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Pokemon and other made up words
Pokemon Go hit the world like a tidal wave and brought with it a host of new expressions and words that we have never used in quite this way before. But how does this fit into what we already know about English? Can we just make-up and add words as we wish? Can we add to the meaning of words?
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Neologisms are made up or newly coined words or phrases. Shakespeare was the king of neologisms making up about 2000 new words that are now commonplace in the English language. Nowadays, neologisms usually occur with regards to technology and new inventions, e.g. "Facebook" and "What'sApp". These new additions are usually made up of two words, face and book, to make up a new word. Much like in the case of Pokemon which is made up of two Japanese words, "Poketto" and "M"nsut", translated to "pocket monster" in English.
One of Shakespeare's great neologisms is the phrase, "all that glitters isn't gold" which means that everything that appears to be valuable may not be. This has become a well-known idiom used in spoken and written English. Pokemon Go is a phrase that I suspect will soon be almost as well-known as Shakespeare's own words.
Another phenomenon that Pokemon Go has introduced us to is semantic progression. This is when the definition of a word grows to include the new meaning. For example, a short while ago "candy" only meant "a sweet, sugary treat". Now, with the introduction of Pokemon Go, "candy" can also mean, "a substance that is used to evolve and strengthen Pokémon".
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Although it essential that we follow the grammatical rules of a language, it is also important that we remember that language is fluid and living. We must always allow room for new ideas and words. There might just be another Shakespeare in our midst.


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TABUCHI Yukio. Asama, Yatsugatake. Fumoto kara no Yama (The Mountain from its Foot). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 1974. 1st ed. — AVAILABLE: see STOCKLIST for pricing
Description — 4° (31.5 x 22 x 3 cm), (188)-45-(7) p., cloth hardcover, pict. dj, glassine, slipcase, 153 + 45 b&w and color pictures (gravure), one map. Text in Japanese.
État / Condition — Fine (light foxing to dj, otherwise excellent).
Remarques & avis / Review — Landscapes (Asama and Yatsugatake mountains in the Japanese Alps in the Nagano pref.) and insights into Tabuchi's fields of interest (alpine butterflies & flowers), by TABUCHI Yukio. A marvel of book design and book printing.
Divers / Misc. — x
Orders and inquiries
Commandes et informations

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An original "Hank and Annie" design!
I started with repurposed vintage leather, embossed it and dyed it with earth pigments. The finishing coat of beeswax not only gives it a non-toxic sheen, it also smells amazing!
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About sizing: There are different snap settings on the bracelet, allowing for a comfortable, personalized fit at any wrist size. Each bracelet is 1 1/2 inches wide.


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At least he apologized.
On Tuesday,
Two minutes into a conference call to Patch's 1,000 employees on Friday, Armstrong seemed jarringly to lose his temper. Lenz was videotaping the meeting, and Armstrong suddenly said, "Abel, put that camera down right now! Abel, you're fired. Out!"
Armstrong sent a four-paragraph statement to AOL employees at 4:30 pm yesterday, reports The New York Times, which obtained a copy. "I am writing to acknowledge the mistake I made last Friday during the Patch all-hands meeting when I publicly fired Abel Lenz," he said. "It was an emotional response at the start of a difficult discussion dealing with many people's careers and livelihoods. I am the CEO and leader of the organization, and I take that responsibility seriously." The Times reports that Armstrong went on to explain that Lenz had been warned previously not to make recordings of confidential meetings. The statement also said that Lenz would not get his job back but that Armstrong got in touch with Lenz and apologized.
To me, this is one of the weirdest examples of a CEO losing control of his emotions. It's especially odd that he fired Lenz for taping the meeting, since Armstrong explicitly told employees on the call, "I don't care what the press says, I don't care if people leak information," seemingly inviting workers to make the conference call public.
The media blog JIMROMENESKO.COM got an audio recording of the call the day of the meeting and posted it online. It's been picked up repeatedly and Armstrong has been roundly criticized. CNN ran a piece yesterday titled, "AOL boss blew it in public firing."
Even at the beginning of the call, Armstrong sounded defensive and threatening. "There's a couple of things I want you guys to realize and really think about and sink in, and if it doesn't sink in and you don't believe what I'm about to say, I'm going to ask you to leave Patch." He claimed, "I don't mean that in a harsh way." But it certainly sounded harsh. Later in the call he said, "if you don't use Patch as a product and you're not invested in Patch, you owe it to everybody else at Patch to leave. If you think what's going on right now is a joke, and you want to joke around about it, you should pick up your stuff and leave Patch today."
I don't know anyone inside Patch but I can only imagine that no one there has been joking, given that they have known since May that their jobs were in jeopardy. That month AOL laid off 20 Patch employees and made it clear that further retrenchment was imminent. Also the day before the conference call with employees, during AOL's Q2 earnings call, Armstrong had told Wall Street analysts that AOL was planning to cut the number of Patch local websites from 900 to 600, a move that could result in hundreds of layoffs. If I were a Patch employee, the last thing on my mind would be to make a joke about my employer. I can't fathom why Armstrong would bring up that idea.
Perhaps Armstrong has reason to be defensive. He cofounded Patch in 2007 before he joined AOL. When he got the CEO job in 2009, he sold Patch to AOL, which expanded it to 900 local news sites. The Wall Street Journal reports that by 2011, Patch cost the company $160 million, but its revenues didn't come close to that figure.
It seems that Armstrong's venture failed. But a leader should never take his own mistakes out on his employees. If he feels "emotional," as he said in his statement yesterday, then he should work through those emotions with a friend, counselor or coach before dumping on his workforce. He certainly shouldn't suddenly fire an employee in the middle of a conference call. Better to pause the call for a moment and ask Lenz, privately, to stop videotaping and make an arrangement to speak to him afterward. Or if he didn't feel that he could stop the call, he could have said, "Abel, I know I said my announcement would probably make its way into the press, but I would prefer you didn't videotape it. Please talk to me after the meeting."
Armstrong is in a tough spot. One laudable thing he said in his conference call: "I will take full credit and full responsibility for anything that's not right at Patch." But then he shouldn't have proceeded to publicly humiliate an employee and make a difficult situation worse.
What's the best way to tell hundreds of people they are about to lose their jobs? Start by thanking them for their hard work and then explain the situation by laying out the economics. Say you're gravely sorry that your company needs to make cuts and that it doesn't mean that people haven't done their best to produce high-quality content. Then together with the human resources department you should carefully and thoughtfully plan each dismissal or more likely delegate that job to capable staff who know how to be sensitive to the difficulty of firing people who have worked hard to make your foiled venture successful.


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Craft Tutorial: Collar Brooch
I've been meaning to make collar brooches for quite some time, and today I finally managed to make quick and easy one using earrings. My mother-in-law gave me the earrings a few months ago, and I've been trying to find a way to wear them other than as earrings (they were unfortunately too heavy for my ears). So, if you have stud-type earrings (or clip-on ones) that you want to upcycle, give it a try!
What you'll need:
- a pair of earrings
- 2 jump rings (there are 4 in the photo, but that's because I can't count :D)
- chain, about 10cm
- eyepins
- pearls
- (not in the photo) pair of flat-nose pliers, round-nose pliers and wire cutters
1) Thread a pearl to an eyepin, bend it at a 90 degrees angle, and leaving about 1cm, cut off the excess with wire cutter.
2) Grasp the end of eyepin with round-nose pliers, then twist it in a circular motion until the end of the eyepin forms a small loop.
3) Repeat the steps to make the second loop, then simply add the first loop to the second loop before closing it.
4) Continue the steps to connect pearls and eyepins until it becomes 3-5cm longer than your chain.
5) Using jump rings, connect the ends of the beaded chain and the chain to your earrings. If your earrings don't have anything you can attach the chains to, attach the jump rings to the earring ends.
Voila! I love how it turned out!
The only downside of using earrings is that you have to wear the brooches on lacy collars otherwise you'll have to puncture the collar. So, if you have clip-on earrings, you're in for a treat! I'm going to look for vintage clip-on earrings so that I could make some more brooches for non-lacy collars :)
Before I go, I just wanted to share you how I took the photos – yes, that's masking tapes you're seeing :) So glamorous, isn't it? I thought it worked, but no, the top was obviously still creasy…! Anyways, hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and have a great weekend!
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4 Commnents to "Craft Tutorial: Collar Brooch"
What a sweet idea. Reminds me of the '20s and all the old fashioned styles are coming back! Thanks for sharing!February 28th, 2014 | chrysoula brison-holtzhauer
Looks soo pretty xxSeptember 13th, 2012 | Tanya
Oooooh – this is super cute Emi!! I just got a couple tops with collars and I even have some clip earring hardware! I really love the look – I can't wait to make one!September 11th, 2012 | Beverly {Flamingo Toes}


