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Precise, aromatic notes of salt and red berries, brioche, toast and peach combine to produce an arresting initial impression in Philipponnat's brilliant 1522 2008. The blend is 52% Pinot Noir and 48% Chardonnay, partially aged in oak, entirely from Grand Crus; the former from Ay the latter from Mesnil-sur-Oger. Malolactic fermentations are for the most part prevented, giving the wine a beautiful seam of fresh acidity that will allow this to age for many years to come. The signature spice of Ay fruit is very present, notes Indian spice strewn amongst the deep, chiselled red fruit and crushed rock flavours. 8 years sur lie has given fabulous complexity, with a savoury, very fine note of freshly baked pastries below the fruit, while also giving the mousse a wonderful finesse and sense of integration. The finish is long and deliciously salty. Only 1200 cases of this brilliant wine were produced. Disgorgement was in February 2018 with 4.25g/l dosage.
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The arrival of Charles Philipponnat in 2000 appears to have resulted in a turn in Champagne Philipponnat's fortunes. Not only does their flagship wine, Clos de Goisses, continue to get rave reviews, and rightly so as this is widely acknowledge as one of THE great single vineyards in Champagne, but also the quality and consistency of the rest of their range has never been higher. Today Philipponnat grows 20 hectares of Premier and Grand Cru vineyards in the outstanding communes of Ay, Mareuil and Avenay. Pinot Noir is king here and represents two thirds of their plantings. The winery is located just a stones through away from the iconic Clos de Goisses vineyard above the historic 18th century cellars of Chateau de Mareuil, where bottles are still aged and riddled manually (including all the vintage cuvees). A proportion of their wines are vinified and aged in oak barrels and malolactic fermentations are generally avoided. Ageing sur lie runs from three to eleven years and dosage levels are low. Stylistically, this is a house whose focus is Pinot Noir. The house character lies in harnessing the power and fruit of great Pinot Noir without sacrificing freshness or relying on oxidative winemaking techniques to bring complexity. Bright aromatic complexity (a particular characteristic of Pinot Noir) marks a common thread, while structure is found in freshness and minerality. For the Royale Réserve cuvées, great care is lavished on the quality of the reserve wines and in recent years, Charles has introduced a second perpetual reserve with a greater proportion of old reserve wines adding new layers of complexity and finesse to the finished wines. Alongside these Brut and Non-Dosé cuvees sits one of Champagne's most characterful and food friendly Rosés, not such a surprise when one considers that the still red wine used in its blend comes from the upper sections of Clos des Goisses. The Blanc de Noirs cuvee marks the first of the vintage wines Philipponnat produce and in only two vintages it has cemented itself as a hugely impressive addition to the range. Primarily from great Pinot Noir vineyards in and around Mareuil and Ay, the blend can include up to six villages that mix North and South exposures. Fermentation is carried out in oak barrels, without malolactic fermentation, and vats with partial malolactic fermentation. Disgorgement happens after 7 years sur lie. The resulting Champagne is rich but bright, powerful, generous but also chiselled.The first of the prestige cuvées is the exceptional Cuvée 1522, a wine produced exclusively from Grand Cru terroirs. It is blended exclusively from the house's most outstanding vineyards, in particular the historic plots at Le Leon in Ay, complemented by Chardonnay from Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oger. It offers complexity and a rich dry brilliance matched to striking minerality in a remarkably complete wine that is dosed at just 4 g/l and aged for 8 years sur lie before disgorgement. That it doesn't represent the finest wine in this line up is only down to the presence of the mighty Clos des Goisses vineyard.Clos des Goisses is a legendary vineyard that has been in the Philipponnat family for almost a century. It is often cited as the original truly great single vineyard Champagne – the one that first proved that Champagne greatness could be achieved without recourse to blending. A fully walled 5.5 hectare vineyard for which the term 'micro-climate' could not be more apt, it looms over the Marne river with slopes reaching a vertiginous 45 degrees, surely some of the steepest in all Champagne. The resulting grapes are boosted by the warming effects of the river and the steep, fully south facing slopes, two factors which combined to produce mean vineyard temperatures 1.5-2° higher than rest of Champagne. In the cellar vinification is done primarily in oak barrels without malolactic fermentation, the better to support the naturally powerful nature of the terroir. Ageing sur lie runs to about 10 years, depending on the vintage, and dosage is once again low at around 4g/l. The resultant wines, which tend to amount to around half of the potential production of the vineyard, are magnificent expressions of regal power and animating minerality – in many respects a fine wine before a fine champagne, and a true reflection of the uniqueness of the Goisses terroir.
Champagne is the world's original and most famous region for the production of sparkling wine. A range of styles are produced from the Non-Vintage, through Rose, Vintage and more recently a host of prestige, Vintage luxury cuvees. The three permitted grape varieties are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.
Two of the classic Champagne varieties found in a wide variety of blends particularly in prestige cuvées. The Pinot Noir lends finesse and complexity while the Chardonnay provides freshness and aroma.
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Call it proof that the system is working—or proof that the system is broken—but taxes paid by the nation's top earners are putting government back in the black.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, income-tax collections for October to April were up 20 percent compared to last year, bringing in an extra $132 billion.
That's higher than most projected—and a big reason the deficit seems to be a shrinking problem (at least in the short term)— even as Congress and the President fight over solutions.

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Located in the State of Maranhão, on the north shore of Brazil, the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park is an area of about 300 square kilometers (155,000 ha) of blinding white dunes and deep blue lagoons, forming one of the most beautiful and unique places in the world.
But you may ask: -Lagoons ??? You told me it was a desert…
Yes, what defers this region from a desert is the amount of rain the drops over the dunes, creating ponds of crystal clear water on the depression between dunes. Despite its desert-like appearance, Lençóis Maranhenses records an annual rainfall of 1,600mm (i.e. 62.9 inches), 300 times more than in the Saara.
During the period of drought, the lagoons evaporates and become completely dried. After the rainy season, the lagoons are home of many species of fishes, turtles and clams. The mystery in this story lies in the fact that when the lagoons fill up, life comes back, as if they had never left the place. One of the hypotheses to explain the phenomenon is that the eggs of the fish and crabs are maintained alive in the sand, exploding when rain come back.
The strong heat in the region (over 30ºC) is rewarded by a cooling bath in the crystalline lagoons and the untouched beaches, that occupy about 70km. The most famous lagoon, due to its beauty, is the Blue Lagoon. In the borders of the park we can find big mangroves that are home of crabs, clams and birds. The region is one of the best in Brazil for Bird Watching, where it is possible to admire the "Maçarico", the "Marreca-de-asa-azul" and the "Trinta-réis".
The region has little infrastructure for tourism, but Barreirinhas has hotels, hostels, restaurants and handicrafts shops. In the villages it is possible to appreciate the typical food of the region and have contact with its sympathetic people.
The Lençóis Maranheses are certainly a unique place you will never forget.
Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.


