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UK-built cameras heading for space station
Monday sees the launch to the space station of two cameras that are sure to provide some fascinating new views of Planet Earth.
One in particular will catch people's attention because it will send down high-definition video.
If pre-launch simulations are accurate then the imagery from this particular piece of hardware will – I'm sure – be seen regularly on the evening TV news.
At a resolution of 1m per pixel, you will be able to observe large crowds and moving vehicles.
Think of major world events: the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan or the protests in Egypt's Tahrir Square – these would be given a fresh perspective with video tracking from above.
The cameras have a particular interest for this column because they have been built in the UK at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
The Oxfordshire lab has a proud history in making and testing space equipment.
It was approached by Canadian start-up UrtheCast (pronounced "Earth-cast") to provide the cameras for an unused attachment point at the rear of the ISS.
Urthecast was offered the position by the Russian space agency, which wants to see the station exploited to the maximum extent.
The medium-resolution camera (MRC) can resolve details down to about 5m across, covering a swath of some 50km.
It is essentially a rebuild – with modifications – of a space camera that RAL produced for a previous customer.
The high-resolution video camera (HRC), on the other hand, is more bespoke, although it incorporates a lot of off-the-shelf components.
Not that you can just buy stuff and stick it in orbit. Some re-engineering for the extremes of the space environment is almost always necessary.
This can mean exchanging certain materials or individual systems, and RAL has had to do this with the HRC's big telescope, for example.
It was commercially available but its carbon fibre tubing has been upgraded to cope with the stress of being in a vacuum and exposed to large fluctuations in temperature.
"But using off-the-shelf has allowed us to do this project very quickly, in less than two years," says Ian Tosh, who's managed the project at RAL.
The cameras are currently at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, waiting for a Progress freighter to take them to the ISS.
Once there, spacewalking astronauts will bolt them to a prepared rig on the Zvezda module. We should see the first stills and videos in the New Year.
Urthecast went public back in the summer, raising some $46m to support its ISS cameras project. It currently has distribution deals worth over $20m.
Its business model has broadly two tracks. The first is fairly conventional: it will be selling commercial imagery of Earth to whoever wants it. This is now a pretty mature, and increasingly competitive, market.
"The other half of the business model is to take the data, process it and stream it over the web as fast as we can – in near real-time," explains Urthecast president Scott Larson.
"We will allow other developers to makes apps, games, content and educational tools, and change-detection-type tools, all based on our open-source API (application-programming interface)," he told me.
The company is very keen to drive a buzz around its products, and the web portal will play heavily on social media, allowing people to tag imagery and link their own content.
"Everyone in the world is going to go to the website at least once. Why wouldn't you?" says Larson. "But we want to create an experience that makes people come back time and time again." The portal will have a search facility that allows you to find the imagery most relevant to you, and if lots of people keep going back "time and time again", it then becomes an attractive advertising medium.
The ISS is increasingly being used for Earth observation. It's quite a challenging undertaking, though.
The space station is akin to a wobbling sausage. Every time an astronaut gets on an exercise bike, the whole platform starts to flex. There is also a constant vibration. All this requires the Urthecast cameras to have dampers built into their rig to maintain a steady shot.
Watch out for the first videos when they come down. The HRC will be programmed to pick out and lock on to a spot on the ground as the ISS rolls overhead.
The frame rate will be about three per second, and depending on cloud conditions and viewing angle, the scenes should last about 90 seconds.
Urthecast hopes to be downlinking around 150 videos a day.

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Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest: September 20, 2006
In this issue:
Nanotechnology that's Good For People
Foresight Challenge: Supplying clean water globally
Foresight note: This article announces a new patent being awarded for a nanofiltration system developed by a municipality.
Headline: Desalination patent awarded to CA city
Nearly a decade of work has paid off for the City of Long Beach's Water Department, which was awarded a Notice of Allowance for Patent Protection earlier this month by the US Patent Office for its unique two-stage desalination technology, according to a city press release.
Dubbed the "Long Beach Method," the desalination technique uses 20 to 30 percent less energy than traditional reverse osmosis (RO) desalination methods by sending seawater through two nanofiltration membranes — one at 525 pounds per square inch (psi) and a second at 250 psi — the water department said.
According to the release, engineers found the first filter blocked all but 12 percent of the smallest salt molecules, while the second blocked nearly all the remaining salts, and the process was more energy-efficient than traditional desalination, which pushed seawater at 1,000 psi.
Foresight Challenge: Supplying clean water globally
Foresight Challenge: Increasing health and longevity
Foresight note: The following research is very promising in using nanotechnology to help those who are brain damaged or who have suffered heart attacks.
Headline: Nanotechnology Propels Advances In Regenerative Medicine Research
Subhead: Nanotubes help adult stem cells morph into neurons in brain-damaged rats.
Carbon nanotubes — 80,000 times thinner than a human hair — enhance the ability of adult stem cells to differentiate into healthy neurons in stroke-damaged rat brains, according to American and South Korean researchers.
Thomas J. Webster, Ph.D., of Brown University in Providence, R.I, and colleagues at Yonsei University in Seoul mixed nanotubes with adult rat stem cells and then implanted the mixture into brain-damaged areas of three rats that had suffered strokes. In six other rats that had strokes, they implanted either adult stem cells or nanotubes — but not both — into brain-damaged areas.
After following the animals for up to eight weeks, the researchers concluded that neither nanotubes nor adult stem cells alone triggered regeneration or repair in the brain-damaged regions. In fact, when used alone, adult stem cells migrated to healthy areas of the brain. But when combined with nanotubes, adult stem cells not only remained in the brain-damaged regions, they began to differentiate into functioning neurons. The finding could have important implications for the treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders, Webster says.
Subhead: Nanostructures promote formation of blood vessels, bolster cardiovascular function after heart attack
Injecting nanoparticles into the hearts of mice that suffered heart attacks helped restore cardiovascular function in these animals, according to Samuel I. Stupp, Ph.D., chemist and director of the Institute of Bionanotechnology in Medicine at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
The finding is an important research advance that one day could help rapidly restore cardiovascular function in people who have heart disease, Stupp says. The self-assembling nanoparticles — made from naturally occurring polysaccharides and molecules known as peptide amphiphiles — boost chemical signals to nearby cells that induce formation of new blood vessels and this may be the mechanism through which they restore cardiovascular function. One month later, the hearts of the treated mice were capable of contracting and pumping blood almost as well as healthy mice.
Foresight Challenge: Increasing health and longevity
Nanotechnology that's Good For the Planet
Foresight Challenge: Providing renewable clean energy
Foresight note: This basic research could lead to greater control of catalysts for fuels and other chemical compounds.