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Hi Dave, I'll take that bait!!
Here are a few more examples:
I believe, though they vary greatly in importance, they all are violations of the Moderator's Rules. In order they violate: IV.A.1., IV.B.4, IV.C.1(c), IV.C.5(c)
- It is 7:35pm, and although the Town Clerk indicated there was a quorum at 7:25pm, the meeting has not been called to order.
- A person who is not registered to vote in the Town has not sought permission to speak, but someone has asked to hear from him. The moderator asks the assembly to vote whether he should speak.
- A person, recognized by the moderator, begins their remarks with, "Can I ask you...?"
- A motion that exceeds ten words in length is made, but not presented to the Moderator in writing. The moderator accepts it.
Other examples of violations:
The point is that if we are reasonable, we try to accommodate each other and we recognize that the purpose of the meeting is to find out the will of the people. I would suggest that if we truly expect people not to vote in the examples above, then the Moderator must be clear that ANY use of anyone else's handset is strictly forbidden. Otherwise, this rule should be treated like all the examples I gave above, and we should expect people to treat them as "obey within reason".
- A resident's child has vomited, and she has caught the vomit in her hands to prevent soiling the bleachers. (To those who are not parents, I will tell you from personal experience that this is not unrealistic.) She asks her husband to push the Yes button to vote for her before she heads off to the bathroom. (violates IV.D.1b.)
- The resident who just caught her child's vomit heads off to the bathroom without retaining her handset. (violates IV.D.1b.)
- A resident chooses not to touch his handset knowing that prior users might have taken it into the bathroom, or have handled it after sneezing or vomiting. He asks his spouse to do the button pushing on his behalf, even though they disagree on about half of the votes. (violates IV.D.1b. - and I do note that people do not have to use handsets if they do not want to; however they are then required to sit in a special section and vote on paper which is sent in to the Moderator via carrier pigeon. OK, that's not 100% true.)
In the examples above of the vomiting child, I wonder what you would suggest that mother do. Should she call out, vomit in hand, and let the assembled meeting know that she cannot vote because her hands are unavailable to touch her handset? or should she be forced to abstain from the vote? And how should she go about retaining the handset while she cleans her hands?
My main point in starting this thread was to negate the unreasonable articles and letters and public complaints that we all have read or heard or heard about. To use the word "fraud" or worse a phrase like "widespread fraud" when all that is known that a couple of people might have had their spouses' handset by their side, is irresponsible. To blame this "fraud" on an amorphous group of people who coincidentally all must have voted the same way and disagreed with the viewpoint of an individual writing or talking about it - without knowing who they are, or whether they even did what they are blamed for seems preposterous. I hope we can agree on that.


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Happiness is a Warm TV
Fall TV: 'The Player' has Wesley Snipes, action and more action
New show: The Player
When: 10 p.m. Thursdays on NBC
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Philip Winchester, Charity Wakefield
Premise: This is the show that will remind you why Wesley Snipes became a star. Is the show great? No, it's not. But Snipes, who has never lacked for charisma, is pretty entertaining in it.
The creators of "The Player" have said their goal is to "bring big action back to television" – and they've certainly done that. It's a very high-action show about ex-FBI agent Alex Kane (Winchester) who is recruited after a personal tragedy to become "the player" in a secret game in which rich and powerful people bet on the outcome of crimes. They don't get involved in the crimes, they just calculate the odds and make huge bets. Snipes is the "pit boss" (among other things) who pulls all the strings. There's a brief scene in the pilot where Snipes' character must show up at a police department to retrieve Kane, and it's the best in the entire show. There's also a "dealer" (Wakefield) who handles the research and all of the totally unrealistic technology.
Based on the pilot, the writing is pretty weak, particularly anything involving Winchester's character. But people who watch this show are not going to quibble over writing, because the focus here is ACTION. And there's plenty of it. If you like a show that's roughly half-filled with shootouts, car chases, foot chases, motorcycle chases and unbelievable stunts, then step up to the table.