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I do a simple search for "Santana", and...
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I'm wondering, why "Santana" isn't found as an Artist, while he is shown as an Albumartist.
Is this behaviour changeable? (to have "Santana" shown at Artists, because I got several albums tagged with Santana as Artist)
I tried changing the media folders view from "Music - Artists" to "Music - Various Artists", but that does not had an impact on the displayed searchresult.
(maybe it needs some hours/days to take effect. How would I know that changes are applied?)
search-result is sometimes like this: and sometimes like this: Simple question: why ?
Folder syntax for the artist is /artists/album/tracks
Contents (number of albums) of the /artist/ folder did not change the last weeks, but I embedded album art to some of the albums.
I've read this old post from 2013: MediaType and search function and this one Library navigation behaving incorrectly but actually, that did not enlighten me.
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Group effort helps U.S. defeat Sweden, win WJC goldby Mike G. Morreale
It seemed appropriate every player on the United States National Junior Team roster had an opportunity to touch the 2013 IIHF World Junior Championship trophy at center ice in the wake of a 3-1 victory against Sweden in the gold-medal game Saturday in Ufa, Russia.
After all, each player made a contribution in helping the United States close out the event in dominant fashion with a four-victory kick that began with a preliminary-round win against Slovakia that was necessary just to gain entrance to the medal round.
It continued against the Czech Republic, Canada and finally Sweden. The Americans outscored the opposition, 24-5, during their final four matches.
Rocco Grimaldi, who was demoted from the top line to fourth-line duty and never saw the ice against Slovakia, scored a pair of second-period goals, and goalie John Gibson made 26 saves to lead the Americans. Grimaldi, who scored his only two goals of the tournament in the gold-medal contest, was named the player of the game for the Americans. It was certainly a golden moment for Grimaldi, who was a late cut from the 2011 WJC team and was unable to participate in last year's tournament due to injury.
"The players just bought into their team game plan, and hats go off to this leadership group," U.S. coach Phil Housley told NHL.com. "Seth Jones, Cole Bardreau, J.T. Miller, Jacob Trouba and captain Jake McCabe -- they did a tremendous job. You need leadership in these types of tournaments, and they provided it for us."
In the end, all 22 players on the U.S. roster had at least one point, including goalie Gibson (two assists), and 15 players scored at least one goal.
"We knew coming in that we had great depth along the forward lines, and it just turned out that 22 guys would help bring it home," Jones said.
It was especially sweet for WJC returnees Miller, Gibson and Trouba, who were part of last year's team that finished a disappointing seventh in Calgary.
The Swedes pulled goalie Niklas Lundstrom with 1:35 remaining in the third to gain the extra attacker, but the United States clogged the middle of the ice and kept Sweden to the perimeter before Vince Trocheck took an outlet pass from Miller and scored into an empty net with 16.7 seconds remaining.
"When I picked it off and made the pass to [Trocheck], I completely started blacking out and my heart was pounding through my chest," Miller told NHL.com. "At that moment, I don't think I've ever been happier my whole life."
Gibson's best save of the game might have been five minutes into the third and his team holding a 2-1 lead when 2013 draft-eligible forward Viktor Arvidsson skated hard into the offensive zone down right wing before curling the cage and attempting a wraparound that the Anaheim Ducks prospect stopped with his right pad.
"It was a good play on his part," Gibson said. "I was just trying to get over there and luckily enough it got my pad."
American defenseman Connor Murphy then helped out his goalie with less than six minutes left when he blocked an attempt off the stick of Swedish scoring leader Sebastian Collberg from the left circle. The puck appeared ticketed for the far corner.
The victory marks the third gold medal for the United States at the WJC, following triumphs in 2004 and 2010.
"Guys fought hard all game … blocking shots and doing whatever it took to win. We played to our strengths. When you get right down to it, we did what we had to do to win." -- U.S. captain Jake McCabe
McCabe, the American captain, was at a loss for words as the team celebrated on the ice long after the final buzzer.
"I like what I'm seeing and [the gold medal] feels pretty good on me," McCabe told NHL Network. "It feels pretty heavy, but I'll deal with it."
Sweden, which earned its 10th silver medal, suffered its first loss in six games at this year's tournament. It won Group A and received a bye into the semifinals, where it defeated host Russia in a shootout.
"Right now, it feels terrible," Swedish captain Filip Forsberg told the IIHF website. "Hopefully it might feel better in a couple of weeks."
Sweden coach Roger Ronnberg tipped his cap to the Americans.
"The United States was the better team," he told the media. "They deserved to win and they are the true champions."
Gibson was named the tournament's best goaltender after posting a 5-2 record with a 1.36 goals-against average and .955 save percentage. His save percentage established a new American record at the tournament. Al Montoya held the previous mark for save percentage (.940), set at the 2004 tournament. Gibson's goals-against average ranks third all-time, behind the 1.33 GAA set in 2001 by Rick DiPietro. and equaled by Montoya.
"John Gibson is unbelievable," Alex Galchenyuk told NHL.com. "He's the best goalie I've ever played for. It would be tough to play against him."
Trouba, who finished with four goals and nine points in seven games for the United States, was named the tournament's top defenseman. Gibson, Trouba and John Gaudreau, who led the Americans with seven goals, were named the top three players for Team USA at the tournament.
The United States also received great work from its penalty killers all tournament. Against the Swedes, the Americans yielded one goal on the man advantage in three power-play opportunities to close out the event with the highest penalty-killing percentage (.893), allowing three power-play goals in 28 times short.
"Our penalty kill was outstanding," McCabe said. "That has a lot to do with our coaching strategy. We stuck to it. Guys were sacrificing their bodies to block shots, and Gibby did one heck of a job. He was goalie of the tournament. He's one special guy and we're lucky enough to have him on our team."
The United States didn't allow a power-play goal against Germany or the Czech Republic, and twice held Canada scoreless with the man advantage. It allowed single power-play markers to Russia, Slovakia and Sweden.
Grimaldi's second of the game came off a tip in the slot. Trouba fired a rocket from the right point that deflected off Grimaldi past Lundstrom 10:27 into the second to give the United States its first lead, 2-1.
The Americans pulled into a 1-1 tie 7:42 into the second when Grimaldi connected on a great individual effort. The Florida Panthers prospect raced to a loose puck behind Sweden's net before skating out beyond the left post and firing a shot that skittered over Lundstrom's right pad before dropping over the line.
The Swedes came close to squaring the contest while shorthanded when Anaheim Ducks prospect William Karlsson broke in on Gibson off a turnover, but was denied with less than five minutes left in the second.
Swedish goalie and St. Louis Blues prospect Lundstrom also had a strong game, finishing with 30 saves.
Sweden opened a 1-0 edge 1:09 into the second on Filip Sandberg's second goal of the tournament. The Swedes were on their second power play of the game when Trouba attempted to swat the puck out of the zone from the right corner. But the puck was stolen and Sandberg recovered between the circles in prime scoring position. His quick wrist shot beat Gibson on his glove side just under the crossbar.
"We just stuck to the game plan [after the Sweden goal]," McCabe said. "Guys fought hard all game … blocking shots and doing whatever it took to win. We played to our strengths. When you get right down to it, we did what we had to do to win."
Follow Mike Morreale on Twitter at: @mike_morreale


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The existing reports does not allow me to have ALL these columns. Can someone clue me in on how , if at all , Designer program is capable of producing such a report?
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18" Galileo Thermometer Case
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5 Multi Colored Spheres with Gold Plated Temperature Tags. Temperature Range of Thermometer in 4 Degree Increments from 64 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit .
Galileo Thermometer How to read Locate the lowest temperature tag from the upper group of spheres in the cylinder.
How your Galileo Thermometer works: If the room temperature rises the spheres will sink one by one to the bottom of the cylinder. If the room temperature falls the spheres will fall one by one to the bottom of the cylinder.
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Foreign Animal Disease Training
The Seventh Edition of Foreign Animal Diseases, often referred to as the "Gray Book" has been completed. USAHA is pleased to offer this publication, thanks to the efforts of the Committee on Foreign and Emerging Diseases and contributing authors.
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When APHIS responds to an animal disease outbreak emergency, it is important for responders to have the tools to assist them in taking appropriate action to control the outbreak while protecting human health and the environment. Emergency Management Tools.


