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Analog Loop Bypass Switcher / Router / Mixer
The Pedal Palette is the first and only analog loop bypass switcher, router, and mixer capable of swapping effect pedals instantly while simultaneously providing a parallel mix bus. The routing and order of the effects is highly flexible and programmable offering unlimited options to create inspirational new sounds from existing pedals.
MIDI Controller / Loop Switcher
The Switch Dr. is a versatile and simple to program master controller that combines fully programmable MIDI control, true-bypass audio effects loops, and amp channel switching capabilities. The compact yet powerful Switch Dr. design is easy to use and meets all of your most basic needs – from sending a single program change to controlling an entire rig.
Decibel Eleven Hot Stone Pedal Power Supplies
Choose from three DB-11 Hot Stone isolated DC power supply models, each featuring short circuit protected isolated outputs to eliminate hum or interaction between pedals, Toroidal transformer with additional magnetic shielding, heavy-duty 2mm steel chassis and 5-year warranty.
Split Personality Amp Switcher
The Decibel Eleven Split Personality Amp Switcher delivers the performance you want by eliminating the buzz and hum caused by ground loops. The Class-A, discrete input buffer eliminates losses and loading problems due to splitting. In addition, the Split Personality is the only amp switcher pedal that is directly MIDI controllable and provides easy integration with any midi-controlled set up.
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Overdrive Distortion Pedal
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Adam Turman's mural for Butcher and the Boar restaurant, in downtown Minneapolis, depicts Minnesota in Autumn, Winter and Spring. An extension (obscured by cars on this day) shows Summer. I love the big-boned beauty on the bicycle who represents Autumn the best, but they're all wonderful. See more of Adam's work (and in-progress views of this mural) at adamturman.com / If you're ever in town, Butcher and the Boar is a carnivore's dream: butcherandtheboar.com
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yes its a thick syrup can be found in any grocery store she was a small poodle and when she had an episode my mom would give her a tablespoon full it would bring her right back.
yes its a thick syrup can be found in any grocery store she was a small poodle and when she had an episode my mom would give her a tablespoon full it would bring her right back.
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HRCH Kirby's High Sierra, SH, QAA "Kirby" Feb. 19, 2002 - Aug. 14, 2014
HRCH Niki Snowbird, SH, QAA "Niki" July 22, 2001 - May 11, 2015
Southland Order In the Court, QAA "Gavel" July 17, 2002- March 24, 2013
Southland Rusty Nail - derby points, qual placements "Rusty"
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Thank you....I'm going to pick one up. How much would you give your dog in that syringe at one time, and would you only do it once?
its very thick, sometimes my mom would just get some on her finger in and smear it inside her mouth I would not force anything into her mouth making her swallow if shes in a collapse You can have your vet check for hypoglycemia with a blood test. I'm not a vet this is just worked for our dog not saying thats whats wrong with her.
Symptoms of hypoglycemia: Symptoms include but are not limited to: Slow heartbeat and breathing, weak, sleepy, disoriented, wobbly, glassy eyed, and seizures. In some cases pets may lose consciousness and fall into a coma. Pets can die from hypoglycemia if they do not receive treatment.
Diagnosing hypoglycemia: Your veterinarian can diagnose hypoglycemia with a quick blood test that checks your pets blood glucose or blood sugar.
Treatment for hypoglycemia: If you notice your pet is acting wobbly or weak try giving some treats or canned food, anything you know your pet will eat. If your pet won't eat, try giving it some sugar, Karo syrup works the best. Rub the syrup on the gums and under the tongue if your pet is unconscious. If your pet is not unconscious and can swallow you can give the sugar with a needleless syringe. If your pets blood sugar drops it may also begin to suffer with hypothermia, so you'll need to help keep your cat or dog warm with a hot water bottle and blankets. A milk jug filled with steaming hot water makes a good hot water bottle in a pinch. This treatment can also work with puppies and kittens who are failing to thrive. After giving initial first aid get your pet to your veterinarian immidiately.
Diabetics and hypoglycemia: If diabetics are given to much insulin they can develop hypoglycemia.
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I'm pulling up this old post because a 6 yo male that I bred had an incident yesterday mid morning (only mid 50's at the most but humid/wet) while upland hunting. He had just made a couple nice retrieves and the buddy noticed him start to wobble. They said he basically fell over, was glassy eyed, trembling, hyperventilating / w/ very noisy breathing but responsive. He's never had an issue prior to this. They had been hunting hard for ~2.5 hrs at that point and had hunted just as hard the day prior.
I have offered to have him EIC tested since I know of one Affected in that litter (confirmed right after the test came out), also in an avid hunting home, but if that comes back negative, I'm guessing hypoglycemia may be a good bet. The guy said he normally offers more water but didn't offer as much yesterday and they were apparently near water a bit. Doesn't sound like he carries food on his hunts for the dog.
So to you who hunt avidly-- do you have a rule of thumb on when to offer energy bars, fluids etc, while out upland hunting? I'm thinking I want to add this info to my puppy packet if this is something that folks should be doing. TIA--- Anne
The "very noisy breathing" might indicate laryngeal paralysis. LP is most common in older dogs, but can show up at earlier ages.
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Is 2.5 hrs hunting hard 2 days in a row normal? IMO I thinks thats a lot for a dog without rotating dogs but maybe not?
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I seriously doubt it's LP, Kelly-- I'd think he'd have a high pitched bark if so, and never had an issue w/ that until late in life (~11) and only w/ my very first lab. When she went down, it was more of a wheezing, and no way would she have been able to work that long at that point.
My male died a year ago from LP and my Bear has it now, he's 12 and cannot even go for a walk. He starts coughing after a walk across the yard.


