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Tajikistan is a predominantly mountainous country in Central Asia, with 93% of its territory composed of mountains. It is divided into plains and low mountains (300-1600 masl), with desert savannoide flora and fauna with gray desert soils, midlands (1600-2800 masl) with mountain woodlands and forests and brown mountain soil, highland zones (2800-4500 masl) with alpine cold desert flora and fauna, with meadow-steppe, steppe, zang, and desert soils, and nival zones (4500 masl) with cryophyte flora with skeletal soils. Although nearly 70% of Tajikistan's territory has not been impacted by economic activity to any significant degree, 10% is however characterized by a high degree of anthropogenic impact resulting from an increase in economic development in recent years, which has led to an increase in erosion and land degradation. Tajikistan is heavily dependent on agriculture, with 60% of the population engaged in this sector. Notably, 25% of the country's territory is covered by Specially Protected Natural Territories (SPNTs) whose development began 1983. The country's flora and fauna make up 1.9% of the world's species. With wild relatives of cultivated plants totaling 1,000 species, in addition to 1,132 endemic species, floral diversity in Tajikistan is relatively rich considering the small size of the country. Of particular importance are plants grown for food that comprise about 300 species, while the gene bank for grain, leguminous and oil crops contains about 3,000 specimens. Medicinal plants are the basis of traditional medicine which is widely used by the population in their daily lives. Additionally, there are 81 species of mammals and 385 species of birds, 2 species of amphibians, 49 species of fish and 12,000 species of invertebrates. A prominent feature of the animal kingdom is the large number of animals endemic to Tajikistan. There are a considerable number of rare and threatened species in the country, with some species threatened with extinction and included in the Red Data Book. The country has 226 rare and threatened plant species and 162 animal species. Ten percent of birds (37 species) are rare or endangered, with falcons and bustards in the most critical situation. However, each year, there are still dozens of them illegally caught and taken out of the country. In the last 50 years, the Turan tiger (Panthera Tigrisvirgata) and Menzbier's marmot (Marmotamenzbieri) have become nationally extinct. Other rare and endangered mammals include the Tajik markhur, Bukhara Red deer, Pamir wild sheep, Persian gazelle, Bukhara wild ram, snow leopard, jungle cat, otter, striped hyena and leopard. Unfortunately, more detailed information is not available. A database on the status of biodiversity and ecosystems does not exist due to the absence of an adequate national monitoring system. However, a database has been developed for the Specially Protected Natural Territories (SPNTs) to serve as a basis for monitoring and a model for database management.
An increase in economic development and activity in the past years is the main cause of changes in biodiversity and loss. Owing to soil degradation, arable land had decreased by 3.2% over the last fifteen years. Today, thanks to changes in the forestry sector and a series of reforestation programmes, illegal cutting in forest ecosystems has been stopped by 95-97%. In the last 15-20 years, the population has increased to up to 8 million people which has increased the demands on biodiversity resources, which in turn has led to an increase in deforestation, grassland degradation, fishing activities, hunting of wild animals, etc. Such activities have been particularly observed in the habitats of valuable wild fruit trees. Further, drastic changes to habitats, direct removal of plants and the persecution of animals in the wild have led to several species being threatened with extinction.
Tajikistan's National Strategy and Action Plan on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity was adopted by a Decree of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on 1 September 2003. The NBSAP focuses on five strategic goals: (1) economic and social evaluation of national biological resources (2) regeneration and conservation of the genetic pool of plants and animals (3) in situ and ex situ biodiversity conservation (4) provision of biological safety for the country (5) sustainable use of biological resources to reduce poverty and improve the quality of human life. Fifteen priorities for biological conservation were identified, including the creation of the national ecological network and the conservation of each of Tajikistan's ecosystems, including through in situ and ex situ conservation, with key actions defined to complement each of these priorities. Tajikistan has recognized the need to update the NBSAP, set national targets in line with the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, address economic mechanisms for enabling implementation and better mainstream the activities of non-governmental organizations and the private sector in actions. An outcome of the workshops and debates conducted on the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, within the context of local and national seminars and conferences, has been the development of national targets and associated indicators. Moreover, activities are currently underway to update the NBSAP to 2020. Regarding implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Republic of Tajikistan ratified the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing by Presidential Decree in September 2013. As part of the Protocol's implementation, 55 jamoats (pilot districts) in the mountainous areas of the country have signed agreements on the conservation of the genetic resources of wild fruit. In order to conserve and rationally use the genetic resources of wild fruit, in situ and ex situ, a collection of mother gardens and nurseries has been created. A method for homological modeling of the climate for the adaptation of agricultural biodiversity genetic resources (primarily forest species) has also been developed. In order to achieve the objectives of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (2011-2020), seminars and surveys have been conducted in all regions of the country. With a view to enabling the development of strategic national goals and objectives, these seminars have been attended by representatives of administrative, civil and private sectors, as well as scientific and public organizations. Such activities have resulted in the development of in situ conservation measures.
National Center for Biodiversity and Biosafety (NBBC) The National Center for Biodiversity and Biosafety (NBBC) was created to coordinate activities aimed at fulfilling the obligations and requirements of the Republic of Tajikistan, in regard to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The NBBC was approved by Government Decree No. 392 (2003). Its main activities include mainstreaming the biodiversity action plan into sectoral action plans, introducing economic mechanisms, creating a data bank on the diversity of flora and fauna, ecosystems and landscapes. Responsibilities of the center also include attracting donors and implementing projects for the conservation of biodiversity, creating a database and monitoring the NBSAP implementation process, developing national reports on the status and use of biodiversity for submission to the CBD Conference of Parties, developing annual reports for internal use, as well as analyzing assessments and examining material on biodiversity, mountain ecosystems, biotechnology, biosafety, etc. The Center developed the Framework Document on Biosafety (2004), National Environmental Action Plan, four National Reports, and is currently preparing the Fifth National Report and updating the NBSAP to 2020. The NBBC maintains contact with the following major participating organizations in order to effectively implement the NBSAP: • Governmental institutions – Governmental Working Group, Ministry for Nature Protection, Tajik Forest Production Enterprise, Ministry of Agriculture, State Land Use Committee, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy and Trade, Ministry of Health Protection • Local Authorities – Regions, Districts, Community representatives • Institutions – Academy of Science (and branch Institutes), universities, schools, Tajik Academy of Agricultural Science • Mass Media – national and local newspapers, national and local TV, national and local radio • National and international environmental initiatives and NGOs
Mainstreaming has proven difficult, but progress has been achieved. Coordination among the different institutions is limited, and the development of sub-legislation and legal mechanisms for regulating implementation has been weak. The lack of a normative legal system for the use of genetic resources is an obstacle to collaboration and implementation of new technologies; its development remains one of the Tajikistan's future work priorities in biodiversity. However, special legislation which calls for the implementation of particular conservation methods for plant and animal species or groups has been approved by the Government of Tajikistan. This relates in particular to the National Strategy and Action Plan on Biodiversity, National Action Plan for Environmental Protection, State Program for the Development of Protected Areas (2005-2015), State Environment Programme (2009-2019), Laws of the Republic of Tajikistan "on Environmental Expertise", "on Public Environmental Education", "on Environmental Audit", "on Collection, Preservation and Rational Use of Plant Genetic Resources", "on Environmental Monitoring", "on Environmental Information", "on Pastures", etc.
At present, there is no single national biodiversity monitoring system. However, a database has been developed for the Specially Protected Natural Territories (SPNTs) to serve as a basis for monitoring and a model for database management. Other projects are implemented individually and are overseen by a special state agency for SPNT management established under the Environmental Commission in 2004. Regarding biosafety, the BCH website (National Biodiversity and Biosafety Center (NCBB) located at http://www.bch.biodiv.tj/) is constantly updated and accessible to all beneficiaries. The Department of Ecology and Emergency Situations and the Environmental Protection Committee, of the Government of Tajikistan, lead activities related to biodiversity policy.