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PITTSBURGH -- Beam me up, Scotty. This revolution is real.
You've probably heard about 3D printing, where an item is built, layer by layer, by a printer based on a digital model.
Conceptually, these so-called printers work in a similar way to the sci-fi transporter in the Star Trek series, materializing things into matter one particle and layer at a time. The printers are so accessible now (under $1,500) that I saw one advertised in the recent SkyMall magazine while flying last week.
"It's mentioned on NPR like three times a day," Giles Gaskell, Applications Manager at Wenzel America Ltd., said to me, jokingly, at the RAPID 2013 Conference & Exposition this week in Pittsburgh.
That event is focused on varieties of 3D printing, which in the manufacturing world can also be known as "additive manufacturing," "digital manufacturing" or even "rapid prototyping."
More than 2,500 young and old men and women came to RAPID 2013, nearly double last year's attendance, to learn about all the new additive technologies that build a product from a digital model. You can now build a product from a digital model with everything from glue and paper to fused polymers and metal powers sintered together with lasers. Wenzel, for example, makes 3D scanners, which is an essential tool for collecting the digital information need to print something in 3D.
For years, the manufacturing industry debated how important this collection of additive technologies might be to its future.
Well, starting today, you can put a fork in that debate. The revolution in additive manufacturing is upon us. (It's also the cover story of Manufacturing Engineering's June issue: Additive Manufacturing Goes Mainstream.)
Additive technology is no longer just for building prototypes or one-off custom products. It's being used to build everything from plastic toys and shoes to metal medical implants to high-integrity components for planes and cars. You might even have heard the heartwarming news about the little girl who had a custom airway splint built with a 3D printer. There have even been reports that NASA is experimenting with making food products with 3D printing, starting with pizza.
Suffice it to say, people are very, very excited about this technology.
A disruptive technology is one that displaces an earlier technology, and it's safe to say that additive manufacturing is on a course to disrupt traditional manufacturing around the globe. At the very least, it will share a leading role alongside other methods.
Recruiting skilled workers into traditional manufacturing has been a hard sell in recent years. But start talking about additive manufacturing and 3D printing, and you get an entirely different response.
Additive manufacturing is a nexus point where art, design, computing, craftsmanship and manufacturing collide in a beautiful, intellectually satisfying and appealing way.
Tom Kubilis of ballydesign, which helps to design all those cool OXO kitchen gadgets now in most American homes, told me that additive manufacturing frees designers to make things they couldn't even make before with traditional manufacturing. "It offers complete design freedom," an excited Kubilis said.
I attend a lot of manufacturing events every year. Typically, they are frequented by men with gray hair in suits. But the additive manufacturing revolution is being built by 20- and 30-something men and women with ideas, an artistic edge and fire in their bellies.
On Monday night, the kick-off celebration for RAPID 2013 was at the Andy Warhol Museum, where artworks created with 3D printers were on display by Materialise, one of the world's leading additive manufacturing companies.
The young saviors of manufacturing were there. And the manufacturing traditionalists held up a glass (or two) for them in toast.
"I wish I was young again," Jack Ziemba, 66, owner of Aristo-Cast, Inc., a prototyping company, told me outside the museum that night. "What's going on, it's so exciting."


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Bernhard Langer will take a three stroke lead into the final round of The Senior Open Championship presented by MasterCard as he looks to close out his maiden Senior Major Championship victory.
The German's two under par round moved him clear of halfway joint-leader Corey Pavin - the US Ryder Cup Captain carding a one over 72 to lie second on three under par.
Two-time Masters Tournament champion Langer advanced to six under for the week with birdies at the first, sixth and 15th, but a bunkered tee shot at the last cost him a bogey-free round.
He almost got up and down after a fine pitch to eight feet, but left his putt right and had to settle for bogey.
It means Langer, who has finished fourth in the past two Senior Open Championships and second in the 2008 US Senior PGA Championship, is in pole position to add a first Senior Major Championship to the two Masters Tournaments he won in 1985 and 1993.
"It was a good round of golf again," said the 2002 Ryder Cup Captain. "I played very solid, and wasn't in too much trouble for the most part.
"There's only two things that I could have done better; I think the three-putt on 14 was a shame after hitting two beautiful shots in there. And I wasn't too far away, I was only about 35 feet away with the first putt and three-putted that one.
"And then the bogey on the last one, I hit probably the wrong club off the tee and just trickled into the bunker and ended up making bogey there. But otherwise, I was very happy with my round.
"But I'm aware of the golf course - that it's one of the toughest links you'll ever play. So I'm very much aware that the three shot lead is nothing, or very little, so I still need to play a very solid, very good round of golf tomorrow if I'm going to lift the trophy."
Pavin will also feel he may have done better on the last, after a fine approach he pulled a 12 foot birdie attempt left and in doing so missed an opportunity to halve the deficit.
"It was a day I played fairly well, and a lot of putts just missed," he said. "Sometimes you have days like that - I would rather have it be on Saturday than Sunday.
"So I'll go work on my putting and see if I was maybe lined up a little bit wrong or something was off. But I was pleased with today and I played well. It seemed like I had a lot of 12, 15 footers for birdie and couldn't get them in - but that's the way it goes sometimes and that's why we play tomorrow, as well."
Langer has had seven top-ten finishes in Senior Majors since joining the over-50 ranks, and won the Champions Tour Order of Merit in 2008 and 2009, but victory over the Championship Course would represent his first Major title since he collected the second of his Green Jackets in 1993.
By contrast, Pavin is playing his first Senior Major after turning 50 last November. He had birdies at the sixth and 14th, but a bogey at the third and consecutive dropped shots at the tenth and 11th left him with work to do to catch Langer.
"I'm going to play the same way," revealed Pavin. "This course, once you start attacking and getting aggressive, it can really come up and bite you. But if I get into position with a few holes to go, I might take a chance if I need to."
No fewer than six players finished the day tied for third on two under - five of them American.
Fred Funk, Jay Don Blake, Russ Cochran, Larry Mize and Jay Haas were joined by Wales' former Senior Tour Order of Merit winner Ian Woosnam, the 2006 Ryder Cup Captain.
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Women Economists Are Better Forecasters
Beth Ann Bovino came out tops in The Wall Street Journal's ranking of forecasters, but she was already a member of a rarified group: Women economists working on Wall Street.
Indeed, of the 52 forecasts included in the 2013 survey, only six came from women. But a quick perusal of the women's forecasts shows that they , on balance, did a pretty good job of figuring out what the year. On average, they scored 88.3 on the WSJ's ranking methodology, which compared to an average score of 81.6. (See the full rankings.)
But what are the chances that six randomly selected economists would score as well as the women did? Since there are nearly 15 billion ways to draw six economists out of 52, getting an exact number would be difficult. But running a Monte Carlo simulation — running a program that draws 6 forecasts at random from the 52 over and over again — is a way to come up with a reasonably precise estimate.
For the first simulation, we had the computer draw 10,000 sets of six forecasts randomly and check to see if the average off those six forecasts outscored the women's average. And we had the computer repeat this process 1000 times (for a total of 10 million draws.)
The following histogram shows that the women got outscored between 19% and 22% of the time, with a concentration around 20.5%. Not bad.
But maybe not entirely fair — to the women — either. After all, by drawing from the entire set of forecasts, sometimes we were drawing one or more of the women's forecasts, which would tend to flatter the average score. So we excluded the women's forecasts and ran the simulation again. The women got outscored less than 18% of the time.
Of course, maybe the women just had a good year. So we ran the simulation again, using the 2012 ranking, (when there were just four women forecasters). Women got outscored about 15% of the time. Then we ran for the 2011 rankings. The women didn't do quite as well then, getting outscored about 28% of the time.
That puts the chances of randomly selecting forecasts that outscored women's forecasts in 2011, 2012 and 2013 at less than 1%. It's hard not to conclude that the women economists are just better at this than their peers.
Exactly why isn't clear, but given the general dearth of women on Wall Street, one possible answer is that to make it as an economist, a woman has to be more talented to make it into a forecasting position. Wall Street's forecasting ability might be a lot better if Wall Street firms would kick some hurdles out of women's way.