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Dedicated to Ray and in support of initiatives at Felician that were close to his heart, the Bramucci Campaign will raise funds for three areas. The first is the increase in the Lisa Bramucci Memorial Scholarship Fund to the $100,000 level, a goal to which Ray always aspired.
The second is the ongoing maintenance of "Ray's Place" in Ed Commons, in commemoration of Ray's unique gift of bringing people together. The funds will be used to maintain the technology in the room and develop a multi-media collection of Ray's life and work as a lasting tribute to him. Lastly, funds raised through this campaign will go to the Bramucci Capital Improvement Fund, which will provide funding for various projects around campus to ensure the continued provision of a quality education to deserving students, a goal Ray worked tirelessly for in his years as an advocate of Felician.
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Director, Lincoln Laboratory
Lincoln Laboratory is a mission-oriented laboratory operated by MIT for the Department of Defense (DoD) carrying out research and development in surveillance, identification, and communications. The laboratory is celebrating its establishment by MIT fifty years ago in 1951 as Project Lincoln in response to a request from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. During the past year, agencies of the DoD—namely, the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Ballistic Missile Defense Office (BMDO), and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)—supplied approximately 88 percent of the laboratory's budgetary support. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provided most of the non-DoD support, which additionally includes work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). Lincoln Laboratory also carries out pre-competitive research with industry under approved Cooperative Research and Development Agreements. For the federal fiscal year 2000, Lincoln Laboratory received $361.5 million, supporting the efforts of 1200 professional technical staff.
The following administrative changes occurred at the laboratory Steering Committee level. Dr. Antonio F. Pensa, Head of the Aerospace Division, was promoted to Assistant Director. Mr. Carl E. Nielsen, Jr., Assistant Director, has retired following over 39 years of service to the laboratory. Mr. William M. Brown, Jr., was promoted to Head and Dr. Grant H. Stokes was promoted to Associate Head of the Aerospace Division. Mr. Kenneth F. Colucci joined the laboratory in the position of Assistant to the Director for Strategic Resources.
Program Highlights
Activity at the laboratory focuses on DoD tasks in surveillance, information extraction, and communications technologies, supported by advanced electronic technology and on air traffic control technology for the FAA. Technical work areas include radar and optical sensors, measurements, and systems; communications; signal design and processing; identification algorithms; lasers; solid state devices; digital technology, circuitry, and data systems; and tactical control systems. Unclassified summaries of several accomplishments during the past year are presented below.
Surveillance Technology
Health Surveillance and Biodefense Study
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency selected Lincoln Laboratory to lead a study on a proposed means of dealing with a bioterrorist attack on the U.S. homeland. This national study includes participants from MIT, Harvard, other universities, and the government, and follows a Defense Science Board (DSB) summer study on bioterrorism. The context of the DSB's defensive strategy is to monitor sick patients presenting to physicians and hospitals by utilizing emerging technologies of genetic and proteomic diagnostic chips. Output from the diagnostics would be compared with pathogen databases and reported via a national network. The immediate study will be to build upon the DSB recommendations, and provide an R&D investment strategy in this area for the Department of Defense.
Fluorescence Detection Of Biological Agents
The Bio-Aerosol Warning Sensor (BAWS), a UV-fluorescence-based detector of aerosols of biological origin, has been developed at Lincoln Laboratory to provide warning of a potential biological threat. The BAWS sensor is the result of a four-year development effort, and exploits the laboratory's previously developed microchip laser as a high-power, compact source of short pulses for exciting the fluorescent signatures of biological particles. The successful fielding of the BAWS integrated with the prototype Joint Biological Point Detection System led to quantity procurement from industry. The laboratory has continued to transfer the technology to industry and ahs developed improved fabrication technology for the microchip laser.
The laboratory is utilizing the BAWS technology to obtain background data for environments other than typical military locations.
Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Program
The Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Program (LINEAR) program operates a wide-area asteroid search program employing an advanced electro-optics search system originally developed for Air Force-sponsored space-surveillance applications. Now the world's leader in asteroid discoveries, LINEAR searches 15,000 square degrees of sky per month to a limiting magnitude of 19.2 and has generated 4.4 million observations during the time period of March 1998 through July 2001. These account for over half of all observations in the Smithsonian Minor Planet Center archives, and 70 percent of the reported observations generated since March 1998. This effort has resulted in discovery designations for 666 near-Earth asteroids of a total 1395 known (the first dating back to 1898), 62 comets, and over 110,000 main-belt asteroids.
The wide sky coverage of LINEAR provides a much more thorough search than other surveys and reveals a previously unrecognized number of near-Earth objects having orbital paths that are highly inclined relative to the plane of the solar system. Professor Richard Binzel and graduate student Scott Stuart in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, are using this data to refine the orbital distributions for the near-Earth object population.
Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) Mission: Advanced Land Imager
Lincoln Laboratory is responsible for the design, development, and flight validation of the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) that was launched on the NASA Earth Observing-1 mission, on 21 November 2000. ALI has demonstrated advanced technologies to meet NASA's Earth Science Enterprise needs in the 21st century. The new technologies dramatically reduce the size, weight, and power of ALI versus the LANDSAT-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper, at the same time increasing the instrument's sensitivity and resolution. ALI has been operating successfully on orbit, returning on average eight images per day. The images are being used to validate the instrument performance by the Laboratory design team as well as by thirty independent Science Validation Teams. With this success, NASA has selected ALI as the benchmark design for the LANDSAT Data Continuity Mission, currently in the planning stage.
Multi-Sensor Fusion and Exploitation
With this increase in data from advances in sensor technology that cover larger areas, there is an associated challenge to automate the data reduction process. Lincoln Laboratory has focused on automation techniques that enable both scene visualization and target detection. Scene visualization is accomplished by registering the multi-modality data to a three-dimensional site model and fusing the layers by using a model of the human visual system. Image mining techniques are applied to the fused data to automatically detect terrain features like roads, buildings, and trafficable areas. This information can then be used as contextual information for advanced target-recognition algorithms. In the last year, an integrated visualization system to support the intelligence community was deployed. This system provides a capability to visualize color-fused three-dimensional scenes of areas of interest.
Missile Defense
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program
The DoD has a program to develop and examine a system to defend the U.S. against a limited ballistic missile attack. Lincoln Laboratory is supporting the Ground-Based Missle Defense (GMD) program at both the system and element levels. System work focuses on evaluating discrimination architecture against postulated and potential countermeasures. Additional effort emphasizes characterization and assessment of early warning radar, prototype ground based radar, and exoatmospheric seeker performance, primarily through design and analysis of flight tests.
Theater High-Altitude Area Defense Program
The Theatre High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system is currently in the engineering and manufacturing development phase. The system is designed to provide large-area defense against theater ballistic missiles. Lincoln Laboratory provides detailed characterization of the radar's performance. In addition, the laboratory conducts testing and analysis of the baseline decision algorithms, as well as continuous development and transfer of discrimination algorithm upgrades for the THAAD radar.
Navy Theater Air and Missile Defense Program
Over the past several years Lincoln Laboratory and the Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System (AEGIS) program office have been developing a theater ballistic missile defense (TBMD) capability. This capability is separated into two programs: a Navy Area system (lower tier) and a Navy Theater-Wide (NTW) system (upper tier). Both programs differed greatly from the current AEGIS anti-aircraft warfare capability. The challenges associated with detection, discrimination, and handover of hostile targets within the TBMD complex have been an area of active laboratory work. The laboratory has developed algorithms for synthetic wideband radar measurements and algorithms to improve IR focal-plane performance, which includes the use of a two-color focal plane. Extensive experiments were conducted this year using a wideband radar data collection system and a captive-carry seeker.
Space-Based Infrared System Surrogate Test Bed
Lincoln Laboratory has been selected to lead a multi-year effort to use existing space-, air- and ground-based optical assets to emulate the space component of the nation's proposed Ballistic Missile Defense System. The Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Program is responsible for developing and deploying a constellation of operational satellites needed for detecting, tracking, and aiding in the discrimination of all of the lethal and benign objects deployed by a ballistic missile launched against the United States and, potentially, its allies. The SBIRS Surrogate Test Bed is envisioned as a low-cost, low-risk, rapidly deployable system designed to assure the collection of SBIRS-like data during ballistic missile flight tests. The laboratory designed and operated Midcourse Space Experiment satellite's Space-Based Visible sensor, which will be utilized with other sensors. In addition, a data fusion processing system will be deployed and tested at the Maui High Performance Computing Center in late 2003. The SBIRS Surrogate Test Bed will demonstrate and validate the concept of SBIRS and will demonstrate many functions of the SBIRS system, prior to the planned launching of the first operational satellites in 2006.
Theater Missile Defense Critical Measurements Program
The Theater Missile Defense (TMD) Critical Measurements Program (TCMP) employs a sequence of flight tests executed at the Reagan Test Site (formally called the Kwajalein Missile Range) to provide IR and radar measurements that address critical TMD system-level issues. Lincoln Laboratory supports TCMP in four task areas: mission planning and integration; payload development; flyaway IR sensor development; and data analysis. The TCMP-3B campaign was successfully completed in February 2001. The data collected are being used to develop new discrimination algorithms for the missile defense acquisition programs.
Air Defense Technology
Airborne Seeker Test Bed
The capabilities of modern air-defense missile systems have been severely challenged by the advent of low-observable vehicles and modern electronic countermeasures. The Airborne Seeker Test Bed (ASTB) is an instrumentation platform developed by Lincoln Laboratory to investigate these challenges and identify appropriate seeker architectures and signal processing algorithms for dealing with them. The ASTB is based in a Gulfstream II aircraft and provides high-fidelity RF and IR reference instrumentation sensors that are used in parallel with special-purpose wing-pod payloads carrying production seekers or sensors under test. The combination of the system under test with the instrumentation sensors yields insight into the performance of sensor systems and advanced signal processing algorithms.
This year's ASTB activities include one major test campaign and infrastructure upgrades. The test campaign was conducted in Nevada to evaluate the effectiveness of electronic countermeasures against a modern air-to-air missile system and to verify readiness to operate with a modern surface-to-air missile system. The latter will allow flight testing of target intercepts in which ground-based tracking radar and the on-board RF seeker share data and act as an integrated system. Because the ASTB also carries IR focal-plane arrays and IR seekers, these and previous flight tests provide data to evaluate the degrading effects of background clutter on the IR detection and tracking of target aircraft. Another new RF seeker has been received and is being integrated into a flight-test configuration; completion is expected at the end of 2001.
Airborne Countermeasures Test System
The Airborne Countermeasures Test System (ACTS) is a Falcon-20 business-class jet converted to operate either as a versatile target for testing of current and future air-defense missile systems or as a GPS jamming platform. The ACTS can provide a variety of electronic countermeasures and can be configured to operate at L-band, X-band, or Ka-band. The ACTS has been operating since 1997, and this year flight-test campaigns were conducted for DARPA and the Air Force.
Information Extraction
Embedded Digital Systems
Several existing and planned DoD systems are designed on the basis of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology. The DoD is relying on acquiring and leveraging embedded digital hardware from COTS vendors. Even though the hardware is dominated by COTS technology, the software is application specific. The DoD has recognized the need to standardize the software development for advanced high-performance systems. Lincoln Laboratory has been asked to lead a DoD-wide software standardization initiative to develop and demonstrate orders of magnitude reduction in software development efforts. The laboratory is working with Northrop Grumman, MITRE and the Air Force Research Laboratory, to quantify, via prototypes demonstrations, the improvements achieved in reducing software development time and cost.
Precision Targeting Via Collaborative Networking
The ability to accurately geo-locate, identify, and engage enemy mobile air-defense systems is very difficult due to the ability for these threats to shoot and move on a very short timeline, typically five minutes or less. Lincoln Laboratory, under DARPA sponsorship, is responsible for demonstrating accurate geo-location and identification by leveraging recent dramatic advances in wireless and fiber networking. The demonstration will include airborne assets, a high-speed fiber network referred to as BosSNet (Boston South Network), and advances in front-end filtering algorithms and target identification techniques.
Advanced Radar Systems
Lincoln Laboratory is assisting the Navy in the development of systems and technologies aimed at improving ship survivability against airborne threats. For example, an effort is ongoing to demonstrate an upgradeable, expandable, COTS replacement of aging AEGIS computer systems capable of executing exoatmospheric target discrimination algorithms. These efforts include all aspects of the signal processor development, focusing on new algorithms, software portability, and life-cycle support.
Ocean Systems
Lincoln Laboratory continues to provide algorithm improvements to the Los Angeles class submarine fleet. Operator feedback from the testing of the Lincoln Interactive Passive Acoustic Classifier in the fall of 2000 expressed confidence for the first time in the promise of automated aids to classification. In the spring of 2001, Lincoln Laboratory-developed algorithms for mitigating the effects of cable strum in adaptive beam forming were submitted for inclusion in the fall test series. Lincoln Laboratory initiated work on algorithms to exploit the increased vertical aperture to resolve targets in depth and range on a DARPA-sponsored program.
Communications and Information Technology
Next Generation Terrestrial Networks
As part of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, DARPA has sponsored a unique dark-fiber-communications research and application test bed called BosSnet. BosSnet extends four modern optical fibers from MIT and MIT Lincoln Laboratory to the Washington DC area, enabling terabit per second communication. The test bed became operational in December 1999 and is planned to continue operations for four years. New optical transmission methods are being explored to extend the bit-rate times distance product beyond the current state of the art, resulting in lower installation and operating costs. BosSnet connects to the national DARPA-sponsored Supernet; increasing this national fiber-optic connectivity among researchers.
Military Satellite Communications
The movement of military operations to rapid maneuver, precision strike, and information dominance has resulted in large increases in communications data rate and volume requirements, especially to small mobile or transportable satellite terminals. This year the laboratory continued to develop advanced modulation, coding, and multi-user access techniques to increase efficiency of use of limited allocated bandwidth and transmitter power for future (2010+) satellite communications systems.
Lincoln Laboratory's development of a test bed to demonstrate higher-data-rate waveforms for the DoD's next-generation protected satcom system (Advanced EHF; 2006 launch) has been successfully completed. Efforts are now addressing highly instrumented test terminals and payload simulators. In addition, successful field demonstrations of previously developed protocols for highly efficient transfer of bursty, packetized data traffic over satellites have been conducted. The laboratory has also developed interfaces to permit its satcom facilities to accommodate a heterogeneous mix of input/output devices to support the Services as they field the new medium-data-rate Milstar satcom system. These interfaces are being used for both industrial-factory and post-launch Milstar testing and experimentation.
Army Communications
To provide connectivity between the sustaining base and the fighting forces, an integrated, global communications system is required. While satellite communications can provide the range and terrain independence required of the communication system, a particularly challenging problem is to provide satellite communications to vehicles on the move. Passing objects such as trees or buildings block the received signal. This year, Lincoln Laboratory developed a data-link algorithm that mitigates these signal outages. This algorithm supports multiple qualities of service so that important time-critical information (such as command and control) receives the highest priority while less time-critical information is queued for transmission.
For very small, low-profile antennas required for on-the-move and portable communications at EHF frequencies, there is a significant advantage for making best use of the available power in the communications channel by employing advanced channel-coding techniques. A novel algorithm and design of a "Turbo Decoder" was developed that significantly reduces the required signal-to-noise ratio of the channel while still maintaining the quality of the transmissions. The Lincoln Laboratory-developed decoder is an order of magnitude less in size and complexity than other available decoders. This algorithm is being incorporated into the Army's Single Channel Advanced Milstar Portable (SCAMP) satcom terminal.
Submarine Communications
The application of adaptive diversity combining to improve submarine communications with satellites has continued with the development of an Advanced Technology Demonstration model of the Laboratory-developed buoyant cable antenna. Also, similar techniques are now under development for retrofit into submarine mast antennas.
Smart Sensor Web
Lincoln Laboratory is the system integrator for the smart sensor web, a multi-service, multi-national program. The program is developing a conceptual system design for a tactical information network for the lower-echelon warfighters. An operational test bed has been established at the Military Operations in Urban Terrain Center At Ft. Benning, Georgia. A series of experiments have been planned to evaluate the functional components of such a system. Experiments began in august 2000.
Automatic Speaker Recognition
The Lincoln-developed Gaussian Mixture Model and Universal Background Model approach to speaker recognition has become the de facto standard for automatic text-independent speaker-recognition research and applications. In annual international evaluations of speaker-recognition technology performed by the National Institute of Science and Technology, the laboratory system has consistently been one of the top-performing systems. In the latest 2001 evaluation, laboratory systems achieved top performance in five of seven tasks. A new Lincoln Laboratory technique based on using only a small set of words spoken by a speaker has produced an accuracy of >99 percent correct decisions. This technology is being transferred to law enforcement efforts. The Laboratory-developed system is also currently being used in a prototype forensic tool at the FBI's Audio Forensic Laboratory.
Intrusion Detection For Government Networks
Lincoln Laboratory continues to develop and deploy novel intrusion detection techniques and systems into essential government networks. The Laboratory has improved the accuracy of the systems deployed for the FAA, and the Laboratory Battlefield Intrusion Detection System (BIDS) has been selected for deployment into U.S. Army hosts in tactical environments. Two implementations of the bottleneck verification algorithm were developed: one for BIDS for use in a wireless environment, and one for use in a wired environment. Cooperation with Air Force Information Warfare Center has enabled the wired implementation to be successfully integrated with the Air Force's existing intrusion detection system and deployed on the computer networks of nine Air Force bases. The laboratory's bottleneck-verification software has performed well on these networks, detecting attacks with a minimum of false alarms (fewer than 1 per week). Based upon this excellent performance, the software is slated for deployment to all Air Force bases.
Air Traffic Control
Automation Tools
Lincoln Laboratory is working with the FAA and NASA to enhance air safety, reduce controller workload, and increase airport capacity by developing planning aids for air traffic controllers. In a NASA-sponsored effort, Lincoln Laboratory is integrating advanced weather products from the Lincoln Laboratory-developed Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) into the Center Terminal Automation System (CTAS) developed by NASA. CTAS helps coordinate activities between arrival controllers located at en route centers and final-approach controllers located at radar control facilities. The initial work is integrating wind field products from the ITWS to improve aircraft trajectory estimates. Work is also under way on the use of ITWS convective weather products in CTAS for determining weather-impacted routes.
Surveillance Technology Improvements
The laboratory is collecting and analyzing field-test data to evaluate the performance of a new solid-state Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR-11) for use at second-tier civil and military airports in the United States. The laboratory is assisting with design modifications to the current Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR-9) in use at the nation's busiest airports that will permit the ASR-9 to continue operation to 2020.
Aviation Weather Detection and Prediction
Technology transfer for major aviation-weather-information systems developed at the laboratory has proceeded. The laboratory-developed Integrated Terminal Weather System is undergoing operational test and evaluation at Kansas City and Houston prior to national deployment. A Medium Intensity Airport Weather System (MIAWS) has been developed to provide real-time, high-resolution information on thunderstorm location and movement at small airports. MIAWS utilizes data from the National Weather Service's Doppler weather radars, together with laboratory-developed data quality editing and storm-tracking algorithms. The laboratory has deployed a Corridor Integrated Weather System (CIWS) covering the busy Cleveland, Chicago, and Indianapolis en route centers to facilitate traffic management during thunderstorm activity. CIWS integrates data from over 20 radars to provide timely, high-quality surveillance of thunderstorms and utilizes Lincoln Laboratory-developed thunderstorm forecasting technology to provide accurate 30-minute to 1-hour forecasts of future air-route impacts. Dedicated displays at all the major ATC facilities, coupled with Internet access to the CIWS products for airline operations personnel provide common situational awareness for all the participants in tactical decision making during thunderstorm impacts.
Electronic Devices
CANARY B-Cell Sensor for Rapid, Sensitive Identification of Pathogens
The CANARY B-cell sensor is a device that uses B cells, or white blood cells, as the detector elements to rapidly identify pathogenic organisms. Lincoln Laboratory has genetically engineered B cells to bind to the pathogens that cause foot-and-mouth-disease, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, plague, and tularemia, and to emit photons starting in less than one second after the binding occurs. The photons are detected by using a photomultiplier tube and simple readout electronics. Over the past year, this apparatus has demonstrated the best combination of speed and sensitivity for any known pathogen-identification test (limit of detection of a few particles in a few minutes or less). In addition, the consumables cost per test is estimated to be one to three orders of magnitude lower than that for present medical diagnostic identification tests.
Microscopy at Sub-200nm Wavelengths
Lincoln Laboratory has recently constructed a prototype optical microscope operating at the very short ultraviolet wavelength of 193 nm, and has demonstrated its high sensitivity in detecting traces of materials on various surfaces. Imaging in the sub-200nm wavelength range opens up new possibilities, since it takes advantage of different optical properties than those at longer wavelengths. As a result, the reflectivity is quite different, and the chemical sensitivity of the imaging can be vastly increased. For instance, a layer of organic polymer as thin as one nm can be easily observed on a silicon or quartz substrate when using this microscope, whereas it is completely undetectable with visible or near-ultraviolet radiation. The calculated enhancement in optical contrast at 193 nm compared to visible microscopy can exceed two orders of magnitude. In addition to this improved chemical sensitivity, microscopy at 193 nm affords improved spatial resolution by virtue of straightforward scaling of diffraction-limited imaging with wavelength. As imaging with infrared radiation reveals unexpected features, so imaging in the deep ultraviolet may open new opportunities in detecting trace contaminants in the microelectronics industry and forensics, and may enable the observation of unexpected structures in other fields such as molecular biology.
Burst-Rate Imager
Burst-rate charge-coupled device (CCD) detectors are being developed at Lincoln Laboratory for Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Project. The two-dimensional imager captures and locally stores four sequential images at a 1.6 MHz frame rate (one 512-by 512-pixel frame every 646 ns). The laboratory-developed CCD detectors will be integrated next year into the diagnostic sensor at the LANL Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility currently under construction. Besides fast shutter times, the high sensitivity (100 percent fill factor and 60 percent quantum efficiency) of these sensors is critical to ultra high-speed electronic imaging.
Ladar Detector
Lincoln Laboratory has developed a single-pulse, three-dimensional imager for laser radar (LADAR) applications. Thirty-two by thirty-two pixel arrays have been fabricated by hybrid combining of sensitive Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes with fast CMOS timing circuits. A short (fraction of one ns) laser pulse actively illuminates a scene, and only a single photon per pixel is needed to measure the range to a target. The return time of the first photon returned for each pixel is converted directly to a digital word by the CMOS counter in that pixel. This approach both provides the range and avoids the analog signal processing chain found in most LADAR detectors. The depth resolution of the LADAR detector is six cm and can be improved to one cm. This detector architecture is suitable for three-dimensional imaging of fast moving targets from small platforms where power, weight, and size are constrained.
Advanced Thermoelectric Materials
Self-assembled quantum dots provide a mechanism to reduce the electron density of states (DOS) in a material by locally confining the electrons on a very small scale, ~10 nm. One result of this enhanced electron confinement is a significant increase in the Seebeck coefficient, which relates the heat transport to the electric current passing through a p/n junction. This year, 10,000 layers (~ 0.1 mm) of quantum dots superlattices (QDSLs) have been epitaxially grown at Lincoln Laboratory by using the lead-salt material system, PbTe/PbSeTe. This material system allows full exploitation of the enhanced Seebeck effect to build high-efficiency thermoelectric coolers. These bulk lead-salt QDSL materials have been used to build the first functioning thermoelectric cooling device based entirely on 3-D quantum-structured materials.
More information about Lincoln Laboratory can be found online at http://www.ll.mit.edu/.


