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According to TV Guide's preview of Nikita's new season, "Like her mentor Nikita, Alex has also found love in the same line of work. Agent Sean Pierce (Dillon Casey) is as goofy as he is dedicated, but their romance is still relatively new. "It's going to be like Alex has never loved before," Fonseca said. "Sean really represents stability and a normalcy, as normal as these guys can be. They both share a love for their family. There's something so beautiful about them and their love. I just don't know if it's really realistic for Alex. He's going to want to get her away from this whole lifestyle of Division." Silverstein added: "Nikita's fight is something that Alex believes in. I think she needs to believe that because she's got a lot of repressed stuff from her backstory that she hasn't dealt with." So will there be love in bloom for the couple to be known as Salex?
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The Voice UK singer Sophie May Williams has been writing her own material ahead of the competition's battle stage.
The teenage singer has been busy creating new songs, busking at Trinity Walk and Trinity Leeds, as well as gigging in local pubs and clubs.
Sophie May, 17, appeared on the blind auditions of the BBC show on Saturday, January 18, when she sang Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time.
She was put through to the next stage by Black Eyed Peas star Will-i-am, who left it to the last minute to push his button and spin his chair around.
Since appearing on television, the Outwood Grange Academy student has been preparing for the battle stage, due to be aired later this year, which will see her pitted against another one of Will-i-am's contestants.
She is one of 12 singers on Team Will. The other three coaches are Kylie Minogue, Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson and Sir Tom Jones.
Sophie May, of The Orchard, Wrenthorpe, said: "I am really excited about the battle stage. I have met some amazing people so far and it has just been so much fun.
"My friends and family are really excited for me as well and they keep talking to me about the show. They have been so supportive. But at school everyone is just treating me normally, which is how I prefer it, to be honest.
"I've been writing some new songs and busking around town, just to practice my set. I'm going to continue busking over the next few weeks and I am recording some songs to put on YouTube as well. It is just about exposure and doing some promotion too."
The battle stage, which will whittle each team down to seven, will be shown on TV around March time.
The next steps for Sophie May, if she is successful, would be the knockout stage and finally the live shows with audience voting.
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Any kind of leak and you've suddenly got 5 million gallons of contaminated water.
Of course, this assumes that your containment pool doesn't leak (yea right).
Leaks can be detected and contained at relatively low levels and happen with "big nukes" too. And it's nowhere near the environmental risk that meltdowns are.
and what happens if the earth splits and the water drains away?
Depends on the design. But if it's anything based on the CANDU designs, no coolent is no problem. It just stops on it's own.
Not to mention that we're already running down our aquifers...
Kinda wish the article made any attempt to explain how "put it in a pool of water" makes it supposedly automatically safe in the case of accident. Wouldn't they still need pumps to circulate the water through the reactor to absorb the heat?
Wouldn't they still need pumps to circulate the water through the reactor to absorb the heat?
Assuming they designed it well, the convection currents caused by the heating of the water would be sufficient to circulate the water through the reactor.
Five million gallons is absolutely nothing for a power station, even for a desert community. It's a cube less than 20 m on each side.
Much, much, much more water is already blown into the atmosphere by the cooling towers which are a necessary part of any nuclear, coal, gas, solar-thermal, or other steam turbine-driving technology.
Actually it's a good bit more than a 20 m cube; not less.
5 million gallons of fresh water times 8.33 lb/gal = 41.7 million lb divided by 2000 lb/ton = 20,900 tons = 19,000 tonnes
19,000 tonnes = 19,000 m^3 = 26.7 x 26.7 x 26.7 m
(minor roundoff errors are of no significance to the point)
That is one hell of a lot of water. Not from a use standpoint; normally there would be zero usage once filled; but in case it gets contaminated and then leaks away.
Good catch; I did the calculation earlier and forgot which way I had rounded. It's a 30-m cube.
But it doesn't matter, because 5MG is not a hell of a lot of water from a utility-scale water management perspective (the field I work in, incidentally). This plant (http://www.srpnet.com/about/stations/kyrene.aspx), which is a 520 MW power plant, uses more than 3 MG daily in make-up water. Others use more or less.
The GP was musing about impact on declining aquifers, and my point was that the communities buying po
Not to mention that we're already running down our aquifers...
Which doesn't matter much because there are huge reserves of water under the ocean [the-americ...terest.com].
Not to mention the amount of water we are talking about is really tiny when compared to the amount used even by a small city.
5 million gallons may sound like a lot, but it's not event that big. 5 million gallons, equates to...a pool the size of an american football field, at 4 meters deep.
So how big does a pool have to be before you consider it to be big?
Did you know that they seal garbage dumps? That's an enormous area. There are entire Superfund sites that are multiple times that size, completely sealed. Then there are the neutrino detectors, which are not only huge and sealed, but sealed to the point where no impurities at all can contaminate the detector. So yeah, it's a good sized pool, but we know how to do that really well.
It wouldn't be hard to contain the water
This company can produce power now. Focus Fusion might be able to produce significant amounts of excess power in a 10-25 year time frame. Or maybe never.
Focus Fusion might be viable on the horizon, especially at a potential price tag of only $226 million, but you can get a Hybrid Fusion for about $22,000 MSRP.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/senior-fusion-researchers-give-major.html [nextbigfuture.com]
In a major endorsement of the fusion energy research and development program of start-up Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP), a committee of senior fusion researchers, led by a former head of the US fusion program, has concluded that the innovative effort deserves "a much higher level of investment based on their considerable progress to date." The report concludes that "In the committee's view [LPP's] approach to fusion power is worthy of a considerable expansion of effort."
Talk to Ford - you might be able to sell 'em just on the fact that supporting "Focus Fusion" is free advertising for two of their models...
Nobody is buying it, unless very short to you is 30 years. That is the half-life of Cesium-137, and Cesium-137 is hideously harmful.
Nothing magic happens after 30 years, either. In 30 years it is half as hideously harmful as it is now. In 60 years, 1/4. In 90 years, 1/8. Still hideously harmful.
And when its not windy you have a 0MW wind farm.
The biggest problem with wind is that it doesn't adjust to demand. Even in reliably windy areas, you sometimes get a calm day. At least with solar, you get peak output during peak energy demand (hot summer days, although the demand is shifted more to the late afternoon. There's a time lag as buildings and the air heat up. Peak production is 10am-4pm, peak demand Is noon-8pm). Ultimately, if you don't want to burn fossil fuels, nuclear is a very dependable strategy. Wind is fine if your alternative sou
Offshore wind runs about $5/MW of dataplate energy according to a report today on the BBC about a major project that's just been cancelled -- £5.4 billion ($8.6 billion) for an 1800MW capacity wind turbine array (Three hundred 6MW units). Offshore gets a little bit better capacity factor than land-based units, maybe 30% so that's 540MW average over a year or so. Expected lifespan of offshore wind turbines is about 15-20 years but the industry has been quite coy over failure rates and actual operating
You are taking a pessimistic view on the wind power side here.