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Welcome to the 30-40 bracket, where all the mage spells you start to get tend to be less about your primary use nukes and cooldowns, but rather what I like to call "quality of life" spells. Things that make your time spent as a mage relaxing, enjoyable and frankly, kick ass over other classes. You got a taste of this when you got your Teleport spells last bracket, but now that you've come this far, prepare for the magical equivalent of riding around in a Bentley, waving over your shoulder at the warlocks and rogues crying on the side of the road. (Okay, maybe not like that, but come on, we're pretty awesome.)
At 32 you get Slow Fall, which may seem like an unusual and frankly unnecessary spell, but as any veteran mage can tell you, will literally save your life. If you are a mage that spends any amount of time exploring the world or going into battlegrounds, the ability to descend gracefully and not hit the ground with a caster-shaped crater (preferably while popping off several instant cast spells) is beyond useful. Slow Fall does just that – it slows your falling speed. You float off at a diagonal towards the ground until you land on something solid. This spell can be cast on other party members or yourself, as well as used while mounted. Just make sure you are targeting the right person.
Molten Armor (level 34) is the first time in leveling that you get one of your class-specific armors. Much like a warlock's armor or a paladin's aura, an armor defines certain benefits and defenses. Molten Armor grants you extra critical strike chance and reduces your chance to be hit. Fire mages will value this more than arcane mages later on in the game, but for right now it is your only armor and you should wear it!
At level 36 you get your third installment of spec-specific spells. Arcane gets Slow. This is one of the spec's few CC-like abilities. It slows one target's movement by 50% (25% if it is against another player) and their casting speed by 25%. Now, if you use Glyph of Slow, all of your Arcane Blasts apply the Slow effect and you don't need to cast it separately. But it might still be useful for having on your bars if you do any soloing or PVP.
Fire gets Critical Mass, which is a passive effect that multiplies the critical strike chance of your main Fire-specific spells. It's one of the indications that Fire prefers crit overall as a stat. Your fire spells will start to rely pretty heavily on crit at the endgame to do respectable damage.
Icy Veins is what Frost gets, which is one of your major cooldowns. It is a 20% increase in spell haste and reduces pushback to your spells by 100%. This is like a little Time Warp all for yourself and should be used often, particularly during big fights.
Now for the moment I'm sure you've been waiting for – the ability to conjure food. That's right, at level 38, you gain Conjure Refreshment. This is your ticket to reducing incoming costs for your budget and never needing to grocery shop ever again. Granted, conjured food is slightly behind the best available food for your level but if you forget to buy things like I do, it will work in a pinch. As well as being good for returning mana and health, this food turns into a new kind of sweet treat as you level up. (Right now, your conjured food is cookies! Yum!) Other players will love your food too – so much in fact that they will ask you for it four pulls into a dungeon. *facepalm*
Matching colors and items! How novel! That is what you can expect during this portion of leveling – many quests in zones help itemize you sensibly as well and look snappy. You'll starting seeing more choices in head-gear as well as all your slots. Darkcleric's Veil/Veil of Aerie Peak is a great blue quest reward from a quest in the Hinterlands (and it looks like a face mask, so cool.) Whitemane's Embroidered Chapeau is also a classy choice for a head slot!
The only problems I really ran into with gear in this bracket was between some overlapping quest items or slots covered by dungeon drops having wildly different stat allocations. One example of this was two questions offering me two belt choices – one had +11 INT, one had +8 STA, +4 INT, and gave me a bunch of hit. Which seems like the better choice? Lots of intellect is great, but so is hit? This sort of stuff can get really confusing. Typically, even though HIT is my best stat for not missing on mobs, more INT should win out. It just is a flat DPS boost no matter how you slice it. A good way of determining which piece of gear is better when it has identical kinds of stats on it is which has more if you added all the "numbers" up. Hit is better than crit, haste is better than crit in a lot of ways.
Still, always prioritize for intellect if you can. If you get some gear that has spirit on it, don't fret. While spirit does zippo for mages, if it also has intellect on it, it is an upgrade. As more gear becomes diversified for healers versus casters, it'll be considered better if you let healers in your group roll over you on spirit items, but for now, anything that has more intellect should be something you pick. Intellect/stamina gear is fairly plentiful from quests, however. Secondary stats like haste are starting to become more plentiful, especially if you do dungeons. Now that you might be seeing this, let's explain what haste actually does.
Haste is what speeds up your casting. It sounds simple but it can mean a few things – casting faster means technically more DPS. It also means you run out of mana faster, as you have less time to regen while casting. It also can speed up ticks of some DoTs and reduce your global cooldown by a small margin. Haste also only goes so far, especially when you get to the level where Heroism/Time Warp/Bloodlust is concerned. You can only speed up your casts down to 1 second. Under one second and you will be effectively locked out by the global cooldown between all your spells. That is what most casters that are working around a lot of the time when they talk about racials, cooldowns in regards to a "haste cap." Early haste gains in leveling tend to be talented or profession cooldowns like Lifeblood.
Helpful Tips:
- Making food for healers in low-level dungeons or in battlegrounds now is considered polite and generous
- Slow Fall, Blinking as well as Ice Block can save your butt if you jump or fall off something high.
- At level 40, you can buy your 100% speed ground mount training.