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What Is the Process for a Life Insurance Settlement?
Selling one's life insurance policy for a life settlement is a good decision if the insured has been diagnosed with a terminal illness or their existing policy isn't performing as expected, and once you've decided that selling your life insurance policy for a life settlement is a good idea, you'll need to go through the transaction process to make it happen.
The information provided below helps to explain this transaction process.
After choosing the proper presentation to settle a policy, the policy owner must fill out an application and provide proper documentation – policy copies and medical records.
The settlement broker or provider will then review the documents. Settlement companies can work with the advisor or directly with the policy owner.
The settlement company submits the medical records for review by an independent life expectancy company, who calculate the probable life expectancy using actuarial and physician experts.
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At this stage, each settlement firm calculates the market value of their portfolio. Other companies may consider different factors. If the policy had no market value, the process ends.
Having determined that the policy has a market value for a settlement, the provider relays the offer to the policyholder. If the offer is declined, the policy owner can seek other offers from other settlement providers.
If working with a life settlement broker, the broker must seek offers from different providers and present all offers to the seller of the policy.
Closing Package
If the policy owner accepts an offer, the provider that made the offer sends a closing package formalizing the transaction. The policy owner must review and sign this package. The funds for settlement transactions are then placed in an escrow account.
When the signed documents are returned, the insurance company is notified of the change of policy ownership to the new owner, the provider.
Funds Transfer
Upon written verification of the change of ownership, the escrow agent releases the settlement payment to the seller of the policy.
The above information regarding transaction process is from the "Life Settlement Basics" publication (2008), according to the "Life Insurance Settlement Association", which is the trade association for the life settlement industry and associated businesses.
Steuer, author of Questions and Answers on Life Insurance: The Life Insurance Toolbook, has more than 25 years of experience and holds the Department of Insurance Analyst License (LA) as well as the Charted Life Underwriter (CLU) designation. Tony holds various leadership positions and has authored three books on the topic of life insurance.
Steuer's work has been awarded the "Excellence in Financial Literacy (EIFLE) Award from the Institute of Financial Literacy for his The Questions and Answers on Disability Insurance Workbook and The Questions and Answers on Insurance Planner. Forbes named Questions and Answers on Life Insurance: The Life Insurance Toolbook as one of their top nine great investment books.
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March 25, 2012 (PRLEAP.COM) Travel NewsEastern provinces of Thailand will be taking part in celebrations of natural produce during the annual Thai Fruit Festival, which takes place in May and June 2012.
Fruit orchards in areas such as Chanthaburi, Rayong and Trat will be throwing open their gates to visitors during the festival in order to sample delicious and exotic fruits just as they are ripening and becoming ready to harvest.
Thailand is home to a wide array of tasty fruits, from indigenous species of bananas, durians, mangos, oranges and pomelos to imported varieties of lychee, mangosteen, rambutan, coconut, watermelon, guava and much, much more.
During the Fruit Festival, tourists will be able to buy the very best produce at bargain prices, while various events will also be held in celebration, such as the colourful Fruit Festival Parades.
Competitions will be held among growers to see whose products are the best, while fruit-eating contests and food processing demonstrations will also take place.
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One Bread, One Body Diocese of Paterson
I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me. · Do I seek to love God with my whole heart and soul? Does He truly hold first place in my life? · Have I been involved in superstitious practices? · Have I received Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin? · Have I told a lie in Confession or deliberately withheld confessing a mortal sin? · Do I accept the Truths of our Faith as taught by the Church? You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain. · Have I insulted God's holy name or used it carelessly? · Do I respect that which is sacred? Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day. · Have I missed Mass on Sunday or on Holy Days of Obligation? · Do I try to keep Sunday as a day of rest? Honor your father and your mother. · Do I honor and obey my parents? Do I care for them in their old age? · Have I neglected my family responsibilities? · Is my family centered around Christ and His teaching of love? You shall not kill. · Have I harbored hatred, anger or resentment in my heart towards anyone? · Have I given scandal to anyone by my sins, thereby leading them to sin? · Have I abused my mind or body through alcohol or drugs? · Have I physically harmed anyone? · Have I had an abortion? Have I encouraged or assisted anyone in procuring an abortion? · Have I abused my body through any form of sterilization? · Have I sinned through gluttony? You shall not commit adultery. · Am I pure in my thoughts, words and actions? Am I modest in my dress and appearance? · Am I engaged in any inappropriate relationships? · Have I indulged in pornographic material/movies/internet? · Have I engaged in sexual activity with myself or with another outside marriage? · Have I been unfaithful to my marriage vows in action or thought? · Have I practiced any form of artificial contraception? You shall not steal. · Have I taken what is not mine? · Am I honest with my employer or employees? · Do I gamble excessively, thereby robbing my family of their needs? · Do I seek to share what I have with those in need? You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. · Have I lied, gossiped or spoken behind anyone's back? · Have I ruined another's good name or reputation? · Do I reveal information that should be confidential? You shall not desire your neighbor's wife. · Am I envious of another's spouse or family? · Have I consented to impure thoughts? · Am I reckless and irresponsible in the books I read or the movies I watch? You shall not desire your neighbor's goods. · Am I envious of the possessions or good fortune of others? · Am I resentful and bitter over my position in life?