Headline: Uniform tungsten trimers stand and deliver
Like tiny nano-soldiers on parade, the cyclic tungsten trioxide clusters line up molecule-by-molecule on the titanium dioxide platform. One tungsten atom from each cluster is raised slightly, holding forth the potential to execute catalytic reactions.
The nanostructures constitute a new model system, a simplified version of a catalyst that would be used in an application. Such models reveal to chemists the exact structure and reaction mechanisms of metal oxides...
"Commercial catalysts are like a gravel pile with many sizes of rocks. Some rocks are purple; some are blue. Some do one thing; some do another. But, our system has all the same size rocks," [UT professor Mike] White said.
Foresight Challenge: Providing renewable clean energy
Foresight Challenge: Making information technology available to all
Foresight note: This article discusses nanoscience research that is copying nature to bring remote power to nanodevices.
Headline: Ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation
Scientists looked to ferns to create a novel energy scavenging device that uses the power of evaporation to move itself — materials that could provide a method for powering micro and nano devices with just water or heat.
"We've shown that this idea works," said Michel Maharbiz, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science and principal investigator in the group that built the device. "If you build these things they will move. The key is to show that you can generate electricity from this."
As often happens, the research started while doctoral student Ruba Borno was exploring another idea entirely. Borno was interested in mimicking biological devices, specifically microchannels that plants use to transport water, so Maharbiz gave her a book on plants.
But something else in the book caught her attention — the section on how ferns spread their spores.
Foresight Challenge: Making information technology available to all
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If you are interested in advancing beneficial nanotechnology, please consider becoming a member of Foresight. With your support, Foresight will continue to be the leading public interest voice for nanotechnology that will focus on using this powerful technology to improve the health and well being of people and the planet.
We have membership levels designed for inclusion of all who are interested in our nanotechnology future whether you are a student, individual or corporation.
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4th Annual Tech Transfer Investing
This conference facilitates commercial collaboration & investing between research labs, venture capitalists and corporations. Venture capitalists and corporations are identifying promising technologies in research labs in universities, medical centers, and government agencies for spinouts and commercialization.
The conference is focused on starting, building and financing technology based spinouts from universities, national labs and corporations. The event is different from annual association meetings because the event unites tech transfer executives, venture capitalists and corporations for open and honest dialogue on investing opportunities, term structures and deal partnerships.
Nanotech Research
Headline: Switchable lotus effect: Material bcomes super water-repellent with the flick of a light
News source: Physorg.com
Lotus blossoms are beautiful, and always immaculately clean. Water drops bead up and roll off of their water-repellent surface, washing away every speck of dust. This type of self-cleaning surface would be very useful to us as well: no more carwash, no soiled facades on houses — the potential uses are endless. To date, however, technology has not been able to duplicate nature's success. Researchers led by Kingo Uchida and Shinichiro Nakamura have now synthesized a compound in the diarylethene family whose surface becomes super-water-repellent on command.
The diarylethene molecule is made of three five-membered rings hooked together. UV light sets off a rearrangement within the molecule (isomerization). This results in a ring closure, which leads to formation of a fourth ring. The isomer with the closed fourth ring crystallizes in the form of needles, which grow out of the crystals of the isomer with the open ring as soon as a certain concentration is reached. Light in the visible range of the spectrum sets off the reverse reaction: the ring re-opens, and the needles disappear.
Headline: Israel broadens 3-to-1 matching funds program for nanotech research centers
News source: Webwire
The Israeli government will increase funding for Israeli universities over the next 5 years to $82 million in order to strengthen their advanced research centers in nanoscience and nanotechnology, it was announced today.
Israel's National Nanotechnology Initiative (INNI) director Dan Vilenski announced the funding increase at the 10th annual Journey 2006 technology conference, noting that the increase resulted in large part from the success of a similar matching fund model developed for the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at Israel's Technion Institute of Technology in 2005.
Nanotech News
Headline: Public awareness of nano grows - majority remain unaware
News source: : Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center
Research findings released from the first major national poll on nanotechnology in more than two years indicate that while more Americans are now aware of the emerging science, the majority of the public still has heard little to nothing about it. The poll also finds that the public looks to the federal government and independent parties to oversee nanotechnology research and development. These results, according to experts, necessitate increased education and stronger oversight as a means to increase public confidence in nanotechnology.
The poll, a telephone survey of 1,014 U.S. adults, was commissioned by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and conducted by independent research firm Peter D. Hart Research Associates in August 2006.
Findings reveal that one in 10 Americans have heard a lot about nanotechnology and 20% say they have heard some — nearly double the number of Americans aware of the technology in 2004. But, 42% of Americans have no awareness of it at all. Older Americans and women, the groups most likely to use consumer products containing nanotechnology materials such as skin-care products and cosmetics, are the least informed about nanotechnology. Importantly, those individuals with an awareness of nanotechnology are more likely to believe the benefits of this emerging technology outweigh the potential risks — supporting experts' assertions that open discourse and information about nanotechnology is crucial in establishing positive sentiment among the American public.
Cosmetic industry files FDA comments on use of nanoparticles in personal care products
News source: Yahoo.com
Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA) announced today that it has filed comprehensive comments with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the science and regulation of nanoparticles in personal care products. CTFA comments specifically address issues raised in a petition filed with the FDA earlier this year on the use of nanotechnology in personal care products, in particular, sunscreen products.
"Nanoparticles in sunscreens are very small particles that have been reviewed and approved by FDA. They have been used safely and effectively by consumers for decades to protect from harmful UV rays and to prevent skin cancer," said John Bailey, executive vice president for science at CTFA and former FDA official. "These ingredients have properties that provide a greater degree of protection from the sun, are transparent when applied and aesthetically pleasing, and therefore encourage greater consumer acceptance."
Nanotech Events
British Royalty to Address Major US Nanotechnology Conference
News source: Nanotechnology Now
The British Consulate-General Houston and the UK Trade & Investment, major sponsors of NanoTX '06, will host a ranking member of the British Royal Family at the event.
It has been announced that His Royal Highness The Duke of York, KG, KCVO, ADC, will address the conference on the second day. The Duke of York, Prince Andrew is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth, and whose older brother is Prince Charles, the Duke of Wales.
"I am honoured to have his Royal Highness attend and speak at nanoTX '06," said Kelly Kordzik, President of the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative that is presenting the event. "His presence first shows how important nanotechnology has become to the future of our society, and second shows how important of a role the UK expects for Texas to play in the nanotechnology revolution."