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Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Margaret I. Johnston, Ph.D., and Gary J. Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.,National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, on National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, May 18, 2010
More people today have access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS than ever before. Yet for every person who begins treatment for HIV infection, two to three others become newly infected. Treatment alone will not curtail the HIV/AIDS pandemic. To control and ultimately end this pandemic, we need a powerful array of proven HIV prevention tools that are widely accessible to all who would benefit from them.
Vaccines historically have been the most effective means to prevent and even eradicate infectious diseases. They safely and cost-effectively prevent illness, disability and death. We at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have been working for more than two decades with our colleagues worldwide to develop an HIV vaccine, and this research continues to rank among our top priorities. National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day marks an opportunity to reflect on our progress, renew our commitment to finding an HIV vaccine, and personally thank the scientists, community educators, health care workers, and especially the many study volunteers who have dedicated their time and energy to this important endeavor. Only with the continued commitment of volunteers may we more effectively confront the global scourge of HIV/AIDS and pursue the goal of an HIV vaccine.
We have witnessed significant progress in HIV vaccine research during the past year. Notably, a major clinical trial in Thailand gave us the first indication that an experimental vaccine can protect some humans against HIV infection. With the participation of more than 16,000 volunteers, investigators found the vaccine to be 31 percent effective at preventing HIV infection. Although this level of protection is modest, it gives us hope that a safe and effective HIV vaccine is possible. The priority now is to try to understand how the vaccine induced protection against HIV infection in some individuals, and to build on those results.
The Thai trial demonstrated the power of large-scale clinical trials to advance HIV vaccine development and to answer fundamental scientific questions. Such trials are possible only through strategic partnerships among federal collaborators, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector. NIAID continues to pursue focused clinical HIV vaccine research through such partnerships.
At the same time, we are bolstering our commitment to the basic laboratory research that provides a foundation for future vaccine development. In the past year, scientists at NIAID and elsewhere discovered several new antibodies able to neutralize diverse HIV strains that circulate worldwide. These antibodies disable HIV by latching onto vulnerable sites on the virus. Some of these sites previously were unknown, so their discovery widens the field of targets that a vaccine could exploit. Current and future studies will determine whether scientists can develop HIV vaccines based on protein replicas of these targets, and whether the immune response to these vaccines might protect people from HIV infection. Many other studies also are under way to explore basic questions about HIV and its interaction with the immune system.
As we recognize recent progress in HIV vaccine research and hope for continued advances, we must remember that a vaccine alone will not end the HIV/AIDS pandemic. If an HIV vaccine is developed, it will need to be used in concert with multiple other scientifically proven HIV prevention tools. NIAID continues to support research into an array of investigational HIV prevention methods, including pre-exposure prophylaxis with antiretroviral drugs, microbicides, and expanded HIV testing and treatment with linkage to care.
Dr. Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Johnston is director of the Vaccine Research Program in the Division of AIDS at NIAID. Dr. Nabel is director of the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center at NIAID.


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In other words, it is closed source, but it's free. And since it's gonna be a website it can only be used on this one website.
What would be a good simply license for this? If possible that it's not too long, simple as the MIT license for example.


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Epson Stylus Photo 960Epson includes a Photoshop import filter and a standalone application program to allow for PRINT Image Matching (PIM) compatibility with images made with PIM compliant digital cameras.
This is the Photoshop PRINT Image Matching file import filter. You enable it from Photoshop's FILE menu: This import filter will only display JPEG files that have valid PIM, PIM II or Exif Print info embedded in the image header. You can select one file for import or check the "Import consecutively" option to select more than one image file.
Photoshop does not retain the PIM information separately in the JPEG's header file when you import your PIM image. Instead it converts that information in the file and embeds a color space called EPSON RGB 2001. This profile supports all the PIM color advantages and enhancements. The PIM plug-in works with Photoshop 7.0, 6.0 and Photoshop Elements 2.0, 1.0. It requires the ICC profiles for the Stylus 960 that are installed with the plug-in (Windows) or the printer driver (Macintosh).
Epson also includes their Film Factory program on the CD. This is an easy to use viewing and printing utility that lets you organize your images the same as if they were rolls of film. It has printing options to easily make standard prints, index prints, duplicates, album pages, sticker prints and combo prints. The preview window shows you thumbnails of all of your images and if they are PIM-compliant there is a little PIM icon in the upper right corner across from the file number.
Epson Print CD software lets you design your own custom CD or DVD labels and then print it on most inkjet printable CD/DVD media. Epson Print CD makes it easy to add graphics, photos and custom text effects and then position it anywhere on the disc using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor interface.


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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — For 34 minutes, Missouri shut down West Virginia's prolific 3-point offense.
Then Missouri lost its focus, according to guard Jordan Clarkson.
The Tigers won 80-71, but only after surviving a late 17-5 run by the Mountaineers. The scare gives Missouri (8-0) something to work on as its welcomes 18th-ranked UCLA to Mizzou Arena on Saturday.
"I think we allowed them to get into the paint," coach Frank Haith said. "We gave up some broken plays where we weren't back setting our defense. They had some plays where we bobbled some loose rebounds, and they stuck it in."
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The Tigers also opted to try to score after grabbing offensive rebounds, rather than working the ball to the perimeter to burn time.
West Virginia (6-3) settled for making 42 percent of its shots after entering the game averaging 85.1 points and shooting nearly 50 percent. The team only made eight of 29 shots in the first half.
"We didn't score seemingly for about an hour and a half," West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said. "So I would say we probably shot ourselves in the foot. Or blew our heads off."
Clarkson scored 25 points and guard Jabari Brown added 18 for the Tigers, who shot 53 percent.
Missouri extended its national-best home-court winning streak to 23 games and has won 78 consecutive games at Mizzou Arena against non-conference competition.
"It's tradition," Clarkson said. "We want to keep that going. Just keep protecting the home court. We can't let anybody come in here and do whatever they want to do."
Juwan Staten scored 16 points, while Gary Browne and Terry Henderson added 14 for West Virginia, which fell to 0-3 against power conference teams.
Missouri scored the first nine points and led throughout as West Virginia never established a rhythm until the end of the night. The Mountaineers also averaged 10 3-pointers per game before Thursday, but only converted one of their first 14 attempts until Browne's make with 7:51 remaining. They finished four for 19.
Earnest Ross added 16 points for the Tigers, who have won their first eight games for the first time since the 2006-07 season. Clarkson, Brown and Ross have combined for nearly two-thirds of the Tigers' scoring this season.
Missouri also out-rebounded West Virginia 40-32 after the Mountaineers grabbed 62 boards against Loyola Maryland, their most since 64 in a contest against Radford in 1992. West Virginia had been averaging four more boards per game than its opponents.
"I think this team is really taking our focus on being a better defensive team to heart," Haith said. "We've just got to stay with it."
The Mountaineers used a 9-2 run to pull within 27-20 with 4:36 remaining in the first half, but Missouri countered with an identical run to take a 36-22 halftime lead. After Devin Williams opened the second half with a layup, Missouri then scored the next five points.
West Virginia again narrowed the lead late in the second half, as Staten capped the team's 17-5 run with a layup with 1:45 left to narrow the Mountaineers' deficit to 73-64. After two free throws by the Tigers' Wes Clark, Rémi Dibo drained a 3-pointer from the corner with 1:10 left to make the score 75-67.
But the Mountaineers couldn't get any closer.
Staten (16) and Eron Harris (8) combined for 24 points after only scoring four total in the first half. The duo previously averaged nearly 37 for West Virginia, which has also lost to Virginia Tech and Wisconsin. Coaches picked the team to finish seventh in the 10-team Big 12 prior to the season as the team lost its final seven games last year and finished 13-19.
"I need to realize I have teammates that are very capable, and I need to put my full trust in my teammates," said Harris, who ranks second in the Big 12 with 20.3 points per game. "Not that I don't trust them, but when I'm not getting shots, maybe it's not my day to get shots."
Missouri's new chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, attended the game and was introduced to fans in the first half. He then went into the stands to shake hands and pose for pictures with students. Currently the president of Texas A&M, Loftin will begin his new job as Missouri's leader on Feb. 1.
PHOTOS: This week in college basketball
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Kentucky Bourbon Distillers (KBD) is an Independent Bottler based in Bardstown, Kentucky. While KBD has been in the process of renovating the old Willett Distillery, until recently it had not been doing any distillation. The company's model has centered on sourcing choice barrels from other distilleries for bottling under their many labels. After the first of the year KBD was able to crank up the still at the distillery, and I sure hope to see some of their own distillate coming out soon. Until then…….
One of their more popular products is the Willett Family Reserve line of longer aged bourbons. The subject of this review is the 8 year old version. The source distillery is unknown and the folks from KBD would probably have to take out all of my taste buds one by one (a fate worse than death) if they told me. Here are my thoughts….
Willett Single Barrel Bourbon (8 Year) , Barrel #305, 64.15% abv (128.30 Proof), $50
Color: Deep Mahogany
Nose: Baked banana, smoky caramel, sorghum syrup, vanilla, cocoa, flint and roasted nuts.
Palate: This is brooding whiskey – molasses, toffee, dark chocolate caramels, bitter espresso, and heavily toasted bread. There is a good bit of waxiness as well. In spite of the deep dark flavors, this whiskey does not drink it's proof. I would have guessed something around 100-105 – it hides it very well.
Finish: Huge finish with cocoa, coffee, toffee and more of the wood spices than were present on the palate (clove and cinnamon in spades). There's a nice interplay between bitter and sweet.
Overall: What a fantastic whiskey! This is "end of a great meal" whiskey that could easily substitute for a well balanced dessert. Intense, sweet, bitter, solidly spiced, and interestingly smoky. I loved it from start to finish. At $50 it's certainly not inexpensive, but considering the proof it is a tremendous value. Without hesitation, this can go toe to toe with the big boys from the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection. One note of caution – as mentioned in the opener, KBD sources these barrels. I can only imagine their program focuses in some way on consistency and flavor profile, but it's still a single barrel product. As a result I would expect some variation. Please note that I'll continue tasting some additional barrels and will post my thoughts and updates as I try them. Even considering the potential for variance, I highly recommend you give this one a try.
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To those who criticize Nokia for the rather bland handsets it has outfitted with NFC and put onto the market, the handset maker responds–with some justification–that it has done more than any other phone maker to advance NFC technology.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – Transport for Greater Manchester, which last month launched open-loop payments on its large Metrolink tram network, said Thursday that contactless credit and debit cards and NFC wallets accounted for a combined 170,000 rides during the first four weeks of the service.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – When New York City transit officials announced Tuesday that the 1 millionth ride paid for through their new OMNY open-loop payments service had arrived ahead of schedule, they also proudly noted that 80% of the contactless payments had come from NFC wallets, not physical bank cards.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – As Japan continues to fight what to date has been a losing battle against cash, an announcement by the joint venture behind QR code-based payments service PayPay offers a little bit of encouragement.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – As Apple Pay approaches the fifth anniversary of its launch in the U.S., there is more research showing that most American consumers simply don't see the value of tapping to pay with NFC-based payments services.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Five years ago next month, Transport for London introduced open-loop contactless payments across its transit network, including metro, trams and commuter rail, following an earlier launch on buses. The service now accounts for more than half of all pay-as-you-go journeys and has become a global showcase for the technology.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – While noting to financial analysts late Tuesday that Apple Pay is now approaching 1 billion transactions per month globally and is in 47 markets, perhaps Apple CEO Tim Cook's most significant comments about Apple Pay this week was to again emphasize that Apple wants to enable users to routinely tap to pay for bus, subway and other transit rides with their iPhones and Apple Watches.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – China's mega-mobile wallet providers have continued their rollouts of transit payments in China, with Tencent Holdings announcing Tuesday that two years after launching its first QR-code-based WeChat "Ride Code" service in Guangzhou, total users for its transit payments services has reached 100 million.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Transport for New South Wales, Australia, the authority that oversees transit in and around Sydney, has taken a step toward phasing out its closed-loop contactless Opal fare card, today extending nearly all of the discounts it offers on Opal to users of open-loop Visa- Mastercard- and American Express-branded contactless cards.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight– October will mark the fifth anniversary of the launch of Apple Pay in the U.S., Apple's first country for its groundbreaking NFC payments service.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Following Apple's imminent entry into the credit card business in the U.S. with its planned Apple Card, the tech giant is showing signs it is looking to roll out the branded credit card in a number of other countries, as well.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – It was the fall of 2015, and interest in the Pays wallets was burgeoning. Google and Samsung had each launched their respective payments services in September of 2015 in the U.S., following introduction of Apple Pay a year earlier.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple Pay will offer support for Hong Kong's popular closed-loop contactless transit and retail payments card Octopus later this year, adding a much-needed service to an Apple Wallet that launched three years ago in Hong Kong for credit and debit payments at retail.


