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OCZ Technology Group, a company primarily known for memory products, on Monday unveiled the world's first Do-It-Yourself (DIY) kits for notebooks based on Intel Centrino 2 platfor. The novelties promise to be considerably faster than comparable DIY barebones based on previous-generation Centrino "Santa Rosa" platform - thanks to quad-core processors support as well as ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology - as well as to add some brand-new capabilities not available previously.
OCZ DIY Gaming Notebook Centrino 2 barebones come with 15.4" or 17" displays with 1280x800 or 1920x1200 resolutions respectively, Intel PM45 core-logic, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 graphics card with 512MB GDDR3 memory for 15.4" model or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 in CrossFire mode for 17" version, CD/DVD burner or CD/DVD burner with Blu-ray disc support, keyboard, touchpad, battery and so on. End-users have to install central processing unit (CPU), memory and hard drive themselves.
For some reason, among validated components for the DIY mobile computers with 15.4" screens OCZ does not list quad-core Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile central processing units, which may be a huge drawback for gamers demanding extreme performance. Still, those who want to have special levels of speed can acquire a system with 17" screen. Perhaps, the company could not develop sophisticated CPU cooler for smaller size notebooks, or maybe it decided to provide higher end processor option only to those, who acquire more advanced laptop with larger screen. Despite of certain limitations, the new mobile systems will be faster compared to previous-gen thanks to higher-speed processors with faster processor system bus.
Under OCZ Do-It-Yourself (DIY) notebook initiative OCZ Technology group will allow customers to get notebook barebones, which are usually sold to system integrators or suppliers, directly from OCZ, configure their laptops according to recommendations of OCZ and then assemble the machine themselves, which saves some money to the end-user due to lack of labor cost. Eventually, customers will be able to install different components into their laptops provided that they can obtain them.
"At OCZ, empowering the enthusiast end-user in the mobile gaming space is an exciting opportunity for us, and with the powerful technology found in our latest Intel Centrino 2 based notebook we are again at the forefront of this growing market. With OCZ DIY notebooks, end-users have complete control of the cost/performance ratio of key components, giving consumers the opportunity to personalize a true gaming and multi-tasking powerhouse notebook by using a validated component list and our easy to follow step-by-step manual included with every DIY package," said Ryan Edwards, director of product management at OCZ.
But even though OCZ improved certain drawbacks of previous-generation DIY laptops that were powered by Intel Centrino "Santa Rosa" platform, e.g., it installed more advanced graphics card and allowed customers to install a Blu-ray optical disc drive, it still provides no options to install screens with higher resolutions, higher-capacity batteries, different keyboards and so on. As a consequence, a lot of gamers will hardly get inspired with OCZ's DIY notebook initiative. Still, some gamers will definitely choose to build their computers themselves and balance performance according to their needs.


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Only two matches remain in the Asian Challenge Cup! The 3rd place match between South China and Guangzhou R&F begins at 18:00 tonight, followed by the finals between Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma and Shimizu S-Pulse at 20:30. Who will take home the title?
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Samsung Electronics on Thursday introduced the first solid state drive (SSD) utilizing high-performance toggle-mode DDR NAND. The new drive, which will initially be available in 512GB capacity offers rather unprecedented performance; besides, the world's largest maker of flash memory also promises improved reliability and advanced security.
"Early introduction of this state-of-the-art toggle DDR solution will enable Samsung to play a major role in securing faster market acceptance of the new wave of high-end SSD technology," said Dong-Soo Jun, executive vice president of memory marketing at Samsung Electronics.
The SSD utilizes 30nm-class 32Gb chips that the company began producing last November. The toggle-mode DDR structure generates a maximum sequential read speed of 250MB/s and a 220MB/s sequential write speed. The latest SSD from Samsung can also be equipped with 256-bit AES (advanced encryption standard) encryption engine to ensure higher security. As all the latest drives, the novelty fully supports Trim command that preserves performance of SSDs in the long run.
The new drives are based on low-power controller specifically for toggle-mode DDR NAND. The resulting power throttling capability enables the drive's high-performance levels without any increase in power consumption over a 40nm-class 16Gb NAND-based 256GB SSD. The controller also analyzes frequency of use and preferences of the user to automatically activate a low-power mode that can extend a notebook's battery life for an hour or more.
Samsung plans to begin volume production of the 512GB SSD next month. Even though initially toggle-mode DDR NAND-based SSDs will be available at premium price-points and with premium capacities, over time it can be expected that they will become more affordable and address mainstream capacity points.
"The highly advanced features and characteristics of our new SSD were obtained as a direct result of an aggressive push for further development of our NAND flash technology, our SSD controller and our supportive SSD firmware," added Mr. Dong-Soo Jun.


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The Orlík Dam is the biggest dam in the Czech Republic. ear the dam there is a port of the summer boat transport on the dam. It joins the dam with the Orlík chateau and with the Zvíkov castle, which stands above the confluence of the Vltava and Otava rivers at the head of the dam.
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Educating the "fairer sex", 1953
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Before Nathan left for vacation yesterday (on the Outer Banks no less!) he prepared this blog post for your viewing enjoyment. J.
Columbus School for Girls was founded in 1898 by Florence Kelley and Mary Bole to serve as a college-prep school for the young women of the city. (A fairly innovative idea at the time.) It was located at a small house on E. Town St. until 1901 when it moved to the old house of George McClellan Parsons at Bryden Ave. and Parsons. There it remained for 52 years.
The above picture was taken in March of 1953. Later that year the school would move to its current location in Bexley, where there was a little more room. Here is an aerial shot from 2010 for comparison:
In addition to impressive academics and a long history the school also has the best mascot in Columbus. Much more intimidating (and stylish) than a buckeye. Go Unicorns!


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ATI Technologies said Friday it had shipped its one millionth native PCI Express visual processing unit. The claim outlines pretty slow progress of PCI Express ramp.
Markham, Ontario-based ATI launched its full family of PCI Express graphics solutions on
ATI Technologies has been pretty successful with its PCI Express strategy securing plethora of design wins with world's leading OEMs.