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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Bike Girl Goes On Hiatus
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6 comments:
- Alex Thompson said...
Intermittent is great! Or you can come post at Bikeside LA under your whatever name you choose.
- March 27, 2011 at 8:38 PM
- Krista said...
If you have it in you to continue blogging that would be great! If anything simple photo's can fill the verbal void :D
- March 27, 2011 at 11:10 PM
I think if you feel like blogging, however sporadically, you should. If not, not.
One of the nice things about following a blog via its RSS feed is that if it gets updated only infrequently, it's not a problem. And when it does get updated, it's a lovely surprise. :-)
- March 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Alex said...
I'd like to get a 'surprise' post avery now and then.
Just write when you feel like it. Or post a picture or two.
I wouldn't stop, just slow down.
- March 29, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Erik Ryberg said...
I still check this blog somewhat regularly, hoping to see a new post. You write beautifully and have a perspective that is unique and not heard often enough. Nothing says you have to post something every week or month. But when you do, you will have readers for sure.
- April 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM
- danceralamode said...
IMHO, post when you have something to say, but keep the blog active even if you don't post for a while. You have a unique voice, and who cares if you don't post every single day.
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The Cathouse will open for public visiting at 1 p.m. Saturday at Maranatha Farms in Ridgeland.
The all-volunteer nonprofit animal rescue has its first facility for cats. Several of the felines living in the new Cathouse qualify for the Seniors for Seniors Program, and others are only a year or two old. Maranatha Farm currently has two kittens available for adoption who may be seen daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the lobby of the Coastal Veterinary Clinic.
Founded in 2007, Maranatha Farm sits on 10 acres and rescues all types of homeless animals that are sick or injured. Bringing cats into the mix is a new development because previously they were kept in foster homes. Founders Dwane and Karen Wilkins provide most of the medical care for their charges under the direction of Coastal Veterinary Clinic. Keeping the cats at the farm will simplify medical treatments and facilitate showing the cats to potential adopters.
Animals may be viewed for adoption every Sunday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. at the farm at the end of Crabapple Lane two miles outside of Ridgeland off Bees Creek Road.
Adoption fees are $100 for dogs and $50 for cats, and include spay or neuter, appropriate tests and vaccinations, a six-month supply of heartworm prevention, and lifetime free vacation boarding.
The Seniors for Seniors program places healthy well-trained animals with retired seniors free of charge, and continues to provide all medical needs for the rest of the animal's lifetime.
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|July 2009
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Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report. We hope you enjoy the monthly report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
State of Oklahoma Surplus Bargains Available Online
Bargains can be found online through the state of Oklahoma by logging onto http://www.Auction.OK.gov. Visitors can find anything from knives to bulldozers and classic cars to refrigerators. By registering for an account, users can place a bid or maximum bid on items and monitor the status of their bids without leaving home.
Auction.OK.gov is the state's online state surplus property auction site that enables visitors to place bids and make secure online payments for Oklahoma's state surplus property. Registered users of the system can also subscribe to email notifications for similar items of those that they are bidding on and add items to a customized "watch" list.
"Auction.OK.gov has proven to be an important factor for us in moving state surplus because items are much more visible to the public, both to bidders in Oklahoma and around the world," said Gerry Ann Smedley, Public Information Officer for the Department of Central Services. "The online service also allows state entities from around Oklahoma to provide us with pictures and descriptions of surplus items without ever having to ship them to our main surplus warehouse in Oklahoma City, which helps move items more efficiently through the disposal process and eliminates the need for a large warehouse."
The online auction has been live since May of 2005 and has more than 7,900 registered bidders. In 2008, online sales constituted for approximately 24% of total sales. Auction.OK.gov accepts Visa, MasterCard, or debit card for winning bid payments. The payments are processed through a secure payment engine, which abides by rigorous policies and procedures to ensure that vendors can be confident that their payments are safe, private, and secure.
Auction.OK.gov is a product of a partnership between the Department of Central Services and OK.gov, Oklahoma's Official Web site.
Oklahoma State Parks Unveil New Online Reservation System
Visitors planning a trip to the Oklahoma State Park system can now book cabins, cottages and lodge rooms online. �The Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department recently unveiled the Cabin and Lodge Online Reservation System that will allow park visitors to book rooms up to 11 months in advance. ��
OTRD officials believe this service will offer visitors more ease and convenience when it comes to their park stay. ��
"The online reservation system is another service we are proud to offer to our park visitors," said Hardy Watkins, Executive Director of OTRD. �"This feature will allow visitors to book a room at any time, and not just during normal business hours."
The reservation system features cabins, cottages and lodge rooms at the following state parks: �
The Web site shows multiple views of each facility, and allows you to select a specific cabin or room. ��
As people look at planning vacations for the summer or into the fall, the new system allows them to check options in one location. ��
"Our cabins and lodge rooms are extremely popular on the weekends and during the summer travel season," said Watkins. �"The online reservation system gives visitors an opportunity to view the availability of lodging options as they plan getaways."
In addition to booking rooms online, visitors still have the option of calling (800) 654-8240 to make room reservations.
Oklahoma's New Production Guide Coming Soon
The Oklahoma Film & Music Office is pleased to announce that on August 4 the Oklahoma Film and Video Production Guide will be transformed. With the recent increase in Oklahoma's rebate has come an increase in the number of productions interested in filming here. The film industry as a whole will now be highlighted through the use of a new, user-friendly database, Reel-Crew. Beginning August 4, Oklahoma crew and support services will be able to register for the new and improved guide.
Reel-Crew will allow local crew and support services to register on-line, create their own profiles, and continue to access the user interface to add more recent credits or update contact information, ensuring the database remains current. Users can also link to their IMDB profile and upload a resume.
Productions filming in Oklahoma or considering filming in Oklahoma will use the production guide to find qualified crew in the state in order to hire them to work on projects. Reel-Crew has a very friendly user interface for both crew members and those looking to hire crew.
Oklahoma is one of only ten state film commissions currently implementing the state-of-the-art system, and OF&MO is thrilled that this tool will be used to help grow the film industry in the state.
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"Limitless global opportunities and opportunities for development." These are the benefits which graduate, Maher Al Bayaty, said attracted him to Shell's Graduate Programme. With his strong background in IT plus his degree from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Maher saw Shell as opening up possibilities for his future career.
Over the past 14 months Maher has been working in Shell's Human Resources (HR) function where he is currently HR Account Manager for Projects and Technologies. He is based at Majnoon in Southern Iraq.
"HR is a function which is transitioning across all industries in response to digital developments. My IT knowledge and background helps as Shell is currently migrating most of the HR transactional activities to the service centers. I've been assigned to support this from a country perspective."
Maher's mentor is Raoul Bollen who is Shell's Vice President HR, Middle East, North Africa, Russia & Caspian. Raoul supports Maher's view of how the HR function is responding to change. "I look back at my earlier time at Shell and am surprised at how many things were done differently across countries and companies within Shell. Now we are increasingly improving and standardising our processes globally. This allows HR to spend more time on value-adding talent management activities, improving efficiency," Raoul said.
Concerning Raoul's role as mentor, Maher notes: "Since mid-2015 Raoul has been my mentor. Within minutes of meeting him I felt comfortable. He motivates me and helps me develop my thinking about my career and other work related topics (issues) we discuss.


