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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update
28 May 2014 - On 25 May 2014, the National IHR Focal Point of Jordan reported to WHO an additional Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case in Amman, Jordan.
The case is a 69 year-old male Jordanian citizen and resident of Amman governorate. The patient was admitted to hospital on 29 April 2014 for a surgical procedure. He was discharged on 3 May 2014. On 8 May, the patient presented with fever. His condition deteriorated and he was admitted to the same hospital on 11 May. Two days later, on 13 May, he started to complain of cough. A specimen was collected from the patient and it tested negative for MERS on the same day, but a chest X-Ray showed pneumonia. A second specimen was collected and it tested positive by PCR on 23 May. The patient is currently in the intensive care unit in a critical condition.
The patient is known to have comorbidities, no history of travel, and no history of contact with animals. He also has no history of contact with a laboratory confirmed MERS-CoV case. However, he was admitted to the same hospital where a laboratory confirmed MERS-CoV fatal case was admitted. This case was reported to WHO on 6 May.
Contact tracing and screening of family members, health workers, and patients for MERS-CoV is currently ongoing.
Globally, 636 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV have officially been reported to WHO, including 193 deaths. This global total includes all of the cases reported in this update, plus 17 laboratory confirmed cases officially reported to WHO by Saudi Arabia between 16 and 18 May. WHO is working closely with Saudi Arabia for additional information on these cases and will provide further updates as soon as possible.
WHO advice
Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all Member States to continue their surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and to carefully review any unusual patterns.
Infection prevention and control measures are critical to prevent the possible spread of MERS-CoV in health care facilities. Health-care facilities that provide for patients suspected or confirmed to be infected with MERS-CoV infection should take appropriate measures to decrease the risk of transmission of the virus from an infected patient to other patients, health-care workers and visitors. Health-care workers should be educated, trained and refreshed with skills on infection prevention and control.
It is not always possible to identify patients with MERS-CoV early because some have mild or unusual symptoms. For this reason, it is important that health-care workers apply standard precautions consistently with all patients – regardless of their diagnosis – in all work practices all the time.
Droplet precautions should be added to the standard precautions when providing care to all patients with symptoms of acute respiratory infection. Contact precautions and eye protection should be added when caring for probable or confirmed cases of MERS-CoV infection. Airborne precautions should be applied when performing aerosol generating procedures.
Patients should be managed as potentially infected when the clinical and epidemiological clues strongly suggest MERS-CoV, even if an initial test on a nasopharyngeal swab is negative. Repeat testing should be done when the initial testing is negative, preferably on specimens from the lower respiratory tract.
Health-care providers are advised to maintain vigilance. Recent travellers returning from the Middle East who develop SARI should be tested for MERS-CoV as advised in the current surveillance recommendations. All Member States are reminded to promptly assess and notify WHO of any new case of infection with MERS-CoV, along with information about potential exposures that may have resulted in infection and a description of the clinical course. Investigation into the source of exposure should promptly be initiated to identify the mode of exposure, so that further transmission of the virus can be prevented.
People at high risk of severe disease due to MERS-CoV should avoid close contact with animals when visiting farms or barn areas where the virus is known to be potentially circulating. For the general public, when visiting a farm or a barn, general hygiene measures, such as regular hand washing before and after touching animals, avoiding contact with sick animals, and following food hygiene practices, should be adhered to.
WHO does not advise special screening at points of entry with regard to this event nor does it currently recommend the application of any travel or trade restrictions.


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This burly courier bag from Lezyne is full of neat touches and is well put together to boot. You can fit a decent load in it and your kit will stay dry too. It's not at its best when overpacked but for medium sized loads and the daily commute it's a hard-wearing workhorse.
The Messenger Caddy is constructed from a shell of tough cordura nylon and vinyl coated ripstop fabric. The shoulder strap features a nicely engineered Aluminium buckle that makes the bag easy to adjust and in line with Lezyne law there's a bottle opener slot in it too. The stabilising strap can be fitted on either side of the bag and the shoulder strap (with neoprene phone pouch) slides so you can wear the bag over either shoulder.
Two buckles close everything up at the front. Along the front of the bag there's pockets for all your bits and bobs, inside there's a padded laptop sleeve big enough for a 17-incher, a document flap and lots of space. There's a mesh bottle holder on the side too. The whole bag is padded and lined and feels like a good quality bit of kit - it's heavy too, mind. There's plenty of reflective detailing – including, bizarrely, a nice big reflective logo on the inside. You get an LED loop too. On the outside.
The Messenger Caddy's first test was an inadvertant one - I forgot to bring it indoors, and left it by the shed on a really foul night when we had about an inch of rain. Come the morning my phone hadn't fared to well in the exposed pouch – not really the bag's fault – but everything inside was bone dry, so top marks there. My phone dried out eventually too, and stopped bleeping at me in a wounded kind of a way.
On the bike the Messenger Caddy is fairly well behaved for a big bag. the seven raised pads on the back are presumably there to promote a bit of airflow, but a bag this big (and heavy) is always going to keep you warm. It's not the ideal bag for a long, quick commute but for knocking round town it's tough and visible after dark.
Given the quality of the bag and the fact that it's well padded it's a good mobile home for a laptop, and when it's full of the usual stuff (clothes, shopping, old inner tubes, etc) it wraps round your back well and the stabilising strap does a good job of keeping it in place. Overload it, or put something inflexible in it, and it's a bit more unwieldy. On the plus side though, if you do get caught having to shift a bunch more stuff than usual, the bag will swallow it, even if it's not the most comfortable ride. If you do have to over-fill the bag, it's worth being careful not to lose anything from the front organiser pockets, as the flap won't cover them.
My only other minor gripe was that the lining is a bit loose, and filling the bag can pull it down so that the flap is hard to close. A quick yank sorts that out though, and there's been no damage to the lining.