"Currently, ATI has about 100% of the OEM PCI Express business, and we expect to get a large proportion of the channel business, much larger than we have achieved in the past, too," said Chris Evenden, a spokesman for ATI Technologies in early July.
Even though the hype about the market of PCI Express x16 graphics cards has been pretty strong now, the market share of PCI Express graphics devices is unlikely to surpass 30% - 35% mark this year, some analysts noted. Furthermore, it may appear that such estimations are overoptimistic.
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Friday, December 13, 2013
"We Try to Be as Transparent as Can Be"
. . . Media Faulted for Failing to Connect the Dots
Did the CIA Help Capture Mandela in 1962?
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"We Try to Be as Transparent as Can Be"
A hard-hitting report faulting the Obama administration for its war on leaks and other efforts to control information — "the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post's investigation of Watergate," said its author, Leonard Downie Jr. — might have made waves in the journalism community when it was released two months ago, but Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., says he hadn't heard of it.
"We try to be as transparent as can be," Holder told visiting members of the Trotter Group, a national association of African American newspaper columnists, on Thursday. "The best government is the one that is most transparent."
Brian Fallon, director of the Justice Department's Office of Public Affairs, told Journal-isms that he had answered questions for Downie before the October report was released and that his boss simply hadn't gotten to it yet.
In the latest example of tension between the Obama administration and the news media, news organizations complained last month, "The administration of President Obama is routinely denying the right of independent journalists to photograph or videotape the president while he is performing official duties. Instead, the White House is issuing visual press releases — handout pictures taken by official government photographers — and expecting news outlets to publish those." Some outlets, such as USA Today, have refused to do so.
The black journalists, meeting in Washington for their annual conference, heard from three Cabinet secretaries, policy experts on African American issues and Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president. They heard Holder recommend to a student the much-discussed 2010 book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander, and declare that prison reform, along with voting rights, was a top priority.
Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan said he believed in the "school-to-prison pipeline" that progressives have derided and said his department was acting to help dismantle it. He included "social justice" as one of his department's priorities.
Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan pulled out the startling statistic that African Americans lost more than 50 percent of their wealth from 2005 to 2009. He said $3 trillion had been spent overall to rebuild home ownership, but that figures specific to African Americans were not available.
Jarrett and others made it clear that Obama's Dec. 4 speech on income inequality and opportunity for the poor was intended to guide the administration's domestic policies for the rest of his tenure.
Obama said then, "We know that people's frustrations run deeper than these most recent political battles. Their frustration is rooted in their own daily battles, to make ends meet, to pay for college, buy a home, save for retirement. It's rooted in the nagging sense that no matter how hard they work, the deck is stacked against them. And it's rooted in the fear that their kids won't be better off than they were."
The speech was music to three public policy advocates who spoke Friday — Wade Henderson, president and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Hilary O. Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and director, NAACP national office; and Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The idea that one's ZIP code has come to be tied with chances for advancement in life was cited by speakers within and without the administration as evidence of the problem and part of the case for solutions.
The proposed "Promise Zones" are one such response. "This initiative will designate a number of high-poverty communities as Promise Zones, with which the federal government will partner and invest in to create jobs, leverage private investment, increase economic activity, expand educational opportunities, and improve public safety," according to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
The troubled Affordable Care Act was touted both by administration officials and the public policy advocates as part of the effort to address income inequality. "One thing I urge you to do is to tell the stories of those who are . . . to be benefited," Jarrett told the journalists. "When the people see" the benefits, "they're going to wonder, 'why would the Republicans try to take this away from me?' "
Audio of Trotter Group members with Eric Holder and Valerie Jarrett (courtesy Joe Davidson)
- Audio of Trotter Group members with Shaun Donovan (courtesy Joe Davidson)
- Audio of Trotter Group members with Arne Duncan (courtesy Askia Muhammad)
- Mary C. Curtis, The Root: Holder Determined to Challenge Voter-Suppression Laws (Dec. 22)
- Santiago Lyon, New York Times: Obama's Orwellian Image Control
- Robin Washington, Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune: Road to restore Voting Rights Act runs through Wisconsin (Dec. 15)
- DeWayne Wickham, USA Today: Obama rights cocaine law disparity (Dec. 23)
. . . Media Faulted for Failing to Connect the Dots
In North Carolina, "Teachers are angry about stagnant salaries, the phase-out of tenure, and the end to pay increases for earning advanced degrees," Lynn Bonner wrote Dec. 4 for the Raleigh News & Observer. "Teachers and parents protested low salaries and new education policies at schools around the state last month. The state ranked 46th in the nation for average teacher pay in 2011-12."
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, former CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, said the news media have something to do with this state of affairs. "In North Carolina, if people went to the voting booths with education at the top of the list, those kind of cuts wouldn't have happened," Duncan told the Trotter Group on Friday.
"There's not enough demand for change," Duncan said. The media should be "helping parents understand that what was good enough in the past is not good enough any more.
"We're competing with kids in India, China, South Korea," Duncan said. As he has in several speeches, Duncan repeated a story about President Obama asking the president of South Korea, "What is the biggest education challenge you have?" Leonie Haimson blogged in 2011 for Huffington Post.
"Without hesitating, President Lee [Myung-bak] responded: 'The biggest challenge I have is that my parents are too demanding.' "
However, Haimson added, "Recently, Byong Man Ahn, the former minister of education in South Korea, warned Americans against praising the 'educational zeal' of South Korean parents, saying that Korean schools had become too test-centered and too focused on rote learning, and that they 'force the students to memorize so much that they experience pain rather than pleasure [of] acquiring knowledge through the learning process.' . . ."
Regardless, Duncan, his aides and others who were asked to evaluate news coverage of their fields did not shrink from offering their thoughts.
James H. Shelton III, assistant deputy secretary in the Education Department's Office of Innovation and Improvement, urged that stories be developed about states' withholding money for colleges. "That piece of things seems to be missing from the public dialogue," Shelton volunteered.
Similarly, Shelton said news outlets should report on schools that have transformed themselves in two or three years, thoses that are "really doing good, hard work," news in which "people aren't screaming at each other."