In Denmark, we just completed a 400 MW offshore site which gets a non-inflation-adjusted strike price at 0.19 USD/kWh for the first 10-12 years. After that it operates on market terms. The capacity factor is expected to be around 45-55% as far as I know (other offshore sites have similar factors - the numbers are publicly available in an open catalogue of all Danish turbines). Modern turbines have much improved capacity factors compared to the ol
I understand the site off Tiree for the planned 1.8GW dataplate wind farm involved hard-rock mounts for the turbines and apparently the engineering costs for the mounts were going to raise the price -- this wind farm was to be situated in the north Atlantic which is a much harsher environment than the sheltered southern reaches of the North Sea. Some other wind farms in the south of Britain closer to major population centres in shallower more sheltered areas such as the Irish Sea have gone ahead at that str
Sounds like this is just big enough to power a huge data center or corporate campus. So this is probably not a plant for the average citizen, but one to make power cheaper for corporate users. No surprise. It helps Google get cheap power, while we keep paying for coal and gas.
You don't use just one of them.
45MW is about the same as a GE LM6000 natural gas turbine. You stick three, or four, or a dozen of those together to make a single plant of worthwhile size. You'd use these mini-nukes in the same manner.
....what ever happened to these?
China gets one running and...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor [wikipedia.org]
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/2001/october/a6oct01.html outlines the issues with pebble bed reactors.
5 million gallons of water is approximately the size of one football field x 12 feet deep... or 360' x 160' x 12'
Here's a description without the hype. [nrc.gov] This has a small containment vessel, only slightly larger than the reactor pressure vessel. It's a vacuum bottle setup - there's normally a vacuum between the pressure vessel and the containment, as insulation. In an emergency, the reactor vents into the containment vacuum, which allows more heat conduction to the outside. The outside water pool is just a big heat sink.
Most containment vessels are much bigger than the reactor vessel. One of the problems with the re
This design is built primarily off site, which should greatly reduce construction costs. In addition, a standard design would reduce O&M as well.
Its modular design allows refueling of a plant while the other continue to operate, which could yield large savings since you could refuel during light load periods and stagger the refueling throughout the year.
Turbine design would be interesting - do you build a turbine for max anticipated load or for installed laid and then upgrade?
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Region's hourly wage higher than national average, other rates lag
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The typical Capital Region worker's hourly wage is 4 percent higher than the national average, according to the latest report from the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the median wage, the point at which half the people make more and half less, is more than 11 percent higher than the national median.
The figures are from the May 2013 Occupational Employment and Wages report, the most recent available, which was issued this week.
The survey said the average hourly wage locally was $23.19, compared to $22.33 for the nation. The median wage, $18.79, was more than 11 percent greater than the national median of $16.87.
Those figures are higher than for any other metropolitan area in the state except New York City.
Still, not every occupational group is doing as well. Legal occupations, for example, averaged $45.48 an hour, about 5 percent less than the national average.
Computer and mathematical occupations, at $35.02, were 11 percent below the national figure, while life, physical and social science jobs, averaging $30.02 an hour, paid 10 percent less.
And some occupational groups did relatively well, including farming, fishing and forestry. At $17.23 an hour, that category paid 47 percent above the national average of $11.70.
The protective service category ($24.16 an hour) was 15 percent above the national average, as was production, at $19.31 an hour.
No explanation was provided for the differences, although it's likely that the mix of skilled positions within a group, relative experience, living costs and supply and demand all play a role.
A separate part of the survey compares the concentration of certain jobs in the Capital Region to their concentration nationally. If the so-called location quotient is 1.0, that means the concentrations are equal.
The survey found the Capital Region had nearly four times as many labor relations specialists as the nation as a whole, and nearly three times as many claims adjusters, examiners and investigators, and budget analysts.
Underrepresented were logisticians and tax preparers (both with a location quotient of just 0.4).
The region, dependant on state jobs, has a high concentration of tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents. The region had nearly eight times as many people in those occupations as the nation overall.
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periodictable 1.4.1
Extensible periodic table of the elements
Latest Version: 1.5.0
This package provides a periodic table of the elements with support for mass, density and xray/neutron scattering information.
Masses, densities and natural abundances come from the NIST Physics Laboratory, but do not represent a critical evaluation by NIST scientists.
Neutron scattering calculations use values collected by the Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities. These values do corresponding to those from other packages, though there are some differences depending to the tables used. Bound coherent neutron scattering for gold in particular is significantly different from older value: 7.63(6) as measured in 1974 compared to 7.90(7) as measured in 1990.
X-ray scattering calculations use a combination of empirical and theoretical values from the LBL Center for X-ray Optics. These values differ from those given in other sources such as the International Tables for Crystallography, Volume C, and so may give different results from other packages.
Change history
1.4.1 2014-02-04
- default density is now the isotopic density rather than the natural density
1.4.0 2013-12-20
- support python 3.3
1.3.10 2013-10-25
- fix activation calculation to ignore fast neutrons in thermal environment
- add emission spectra for remaining elements above neon
1.3.9 2013-04-23
- Update requirements to pyparsing<2.0.0 (we don't support python 3 yet)
1.3.8 2013-04-08
- formula parser supports density spec and mix by weight/mix by volume
- py2exe/py2app wrapping now includes missing activation.dat
- skipping bad 1.3.7 build which didn't include all changes
1.3.6 2013-03-05
- add activation decay time to neutron activation calculator
- Change neutron scattering calculations for incoherent cross section to be the linear combination of the incoherent cross sections of the individual atoms rather than total cross section minus the coherent cross section. Penetration depth of the unscattered beam still uses the total cross section plus the absorption cross section.
1.3.5 2013-02-26
- formulas now report charge and mass_fraction
- formula parser accepts ions as Yy{#+} or Yy[#]{#+} for isotopes
- support neutron activation calculations
- support xray refraction index and mirror reflectivity
- update X-ray scattering tables for Zr
- adjust ion mass for number of electrons
- ions now display as Yy{#+} rather than Yy^{#+}
- fix formula.natural_density
- fix formula.hill so C,H come first
- fix element.interatomic_distance
- formula(value=…) -> formula(compound=…)
1.3 2010-12-05
- mix_by_weight and mix_by_volume formula constructors
- use natural density to set density for isotope specific formulas
- add neutron_scattering function which returns xs, sld and penetration depth
- need wavelength= or energy= for xray/neutron sld
- improved docs and testing
1.2 2010-04-28
- support pickle: id(H) == id(loads(dumps(H)))
- support ions, with magnetic form factors and x-ray f0 scattering factor
- support py2exe wrappers
- allow density to be calculated from structure (bcc, fcc, hcp, cubic, diamond)
- estimate molecular volume
- support private tables with some values replaced by application
- rename package periodictable
- rename table to periodictable.elements
- neutron sld returns real and imaginary coherent and incoherent instead of coherent, absorption and incoherent
- bug fix: sld for H[2] was wrong when queried before sld for H.
- remove CrysFML ionic radius definitions
1.1 2009-01-20
Restructure package, separating tests into different directory
When defining table extensions, you should now do:
from elements.core import periodic_table, Element, Isotope
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from elements import periodic_table from elements.elements import Element, Isotope
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Herbal medicine courses are basically included in homeopathic, naturopathic as well as oriental medicine programs. There are large number of herbal medicine courses that are designed as certificated and degree programs (i.e., herbal sciences).