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This story appears in the March 1998 issue of . Subscribe »
The days when college students split their time between studying and flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint are over. Instead of serving up fries for minimum wage, college students are making some serious cash running businesses right out of their own dorm rooms. And who can blame them? There's no overhead, Mom and Dad often foot the bills and there's direct access to thousands of customers. College used to be considered the training ground for tomorrow's managers and corporate execs, but now it's becoming the place to get hands-on experience in business ownership. Here's a look at the top nine businesses you can start from your dorm room.
Frances Huffman is a freelance writer and publisher/editor of U: The National College Magazine, based in Los Angeles.
Web-Site Developing
Companies are stumbling over each other in the race to get on the Web, but many corporate execs are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to high-tech. College students have a tremendous advantage in the computer arena: They get free access to their schools' computer labs--which usually have some of the most up-to-date equipment.
Charles Strader and his two roommates, Richard Skelton and Pablo Mondal, all 21-year-old seniors at Boston University, got wired into entrepreneurship when they were sophomores in 1996. That's when the partners, who worked in the school's computer center, fielded a call from a local hair salon that wanted help launching a Web site. Using their own computers and the computer center's scanners, the trio launched the site--and their own business, Net One--from their off-campus apartment.
"It was great," says Strader. "We were able to use our own computers and shareware graphics programs so our costs were near zero." The site really made the grade, and since then, the Net One crew has worked on about 50 sites for fees ranging from $300 to $35,000. With the addition of a second Web-site design business, Digital Commerce Laboratories, launched in partnership with another local company, the students expect to cash in to the tune of about $83,000 in 1998.
Club Promotions
If anybody has the energy to go clubbing 'til dawn--then hit campus for an early-morning class--it's college students. That's why so many college students are starting businesses as club promoters. Working with local club owners, students promote the clubs by handing out fliers and coupons of the "get in free before 10 p.m." variety.
To make it as a club promoter, you've got to know the club scene, and serious schmoozing is a requirement. The more people you know, the better chance you'll have of getting a big draw at the door. Most promoters get a percentage of the take at the door, so in a single evening, students can rake in several hundred dollars.
Promoting also means a lot of late nights--once you've gotten people in the door, you've got to work the room and entice them to go to your next club event. Start-up costs are minimal, but you need lots of charisma to convince club owners you can host an event and bring people in.
To start a tutoring business, you've really got to know your stuff. But if you're a whiz at math or tops in your French class, why not impart that knowledge to your fellow students . . . for a fee, of course. Tutors charge anywhere from $5 to $15 per hour, depending on the region and the subject matter. Highly technical subjects command higher rates than liberal arts subjects, and students in major metropolitan areas generally charge more than their rural counterparts. Students who tutor in required subjects such as English or math often enjoy the greatest success, because every student has to pass those courses to earn a degree.
To advertise your service, place a classified ad in the school paper, put up fliers around campus or create your own Web site. Your Web site or fliers might offer something like "10 Tips to Pass English 101" for free, and include your phone number for private tutoring.
Resume Writing
Graduation day used to be the day students started thinking about getting jobs. No more. These days, students have to start thinking about landing "real jobs" from the minute they enter college. What all that job-hunting means for entrepreneurs is sure-fire success with a resume-writing business.
Helping students create professional, eye-catching resumes can turn into a resume-builder of your own. What you need is a good graphics software program such as QuarkXpress or PageMaker, which cost about $1,000, and a way with words. Your ability to tailor resumes to the types of jobs students are seeking will determine your success. For instance, a student seeking a position in accounting should have a no-nonsense resume that looks conservative and professional, while a fine arts student might require a more creatively designed resume. What you charge (most resume writers charge between $10 and $15 per hour) will depend on your location and can be an hourly or a flat fee.
Take a stroll across any college campus and you'll see hundreds of students wearing the same thing--jeans and a T-shirt. Levi's may have cornered the jeans market, but students are making their own mark in the T-shirt arena. All you need are some killer designs, a place to store your inventory, some sales ability and enough cash to buy an initial inventory of T-shirts and pay for the silk-screening. With some slick negotiating, you may not even need all that cash upfront.
University of Southern California (USC) student Scott Yamano convinced a T-shirt manufacturer to give him a "net 90" on his first order of 150 T-shirts, which means he had 90 days before he had to fork over the cash, when he started his company in 1995. That initial $750 investment has grown into a T-shirt, hat and beanie business called Limit Co. in Laguna Niguel, California. The company projects $10,000 in sales in 1998.
Yamano, 22, now sells his apparel line in a skateboard shop and on campus through word-of-mouth, and he's capitalizing on what he learns in USC's entrepreneurial studies program.
Can you spot a typo from a mile away? Do errant apostrophes give you hives? If so, read between the lines: Starting a proofreading business could be your ideal money-maker. In the business world, an ad, brochure or business letter that contains errors can make a company look unprofessional. Small companies, especially, need a second pair of eyes to review sales and marketing materials before they hit the streets. That's where you come in.
Proofreaders generally charge $5 to $10 per hour and sometimes charge a flat fee for certain projects. You need an excellent grasp of the English language, punctuation, grammar and spelling to make it in this field. If you do a good job, the companies you work for will tell other companies about your services.
In the meantime, some local advertising can help you get your start. Target businesses with fliers about your proofreading prowess. With this business, your overhead is virtually zero--just enough money to buy a few red pens for editing.
Computer Repair
According to a 1995 Roper College Track study, 29 percent of all college students have a personal computer at college. Considering the Census Bureau says there are more than 15 million college students in the United States, that means more than 5 million students have computers at school. And that number keeps growing. Although students are becoming extremely techno-savvy when it comes to using their computers, they aren't always so adept at keeping them humming. Students who know how to repair computers when they go on the blink can make some serious cash in college. Being able to diagnose and fix even minor computer problems can make you the most popular person in the dorm.