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Friday, May 14, 2010
Are Food Allergies Over-Diagnosed?
Q&A with Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD
A recent article in the New York Times ("Doubt is cast on many reports of food allergies") brings important attention to a recently published study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the way food allergies are currently diagnosed and treated.
The article, "Diagnosing and Managing Common Food Allergies," is an analysis of the existing medical literature addressing the prevalence, diagnosis, and management or prevention of the most common food allergies (milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts, fish and shellfish). The authors' primary conclusion is that the evidence for the prevalence and effective management of food allergy is undermined by a lack of uniform diagnostic criteria.
Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD, is a pediatric allergist at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and director of the Food Allergy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, whose research focuses on food allergy and asthma.
Q: Are food allergies over-diagnosed?
A: There is a well-known discrepancy between the percentage of people who believe they have a food allergy (as high as 30% in some surveys) and those who actually do (around 4%). Part of that discrepancy comes from people's confusion about what is a food allergy versus other kinds of food intolerance. The second important point in the Times article, however, is that many people have evidence of an allergic kind of immune response – the presence of detectable allergic (IgE) antibodies – but are not clinically allergic. This often leads to misdiagnosis, confusion and unnecessary food eliminations.
Q: Should parents of children with food allergies or suspected food allergies do anything differently in light of this study?
A: I would not advise people to make any change to their child's diet in light of this study – there is no new information presented in this study, it is a summary analysis of existing data that highlights areas in need of ongoing research. It is true that the presence of detectable IgE by itself is a poor predictor of food allergy, and because of this some people are needlessly avoiding foods on that basis alone; however, because some of these individuals are at risk for potentially severe reactions, testing should be interpreted, along with the history, by a physician who knows the field and can help determine the appropriate timing and setting of introducing foods like this.
Q: Should doctors change the way they treat food allergies?
A: While there are many questions that remain unanswered about the causes and best treatments of food allergies, the situation is not quite as bleak as is implied by the study authors' statement that "food allergy has no universally accepted definition." Universal agreement is rare in medicine generally, but with the combination of history taking, testing and food challenges – sometimes involving both an allergist and a gastroenterologist – a definitive diagnosis can almost always be made and the most effective, evidence-based treatment strategy pursued. Research is definitely needed to expand that evidence base and the treatments that we have to offer, and hopefully the kind of attention brought by the article, as well as ongoing support from the NIH and private groups, will help to spur that effort.
Q: Is there anything else we should know about the study?
A: One subtly of the JAMA report, not taken up in the Times piece, is the additional confusion among patients and generalists that comes from the fact that some types of food allergies are not consistently associated with detectable IgE (e.g., Eosinophilic Esophagitis and other gastrointestinal allergic diseases). Evaluation of patients for these conditions is more complicated by this fact and contributes to the lack of uniform diagnostic criteria. Better diagnostic methods and treatments for these diseases is an area of active research by many groups, including our own.
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### LeBron James could have simply ignored Michael Jordan's suggestion that he would favor Kobe Bryant over LeBron because "five [rings] beats one every time I look at it."
Instead, LeBron offered a reasonable response when asked about that Friday, and give him credit for answering the question honestly.
"Jordan said he would take Kobe over me because five rings are better than one. At the end of the day, rings don't always define someone's career," James said at an NBA All-Star Game news conference in Houston. "If that's the case, then I would sit up here and say I would take Bill Russell over Jordan. But I wouldn't. I wouldn't take Russell over Jordan. Russell has 11 rings, Jordan has six.
"Jud Buechler had multiple rings; Charles Barkley doesn't have one ring. He's not better than Barkley. Patrick Ewing is one of the greatest of all time. Reggie Miller is one of the greatest of all time." Neither Ewing nor Miller won NBA titles, of course.
### Magic Johnson also weighed in Friday, saying on Twitter: "If MJ and LeBron played one-on-one 10 times, MJ would win all 10. MJ is the ultimate 1 on 1 player."
### An associate of Mario Cristobal pointed to a significant salary increase as one reason for his interest in the Alabama offensive line coaching job. Cristobal interviewed Friday.
### UM's Julian Gamble, on the Hurricanes basketball team appearing in the first news block of SportsCenter, something that would have been unfathomable a year ago: "It's cool, but we don't want to let it go to our head. We don't want to be arrogant."
Said Reggie Johnson: "We continue to get better. That's the scary part."
### Gamble on Shane Larkin: "It's incredible to see how much he's grown. He never ceases to amaze. I don't think anyone can guard him one-on-one."
UM (11-0 in the ACC) plays at Clemson at 6 p.m. Sunday on ESPNU.
### A few points made by Todd McShay on ESPN's draft conference call Friday: He said even if Matt Barkley had turned pro after his junior year, "I believe Ryan Tannehill was better. I just don't see the exceptional skill set with Barkley. What does he do that's special?"….
Though Mel Kiper has Miami taking Tennessee receiver Cordarrelle Patterson with the 12th pick, McShay said his Volunteers teammate, Justin Hunter, "is the much better receiver. But Patterson will get drafted earlier because he's such a freak."… McShay has Miami taking Texas safety Kenny Vaccaro at No. 12….
McShay said he believes Alabama guard Chance Warmack "is the best player in the draft. At 8, he's worth the pick."… Two potential second-round options at offensive tackle for Miami should Jake Long depart: FSU's Menelik Watson and North Carolina's Brennan Williams. The Dolphins pick 42nd and 54th in round two.
### Toronto shortstop Jose Reyes told ESPN this week that days before trading him, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria encouraged him to go ahead and buy a home in Miami.


