22:25; Deuteronomy 4:42). Here it is perhaps analogous to "citizen" or "compatriot."
Here I must stress concerning…
"Listen!Your brother's bloods, cry out to me from the soil (Genesis 4:10)—it does not say brother's דָם (dam), blood, but rather, brother's דְּמֵי (demei), bloods,descendants…
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"Come and hear:  [i.e., one meets two donkeys: one, belonging to a friend, is tottering under its burden, and help is needed to unload it; the other, belonging to an enemy, has fallen, and assistance is wanted to reload it]. The מִצוָה (mitsvah), obligation, is towards his enemy, in order to subdue his [evil] impulse. Now if you should think that relieving the suffering of an animal is law, [surely], the other is preferable!
"sasation—t's death. Until Rabbi Akiva came and taught: [And should your brother come to ruin and his hand buckle under you…
Hcites Yes, lover of peoples is He (Deuteronomy 33:3), commenting, "Righteous gentiles are undoubtedly dear to Him."
"[And it shall be, y] to love YHWH your God [ing] (Deuteronomy 11:13)—lest you say, 'Look, I will study Torah that I be wealthy, and that I be called Rabbi, and that I receive reward!


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Nov 24, 2006 by cardinalfanusa | Posted in Decorating & Remodeling
I'm installing laminate flooring and am planning on using my existing carpet padding (it's really thin). I'm installing the flooring on a concrete foundation. How important is it for me to use an underlayment/vapor barrier such as Visqueen? What are the consequences, both short and long-term if I choose not to use a vapor barrier?
visqueen is plastic sheeting
you can pick that up for $5 a roll from walmart.
you can also use felt paper rolls, the kind used for roofing but not tarred.
moisture will be the big culprit. It may smell musty and damp.
if your going to spend money on flooring then spend a little extra and get the right stuff or pay more when you have to replace everything later on.
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Just a little Vinegar and Water.
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Also, do you know of any good video's online that offer instructions on installing laminate flooring?
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BA plasma channel, denser toward the edges, guides the laser and allows it to form high-quality electron beams. As the laser pulse travels from left to right it excites a wake in the plasma, trapping and accelerating bunches of electrons to high energies (visualization by Cameron Geddes).
For a quarter of a century physicists have been trying to push charged particles to high energies with devices called laser wakefield accelerators. In theory, particles accelerated by the electric fields of laser-driven waves of plasma could reach, in just a few machines using conventional radio-frequency acceleration. Stanford's linear accelerator, for example, is two miles long and can accelerate electrons to 50 GeV (50 billion electron volts). Laser wakefield technology offers the possibility of a compact, high-energy accelerator for probing the subatomic world, for studying new materials and new technologies, and for medical applications. In plasmas, researchers have generated electric fields a thousand to ten thousand times greater than in conventional accelerators  but these large fields exist only over the short distance that a laser pulse remains intense; for tightly focused beams, that distance is typically only a few hundred micrometers (millionths of a meter). The resulting beams are of relatively poor quality, with particle energies so widespread that fewer than one percent have enough punch for scientific applications. The Berkeley Lab researchers achieve high-quality beams by first shaping a channel through hydrogen gas with powerful, precisely timed laser pulses, then accelerating bunches of electrons through the plasma inside the channel. Because of the controlled accelerator length and the characteristics of the channel, there are several billion electrons in each bunch within a few percent of the same high energy, more than 80 MeV (80 million electron volts). The L'OASIS Group: from left, Wim Leemans, Cameron Geddes, Csaba Toth, Eric Esarey, Carl Schroeder, and Jeroen van Tilborg (photo Roy Kaltschmidt)
"Laser wakefield acceleration works on the principle that by sending a laser pulse through a gas to create a plasma  in the gas  some of the free electrons will be carried along in the wake of the plasma wave created by the laser," Leemans explains. "Imagine that the plasma is the ocean, and the laser pulse is a ship moving through it. The electrons are surfers riding the wave created by the ship's wake."  "The acceleration distance is limited to what's called the Rayleigh length  the length over which the laser remains focused ," says Leemans. "" . To achieve this extended acceleration length, Leemans, working with his graduate student Cameron Geddes and other colleagues, implemented what he refers to as "the plasma analogue of an optical fiber." The basic principle of this technique was developed a decade ago, using less powerful lasers, by Howard Milchberg from the University of Maryland, then improved upon by Leemans and his former student Pavel Volfbeyn in 1998. But it took nearly another six years before the L'OASIS lasers and instrumentation were sufficiently advanced to try guiding extremely intense laser pulses with the same method.