The 2006 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes will be presented at nanoTX' 06 on September 27, 2006 at the Exhibitors Reception.
Also at nanoTX'06, Foresight president Jillian Elliott will present on the International Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems.
Editor's Pick
Dear readers – When reviewing news for this digest, I often read about something that I think is cool, but it doesn't fit within the usual editorial categories of the News Digest. This section highlights a nanotech advance, event or idea that I think is especially cool.
I read about these three scientists in the Bay Area that recently received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship. One of them — Benetech's Jim Fruchterman, a longtime ally of Foresight — gave a quote that I hope doesn't hold true for all social problems. As mentioned in past news digests, I have great hopes that nanotechnology can solve several critical problems facing humanity, but I am also aware that technology investment goes where there is the potential to make money.
Thanks for reading.
— Judy
3 of region's brightest win 'genius' fellowships, $500,000 each in grants from the MacArthur Foundation
News source: San Francisco Chronicle by Sabin Russell
"Techies love technology and solving problems, and social problems are often the coolest ones," said Jim Fruchterman. "They just don't make you any money."
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Headline: Nanotechnology video from SME: Nanomanufacturing
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers, who've done two conferences focusing in part on molecular nanotech, now have a video on nanomanufacturing. The script is free, and so is a video clip with some images, so if the cost is an issue for you ($99 SME members/$280 nonmembers), you can get quite a bit just from those.
Includes Foresight members Mark Sims of Nanorex, Jim Von Ehr of Zyvex, and Tihamer Toth-Fejel of General Dynamics. If you'd like to be in such a video someday, you might want to join Foresight!
— Christine Peterson
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MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — A teenage boy is the latest to face charges in a death that investigators have linked to synthetic drugs.
The 17-year-old is charged in juvenile court in Blue Earth County. He's accused of providing a white powder to Chloe Moses. The 17-year-old girl died at Minneapolis Children's Hospital March 10.
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Christine Osinski's work has been included in recent exhibitions at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; The New York Public Library; Wave Hill, Bronx, N.Y.; The Newhouse Contemporary Art Center, N.Y.C.; and Blue Sky Gallery in Portland. In 2005 Osinski became a Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has also received support from The New York State Council On The Arts, The Graham Foundation and Light Work among other foundations. Her photographs can be found in the collections of MoMA, N.Y.C.; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; The New York Public Library; The Museum of the City of New York and in numerous other museums. Osinski earned her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Yale University.
At The Cooper Union, Professor Osinski teaches Photography and Foundation Color.
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Join Rachel Brown, our Nature Educator from the Bellows Falls Fish Ladder Visitors Center, for an all ages presentation and hands-on educational experience about the ways in which bats do their part to benefit the greater ecosystem.
Drop-ins welcome; no pre-registration required.
The Nature Museum will present 9 free environmental education programs held throughout the summer months at public libraries in the Southern Vermont Connecticut River Valley. This summer library program series is sponsored by TransCanada, operator of the hydroelectric power plant in Bellows Falls, VT.
Each program will offer children and adults alike a wonderful natural science educational experience through discussion, hands-on objects, and a craft about critters and creatures.
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From its humble beginnings in 1996 as a small site by the Creek where little kiosks sold products from different countries, Dubai Global Village has grown into a huge crowd-puller. Dubai Global Village is now the star attraction of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF), an open-air extravaganza which attracted 4.5 million visitors in 2008.
Huge pavilions from around 40 countries are at the heart of Dubai Global Village, bringing together diverse world cultures selling native food, goods and handicrafts. There are some real treasures too, including fantastic cottons from China, nuts from Syria, honey from Yemen, carpets from Iran, textiles from India and furniture from Morocco.
The fairground rides help promote a distinctly carnival atmosphere, as does the broad spectrum of stalls and activities which include music, dance and theatre. Dubai Global Village is a must-see, but do be prepared for a fair amount of walking.
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December 10, 1999
Request for Public Director Nominations for NFA's Board of Directors
Request for Public Director Nominations for NFA's Board of Directors
NFA's Articles of Incorporation ("Articles�) provide for nine (9) Public Representative positions on NFA's Board of Directors ("the Board�). Article VII, Section 2(c) (ii) defines Public Representatives as "individuals who are not employed by any Member of NFA.� The Articles further provide that at least four (4) Public Representatives may have no direct association with a business enterprise in the commodity futures industry.
The terms of four (4) current Public Representatives, Alan J. Dixon, Warren W. Lebeck, Bruce F. Osborne and Todd E. Petzel, are set to expire at the Board's 2000 regular annual meeting. Mr. Dixon, Mr. Lebeck, Mr. Osborne and Mr. Petzel are eligible for reelection. NFA is asking its Members for nominations to fill these vacancies on the Board. At the Board's regular annual meeting, scheduled for Thursday, February 17, 2000, the Board will select from among the nominees four Public Representatives to serve on the Board for three-year terms.
Because public representation on NFA's Board of Directors is an important matter, we ask that you give serious consideration to submitting a nomination to fill these vacancies. All nominations must be received at the address below on or before Monday, January 10, 2000.
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Bruce "Two Dogs" Bozsum, Chairman of Mohegan Sun Casino, a gaming, hotel and entertainment destination, is the first Native American boss to go undercover. Bozsum learns the high stakes role of slot attending and nearly runs out of gas as he retrieves cars from the valet, on UNDERCOVER BOSS, Friday, Jan. 10 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Studio Lambert ©2014 Studio Lambert, All Rights Reserved


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NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Top-seeded world No. 1 Serena Williams landed in the quarterfinals but third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska was an upset victim at the U.S. Open Sunday.
Williams needed only 87 minutes to get past the 15th-seeded fellow American Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-1, firing six aces on her way to the fourth-round victory.
The defending champ has won four U.S. Open titles overall.
She now goes on to face No. 18 Carla Suarez Navarro following the Spaniard's surprising 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) defeat of eighth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany Sunday.
The news wasn't as good for Poland's Radwanska, however, who was upended by 24th-seeded Russian Ekaterina Makarova 6-4, 6-4, keeping intact her record of never having reached the New York quarterfinals.
Makarova will next take on China's fifth-seeded Li Na, who brushed past former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic 6-3, 6-0 in a 57-minute affair.


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CoffeeRatings.com Reaches 500
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Every once in a while it becomes necessary to celebrate an arbitrary milestone. And we have one today: for the first time, CoffeeRatings.com reached 500 active espresso ratings for San Francisco.
What's so arbitrary about it? For one, the 500 milestone was actually passed many months ago. While CoffeeRatings.com's focus has been San Francisco proper, there are a number of non-SF ratings that aren't currently available (or readily available: e.g., Chicago) through the Web site (by design).