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The Woodside International Horse Trials: A Milestone for Top Competitors
The Woodside International Horse Trials, on Oct. 4-6, is a vital event in the calendar each year for both West Coast eventers and horse enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Organizer Robert Kellerhouse upgraded this horse trial—the third of the three he organizes each year at the Horse Park at Woodside, about 20 miles south of San Francisco—to international status in 2011. Woodside offers three international levels: the CIC3*, the CIC2* and the CIC1*.
Kellerhouse wanted to ensure that West Coast riders could use these international horse trials (CIC) to qualify for international three-day events (CCI), in particular the Galway Downs International Three-Day Event on Oct. 31-Nov. Nov. 3.
"The Federation Equestre Internationale requires horses and riders to achieve qualifying scores in international horse trials [CICs] like Woodside in order to compete in international three-day events [CCIs] like Galway Downs," explained Woodside organizer Robert Kellerhouse. " Since I also organize the Galway Downs CCI, I understand how vital it is to have these qualifiers available.
"Without the CIC classes at Woodside, many of our West Coast riders wouldn't be able to continue up the competitive ladder," added Kellerhouse.
In 2011, after winning the Woodside CIC3*, James Alliston and Jumbo's Jake went on to win the Galway Downs CCI3*, proving that a stellar performance at Woodside does lay the groundwork for success at Galway Downs. Alliston repeated that double on a different horse in 2012, winning the Woodside CIC3* and the Galway Downs CCI3* on Tivoli.
The Woodside International Horse Trials will begin early Friday morning, Oct. 4, with the elegance and precision of dressage. Then, starting at 2:00 p.m., the horses and their riders will tackle a demanding show jumping course set in the scenic and spectator-friendly Grand Prix Arena at the Woodside Horse Park.
The international horses will climax their performances on Saturday afternoon, when they'll face the challenges of Derek di Grazia's cross-country course in reverse order of their two-phase placing. In this format, spectators will know right away who the winners are, guaranteeing an exciting finish. The winners will receive their prizes at a special dinner on Saturday night, complete with music and more.
The Woodside International Horse Trials will continue on Sunday with both show jumping and cross-country for the approximately 300 horses competing in the national divisions.
"The Woodside International Horse Trials wouldn't be nearly as successful as they are without our sponsors, many of whom have supported us faithfully for a number of years," said Kellerhouse.
Professional's Choice, Equine Insurance of California and Sunsprite Warmbloods are the Woodside presenting sponsors this year.
Devoucoux Biarritz-France is the Gold Medal Sponsor.
CWD Saddles, Voltaire Design and JRD Saddles are the Silver Medal Sponsors.
American Medical Response, Auburn Laboratories Inc., Geranium Street Floral, Point Two Air Jackets, Professional Riders Organization, Ride On Video and SmartPak Equine are the Bronze Medal Sponsors.
Patron's passes are available for the parties on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings: Reserved tables of 10 for all three evening functions are available for $600, or $300 per night for single evenings. Individual seats for all three evenings are $75, or $35 for one evening. Advanced reservations are required.
General admission is $10 per person, which includes parking and a show program. General admission tickets can be purchased at the gate or in advance.
Go to www.woodsideeventing.com for tickets and full competition information.
To learn more about eventing, visit the U.S. Eventing Association's website (www.useventing.comhttp://www.useventing.com).