Shelton also struck a theme echoed in another discussion about public policy. "All of our work is about making triple bank shots," he said. "[Reporters] think about these responses in isolation," when in reality school issues are tied to those elsewhere in the community.
For example, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, told the journalists that racial disparities in the length of prison sentences is declining significantly. That is partly due to the campaign to publicize racial profiling, to the expense of keeping people in prison, to overcrowding caused by longer prison sentences and to use of alternatives such as drug courts.
"We answer to these silos that make it harder to connect the dots," Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, told the group on Friday. "Marry these pieces together," urged Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Education cannot be separated from economic justice and economic development. Education "used to be . . . an investment," she said. "Now, people are scared. Everything is being called into question." The economy has made it harder to secure a job after graduation, and even if students do, they are saddled with loan debt. "I'm not sure there is an understanding of the way these issues are playing out across the board in the lives of African Americans," Ifill said.
Hilary O. Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and director, NAACP national office, added that media consolidation means news consumers are "getting a much more homogenized picture of America. We're getting less diversity in the reporting of these stories."
Panelists discussing the Affordable Care Act seemed to agree that reporters had not done their homework before problems with healthcare.gov became front-page news.
"Journalists should have done a lot more digging," said Rea Hederman, director of the Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis, a conservative group. "Some folks were taken by surprise by the massive disruptions," he said, when "people in the policy world knew" that that would be one result of implementing the act.
Anton J. Gunn, director of external affairs for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, agreed that reporters had not done their homework, though his position on the act is the opposite of Hederman's.
"There hasn't been enough digging," Gunn said. The reporting "is completely on the surface."
For example, the act authorizes deployment of 8,900 clinicians to administer to 9.3 million people as part of a Peace Corps-like National Health Service Corps. "It's a story that's never been told," Gunn said to the group. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
The third member of that panel, Brian D. Smedley, vice president and director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, said terminology was impeding progress.
Specifically, "the use of the term 'Obamacare'," Smedley said. Media have "accepted this term as if it were a legitimate term," when surveys have shown a negative public reaction to it, in contrast to the response to "Affordable Care Act."
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a black Republican, consistently used "Affordable Care Act" in his presentation to the group Thursday, even though he opposes the law. "Let's not talk as if the Affordable Care Act is making health care more affordable. The absolute fact is that it's not," he said.
Asked why he had not tried to demagogue the issue with the term "Obamacare," as have other Republicans, Scott told Journal-isms, "Let's not politicize this. Let's talk about the people who need the care."
- Audio of Trotter Group members with Sen. Tim Scott (courtesy Wil LaVeist)
- Charles M. Blow, New York Times: The President, the Pope and the People (Dec. 4)
- Mary C. Curtis, Washington Post: Tim Scott treads – carefully – through South Carolina and D.C. political thicket (Dec. 19)
- Juan Gonzalez, Daily News, New York: Gonzalez: Fast food, retail workers escalate movement for increased wages
- Jerry Large, Seattle Times: America may be reaching its limit on economic inequality (Dec. 1)
- Jerry Large, Seattle Times: Don't minimize the jobs that pay minimum wage (Dec. 4)
- Askia Muhammad, Washington Informer: What Makes a Black Conservative Tick? (Dec. 18)
- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pope's a lot wiser than Rush about wealth(Dec. 5)
- Eugene Robinson, Washington Post: Democrats can win on raising minimum wage (Dec. 6)
- Matt Wilstein, Mediaite: Obama: America's 'Opportunity Gap' as Much 'About Class as It Is About Race' (Dec. 4)
Did the CIA Help Capture Mandela in 1962?
"As South Africa prepares to hold a state funeral for Nelson Mandela, we look at how the CIA helped the South African government track down and capture Mandela in 1962," Amy Goodman said Friday on Pacifica Radio's "Democracy, Now!"
"In 1990, the Cox News Service quoted a former U.S. official saying that within hours after Mandela's arrest a senior CIA operative named Paul Eckel admitted the agency's involvement. Eckel was reported as having told the official, 'We have turned Mandela over to the South African security branch. We gave them every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be. They have picked him up. It is one of our greatest coups.'
"Several news outlets have reported the actual source of the tip that led to the arrest of Mandela was a CIA official named Donald Rickard. On Thursday, Democracy Now! attempted to reach Rickard at his home in Colorado. On two occasions, a man who picked up the phone hung up when we asked to speak with Donald Rickard. The activist group RootsAction has launched a campaign to urge the CIA to open its files on Mandela and South Africa, and the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy [In] Reporting has questioned why corporate media outlets have largely ignored the story. We speak to journalist Andrew Cockburn, who first reported on the CIA link to Mandela's arrest in 1986 in The New York Times. . . .
"AMY GOODMAN: Talk about what you found out in the mid-'80s. At this point, Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned for over 20 years.
"ANDREW COCKBURN: That's right. He had been — I found out — I reported that he had been—as you mentioned, that he had been arrested, thanks to a tip from the CIA, while disguised as a chauffeur. He was actually — what I had heard at the time was he was actually on his way to meet an undercover CIA, an American diplomat who was actually a CIA official. So it made it rather easy for them to alert the South Africans where to find him.
"I mentioned — I thought it was particularly interesting to report when I did in 1986, because at that point it was just when the sanctions were being introduced over—voted through by the Congress over President Reagan's veto. So, and I had noticed that in the sanctions legislation, it said there should be no contact, official contact, with the South African military, and so on and so forth, except when intelligence required that, you know, they did have to have contact. So it was ongoing, this unholy relationship, which had led to Mandela being arrested and locked up for all those years, continued on through the '60s, through the '70s, through the '80s, absolutely flourished, with the — for example, the NSA routinely handing over intercepts of the ANC to the South African secret police. And it was absolutely outrageous.
"AMY GOODMAN: This is the National Security Agency that is, of course, the subject of so much global controversy right now, the NSA gathering this intelligence to give to the apartheid regime.