Another arbitrary factor? Although the ratings for CoffeeRatings.com have been compiled in just a little over three years, there has been a bit of churn created by a number of café and restaurant closures in that time. These vary from the high profile examples of Café Organica's closure due to labor disputes (among other matters), café ownership changes (e.g., Cafe ? to Cafe Bello and Cafe Melroy to Ajatea Café), Starbucks' buy out and pillaging of chains such as Torrefazione Italia, and outright closures of hardly missed spots like Trans Cafe … and quite literally a guy named Joe — who sold sidewalk espresso from a mobile Verismo machine he connected by extension cord to the downtown Sherman Clay piano shop. And there are undoubtedly more closures and ownership changes I haven't discovered yet.
Still, there are plenty of stones left unturned in SF alone. I estimate that between the various corner restaurants with espresso machines to every outlet of Peet's or Starbucks, there are several hundred more to go. (And unfortunately, most of them are probably too foul to recommend.) So how am I celebrating? By (mostly) taking a few weeks off of posting here, for one, as CoffeeRatings.com is going on assignment. In the meantime, I'll leave you with spare pictures from review #500: the all-glam-and-no-quality Cocola Bakery & Pastry fittingly in the newly opened cathedral to consumerism, the Westfield Centre.
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Around 1650 athletes from all backgrounds will complete their own personal challenge and test their endurance to complete the 28th edition of the Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote. Each participant must swim 3.8 km, ride a grueling 180.2 km bike course and finally run a full marathon of 42.2 km to earn the privilege of being a Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote finisher.
The race attracts both Professionals and amateur athletes of all nationalities. The top 6 male and female finishers in the professional class are eligible for the prize money. The total prize purse is 25.000 US$, divided as follows:
1st: $5.000 · 2nd: $2.750 · 3rd: $1.750 · 4th: $1.250 · 5th: $1.000 · 6th: $750
*The prize money will be paid after deduction of personal tax, according to the international agreements for each country. The prize money will be paid to the athletes by bank transfer (it does not include bank commissions). The prize money winners will receive a form via email a few days after the race. This form must be completed and returned to the event organizers along with a copy of the athlete's ID/passport.
With 40 qualifying slots to top age-group finishers and two slots for PRO (1st PRO M/W) for the 2019 IRONMAN World Championship in Hawaii, the Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote race is the ideal opportunity to qualify for Hawaii in almost identical conditions to those you will experience in the IRONMAN World Championship.
We advise you to book your accommodation well in advance of the race. Please visit www.clublasanta.com for more information.
To give yourself time to acclimatise to the Lanzarote weather, and to avoid any problems with delivery of your bike, we recommend that you arrive at least four days before the race. We also advise that you pack your racing kit separately, including helmet, shoes and wetsuit.
To avoid long queues at the registration desks on Thursday before the race, we kindly ask you to come well in advance, either in the morning from 10:00 or on Wednesday. Many fellow athletes will collect their race pack in the afternoon just before the technical meeting, Parade of Nations and Pasta party..
Athlete Guide 2019
Please download the Athlete Guide 2019 here (New Transition Map - updated 15th of May 2019) for the most up to date important and practical information. This will help to ensure a smooth arrival on Lanzarote and throughout the race.
Every athlete must sign the waiver they approved during the online registration process. Please see the 2019 waiver here.
Race Programme 2019
Please view the 2019 race programme here.
Before the Race
The pre-race meeting is mandatory for all competitors, and will give you valuable advice and information. The meeting will take place at the Square in Club La Santa, on Thursday prior to race day, between 15.00 - 18.00 hrs. (15.00h English, 15.45h Spanish, 16.30h German, 17.15h French)
Transition bags
Bike and run bags must be checked in on Friday, prior to race day. in the transition zone in Puerto del Carmen, between 15.00 - 18.00h. The colours of the bags are:
· Warming-up & swim bag: white
· Bike bag: blue
· Run bag: red
· Personal Feedbag: green
Your own nutrition must be checked in on Saturday morning between 05.00-06.30h in the transition zone in Puerto del Carmen, and must be marked with your race number. One bag may be checked in for the bike course. The special feed station on the bike course is at Los Valles (aid station 6). No personal feedbags will be available on the run course; your own nutrition can be handed in along with the bike own nutrition bag and it will be placed at the first aid station on the run course. It must be labelled with the sticker provided in the Athlete Pack. Please note that the own nutrition bags that are not collected during the race will be not be returned to the athlete.
Bike check in
The referees will check your brakes, handlebars, gear shifters, helmet etc. They will have to be accepted by the referees in accordance with the rules of the Spanish Triathlon Federation. You will not be allowed to deposit anything on the ground next to your bike. The referees will remove any items that have been deposited on the ground; these items can be picked up at the Athlete Info Point in the transition zone.
The organization will provide you with one chip. It is not necessary to pay a deposit for the timing chip.
The use of own timing chips is not allowed.You must return the chip at the bike check -out.
Chip check Points
It is the athlete's own responsibility to ensure that he/she is registered at the Timing check-points. If an athlete is missing one of the times he/she will automatically be disqualified and will not be considered a Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote Finisher. Should you lose your chip at any time during the race, back up chips will be available in the transition zone, at the information desk and outside the changing room in the transition zone. Volunteers will also be waiting outside the swim zone with spare chips should anyone loose one at this early stage.
All those who do not finish the race for any reason must report the fact to the Information Centre in the Transition Zone.
Official Bike Tech
The official Bike tech from will be available:
- Friday 15.00 - 18.00hrs in the Transition Zone (full mechanic service is not included).
- Race day in the Transition Zone for last minutes issues from 05.00 am until the last cyclist has left transition.
Athletes must make necessary repairs to their own bike during the race using their own tools and without outside assistance, they can only accept assistance from the supporting bike tech. On the race day, there will be a mobile mechanical team on the bike course, as well as mechanical assistance at the following fixed points.
We recommend that you bring a spare, Rear Meck Hanger of your bike model.
This is a very sensitive piece of the bike, and has known to snap or damage from either miss handling or bad packing. It would be easier and quicker to repair by a bike mechanic if you carried a spare.
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The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published ANSI/NEMA WC 67-2012, "Standard for Uninsulated Conductors Used in Electrical and Electronic Applications." The standard covers the following uninsulated conductors:
- Single-end (solid) and stranded
- Coated and uncoated copper
- Coated copper alloy
- Coated copper-clad steel
- Aluminum conductors
- Thermocouple extension conductors
These conductors are used primarily in insulated wires for aerospace, electrical, electronic, and other high performance applications.