Though there are many herbology classes that require physical attendance. There are some courses in herbal medicine that can be taken via home study or distance learning. It is always a good idea to review potential healing arts schools for the availability of these courses, and which one will best suit your personal and professional needs. You may navigate to aspirenaturalhealth.com/natural-medicine-evaluations/, if you want to know more about herbal medicines.
In addition to Western practices in botanical medicine, courses in herbal medicine instruct in the principles and philosophies of Eastern medicine as well. While academics may vary, comprehensive herbalism programs generally include studies in herbal identification and formulation, Materia Medica, anatomy and physiology, herbal medicine making, aromatherapy, herbal gardening, and more.
In advanced courses of herbal medicine, students earn their Bachelor of Science degree with a major in herbal sciences. A typical curriculum in this educational program involves anatomy, microbiology, physiology, pharmacology, herbal sciences, biochemistry, organic chemistry, botany, herbal preparation, and natural health sciences, among others. Generally, bachelor degree programs take about two years to complete; and often require basic educational prerequisites.
In addition to core training, elective courses in herbal medicine may include organic gardening, flower essences, pharmacognosy, Ayurvedic medicine, medicinal mushrooms, cooking with herbs, and more.


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Five days of adrenaline fueled racing, as the elite of the slalom world once again fight it out for a share of the €40,000 prize purse and those crucial world ranking points.
After the event in Korea, Antoine Albeau (RRD / NeilPryde) currently leads the world championship by the narrowest of margins. Despite not winning a single elimination in Korea, Albeau proved that if you are consistent in every elimination, then you can still come out on top. Expect to see the big Frenchman challenging for top honours again as he looks to cement his number one spot.
The emerging star from Korea was Antoine Questel (Starboard / Loft Sails). Not only did he claim his first ever elimination victory but he also had his first event win in his sights. If it hadn't of been for a massive mistake, sailing to the wrong buoy, then he'd almost definitely find himself at the top of the rankings. The Frenchman looked blisteringly fast in a straight line, super smooth in the turns and extremely composed under pressure, for the most part, during Korea, and a hugely impressive week was capped off by him taking second place. The rest of the sailors have now been alerted to his presence, so it will interesting to see if he can replicate the same form he showed at the last event. If he can then he's a real contender for the title and a name to look out for in years to come.
Micah Buzianis (JP / MauiSails) claimed his first event victory in a long time. Buzianis, just like Albeau, didn't win elimination during Korea, however the American showed robot like consistency for the entire event, which was the foundation of his success. He also demonstrated time and time again that his starts are perfect and he possesses an almost un-droppable gybe, meaning that once he's at the front he's very hard to pass. Confidence will be sky high, so we can be sure to see Buzianis challenging for the top spots in Costa Brava.
Bjorn Dunkerbeck (Starboard / Severne / Mystic / Dunkerbeck Eyewear / Chris Benz) endured a torrid time in Korea, which was topped off by a freak accident that ended his event prematurely. Thankfully for the terminator his fellow competitors failed to put the remaining nails in his coffin and he still finds himself in third place overall, and more importantly very much still in the title race as we head into the third event of the season. Dunkerbeck didn't look his normal indestructible self in Korea, even before his injury, but we expect him to be back on song in Costa Brava, with his untouchable top speed and flawless gybes, as he looks to take control of the title race.
Ben Van Der Steen (Starboard / Loft / Mystic) showed glimpses of the form which saw him finish in third place last season, as he took fifth in Korea. The Dutchman is one of the quickest guys on the tour, so if he is able to put together a few solid eliminations back-to-back, then we could very easily see him gunning for the top in Spain.
With the rankings being so close after the first two events, there are a whole host of other sailors who are in contention for the top. Britain's Ross Williams (Tabou / Gaastra) claimed his first podium finish for a couple of seasons, and he will be heading to Costa Brava full of confidence after his European Formula success. The Brit looks to be truly back on form and he's definitely one to watch over the coming week. Julien Quentel (RRD / NeilPryde) has looked in fine form and we see no reason for that to change.
Expect to see him burning and turning as well as anyone on the tour, as he looks to keep pace with the boys at the top. Josh Angulo (Angulo / Point-7) continues to look a threatening force, with perfect starts, outstanding speed and his trademark gybes all standing him in good stead. Angulo will be there or there abouts come the end of the week. Of course Jimmy Diaz (Starboard / North), Gonzalo Costa Hoevel (Fanatic / North) and Peter Volwater (Fanatic / Avanti) are all more than capable of competing for those hallowed podium places as well.
With the event rapidly approaching, all that's left for you to do is sit back, relax and watch as tempers and emotions flare in what is certain to be a pivotal event of the season.


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Author Notes: This is my version of creole sauce that is traditionally used in Shrimp Creole. This sauce is excellent with shrimp and rice; I like it over grilled chicken and even scrambled eggs. The seasoning is the way I like it--but please feel free to adjust it to your taste. (Also, if you're familiar with this cuisine, you know that celery is almost always used with onion and bell pepper--it's called the holy trinity. But I dislike cooked celery--it's a texture thing--so I didn't use it. If you like cooked celery, finely chop up a stalk or two and saute it with the onions and bell pepper--it will add a nice flavor.) If you can wait, this sauce is better after sitting in the refrigerator for a few hours or even overnight so that the flavors can meld together. —drbabs
Serves about 4 cups
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 sweet onion, finely chopped
- 1 large bell pepper, finely chopped
- 3 large cloves garlic, minced
- 3 cups tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped. (I've used a box of Pomi chopped tomatoes--including the juice.)
- 1-2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt or Creole seasoning such as Tony Chacere's
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 bay leaf
- Tabasco sauce to taste (You can use cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes if you prefer.)
- Heat vegetable oil in large saucepan over medium heat till shimmering. Saute onion and bell pepper (I like to add a little salt here.), stirring, till onion is translucent. (Add celery with the onion and bell pepper if using.)
- Stir in garlic till fragrant. Reduce heat to low. Add tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, thyme, rosemary, oregano, salt (or Creole seasoning), pepper, paprika and bay leaf. Simmer uncover for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add tabasco, 1 drop at a time, to taste for heat. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.
- Remove bay leaf before serving.
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The Juneau Gun Club (JGC), in cooperation with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G), Juneau Shooting Sports Foundation (JSSF) and the Juneau Archery Club (JAC), enjoyed another successful community Turkey Shoot on Nov. 20. What really made the event a true community success were the many volunteers who participated in acting as event coordinators, range safety officers and the many other tasks that are needed to conduct the shoot.
Those volunteers included Scott Yarnell, Wayne Bertholl, Jay Davis, Geoff Whistler, his son Matt and friends Garret Cheesman and Zac Bicknell, George King, Wayne Nichols and Jon League from JGC; from JSSF, Tom and Cathy Boutin, Linda Flynn, Ken Coate, Jerry Burnett, Angela Hull, Eric Bookless and Bruce Bowler; from JAC, Kirk McBride, Carole Bookless, John Cooper, Richard and Amy Ely and Tim Parove; and from ADF&G's Southeast Region, Doug Larson and Frank Zmuda, with both helping at the indoor range.