"ANDREW COCKBURN: That's right. I mean, it was — it was just absolutely routine. And, you know, we have to — this was all — maybe they would have done it anyway, but it was certainly in the Cold War context. I mean, there was — it's hard to remember now what a sort of lather people got into about, you know, the Soviet threat to the trade routes. And there was a naval base, African naval base — or there is one at Simon's Town, near the Cape. And there was, I remember, sort of the right — the defense lobby were continually going on about the terrible threat of the Soviets maybe getting hold of, you know, Simon's Town, seizing vital facilities.
"And it was an absolute — I mean, people, not surprising — well, people have sort of forgotten just how — what a Cold War battleground southern Africa was. Not only did they turn over Mandela, but they had this very close relationship. U.S. military intelligence cooperated very closely with South African military intelligence, giving them information about what was going on, what they were collecting in the rest of southern Africa. And, in fact, you know, the two countries — CIA and the South Africans collaborated on, you know, assisting the UNITA in the horrible civil war in Angola that went on for years and years with thousands of people dying. So, you know, this wasn't just a flash in the pan, the tip-off that led to the coordination on the arrest of Mandela. It was absolutely a very deep, very thorough relationship that went on for decades. . . ."
- George E. Curry, National Newspaper Publishers Association: South Africans Still Celebrating 'Tata' Mandela
- Kevin Alexander Gray, Free Times, Columbia, S.C.: SC and Mandela: Give Credit Where Credit is Due
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- 2. "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
- 3. "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
- 4. "American Hustle"
- 5. "Gravity"
- 6. "Fruitvale Station"
- 7. "Dallas Buyers Club"
- 8. "Saving Mr. Banks"
- 9. "Out of the Furnace"
- 10. "42"
Best Actor Forest Whitaker, "Lee Daniels' The Butler" (The Weinstein Co.)
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, "Gravity" (Warner Bros.)
Best Supporting Actress: Oprah Winfrey, "Lee Daniels' The Butler" (TWC)
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club" (Focus Features)
Best World Cinema: "Mother of George" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Breakout Performance: Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave" (Fox Searchlight)
Best Director: Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave" (Fox Searchlight)
Best Screenplay: John Ridley, "12 Years a Slave" (Fox Searchlight)
Best Music: Raphael Saadiq, "Black Nativity" (RCA Inspirational)
Best Independent Film: "Fruitvale Station" (TWC)
Best Animation: "Frozen" (Walt Disney Pictures)
Best Documentary: "American Promise" (Rada Film Group)
- Andy Fixmer, Bloomberg News: '12 Years a Slave' Ties 'Hustle' inGolden Globe Nominations
- Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony: When Shaft Ruled Hollywood
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Now that a small fraction of the press has awakened to see the results of the amazing charade of the last 5 years they are trying to backpedal to cover their a$$es. Now they want to act like journalists? What a freakin joke. .
I'm shocked!!! The press has been swooning and fawning over him since before 2008, and now complaints about access to him is a problem? I am so looking forward to 2016.
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Palestinians in Gaza continued to fire rockets into Israel, and Israeli jets pounded homes and installations of targeted terrorists.
People in southern Israel ran for cover throughout the day and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that a ground invasion was possible if the rocket attacks did not cease. He said airstrikes had taken out rocket batteries and terrorist installations, and was widened Sunday to include individual members of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza.
Palestinians on Sunday held funerals for members of Hamas and for civilians killed in the Israeli airstrikes. One bomb hit a building Sunday, killing 11 people, said Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra.
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"If we don't achieve our goals from the air, we will have to enter by ground,'' Israeli Defense Ministry director Udi Shani told Israeli Army Radio. ''I hope in the coming days it will be decided.''
In Egypt, a senior Israeli official arrived at the airport and was taken to talks with Egyptian authorities, Egyptian security officials told the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press. They did not identify the Israeli official.
The Israeli government would not comment on diplomatic endeavors except to say that no cease-fire talks would proceed in any serious way until Hamas stopped firing rockets at Israelis.
Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, said Hamas would end its barrage of rockets that it began a week ago if it is guaranteed that targeted assassinations of its leaders will stop and that border crossings policed by Egypt and Israel reopened, Egypt news media reported.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired more than 30 rockets toward a number of Israeli cities Sunday, adding to the roughly 500 it has fired since last weekend. Israel's "Iron Dome" missile defense system has intercepted about a third of the rockets.The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it hit 70 targets in Gaza on Sunday, striking more than a dozen homes of Hamas terrorists and two media officials.
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"Let's understand what the precipitating event here that's causing the current crisis and that was an ever-escalating number of missiles that were landing not just in Israeli territory but in areas that are populated, and there's no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders," Obama said at news conference in Thailand.
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Among the victims of the Israeli airstrike in Gaza that killed 11 people were five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children, al-Kidra said. The claim could not be verified.
The Israeli military said the target of the attack was Yahiya Abiya, the head of the rocket program for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group that has conducted many attacks against Israel. The deaths brought to 66 the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli offensive, including 32 civilians, said al-Kidra.
Israel has said that Hamas bears responsibility for inadvertent civilian deaths for placing rocket batteries and depots in residential areas and because Hamas terrorists are using homes for their operations. The IDF said it is trying to minimize civilian casualties, but that Hamas is intentionally targeting civilians in Israel.
Three Israelis were killed last week from a rocket that slammed into their home.
In Gaza City on Sunday, streets were filled with men and thousands of children attending the funerals of the recently killed. Women, who cannot attend the mosque, looked on from windows and balconies above the streets.
Every neighborhood showed signs of Israeli missile strikes. Hamas flags that have appeared everywhere in the last few days provided the only bright color on gray, dust-covered buildings.
A strike Sunday on a three-story home in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya killed a 3-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy from the same family. Hamas security officials said three missiles struck the house, owned by a family that has members who are involved in militants' rocket squads. It was not known if any militants were in or near the house at the time of the strike.
Another strike in the city brought down a home near a Hamas police station in the Tufah neighborhood. Rescue workers pulled out the body of a dead woman, along with several surviving members of her family.
In the Shatire fugee camp near Gaza City, a missile struck the car of a Hamas militant outside his home, killing him and an 11-year-old girl passing by at the time, al-Kidra said.