"WC 67-2012 provides the requirements for high-reliability conductors used in aerospace, electrical, and electronic equipment," said Kevin Coderre, technical director, RSCC Aerospace and Defense, and NEMA 7HW aerospace technical committee chairman. "The 2012 revision will be referenced by a battery of high performance wire and cable standards. Specifically, the revision adds silver-coated copper and silver-coated copper alloy requirements to bring the document in line with the current state of practice of the industry."
ANSI/NEMA WC 67-2012 is available in electronic or hardcopy format for $78. To purchase, visit NEMA's website or contact IHS by phone at 800-854-7179 (within the United States) or 303-397-7956 (international), or visit global.ihs.com.


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Ingredients and Preparation
*If you like your tuna cooked rare, select sashimi-grade tuna.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together oil, vinegar, basil, tarragon, thyme, and garlic. Combine 1 tablespoon marinade with mayonnaise, stir until smooth, and set aside. Combine tuna and remaining marinade in a large plastic resealable bag and marinate 30 minutes, turning once.
- Prepare grill. Grill fish 2-5 minutes per side, until it reaches desired degree of doneness. Top with herbed mayonnaise and serve.


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Wilson Chandler scored 21 points, Ty Lawson had 20, and the Denver Nuggets snapped a six-game losing streak by beating the Dallas Mavericks 115-110 on Wednesday night.
Kenneth Faried, Randy Foye and J.J. Hickson added 16 points apiece for the Nuggets, who have won all three meetings this season against Dallas. Hickson scored 12 of his points in the fourth quarter to help hold off the Mavericks, who play the Nuggets a final time this season in two weeks in Dallas.
Dirk Nowitzki had 27 points to lead the Mavericks, who lost their third in a row. It's their first three-game losing streak of the season.
Brandan Wright added 18 points and Vince Carter 17 for Dallas.
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Girl, 9, gives birth in Mexico; teen father sought
A 9-year-old girl who was impregnated when she was 8 has given birth to a healthy girl weighing nearly 6 pounds in Guadalajara, Mexico, authorities say.
Police are seeking the 17-year-old father, who fled two months ago, when the girl realized she was pregnant, Lino Ginzalez Corona, spokesperson at Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office, told ABC News.
The 5-pound, 15-ounce baby girl was delivered by Caesarean section Jan. 27, Enrique Rabago, director of the Hospital General de Occidente, told a news conference Wednesday. The mother, identified only as Dafne, and child were released over the weekend.
"Due to her age, her body is not able (or) in the best shape to have a baby," he said.
She has been receiving psychological counseling and will be monitored closely. Her mother also approved a subcutaneous birth-control device.
For the skeptical, UPI offers this explanation for the hard-to-believe birth:
While giving birth at such a young age is obviously unusual, it is not impossible. The age when girls start menstruating is dropping -- although the average is still about 12 -- and even lower among Hispanic girls. Pregnancy can occur before a girl ever gets her first period, since the bleeding occurs at the end of the menstrual cycle after ovulation.
The girl is one of 11 children who live with their parents in a poor neighborhood 25 miles south of Guadalajara, ABC says. "Her parents work all day and were not watching after her, and therefore didn't realize what was about to happen," Corona said.
The girl told her mother she had been "dating" the teen believed to be the father. He fled after the girl's mother rejected his idea that the girl move in with him and raise the child, the Spanish news agency EFE says. (Milenio has the story in Spanish.)
"We are looking for the young man to get his story because the girl does not understand what has happened," said Jorge Villasenor, another representative from the prosecutor's office. "This is either rape or child sex abuse."
News reports say the youngest mother on record is a Peruvian girl who was 5-years, 7 months old when she delivered a boy by C-section in 1939.


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October 19, 2010, 11:14 am
Canning Tuna
Every fall I can tuna. It's the only canning project I do socially, mainly because home canned tuna seems to be one product lots of my friends want to have on hand, and plus it's just kind of an intense and groovy project to do.
This fall we put up tuna with Wes Rozen, our friend and my erstwhile student, and Natalie Smith, who's Global Table is my favorite dish store in New York (we also went to college together back in the days when the Ramone brothers were still alive).
We prefer to put up tuna at our little cottage on the east end of Long Island because we can do the butchering outside on a nice day. I try to do a case of half-pints—it's just so nice to have this deliciously mild, sweet tuna on hand.


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I've begun work on the BLDR Postcompo version! The general consensus seems to be that this is necessary. I shall also be using the first versions of my LD/game library I'm developing as a wrapper around SDL. I'm open to suggestions! My current list…
- New name – Some people seemed to think BLDR was related to towlr, and some vowels would be nice.
- Improved graphics – The art was meant to be "temporary", but all too often in Ludum Dare temp art becomes final.
- Modify to use the new library – save code space, etc.
- More gameplay elements – at least a few, though I'll try to squeeze as much as I can out of the basics
- The roads – perhaps some changes to the way the road system works
- Animations – so when you die you don't just get teleported back to the beginning
- Level editor – level editors are always nice
- In-game instructions – in-game instructions are always nice
- More levels – of course more levels
- Enhanced menus – ways to access all the new features
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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy fought back tears Wednesday as he delivered the State of the State Address and recalled the Newtown school shooting that devastated a tight-knit community last month.
"It won't surprise you that this speech is very different from the one I first envisioned giving," Malloy said. "In the early days of December, I began thinking about what I'd like to say. Now, while it's only been a few short weeks on the calendar, we have all walked a very long and very dark road together. What befell Newtown is not something we thought possible in any of Connecticut's beautiful small towns or our cities."
In the aftermath of one of the worst days in the history of the state of Connecticut, Malloy said, he saw the best of his state. He spoke haltingly as he talked about the school staff members who sacrificed their lives protecting students and ran directly into harm's way to do so.
He commended the State Police, Newtown's local law enforcement, firemen, others who responded, as well as local officials who worked around-the-clock to bring comfort and stability to Newtown.
Newtown First Selectwoman Pat Llodra and School Superintendent Dr. Janet Robinson were in the chambers during the State of the State.
"You were tested by unimaginable tragedy. Your compassion and your leadership over the past month has been an inspiration to Connecticut and to me personally," Malloy said.
He commended teachers who put the interest of students first as they return to classrooms.
Then his thoughts went to the 26 families of those killed and of how they have supported the community that has supported them and of the perseverance they have shown in great tragedy.
Speaking before an assembly of people wearing green ribbons to honor Newtown, Malloy talked about the state's responsibilities in the future.