Much of the success also goes to Abby Lowell, Outdoors Editor for the Juneau Empire, with her article on the Juneau Gun Club and our community Turkey shoot in the Nov. 19 Empire. In addition, Murray Walsh of KJNO's "Action Line" also did a great job in talking about this community event many times last week during his radio talk show. And lets not forget, Juneau's Helping Hands for the wonderful food service.
Those of you in our community, we thank you for coming out. The public was rewarded by the JAC with 12 turkeys, by JSSF with 18 turkeys and by the JGC with 22 turkeys. We hope you, the public, had as much fun as we did putting on this annual event, now in its fifth decade.
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Well, it is official… today is the grand opening, launch party, liftoff, takeoff, celebration to announce the arrival of
The Many Adventures of Crop Girl!
Gotta love this, eh? My dear friend Stephanie did this super special doodle just for me. How cool is she?
So, as the day wears on, keep checking in because:
I have some fun giveaways for people commenting
My little guys and I will be cropping here at home and I hope to have some fun stuff to share
I hope to have some fun friends maybe stop by and say hi!
I love to crop, talk about crops, organize them, and share my knowledge of them. It is my passion, as it is the heart of the scrapbooking community. It is where I fell in love with the culture of this craft, learned new tricks and tips, tried new products, made new friends, built a new relationship with my mom and my sister… I could go on and on…
The goal of this site is to help inspire people attending crops to try new things, as well as people who host crops!
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Perimeter Public Lectures
Cosmology in the 21st Century
Revolutionary progress has been achieved in the science of cosmology over the past 30 years. Powerful experiments, made possible by new technologies, have transformed our understanding of the universe. We have unveiled the laws of physics that govern time and space on the grandest scales, from the big bang to present day.
Interstellar Voyaging
The discovery of countless exoplanets and new ideas in propulsion physics have resurrected international interest in the ancient concept of humanity traveling far beyond Earth. Such voyages will take place over many generations, requiring careful attention to both biological and cultural change over time. In this talk I will outline the foundations of a biocultural science of long-term space settlement.
Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance." Entanglement is a counterintuitive feature of quantum theory by which two particles are deeply correlated even when separated by vast distances, such that a measurement of one particle instantaneously determines the state of another. Remarkably, quantum entanglement can also happen en masse, determining the macroscopic properties of many electrons in certain crystals.
The concept of supersymmetry, though never observed in nature, has driven a great deal of research in theoretical physics over the past several decades. Much has been learned through this research, but many unresolved questions remain. This presentation will describe how these questions can lead one down a surprising path: toward the dodecaphony of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg.
Mathematics has proven to be "unreasonably effective" in understanding nature. The fundamental laws of physics can be captured in beautiful formulae. In this lecture I want to argue for the reverse effect: Nature is an important source of inspiration for mathematics, even of the purest kind.
The National Ignition Facility (NIF), at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, is the world's most energetic laser system. NIF is capable of producing over 1.8 MJ and 500 TW of ultraviolet light, 100 times more than any other operating laser.
We can set foot on faraway planets, in a sense, by exploring the world beneath our
feet. Underground caves provide unique insights into what we might find beneath
alien landscapes. We are studying caves on Earth to understand how they
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ART; A Heart Of Darkness In the City Of Light
By Michael Kimmelman
Published: July 2, 2006
THE other day St?ane Martin, president of the new Mus?du Quai Branly, was in his wedge-shape office with the picture window overlooking the Seine. Dapper, charming, with the weary politeness of a busy executive who has better things to do, he fetched the latest salvo against his institution, a book by Bernard Dupaigne, and casually tossed it across the table.
The most ambitious museum to open in Paris in 20 years, dedicated to non-European cultures, Quai Branly provoked a ruckus from the instant President Jacques Chirac came up with the idea for it more than a decade ago. It was his monument to French multiculturalism and, perhaps, to himself.
Two beloved Paris institutions had to be dismantled, the Mus?des Arts Africains et Oc?iens and the ethnographic department of the Mus?de l'Homme, France's sublime natural history museum. Anthropologists, not to mention more than a few people who loved going to those museums, were furious. The familiar aesthetics-versus-ethnology question came up: Will religious, ceremonial and practical objects, never intended as art in the modern, Western sense, be showcased like baubles, with no context?
Given the current political climate, Quai Branly's eventual opening, after years of delay, seemed almost as if it had been scientifically calculated to ignite the maximum debate.
I couldn't tell whether Mr. Martin was being helpful or if he actually enjoyed the fuss. What did he think of his museum? I asked. He thought it was a ''neutral environment'' with ''no aesthetic or philosophical line.'' I thought he was kidding.
He wasn't. If the Marx Brothers designed a museum for dark people, they might have come up with the permanent-collection galleries: devised as a spooky jungle, red and black and murky, the objects in it chosen and arranged with hardly any discernible logic, the place is briefly thrilling, as spectacle, but brow-slappingly wrongheaded. Colonialism of a bygone era is replaced by a whole new French brand of condescension.
The dismay was obvious when I met museum directors, curators, anthropologists and art historians at a conference in Quai Branly, just before the museum's opening. For about an hour everyone on a panel talked about the need for better, more flexible museums, which seemed to me an obvious euphemism for the problem here, which nobody mentioned -- until a scholar, Christian Feest, smiled, raised his eyebrows and tilted his head slightly.
He couldn't help, he said, pointing out the elephant in the room: How would Quai Branly overcome the obstacle of its own design? That shifted the atmosphere, as if tension had been released, and during the break I intercepted several African and American curators and a French art historian who all shook their heads and confided, as if revealing a private embarrassment, that Quai Branly was a missed opportunity and an inexplicable enterprise. An Australian architecture critic then sidled over and nodded toward Jean Nouvel, the museum's architect, who had been mobbed the day before at the press opening. Now he was standing alone. Everyone was passing him by on the way to hors d'oeuvres.
The place simply makes no sense. Old, new, good, bad are all jumbled together without much reason or explanation, save for visual theatrics. Quai Branly's curator of Asian collections, Christine Hemmet, who was furious about the dismantling of the Mus?de l'Homme, took me to find a Vietnamese scarecrow, circa 1970's, on the back of which was painted an American B-52 dropping bombs. She said she had wanted to install a mirror in the display case, behind the work, so the scarecrow's back would be visible. But she was told it would spoil the mise-en-sc?.
Think of the museum as a kind of ghetto for the ''other,'' a word Mr. Chirac has taken to using: an enormous, rambling, crepuscular cavern that tries to evoke a journey into the jungle, downriver, where suddenly scary masks or totem poles loom out of the darkness and everything is meant to be foreign and exotic. The Crayola-colored facade and its garden set the stage for this passage from civilization.
After a couple of circuits around the galleries my heart sank. I also started to feel something else: that the debate has missed the point. The dichotomy between ethnology and aesthetics is too simple. It's not possible to draw a line between form and function, which are inseparably mixed in ways that constantly shift.