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How to dry and store herbs for best flavor later
The growing season is nearly over for Treasure Valley gardeners. Recent sub-freezing temperatures have seen to that. If you grow herbs and want to save them, here's guide for next year.
1. Gather equipment.
Begin by gathering your harvesting equipment. Use sharp garden clippers so you don't mangle the stems. Clean cuts mean less chance for disease to get a foothold on the plant. Have something to carry the clipped herbs: A bucket, a large basket or paper grocery bags will do the trick.
Wear sturdy garden gloves. We recommend the ones with stretch knit fabric and rubberized palms. They combine safety with flexibility.
2. Start snipping.
Go out to the garden and start snipping stems. This is best done during the cooler hours of the day. Herbs harvested midday are less likely to be at peak flavor.
Perennial herbs such as oregano and thyme are the simplest to harvest. Cut about one-third to one-half of the plant's height anytime during the growing season. Removing too much can stress the plant. Clip the stem just above a leaf node to encourage future growth.
Basil, chervil and other annual herbs grown for their leaves also can be harvested periodically during the garden year. In fact, regular harvesting throughout the year will encourage fresh growth and give you a larger total amount of the herb. As with perennials, only clip about a third to a half of the leaves on the herb.
Gathering dill, fennel, caraway and other seed-producers requires more careful timing. Watch for the seeds to plump and turn brown. Clip the heads immediately or you'll lose your harvest to hungry birds or high winds.
Harvest edible herb flowers such as lavender, borage and pot marigold when the flowers have just opened. The heads will be firm and at maximum flavor.
For all your herbs, harvest only parts that are in good condition. Leaves, seeds or flowers that are damaged or wilted won't improve after they're clipped. Avoid harvesting from plants that are stressed or struggling to stay alive. Because green leaves are the energy-producing part of the plant, removing too many can be harmful.
3. Bring herbs indoors.
Bring the cuttings indoors for the next step. Leafy herbs need a quick bath to remove any dust and dislodge most garden insects. Fill the sink or a dishpan with water. Dip the herbs in the water, and swish them around a bit. Then lift them out of the water (leaving the debris behind) and shake slightly to allow excess water to drain off. Place on a cotton towel and pat dry.
4. Dry carefully.
The fourth step to preserving is the drying. Lay large stalks in a single layer on an absorbent towel or screen placed on a flat surface. For small-leaved, short-stemmed herbs such as thyme and winter savory, place the stems loosely in a bowl.
Allow them to air-dry for six to eight days – more for thick-leaved herbs such as sage and rosemary. When the leaves are crackly dry, remove them from the stems.
When drying herbs, it's important to prevent mold. Each day during the drying, fluff or stir the herb stalks to expose new parts to the air. If you live in a humid area or are drying a large quantity, consider using a small fan to aid air circulation.
Some gardeners prefer to hasten the drying process with the microwave oven. The microwave will work, provided you dry a handful at a time in short bursts – no more than a minute at a time.
Larger quantities will tend to cook like spinach, leaving you with a fragrant microwave and a mushy mess.
We don't recommend using a conventional oven to dry herbs. Many ovens have a minimum setting of 200 F. The essential oils that provide flavor and fragrance in herbs are volatile at temperatures of 150 F and above. Using your oven will drive out those essential oils and give you less flavorful dried herbs.
5. Store correctly.
To store dried herbs, remove leaves, seeds and flowers from the stems once they are crackly dry. Place them whole (not crushed or ground) in airtight, wide-mouth jars with screw or snap tops. Keeping them whole while stored will maximize the preserved flavor. Label with the contents and date of harvest and store in a cool, dark place.
That's all there is to it.
You can count the rules of herb harvesting on one hand: Use sharp clippers and sturdy gloves. Harvest stems, seeds and flowers from healthy plants. Give them a quick bath. Dry them quickly. Store dried herbs away from light and moisture.
With these hints, you can clip with confidence. Next time you're struck with the need to harvest, you'll know just what to do.