What you need is a strong knowledge of the inner workings of computer hardware. You may want to specialize in either Mac or PC systems--along with the quirks and most common snafus associated with the most popular software programs. As your school's computer 911 tech, you can charge an hourly rate (usually between $10 and $20) or a per-project rate. For late-night or early-morning emergency calls, you can slap on a premium.
In this business, it's imperative that you stay up to date on the latest advances in technology, and it's important to have adequate equipment yourself--software programs that diagnose problems, such as Norton Utilities, are especially useful.
Take advantage of computer-based advertising avenues such as e-mail and your own Web site. On a Web site, which you may be able to upload for free on your university server (be sure to get permission if you are soliciting clients through the university server), you might offer possible solutions to some of the most common computer problems or give answers to frequently asked computer questions. This helps establish your credibility as a computer expert and promotes good will that you are offering some advice for free.
Word Processing
Some business professionals never learned how to type; others don't have the luxury of a full-time secretary and would rather spend their time on more important tasks than typing. If you have adequate typing skills, a personal computer and a printer, you can be a word processor.
To let local companies know about your word-processing business, pass out or mail fliers in the community. As a word processor for local businesses, you'll be able to work on some projects from home; for others, you may need to go to a client's office and use their computers. Being flexible and available when clients need you is key to success in this business. Note that if you charge by the hour (typically in the $5-to-$10 range), the quicker you type, the more money you'll make. You may want to opt for a flat fee or a set price per page.
Laundry Pickup and Delivery
Sure, it's great to be away from the parents, but hordes of students really miss Mom when it comes to doing laundry. Laundry woes are a rite of passage for many college students, and it may take only one load of ruined clothes to make them sign up for a laundry service.
When it comes to a laundry business, you have a number of options. You can contract out with a local laundry service, meaning you provide the pickup and delivery service, and the customers pay the same amount they would pay if they brought the laundry in themselves. The clincher is the cleaner gives you a bulk discount, so you keep the difference.
Other entrepreneurs tack a small service charge ($2 to $3) on top of the regular price for pickup and delivery. If you have just 10 customers a day, five days a week, that could be $150 extra per week for you.
Young Guns
Thinking about starting a business while in college? Check out the Young Entrepreneurs Network in Boston. The Network offers peer support, business resources, consulting and contact with a network of entrepreneurs from around the world. For more information, call (617) 867-4690 or visit http://www.idye.com
Young Entrepreneurs Network, 376 Boylston St., #304, Boston, MA 02116
Contact Sources
Limit Co., 7 Hastings, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, (714) 496-1895
Net One, 729 Boylston St., #206, Boston, MA 02116, http://www.onechoice.com


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's nominee for defense secretary, is facing GOP critics who have challenged his past comments on Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons.
The former two-term senator from Nebraska is the lone witness at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday that could be crucial in determining whether he will win Senate confirmation to succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Obama's second-term national security team. Two former committee chairmen — Democrat Sam Nunn and Republican John Warner — will introduce the nominee.
If confirmed, Hagel, a decorated Vietnam combat veteran, would be the first enlisted man and first Vietnam veteran to serve as defense secretary.
Hagel has the announced backing of about a dozen Democrats and the tacit support of dozens more who are unlikely to embarrass the president by defeating his Cabinet pick. One Republican — Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi — has said he will vote for his former colleague.
Six Republicans, including four members of the Armed Services panel, have said they will oppose Hagel's nomination. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top GOP lawmaker on the committee, has said he and Hagel are "too philosophically opposed" on issues such as defense spending, nuclear weapons and the Middle East.
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The hearing will be the first time Hagel publicly addresses the barrage of criticism that he is not sufficiently pro-Israel or tough enough on Iran. In the past, Hagel has questioned the efficacy of unilateral sanctions on Iran, arguing that penalties in conjunction with international partners made more sense. He has also been criticized for his comments about the influence of a "Jewish lobby" and his view of gay rights.
He addressed several of the issues in a 112-page questionnaire to the committee in which he said his wartime experience would shape his decisions about using military force.
"I understand what it is like to be a soldier in war," wrote Hagel. "I also understand what happens when there is poor morale and discipline among the troops and a lack of clear objectives, intelligence and command and control from Washington. I believe that experience will help me as secretary of defense to ensure we maintain the best fighting force in the world, protect our men and women in uniform and ensure that we are cautious and certain when contemplating the use of force."
In his responses, Hagel adopted a hard line on Iran and its possible pursuit of a nuclear weapon. He echoed Obama's view that all options are feasible to stop Tehran, praised the rounds of penalties and warned of "severe and growing consequences" if Iran balks at international demands.
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"This idea that's being propagated that he might be soft on adversaries. Chuck Hagel's not soft on anybody, particularly himself," said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., a member of the Armed Services Committee, in a conference call with Hagel allies. "He drives hard. He's someone who searches for the right approach and the right policy."


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Scored a goal in season opener against NYAC (Feb. 14) ... Netted two goals against Villanova (Feb. 21) ... Had a tally against George Washington (Feb. 22) ... Scored four times against Bucknell and twice against Maryland (Feb. 28) ... Had a hat trick against NYAC (March 14) ... Netted two goals in Harvard's 8-7 win at Sonoma State (March 22) ... Had a goal and a steal in victory over UC Santa Cruz and tallied a goal later in the day against UC Davis (March 26) ... Scored a hat trick at Cal State Monterey Bay (March 27) ... Netted a score against Connecticut College (April 5) ... Tallied two goals against Brown at Northern Division Championship (April 18) ... Scored twice against Connecticut College and Utica at Northern Division Championship (April 19) ... Netted a goal against Indiana at Eastern Championship (April 25) ... Tallied a score in win over Bucknell at Easterns (April 26).