Museums, whether they call themselves art museums or not -- and Quai Branly at least rejected loaded words like primitive or art for its title -- classify what they show to give objects particular meanings, to fix their relationships to viewers. If you're in the Metropolitan Museum, you know that an Italian altarpiece or an African mask is supposed to be visually striking, beautiful even. If the same objects are across Central Park at the American Museum of Natural History, they illustrate points about religion or ritual or handicraft or materials.
This doesn't mean that the artists or artisans who made altarpieces and masks weren't aiming for something aesthetically potent or pleasing, even if potency (and beauty) meant one thing to a Renaissance Italian, another to a Dogon craftsman, and it means yet another to an Aboriginal artist who comes to Paris to paint Quai Branly's gift shop.


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First off, my hotel (Riu Palace) would not let her come to the hotel so she had someone pick me up. I was having a vintage theme, so wanted finger curls and natural makeup with bright red lipstick. My hair and makeup were both perfection. She listened to everything I wanted and asked several times during the process if my expectations were being met. She used Mac makeup - which is always a plus. My Maid of honor looked amazing as well.
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The Establishment of Furness College
The fifth college to be established at Lancaster University, Furness College, was conceived in 1966, when a twelve person planning committee, chaired by the founding Principal of Furness, Professor Reynolds, was created to design the buildings and facilities of the college.
In 1968, Furness became the college that declared 'Everywhere else is nowhere'. Currently, Furness is one of the smallest colleges, bringing in around 400 first year undergraduates each year, which furthers their reputation as a small, close-knit college.
The Furness logo is a cross-section of the Furness landscape and it provides an indication as to the nature of the region from which the college takes its name. The Furness region stretches from the industrial docklands of Barrow-in-Furness to the mountains of Coniston in the Lake District and has been witness to a turbulent history. In the twelfth century, Furness, alongside Cartmel, was taken under the wring of the Honour of Lancashire. For eight hundred years, Furness and Cartmel separated Morecambe Bay from the rest of Lancashire, and were only brought into Cumbria after the reorganisation of the county boundaries.
Despite the turmoil of the Furness region, the College is situated in the heart of campus, with each of its residence blocks being named after the towns and villages – as a permanent legacy brought into the hubbub of campus life. The College and its JCR are known for encouraging a vibrant social, cultural and sporting life amongst their students – the 15 hour bar crawl is a long-established tradition. Furness competes in the Patriots Cup each year against Cartmel which involves dozens of different sports played over the course of a weekend.
The Furness bar, Trevor, was refurbished and opened in 2012 much to the delight of students after being closed for over a year. In an interview in 2004 the President of Furness at the time, Emma Harper, spoke of the most important feature of life in Furness College: "All Furnessians are extremely friendly and up for a good time, which makes life in Furness a pleasant and fun atmosphere. I feel proud to belong to the best college on campus." Another member of the JCR described the members, past and present, of Furness College as "one big happy family."
Furness alumni include: Actor and screenwriter, Roger Ashton-Griffiths (Music, 1978), Labour MP for Tynemouth, Alan Campbell, (Politics 1978), Actor in 'The Office'', Harry Potter films, and 'Game of Thrones' Ralph Ineson (Theatre Studies, 1991) and Chief Executive of the Money Advice Service, Caroline Rookes CBE (English, 1975).
1968 Lancaster: The Times They Were A-Changing
For Martyn Sloman, Lancaster in the late 60s was an exciting place to be, especially if you were left of centre politically. To misquote Bob Dylan: the times they were a-changing – or so it seemed to him.
'The Labour Club was full of men and women who were the first of their working class families to enjoy higher education' Martyn remembers. 'The University at that time was about education, inclusion and individual development.' In Martyn's view, 'sadly today the emphasis seems to be on positions in league tables achieved by researchers who spend their time competing with each other by writing papers that nobody reads.'
After graduation in 1968 Martyn spent the summer helping the campaign of the anti-Vietnam war US Presidential Candidate, Eugene McCarthy. He then worked for the National Coal Board as an economist and was a candidate at General Elections in the 1970s and 80s. For Martyn, the 1984-5 Miners' Strike was the turning point in his life. 'Watching Arthur Scargill, the Miners' leader and Ian Macgregor, the NCB Chairman, in action was like seeing two prehistoric monsters having a fight. Evolution was clearly going to take place elsewhere.'
This realisation prompted a move into human resource development roles in City organisations and, over time, the genesis of a second career writing, researching and lecturing. Seven books led to three Visiting Professorships at UK Universities and a Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand which, Martyn says, 'coincided neatly with the rugby season'. The culmination, however, was a visiting appointment as Extraordinary Professor at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. Once the heart of apartheid, Martyn describes NWU now as 'a marvellous multi-racial institute with students fully representative of the rainbow nation. It has been a joy to teach there.' His experiences at NWU remind Martyn of standing amongst the Lancaster students resisting the visit from an all-white South African rugby team in the 1960s. 'Not all change is for the worse and NWU reminds me of Lancaster back in its earliest days'.
Martyn now lives in Norfolk where his wife of over forty years has family roots. He has just accepted the role of Parliamentary Agent for what he says is 'an excellent Labour Candidate' for North Norfolk in the 2015 General Election. Although exiled to the far side of the country from his native Wales he still enjoys his visits to the Millennium Stadium where he has debenture seats. 'I look forward to watching Cardiff lift the European Cup,' he says, 'and seeing the social and economic changes that I support implemented. I am not sure which of the two is the more likely!'
The Establishment of Fylde College
Fylde College holds pride of place at Lancaster as the sixth college, with the construction of the college buildings beginning in 1968 and students being accepted from 1969. The beginnings of Fylde College lie in the establishment of a group of young lecturers, who formed 'College 6', which they envisioned to be a commune-style College which students could have more influence over.
Originally, it was planned that students would begin to enter the college in 1970, but the first phase of Furness College was completed ahead of schedule and £125,000 under budget by 1968, so the University decided to begin work on the 'Sixth College Project' earlier than scheduled.
Officially opened in 1971, it celebrated its own 40th birthday in October 2011. The College motto 'seek truth in the field' is not just a nod to the University's own, but it also refers to the world outside of the University walls. The College is named from the Fylde region, which spans the area of land between the Trough of Bowland, the Ribble Valley and the Irish Sea. The Windmill is the official logo of the college, which pays homage to the fact that at one point, there were over thirty-five windmills scattered along the Fylde Coast. The college expanded in 1970 with four more blocks and with more added in the early 1980s and 1990s.
In 2005, Fylde became the second college to be located on two separate sites and began to offer en-suite residence on the south-west side of campus. However, it has since been reunited on its original site and is now one of the smaller colleges on campus. Many of the main blocks were demolished, internally and externally, in order to completely refurbish accommodation alongside a mass refurbishment of the colleges by the University. In 2006, further efforts were made to improve the quality of room layouts and finished in Fylde, much of which was done in consultation with students. Fylde has a reputation for being the home of sport at Lancaster and the college competes in multiple inter-college tournaments such as Legends and Carter Shield.
The Establishment of Cartmel College
Cartmel College, founded in 1968, is named for the Cartmel peninsula which is deemed to be one of the most beautiful areas in Cumbria and remains home to the famous Cartmel Priory.