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Coined the original "Playground of the South" in the 1800s, Galveston is an island city located off the Texas Gulf Coast. It is home to gorgeous beachfront condo rentals, historic Victorian-era manors and spacious, family-friendly vacation rentals. Galveston Island stretches 32 miles long and just three miles wide, creating a legendary strip with attractions, entertainment, recreation, dining and sightseeing.
You'll find condo rentals lining pristine golf courses like the Galveston Country Club, or tucked off a busy street in the downtown district. With 14 museums and 20 art galleries scattered across the different sections, vacation rentals in Galveston are surrounded by culture and history.
There's a waterpark, a botanical garden, amusement rides, a famous boardwalk and the world-renown "Strand" – a main street regarded as the island's social mecca. Many vacation rentals are within 10 minutes of downtown's cultural hub.
If you're traveling with kids you won't need to worry about keeping them busy. Vacation rentals on the island are surrounded by attractions and accommodations – from slides, rides and high tides to eats, beats and busy streets.
Families should look at condo rentals near the Moody Gardens Botanical Park, an all-age attraction boasting one of the world's largest aquariums, a tropical rainforest replica with Amazon River otters, Saki monkeys and Chinese alligators, and the Discovery Museum with extravagant nature exhibits. Play a round of 18 at the Moody Gardens Golf Course or opt for a more educational bird-watching tour. With the Schlitterbahn Waterpark and Botanical Gardens so close to each other, vacation rentals in this area make it easy to experience both in a single day.
The Galveston Schlitterbahn Waterpark will leave you sopping wet and full of smiles, with its uphill water coasters, aquatic ziplines, the Treasure Island Kids Pool, white water rapids and the exhilarating Torrent Tidal Wave River.
Waterfront vacation rentals offer the excitement of the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier. Hosting the towering Iron Shark roller coaster, the Texas Star Flyer (flinging riders over the water 200 feet above the Gulf), the 100-foot tall Galaxy Wheel and everybody's favorite movie restaurant, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company.
Other outdoor recreation includes surfing, rollerblading, horseback riding, volleyball and boating.
Vacation rentals in Galveston's popular downtown neighborhood put you in the center of the action. "The Strand," considered the island's core shopping and entertainment center, is lined with Victorian-era buildings that have been turned into boutiques, restaurants and nightclubs. The social mecca includes dining from Greek and Mexican to Italian and of course, fresh Gulf Coast seafood. Nightclubs have live music and the beach bars serve delicious margaritas. Condo rentals here have something for everyone, with art galleries galore and yearly festivals like Mardi Gras and the Galveston Island Jazz & Blues Festival.
Galveston vacation rentals themselves are historic, beautiful and full of personality. But it's the history on the island that truly entices. Galveston is home to six historic districts with over 60 structures in the National Register of Historic Places, including ships like the Elissa at the Texas Seaport Museum and the USS Cavalla at Seawolf Park on nearby Pelican Island. There's also the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum and the Grand 1984 Opera House.
If you're looking to book your next family vacation to Galveston, Texas, look no further than the condo rentals and beachfront properties available through TripAdvisor Vacation Rentals.


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Apple CEO Tim Cook, who normally avoids the spotlight, has given a pair of lengthy interviews that are being released today, a little more than a year after he formally took the company's reins.
Bloomberg Businessweek has an 11-page interview with Josh Tyrangiel, and NBC tonight will air an episode of Rock Center with a Brian Williams piece on Cook.
The Businessweek piece is long but worth your time to read. While Cook doesn't give away too much, he talks in some detail about how Apple manages its product lines and what types of interactions its executives have with employees and each other.
Cook also provides some insight into why iOS chief Scott Forstall and retail head Rob Browett were fired recently, and it boils down to one word: Collaboration. Cook wants a lot more of it.
Cook does drop some news, saying in both the Businessweek piece and the NBC interview that, starting next year, one of the Macintosh product lines will be made in the United States. There have been reports that some of the newest models of the iMac have arrived with "Assembled in the USA" on them, rather than "Assembled in China". Still, Cook doesn't say in either interview which line will be made here.
He seems to go to great lengths in several parts of the Businessweek interview to explain what makes being CEO at Apple different from any place else. Much of it has to do with the passion its best customers have for the company. He describes getting hundreds of emails a day from people who address him as if they know him personally. And he says he knew he was coming to work for a different kind of company on his first day, when he walked in the door.
Keep in mind as you read the following excerpt that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs recruited Cook from Houston-based Compaq:
It's one of the things that I knew about Apple even back 15 years ago when I was in the interview process with Steve. Apple was this company going through all of these hard times. Customers got angry with Apple and would yell and scream—but they would keep buying. If they got mad at Compaq they would just buy from Dell (DELL). There was no emotion there. It was a transaction.
With Apple, my first day at work I crossed a picket line to get in the building! There was a picket line of customers who were protesting, because Steve had decided to kill the Newton device. And it was because they cared so deeply about it. And I thought, "This is amazing." I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was walking to the lift that day and thinking, "Oh my God, my life is different." It was so great. It was so great. You know, I have been involved in hundreds of new product announcements, hundreds of product withdrawals. At one of the companies I worked at, not to mention any names, we'd put [new products] in the lobby. We'd get on the employee intercom system and say, "Come look at them," and nobody came. They didn't even care.
Cook also addresses the iOS 6 Maps debacle, denying that dropping Google Maps was purely a strategic move. He says Apple thought it could deliver a better maps experience by designing its own, but that "we screwed up."
It strikes me that Apple Maps was a very rare instance of Apple thinking about corporate strategy before thinking about the customer experience. Is that fair?
No. No, it's not how I would characterize it. I would characterize—well, let me back up for a minute. The reason we did Maps is we looked at this, and we said, "What does the customer want? What would be great for the customer?" We wanted to provide the customer turn-by-turn directions. We wanted to provide the customer voice integration. We wanted to provide the customer flyover. And so we had a list of things that we thought would be a great customer experience, and we couldn't do it any other way than to do it ourselves.
We set on a course some years ago and began to do that. So it wasn't a matter of saying, "Strategically it's important that we not work with company X." We set out to give the customer something to provide a better experience. And the truth is it didn't live up to our expectations. We screwed up.
So what are we doing? We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. But it wasn't a matter that we … decided strategy over customers. We screwed up. That's the fact.
Again, if you're interested in Apple as a company and its place in the tech world – even if you're one of those types who love to hate Apple – I'd urge you to take the time to read the whole piece.


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Immigration debate ensnares tech
SAN FRANCISCO — The immigration debate is heating back up in Washington — and in Silicon Valley.
A coalition of technology firms is taking its issue east, meeting in Washington this week with White House officials and key members of Congress to discuss how the debate is expected to unfold.
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The tech industry has long wanted more visas for highly skilled workers but has been reluctant to muddy the issue with questions about border security, reuniting families and letting illegal workers stay.
Now that the Latino vote has rocketed comprehensive immigration reform back into the spotlight, the industry will again have to decide whether to align its cause with the bigger immigration movement.
"We understand comprehensive is where the game is," Peter Muller, Intel's director of government relations, told POLITICO. "There are pros and cons to that. We know it is difficult to achieve. If it is not successful, there will be a more targeted approach."
Facing a growing talent shortage, tech wants more green cards for Ph.D.s in technical fields and a better system for bringing foreign nationals here temporarily. But it hasn't had any luck getting Congress to change laws. The sense of urgency about the issue has increased since 2007, when Congress last took up comprehensive immigration reform.
This week, Compete America, a coalition of tech firms, university associations and others, is holding a retreat in Washington to discuss the immigration debate. The group is meeting with Felicia Escobar, senior policy adviser for immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council, as well as key members of the Senate: Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
"Our industry faces a talent shortage that is rapidly approaching the dimensions of a crisis," said Brad Smith, Microsoft's executive vice president and general counsel. "If we don't see action over the course of the next year, we'll see headlines about companies being forced to move jobs to other countries. This isn't something our industry wants to do. There are not enough people graduating with computer science degrees for the jobs we are creating."
Fearing another draining legislative battle over the issue as in the past, tech leaders are discussing what role to play in the coming year with comprehensive reform expected to take center stage.
Meanwhile, there are several narrower bills from both parties that address some of the needs of the tech community — including a bill that passed the House last week but was stymied by the White House and has little chance in the Senate.