In Israel, one rocket damaged a home in the southern city of Ashkelon, punching a hole in the ceiling. Israel's "Iron Dome" rocket-defense system shot down seven rockets, including the one aimed at Tel Aviv, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said. Eight Israelis were wounded by shrapnel Sunday.
Israel's Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, said Sunday the military had been ordered to go after Hamas commanders, in addition to rocket squads.
"I imagine in the next few hours, we will see ongoing targeted attacks on gunmen and Hamas commanders," Mordechai told Army Radio. "More targeted, more surgical and more deadly."
The strikes included hits on the top floor offices of the Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, and a Lebanese-based broadcaster, Al Quds TV, seen as sympathetic to Hamas. Six Palestinian journalists were wounded, including one who lost a leg, a Gaza press association said.
Foreign broadcasters, including British, German and Italian TV outlets, also had offices in the high-rise. Building windows were blown out and glass shards and debris were scattered on the street below. Some of the journalists who had been inside the building at the time took cover in the entrance hallway.
Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokeswoman, said the strikes targeted Hamas communications equipment on the building's rooftop. She accused the group of using journalists as "human shields," and urged journalists to stay clear of Hamas bases and facilities.
Leibovich said the military has identified "hundreds" of additional targets as it pressed forward. She acknowledged that civilians were in danger, but said that Gaza militant groups bore the blame.
"One of the strategies of Hamas, not only Hamas, but Islamic Jihad as well, is locating large amounts of munitions underneath civilian homes. Many times this is the reason for this big damage or collateral damage," she said.
Netanyahu said at his Sunday Cabinet meeting broadcast on Israeli news media that the IDF has struck "1,000 terrorist targets" and that Israel "is prepared to expand its operations in Gaza."
Netanyahu said the air force's airstrikes have hurt Hamas' ability to launch rockets against Israel. Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the IDF is "primed and ready to do whatever it takes to remove the (rockets) threat, strengthen Israeli deterrence and hit Hamas and the Islamic Jihad hard." He thanked Obama for his support for Israel.
Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two media centers in the Gaza Strip , wounding six journalists, as Israel warned it was widening its range of targets and would also go after military commanders of the territory's ruling Hamas. (Nov. 18)
The repeated militant rocket fire on Tel Aviv and Friday's attack toward Jerusalem have significantly escalated the hostilities by widening the militants' rocket range and putting 3.5 million Israelis, or half the country's population, within reach. The attempt to strike Jerusalem also has symbolic resonance because both Israel and the Palestinians claim the holy city for a capital.
Israeli radio stations repeatedly interrupted their broadcasts to air "Code Red"alerts warning of impending rocket strikes.
Yitzak Bazal, a 57-year-old taxi driver in Beersheva, had a passenger in his car as the sirens began wailing. He stayed close to his taxi as his fare disappeared in search of safety.
"I wish we could have a cease-fire but not one that's going to land us back in the shelters in a month or two," he said.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi continued to host talks with Hamas as well as leaders from Hamas allies Turkey and Qatar. He also held contacts with Western leaders.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius visited Israel on Sunday to offer his country's help toward forging an "immediate cease-fire," the French government said.
Meeting with Fabius, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman thanked him for "France's efforts to prevent casualties" but said "the moment that all the terror organizations announce a cease-fire, we can consider all the ideas that French foreign minister and other friends are raising."
Several buses carrying Egyptian activists traveled to the Gaza-Egypt border Sunday to show solidarity with their Palestinians neighbors.
"We have some medical aid and student doctors, and a lot of people full of love and solidarity for Gaza" read a Tweet by activist Gigi Ibrahim, headed north on Sunday in attempt to cross the border.
But the mood in Egypt was generally calm as the nation continued to face a slew of domestic concerns.
"I don't think Israeli is just defending itself," said Mina Thabet, a Christian activist in Cairo. "It's always attacking."
"I don't like Israel," Thabet said. "We have blood between us and Israel. I don't forget that they have taken our land before. I don't forget that they did this."
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north vs south pbc paintball park dec 4th
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Posted 09 November 2010 - 07:47 PM
North versus South has returned for 2010 with tougher battles, new territory and new challenges! As our Greenville park continues to expand, every mission is more challenging, every landmark a battlefield. And this year, we're steppin' it up with help from game producer and scenario player Nyxx Valor and Planet Eclipse paintball!
Nyxx began her paintball career as a referee at Skirmish USA, where she found my a knack as a writer of Scenario paintball games, producing many games through the years, such as Stalingrad, Invasion of Normandy, Battle for Berlin, and Castle Nights.
The past 5 years have been very successful with the start of Solstice Enterprises which is home to Solstice Scenario Team: Solstice Airsmyth, repair and maintenance of all markers in paintball by certified Tec: Solstice Law, a non bias team of experienced referees that travel to fields to ref scenario events: Solstice Game Productions, writing and running scenario games of any genre and size to fit a fields needs.
As an avid player and general for 19 years in paintball, it gives her the ability to write and run games from a players point of view. She strives to run the events as if she was playing, with peak enjoyment and safety as her top priorities.
We're looking forward to a great game!
Date: Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Where: PBC Paintball Park Greenville, SC
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Posted 10 November 2010 - 10:36 AM
I think I might go to this. Do you know if there is an estimate as to how many people will be there?
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Although Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company seems to have rather ambitious plans for its 28nm node, Nvidia Corp., one of the largest customers of TSMC, claims that the volumes of 28nm chips TSMC will be able to provide this year will not be enough to support a high-scale launch of the latest Tegra 3 "Kal El" product.
"28nm is not available this year, not until the very end of the year. I think, for us to ship [Tegra "Kal El"] production out in Q3, we have to start wafers in early Q2, right? So, 28nm is not an option. Secondly, 40nm is now in the third year of its production, and the yields are fabulous. [...] So 40nm process technology is absolutely the right approach. It is the most mature, and we can go into very high [volume] production very quickly because the yields are so great," said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, during a conference call with financial analysts.
Tegra "Kal El" system-on-chip is based on four Cortex-A9 application cores, will feature a GeForce graphics processor with twelve stream processors and will have a new display and video engines capable of supporting Blu-ray disc video playback and stereo-3D graphics output. Other capabilities, clock-speeds, power consumption and die size of the novelty are not known previously.
