Rose V. Ferlita (born December 26, 1945 in Tampa, Florida) is an American pharmacist and politician affiliated with the Republican Party.
Early life
She was raised in Ybor City and grew up working with her family at the Ferlita Bakery. Ferlita attended high school at the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa and later enrolled at Loyola University New Orleans for her undergraduate studies. She completed her graduate courses at the University of Florida, College of Pharmacy, in Gainesville, Florida.
Early career
Rose Ferlita attained her business experience by serving 18 years as a pharmacist in the corporate world with Eckerd and CVS Corporation in Hillsborough County, Florida. In 1984, she founded Rose Drugs, Inc., where she served the pharmacy needs of Seminole Heights, College Hill and surrounding areas.
Political career
In March 1999, boosted by a grassroots effort, Ferlita won her first election to Tampa City Council. She served as the District 2 Citywide Tampa City Council Representative and was subsequently re-elected in March 2003.
In 2006, Rose Ferlita ran to fill the vacant seat in the District 1 Hillsborough County Commission race previously held by Kathy Castor, who had successfully run for Florida's 11th Congressional District. In accordance with Florida election law, Ferlita submitted her resignation to the City Council prior to the elections for County Commission. After a heated Republican primary, she won with more than 53% of the votes during the September 5, 2006 primary election. Two months later at the General Election on November 7, 2006 she secured another election victory with more than 58% of the votes.
On July 8, 2010, Ferlita announced her intent to run for mayor of Tampa in 2011. On March 22, 2011, during her watch party at the Sons of Italy Hall in West Tampa, she conceded victory to Democrat Bob Buckhorn with 37% of the vote to his 63%, stating to her friends and supporters that in the end "it's not about the race you lost. It's about the friends you have."
Rose Ferlita currently lives in with her two rescue dogs Hal and Murray.
Elected and appointed offices
*Hillsborough County of Florida, County Commissioner, District 1; November 2006
*City of Tampa Council Member, District Two, Citywide; April 1999 - November 2006
*City of Tampa Public Safety Chair
*City of Tampa Public Works Vice Chair
*Public Transportation Commission
*Public Safety Coordinating Council
Awards and recognitions
*2011 FBI Director's Community Leadership Awards for her work in starting Bully Busters, a comprehensive nationwide anti-bullying program in Hillsborough County. Presented March 16, 2012 in Washington, DC
*The Elizabeth Prebich Elected Official Leadership Award for 2008 from the National Association of Counties (NACHSA). This award is for distinguished leadership in human services for an elected official whose efforts and commitment have helped increase awareness of the critical role that county human services agencies play in local, state and national arenas, March 2, 2008.
* Italian-American Women of Excellence Award, October, 2004
* The Florida Pharmacy Association honored Rose Ferlita in July 2000 with the James H. Beal Florida Pharmacist of the Year. This honor was bestowed upon her by her fellow pharmacists statewide in recognition of her "outstanding service to pharmacy".
* Faces and Places - "Drug store owner has cure for neighborhood woes". The Tampa Tribune Nov. 23, 1993
* Best of the Bay '94, Drug Store Category, Creative Loafing, September 1994
* "Pharmacy Spotlight" Pharmacy Times, October, 1994
* "Independent Superstars", 1996 Drug Topics, The Drug Topics Honor Roll, October 1995 and 1996
* "Woman of the '90's", St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Edition, May 2, 1994
* Florida Pharmacy Association's James H. Beal Award, "Pharmacist of the Year 2000"
* Harvest of Hope Political Leadership Award, 2005
* "Prescriptions for Success", The Tampa Tribune, February 24, 2005
Early life
She was raised in Ybor City and grew up working with her family at the Ferlita Bakery. Ferlita attended high school at the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa and later enrolled at Loyola University New Orleans for her undergraduate studies. She completed her graduate courses at the University of Florida, College of Pharmacy, in Gainesville, Florida.
Early career
Rose Ferlita attained her business experience by serving 18 years as a pharmacist in the corporate world with Eckerd and CVS Corporation in Hillsborough County, Florida. In 1984, she founded Rose Drugs, Inc., where she served the pharmacy needs of Seminole Heights, College Hill and surrounding areas.
Political career
In March 1999, boosted by a grassroots effort, Ferlita won her first election to Tampa City Council. She served as the District 2 Citywide Tampa City Council Representative and was subsequently re-elected in March 2003.