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WASHINGTON — President Obama is letting his jobs council expire, cutting off one source of input from business leaders while unemployment remains stubbornly high.
Obama formed the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in January 2011, when unemployment was about 9 percent. It's now 7.8 percent, though more than 12 million people are out of work.
Obama's executive order establishing the council said it would go out of business Jan. 31, 2013. The White House said Thursday that Obama had no plans to renew its charter.
''The work of the jobs council was very valuable,'' White House spokesman Jay Carney said. ''While the president didn't agree with all of its recommendations, he agreed with many of them and acted on a number of them.''
White House officials said Obama intended for the council to fulfill its mission and then wind down, and that he would seek input about the economy from business leaders in other ways. Among the steps Obama plans to pursue are expedited permits for public works projects, plus programs to boost entrepreneurship and workforce development.
Even before Obama's decision was clear, Republicans seized on the council's likely expiration as evidence the president hadn't spent enough time on trying to create jobs. The Republican National Committee called it part of ''the failed Obama record,'' while the House Republicans' campaign committee, in an online petition, accused Obama of laying off his own jobs council.
Adding to the concern about the job market's vulnerability, the Commerce Department said Wednesday that the US economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.1 percent from October through December of last year, the first quarterly drop since 2009. The Federal Reserve said the economy appears to have ''paused in recent months.''
The council was a successor to an economic advisory board Obama created at the onset of his presidency. The panel was chaired by General Electric chief executive Jeff Immelt and included business leaders and economists. Immelt said progress has been made in putting in place 90 percent of the council's recommendations.
Obama met with the council only a few times. During the last meeting, in February 2012, Obama and the council highlighted an engineering education initiative.
''The president treated his jobs council as more of a nuisance than a vehicle to spur job creation,'' said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.
The council's main product was a report, ''Roadmap to Renewal,'' that was released in January 2012. The council also organized a series of meetings across the country last year with business owners, elected officials, and academics; Obama didn't attend those election-year sessions.
Critics have asserted that the council's primary purpose was to create the appearance of action at a time when the nation was pining for something to rein in soaring joblessness. The administration acted on many of the council's recommendations, including suggestions to streamline permitting and small business loans, increase tourist visas, and boost energy-efficiency.
But the White House was at odds with several council members on tax policies, particularly a proposal to exclude overseas corporate earnings from US taxes. That idea divided even the jobs council, whose membership included labor and Obama's political allies.


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Boundary Scan Description Language (BSDL) is a subset of VHDL that is used to describe how JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) is implemented in a particular device. For a device to be JTAG compliant, it must have an associated BSDL file. These files are often available for download from manufacturers' websites.
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- Use Statements: References external definitions (such as IEEE 1149.1).
- Pin Mapping(s): Maps logical signals in the device to physical pins.
- Scan Port Identification: Defines the pins used on the device to access the JTAG capabilities (TDI, TDO, etc - the Test Access Port).
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GQ Releases Its 'Forbidden' Beyonce Cover [PHOTOS]
When an upcoming cover of GQ featuring Beyonce leaked on Instagram earlier this week, the magazine's legal team sent out a whole slew of take-down letters to websites that posted it.
But apparently GQ got tired of paying its attorneys to play whack-a-mole, because the publication finally decided to just share the cover its own damned self. Which is probably what it should've done in the first place.
Anyway, the sanctioned release features a post-baby Beyonce looking every bit as fierce as one would expect, clad in red leopard print panties and a severely cropped sports tee.
Either this wardrobe choice is promoting her upcoming Super Bowl halftime show, or under-boob is about to be the next big thing. (Please let it be the former. We're confused about the whole side-boob trend already.)
Some have compared this cover to Rihanna's GQ cover back in December, to which we say "bitch, please." Because while Bey's outfit is pretty skimpy, at least she's wearing more than just a strategically-placed arm.
The February issue of GQ spotlights its picks for the 100 Sexiest Women of the Century and will be available for your ogling pleasure on Jan. 15.
In the meantime, here are a couple more photos of the Bootylicious One reportedly taken by famed hipster photographer Terry Richardson.


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The Hawai'i State Department of Health (DOH) STD/AIDS Prevention Branch is pleased to announce that the 9th Annual Suzanne Richmond-Crum Award will be presented to Lenard Allen of Hilo, Hawai'i.
The award will be presented at the World AIDS Day event on O'ahu to be held from 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Church of the Crossroads (1212 University Ave.). Allen is being honored for his tremendous contributions to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services in Hawai'i.
"Mr. Allen has consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty to develop and implement activities to support the HIV community in Hawai'i," said Health Director Loretta Fuddy. "His unwavering commitment to give of himself to individuals and organizations in need makes him a most deserving recipient of the 9th Annual Suzanne Richmond-Crum Award."
Monica Adams M.A., M.B.A., Director of Development for the Bay Clinic Family Health Centers said of Lenard Allen: "His work has profoundly changed the environment for HIV/AIDS care, perceptions, and services in East Hawai'i. There are some people in this world who do tremendous things, who work tirelessly for a cause, and who do it without recognition and fame. Lenard is one of these people."
For 20 years, Allen has been actively involved in HIV client services, care, prevention, community education, advocacy, and fundraising. Allen has worked in HIV/AIDS services at the Big Island AIDS Project, Hawai'i Island HIV/AIDS Foundation, and Bay Clinic, Inc. His considerable efforts have focused on all persons living with HIV and those at risk for acquiring HIV. Allen also founded OUTSPOKEN, which served as a community fundraiser to fill in service gaps for people living with HIV. He developed a free counseling program and phone support for individuals living with HIV. He worked with the Big Island Aloha Patrol for four years as a liaison and advocate between business owners, community, and the County of Hawai'i Judiciary to provide referrals to services, testing, healthcare and education.
Suzanne Richmond-Crum passed away in August 2004 after serving as director of the Hawai'i Seropositivity and Medical Management Program (HSPAMM) of the DOH STD/AIDS Prevention Branch for more than 10 years. The award was established in honor of the competence and compassion she demonstrated in her HIV/AIDS work, and is presented annually to an individual in Hawai'i for their outstanding contribution in providing HIV/AIDS services.
The public is invited to attend the award presentation at the 2012 World AIDS Day program on Saturday, Dec.1, at the Church of the Crossroads, as well as many other activities occurring statewide. For more information on all statewide World AIDS Day events, go to: www.worldaidsdayhawaii.org
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text: Each year Worcester Prep students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade invite their grandparents to visit in their classes with them. Student representatives from each lower school grade treated the grandparents to a special program titled, "What Grandparents Mean to Me". Fourth graders pictured, from left, are Ryley Carey, Sierra Hall and Quinn McColgan.