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Brown Reaches Settlement with Charity for Burn Victims Over Deceptive Fundraising Tactics
LOS ANGELES — Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced a settlement with a charity that "betrayed the trust of its donors" by using deceptive fundraising tactics and diverting thousands of dollars from the care of burn victims to pay for meetings in resort communities.
"The trustees of this charity grossly abused their responsibilities as guardians of charitable assets," Brown said. "They betrayed the trust of donors by squandering donations on such things as an expensive Caribbean cruise and trips to posh resorts."
The Association for Firefighters and Paramedics, Inc., based in Santa Ana, misrepresented how and where donations would be spent, and mailed out invoices for pledges that had never been never made. Board members also diverted $33,000 from the charity for out-of-town board meetings in San Diego and Las Vegas, and a Caribbean cruise for board members and their families before a meeting in Florida.
The settlement, filed in the Orange County Superior Court, recovers $100,000 in funds diverted from the charity, plus attorney's fees and investigative costs. For the next four years, the charity's fundraising materials and program expenses will be closely monitored.
In May 2009, Brown's office filed eight lawsuits against 12 charities and 17 fundraising groups that performed telemarketing on their behalf. The lawsuits were filed as part of a nationwide effort to crack down on fraudulent fundraising activities by or on behalf of charities with names that give the false impression that the charities are associated with public safety organizations.
Through its investigation, Brown's office obtained a list of California residents who donated to the Association for Firefighters and Paramedics. Responses to a questionnaire sent to those California residents revealed that telemarketers calling on behalf of the charity told people their donation would be used to help pay for the care of burn victims in their area, along with supporting the fire department and paramedics in their town.
The charity's website reiterated this claim, noting that the charity would seek out cases "within a reasonable radius of your area so that the impact of your donation can be felt close to home."
In fact, the grants were only made to Southern California residents, even though funds were solicited nationwide, and none of the funds were used to support local fire departments or paramedics. Further, donors who asked were told that 80 to 100% of their donation would go to the charity when, in fact, the charity received less than 15 percent. Eighty to ninety percent of the donations received were used to pay for the charity's fundraising expenses.
A copy of the settlement with the Association for Firefighters and Paramedics is attached.


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With Command & Conquer 4 ready for release in March, EA is prepared to take the C&C universe to an entirely new medium. What do these teaser images say about this new frontier?
These images appeared on the Command & Conquer 4 website as a bonus to newsletter subscribers, teasing a new medium for the beloved real-time strategy franchise. Joystiq seems to think the images could be indicative of a comic book, and EA has been loving on the video game comic book business lately, but I agree with Joy that it could be too obvious. Perhaps an animated cartoon of some sort, with these images serving as storyboards? A really difficult coloring book? Decorator napkins?
See, this is where you guys should take over the speculation. It's not my strong suit.
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Cloud & Aerosol Processes: Technical Reference
Flow modeling of the pumped counterflow virtual impactor (PCVI)
This technical reference is intended for users of the pumped counterflow virtual impactor and similar devices (Boulter et al., 2006).
The pumped counterflow virtual impactor (PCVI) is designed to separate large aerosols from an air stream and place them in a separate gas flow. Small aerosols and the original air are exhausted to a pump. So far, the main application has been separating ice crystals from aerosols for laboratory or field measurements. If the flow of added gas is warm and dry then the ice crystals evaporate and the residues are available for analysis (e.g. Cziczo et al., 2003; DeMott et al., 2003; Cziczo et al., 2006; Gallavardin et al., 2008)
Flow modeling of the PCVI was conducted by Mr. Afchine during an extended visit to the Chemical Sciences Division. Software and computer resources were provided by Forschungzentrum Juelich. The PCVI has several characteristics that make the modeling difficult and computer intensive. Flow velocities can be large enough to require compressible flow. The flow geometry is complicated and has large aspect ratios that are a challenge for mesh generation.
Flow modeling was performed in three dimensions using ANSYS CFX version 11. The mesh included approximately 2.5 million nodes. The flow field was calculated by solving the Navier-Stockes equation for a steady state, compressible, and turbulent flow. The Shear Stress Transport (SST) k-w based turbulence model was used, which is more accurate in solving stagnation flow and flow with separation. The flow field was calculated, then particles were injected into the assuming that they have no influence on the flow field because of their low concentration. Particles sizes from 1 to 5 microns were examined. The Schiller-Naumann drag force model was used. Additional forces on the particles are the turbulent dispersion forces in regions where the turbulent viscosity ratio is above the value 5. All particles were lost upon a wall collision with no bounce.
Refer to Boulter et al., 2006 for definitions of the termed input, output, pump and add flows as well as details of the flow geometry and experimental tests of the PCVI.
Results and Interpretation
Flow modeling was performed for flows of 2.7 and 5.13 standard liters per minute (slpm) at a pressure of 400 mbar and temperature of 298 K. The add flows were 1.2 slpm for both cases and the exhaust flows were 3.6 and 6.84 slpm. These flows represent a fairly low-speed and medium-speed cases with Mach numbers at the tip of the inlet of about 0.25 and 0.55, respectively. A variety of cross sections of various flow parameters are appended to this description. Most results were common to both flow cases. View higher resolution images.
- The flow in the counterflow region (where the flow direction is opposite the direction of both the input and output flows) is well behaved in both cases. The stagnation planes are reasonably flat. These features can be seen in the vector flow plots.
- The cut points were sharp in this modeling, although there was no attempt to determine just how quickly the transmission changed through the cut point. One may compare the 3 and 4 μm particle trajectories for the low flow case and the 2 and 3 μm trajectories for the high flow case. In both cases modeled transmission goes from 0 to 100% within a 1μm increment in diameter. As expected, the cut point decreased with increasing flow. The gas phase separation seems to be very good: when streamlines are labeled on the input flow none of them appear in the output stream, meaning the output is composed only of the added gas to a high approximation.
- Originally there was hope that the device could be operated as a dichotomous sampler: the large particles would go into one flow and the small particles could be sampled from the pump flow. The flow modeling makes clear that this is not possible because particle losses are extremely high in the pump flow. This is especially true just below the cut point. For example, comparing the 1, 2, and 3 μm particle trajectories in the low flow case shows that an increasing fraction of the particles are lost with size until just below the cut point essentially all of the particles are lost within the PCVI. As can be seen from these particle trajectories, flow in the exhaust regions of the PCVI has a strong curvature resulting in losses much as in a cyclone. In addition, flow in the exhaust regions is highly turbulent.
- There are losses of large particles by impaction on a step in the inlet diameter. These losses are already significant at the cut point. This is probably one reason that the experimental transmission above the cut point never reached unity (Boulter et al., 2006). For example, look at the trajectories hitting the step for the 3 μm particles in the high flow case.
- The modeling supports the speculation in Boulter et al. (their Figure 3) that unexpectedly large cut points for high-pressure operation may be due to large particles not being fully accelerated in the input nozzle. This may be seen by comparing the velocity scales for 1, 3 and 5 μm particles. The 5 μm particles are only being accelerated to about 70% of the velocity of the 1 μm particles.
- There is recirculation in the output flow induced by diameter changes in the output flow, even though those changes are beveled at about 45 degrees. This can be seen in both particle trajectories and gas streamlines. A few particles almost get back to the stagnation region.
- Particles just larger than the cut point are strongly focused into a small portion of the output flow, then are steered by the recirculating flows in the output. This steering seems to be stronger for the higher flow case. The recirculation zones mentioned above are not stable with time. The flow model results may be thought of as a snapshot in time. The result will be that on a cross-section through the output flow the spatial distribution of transmitted particles will be highly non-uniform and the spots of high concentration will move with time. A mixing region downstream of the outlet is essential for consistent results. In our laboratory work, downstream mixing was difficult to achieve for pressures below about 100 mbar.
- An interesting phenomenon is that as the "add" flow splits into going to the output and pump flows there is a high degree of spatial coherence in the flow. Along this particular viewing plane, all of the output streamlines come from the upper half of the add flow tubes.
- Listings of the full set of images for low flow results and high flow results are available.
Possible improvements
The modeling here suggests some improvements on the PCVI design:
- better shaping of the step-down of the inlet diameter to minimize impaction losses
- smoother transitions in the outlet to minimize recirculation.
On the other hand, the losses of particles in the pump line are so large that it seems that minor design changes are unlikely to improve particle transmission enough to allow quantitative sampling of particles smaller than the cut point in the pump flow.
Other modeling
This modeling is not complete. Some important effects that need to be investigated are near-sonic flows, the sharpness of the cut point, and the effects of misalignment from machining tolerances. Some of these have been modeled by Mikhail Pekour, Gourihar Kulkami, and Daniel Cziczo at Pacific Northwest Laboratory.
Another topic for future modeling is investigating the details of how the add flow is inserted in order to try to minimize the cut point. The existing design has outstanding rejection of particles smaller than the cut point, but it would be desirable to reduce the cut point. Could the length of the counterflow region be reduced (yielding a smaller cut point) without allowing transmission of a few smaller particles?
Boulter, J. E., D. J. Cziczo, A. M. Middlebrook, D. S. Thomson, and D. M. Murphy, Design and performance of a pumped counterflow virtual impactor, Aerosol Sci. Technol., 40, 969-976, 2006.
Cziczo, D. J., P. J. DeMott, C. Brock, P. K. Hudson, B. Jesse, S. M. Kreidenweis, A. J. Prenni, J. Schreiner, D. S. Thomson, and D. M. Murphy, A method for single particle mass spectrometry of ice nuclei, Aerosol Sci. Technol., 37, 460-470, 2003.
Cziczo, D. J., D. S. Thomson, T. L. Thompson, P. J. DeMott, and D. M. Murphy, Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry (PALMS) studies of ice nuclei and other low number density particles, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 258, 21-29, 2006.
Gallavardin, S. J., K. D. Froyd, U. Lohmann, O. Moehler, D. M. Murphy, and D. J. Cziczo, Single particle laser mass spectrometry applied to differential ice nucleation experiments at the AIDA chamber, Aerosol Sci. Technol., 42, 773-791, 2008.
DeMott, P. J., D. J. Cziczo, A. J. Prenni, D. M. Murphy, S. M. Kreidenweis, D. S. Thomson, and R. Borys, Measurements of the concentration and composition of nuclei for cirrus formation, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 100, 14655-14660, 2003.