In 2006, Rose Ferlita ran to fill the vacant seat in the District 1 Hillsborough County Commission race previously held by Kathy Castor, who had successfully run for Florida's 11th Congressional District. In accordance with Florida election law, Ferlita submitted her resignation to the City Council prior to the elections for County Commission. After a heated Republican primary, she won with more than 53% of the votes during the September 5, 2006 primary election. Two months later at the General Election on November 7, 2006 she secured another election victory with more than 58% of the votes.
On July 8, 2010, Ferlita announced her intent to run for mayor of Tampa in 2011. On March 22, 2011, during her watch party at the Sons of Italy Hall in West Tampa, she conceded victory to Democrat Bob Buckhorn with 37% of the vote to his 63%, stating to her friends and supporters that in the end "it's not about the race you lost. It's about the friends you have."
Rose Ferlita currently lives in with her two rescue dogs Hal and Murray.
Elected and appointed offices
*Hillsborough County of Florida, County Commissioner, District 1; November 2006
*City of Tampa Council Member, District Two, Citywide; April 1999 - November 2006
*City of Tampa Public Safety Chair
*City of Tampa Public Works Vice Chair
*Public Transportation Commission
*Public Safety Coordinating Council
Awards and recognitions
*2011 FBI Director's Community Leadership Awards for her work in starting Bully Busters, a comprehensive nationwide anti-bullying program in Hillsborough County. Presented March 16, 2012 in Washington, DC
*The Elizabeth Prebich Elected Official Leadership Award for 2008 from the National Association of Counties (NACHSA). This award is for distinguished leadership in human services for an elected official whose efforts and commitment have helped increase awareness of the critical role that county human services agencies play in local, state and national arenas, March 2, 2008.
* Italian-American Women of Excellence Award, October, 2004
* The Florida Pharmacy Association honored Rose Ferlita in July 2000 with the James H. Beal Florida Pharmacist of the Year. This honor was bestowed upon her by her fellow pharmacists statewide in recognition of her "outstanding service to pharmacy".
* Faces and Places - "Drug store owner has cure for neighborhood woes". The Tampa Tribune Nov. 23, 1993
* Best of the Bay '94, Drug Store Category, Creative Loafing, September 1994
* "Pharmacy Spotlight" Pharmacy Times, October, 1994
* "Independent Superstars", 1996 Drug Topics, The Drug Topics Honor Roll, October 1995 and 1996
* "Woman of the '90's", St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Edition, May 2, 1994
* Florida Pharmacy Association's James H. Beal Award, "Pharmacist of the Year 2000"
* Harvest of Hope Political Leadership Award, 2005
* "Prescriptions for Success", The Tampa Tribune, February 24, 2005
The Barton Evaporation Engine (BEE) is a heat engine invented in 2004 by Dr Noel Barton of Sunoba Pty Ltd. The concept is patented in Australia (Australian patent 2007240126).
Principle
The evaporation engine works by evaporative cooling of dry air at reduced pressure. Key steps are: (1) adiabatic expansion of unsaturated air; (2) evaporative cooling at reduced pressure; and (3) re-compression back to atmospheric pressure with further evaporation. Net work is available in the cycle, so the engine produces power and cooled moist air from water and hot dry air:
: hot dry air + water → power + cooled moist air
The remarkable property of the evaporation engine is that the temperature of an air stream is reduced at the same time that power is produced. This occurs without violation of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics because the entropy increase as water is evaporated outweighs the entropy decrease as the air cools.
With a modest amount of passive solar pre-heating, the engine theoretically is able to produce power in hot arid climates. As well as being a heat engine, the evaporation engine can also be used as an evaporative cooler.
The evaporation engine has broadly comparable theoretical efficiency to simple Rankine steam turbines, without need for high-pressure boiler or condenser. The evaporation engine can function well on industrial waste heat, particularly the exhaust gas of open-cycle gas turbines.
The thermodynamic cycle can be achieved by at least three separate mechanisms. The most straightforward mechanism is a piston-cylinder device, for which a full thermodynamic analysis was published in 2008. Barton also built an experimental piston-cylinder engine. that provided confirmation of the theory.
As a second option, the evaporation engine can also be configured in continuous-flow form, for which a full analysis was published in 2012.