They will be shaped, in part, by findings of the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, which is tasked with making specific recommendations about school safety, mental health services and gun violence prevention.
When Malloy spoke of mental health services, he said there must be a balance of respecting individual rights with the obligation to provide for the greater public safety.
When talking about guns, Malloy emphatically stated that more guns are not the answer.
"Let me be very, very clear. Freedom is not a handgun on the hip of every teacher," he said, adding that security should not mean a guard posted outside every classroom.
"That is not who we are in Connecticut, and it is not who we will allow ourselves to become," Malloy said.


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Wiring Commercial Garages and Repair and Storage Facilities
A commercial garage may not seem like much of an electrical challenge at first glance, but upon closer inspection you may discover more than just the usual lights, fans, air compressors, and lifts. If the garage has work pits, fuel storage systems, or fuel dispensing equipment, your installation needs to comply with the requirements of Art. 511. Otherwise, it could jeopardize the safety of those who work in or visit the facility.
Art. 511 applies to areas used for service and repair operations of self-propelled vehicles — including passenger automobiles, buses, trucks, and tractors — that use volatile flammable liquids or gases for fuel or power. You can apply Art. 511 requirements to residential or repair garages for watercraft, 4-wheelers, or motorcycles, but it's not a Code requirement.
Installations that likely fall within the scope of Art. 511 include automobile service/repair centers; service and repair garages for commercial vehicles, such as trucks and tractors; and service and repair garages for fleet vehicles, such as cars, buses, and trucks.
Location, location, location. To determine if Art. 511 applies, you must decide whether the characteristics of the garage deem it a hazardous location. First, carefully review Art. 500 against the planned uses of the garage, and then refer to NFPA 88A-1998, "Standard for Parking Structures" and NFPA 88B-1997, "Standard for Repair Garages." You must conform to Art. 514 if you're wiring in an area used for motor fuel dispensers or in a location where people transfer flammable fuel to vehicle fuel tanks.
Don't fall into the common trap of classifying the entire garage the same way. A garage may have a vehicle service and repair area that must comply with Art. 511. It could also have another area for fuel dispensing, which must comply with Art. 514. But it may also have other areas, such as show rooms, offices, or a parts department, that don't fall under Art. 511 or Art. 514. While all of these areas must comply with NEC Chapters 1 through 4, each area must comply with the Chapter 5 requirements particular to its specific characteristics.
Elevations. Thinking of an area in terms of the plan view in a drawing is two-dimensional. Classifications include the third dimension of height. Thus, the elevation of a given volume of space is a critical factor in its classification.
The service and repair area up to 18 in. above the floor is classified as Class I, Division 2 (Fig. 1). Where compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles are repaired or stored, the area within 18 in. of the ceiling is also classified as Class I, Division 2. However, if mechanical ventilation provides a minimum of four air changes per hour, the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) can declare the area nonclassified.
Any pit or depression below the service/repair floor is considered a Class I, Division 1 location (Fig. 2). This pit requirement has two exceptions:
If mechanical ventilation provides a minimum of six air changes per hour, the AHJ can classify the area as a Class I, Division 2 location.
If a lubrication or service room doesn't have dispensing equipment, the AHJ will classify it per Table 514.3(B)(1).
An example of this second exception would be an oil change and lubrication service pit. Table 514.3(B)(1) declares this area as unclassified if it meets certain ventilation requirements.
Fig. 3 illustrates the stipulation in 511.3(B)(4) that areas adjacent to classified locations, such as stock rooms, switchboard rooms, and other similar locations, aren't classified if they're mechanically ventilated at a rate of four or more air changes per hour or when the adjacent area is effectively cut off by walls or partitions. The AHJ may declare areas adjacent to classified locations unclassified for reasons of ventilation, air pressure differentials, or physical spacing.
Wiring and equipment requirements.
You must install wiring and equipment within a Class I location per the requirements of Art. 501, one of which calls for threaded rigid metal or intermediate metal conduit. However, raceways embedded in a masonry wall or buried beneath a floor aren't considered to be within the Class I location unless the raceway actually enters the classified area (Fig. 4). A raceway that enters a Class I, Division 1 or 2 location must be threaded rigid or intermediate metal conduit. You can use rigid nonmetallic conduit (RNC) with an equipment-grounding conductor underground if it has at least 2 ft of cover (Fig. 5). If the raceway enters a classified location, the underfloor area takes on the classification of the above area, even if the conduit passes unbroken through the classified area and terminates in an unclassified area. The concern is that volatile gas could seep into the underfloor area through the conduit openings in the floor.
The requirements of Art. 514 govern fuel-dispensing units — other than liquid petroleum gas, which is prohibited — that are located within buildings. Portable lighting equipment, such as lamps and accompanying cords, must be supported or arranged in such a manner that they aren't installed in the locations classified in 511.3, or are an approved type for use in Class I, Division 1 locations.
Wiring and equipment above Class I locations
Per 511.7, all wiring above a Class I location must be within a raceway or in certain cable types. You can use flexible hard usage cords for pendants if you install them according to the requirements of 400.4. Electrical equipment installed in a fixed position must be identified for a Class I location or positioned above it. Equipment with make-and-break contacts installed less than 12 ft above the floor level, excluding receptacles, lamps, and lampholders, must be completely enclosed or constructed to prevent sparks or hot metal particles from escaping.
Lampholders and lamps installed for fixed lighting over travel lanes or other places where physical damage is likely must be located at least 12 ft above floor level, unless the luminaires are totally enclosed or constructed to prevent sparks or hot metal particles from escaping.
You must also install seals for raceway, cable, and boundaries per the requirements of 501.5. Where the Class 1, Division 1 boundary is beneath the ground, you can install the sealing fitting at a point past where the conduit leaves the ground. However, you can't use a union, coupling, box, or fitting between the conduit seal and the point where the conduit leaves the ground [501.5(A)(4) Exception 2].
Special requirements.
You can't locate battery chargers — or batteries being charged — within a Class I, Division 1 or 2 area. That means you need a separate room for battery charging if, for example, you store fuel in the garage. Equipment for charging an electric vehicle must be installed per Art. 695.
The Code requires GFCI protection for all 125V, single-phase 15A and 20A receptacles for service and repair operations like electrical automotive diagnostic equipment, electrical hand-tools, and portable lighting devices (Fig. 6). While OSHA requirements for GFCIs aren't as strict as those of the NEC, you shouldn't automatically adopt the lesser requirements. The AHJ will likely enforce the Code requirements, and all indications point to OSHA moving toward NEC compliance.