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Who doesn't love a Teddy Bear? These cute faces are all about fun. Make them for your little ones and hear them squeal with delight.
- 1 cup self-raising flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tbs white sugar
- 1 egg (lightly beaten)
- 1/2 cup milk
- butter
- Cottee's Ice Magic
- sultanas
1In a bowl, sift the flour and salt. Add the sugar. Stir to combine.
2Whisk the egg in, then slowly whisk in the milk, adding a little at a time until you have a smooth batter.
3Heat a frying pan over medium heat and add a little butter. Drop 2 tablespoon-size drops of batter into the pan for the ears. Add a 1/3-cup measure for the face and a 1/2-cup measure for the muzzle. Flip when bubbles rise to the surface and cook the other side.
4When cooked arrange pancakes into the face shape and drizzle with Ice Magic to make the ear accents and the nose. Place the currants or sultanas for eyes.
- If you are a good freehand pourer you won't need to measure these pancakes into the pan.
- For chocolate bear pancakes, add 2 tbsp of sifted cocoa to the batter, and then use white chocolate to draw on the bear's face.
- Brush a little butter on the pancakes before decorating if you prefer.
- This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, Australia's best recipe finder.


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- Julia10/1/10, 4:08 PM
The doll will be priced at $50.ReplyDelete
"*Limit one doll per member while supplies last. Click here on 10/6/10 at 9AM PT for your opportunity to purchase Holiday Hostess™ Collection Thanksgiving Feast™ Barbie® Doll in the online shop. Retail price $50.00 plus $7.95 shipping and processing."
It really messes up with me the fact that BC does not ship worlwide... =(ReplyDelete
- Marina10/1/10, 4:34 PM
She's $50.00 + 7.95 shipping, which makes me wonder if she is actually a Silkstone doll. That seems rather reasonable for a dressed Silkie w/ accessories.ReplyDelete
I think I'll pass on this one. The only things my girls make for dinner are reservations lol
@Marina: It wasn't that long ago that we thought $50 for a Silkie was expensive. Now we think it's reasonable!ReplyDelete
I guess you are not a member. That really sucks big time. I wonder if you can get someone who is a member to buy one for you and ship it. If I wasn't buying one for myself I'd do it for you. Do you collect Silkstones?
- Carine10/1/10, 8:13 PM
I so want this doll, but I've never been able to get a club doll due to everything being should out by the time I get home.ReplyDelete
I like that she is reasonably price comparing to new Silkstone these days.
- Anonymous10/2/10, 12:34 AM
I do not think this is a Silkstone doll. As I recall it was mentioned in one of the chats awhile back or it might also have been in a thread responding to a sneak for the doll. I'll see if I can find out for sure.ReplyDelete
Now that it's confirmed that this is NOT Silkstone, I wonder how many will accidentally buy her thinking that she is. She looks like a Silkstone.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/2/10, 4:56 PM
Honestly, I thought she was a silkie too. If we use our BFC quarterly reward, it's only $30, which is more reasonable.ReplyDelete
Hi Terri, nop, I still don't own any Silkstone doll... it has been crossing my mind from time to time though! But I so wish BC would ship worlwide, and would accept international memberships... I bet I would buy things from there very often (I do visit their shop now and then, just as a torture of course *lol*)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/3/10, 8:42 PM
Super cuteReplyDelete
What a COOL THANKSGIVING TREAT!!!!ReplyDelete


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Whether to save the environment or their wallet, many of today's consumers look to the Energy Star label as the authority on energy-efficient home products.
But the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency, which manage Energy Star, received a wake-up call after a DOE audit found that the department needs to better track whether appliances labeled Energy Star by manufacturers actually meet the requirements. The New York Times obtained a copy of the audit and reported:
While the Energy Department requires manufacturers of windows and L.E.D. and fluorescent lighting to have independent laboratories evaluate their products, the report said, companies that make refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, water heaters and room air-conditioners, which consume far more energy, can certify those appliances themselves.
Locally, WCCO spoke to resident appliance expert/star sales associate Angela Warner, who confirmed that Energy Star plays a significant role in our customers' choices.
WCCO also interviewed nonprofit group Fresh Energy's Michael Noble, who called the report a wake-up call:
Noble said that "cheating" to get the Energy Star label is not widespread. And he is encouraged that this will lead to better standards by the federal government.
So that's a good thing, right? Both the DOE and the EPA following the audit committed in a memorandum to independent certification of Energy Star appliances.
More encouraging is that the memo also called for a "super star" program within Energy Star to rank the top 5% of products by efficiency, according to the New York Times article.
But why wait for the another program? The nonprofit Consortium for Energy Efficiency, made up of a group of efficiency program administrators from across the U.S. and Canada, already established a list of Super Efficient Home Appliances, ranked into tiers based on the percentage by which the unit exceeds federal energy efficiency standards. Take refrigerators, for example:
- Tier 1 = 20% more efficient than federal standards
- Tier 2 = 25% more efficient than federal standards
- Tier 3 = 30% more efficient (the most-efficient CEE-ranked appliances)
Along with fridges, CEE ranks room air conditioners, clothes washers and dishwashers.
According to the CEE website, the SEHA initiative complements Energy Star and seeks to encourage further efficiency improvements by manufacturers. The tiers are designed to "stimulate manufacturer and consumer interest" in the highest-efficiency products. Because where there is consumer demand, we know manufacturers' supply will follow.
Hat tip: Mike Williams, executive director of Minnesota Greenstar, a green building standard and green certification program of which Warners' Stellian is a supporter.
Mike noted yesterday that Minnesota Greenstar requires Energy Star-rated appliances at minimum; "More points for Super Efficient appliances!"