One of the laser beams from the L'OASIS laser is first sent as an igniter pulse through the gas, to form what Leemans describes as a wire of plasma. A second, heater pulse enters from the side and heats the plasma wire; as the heated channel expands, it becomes denser at the edges and less dense at the center. Five hundred picoseconds later, time enough for the ions to move out of the way, an intense driver pulse, with peak power approaching 10 terawatts (10 trillion watts), plows through the plasma capillary. An igniter laser pulse forms a "wire" of plasma in a plume of hydrogen gas; a heater pulse expands the wire to a plasma channel; the drive pulse accelerates bunches of electrons inside the channel to nearly uniform high energy. (The green cone represents associated terahertz radiation.) "There's a close analogy between the plasma channel and an actual optical fiber of the kind used to send data," Leemans says. "The simplest optical fibers are made with two kinds of glass. The glass in the center has a higher index of refraction  meaning that light moves through it more slowly  and the surrounding glass walls have a lower index of refraction. The effect of this is to make sure the wavefront of the light stays flat as it moves through the fiber, allowing the laser to remain focused in a small spot over a long distance."
Leemans explains that the same is true of the plasma channel, in which the plasma is denser at the edges than in the center. "Plasma actually has a lower index of refraction than vacuum, so the wavefront moving through the center of the channel moves slower than at the edges. This flattens the otherwise spherical laser wavefront and extends the distance over which the laser stays intense enough to excite large plasma waves." By tailoring the plasma channel conditions and laser parameters, the researchers are first able to achieve clean guiding of laser beams of unprecedented high intensity, while suppressing electron capture. This paves the way for using laser-powered plasma channels as ultra-high-gradient accelerating structures. Next, by using even higher peak powers, plasma waves are excited that are capable of picking up background plasma electrons, rapidly accelerating them in the wake's electric field, then finally subsiding just as the surfing electrons reach the dephasing length, when they are on the verge of outrunning the wake. How is it that the electrons in the bunch are accelerated to nearly the same energy? Following the experiments, Geddes and the other Berkeley Lab researchers, with the help of their Tech-X collaborators, modeled the evolution of the high-quality electron bunches on supercomputers at NERSC. They found that the formation of large bunches of electrons with nearly the same high energy is due to several factors. Most critical is matching the long acceleration path to the dephasing length. Other factors include plasma density and laser power, and how the laser pulse evolved during its propagation in the plasma channel. Without a preformed channel (left) the drive laser pulse blows out after a few hundred micrometers, producing diffuse bunches of electrons with wide energy spread. A preformed channel through the plasma (right) confines the drive beam and produces bunches of electrons with nearly uniform high energy.
"The plasma-channel technique is an essential step toward developing compact laser wakefield accelerators with multiple stages, which can produce focused, ultrafast, high-energy bunches of electrons to compete with state-of-the-art," says Leemans. "But the new technique has already suggested novel sources of radiation, such as the efficient generation of femtosecond x-rays"  x-ray pulses measured in quadrillionths of a second  "and coherent terahertz and infrared radiation." by Cameron Geddes, Csaba Toth, Jeroen van Tilborg, Eric Esarey, Carl Schroeder, David Bruhwiler, Chet Nieter, John Cary, and Wim Leemans, appears in the 30 September 2004 issue of NaturMore about the L'OASIS Group
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Best Way to Improve Work Capacity?
I’m a beginner and have very poor work capacity. By this I mean I am unable to sustain my strength levels over multiple sets.
So when my routine calls for, example, 3x10 on the bench press with my 10RM for all sets (not ramping up weights) I’m likely to get 10 reps on the first set, 7 reps on the second set, and 6 reps on my third set.
I rest 2 minutes between sets, but have taken as long as 3 minutes - although the extra minute doesn’t seem to make a difference in increasing reps in subsequent sets.
So my question is what’s the best way to increase my work capacity?
For the record my 10RM on the bench is 135 lbs (no laughing please). For me to get 3x10 with the same weight I would have to drop to 85 lbs (I’ve actually tried and that was my max weight).
Final note - the drop off is like that for any body part - not just the bench press.
Well you can do one of a few things: stay a the same weight and focus of trying to bring up the reps on the other set until you can get to 10, back the weight off till you can do the three sets and then increase the weight slowly, or you can take more rest (maybe 5 minutes). You could also be having issues with your form.