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Father, William, was an All-America water polo player at California, helping the Bears win the 1974 and 1975 NCAA titles ... Uncle, Jim, was also an All-America water polo player at California, winning the NCAA championship in 1976 and 1977 ... Brother, John, was an All-America water polo player at UC Santa Barbara ... Sister, Colleen, plays soccer at California ... Aunt, Maureen O'Toole, captured the silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in water polo.


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The Big Day is here this is something I am so Happy to see come to life the last few hours I have been busy checking out our facebook page and ooOOOoooing and Aweeeeing over the photos people are sharing.
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LogMeIn's remote access on the PC/Mac is phenomenal, because it's both free and allows you to control one machine from another machine as easily as anything else we've seen. The iPhone/iPad app has also been good, but not quite as good, until now. (It's super-improved, is what I'm saying.)
The most visible changes are the upgraded UI, file transfer and the Wake-On-Lan feature, which lets you power up a computer that's off from anywhere in the world. Pretty awesome that you don't have to waste electricity keeping your home machine on just so that you can access some files from the road.
It's also speedier—even on the original iPad, but it's definitely crisper and more pleasurable to use on the iPad 2—like everything else on the iPad 2. The end result is that you can quickly VNC into your computer from somewhere else in the house, or the world, and have a better experience.
The app is still $36.99 if you haven't purchased it before. Otherwise, it's a free upgrade.
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I'm looking for something clean, compact, and that represents the past and future. Photography is about landscapes, people, plants and animals, but more importantly, it is about catching a moment. I would like something that represents all these things without all of them actually being part of the logo. The colors should natural ones, not to bright, nor dull. It should look good on a neural or dark gray background, and be complex enough to make a statement, but not so busy our potential customers think we're crazy.
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Welcome to the first post in a new (mini) series of articles on Scrapbook Update! Over the next few weeks I'll be bringing you closer looks at tools and systems that bring a hot trend in stationery and cardmaking right into your scrap room: letterpress. Whether you're planning a DIY wedding or party, or just want to add a touch of elegance to your everyday cards and scrapbook projects, Scrapbook Update will bring you all the information you need to choose which home letterpress option is the right one for you.
Some of the options for home letterpress that I'll be exploring in these posts are add-ons to tools you may already own, some of them might actually be things you already own but didn't realize could be used this way, and today's focus, the L Letterpress kit from Lifestyle Crafts, is a complete setup that will have you making gorgeous projects right out of the box.
The L Letterpress Combo Kit comes with absolutely everything you need to start making basic cards and projects. Included in the box are the Epic 6 die cut machine, several letterpress plates, black letterpress ink, a brayer and ink base, a sample pack of letterpress paper, and the bases required for both letterpress and regular die cutting with the Epic 6. If you already own an Epic 6 tool, there is a separate, smaller Starter Kit available containing just the letterpress-related items.
Pre-made letterpress plate sets are available in a variety of styles and for a variety of holidays. Lifestyle Crafts also offers a custom plate service for customers who want to create their own specialized designs – a great option for DIY brides! Custom plates are 6″ x 8″ and can be ordered for $39.99, a fraction of the cost of custom letterpress invitations!
The ink included in the L Letterpress kit is a specialized oil-based formula that has a slightly tacky feel to it. The first and most important thing to know about using this ink is that less is truly more when working with it. Ink control is the key to getting crisp impressions from the L Letterpress tool, so when you get started it's best to squeeze out a tiny amount of ink (refer to the small pea-sized drop on my ink base in the photo below). You can always add more if you find you didn't use enough, but too much ink can cause "bleeding" outside the edges of the debossed image.
Once you've squeezed the ink out, use the brayer to roll it evenly until the ink base is covered. The ink should be spread very thinly and take on a slightly translucent quality. Remember when I said that less is more with this stuff? That tiny drop of ink covered my entire ink base, as you can see in the photo below!
The letterpress plates are adhered to the carrier using a removable adhesive sheet. Simply peel the protective paper off of one side of the included adhesive sheet, adhere the desired plate(s) to the sticky side of the sheet, and trim around the design.
Once the adhesive has been trimmed, the backing liner can be peeled off and the plates adhered to the top (clear) flap of the carrier base. (As an aside, I also had great results when experimenting with using Glue Dots to adhere the plates and found them a much faster option than trimming around the edges of the plate.)
Both the clear top and the base of the carrier are clearly marked with matching sets of measured grid lines to assist in getting a proper registration (alignment) of the paper to the design. The L Letterpress kit also includes a set of foam registration guides that can be temporarily adhered to the base of the carrier to ensure that the paper is placed in the same spot over multiple passes – a great option to have when mass producing a project!
Once the paper and letterpress plates have been placed and properly aligned, it's time to ink the plates. Roll the brayer across the ink base, using several passes if needed to achieve even coverage across the roller (but, again, don't load it up with too much ink), then roll it across the letterpress plates to transfer the ink, making sure that all parts of the design are evenly coated.
Then it's time to flip the clear top over to close the base, insert the base into the machine, and run it through just as you would a normal die cut sandwich.
I was pleasantly surprised with the results from the L Letterpress kit. The card below was produced on my very first try with the machine, and I was pleased with both the crispness of the image and the depth of the impression.
As I mentioned earlier, Lifestyle Crafts offers a wide array of letterpress plates, including a fantastic selection of background designs. These are available as add-ons and not included in the starter kit, but I picked up a few to use for this review. This particular plate is from the "Tile" collection and produces a beautiful lattice print.