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Friday, March 24th 2017, 7:34pm
QuotedRequests for proposals to industry regarding designs to utilize the recently approved 7.92x45 intermediate cartridge received a number of responses. In addition to a proposal from the Gustloff-Werke to convert and adapt the Heer's Selbstlade Gewehr G5 to fire the new cartridge three new designs were submitted for evaluation.
Industriewerke Karlsruhe Karabiner 04
Derived from the G5 design and sharing its action. Semi-automatic only.
Weight: 4.14 kg
Length: 1,005 mm, 1,205 mm
Barrel length: 520 mm
Cartridge: 7.92x45mm
Action: Gas-operated, semi-automatic
Rate of fire: 25 rounds/min (practical)
Muzzle velocity: 760 m/s
Effective firing range: 650 metres
Maximum firing range: 1,200 metres
Feed system: Clip-fed, staggered-column, 10 or 20-round detachable box magazine
Sights: Open iron sights graduated from 100 to 900 m
Walther-Werke Maschinenkarabiner 05
A new design using a conventional tilting bolt action; capable of both semi-automatic and automatic fire.
Weight: 4.6 kg (unloaded with magazine)/ 5.13 kg (loaded)
Length: 940 mm
Barrel length: 420 mm
Cartridge: 7.92x45mm
Action: Gas-operated, tilting bolt, full auto or semi-auto
Rate of fire: 550–600 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity: 760 m/s
Effective firing range: 300 metres (automatic) 600 metres (semi-automatic)
Feed system: 20 or 30-round detachable box magazine
Sights: Adjustable sights, rear: V-notch; front: hooded post
Mauser-Werke Maschinenkarabiner 06
A new design, incorporating a novel action. Capable of selective fire – single-shot semi-automatic, three-round burst, or full automatic.
Weight: 4 kg (with empty magazine)
Length: 940 mm
Barrel length: 419 mm
Cartridge: 7.92x45mm
Action: Roller-delayed blowback
Rate of fire: 350–450 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity: 760 m/s
Effective firing range: 300-450 metres
Maximum firing range: 800 metres
Feed system: 30-round detachable box magazine
Sights: Rear: V-notch; front: hooded post
Saturday, March 25th 2017, 3:15am
Saturday, March 25th 2017, 7:05am
For a moment I thought these were assault rifles until I saw the ammo and then went derp.
Ugly Aircraft, Inc
Saturday, March 25th 2017, 10:33am
Ex chaos ordo
Saturday, March 25th 2017, 11:54am
QuotedThe MV on the last two rifles is probably a bit high; I'd expect it to be more in the 680 m/s to 710 m/s range.
Saturday, March 25th 2017, 5:04pm
QuotedThe MV on the last two rifles is probably a bit high; I'd expect it to be more in the 680 m/s to 710 m/s range.
I'm not the firearms expert so I will ask - if the cartridge being fired is the same why would the muzzle velocity be different? Could it possibly be a function of barrel length?
Mr. Valentines Day
Saturday, March 25th 2017, 7:38pm
QuotedThe pictures are somewhat tricksy, since they show weapons chambered in 7.92x33 Kurz. The 7.92x45 round would increase the width of the magazines and the visual length of the weapon...
Saturday, March 25th 2017, 8:57pm
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Using iPod as a drive
- Connect iPod to your computer.
- Open iTunes if it doesn't automatically open.
- Select the iPod icon in the Source pane.
- Click the Summary tab.
- Select "Enable disk use" or "Manually manage music and videos." Either one will allow you to use iPod as a drive. If you select "Manually manage music and videos," iTunes won't automatically update iPod with the iTunes library. If you want iTunes to automatically update your iPod, select "Enable disk use" instead.
- The iPod disk icon appears on the desktop and in Finder windows, and in My Computer/Computer in Windows. Double-click the icon and drag files to or from iPod's window to copy them.
- Make sure to eject iPod before disconnecting it from your computer. Tip: The iPod display will say "Do Not Disconnect" when disk use is enabled (iPod shuffle's status light will continue to blink orange until after it is ejected). These are reminders for you to eject iPod first.
Copying songs from your iPod to your computer
The iTunes library on your computer holds all the media (music, videos, podcasts, etc.) you've encoded from your CD collection or purchased from the iTunes Store. With default settings, iTunes automatically copies the media in your library to your iPod. When you use your iPod as a hard disk, you can't see the media iTunes copies to your iPod in the Finder or My Computer. This is normal. Using the Finder or My Computer, you can't copy these media files from your iPod back to iTunes or to any other computer. The synchronization between your iPod and your computer is one way: from iTunes to iPod. The exception is the Transfer Purchases feature, which allows you to restore purchased iTunes content to your computer from your iPod.
If you've erased the iTunes library on your computer, there's no way to use the Finder or My Computer/Computer to copy the media from your iPod to reconstitute the library on your computer. One solution is to encode the songs from your CD collection again, then sync your new library with iPod. For content purchased from the iTunes Store, you may be able to use iTunes in the Cloud to download it again. See this article for more information about the availability of that feature.
Ideally, you should have a backup of your iTunes and iTunes Media folders to restore your playlists, as well as your purchased and non-purchased content.
So what if you have some songs on one computer and you want to—legally—copy them to another? Can you use iPod's hard disk for that? That's one of several options discussed in iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer, or you can follow How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer.
If you plan to connect iPod to another computer, make sure not to sync it with the iTunes library on the other computer. This will only happen if you selected the Enable Disk Use option instead of Manually Manage Music and Videos.
Note: If you take your iPod shuffle (or an iPod you selected Enable Disk Use for) to another computer, you will need to eject the iPod from My Computer/Computer or a Finder window since it will not appear in iTunes.
Right-click (or Control-click on Mac) on the iPod and choose Eject from the shortcut menu.
If you use your iPod as a disk with a Windows PC, keep in mind that the FAT32 file system can only accommodate files that are smaller than 4 gigabytes. No matter how much free space there is on your iPod, you can't copy files that are larger than that.


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Anti-polio campaign launched in eastern zone
Anti-polio campaign launched in eastern zone
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): No positive case of polio has been detected over the past two years in Nangarhar but the risk has increased as people frequently travel through the province to Pakistan.
Public health officials expressed the views during the launch of an anti-polio campaign in the eastern zone on Monday. They said 9,000 children were still deprived of polio drops in Nangarhar province.
Public Health Director Dr. Najibullah Kamawal said 700,000 children in Nangarhar and 1.2 million in all four eastern provinces would be administered polio drops during the campaign.
He said polio cases had been found in Nangarhar and children left out of the campaign were still suffering from the crippling disease.
Frequent movements of people through Nangarhar to Pakistan is an issue that has raised concerns about the prevalence of polio virus in the province, according to the official.
Although no case had been registered over the past two years, there were concerns children could contract the virus, if lefy out of the vaccination campaign, Kamawal said.
He added 9,000 children on four districts of the province were still deprived of the polio drops.
Due to security threats, the drived could not be implemented in the Pangaz area of Achin, Oghaz and Papin areas of Haska Mina, Maman Dara area of Achin and Dwa Khuli area of Nazian.
Meanwhile, Information and Culture Director Awrang Samimdad said it was the responsibility of media to present public awareness programmes about the benefits of the anti-polio vaccine. He also called on parents to vaccinate their children.
Tor Payki, a women affairs department worker, also asked mothers to ensure their children administered polio vaccines.
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Letter from Our Southern Editor
Bill Bailey Comes HomeBy John Jeremiah Sullivan
Five years ago GQ assigned me to write about Axl Rose, who was mounting a "final comeback" with his Chinese Democracy, release of which had already been postponed by more than a decade. The album title was meant as a punch line. Q: When will Guns N' Roses come out with something new? A: When there's democracy in China. That stage in the singer's career turned out to be neither a comeback (few people liked the record, and nobody played it much) nor final—a minute ago I ran his name through Google News and found he's hard at work being Axl, showing up hours late to shows, getting pelted with bottles, making bizarre requests on tour riders (black napkins, Grolsch beer, honey in "bear-shaped tubes").
The story was, by turns, fun and frustrating to report. I followed the band around Europe for a while, feeding cigarettes to the band members' model girlfriends and failing to secure face time with "Ax." His manager back then was a real specimen. Before one show, in Spain, I sat at a coffee table with this person, struggling to explain how it might help justify the seven thousand words we were about to expend on the band if the front man would speak to me for a few seconds. I think at one point I actually said, "Give me thirty seconds." Axl had by then become, as he remains, sealed off from the press to an almost Michael Jackson level. The manager kept pausing to answer cellphone calls from Elton John. "Well, that's because they don't know Tea for the Tillerman," he said into the phone at one point, referring to the classic Cat Stevens record. What were he and Sir Elton talking about? I still wonder sometimes. He told me that, if we would agree to put Axl on the cover, "maybe we could talk about an interview." I couldn't figure out how to say, in any non-offensive way, that GQ covers are typically reserved for extremely conventionally good-looking people in the midst of a career peak, such as Axl once was but hadn't been in a very long time. I let it drop. Axl broke with the manager soon thereafter, passive-aggressively blaming him in an "Open Letter to Fans" for the failure of Chinese Democracy. Thinking back, I feel sympathy with the manager. What I read as superciliousness was probably professional trauma. He was the devil's own PR man.
The most memorable trip I made in connection with Axl was to Lafayette, Indiana, where he grew up. I drove there hoping to track down his oldest childhood friend, a man named Dana, who'd never been interviewed. Dana turned out not surprisingly to be a very reclusive person, and although he did eventually meet with me, it took several days to coax him out. I spent them inventing little research projects. I visited the public library and found old yearbook pictures of Axl. I photographed the church where he sang in the choir. And lastly, on the morning of the day when Dana finally called me back, I went to the local police station. Did they have any records on Axl? No, they didn't think so. Really? That seemed impossible. Would they mind checking under his many Indiana names? William Bruce Rose Jr.? William Bruce Bailey? Bill Bailey? W. Rose? A friendly lady officer agreed to help me out. Read More


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Trying to run PTS 3.8.0 revealed a number of problems (inability to load tests list, inability to compile certain tests).
Also, the root documentation link:
has nothing for 3.8.0. Documentation link in the top menu leads to quick start guide, which is out-of-date as well.
'login' command to global site is simply missing, with no explanation of how to perform that login.
Mailing list archives stop on November 2010, so I can't search for possible problems solutions in there, as well.
Taking all the above together, I conclude it was too early to announce 3.8.0, since there are no actual documentation files, no means to debug/trace its problem via command line parameters. I wasted several hours on debugging instead of just using the suite, as planned.
Is there regular means to access older stable PTS versions, say 2.6.0, beyond trying to find its branch in git repository?
Update: Thanks heavens, I just used the link
Which still leaves all the questions for 3.8.0 open.