I don’t know anyone who can hit their 10 rep max 3 times in a row. I’ve also never heard of a program that tells you to.
If I hit a 10 rep max on the bench, I can barely move my arms afterward.
If you do an intense set, like a 10 rep max, your performance will decrease on subsequent sets.
I’ll second this. What you are describing seems normal to me. You will always be able to do more once than you can do three times in a row.
You definitely don’t want to reduce weight. You should either stick at this weight and try to get more reps on the follow up sets or just increase the weight and try to get the same/more reps.
You should use a weight you can get all three sets with (as you said, 85 lbs), and make sure you are progressing as your program dictates (I.E., starting strength, 2.5-5 lbs per lift, 5x5 madcows, ye old bodybuilding split… so long as it’s a ‘proven program.’) Then you should eat. If you happen to be under weight or skinny, then you should very likely eat twice the amount of food that you currently believe to be gut-busting.
All of this advice relies entirely on the assumption that you are following a routine that is intelligently designed by someone else (I’d suggest going back and re-reading the program as well, as things like this are usually covered). If not, then re-evaluate how you’re approaching your lifting.
Be smart, don’t sweat the small stuff.
After reading your comments I suspect I misinterpreted the program prescription of 3 working sets of 10 reps (excluding warm ups) for understanding it to mean “use your 10RM”.
It’s a starting point. We all have to start somewhere.
In not too long… as long as you’re following your program, and eating enough calories and protein to be gaining weight… you’ll be lifting quite a bit more than that.
What you don’t want to to is start cheating on your ROM because you’re afraid of looking like a pussy. As long as you do it right, you WILL get stronger.
Hard people do hard things.
OP: What program are you on kid?
I would look into a 5x5 if your strength is that low, to help bring up your overall strength first and you’ll gain size off it too.
You don’t have poor work capacity. You’re hitting failure on the first set so less reps in the later sets reflects a reduction in strength. That’s normal.
that is normal, however, beginner usually means poor work capacity. usually.
Let’s not put the cart before the horse. He looked up work capacity and tried to extend his rest periods to hit all three sets without the work capacity to do it.
Other option is you could do 3x7 at 135 instead of 3x10, and work on adding a rep to your sets every workout (eg: week 1: 3x7, week 2: 3x8, week 3: 3x9, week 4: 3x10). This would give you more strength and also help you add your work capacity gradually. Also it would help save your ego :). I believe in general heavier is better (within reason).
You can never hit a true 10 RM 3 times in a row. You have three choices essentially: 1) lower the weight to get the reps in 2) lower the reps to keep the weight 3) lengthen rest periods. #3 isn’t working for you. I suppose you could throw in a #4 and say keep your 10RM and try to add a rep to your 2nd or 3rd set every week until you can do 3x10. But right now I think your best bet is #2. I would be inclined to say something different if the drop off had been something like 10 reps, 4-5 reps, 3-4 reps, but what you describe is more or less normal.
Thanks for all the options, guys.
I’ll run with one of the options for as long as I can make progress; then switch to another when I stall.
The bigger question is, why are you doing 3x10? What kind of program is this?
What’s that? You/your buddy/some dipshit trainer made it up?
On a serious note, read those programs, pick one, and perform it exactly as written. It is much better then whatever you are currently doing.
Thanks - I’ll keep those routines in mind if ever my progress stalls on my current program.
Posts like this are very bothersome, especially since I suspect you are actually serious. There are so many programs out there, ones written by the authors on this site even. Just search the archives. And I guarantee 3x10 has been a part of the programming of any successful BBer or PLer who contributes to this site at some point in their training. It’s a completely legit set up and it’s not retarded just because it doesn’t fit into the 3 programs everyone and their mother seems to think everyone and their mother has to be doing just because they did it and saw some results. Those are excellent programs you listed, but that list could be 100 times longer. Don’t be so close minded. It’s also a little bit arrogant to assume it was written by a “dipshit trainer” or whatever just because it doesn’t fit YOUR view of what a good program should be for whatever reason.
P.S. Why don’t you go by KingBeef’s “Do this routine” thread which has helped alot of members on this site and post “What? What is this shit? 4 sets of 8 with last set to failure? 3 sets of 15!!??? That’s not starting strength!” I will enjoy the lulz.