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Member of the Month
Member of the Month is a program we've started here at TUCS. It was implemented to give incentive to members to participate in the events that TUCS takes part in.
It is based on a point scale. For each event, there is a set amount of points you can receive. The member with the most points at the end of the month gets a gift to show appreciation for how much they've helped. It's also not a bad way to stand out to your professors and peers.
However, to be eligible for Member of the Month, you must pay your dues. So get out there and rack up those points, and you could be the very next member of the month!
Point System
General Body Meetings: 2 pts.
Volunteering: 2 pts. (1 pt. every additional hour if applicable)


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Your child will have lots of fun with this cute Bunny Racer! Has a gently curving design which is easy for children to hold and push. Size is approximately 4" tall. For more than 30 years, PlanToys has been consistently developing its products and activities with a strong commitment to contribute positively to the world. By implementing best practices and taking innovation of toy-making and design to the next level, PlanToys has gained recognition for its values and sustainable play commitment. Sustainable play is the foundation of how their toys cultivate creative minds and bring children closer to nature.
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Simple To Follow Advice About Marketing With Video
If you want to advertise your products and services, you can't beat video marketing. Normally the one drawback is you have to do thorough research to utilize this technique effectively. While you read through this post, you can take notes therefore you don't forget anything. You won't be sorry.
If you choose to share videos on YouTube, utilize its editing features. You could add comments and text inside your video. This is efficient at sharing links, coupon codes, or additional information on the products.
While you are making a video, do not concentrate on what it appears to be. Lofty production values do not always obtain the most beneficial videos, in terms of generating profit. Industry leaders have actually done very well by utilizing basic how-to content produced by in-house employees.
Screenshot your internet site and will include it within the video. This allows viewers become a little bit more informed about it. How-to videos can also benefit from screenshots. All you have to do is save a screen grab of your own site and then edit it to your video together with the video editing software you employ.
Production is merely portion of the video marketing process. Promotion is as important. You'll find more clickthroughs with good marketing techniques. Great content only works if you achieve people to look at it.
Keep your messages clear within your videos. It's simple to go missing when talking sometimes. Try setting up a simple outline of what you wish your video to get about while keeping to it while filming. Make sure your videos stay on topic and focused, and you will succeed.
Your tone ought to be consistent in one video to a different one. Funny and quirky methods to the recording can also work just together with a more conventional "how-to" format. Think of your niche and what you're selling, in addition to who you're selling to. Always think about these factors along with the image you need to project when deciding on a tone to your video content.
When you go to a convention or other event, take along the recording camera.
You will most likely get the opportunity to talk with experts or document your experience. Should you a public talk, don't forget to ask anyone to record that for you.
Build a script for your personal video for your "hello" and "goodbye" sections. Be sure you introduce yourself and say a bit something relating to your company at the outset of your video. At the end of the video, say the company name again and make use of the call to action so that your viewers visit your site and purchases your products or services.
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What's In Cigarette Smoke?
A Recipe For Toxic Soup
One cigarette contains over 4,000 chemicals — 69 are known to cause cancer to humans and over 200 are known to be toxic to humans. Some examples are:
ACETIC ACID: found in hair dye and developer
ACETONE: Found in fingernail polish remover
AMMONIA: Found in many household cleaners used to clean floors and toilets
ARSENIC: Found in rat poison
BENZENE: Found in rubber cement
BUTANE: Found in lighter fluid
CADMIUM: Found in batteries and artists' oil paint
CARBON MONOXIDE: Found in car exhaust fumes
ETHANOL: Found in alcohol
FORMALDEYHDE: Found in embalming fluid
HEXAMINE: Found in barbecue lighter fluid
HYDRAZINE: Used in jet and rocket fuels
LEAD: Found in batteries
MERCURY: Found in the liquid that was used in older thermometers (not used anymore as it was too dangerous)
METHANE GAS: Found in manure or any other feces
METHANOL: Used in rocket fuel
NAPTHALENES: Used in explosives, moth balls, and paint pigments
NICOTINE: This addictive drug has also been used as an insecticide
PHENOL: Used in disinfectants and plastics
STYRENE: Found in insulation material
TAR: Found in road pavement and roofing materials
Additional Toxic Ingredients Found in Cigarettes and Cigarette Smoke
CARBON TETRACHLORIDE: Also found in dry cleaning fluid
DDT: Found in a pesticide so dangerous that it has been banned for use in the U.S.
HYDROGEN CYANIDE: Also used as poison in gas chambers
NITROSAMINES: Found in weed killers
POLONIUM: Found in radioactive substances; one pack of cigarettes equals the radiation dosage of 300 chest x-rays in one year
RADON: A gas known to cause lung cancer
TOLUENE: embalmer's glue, industrial solvents
Adapted from website information from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Health Promotion, Education and Tobacco Use Prevention:
For more information please contact:
The DC Tobacco Free Coalition at: www.dctfc.org


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The thing about having your first baby is that there is absolutely no walk through. You're totally new to the whole thing and no matter how much information you get (which can feel a lot like walking through mud most of the time) every experience is different. What's more, there are a million and forty-four things to prepare for and get done before the baby gets here.
As new to this as you are and for all the pointless anecdotes and advice you get, preparing your house for the new arrival is totally universal. Read on for our top preparation tips and tricks!
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Choosing Baby's Room
Those first months will see you constantly getting up and out of bed throughout the night. That's just how it goes. So keep that in mind when choosing the baby's bedroom. This doesn't make it an easy choice, though. Baby's room could be close so that it is convenient for night time feeds, it could be as far away as possible so that one of you can be on the ball in the morning.
Get Your Decorating On
This is one of the most exciting times in any new parent's life because decorating their nursery is totally magical. Of course, decisions and compromises need to be made. First, there are probably things in this room because it previously used to be the spare room. So, decide whether you want to store anything with canningvalestorageunits.com.au or give it away to charity. Safety is another must-have consideration, as is convenience. So only start with the basics of a cot, change table, dresser and a comfy chair and then add to it after the arrival.
Baby Proofing Everything
This is one of those tasks that will never end because, as they grow the protection needs to adapt. When it comes to newborn versus toddler, you'll see how your home becomes more hazardous. As overwhelming as this may seem, the earlier you start the better. So, ask your husband to get on his hands and knees and have him start protecting any hazards he can see from his new viewpoint; these will be hazards to the baby when they are crawling and toddling.
Baby Monitor
This is for your peace of mind as much as anything, especially in those first few weeks when you haven't quite got the motherhood swag down perfectly. This is natural by the way, so embrace it. Luckily, there are so many amazing baby monitors on the market that allow you to almost be all places at all times, which a mummy skill you pick up pretty quickly. Some just let you hear when they are crying, other's play music and some let you see their faces while they are sleeping. So go with what you are happy with.
Your Bedroom
It is inevitable that your bedroom will be taken over and dragged into being a new suburb of Babyland. Try not to let this happen, but don't stress over it too much. In fact, have a few essential things to help you through the first stages of mummyhood, such as a rocking chair in the corner somewhere and a trunk where you can just throw the baby stuff that litters your floor so it is at least out of sight. Voila. Your home is basically ready!