Nvidia anticipates that its clients will integrate Tegra 3 into new products starting from August and it is natural that the company did not want to wait for 28nm process, which will become commercial only in the fourth quarter of 2011. Nvidia's intention to design the Tegra "Kal El" for 40nm products may signal that the company does not believe in TSMC's ability to supply enough 28nm chips this year.
According to TSMC, wafers made using 28nm fabrication process will account for 2% - 3% of its revenues in Q4 2011, which essentially means that the company aims to supply 28nm chips worth around $100 million at that time. The volume is not small for a brand new process technology, but is definitely not high too.
"40nm is actually more economical than 28nm this year and we will likely expect it to be so until about first half, maybe even the midpoint of next year," added Mr. Huang.
In fact, Nvidia is looking forward Intel's "tick-tock" model for transitions to new process technologies and architectures.
"You have noticed other companies that have used different ways of explaining their rhythm and some use one process node change. One as a architecture change, the next one is the process node change. Basically, it is every other year for a new process node. I think that rhythm is not a bad rhythm. I mean, that is basically how quickly the industry is changing process. So [this is] the reason why Tegra 2 and Tegra "Kal-El" will use the same process, and then the following ones would be 28nm," explained the head of Nvidia.


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Watch the video above to see Gabe Saporta and Alex Suarez hit up the Village Party Store on a First Date with MTV News. The guys offer some inspiring words, talk about the beginnings of the band, the van-driving days and their hopes for the future.
|April 23, 2012
|April 23, 2012
We have your plans for this evening right here. Click HERE to catch a live stream of Fun. starting at 8:30pm EST on iHeartRadio. Then tune in to CBS to see them perform 'We Are Young' on The Late Show with David Letterman at 11:35 EST.
In honor of the David Letterman performance we have come up with the Top 10 Reasons you need to pick up the album Some Nights:
10. You're guaranteed to hear this band while Out On The Town... or in a Chevy.
9. Stars like Janelle Monáe sing on this album.
8. One Foot will kick your ass until you agree to listen to this album.
7. The music on this album is All Alright.
6. Sometimes you need something to listen to when you're All Alone.
5. After the first listen, you'll wonder Why Am I The One who waited so long to pick up this album.
4. It Gets Better the more you
|April 23, 2012
Watch the video above to see the PS22 Chorus performing 'The Fighter' with Gym Class Heroes during their tour stop in Staten Island this past weekend. Click HERE to read more about the special performance.
|April 23, 2012
Check out Nate Ruess of Fun. as the voice of Humpty Dumpty in the new Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) "Book It" commercial above! Other voices include My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Coldplay's Chris Martin and Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein.
|April 21, 2012
It is Record Store Day Today! You can pick up this Limited Edition 10" vinyl from Fun. today in-stores or in The Fueled By Ramen Webstore.
Click HERE to find a record store close to you to pick up the vinyl in stores.
Click HERE to order one of the 200 available in The Fueled By Ramen Webstore. You can also pick up the special edition of the 'I <3 Fun.' T-Shirt in the webstore starting today!
|April 20, 2012
|April 20, 2012
Recently, The Swellers decided that it was time to part ways with Fueled By Ramen. We've had a good run with them and have a lot of appreciation and respect for everyone at the label. While we wish the staff and their bands the best of luck, we've come to the conclusion that being part of a major label just isn't the right fit for us right now. We're ready to continue developing who we are as a band, and excited to give our fans the very best of us in whole new ways. We're excited for this to be a bit of a return to form, while also being a whole new beginning.
On May 29th, we're releasing a 7" of two songs recorded from the Good For Me sessions that weren't on the album, but are some of our favorite songs we've ever written.
|April 20, 2012
For our Fueled By Ramen Contest today you can win the Paramore Travel Mug along with a mystery t-shirt from Paramore as well.
HOW TO ENTER: To win this Paramore prize package just comment on the photo HERE and tell us what the funniest tumblr, blog or website you have come across is.
|April 20, 2012
Click HERE to see photos of how the Fun. 2012 Spring Tour poster was made and HERE to see the final product which is available now from the band on tour.
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|April 20, 2012
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I have been making this little snow man for two years now, usually as an ornament. As the Christmas season approaches I pick up a few new packages of polymer clay and begin to create my little snowman. This year I happened to pick up an empty snow globe as well and think the two items were meant to come together. This is not filled with water, but Flower Soft, perfect for in making this a pretty mess free project. Topped it off with a little silk ribbon, felt holly leaves and felt/fabric tag.
Hope you enjoy your weekend. Mine will begin in just a few minutes when the kids coming running out those school doors ready for a week off.
Friday, November 18, 2011
the snowman...
8 comments:
- Mandy said...
Oh Andrea, what an adorable snowman and fabulous creation!
Enjoy your time with the children on their week off from school.
- November 18, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- ♥ Marlou ♥ said...
Wow!!!! Love this!!!! :) x
- November 18, 2011 at 5:33 PM
- Jenny said...
Love, Love snowman & this is wonderful!
- November 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Danielle said...
Andrea, you are very creative, love seeing your work. This is really adorable!
- November 18, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- Shelly Watson said...
love this snowman! I have never used polymer clay but have done several paper clay projects. I may just have to give polymer clay a try. thanks for the inspiration...
- November 19, 2011 at 5:21 AM
- Sandy said...
Absolutely wonderful - yum!!!!!!
- November 19, 2011 at 6:50 AM
- Laura B. said...
so adorable!
- November 19, 2011 at 6:19 PM
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This is divine! Congrats to the buyer who found it.
- November 19, 2011 at 8:25 PM
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Russian Helicopters has initiated a tour of demonstration flights in Kazakhstan with its new light multi-role helicopter, the Ka-226T.
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The first demonstrations took place throughout the Oskemen region of Kazkhstan, as the company looks to attract customers in Kazakhstan for its new helicopter, featuring coaxial Kamov rotors and Turbomeca Arrius 2G1 engines. Aviation Repair Factory No. 405, based in Kazakhstan, has a new joint venture agreement with Russian Helicopters to begin manufacturing the Ka-226T at its facility in the region.