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Toro 50" TimeCutter® MX5025 (74776)
50" TimeCutter® MX5025 (74776)
Featuring Smart Speed® Control System
The TimeCutter MX5025 zero turn lawn mower is powered by 23 hp Kawasaki® V-Twin 726cc engine. Featuring a 50" 10-gauge fabricated steel mowing system with convenient washout port. With great features like our exclusive Smart Speed® control system it allows you to choose from 3 speeds giving you greater control when trimming, towing attachments and mowing.
- 23 hp Kawasaki® V-Twin 726cc
- Wide 50" fabricated, 10-gauge steel, cutting deck with bull-nose bumper to handle tough conditions
- Smart Speed® control system lets you choose from 3 ground speeds for optimal performance - trim, tow or mow.
- Automatic Parking Brake - making operation simple
- Heavy Duty Rear Engine Guard: This heavy duty steel guard protects the engine from branches and debris as you nimbly maneuver around your lawn.
- 3-Gallon (11.4 Liter) Fuel Capacity: All TimeCutter riding mowers feature a large 3-gallon (11.4 Liter) fuel tank for more mowing with fewer fill-ups. Knowing when to fill up is simple thanks to the translucent tank, which also helps to prevent overfilling.
- Fabricated Deck: Welded together from plates of 10-gauge steel and a bull-nose bumper leading the way, this deck can handle tough conditions. The lower the guage the thicker the steel.
- Washout Ports: Deck washout ports create a pressure washer under your deck providing quick cleaning, maintaining optimum airflow for optimum cutting performance.
- Heavy-Duty 10-Gauge Frame: The heavy-duty 10-gauge frame provides increased strength, durability and reliable performance. The lower the gauge the thicker the steel.
- Hitch Kit Standard: Hitch kit comes standard on all TimeCutter models. It's easy to increase the versatility of your zero turn mower by attaching a dump cart, de-thatcher, fertilizer spreader or other Brinly-Hardy attachments. (Attachments sold separately.)
- Smart Speed® Control - Trim, Tow, Mow: Toro's Smart Speed® control system lets you choose from three ground speed ranges for optimal performance. Use low TRIM range to trim closer for maximum time savings, choose medium TOW range for towing attachments, or select high MOW range to mow large open areas and finish quickly.
- 18" Thickly Padded Premium Seat: Premium, thickly padded 18" extra-tall seat provides ample back support for a smooth, comfortable ride.
- Automatic Parking Brake: Automatically engaged when the control arms are moved outward. Simplifies operation by eliminating a separate parking brake.
- 3-Year Limited Warranty - No Hour Limitations: Product is warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for three years without an hour limitation. See owner's manual for complete warranty details.
- Engine: 23 hp* Kawasaki® V-Twin 726cc
- Fuel Capacity: 3 gallons /11.4 L
- Cutting Width: 50" /127 cm - 10 ga. 3 blades
- Blade Tip Speed: 18,330 ft/min
- Cup Holder: Standard
- Engine Horsepower: 23 hp
- Engine Displacement: 726 cc
- Ground Speed: Mow(F/R) 7 mph/3 mph, Tow(F/R) 5.5 mph/2.4 mph, Trim (F/R) 4 mph/1.7 mph
- Height: 39.1" / 99.3 cm
- Height of Cut: 1.5" / 3.8 cm - 4.5" / 11.4 cm
- Length: 72.9" / 185.1 cm
- Seat: 18" / 45.7 cm Thickly Padded Premium
- Tires: 13" x 5" (33 cm x 12.7 cm) Front, 20" x 10" (50.8 cm x 25.4 cm) Rear
- Tool Box: Standard
- Transmission: ZT-2200 Hydros
- Washout Port: Standard
- Warranty: 3-Year Unlimited Hours**
- Width: 53.5" / 135.8 cm - Storage Dimensions (W x L x H) 53.5" x 72.9" x 39.1" (135.8 cm x 185.1 cm x 99.3 cm)
- Brinly-Hardy Attachments: Standard hitch pulls a variety of premium Brinly-Hardy attachments, such as a cart, lawn sweeper, dethatcher, aerator and sprayer. See your local Toro dealer for details.
- Brinly-Hardy Direct Mount Attachments: Mount these premium Brinly-Hardy spreader and sprayer attachments directly to your TimeCutter for easy use. See your local Toro dealer for details. (Mount Kit part #131-3966 required.)
- Cargo Carrier: The cargo carrier is perfect for homeowners that need hauling capabilities for mulch, soil, garden tools and other items for working the yard. No "jack knifing" and it's easy to store. Model 79040 - Cargo Carrier. You'll also need weight kit - model 131-7658 and mounting kit - model 131-3966.
- Twin Bagger: Pick up lawn clippings, leaves, and debris quickly with our Twin Bagger. Our twin baggers have a 6.5 bushel (8 cubic feet) capacity.
- 50" (127 cm) Recycler® Mulch Kit: Want a beautiful clipping-free lawn? Add the Toro Recycler mulching kit and create your own natural fertilizer. This patented system cuts grass clippings 6-8 times turning them into a fine nutrient-rich mulch to feed your lawn all season. The secret lies in the unique 'kickers' and baffles that direct clippings back into the blades to be re-cut before being released into your lawn.
- Sunshade: Keep cool and dry while you mow. The Toro sunshade increases operator comfort by shielding you from the elements. (Model Number - 79011)
NOTES:*The gross horsepower of these engines was laboratory rated by the engine manufacturer in accordance with SAE J1940. As configured to meet safety, emission and operating requirements, the actual engine horsepower on these mowers will be significantly lower.
- Engine Manufacturer
- Kawasaki®
- Engine Type
- 23 hp Kawasaki® V-Twin
- Displacement
- 726 cc
- Transmission
- ZT-2200 Hydros
- Wheel Size
- Front: 13 in. x 5 in. (33 cm x 12.7 cm); Rear: 20 in. x 10 in. (50.8 cm x 25.4 cm)
- Fuel Capacity
- 3 gal. (11.4 L)
- Deck Size
- 50 in. /127 cm)


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Manufacturing processes
There are over 100 SKF factories located in 30 countries around the world. Our direct ownership and management of these facilities means we have the absolute responsibility as well as the direct power to minimise their environmental impacts. That is why we deployed the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, and why we constantly strive to invest in our processes and evolve our behaviours to achieve a constant improvement in our manufacturing environmental performance, above and beyond our legal obligations.
-5%CO2 emissionsCO2 target• Reduce the total annual energy use of the SKF Group by 5 % (scope 1 and 2) below the 2006 level by 2016.
More CO2 targets here.
-50%VOC emissionsChemical use50% absolute reduction in Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from solvent use by 2016 (extended from 2012), compared to 2007's level
80%recycling rate for grinding swarfWaste recyclingat least 80% recycling rate for grinding swarf (a common waste product) from SKF's manufacturing operations.
waterWater use reductionWater use reduction targetsat sites located in areas of water scarcity
Focus areas:
Environmental Management System
a global ISO 14001 certification covering all manufacturing sites, technical and engineering centres and logistics locations
Material use
to continually reduce our demand for raw material
Energy and CO2
reducing energy and carbon intensity of SKF operations
Chemical use and REACH
reducing the use of harmful chemicals in the production and ensuring REACH compliance
Grinding swarf recycling
increasing recycling rate for grinding swarf, a common waste product form SKF manufacturing
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Honey Bun Make Life By Sweetwater sku #5420 HB
Jelly Roll Make Life sku #5420 JR
1 yard Light Multi background sku #5421 21
4 yards Ivory Floral Backing sku#5420-16
2 yards Grass Dots Border and Binding sku# 5423-12
You will need atleast:
16 jelly roll strips (2.5 inch strips) -JR
16 honeybun strips (1.5 inch strips) -HB
Cut (16) 1.5 inch strips of background fabric -B
create groups of 1JR strip, 1 HB strip and one B strip as shown.
I divided mine by color, however, it could be done scrappy.
Here is the lay-out
HB strip, B strip and then JR strip.
Sew the HB strip to the 1.5 inch B strip
press open.
Next add the Jelly roll strip, sew and press.
Repeat this 15 more times.
Take the pieced strips and subcut them to 4.5 inch segments.
Arrange the 4.5 inch squares into a nine patch.
Carefully place the squares so that you are consistent as to which strip is "up" or turned to the right, always a HB strip up? or JR?
sew your blocks together, being mindful of your strip placement.
the result is 16 ziggy blocks.
sew them together in a 4 block X 4 block arrangement.
the top center should measure 49.5″ X 49.5″
Cut (2) green border strips 8.5 inches X 49.5 inches (or your top measurement) and add borders to top and bottom of quilt only.
Quilt as desired….overall meader, a flower or even a double bubble design.
Bind and fini!
Lap size quilt 49″ X 65″
I hope this has inspired you to create today!
If you'd like to see more inspirational projects and daily life of a quilter, stop by my website spunsugarquilts.com