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Straw Phonation Character Pack
Straw Phonation Character Pack
Straw Phonation Character Package combines all 3 available straw buddies into one convenient package. This includes Ellie Elephant, Freddie Frog and Percy Penguin. Help optimize voice production using this fun adaptation of semi-occluded vocal tract exercise.
Included in this pack:
•How To sheet
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•Tips for making this fun and easy
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•3 personal stories with code words for each character
This is a digital download, so you get it emailed to your inbox instantly. You can use it right away electronically and you can print off and laminate for use with your patients.
Please download and save the files immediately because the emailed links expire.
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Very little is known about this individual save that he appears to be the Green Lantern of the parallel reality designated Earth-15. Although he bears a strong physical resemblance to Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, this Green Lantern's true identity is as yet unknown. This Green Lantern wields a power ring similar in form and function to a traditional Green Lantern ring. Whether this ring has any built-in restrictions or limitations remains to be seen. Green Lantern once met his New Earth counterpart when Kyle (along with Donna Troy, Jason Todd, the Jokester and Bob the Monitor) came to Earth-15 in search of a missing super-hero named Ray Palmer. Green Lantern and his allies, Superman, Batman, the Atom and Wonder Woman were unable to assist the adventurers in this matter, and the venturing heroes departed Earth-15 shortly thereafter.
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I had been warned many times not to go to this man
Walking through the thick humidity of the Haitian bush was taking its toll on me physically, but the anticipation of walking onto the property of the vodou priest was the stronger force pressing on me that afternoon. I had done this many times before as sharing the gospel with vodou priests is the call that God has so generously placed on my life, but this time was different. I had been warned many times not to go to this man, as he practiced a powerful form of vodou called black magic.
While most vodou priests satisfied their demonic spirits with the blood of animals, this man had often engaged in human child sacrifice to appease his demon's insatiable thirst for infant human blood. This shouldn't be surprising to Christians as this practice is seen in the Old Testament worship of Moloch, a demonic god who also demanded child sacrifice. The blood of children is known to release the most powerful demonic forms of magic, sorcery, and divination and this evil practice is known as 'black magic'.
From the moment I had heard about this man, I felt the Holy Spirit strongly pressing it upon my heart to go to him and share the gospel of Jesus Christ. So I obeyed and on this particular day I was acting on that obedience (along with my Haitian friend, fellow evangelist, and translator—Destine Mavoy).
A snake with the head of a human
We finally arrived, deep in the bush, at a moderately sized compound of huts arranged circumferentially around a ceremony pit. The walls of the ceremony pit were filled with crude drawings of blasphemous symbols including upside down crosses, occult symbols and signs, and most prominently drawn was the demon that this man worshipped—a snake with the head of a human and its name was written boldly over its head. As soon as I walked into this pit to meet the vodou priest (called a 'hougan' in the local Creole language), my spirit was heavily disturbed.
But this disturbance served solely as an assurance that the air was saturated with evil, not a warning to run away. The hougan revealed himself as he slowly appeared through drawn back curtains on the main hut. As he approached I studied his appearance and demeanor. He was a small, very thin man with dark, weathered black skin. He wore very loose clothing, and his face was frightening due to a lack of life and happiness. His expression was stoic and indifferent, as if humanity didn't exist within him—he almost appeared as a demon himself.
As he came closer his eyes locked mine, and all that I saw was evil. As he entered the ceremony pit, my translator and I rose to our feet and I was introduced. Destine's introduction of me was brilliant for this situation in which darkness was literally meeting light. Destine said, in Creole,
His face began to soften
As I started sharing the gospel, I began to see his face soften, his posture lose its militaristic rigidity, and his countenance change revealing a glimpse of goodness, hope, and curiosity. As soon as I see this, I know that the Holy Spirit is at work. I can't tell you how awesome this is to witness-- the Holy Spirit and me, working together to change this man's life and hopefully his eternal destination. My only part in this is speaking the truth ("And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?" –Romans 10:14), while I get the honor of sitting there and watching the Holy Spirit regenerate this man's spirit, ("So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters in anything, but only God who gives the growth." -1 Corinthians 3:7). After I got through the entire gospel message, this man looked at me with new eyes that revealed happiness and hope, and said to me,
I was overjoyed to hear this and of course I obliged. So we returned 2 days later and after several minutes of my arrival, there were over 120 people sitting on the ground waiting to hear this good news. So I stood on the porch, with Destine, and we preached the gospel to them and took questions for over 3 hours. We did this 6 more times over the course of the next two weeks, with additional people coming every time (even some from other vodou camps!).
Over 100 accept Christ
We spoke at length about God, Christ, Christ's birth into this world, His life on earth, His death and resurrection, His ascension, and what all of this does for us if we are able to believe and accept Christ! When we were done with all of this teaching, over 100 people told me that they wanted to accept Christ and leave the demon and vodou.
Because I wanted to pray and make sure that this was genuine, I waited. When I prayed, God told me to give them all Creole Bibles, and to lead them in their salvation!! So I returned to the camp with 200 Bibles, distributed them, and had a 3 hour study on the Christian life, which may be difficult, involve suffering, ostracism from communities, and hardship, but the assurance of heaven, the promise of Christ to never leave us or forsake us, and the constant internal companionship of the Holy Spirit, make this life more than worth it, and more importantly gives them the ability to turn to their heavenly Father for all of their needs now and, unlike the demon, they will owe nothing since Christ paid our debt to sin on the cross. So then I prayed with every one of them individually, which took hours, but God told me that this was important—to listen to their prayer, that I did not lead them in—to make sure that their understanding was accurate, and their desire to repent and accept Christ was genuine.
So at the end of the day the harvest was huge, and now a whole vodou camp, outside of the priest himself, had given their lives over to Christ!! How awesome—and quickly the recorded words of God spoken to Paul, in Acts 26:18 came to life and filled my heart with an overwhelming joy that flooded my soul,
"I now send you to them to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that by faith in Me they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified."
Now it is such a blessing to enter that camp for ongoing discipleship. As the people hear my motorcycle entering the area, they all run into their huts to grab their Bible, and then run after me. By the time I arrive I have at least 70 children, young people, adults and even grandparents standing there to receive me. I get smothered in hugs, kisses and at times even tears. What an overwhelming honor this is!
I am no one special—in fact, I stand with Paul in claiming that amongst sinners I am one of the worst. But for some reason unknown to me, God chose to look down upon me, grab me and pull me up and out of the pit of hell, and place my feet on solid ground. I know what I am saved from, and I will live my life in utter dependence on God and His Holy Spirit within me.


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1/2 cup butter or coconut oil at room temperature
1/2 cup brown raw sugar or 1/4 cup brown sugar plus 5 drops stevia
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup or 120 gms tahini
1 cup gluten free flour. I use a mix of spelt, buckwheat and sorghum flour
1/4 cup Raw Amazonia Paleo fermented protein powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
a handful of chocolate chips
Variation – you can use almond butter instead of tahini
- Preheat oven to 165 degrees C.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla and tahini, mix until well combined. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour and baking powder, add the protein powder and chocolate chips, then stir into butter mixture. Drop onto an ungreased cookie sheet in tablespoon-sized pieces.
- Bake in preheated oven until they turn golden brown, about 15 minutes. Cool on the cookie sheet 10 to 15 minutes before removing to cool on a wire rack.
Ayurvedic Perspective:
Vata pacifying. These are rich with butter and tahini which balances the vata dosha.


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Bing simplifies its search design
In January, Microsoft's Bing became the second most popular search engine in the US for the first time, overtaking Yahoo. In the latest Search market share numbers for April 2012, Bing managed to extend their lead over Yahoo. The results show Bing with a market share of 15.4% compared to Yahoo's 13.5%.
However, Bing hasn't stopped there. They are in the process of rolling out a brand new layout based on feedback from user experience tests. They say the layout is 'a fresh, de-cluttered design' and will help people 'spend less time searching and more time doing'.
For comparison, here is the old design........
And here's the new layout.........
Dr. Harry Shum, corporate vice president of Bing R&D describes the design: "The new Bing introduces a brand new information architecture with a three column design that focuses on bringing you information from the web to help you take action and interact with friends and experts without compromising the core search experience."
As can be seen, there have been several changes made to the layout. There is a clean white theme throughout and the left side bar that previously housed 'related searches' has been removed. These can now be found on either at the bottom of the results or on the right side bar underneath the ads.
The URLs of search results have also moved from the bottom of each listing to sit below the page titles. There have also been changes made to the search results that will improve relevance and speed up load times.
Bing has also taken this opportunity to include Facebook results more prominently within its new layout. Those signed into Facebook will now be able to ask questions of their friends direct from the search results page.
The Facebook bar can be seen on the right-hand column here:
Of course, it's likely that Bing hope these improvements will help them continue to increase market share - and lure more users away from Google and Yahoo!


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£29,000 Guide price
** SALE BY AUCTION - 05 December 2019 **
Edinburgh Marriott .
Excellent Development Opportunity. Large piece of Land with Proposed Planning for a House and Garage in the village of Cuminestown, Turriff. Application Reference: F/APP/2010/3602. Plans available from our Edinburgh sales office. Please call 0141 258 1123 for more details. Completed Development would consist of Vestibule, Hallway, Living room, Sun lounge, Dining room/family room, Kitchen, Utility, Study, 5 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms and master bedroom with ensuite and walk in wadrobe. *** Auchry Villa Turriff, Abn AB53 5TP Previously sold for £204,800*** Mains water and electricity near by. Cuminestown is a village in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire, approximately six miles east of Turriff.
Turriff offers a wide range of shopping, business and leisure facilities, together with primary and secondary schooling. There are two universities and several colleges of further education in Aberdeenshire. There is a mart at Inverurie and the area is well served with local agricultural dealers and contractors. The nearby A947 provides ease of access to Aberdeen and its airport which provides excellent transport links by air to London and other UK and European cities. Work has started on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, a new city bypass which will improve travel in and around Aberdeen, and provide a quicker and more direct route south. There are regular rail services from Aberdeen, including a sleeper. As the acknowledged capital of the North Sea Oil industry, Aberdeen provides all the services expected of a major city including business and leisure facilities, theatres, restaurants and a wide range of shopping.
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