Notice all the cross-hatching on the plate? Those are supports running across the back of the plate to support the large, filled portions of the pattern on the front. These supports help prevent buckling in the plate as it comes under pressure in the Epic 6 tool and ensure an even print.
While inking this background plate I discovered a small drawback to the brayer included in the L Letterpress kit. It's quite small and is a harder rubber than those typically used by stampers, and I found it difficult to get even ink coverage over such a large surface area. Not to mention that it took a very long time to ink the entire plate with such a small roller!
I decided to experiment and instead used a 6 inch soft rubber brayer from Speedball to apply the ink. They're very inexpensive (mine was less than $13.00 US), and I'd actually recommend that you pick one up for almost any of the letterpress options that will be explored in this series. It made a world of difference when working with the larger background plates in the L Letterpress collection, and I was very pleased with the even results I achieved. The small brayer is good for the tiny, intricate plates, but for larger surfaces you'll definitely want a bigger roller.
Now that we've taken a look at how the L Letterpress works, I'd like to talk about cleanup. Surprisingly, cleaning the letterpress plates took a lot of work, and a little experimentation with cleaning products since normal soap and water won't cut through the L Letterpress's oil-based inks.
The entire base, with the exception of a piece of white paper underneath the grid on the bottom of the base, is plastic and can be submerged for easy washing. Just be sure to lift out the clear grid and remove the paper before placing the base in water.
Lifestyle Crafts sells a special cleaning wipe for use with the L Letterpress system, but I didn't find any available locally. After doing a bit of research online, I found that others were having great results using Goo-Gone, an organic solvent, to clean the ink. I found a bottle easily at my local building supply store for around $7.00 US, and it worked miracles when cleaning up the L Letterpress's somewhat messy ink.
Once I'd completed my initial tests with the included paper and ink in the L Letterpress system, I decided to do what all crafty people enjoy doing: experiment!
The first thing I tried was a different type of paper. Some of the other letterpress options we'll be exploring in the coming weeks work with watercolor paper, so I swapped out some Strathmore 300 Series cotton watercolor paper for the included L Letterpress paper (also a thick cotton paper, which is a requirement for deep impressions).
I was less than pleased with the ink coverage results, though I fault the paper and not the L Letterpress system as it performed flawlessly with its own included papers. Strathmore 300 Series, while decent, is not top-of the line paper and has a deeper, more uneven grain than more expensive watercolor paper does. I definitely recommend that if you substitute papers in the L Letterpress system that you go ahead and spend a little extra to get the highest quality paper possible.
I also experimented with using a normal stamp ink, in this case VersaColor from Tsukineko, instead of the included letterpress ink.
When using ink pads with L Letterpress plates it's not necessary to use a brayer, and the ink can be applied directly to the plate. (Note that I'm inking a detached plate here for photographic purposes, but normally you'd attach the plate to the clear top of the carrier base before applying ink.)
I found that pigment inks (thus the use of VersaColor) worked best for this application. Dye inks are normally water based and tend to "bead up" on the plate's surface, resulting in uneven prints. Chalk ink tends to "clump" around the edges of the plate design, resulting in impressions that are less crisp than are desirable.
One last experiment I performed with the L Letterpress kit had nothing to do with letterpress at all, but instead shows a hidden talent of this tool. I love it when my tools multitask, and I was thrilled to find that the L Letterpress base when used on its own (without the Epic 6 tool) is a superb stamping platform!
Using the L Letterpress platform for stamping is extremely easy. Simply lay out your clear stamps on the clear top as if it were a giant acrylic block…
…ink them up…
…and then insert your paper and close the base's lid.
You'll want to apply a small amount of pressure over the stamps with your fingers, about the same amount as you would when using a normal acrylic block.
The same grid features and alignment tools that make the L Letterpress base perfect for mass producing letterpress projects are well-suited for mass producing stamping projects, as well.
And a major benefit of using stamp inks? Cleanup is much easier than with letterpress inks. Here I simply used a baby wipe to rub away the stray ink.
The huge array of L Letterpress plates and ink colors available mean that you can customize this system to create almost any project you could ever need or want. I've made just a few items to show off the versatility of the L Letterpress.
Supplies | Letterpress Paper: Lifestyle Crafts. Cardstock: The Paper Studio. Patterned Paper: Authentique (Glowing: Foundations). Die Cuts: Authentique (Glowing: Icons). Buttons: Papertrey Ink. Ink: Lifestyle Crafts (Orange, Black). Letterpress Plates: Lifestlye Crafts (Spooked).
The mini album below shows how the L Letterpress can be used by scrapbookers as well as card makers. I used papers made with L Letterpress background plates as pages in my fall mini album! You'll be seeing more pages from this album in coming articles that explore other home letterpress options.
Supplies | Letterpress Paper: Lifestyle Crafts, Strathmore Watercolor Paper (300 Series). Cardstock: Core'dinations (Tim Holtz Kraft-Core: Nostalgic Collection). Patterned Paper: Bella Blvd (Finally Fall – At the Patch, Bliss, Quadrants, Borders). Chipboard: Bella Blvd. (Finally Fall – Icons). Stickers: Bella Blvd. (Finally Fall – Alphabet + Bits, Miniatures). Journaling Spots: Elle's Studio (L'il Snippets Labeled Halloween, Spooktacular Autumn Tiny Tags). Ink: Lifestyle Crafts (Orange), Tsukineko (Staz-On Timber Brown, VersaColor Pacific, VersaColor Bark). Letterpress Plates: Lifestyle Crafts (Spooked, Tile). Date Stamp: Office Supply.
I found that the L Letterpress system was easy to use and produced beautiful results right out of the box, with the only small drawbacks being the limitations of the small included brayer and the unexpectedly long cleanup time needed after a project had been completed. The system is also flexible enough to be useful in other areas such as stamping, making the L Letterpress a great value as a multitasker.