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This goes back a long, long way. Since at least 1980, there have been on-again, off-again plans for an album of rarities, outtakes and unreleased tracks, a la "Beatles Anthology." Last year, around the time of "Wingspan," MPL actually put out word of a planned Christmas release along these lines. Now, it seems to be off (again). Anyone with insight into this? Will Paul ever put out such an album? I know a lot is available on bootlegs, but they're hard to find, and I'm not crazy about buying them.
The great value of such a project is that SO MANY of the best Paul tracks are throwaway B-sides ("Oh, Woman, Oh, Why," "Kicked Around No More," many more) and no doubt there are many more gems in the vaults.


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The restoration of the Pauline Chapel* was presented on the 30th of June 2009.
The Chapel is located in the Vatican Apostolic Palaces and Paul III Farnese commissioned to Antonio da Sangallo (1537-42) to built it; subsequently Michelangelo was entrusted to paint the two frescoes reproducing the Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter (1542-50). Since its creation it has always been a place of prayer and meditation for Popes and the pontifical family.
The restoration began in 2002, under the direction of the art historian Arnold Nesselrath, and has been realized by the staff of the Restoration Painting Laboratory with the coordination of Maurizio De Luca and the financial support of the Patrons of the Arts.
In addition to the restoration of the paintings, the presbitery was reaorganized including a new lighting system, which highlights the paintings.
* The Pauline Chapel is the private chapel of the Holy Father and is outside the itinerary of the Museums and is not normally open to the public.
Documents and studies (only Italian)
Presentation to the press of the restoration of the Pauline Chapel
Card. Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Governatorate
The last work of Michelangelo as a painter
Prof. Antonio Paolucci, Director of the Vatican Museums
The Pauline Chapel
Ing. Pier Carlo Cuscianna, Director of the Technical Services of the Governatorate
The Pauline Chapel after the restoration
Prof. Arnold Nesselrath, Art-Historian Chief of the restoration
Liturgical furnishing of the Papal Chapel
Edited by the Prefecture of the Papal Household
The restoration of the Pauline Chapel
M.° Maurizio De Luca, Inspector and Chief Restorer of the Laboratory Paintings Restoration
Scientific Inquiries
Prof. Ulderico Santamaria, Laboratory of diagnostics for the Preservation and Restoration
Lighting system of the Pauline Chapel
Dott. Vittoria Cimino, Curator's Office of the Vatican Museums
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This comb features a split tailed swallow holding a stylized olive branch. This comb is purely for decoration and needs good support in the hair. It is 5.5 inches in length total, 2.5" in teeth, and 2.5" wide at the top. It reminds me of a Spanish mantilla and is made of black acrylic.
This piece was inspired by Victorian design, which was influenced by their love of the outdoors and nature, and ancient culture. Archaeological events of the time influenced design in interesting ways. In 1873, not even half way through the Victorian period, Heinrich Schliemann found the lost city of Troy, which caused a craze for all designs that were Ancient Greek. The Ancient Greeks associated the swallow in the Goddess Aphrodite (love and beauty). Also in this ancient culture, olive wreaths were worn by brides and of course they symbolize peace.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
New Years Day
This is what I wore to my inlaws house today. We get together every New Year's day and eat Hoppin' John. It's supposed to give you good luck for the year. I ate enough to give me good luck for the next four years. Good thing I wore this very oversized sweater to hide my swollen belly.
I took some photos in the front yard instead of hiding on the back deck or in my kitchen today. It was so nerve wracking. Neighbors coming and going. I didn't last very long but I got a few photos out of it. I'm going to try to be brave and take pictures in different locations in 2012. Don't hold me to it. I'm very shy and uncomfortable taking these pics in public. I don't know why but it's extremely anxiety producing for me.
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year.
Oh, Halie at Prada For Breakfast featured me in her New Year's post. Go check it out. Thanks, Halie!
Sweater: Mink Pink via Crossroads ($20)BNWT
Jeans: Gap
Scarf: BR
Boots: Aldo (After xmas super sale!)
Sunglasses: Tiffany (2010 bday gift from the hubs)
Bag: DKNY
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- Pam @ over50feeling40 said...
You look great!! Are you enjoying the sunshine??
- January 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM
- Laura Go said...
Happy New Year, Tracy! That jumper is so adorable! I really love the little pompoms!
♥ laura
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- January 1, 2012 at 6:27 PM
- Shybiker said...
Love the nubs on the sweater. You look like a work of art. Then again... you *are* a work of art!
- January 1, 2012 at 9:24 PM
- Ashley said...
Gorgeous! Pretty sweater. I commend you for taking pictures in a new public spot. It is difficult for me, too, posing for the picz when there are people around. That is mainly why all of my photos are taken in desolate areas.
Hoppin' John sounds like something I would hop right on. In an I-would-nom-all-that-shit-up-and-then-some way. Not in a sexual way. Yeeeah. Bacon!
Happy New Year, my love! Your 2012 goal is my 2012 goal. Except I want to meet you IRL instead of myself. You know.
- January 2, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- skippysays said...
That sweater is adorable Tracy! Hope you get all that good luck and more in 2012 :)
- January 2, 2012 at 10:41 AM
- silvergirl said...
i saw you over there in your sparkling glory!!!
i am so sad about my food baby!
i have to get rid of it asap
why is it so hard????
- January 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM
- WendyB said...
You're wearing my uniform! I approve!
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Questions always arise about how the teams standing are kept, as well as questions about scores. Here are some answers.
- How are the points kept?3 points for a Win, 1 point for a Tie, and 0 points for Loss.
- How are teams ranked if they have the same amount of points?On the web site standings, the tie-breaking criteria for ranking teams with equal points are as follows:
- Most Wins
- Least Goals Against
- Least Losses
- Coin Toss
Playoff Tie Breakers
- Most Wins
- Least Goals Against
- Least Losses
- Coin Toss.