Cartmel College and the University embroiled in a scandal in May 1968, when Lancaster student-run publication Carolynne published a piece about a confidential meeting of the Cartmel College syndicate, at which the idea of mixed corridors when the college became residential was discussed. It was supported by the Dean-Elect of the college, Dr David Craig, who stated that he believed students should also have mixed bedrooms if they wished. Founding Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University, Charles Carter, spoke in 1963 of his desire to find ways for male and female social students to socialise with each other within the colleges, but after fears of donation withdrawals in the light of the Carolynne article in 1968 he stated: "No arrangements would be made which might in any way be interpreted as an invitation to sexual licence." Nowadays, of course, all college residences are mixed sex.
In 2004, Cartmel accommodation was relocated from the top of campus to Alexandra Park, as part of the new development in the southwest campus centred round Barker House Farm. The old Cartmel buildings towards the north of the Bailrigg campus became County South and were originally designed by Manchester-based architect Haydyn Smith. Smith planned the structure of the college in order to expose it to as much natural light as possible, although with Lancaster's reputation for cloudy skies, it is debatable how much sunlight the buildings enjoy!
Barker House Farm is an integral part of the Cartmel dining hall and bar, as although it was originally purchased to be sports fields, it was deemed to be suitable for either arts teaching or student residences. In the end, it was decided that the development would be a part of the south west campus project and the plan was to surround and incorporate the listed buildings of Barker House Farm into the soon-to-be Cartmel College residents. Barker House Farm, which is now the core of the Cartmel College dining facilities, features a lintel above a window which was built in approximately 1691, and is engraved with the initials for a Richard (1644-1711) and Jennet (birth date unknown – 1713) Barker. It was opened by Her Royal Highness Prince Alexandra in December 2004 as her last official duty as Chancellor.
Alumni from Cartmel include: Simon Danczuk (Sociology, 1992) currently MP for Rochdale, David Watson (Politics, 1998), Senior Campaigns Manager for the Prime Minister's Office and Rainer Hersh, (Economics, 1985), Presenter, Comedian & Musician
Another One of Our Longest Married Alumni Couples!
Last year we appealed for suggestions for the longest married alumni couple through STEPS and our alumni Facebook page and Paul and Caroline came forward as potential qualifiers.
Paul and Caroline (nee de Vries) Skinner are another one of our longest alumni married couples!
Paul (Lonsdale) and Caroline (Bowland) both studied French and met at Lancaster in 1965 when the University was based in St.Leonardsgate and they married in 1968. They now live in Northamptonshire.
Paul worked in leather sales until he retired in 2007 and is now a volunteer driver for the Guide Dogs.
Caroline has increasing blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa. She is training her fourth guide dog. She is secretary of the local blind club and a speaker for Guide Dogs. As part of international efforts to find a treatment or cure for retinitis pigmentosa, Caroline was one of six candidates in Oxford selected for a trial tiny electronic retinal implant developed in Germany, which gave her 2 months of visual awareness. Channel 4's film "How to build a bionic man" featured Caroline and the operation and her hopes that this will help future generations.


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Preheat the oven to broil. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, heavy cream, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper until smooth. Fold in the cheese and tomatoes and set aside.
In a medium oven-safe frying pan (I use a cast-iron skillet) over medium heat, melt the butter. Add the onion and saute until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the spinach and cook until just wilted, about 2 minutes. Pour the egg mixture over the spinach and cook until almost set, 2 to 4 minutes. Transfer the pan to the oven and broil until golden brown on top, about 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and turn out onto a serving plate.
Photograph by Christina Holmes
Recipe from Trisha's Table: My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life. Copyright (c) 2015 by Trisha Yearwood. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House, LLC.


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November 12, 2008
FiberNet Telecom Extends Network Reach to Chicago and Miami
US-based FiberNet Telecom Group has extended its network reach to Chicago and Miami.
The company said that the newly deployed networks are an element of its previously announced four-part network expansion project that also includes increasing its network capacity in the New York metro market; deploying additional capacity in Los Angeles; extending the network to San Francisco; and augmenting its metro ethernet network.John Dowd, vice president of business development at FiberNet, said: "Network expansion into these critical markets was of prime importance for us. With these extensions, we can now meet our customers' demand for expanded network reach."


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When I first joined the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ, Dr. Bill Bright, our president and founder, delivered our commissioning address. I had heard Dr. Bright speak many times before and he was known to stretch a speaking session beyond its limits with a few extra points. But you never missed the fact that he deeply loved Jesus and was passionate about the fulfillment of the Great Commission. So as he began his message that evening I settled in for what I was sure was going to be a 60 minute lecture. But he stunned us all when he had only one point and sat down after 20 minutes. There is probably a worthy principle there for effectiveness in public speaking. But his main point captured my attention and I have never forgotten it. Being is more important than doing. He knew he was addressing young, emerging leaders who were excited about the cause and irresistibly tempted to get at it-to produce. His message was a strong exhortation to value our inner spiritual life and character over the activity of leading.
It's a recurring message for me. I am still tempted to value ministry activity over solitude-to value results over intimacy-to value veneer over substance. Slowly I am learning though that I can't give what I don't have. I am seeing that who I am actually speaks much louder than what I do. The value of being over doing reinforces leadership character. Character for me has three components: living with integrity, rightly handling authority, and applying diligence. But character has to be cultivated. It has to come from somewhere-from inner life practices over time. And by necessity it has to be tested in real life to be made strong.
A leader who is effective over time is one who develops these inner qualities. In my life these inner qualities are developed thorough applied knowledge, meaningful reflection, and active engagement. Applied knowledge means that we have to be stimulated in our mind-but it can't be learning for learning's sake. It has to be knowledge that changes us in some way-that penetrates deep enough to force application. Meaningful reflection means that we then take that knowledge-and other sources of experiential learning (like celebrations, trying times, set backs, success, failure)-and mine them for the "soulish" principles that cause us to choose. It is all too easy to let life hit us rather than reflect on life's events in such a way that we actually choose to become different people. Active engagement means sharing your life in community. A leader alone is a disaster waiting to happen. Inner life principles are worked out in community. We need the sounding board of others and their observations on our life and leading to become better people-and better leaders. This is often hard for leaders because to appear vulnerable is to appear weak. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Statistics show that followers have a deeper sense of trust toward authentic leaders. For me as a follower of Christ all of this means taking advantage of the means of grace that God has given through his Holy Spirit, theBible, prayer, and biblical community.
My point here is not that there is only one way to get at the being side of leading-but that it is absolutely important enough in the life of a leader to give it your full attention-today!
The essence of a leader's character is a life that moves others to follow. That life will be forged in our inner world-in our being-not our doing.


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In May, Yahoo riled up photography lovers everywhere by revamping its popular Flickr photo-sharing site. The new Flickr offers everyone 1 terabyte of free storage. That's a lot. It's enough to back up and display 600,000 photos at full resolution. (Here's my review.)
But the new Flickr eliminates the unlimited-storage plan for new members and drops a few features of the old Flickr. This infuriated some of the harder-core photographers.