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CARSON, Calif. – The clash between Sounders FC and the LA Galaxy on Saturday night at the StubHub Center had all the trappings of a playoff preview. The hype was there. The stadium was packed to the rafters. And the intensity was fitting of the occasion.
The two Western Conference foes fought for every inch, but nothing could separate the two sides and the match finished in a 1-1 draw.
Eddie Johnson struck first on a powerful header, but Juninho scored the equalizer for LA and the teams played to a draw, keeping Seattle atop the Supporters' Shield standings at 15-8-5.
The Galaxy had the first opportunity of the match Zardes got past Yedlin on the left side and ripped a shot for the far post, but Gspurning made his first save of the night, swiping it away for a corner kick.
In the 25th minute, Mauro Rosales found Johnson for the goal, combining for the 10th time in Johnson's 22 career goals for Sounders FC.
After pressuring the Galaxy into conceding a corner kick, Rosales curled the ball from the left corner to Johnson, who evaded his marker Omar Gonzalez and sprung a header past Jaime Penedo for his eighth goal of the season, giving Seattle the 1-0 lead.
The Galaxy still had plenty of fight in them, though.
During first-half stoppage time, Zach Scott was whistled for a foul five yards outside the box, bringing down Jose Villarreal to pick up a yellow card caution.
Juninho drove the free kick just over the top of the five-man Seattle wall and inside Gspurning's right post for the equalizer just before the halftime whistle.
The highlight-reel goal ended a 200-minute shutout streak for Gspurning.
The second half saw more of the same in terms of crunching tackles and near misses as both continued to scrap to the final whistle.
In the 84th minute, Seattle nearly snagged the lead when Brad Evans wriggled his way into the box up the right side and crossed the ball for Neagle in the middle of the box, but Neagle's header for the far post skipped just wide.
Evans made his return after missing the last three matches with a calf strain, subbing in to the match in the second half.
Another opportunity-saving tackle by Scott earned him a second yellow card and ejection in the 90th minute, but the free kick sailed wide.
In the final moments of second-half stoppage time, Zardes pressed up the left side and got a low-angled shot away, but missed outside the near post. Seattle would defend clear a last-ditch corner kick attempt and held on for the draw.
Both teams played without U.S. National Team stars, as Seattle's Clint Dempsey didn't make the trip and LA's Landon Donovan was a late scratch. Dempsey suffered a hamstring injury in training this week while Donovan left the Galaxy's match against D.C. United last week with an ankle injury.
The same two teams will meet in the MLS regular season finale at CenturyLink Field on October 27. Sounders FC's next match will be September 29 when it hosts the New York Red Bulls.
Sounders FC – Eddie Johnson (Mauro Rosales) 25.
LA Galaxy – Juninho 47+.
Sounders FC – Zach Scott (caution) 46+; Osvaldo Alonso (caution) 62; Zach Scott (caution/ejection) 90.
LA Galaxy – None.
Sounders FC – Michael Gspurning, DeAndre Yedlin, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Zach Scott, Leo Gonzalez, Mauro Rosales (Brad Evans 76), Osvaldo Alonso, Andy Rose (Adam Moffat 65), Lamar Neagle, Obafemi Martins (Marc Burch 82), Eddie Johnson.
LA Galaxy – Penedo, Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, Leonardo (Michael Stephens 94+), Todd Dunivant, Hector Jimenez (Laurent Courtois 76), Juninho, Marcelo Sarvas, Gyasi Zardes, Jose Villarreal (Jack McBean 81), Robbie Keane.
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Fatlace hits Formula Drift round 7 in Irwindale, CA. The last event of the season and boy was it probably the most eventful drift event I have ever attended. The battle for 1st place in both Rookie of the Year and also the FD Champion was down to the wire!!! It was amazing! Congratulations to Dai Yoshihara for taking the 2011 Formula D Championship! Walker and Matt did awesome this season and props to them! Until next time!
I'd like to thank everyone who has supported us throughout the season, and we look forward to seeing everyone next season at Long Beach !
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Hawkings made headlines about a year ago when he claimed that the fundamental forces of the universe (like gravity) were eternal and were sufficient to explain the sudden emergence of all matter and energy spontaneously in the Big Bang. Hawkings has admitted he wants the universe to be eternal, in order to avoid having to acknowledge the existence of a creator.
Unfortunately, the presentations at Hawkings' "birthday party" showed there is no workable model of an eternal universe.
The New Scientist article requires a subscription, so I quote here from another website that summarizes the situation:
"Here are the models in brief and why they don't work:
- Eternal inflation: Built on Alan Guth's 1981 inflation proposal, this model imagines bubble universes forming and inflating spontaneously forever. Vilenkin and Guth had debunked this idea as recently as 2003. The equations still require a boundary in the past.
- Eternal cycles: A universe that bounces endlessly from expansion to contraction has a certain appeal to some, but it won't work either. "Disorder increases with time," Grossman explained. "So following each cycle, the universe must get more and more disordered." Logically, then, if there had already been an infinite number of cycles, the universe would already been in a state of maximum disorder, even if the universe gets bigger with each bounce. Scratch that model.
- Eternal egg: One last holdout was the "cosmic egg" model that has the universe hatching out of some eternally-existing static state. "Late last year Vilenkin and graduate student Audrey Mithani showed that the egg could not have existed forever after all, as quantum instabilities would force it to collapse after a finite amount of time (arxiv.org/abs/1110.4096)." No way could the egg be eternal.
The upshot of this is clear. No model of an eternal universe works. Vilenkin concluded, "All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning." An editorial at New Scientist called this, "The Genesis Problem.""
It's only a problem if you rule out a priori the existence of God.