- Why the difference between the online standings and the playoff seedings?Due to the fact that sometimes all teams do not play each other, it is difficult to computer program head-to-head competition as a tie-breaker in the standings. However at the end of the season, when the playoff rankings are made, if two teams are tied and HAVE played each other, head-to-head competition will be the 2nd tie-breaker.
If teams have NOT played each other, it will fall under the original web criteria above.
- Why aren't Goals Scored used as a tie-breaker?Because some teams are much stronger than others, if goals scored was an incentive in the rankings, these strong teams could possibly run up the scores to improve their rank in the standings. As much as we want to promote offensive soccer, we do not want some teams humiliating other teams. So we are not going to use goals scored as a tie-breaker and we urge coaches to do what they can to make the games fun for the kids playing on BOTH teams.
If you have any questions about the rankings, don't bother asking. Each team will have at least one post-season game, and isn't worth arguing over if you were 4th or 5th place. AYSO makes an extra-super-human effort not to favor any one team over another. What is important is that the kids get to play and have fun.
- I'm sure our score is wrong on the web site. What should I do?Because there are always two teams in a game, please direct all questions to your Division Coordinator. They will then verify the score and forward to the Scorekeeper, if different. Do not just send corrected scores to the Web Administrator or Scorekeeper as they have no idea if it should be corrected. That is the Division Coordinator's role.
- It's Wednesday. How come the scores aren't up yet?Coaches should go to SCORELINE and put in their scores by Sunday night. If your scores are not up on the web site by Monday night, it is because we are still waiting for scores. Speak with your coach.


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Which Home Pregnancy Tests are Most Accurate?
Most home pregnancy tests on the market today claim to be more than 99 percent accurate when taken correctly. What they don't tell you, however, is whether they're as accurate on the day you miss your period as they are 5 to 7 days later. So how do you know which home pregnancy test will give you the most reliable result when you want it?
Home pregnancy tests are designed to detect hCG, a hormone secreted by the cells that will become the placenta. If you are pregnant, your hCG levels will increase rapidly almost immediately following implantation, and will double every 2 to 3 days for about 10 weeks. The tests that detect the lowest concentration of hCG (in milli-International Units per milliliter of urine) are more sensitive to hCG and will give you the earliest reliable results. For example, tests that can detect 20 mIU/ml are more sensitive than those that can detect 50 to 100 mIU/ml.
The chart below lists 25 home pregnancy tests currently on the market. The tests with the lowest hCG levels should be able to detect pregnancy sooner than those rated for a higher level.


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Take your party to the water with this large capacity 60 Quart Floating Cooler filled with your favorite beverages! Featuring 4 molded cup holders, an easy access zippered lid, molded handle for transporting, & a grommet for easy tie-offs. Constructed of heavy-duty K80 PVC & equipped with Safety Valves for fast & easy inflation. Relax with the drink of your choice as you float along the water with a floating cooler trailing behind you!
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Thirty-three years ago today, Bruce Springsteen's fifth studio album, The River, was released. The album was life changing for many people, me included. According to Bruce Springsteen on November 8, 2009 at Madison Square Garden:
The River was a record that was sort of the gateway to a lot of my future writing. It was a record we made after Darkness on the Edge of Town. It was a record made during a recession – hard times in the States. Its title song is a song I wrote for my brother-in-law and sister. My brother-in-law was in the construction industry, lost his job and had to struggle very hard back in the late 70s, like so many people are doing today. It was a record where I first started to tackle men and women and families and marriage. There were certain songs on it that led to complete records later on: "The River" sort of went to the writing on Nebraska, "Stolen Car" went to the writing on Tunnel of Love. Originally it was a single record. I handed it in with just one record and I took it back because I didn't feel it was big enough. I wanted to capture the themes I had been writing about on Darkness. I wanted to keep those characters with me and at the same time added music that made our live shows so much fun and joy for our audience. So in the end, we're gonna take you down to The River tonight.What if �The River had been a different album, what if some of the outtakes we know exist had been included? What would you have added to The River? Listen to and watch some of our favorite outtakes and let us know what you think!In The City TonightChain LightningOh AngelyneDown In WhitetownFind It Where You CanNight FireCindyWhite LiesRock Version of Point BlankRockabilly Version of You Can Look But You'd Better Not TouchBe TrueMary LouChevrolet DeluxeProtectionHeld Up Without A Gun


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On the fourth anniversary of the uprising in Syria, the Museum calls for effective and sustained efforts to end the horrific suffering of the Syrian people, who are in the midst of the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II and facing the threat of genocide.
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September 15, 2014
In a new report, CPG Fellow James P. Finkel assesses the advances in atrocity prevention policy under the Obama administration and the challenges that persist.
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August 7, 2014
In a highly anticipated ruling, two former Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment by the tribunal established in Cambodia to try those most responsible for the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979.
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April 21, 2014
Two resolutions commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and call on states to recommit themselves to the prevention of and fight against genocide.
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Mike Abramowitz, director of the Center for the Prevention of Genocide, reports from his trip to Kigali, where a Museum delegation is participating in the 20th anniversary commemorations of the genocide in Rwanda.
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KC Masterpiece wrote:Really could've started upping weight. Will go +10 for now versus +5lbs.
mouche wrote:All looking pretty good here, how's the rib doing these days?
KaliBaby wrote:you're crunching the same power lifting numbers as I do/did! haha it's all good, you're just beginning. having said that, do you have anyone who can check your form? don't want any injuries early on in the game.
KaliBaby wrote:hahaha I was joking around stud, please don't feel bad! what is SS? have you downloaded the free stronglifts ebook?
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By trajesh on Feb 18, 2009
The WSRP 2.0 FCS binary is now available for download from the OpenPortal WSRP project download page and has implemented all the WSRP 2.0 mandatory and most of the optional features. This project binary is being shipped into the below release vehicles apart from the above standalone install which the project provides as a wsrp-configurator.jar
1. Glassfish Web Space Server and
2. Liferay version 5.2 and higher.
The source code for the above is tagged as "liferay-5.2-snapshot" - In case you need the code for some debugging.
On the trunk work continues on the 2.1 release -- Which is a maintenance release. Please use the project mail list for any questions and comments.