There could be no better time, therefore, for Flickr's rival SmugMug to step into the fray with its own revamp, which it says has been in the works for two years. It zigs exactly the way Flickr just zagged: by offering features that cater to high-end photo buffs instead of offending them.
"Over time," explained the chief of SmugMug, Don MacAskill, "SmugMug became a lot less beautiful." Buttons, links and other distracting elements cluttered up the screen. The mantras of the new SmugMug, which went live this morning, are "less clutter" and "customization."
You'll notice the cleaned-up design immediately. But the real fun is lurking in the Customize menu when you're logged into your account. Read more…


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Take a look at the below list of Top 10 Best Selling Quadcopter in The World 2016-2017. In the olden days, people always said that if you wanted to take aerial pictures, you either go to a high pace or take them or even burn money and board a helicopter to do the work for you. Things have changed from that time because at the current modern world, we are able to do a lot with the invention of quadcopters into our markets. These are drones that can fly up to a time of half an hour and that will have enabled you do a lot from the sky.
List of Top 10 Best Selling Quadcopter in The World 2016-2017
10. Syma X8G With 8MP Camera
It has been designed with a more or less make like that that was given to the DJI phantom make and is ready to rule the sky with one go. It has been made with 8MP HD camera and is able to support up to 720P 1080P video quality. What makes it unique is that you can remove or even attach it to the drone when you want to. It is able to do 360 degree flips and that is due to the headless make that it has been given. You will have a 10-12 minute time to flying it before you recharge it one again. The controller n the hand has an LCD display that is able to monitor all the important metrics as you fly.
9. Blade Chroma with 4K Camera
It is one of the flying machines that was introduced into the market after the successful development from the Nano QX and I have to tell you that it was a success and had to give all those that were selling drones a run for their money. Why this is the best among the many that you will find is that it is able to offer you with a 30-minute flight time. What does this mean for you? All the quad copters that you will find out there will be requiring 10 to 12 time more tie from it. It has been designed with a SAFE technology so that you are able to have to handle it in a better manner than the majority of other products.
8. Cheerson Hobby CX-20 Professional
Our product here sports a new look that is sporty and sleeky and has reputable features that make it to hang above many. It is will provide you with up to 15min time to flying. It can also carry a camera around for you to do your shooting or video recording in a simple manner. You can also decide to do your flight indoors and you will get stable usage that does not disturb you at all. There is also the use of the failsafe feature that will enable it to communicate with the controller in case it runs out of power to keep the product at a hover position.
7. Syma X5C-1
The camera that has been fitted with the use of this item is one that is able to allow you have up to 800 picture and do a 30 min of video recording. That is why it is recommended that for all those that aspire to be professional photographers, you will have to get in touch with the use of this item. It has been designed with a flight time of 7 minutes and a charge time of 90 minutes. You can decide to go overboard and use the extra wide payload and buy extra X5C batteries for your usage. Get it today and you will get the best usage all the time.
6. 3D Robotics Solo
Here is a machine that you need to know how it works, it is known as the only copter that is able to offer you with the ability to stream wireless HD video directly to your android devices. It has been made with a Smart Shot technology and that is what you can use to capture fantastic footage without having to necessarily have expert piloting skills. The controller that has been designed for its use has a video game style to give you a natural feel when you are control this machine. It is one unique drone that is out there and has better features than the majority. This is one of Top 10 Best Selling Quadcopter in The World 2016-2017.
5. DJI Inspire 1 PRO
This unit features durable carbon filter arms which moves up/out of the camera's view when you are flying and you will luxuriate in 360-degree view. It will also let you shoot high-quality 4K video and then capture sixteen megapixel photos. This thing is ideal for any professional filmmaking. The apps will enable you have manual camera control, auto takeoff, landing as well as flight telemetry data which is battery life, altitude and much more. Thanks to the five intelligent flight modes which are point of interest, course lock, and home lock, waypoints and follow me.
4. Parrot AR.Drone 2.0
You need to own this thing and it will enable you shoot 720p HD video which you will stream from your Smartphone. You will take the advantage of AR.FreeFlight app and then select to pilot your unit by using your tablet or Smartphone and fly it with controller and if you don't want that, you can use the first person view system. The apps will show you settings, battery level, Wi-Fi, speed and altitude which is great for new regulation. You will be able to record video, take picture, switch cameras and control the unit with left/right pads. It features 360-degree flip and JPEG photo capture and you can charge the battery using USB outlet. The frequency of this unit is 5GHz and the flight time is 10 to 15minutes with a control distance of fifty minutes.
3. 3D Robotics Iris+
If you need the best unit with great autonomous flight as well as advanced technology, then this is the great one for you. You can use the controller to control it manually or use your laptop or your mobile devices such as Android, Linux, PC and Mac to control it autonomously. You can set the region of interest and instruct it and then keep the camera focused on place you want it to. This thing is super easy to use and it will give you a flight time of 16-22 minutes and if you are GoPro user, then this item is great for you. You can control it up to 999m and features a frequency of 2.4 GHz.
If your friends want the best model which is most advanced but easy to use, then you need to recommend this one to the. This thing comes with built-in three-axis gimbal camera that will let you shoot 4K video and also take twelve megapixel still photos and you will love the no distortion lens. Thanks to its watch me/follow me flight mode which is ideal to let you get footage of the action on go. This is a solid camera drone which you need to own if you are there looking for the best one. The flight time of this model is 25 minutes and has a frequency of 2.4 GHz.
1. DJI Phantom
This unit is one of those advanced models and its names suggest that it has been designed to be used by professional pilots. If you are interested with this unit, then you can get them in four models such as advanced, standard, and professional and 4K. People love this model because of the sturdy construction and soon it will be one of the sought quad copters. What you will envy is that it offers 4k video, 5km control distance and 23 minutes of flight time. Also, it comes with flight modes which are point of interest, home lock, course lock, waypoints and follow me making it the smart choice for any pro pilots and it is excellent for 3D modeling as well as aerial mapping.
These are Top 10 Best Selling Quadcopter in The World 2016-2017. These are what you need and they will be handy for recreation a well as building a fulltime business. They are super easy to use and built to last. If you need the best models which will fulfill your personal needs, then you don't have to look for those flimsy ones, grab these ones when shopping for quad copters and you will envy their better cameras, longer flight times, better handling and more advanced technology.


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Compact Bath is a shopper's delight – winding passageways, big-name high-street shops and plenty of boutiques have long attracted visitors wanting to flash some cash.
SouthGate is the newest addition to the shopping scene – the faux Georgian style open-plan shopping centre replaced a truly awful dated shopping complex and has brought big names like Debenhams, Topshop and Apple to the city centre. It's also kept up Bath's tradition of independent retailers, with the Little SouthGate string of boutiques within the larger complex.
Stall Street and Union Street (parts of which are pedestrianised and flanked by high-street favourites) link the shops to Milsom Street where you'll find a concentration of boutiques, especially in the newly renovated Milsom Place.
Passageways lead off to the Guildhall Market and shops on Pulteney Bridge, but if you keep going up through town towards the Royal Crescent you'll find a kooky little enclave of shops in Margaret's Buildings.