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Michigan International Speedway – Blakeway Panoramas NASCAR Posters Description
This aerial panorama of Michigan International Speedway was taken during a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race by James Blakeway. Historic Michigan International Speedway was built in 1967, making it the first 2-mile oval in the United States. Set in the Irish Hills of Michigan and located in the backyard of Detroit, the automotive capital of the world, MIS hosted its inaugural Indycar race on October 13, 1968 and its first NASCAR race on June 15, 1969. Today, MIS has grown into a 1,500-acre facility boasting 137,243 permanent grandstand seats and annually hosting the state's largest single-day sporting events.


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Ashley Force Hood, funny car royalty, skidding into Bandimere this week
Since Ashley Force Hood became the first woman to win an NHRA funny car race in 2008, earned honors as the first woman to win the U.S. Nationals and shot up to a second-place finish last year in the season standings, things have only become more difficult.
The racing is getting better and better.
Force Hood — the second generation driver in a Hot Rod royal family headed by John Force — is winless in 2010, with one final-round appearance in four funny car starts.
With the NHRA en route to Denver for the Mile High Nationals this week at Bandimere, Force Hood is regrouping.
"I am ready to get to Denver because it is totally different than any of the events on the schedule," she said this week on her website about the high-altitude strip. "Hopefully, that will be a good thing for us."
Last weekend, Force Hood ran one of the best times of the day in the final round in California — but lost to teammate Robert Hight after she led off the line. Four other drivers advanced with slower times.
So what's different this season? Is her engine running right? Is it tough trying to catch her dad, who leads the standings?
Ask these questions and more, when Force Hood answers reader's questions this week in the Denver Post's "Fan Mail" feature. E-mail questions for Ashley to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Los Angeles designer Noelle Claire Raffy has been an accomplished freelance designer for the past 16 years. She was educated at Otis College of Art and Design and has her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Costume Design.
Noelle has worked on a wide range of films like Robin Hood, Adventureland, Bridge to Nowhere, Shelter and Oscar nominated The Road. Commercials for Weight Watchers, Oral B, Cadbury, Samsung and Quaker Oats as well as clients like Warner Brothers, Universal Studios, Ridley Scott Films and MTV are all a part of her portfolio of work.
Her designs for the play The Birds were exhibited in the Prague Quadrennial (2007). She designed costumes for The Orestia Trilogy, which was voted "Best Play of 2007" by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. While at Otis College, she was awarded the Rudi Gernreich Scholarship by the Fashion Group International of Los Angeles.
Noelle has worked with the University of California, Riverside as a full time Designer and Lecturer, at Los Angeles City College and with Idywilld Arts Academy. She continues to work with English National Ballet School, The Tricycle Theatre, and Academy Costumes in London.


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What to Do If Your Boss Is Incompetent By Bob Weinstein, Monster Contributing Writer
If it's any consolation, you're not alone if you're saddled with an incompetent boss.
Thousands of unqualified bosses somehow manage to hold onto their jobs. There are even inept CEOs who couldn't run a broom closet, let alone multimillion-dollar corporations.
How Do You Know If Your Boss Is Incompetent?
Don't berate yourself for not realizing your boss was a hopeless nincompoop before you took the job. How could you know what the future would hold back at the interview when you were totally focused on making a great impression? And your boss probably didn't have any opportunities to demonstrate incompetence while being on his best behavior.
But now that you've settled into your job, the signs of incompetence can be likened to headlights on a pitch-black night. They're unavoidable.
Common clues include:
- Inability to Make Decisions: An incompetent boss often waffles over decisions that should be made instantly.
- Tendency to Make Bad Choices: Ineffectual bosses often make poorly planned, miscalculated decisions. Miraculously, most incompetent bosses manage to save themselves at the 11th hour.
- Reliance on Subordinates to Get Work Done: Incompetent bosses may not have a clue how to get their own jobs done, yet they have the uncanny sense to rely on their teams to cover for them.
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Counter Terror Expo In a confusing tech-pendulum backswing, it has now emerged that so-called "manned unmanned" spy aircraft are now able to operate without a crew. Yes, that's right: the unmanned manned unmanned robotic surveillance plane has arrived.
The new developments emerged yesterday at the Counter Terror Expo in London, where the world's spooks, spies, cops and mercenaries go to do business. The Reg got the chance to chat with Duncan Styles of DO Systems.
DO offers a variety of products, including specialist electro-optical bits for customers such as the UK's special forces and Apache attack-copter fleet. One of their more high-profile offerings in recent times has been the provision of Canadian Twin Star long-endurance light aircraft, carrying out surveillance missions from the British base at Basra in Iraq.
Real time airborne video and radar imaging like that from the Twin Stars at first came in large part from drone aircraft like the well-known US Predator and Reaper. As the wars in Southwest Asia have ground on, the number of patrolling roboplanes has gone up and up.
But the bandwidth required to transmit full-motion hires imagery back to control stations for analysis is massive, putting serious strain on available satellite resources. Thus, there has been a recent trend to purchase light civilian planes, fit them out with the same lightweight sensors used by the drones, and send them up with imagery analysts in the back.
With the analysis done on board, much less bandwidth is needed to pass on the results to ground commanders - hence the popularity of "manned unmanned" fleets delivered by initiatives like the US Project Liberty, or British use of Twin Star and King Air planes.
But sometimes bandwidth isn't that much of an issue, as for instance where line-of-sight can be maintained between a ground station and aircraft overhead, avoiding the need for expensive and limited satcomms. Then the pendulum sometimes swings back in favour of an unmanned aircraft, according to Styles - its advantages of longer endurance and no risk to crews become decisive above places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, UK police and spooks sometimes find overhead imagery or intercept data very useful back at home. Bandwidth isn't an issue here, as you can have a ground station anywhere you like. But unmanned aircraft aren't allowed to fly over most of Blighty, so here you want a pilot on board for legal reasons. This is also useful when sending an aircraft to or from an overseas warzone, as it must pass through lots of civil-regulated airspace on the way.