There is a third possible manifestation based on the Bernoulli effect for compressible gases. As a compressible gas flows through a narrow orifice, the pressure and temperature decrease, thereby allowing the possibility of evaporative cooling at reduced pressure in the high-speed section. On recovery to slow speeds, there will be surplus pressure that can drive a turbine. Barton has also analyzed this mechanism. The analysis has not been published but is available on request to Sunoba Pty Ltd. The Bernoulli turbine would face extreme (perhaps insurmountable) difficulties in construction, much more so than with the other two versions.
Performance
In general, the efficiency of the evaporation engine increases with the inlet temperature and the expansion ratio. As an example of the output from a piston-cylinder engine, air at 30°C and 47% relative humidity pre-heated to 85°C can theoretically deliver 4.9 kJ work output per kg of dry air by evaporation of 19 ml of water per kg of air at an expansion ratio of 1.64. If the cycle time is 1 second, the theoretical power output would be 4.9 kW/kg of air.
Barton (at www.sunoba.com.au/previous) gives an example of the evaporation engine as an evaporative cooler, that is operating on ambient air without heating prior to the inlet. The inlet conditions were: temperature 45°C, partial pressures 99.3 kPa (air) and 2 kPa (vapour). The volume expansion ratio was 1.2 and the outlet conditions were: temperature 25.5°C, partial pressures 98.1 kPa (air) and 3.2 kPa (vapour). Under these conditions, the net work available in the cycle is 788 J/kg dry air.
If the inlet air is sourced from an open-cycle gas turbine exhaust at around 500°C, Barton has shown that the evaporation engine can provide about a 20% boost to the power output of the gas turbine. It should be noted, however, that the power boost depends sensitively on the adiabatic efficiency of expansion and compression.
A key issue with this engine is the water consumption, which can be prohibitive for low expansion ratios and low inlet temperatures. The engine works best in hot dry climates, but those are typically the locations where water is most scarce.
Other studies by Barton involving the evaporation engine include:
* Pre-heating of the air prior to the engine inlet using a horizontal double-glazed canopy.
* Pre-heating of the air prior to the engine inlet using a sloping double-glazed canopy.
* Integration of the evaporation engine with thermal storage in a pebble bed.
Abstracts and comments on all cited articles are available at www.sunoba.com.au/references.
Principle
The evaporation engine works by evaporative cooling of dry air at reduced pressure. Key steps are: (1) adiabatic expansion of unsaturated air; (2) evaporative cooling at reduced pressure; and (3) re-compression back to atmospheric pressure with further evaporation. Net work is available in the cycle, so the engine produces power and cooled moist air from water and hot dry air:
: hot dry air + water → power + cooled moist air
The remarkable property of the evaporation engine is that the temperature of an air stream is reduced at the same time that power is produced. This occurs without violation of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics because the entropy increase as water is evaporated outweighs the entropy decrease as the air cools.
With a modest amount of passive solar pre-heating, the engine theoretically is able to produce power in hot arid climates. As well as being a heat engine, the evaporation engine can also be used as an evaporative cooler.
The evaporation engine has broadly comparable theoretical efficiency to simple Rankine steam turbines, without need for high-pressure boiler or condenser. The evaporation engine can function well on industrial waste heat, particularly the exhaust gas of open-cycle gas turbines.
The thermodynamic cycle can be achieved by at least three separate mechanisms. The most straightforward mechanism is a piston-cylinder device, for which a full thermodynamic analysis was published in 2008. Barton also built an experimental piston-cylinder engine. that provided confirmation of the theory.
As a second option, the evaporation engine can also be configured in continuous-flow form, for which a full analysis was published in 2012.
There is a third possible manifestation based on the Bernoulli effect for compressible gases. As a compressible gas flows through a narrow orifice, the pressure and temperature decrease, thereby allowing the possibility of evaporative cooling at reduced pressure in the high-speed section. On recovery to slow speeds, there will be surplus pressure that can drive a turbine. Barton has also analyzed this mechanism. The analysis has not been published but is available on request to Sunoba Pty Ltd. The Bernoulli turbine would face extreme (perhaps insurmountable) difficulties in construction, much more so than with the other two versions.