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European Commission
Brussels, 16 April 2014
Questions and answers on the new European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
What is the EMFF?
The EMFF is the financial instrument that will help deliver the objectives of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and that will support the implementation of the EU Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP).
The EMFF will support the social dimension of the reformed CFP. It will focus on the sustainable development of fisheries and aquaculture as well as support to growth and jobs in coastal communities across the EU.
The EMFF is part of the EU multi-annual financial framework for the 2014-2020 programming period. Its total budget of € 6.5 billion is completed by € 0.9 billion for sustainable fisheries partnership agreements with third countries.
What are the priorities of EMFF?
The EMFF focuses on the long-term objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth over the 2014-2020 period. It will contribute to sustainable and competitive fisheries and aquaculture, to a consistent framework for the Integrated Maritime Policy and to a balanced and inclusive territorial development of fisheries and aquaculture areas. These broad objectives are structured around six priorities within the EMFF:
In addition, the EMFF will include accompanying measures for voluntary payments to Regional Fisheries Management Organisations and technical assistance.
Who will benefit and how?
How is environmental sustainability ensured?
The EMFF includes funding opportunities for the protection of the environment through measures in support of fisheries resources management including the transition to Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY), the introduction of landing obligations, and the adoption of Long Term Management Plans. The EMFF will support, for example:
In addition, the budget for data collection and scientific advice (to increase the number of stocks for which scientific advice is available), and fisheries control (to ensure better compliance) has been substantially increased.
What about support to innovation?
The EMFF also includes measures with a strong focus on innovation in order to promote the development of new products and processes. The aim is to help the fisheries and aquaculture sectors to add value to their products, to reduce the environmental impact of their activities and to reduce production costs. This support is particularly important for the small scale coastal fleet.
Other measures will encourage co-operation between scientists and fishermen, with the aim of achieving more sustainable fishing.
The support for community-led local development in fisheries-dependent areas will also help disseminate innovation measures at local level.
The EMFF will seek to promote new forms of aquaculture with high potential for innovation and growth potential, such as offshore and non-food aquaculture (for example producing algae). Multifunctional aquaculture is an opportunity to diversify the income of aquaculture enterprises through complementary activities, such as angling, tourism, environmental services, direct sale or educational activities.
What about the social dimension?
In line with the Europe 2020 priority of inclusive growth, the EMFF will promote social cohesion and job creation in fisheries dependent communities, in particular through diversification into other maritime sectors. It will also bring reinforced support to the community-led approach to the sustainable development of fisheries areas.
The EMFF will also provide support for many forms of training in particular for unemployed youths and spouses or partners of fishers and fish farmers on activities related to fishing and to their role in the family business (i.e. helping them to acquire new business skills). Finally it will provide aid for business start-ups of young fishermen.
Small-scale coastal fleets are important for employment and often hold together the social fabric of coastal communities. The EMFF will give them priority and privileged access to funding, in particular by applying a higher rate of aid intensity. They will also be able to receive professional advice on business and marketing strategies, for example to start up an activity to generate additional income.
What about the Integrated Maritime Policy?
The EMFF will also support the Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP), which facilitates coordination across borders and across sectors and brings about cost-effective synergies and money savings.
Funding will mainly focus on those initiatives that benefit various sectors across the board but cannot be accomplished by any single sector-based policy or single Member State. These are maritime spatial planning, integrated maritime surveillance and marine knowledge.
How to ensure that the money is correctly spent?
Along with the other European Structural and Investment Funds, the EMFF has a number of novel features which will ensure greater efficiency and effectiveness in the implementation of programmes:
Last but not least, funding under the EMFF is subject to new transparency rules: Member States will have to publish in a single website or a single website portal a list of operations supported under the EMFF along with the amount of EU contribution for each operation. This list will be updated at least every six months. This is particularly important to prevent that beneficiaries involved in illegal fishing activities receive funding.
What about simplifying and cutting red tape?
With the integration of five CFP and IMP financial instruments into a single regulation, all rules and procedures are streamlined and unified into a single set of financial decisions, reporting, monitoring and evaluation procedures.
Under the previous programming period there were no limits to how many times a project could be audited. This possibility could represent a disproportionate administrative burden for beneficiaries. Projects under a certain threshold will be audited only once and bigger projects no more than one time per accounting year.
The rules for implementing the EMFF will be the same as those for the Structural Funds (European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund etc). This will allow more efficient administrative gains for the Member states' administrations.
See also: IP/14/458
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Desargues seems to have made several extended visits to Paris in connection with a lawsuit for the recovery of a huge debt. Despite this loss, the family still owned several large houses in Lyon, a manor house (and its estate) at the nearby village of Vourles, and a small chateau surrounded by the best vineyards in the vicinity. It is thus clear that Desargues had every opportunity of acquiring a good education, could afford to buy what books he chose, and had leisure to indulge in whatever pursuits he might enjoy. In his later years, these seem to have included designing an elaborate spiral staircase, and an ingenious new form of pump, but the most important of Desargues' interests was Geometry. He invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called 'projective' or 'modern' geometry. As a mathematician he was very good indeed: highly original and completely rigorous. He is, however, far from lucid in his mathematical style.
When in Paris, Desargues became part of the mathematical circle surrounding Marin Mersenne (1588 - 1648). This circle included Rene Descartes (1597 -1650), Étienne Pascal (1588 -1651) and his son Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662). It was probably essentially for this limited readership of friends that Desargues prepared his mathematical works, and had them printed. Some of them were later expanded into more publishable form by Abraham Bosse (1602 -1676), who is now best remembered as an engraver, but was also a teacher of perspective.
Desargues wrote on 'practical' subjects such as perspective (1636), the cutting of stones for use in building (1640) and sundials (1640). His writings are, however, dense in content and theoretical in their approach to the subjects concerned. There is none of the wordy and elementary step-by-step explanation which one finds in texts that are truly addressed to artisans.
Desargues' most important work, the one in which he invented his new form of geometry, has the title Rough draft for an essay on the results of taking plane sections of a cone (Brouillon project d'une atteinte aux evenemens des rencontres du Cone avec un Plan). A small number of copies was printed in Paris in 1639. Only one is now known to survive, and until this was rediscovered, in 1951, Desargues' work was known only through a manuscript copy made by Philippe de la Hire (1640 - 1718). The book is short, but very dense. It begins with pencils of lines and ranges of points on a line, considers involutions of six points (Desargues does not use or define a cross ratio), gives a rigorous treatment of cases involving 'infinite' distances, and then moves on to conics, showing that they can be discussed in terms of properties that are invariant under projection. We are given a unified theory of conics.
Desargues' famous 'perspective theorem' - that when two triangles are in perspective the meets of corresponding sides are collinear - was first published in 1648, in a work on perspective by Abraham Bosse.
It is clear that, despite his determination to explain matters in the vernacular, and without direct reference to the theorems or the vocabulary of Ancient mathematicians, Desargues is well aware of the work of ancient geometers, for instance Apollonius and Pappus. His choosing to explain himself differently may perhaps be due to his recognition that his own work was also deeply indebted to the practical tradition, specifically to the study of perspective (which is a form of conical projection). It seems highly likely that it was in fact from his work on perspective and related matters that Desargues' new ideas arose. When projective geometry was reinvented, by the pupils of Gaspard Monge (1746 -1818), the reinvention was from descriptive geometry, a technique that has much in common with perspective.
Article by: J. V. Field, London


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English workshop
Good English skills are considered self evident within the Hacker community (and in many other situations as well), but not everyone is as firm with the language as she/he would like to be. Especially when it comes to spoken English, some might appreciate more practicing.
If anyone is interested in improving his/her English skills, please attend the English workshop!
We plan to simply meet and discuss random topics in English, as well as reading some English literature. Participants with better knowledge of the language will support others or help to explain the texts read if necessary.
Ideas what we might talk about, or what we will read:
- Discuss what we want to discuss ;-)
- Talk about plans going further than a simple workshop (language barrier free-day, language diversity JF)
- Finding literature for the English workshop
- Last year, I held a Git Workshop. It was a basic introduction and we stopped when a discussion about project management and work-flow started. If there is interest, a group discussion about software development work-flow best practices could fit here, too.