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When economists teach welfare analysis, they demonstrate that the “gains from trade” in an economy come as a result of two people transacting that place different values on a good. Typically the transactions are characterized as between a buyer (who might value a pair of sunglasses at $90) and a seller (who might be able to produce it for $30), but that need not be the case. It is simply any exchange between any two actors who value things differently.
In the example above, the wealth that is created amounts to $60 and is not dependent on the price paid. The price simply distributes those gains between the parties. So, if the price was agreed upon to be $80, then the consumer benefited by $10 while the producer benefited by $50. If the price was $35, the consumer benefited by $55 and the seller by $5. In either case, the gain was $60 – because they gain has nothing at all to do with the price.
In fact, if President Obama decided that consumers were entitled to sunglasses (e.g. healthcare) and enslaved the seller, and forced him to produce the glasses and “sell” them to any consumer for a price of $0, the gains would STILL be $60 – in this case $90 of gain to consumers and $30 of losses to sellers. Or if the President decided that the sunglass industry was important to secure votes from, he could institute a mandate where all drivers had to purchase sunglasses, and that those sunglasses could only be sold for a price of $283.34. In this case the wealth created from each sunglasses sold is still $60! It is just that the gains are now split in favor of the sellers – who gain $253.34 and the buyers are worse off by $193.34.
This might scare some of you. If the only thing the sunglasses czar needed to do was to figure out the appropriate number of sunglasses to produce independent of prices, costs, values, etc. then you might think they would be empowered to try this in all manner of industries. But even if the Messiah was visited from an angel on high, who told him the appropriate number of sunglasses to mandate the production and sale of, we will still have a serious problem on our hands.
That problem, of course, is that prices play two very important roles (aside from divvying up the gains from trade). They not only provide the necessary knowledge by which we know the correct number of sunglasses to produce, once we have that number in hand, they insure that those doing the producing are those that can do so for the lowest cost, and that those doing the buying are actually those that value it the most. We can spend another post later on discussing this important proof, but I wanted to focus on the role of prices in allocating goods to those that value them the most.
I demonstrate extensively in every class that prices are important because they signal to potential consumers the real tradeoffs they must face when they consider purchasing a good. If the price of sunglasses is $50, that represents $50 of other goods and services I cannot consume if I choose to purchase a pair. Thus, if I prefer $50 of other goods and services to that pair of sunglasses, I hold off on purchasing the glasses when they are priced at $50. If I happen to enjoy the services that the sunglasses provide me with more than what I would do if I spent those resources elsewhere, then I would buy them. Notice how my decision would change if there were no money price to allocate the good. If glasses were priced at zero, I am very likely to purchase them, even though I do not value them nearly as much as someone else, and even though I do not value them as much as the resources that were used to make those glasses. But since I did not have to part with an equivalent amount of resources, I purchased them. The world is poorer for it, even if I am nominally better off.
Contrast this to what happens when Lord Obama makes the price zero, he encourages me NOT to care about what others think or want – in fact, the socialist dream of providing goods free to everyone in the name of community, encourages precisely the opposite behavior in us. Just think what would happen if Amazon announced today that the Kindle was “free” to the first 100,000 customers that showed up in some particular place at some particular time. And compare it to what happens when the price is $495.
But the reason for the title of this post is this – even my best students are confused when I argue that willingness to pay a money price is the best way indicator of the value of a good to someone, and certainly allocating goods via the price system and relying on willingness to pay is the only just way to ration scarce goods. Why? Because they fall into the collectivist trap that leads them to forget that candy bars do not simply rain down from the sky. There is not enough stuff to go around. And once you recognize this fact … this unrelenting and tyrannical fact … then you must understand that something has to allocate who gets it (and in fact who produces it). If not the price system, then some other mechanism gets in line (no pun intended). It can be queuing, it can be lottery, it can be force, it can be good looks, it can be bribes, it can be political decisions, etc. And ALL of these are FAR inferior ways of allocating goods.
Why? Because even if those allocating mechanisms got goods to the people that did in fact value them the most – they ALL ignore the fact that producers need to be incentivized to deliver the goods. There is simply not enough compassion, goodwill, love or any of that to go around to induce me to make sunglasses for you. But furthermore, each of those rationing mechanisms is entirely wasteful. All of the things that people do under those mechanisms to compete for the goods (and compete they will my socialist brother), destroy wealth. That is because the resources used to get to the front of the line, to rig the lottery, the get better looking, could have been employed productively in the creation of goods and services that were of value to the rest of us. Otherwise these rationing mechanisms are all like arms-races, zero-sum games that happen to be the Pet Peeve of many lefty, socialist, corporatists these days. Why is it that they can nitpick about the possibility of zero-sum competition in certain market elements, and then forget that once they impose their political and paternalistic fix for such competition, they MUST, by definition, move to a system that is even more “arms-racy”? Read any of the behavioralists and the conspicuous consumptionists to see what I mean.