On the surface, this seems like quite a few extra requirements for an installation that goes beyond pure parking. However, if you read those requirements carefully, you'll notice a trend: the purpose of Art. 511 is to ensure a separation between volatile fumes and ignition sources. If you keep that purpose in mind when designing, building, or retrofitting a garage, you should have no problem complying with Art. 511. And you'll sleep better at night knowing you've installed a safe electrical system.
Are you still confused by the Code? For additional information on Code-related topics please visit www.mikeholt.com or send an e-mail directly to the author at [email protected].


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MEDWAY - With the building finally complete, the nearly 200-year-old Thayer Homestead will be home to numerous events this summer.
With a facilities manager set to be hired in the coming weeks, the town has moved forward with scheduling some of Medway�s annual events at the property, which overlooks Choate Park and Choate Pond.
As part of the "Medway Summer Series," movies will be shown on the Thayer Homestead lawn every Wednesday night at 8:30 p.m., beginning tonight with Disney�s "Monster University."
Concerts at Choate Park and Thayer Homestead continue throughout the summer,�said Selectmen Chairman Dennis Crowley.
According to Crowley, the June 19 Family Day at Thayer Homestead, complete with a military band and fireworks, will be the last event funded by Medway 300 donations collected during the town�s 300th anniversary celebration.
So far, Crowley said the feedback from residents and businesses who have rented the propoerty has been positive.
The town, using Community Preservation funds, seized the property in 2004 after a developer wanted to demolish the historic home at 2B Oak St.
The house, built on the 3.3-acre lot in 1838, and is one of the town's oldest structures.
Residents at special Town Meeting in November 2012 approved the $2.5 million project, and construction began in April 2013, with the majority of it finishing up�last month.
The construction included completely renovating the historic home, adding a caretaker�s apartment, a 3,600-square-foot addition with restrooms, a kitchen, 22 parking spaces and other amenities.
Now selectmen want the home and neighboring Choate Park to serve as a central gathering place or town common for residents to enjoy. According to�Crowley, the construction is complete, but contractors are still working on a few minor details.
Regardless, the historic home has already�hosted several events, including the retirement party for Town Administrator Suzanne Kennedy.
"People that have used it say it looks beautiful," Crowley said. "All of the events have been successful. It�s really a nice venue."
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Medway's Thayer Homestead to host summer events
MEDWAY - With the building finally complete, the nearly 200-year-old Thayer Homestead will be home to numerous events this summer.


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Otis "Damon" Harris, a former member of the Motown group The Temptations, has died of prostate cancer. He was 62.
Chuck Woodson, a cousin serving as family spokesman, confirmed that Harris died at a Baltimore hospice last week.
Harris performed with the celebrated Motown act The Temptations from 1971 to 1975 and sang on hits including "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and "Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)."
Woodson says joining The Temptations was "the realization of a dream" for Harris.
Harris formed a new group after leaving The Temptations and later released solo recordings.
Woodson says that in his final years, Harris established a cancer foundation that was still in its early stages when he became ill. Harris also became a strong advocate for prostate cancer screening.


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A White House tour group received an early Holiday surprise when they opened a door to find President Obama and Steve Harvey awaiting them.
Following a sit-down interview that will air Friday on "Steve Harvey," the president and the television host decided to surprise people taking Holiday tours of the White House and, as Obama put it, "spread some Christmas cheer."
One wide-eyed boy was rendered almost speechless when Obama told him they shared something in common. "You got ears just like me,'' the president said while shaking the hand of a boy named Jordan. "They give you some special power."
Obama offered salutations to more stunned guests as Harvey found himself in a position he is not usually accustomed to: being the second most recognized person in the room.
"I've never been ignored this many times ever,'' Harvey said as he stood to Obama's right as tourists streamed past, the majority only having eyes for the president. "This is so cool."
"They just can't see you behind the decorations,'' Obama said with a smile.
In a gracious move to include the comedian, Obama asked one young girl, "You know Steve Harvey?" She responded with a quizzical look.
"I'm Cedric the Entertainer,'' Harvey joked to another guest. "Thank you for coming."
Immediately following the interview Harvey spoke with NBC Washington about his sit-down with Obama and told News4's Pat Lawson Muse that he quizzed Obama on "family, fatherhood and his plans for the holidays."
Harvey said he wanted to stay away from politics and concentrate more on personal subjects, such as what gifts Obama plans to give this holiday season, family life in the White House, and how he feels about his daughters dating.
"He has developed some theories about dating," Harvey teased. "I was pretty proud of my president on that one."
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Zimbabwe rangers catch and put down 3 killer lions
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Wildlife rangers in Zimbabwe said Friday three lions that killed two people near a suburb in the northern resort town of Kariba have been caught and put down.
The state wildlife department said a lioness and two "sub-adult" cubs between two and three years old were baited into traps and given lethal injections using darts late on Thursday. Sub-adults are about three-fourths of the size of the mother.
Rangers said the mother was lame from an injured leg that was badly swollen and was scarred from wresting itself free from an illegal wire animal trap set by poachers to catch smaller animals. The wounds accounted for the pride roaming close to Kariba's Mahombekombe township suburb, they said.
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The lions devoured the body of one man on Tuesday and killed a woman nearby whose male companion escaped unhurt.
On Wednesday, rangers put the town on the shores of Lake Kariba, a man-made hydroelectric dam popular for fishing and tourism, on a full rogue lion alert. A zebra, among lions' usual prey, was shot as bait for the animals.
Police in Kariba said Friday a ranger laying the bait was accidently shot in the leg when colleagues opened fire on lions seen stalking toward him.
The wildlife department had warned townspeople against walking at night and crossing through thickets of bush where lions conceal themselves. It urged people in the area only to use wide and established roads.
Warning fliers distributed since Wednesday also warned "beer drinkers to avoid moving at night on foot." With the recent growth of outdoor Christian groups and religious and other tribal sects, the fliers advised their followers to "stop going for secretive prayers in thick vegetation" in and around the town.
One of the lions' victims Tuesday was a 70-year-old man headed for a bar on the outskirts of the township, and the dead woman had surreptitiously gone into the bush with a lover, neighbors said.
Lion attacks are not common close to urban settlements. In the past, elephants have roamed into Kariba's suburbs, causing several deaths in recent years. Victims were often heading home from late night taverns and bars.


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Shepard Fairey is a busy guy. You might have heard of him if you caught 2011's Oscar-nominated street-art film Exit Through the Gift Shop. He designed one of the most iconic presidential posters of all time. Tens of thousands of posters and stickers carrying the obscure Andre the Giant imagery he created in college now adorn streets from Chicago to Stockholm. And his fine-art pieces (examples above) now grace gallery walls in The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, MoMA in NYC, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and more.