Back down in town, head east from the centre to visit the Artisan Quarter of Walcot Street where you'll find cutesy homeware shops, vintage clothing and antique dealers. Bath's independent shops make the city really special and many are fighting rising rents to stay afloat. Here is my guide to the best of the independents - Shopping in Bath: The Best Boutiques - so be sure to pay them a visit.


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James Finnegan found father John Finnegan shot in street
A murder trial has heard how a man who had been fatally shot in a village in East Renfrewshire was found in the street by his son.
The High Court in Glasgow was told that James Finnegan came to the aid of his father John, 48, following an incident in Neilston on 27 October 2011.
James McCarron, 33, and Francis Coates, 36, deny murdering Mr Finnegan.
Both men have lodged special defences of alibi. Mr Coates has also lodged a special defence of incrimination.
Witness Teresa Miller told the court how she had been walking to her home in Neilston on the night of the incident when she heard "a loud bang".
Firework sound
The 41 year-old said: "I thought that it was a firework - the sound made me physically jump."
Ms Miller then became aware of someone lying on the pavement nearby in Bank Street and initially thought the person had "taken a turn" due to the earlier noise.
Around the same time, she noticed Mr Finnegan's son James in a car with a friend.
Ms Miller told the jury: "The car stopped and James Finnegan got out. At first, he said: 'It's my dad'.
"He ran over and I crossed the road. I asked him what was wrong with his dad and he said: "My dad has been shot'."
Ms Miller recalled John Finnegan "gurgling" and she told his son to keep talking to his father.
She then left the scene along with her young niece.
The court later heard from 25-year-old James Finnegan who said he had been in a friend's car on the evening of 27 October when he spotted his father in Neilston.
The witness said it appeared Mr Finnegan was talking to another person in the street.
Prosecutor Jonathan Brodie QC asked: "Did they appear to know each other?"
Son 'froze'
James Finnegan replied: "Yes, definitely - for the simple fact that he was talking as if he was talking to one of his friends."
The landscape gardener told the jury: "The next thing I saw was the man pulling his hand then I heard a bang and saw a puff of smoke.
"I froze for a couple of seconds. I then said to my friend: 'My dad has been shot'."
The son said he yelled from the car: "You've just shot my dad" before the other person made a getaway.
He recalled racing across to help his father while his friend dialed 999.
James Finnegan added: "I was running about in the middle of the street shouting 'someone help me, someone help me'."
Emergency staff soon arrived before the witness was taken away by his grandfather to calm down.
When he got back, he said he spotted Mr Coates who he claimed looked "a bit flustered, a bit sweaty".
Mr Coates and Mr McCarron deny the murder.
Mr Coates has lodged a special defence of incrimination claiming the shooting was on the orders of Stewart Gillespie, who has since died.
The trial, before temporary judge Michael O'Grady QC, continues.


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What would you do if you won the lottery?
David and I ask this question to ourselves a lot. It's a fun discussion to have when we're out on a date, dreaming of future plans and funny things we could do if we won.
Of course, the odds of winning a jackpot that's really worth anything is about 1 in 176 million. Aka, it ain't gonna happen for us in this lifetime. I think it's probably more likely that David becomes a professional soccer player and I publish the great American novel, both within the next 10 years.
Once again...ain't. gonna. happen. Although that would be pretty sweet either way.
But on a rainy day, it's still fun to dream.
So if we won the lottery, here's what I'd dream of doing.
1. Take a nice long vacation
I can't decide quite where I'd go, but first things first - I'd take a couple weeks off of work, and take me and Kate and David to a nice resort.
Since it's been so hot here recently, I'm thinking someplace like Switzerland or Iceland. How amazing does this place in Iceland look?
I've always wanted to see the Northern Lights so lottery winning seems like a good time, right?
2. Go on a shopping spree
Anyone who knows me in real life (cough cough David cough cough) knows I'd be itching to drive all over town and spend some moolah on a new wardrobe (or five). If I won the lottery I wouldn't feel so bad about splurging on trendy items like palazzo pants and a kimono and maybe a jumper or two. Something like these?
3. Go out for a nice dinner
I really love me some good food. There's nothing quite like the idea of going out to a fancy restaurant and ordering whatever I want, for as long as I want. Appz and zerts, for real. (Does anyone do that on a regular basis? I can't imagine the luxury of that.)
I'm thinking margs, a nice big juicy steak, and some chocolate cake.
What a great dream, right?
I can't help it. And once again, I know I'm not going to win the lottery. But it's fun to think about.
What would you do if you won the lottery?


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Eva Longoria is anything but a desperate housewife!
With a smokin' hot career, new boyfriend, and beauty contracts galore, Eva is on top of her game.
Her exotic Mexican-American looks are emphasized with her voluminous, rich brown hair and glamorous makeup that always looks fresh and clean.
She often wears copper or honey-colored highlights which add warmth to her skin.
To highlight her large brown eyes she uses dark brown or black eyeliner on the upper and lower lash line, followed by soft smoky shadow in brown tones. Eva loves lashes, so she always has generous amounts of mascara on. A peach-beige lip completes her natural look.
Women with Eva's complexion should stick to warm palettes like coral, coppers and browns. Seen above a rare makeup disaster, Eva goes for a cool silver smoky eye shadow and chalky nude lipstick, which clashes which her naturally golden complexion.
For a modern twist on the smoky eye, Longoria uses navy blue shades around the entire eye, with black liner and mascara. And to top off all of her makeup looks, she adds a bit of glow with bronzer, or one of her favorite products, Girlactik gold shimmer cream.


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The Cowboys will have a plenty of time to prepare for their Sept. 5 opener at the New York Giants.
That became apparent Monday when the Cowboys released their finalized preseason schedule. Dallas will host Miami in the preseason finale at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday night, Aug. 29.
The Cowboys open the preseason at Oakland. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Aug. 13.
Dallas plays at San Diego in Week 2. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. Aug. 18.
The Cowboys host St. Louis in Week 3. Kickoff is 7 p.m. on Aug. 25.


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The Inter-American Development Bank today approved a $200 million loan to Empresas Públicas de Medellín to support the construction of the Porce III hydroelectric power project and the enhancement of the company's corporate performance and efficiency.
The hydroelectric power plant located 147 kilometers northeast of Medellín will have an installed capacity of 660 megawatts and is expected to begin operations in the second semester of 2010. The plant's output will be connected with the national grid and will contribute to meeting Colombia's growing electric power demand.
EPM will take environmental and social measures associated with the project to meet both IDB policy and Colombia legislation. The state company will also undertake corporate development activities that will strengthen institutional performance and efficiency.
The Porce River watershed is the site of seven other hydroelectric power projects, major contributors to Colombia's electric power system.
The IDB has provided about $2.75 billion in financing to Colombia to support 35 projects accounting for about 30 percent of the country's current generating capacity.
The latest project will contribute to economic growth and provision of electric power at equitable rates in an efficient and sustainable manner.
The IDB loan is for a 20-year term, with a seven-year grace period, at a variable interest rate. Local funds will finance $711 million of the project.