But that leaves un-addressed the notion that willingness to pay via money prices is the way to go. I briefly sketched out above why using this mechanism actually encourages positive sum economic outcomes. Why? Because when goods are allocated using the price system, you get things by bidding more for them. But if you lose in the process of bidding, you are still left with all of the goods and services that you had to create in order to secure the money in the first place. Society is richer, and you can still bid for other goods in a world where more goods have been created. Beyond that, why is willingness to pay (as revealed by people’s actual behavior as opposed to what they tell an interviewer) still a great measure of how much one values a good? Well, if you understand that money is simply a short-term financial asset that represents a claim on goods and services produced, then you realize that “willingness-to-pay” is simply shorthand for saying “how much labor effort I am willing to exert to produce goods and services that are valuable to others.” And once you make that realization, is there any better indication of how much someone wants something than what they are willing to sacrifice to get it? Simply standing in line longer than someone else is not the same thing. You can even argue that such a thing is inversely related to how much someone really values a good or service.
I still get confusion because people argue that many people have no money, so allocating goods by money prices is unfair and unjust. But once you understand that money simply represents goods and services that you have produced, and that are found to be valuable by your fellow citizens, you are partway to addressing this dilemma. Everyone has the ability to produce – and the natural state of nature is non-production – it is poverty. Wealth and happiness is not an entitlement, they can only be possible when you take efforts to produce things of value (broadly defined too). The collectivists among us run away from this reality by talking about “causes of poverty” as if nothingness has a cause. Wealth and somethingness is the thing to be explained, and it is up to the astute reader to understand what things make it difficult for people to move from a state of nothingness and into a state of somethingness.
But that’s just not fair they all say. We will address this in extreme detail in the near future. Let me end with a simple story, and one that is not apocryphal. People without the means to purchase sunglasses (for example) often have people advocating on their behalf claiming that if they only had the money (and remember what money means) that they would, in fact, but them for $50. Does a commercial societarian such as myself have any issues with that? No – if they truly valued it like they said they do, then we should see the following. In every case when someone “gifts” a pair of sunglasses to them, we should see them hold onto the sunglasses. But what do we see in most cases? We see them turn around and sell them for $50, or even less, and then use those proceeds to purchase other goods and services that they value. When it comes time to put their money where their mouth is, you know what typically happens.
Next up – what people MUST mean when they argue that Walmart is exploiting its workers.
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May 9, 2009 at 1:41 am
I sure hope your students appreciate your lectures, if the above were notes from a recent one.
Who are these people who argue that people have no money? Your fellow professors at the U of R?
Everybody has money, from time to time, especially here in the US. Not everybody is rolling in it like Uncle Scrooge, but we are a prosperous nation. There is always someone out there who will hire you if you are willing to show up and follow instructions, and a promotion is just around the corner if you can demonstrate a few ounces of eagerness. You can even start your own business, assuming that you can afford the occupancy permit, the licensing fees, and the real estate taxes, and demonstrate your viability to the bank and your relatives that you can turn a profit.
The burr under Obama’s saddle is that some people are more deserving of other people’s money, or their ox, or their ass, or anything that belongs to their neighbor. Therefore, the government should be allowed to declare that if they plug in capital into a failing business they are allowed to take whatever they deem fair, because it’s the law of the jungle. What they fail to recognize is that their every move discourages people from taking the risk of actually making something for sale, which is the wellspring of wealth.
Thanks, wintercow, for another good essay.
Now, to throw some food into the cafeteria air, I take issue with your use of the phrase, “to have issues” , meaning that one disagrees with, or is sickened and revolted by, or agrees with in part, with some argument.
I’ts permissible for John McLaughlin to ask Eleanor Clift about “Issue One” or to discuss how Queen Elizabeth’s issue are behaving, but one should not have issues with those who have issues with those who have issues with them. Et Cetera.
May 9, 2009 at 8:20 am
Excellent analogy and explanation. If only others could see things that clearly…
May 11, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I like to emphasize that the producer surplus also includes wages of the workers. A lot of times, it seems people assume a Marxist position that the producers are these rich managers.
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