The best of all worlds, according to Styles, is the forthcoming Twin Star upgrade which will allow it to be flown manned or unmanned. Thus a legally-required pilot can ride in it on trips to or from theatres abroad; backseater analysts can be carried if bandwidth is an issue; it can prowl the warzone skies empty, or lurk above the Midlands back here with a legally-mandated pilot aboard flicking through a magazine.
"It makes the clearance process so much easier," says Styles. DO Systems hope that UK security agencies such as the Counter Terrorism Command and MI5 might go for some optionally-crewed Twin Stars to supplement existing Islander twin-engine spy planes, occasionally operated for them above the mainland UK by the RAF.
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BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): As many as 250 farmers received agriculture equipment and input in central Bamyan province, where men planted orchards on 662 acres of land and women on 550 acres this year, officials said on Sunday.
The agriculture tools distributed included ladders, scissors and baskets to male farmer while female gardeners received shovels and handcarts. Those who had newly set up gardens were distributed fertilizer.
Bamyan agriculture, irrigation and livestock director, Abdul Wahab Mohammadi, told Pajhwok Afghan News the tools were distributed to farmers under the National Horticulture and Livestock Project (NHLP) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), a World Bank-funded project.
Mohammadi said 50 percent cost of the tools were paid by farmers and the remaining 50 percent by MAIL.
""Farmers who created gardens this year were provided with fertilizer free of cost and more than 1,500 acres of land that was planted with fruit trees in recent years also needed support of the agriculture ministry," he said.
Besides Bamyan's capital, the districts also benefited from the program that was completed today, he said, adding Bamyan gardeners collected 10 to five tons of fruits annually.
Main fruits of Bamyan include apricot, apple and cherry grown in different districts of the province, he said.
"Saqi Apricot is the best apricot that is grown in Kahmard, Yakawlang-1 and Yakawlang-2 districts of Bamyan," Mohammadi said.
Abdul Sattar, a farmer, said the agriculture tools would help farmers a lot. "We previously collected apples by shaking trees, when apples would damage after dropping on the ground, but now we would use ladder for that," he said.
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The location in Ikogosi in Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti where the first plane crash was recorded in 1942, is to be converted to tourist centre.
The Special Adviser to the state Governor on Tourism Development, Mr. Segun Ologunleko, who inspected the crash site on Wednesday in Ikogosi-Ekiti, said the decision was to turn the state into attractive tourism destination in West Africa.
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I would like to express the integral of the absolute value of a real-valued function $f$ (over a finite interval) in terms of the Fourier coefficients of $f$. Failing that, I would like to know of any constraints or statistical correlations (in a sense explained in the motivation) relating these quantities.
Motivation: This comes from a biophysics application, but is perhaps best explained as follows. If a rubber band of tension $t$ is stretched along the $x$ axis from $0$ to $L$, then it is easy to calculate the thermal fluctuations of its arc-length by letting $z(x)$ be the (small) deviation from the $x$ axis, and then writing the energy (arc-length times tension) in terms of the Fourier coefficients of $z(x)$. The Boltzmann weight turns out to be a Gaussian since in the limit of small deviations the arc-length becomes a sum of squares of the Fourier coefficients. My problem is more complicated: We have two rubber bands stretched over the same interval, with deviations $z_{1}(x)$ and $z_{2}(x)$. The energy includes not only the stretching of the rubber bands, but also a term proportional to the (positive) area enclosed between them, which is
$\int_{0}^{L}|z_{1}(x) - z_{2}(x)|dx$
Hence my question. So it would be nice to know how this area can be related to the Fourier coefficients of $z_{1}$ and $z_{2}$ or perhaps just to the arc-lengths of the rubber bands. By "statistical correlations" I am referring to the Boltzmann probability distribution with energy equal to the stretching energy plus the area-energy.
Edit: Specifics on the Boltzmann probability distribution, more motivation.
The state of the system is the pair of functions $z_{1}(x)$ and $z_{2}(x)$ describing the deviation of the two rubber bands from the x axis. Let's say it's the set of pairs of functions defined on [0,L] and that these functions are identified with a finite number of Fourier coefficients - I am a physicist and would like to avoid nasty functions or mathematically honest discussions of path integrals.
The probability of occurrence of a state (z_{1}, z_{2}) is (before normalization)
$\exp(-\beta E\left[z_{1},z_{2}\right])$
where $E\left[z_{1},z_{2}\right]$ is the energy of the system, which in this case is the functional
$E\left[z_{1},z_{2}\right] = \frac{t}{2}\int_{0}^{L}\left[(\frac{dz_{1}}{dx})^{2}+(\frac{dz_{2}}{dx})^{2}\right]dx + \kappa \int_{0}^{L}|z_{1}(x)-z_{2}(x)|dx$
Where the tension t and the "surface tension" $\kappa$ are just numbers; set them equal to 1 if you wish. The first integral is the energy cost of stretching the rubber bands (in a linearized regime) and the second is the strange term proportional to the area enclosed between them. Without the second term, it is easy to diagonalize this functional in terms of the Fourier series of the two functions. That is why I was interested in writing the second term in terms of Fourier coefficients. That may be too much to ask, but perhaps it is still possible to calculate some quantities such as the statistical average of $z_1(x)^{2}$ - that is the kind of thing I ultimately want to know.
I realize this is an unnatural-looking problem, so I will just mention that it's not really about rubber bands, but rather about fluctuating interfaces which occur in lipid bilayers with coexisting phases. There are two phase boundaries (one for each monolayer) with their respective "tensions" but there is also a term proportional to the area between them.


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