But that's just for starters. Here's a sample of what else he's been up to:
Fairey recently designed two billboards in downtown LA, memorializing the late, great Adam 'MCA' Yauch of the Beastie Boys.
He collaborated with Neil Young to create 11 original posters—one for each song on Young's upcoming album of traditional folk songs, Americana.
Fairey contributed artwork to Honor the Treaties, a short documentary about a photographer's advocacy work for Native American Rights.
He even lent some exclusive artwork—plus the rights to his origin story, including the infamous 'Mayor Buddy Cianci' incident—to a 22-year-old film student at his alma mater. (The image directly above is a still from the student's Social Network-inspired film.)
The man apparently sleeps 12 minutes a night, because after all that, Fairey still finds time to put out some of the best T-shirts, snap-backs, shorts and more, via his clothing label Obey.
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First of all - and with no disrespect toward the Coyotes Organization or Jobing.com Arena staff - that Pacific Division Championship Banner "unveiling" was just... pathetic.
I know we still don't have an owner and thus have no money for pomp & circumstance - but we couldn't at least dim the house lights and RAISE the banner up to the roof? The NHL couldn't at least do that for us all? I was so terribly disappointed with it all...
And it was cooked. Our own players were laughing when it was "unveiled"... come on!
But the take home replicas they gave us were fantastic.
That aside - the most important thing is: hockey is back!!!!
Bonus: They now sell gluten free beer & hot dogs at Jobing.com Arena. It is outside of section 111 at the "Lighter Fare" stand. Please go patronize it. I need beer and hot dogs at hockey games people...
And last - but the farthest thing on EARTH from least - I'd like to introduce you to the newest member of our Hockey Family - Izzy - who made an appearance at her first tailgate yesterday.
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Pentaho Joins Dell Partner Program for Big Data.
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GREAT NEWS Pentaho Fans!
Pentaho Joins Dell Partner Program for Big Data
The opportunity that big data analytics provides for organizations to innovate quickly, predict events and improve customer relationships is endless. Our own customers including Shareable Ink, Travian Games and TravelTainment are using big data analytics today to analyze clinical data, innovate computer games and design targeted promotional campaigns – just to name a few.
Two key themes in of our vision for the future of analytics are to integrate with the leading technology partners in the big data analytics ecosystem and to enable cloud-ready applications. In light of this, I am incredibly pleased to announce that today Pentaho is part of Dell's Emerging Solutions Ecosystem, a new partnership program announced last April with the aim of focusing on cloud and big data enablement.
Pentaho's big data analytics software will be offered with the Dell Apache Hadoop Solution, which brings together Cloudera's distribution of Apache Hadoop, Dell's hardware reference architecture and Dell's Crowbar software, which automates and accelerates the deployment, configuration and ongoing operation of your cloud or cluster environment. The combined solution will also be offered with joint services and support.
What does this mean? I've had many conversations this year with customers who've told us they need to 'operationalize' Hadoop and that's exactly what this partnership is about. In a nutshell, this partnership makes it faster and easier for organizations to gain total insight from all their data through a single appliance that combines Hadoop integration, data integration and out-of-the-box analytics.
Why did Dell select Pentaho to be part of the Dell Apache Hadoop Solution? A major factor is that we were one of the first movers in the space announcing support for Big Data in May 2010 and we have many customers doing real work with big data. We've also been working with Cloudera since October 2010 and have a longstanding strategic relationship with them, which includes technology integration.
The partnership means that Dell's dedicated, big data sales team will now be reselling Pentaho directly into existing and new Dell accounts, initially in North America and other parts of the world very soon. The Dell partnership also further commercializes Pentaho's relationship with Cloudera by providing a vehicle to bring a big data offering to the market.
We look forward to helping you achieve your business goals through this important new partnership. For more information about Pentaho and Dell's Emerging Solutions Ecosystem please visit pentaho.com/big-data/dell/.


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Pianist • Composer • Educator
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26 year old pianist Julian Shore has been called "a pianist/composer who beyond the obvious elegance of his playing has a clear sense of the bigger artistic picture" (Peter Hum, Ottowa Times). An "extremely precocious, serious musician" (JAZZIZ) he "riffs and waxes with a sense of space usually reserved for more veteran players." (DownBeat)
From Narragansett, Rhode Island, Shore grew up listening to his father playing Bach on his home piano and would often sing along as a toddler. After starting piano lessons at a young age he began studies with famed educator Hal Crook as a teenager. Shortly thereafter Shore was awarded a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music where he entered in Fall 2005. During his time there, under the mentorship of Danilo Perez, he performed in a young musicians ensemble in the Panama Jazz Festival alongside names such as Wayne Shorter, Brian Blade and many others. He graduated in 2009 and shortly after moving to New York, had a brief stint with singer Gretchen Parlato, touring with her band in early 2010 and then performing at the Stockholm Jazz Festival with her later that year. Since then he has continued to appear as both leader and sideman in New York where he is based, and across the globe. He has had the opportunity to perform or record with musicians such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Gretchen Parlato, Myron Walden, Gilad Hekselman, Kendrick Scott, Mark Giuliana, Ferenc Nemeth and Hal Crook among many others.
His newest record "Filaments" which features Kurt Rosenwinkel, Tommy Crane, Phil Donkin, Jeff Miles, Alexa Barchini, Shelly Tzarafi and guests Noah Preminger, Godwin Louis, Kurt Ozan and others, was released in 2012 and is available via iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon, etc
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Shepherd's pie
This one is a real pickle — it's extremely simple, and doesn't look spectacular, but packs a serious punch of flavor and deliciousness. You can easily upgrade or downgrade the recipe based on your liking, use different ingredients, but as long as you make ground meat under a blanket of mashed potatoes, it's gonna be fine ;-)
Easy: 7 steps, 44 minutes
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German Zimtsterne (cinnamon almond cookies)
I always wanted to make these, and finally got the guts — oh boy, I wasn't really prepared for the amount of nitty-gritty with making these. I started with original German recipe that called for 500g of almonds, but that ended up being 2 full baking sheets and lots of sneaky snacking between steps ;-) But the result is good, and these cookies are worth the effort.
Easy: 4 steps, 37 minutes
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Tabatha Coffey Takes Over Her Biggest Challenge Yet: a Cafe!
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Tabatha Coffey will attempt to transform her first café on Thursday's episode of Tabatha Takes Over. "The owner had a really hard time with changing so there's a lot of resistance there," Coffey tells TVGuide.com. In what the hair stylist call… Read more


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