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Makes 6 servings
- 1 2 1/2-pound butternut squash, peeled, seeded, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 5 cups)
- 1 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, unpeeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 bunch beets (about 1 1/2 pounds), trimmed but not peeled, scrubbed, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 medium-size red onion, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 2 cups)
- 1 large turnip, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 1 cup)
- 1 head of garlic, cloves separated, peeled
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
Preheat oven to 425°F. Oil 2 large rimmed baking sheets. Combine all ingredients in very large bowl; toss with oil to coat. Divide vegetables between prepared baking sheets; spread evenly. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper. Roast vegetables until tender and golden brown, stirring occasionally, about 1 hour 15 minutes. (Can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature. Rewarm in 350°F oven 15 minutes.)


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The People v. the Pipeline: Time to Join In
Editor's Note: This letter comes to you from some of the leading figures of the climate justice movement—including YES! Magazine contributing editor Bill McKibben and board member Danny Glover, as well as Maude Barlow, Wendell Berry, Tom Goldtooth, James Hansen, Wes Jackson, Naomi Klein, George Poitras, David Suzuki, and Gus Speth.
But they want to expand the ranks of leadership to include everyone who cares about the stability of our planet's climate. I can't think of anyone that shouldn't include. Read on for their suggestion of how to get personally involved in the one of the most important climate struggles happening in North America.
—Brooke Jarvis
Dear Friends,
This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age—it's serious stuff.
The short version is we want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested.
The full version goes like this:
As you know, the planet is steadily warming: 2010 was the warmest year on record, and we've seen the resulting chaos in almost every corner of the earth.
-James Hansen
And as you also know, our democracy is increasingly controlled by special interests interested only in their short-term profit.
These two trends collide this summer in Washington, where the State Department and the White House have to decide whether to grant a certificate of 'national interest' to some of the biggest fossil fuel players on earth. These corporations want to build the so-called Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada's tar sands to Texas refineries.
To call this project a horror is serious understatement. The tar sands have wrecked huge parts of Alberta, disrupting ways of life in indigenous communities—First Nations communities in Canada, and tribes along the pipeline route in the U.S. have demanded the destruction cease. The pipeline crosses crucial areas like the Ogallala Aquifer where a spill would be disastrous—and though the pipeline companies insist they are using "state of the art" technologies that should leak only once every 7 years, the precursor pipeline and its pumping stations have leaked a dozen times in the past year. These local impacts alone would be cause enough to block such a plan. But the Keystone Pipeline would also be a fifteen hundred mile fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent, a way to make it easier and faster to trigger the final overheating of our planet, the one place to which we are all indigenous.
How much carbon lies in the recoverable tar sands of Alberta? A recent calculation from some of our foremost scientists puts the figure at about 200 parts per million. Even with the new pipeline they won't be able to burn that much overnight—but each development like this makes it easier to get more oil out. As the climatologist Jim Hansen (one of the signatories to this letter) explained, if we have any chance of getting back to a stable climate "the principal requirement is that coal emissions must be phased out by 2030 and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands, must be left in the ground." In other words, he added, "if the tar sands are thrown into the mix it is essentially game over." The Keystone pipeline is an essential part of the game. "Unless we get increased market access, like with Keystone XL, we're going to be stuck," said Ralph Glass, an economist and vice-president at AJM Petroleum Consultants in Calgary, told a Canadian newspaper last week.
Given all that, you'd suspect that there's no way the Obama administration would ever permit this pipeline. But in the last few months the president has signed pieces of paper opening much of Alaska to oil drilling, and permitting coal-mining on federal land in Wyoming that will produce as much CO2 as 300 power plants operating at full bore.
And Secretary of State Clinton has already said she's 'inclined' to recommend the pipeline go forward. Partly it's because of the political commotion over high gas prices, though more tar sands oil would do nothing to change that picture. But it's also because of intense pressure from industry. TransCanada Pipeline, the company behind Keystone, has hired as its chief lobbyist for the project a man named Paul Elliott, who served as deputy national director of Clinton's presidential campaign. Meanwhile, the US Chamber of Commerce—a bigger funder of political campaigns than the RNC and DNC combined—has demanded that the administration "move quickly to approve the Keystone XL pipeline," which is not so surprising—they've also told the U.S. EPA that if the planet warms that will be okay because humans can "adapt their physiology" to cope. The Koch Brothers, needless to say, are also backing the plan, and may reap huge profits from it.
So we're pretty sure that without serious pressure the Keystone Pipeline will get its permit from Washington. A wonderful coalition of environmental groups has built a strong campaign across the continent—from Cree and Dene indigenous leaders to Nebraska farmers, they've spoken out strongly against the destruction of their land. We need to join them, and to say even if our own homes won't be crossed by this pipeline, our joint home—the earth—will be wrecked by the carbon that pours down it.
And we need to say something else, too: it's time to stop letting corporate power make the most important decisions our planet faces.
More Powerful Than We Know: Interview with Tim DeChristopher
Tim DeChristopher on why "we have more than enough power" to stop the fossil fuel industry.
We don't have the money to compete with those corporations, but we do have our bodies, and beginning in mid-August many of us will use them. We will, each day through Labor Day, march on the White House, risking arrest with our trespass. We will do it in dignified fashion, demonstrating that in this case we are the conservatives, and that our foes—who would change the composition of the atmosphere—are dangerous radicals.
Come dressed as if for a business meeting—this is, in fact, serious business. And another sartorial tip—if you wore an Obama button during the 2008 campaign, why not wear it again? We very much still want to believe in the promise of that young Senator who told us that with his election the "rise of the oceans would begin to slow and the planet start to heal." We don't understand what combination of bureaucratic obstinacy and insider dealing has derailed those efforts, but we remember his request that his supporters continue on after the election to pressure the government for change. We'll do what we can.
And one more thing: we don't want college kids to be the only cannon fodder in this fight. They've led the way so far on climate change—10,000 came to DC for the Powershift gathering earlier this spring. They've marched this month in West Virginia to protest mountaintop removal; Tim DeChristopher faces sentencing this summer in Utah for his creative protest. Now it's time for people who've spent their lives pouring carbon into the atmosphere (and whose careers won't be as damaged by an arrest record) to step up too. Most of us signing this letter are veterans of this work, and we think it's past time for elders to behave like elders. One thing we don't want is a smash up: if you can't control your passions, this action is not for you.
This won't be a one-shot day of action. We plan for it to continue for several weeks, to the date in September when by law the administration can either grant or deny the permit for the pipeline. Not all of us can actually get arrested—half the signatories to this letter live in Canada, and might well find our entry into the U.S. barred. But we will be making plans for sympathy demonstrations outside Canadian consulates in the U.S., and U.S. consulates in Canada—the decision-makers need to know they're being watched.
Winning this battle won't save the climate. But losing it will mean the chances of runaway climate change go way up—that we'll endure an endless future of the floods and droughts we've seen this year. And we're fighting for the political future too—for the premise that we should make decisions based on science and reason, not political connection. You have to start somewhere, and this is where we choose to begin.
If you think you might want to be a part of this action, we need you to sign up here. As plans solidify in the next few weeks we'll be in touch with you to arrange nonviolence training; our colleagues at a variety of environmental and democracy campaigns will be coordinating the actual arrangements.
We know we're asking a lot. You should think long and hard on it, and pray if you're the praying type. But to us, it's as much privilege as burden to get to join this fight in the most serious possible way. We hope you'll join us.
Maude Barlow
Wendell Berry
Tom Goldtooth
Danny Glover
James Hansen
Wes Jackson
Naomi Klein
Bill McKibben
George Poitras
David Suzuki
Gus Speth
p.s.—Please pass this letter on to anyone else you think might be interested. We realize that what we're asking isn't easy, and we're very grateful that you're willing even to consider it.
Bill McKibben imagines himself in the year 2100, looking back at a century of climate chaos and asking: What did it take to save the world?
Tornadoes, fires, floods, crop failures—they're all isolated events, right? Nope. This powerful video helps connect the dots of the climate catastrophe.
An interview with Wendell Berry midway through his four-day sit-in in the Kentucky governor's office in protest of mountaintop removal coal mining.


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