Performance
In general, the efficiency of the evaporation engine increases with the inlet temperature and the expansion ratio. As an example of the output from a piston-cylinder engine, air at 30°C and 47% relative humidity pre-heated to 85°C can theoretically deliver 4.9 kJ work output per kg of dry air by evaporation of 19 ml of water per kg of air at an expansion ratio of 1.64. If the cycle time is 1 second, the theoretical power output would be 4.9 kW/kg of air.
Barton (at www.sunoba.com.au/previous) gives an example of the evaporation engine as an evaporative cooler, that is operating on ambient air without heating prior to the inlet. The inlet conditions were: temperature 45°C, partial pressures 99.3 kPa (air) and 2 kPa (vapour). The volume expansion ratio was 1.2 and the outlet conditions were: temperature 25.5°C, partial pressures 98.1 kPa (air) and 3.2 kPa (vapour). Under these conditions, the net work available in the cycle is 788 J/kg dry air.
If the inlet air is sourced from an open-cycle gas turbine exhaust at around 500°C, Barton has shown that the evaporation engine can provide about a 20% boost to the power output of the gas turbine. It should be noted, however, that the power boost depends sensitively on the adiabatic efficiency of expansion and compression.
A key issue with this engine is the water consumption, which can be prohibitive for low expansion ratios and low inlet temperatures. The engine works best in hot dry climates, but those are typically the locations where water is most scarce.
Other studies by Barton involving the evaporation engine include:
* Pre-heating of the air prior to the engine inlet using a horizontal double-glazed canopy.
* Pre-heating of the air prior to the engine inlet using a sloping double-glazed canopy.
* Integration of the evaporation engine with thermal storage in a pebble bed.
Abstracts and comments on all cited articles are available at www.sunoba.com.au/references.
Wei Shi is an associate professor in the School of Information Technology(CSIT) at Carleton University. She is cross-appointed by the System and Computer Engineering Department. Her research interests include big data analytics; data privacy; cloud and data centre network; distributed computing in mobile agent systems; wireless sensor actuator/robot networks; and privacy protection.
Shi’s research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and IBM .
<h2>Education</h2>
Shi received her Bachelors of Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology in China and completed her Masters and PhD in Computer Science at Carleton University.
Career
Prior to joining Carleton University, Wei Shi worked in the Game Development and Entrepreneurship program in the Faculty of Business and IT, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).
Shi also worked at the National Information Security in China and for Beijing Founder Order Computer System Ltd. As a project manager in the latter enterprise, she led a team of 30 programmers developing an online welfare registration and distribution system for the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Awards
Shi won best paper awards at the 4th IEEE Cloud and Bigdata Computing (CBDCom 2018) and the 31st Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2018) .
Shi’s research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and IBM .
<h2>Education</h2>
Shi received her Bachelors of Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology in China and completed her Masters and PhD in Computer Science at Carleton University.
Career
Prior to joining Carleton University, Wei Shi worked in the Game Development and Entrepreneurship program in the Faculty of Business and IT, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).
Shi also worked at the National Information Security in China and for Beijing Founder Order Computer System Ltd. As a project manager in the latter enterprise, she led a team of 30 programmers developing an online welfare registration and distribution system for the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Awards
Shi won best paper awards at the 4th IEEE Cloud and Bigdata Computing (CBDCom 2018) and the 31st Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2018) .
Luc Jorgart, better known by his stage name Captain Capone, is an English rapper. His hit song, "Clouds", received over 462,000 plays and was critically acclaimed and received generally good feedback. Captain Capone is also known for his references to pop culture, Referencing things such as and Rick and Morty
Inspirations
Captain Capone has stated his main inspirations are the artists Big L, MF DooM and Masta Ace. He has also stated in an interview how he would love to collaborate with MF DooM
Early Life
Not much is known about Captain Capone's life except for the fact he has been writing music since the age of 12 or 13
Interests
Captain Capone also takes an interest in philosophy shown by his frequent tweets which present his philosophical interests to the fans. This tends to confuse many who are unfamiliar to his music.
Inspirations
Captain Capone has stated his main inspirations are the artists Big L, MF DooM and Masta Ace. He has also stated in an interview how he would love to collaborate with MF DooM
Early Life
Not much is known about Captain Capone's life except for the fact he has been writing music since the age of 12 or 13
Interests
Captain Capone also takes an interest in philosophy shown by his frequent tweets which present his philosophical interests to the fans. This tends to confuse many who are unfamiliar to his music.