text: I have been reading for a while before I got my new puppy and now I am constantly on here looking up new things. It's gets addicting! I figured I'd introduce myself and my puppy. He is out of Gator Points Chopper. I know there is a thread going on about him right now. I had a great experience with Yvonne and Steve and I can already see many qualities of chopper coming out of my 12 week old puppy. He is a loving boy that wants to please. I have watched smart works puppy video and have Jackie Mertens on the way. He is doing great on obedience. He is a little picky about what he wants to retrieve but I'm just letting him be a puppy. I can't wait for the weather to warm a bit and get him swimming. Thanks for all the help you all have already given me.


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Keynoting GUADEC, travelling in Europe
This is exciting! I've been asked to keynote GUADEC, the Gnome Users and Developers European Conference, in A Coruña, Spain, at the end of this month. I'll be talking about my experiences with the world of open stuff since I stopped primarily being an open source developer a few years ago, about the ways open source software has inspired other movements, and about what we can learn from those other open projects in turn.
After the conference, I'll be sticking round for a couple of months (side note: damn, I'm glad I already dropped out of school and didn't have to make that decision in a rush) and playing tourist and visiting friends in Spain, France, and the UK, travelling extensively in all three countries. If you live in any of those places and would like to catch up — or even better, offer crash space — please let me know! I think there will be a couple of group gatherings in London at least.
Meanwhile, has anyone had experience travelling with the ebook versions of the Lonely Planet guides? How did you find them? I'd love to avoid carrying a couple of bricks around with me, but I'm wary about their usability, especially as the sample chapters available through iBooks crashed the app. Just in case it's relevant, I have a first gen iPad and a Nook onto which I side-load books using Calibre. (Not being in the US, I can't use the Nook store. If anyone knows workarounds for that, I'm interested to hear them.)


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Brian Hayes
Code On, Codon
Solomon W. Golomb of the University of Southern California, who was
a central figure in the first round of speculations about the
genetic code, has summed up the spirit of that era: The approach
taken in those days was to ask, "How would Nature have done it,
if she were as clever as I?" Now that we know how nature has
done it, you might think that the period of freewheeling conjecture
would be over, but I am pleased to report that there is no lack of
adventurous ideas about patterns and structures in the genetic code.
Here are just a few of the ideas in circulation.
One of the themes of the earlier period was the need to find some
compelling relation between the numbers 64 and 20. And this quest
had spectacular successes: In at least two schemes, the 64 codons
could specify exactly 20 amino acids, neither more nor less. The
mathematics was so beautiful, it was hard to believe nature would
pass up an opportunity to make use of it. Pierre Béland and
T. F. H. Allen of the St. Lawrence National Institute of
Ecotoxicology in Montreal argue that nature did not miss
the opportunity. They propose a primordial genetic code in which
information was read from both strands of the DNA at once, and all
messages were palindromic, so that they could be read in either
direction. Under these conditions, meaning can be assigned to only
20 of the 64 triplets.
A double-stranded translation system may sound outlandish, and yet
there are hints that the "antisense" strand of DNA may be
more than just a placeholder. Jaromir Konecny, Michael
Schöniger and G. Ludwig Hofacker of the Technical University of
Munich point out that a rough symmetry of the genetic code creates a
kind of antigene opposite every normal gene. Wherever the sense
strand calls for a hydrophilic amino acid, the antisense strand
(read in the opposite direction) is likely to code for a hydrophobic
one. It's even possible that some of these antisense pseudogenes are
transcribed in vivo. William F. Pendergraft III and six
colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have
recently detected immunological reactions to one such antisense protein.
More generally, there is growing recognition that the genetic code
may encompass more information than just the simple mapping from
codons to amino acids. Synonymous codons may not always be
completely equivalent. It's certainly true that codon frequencies
are not random or uniform. Among the several codons that specify a
given amino acid, some may be common and some rare, and these usage
biases can vary both within and between genomes. The biases probably
help to regulate the rate of protein synthesis: If the transfer RNA
that matches a codon is rare, then transcription of genes including
that codon will be slowed. For some proteins there is evidence that
such pace-setting codons help ensure correct folding of the amino
acid chain.
Another fertile area is the search for symmetries and patterns in
the genetic code. The standard table of codon assignments derives
from the obvious representation of the triplet code as a
4×4×4 cube. Several authors, observing that 64 is equal
not only to 43 but also to 26, suggest
organizing the codon table as a six-dimensional (2x2x2x2x2x2)
hypercube. A mutation is a movement from one vertex to an adjacent
vertex in this structure. The geometry is intriguing, and there are
interesting connections with Gray codes and even with the I
Ching, but I'm not so sure that biologists will find the
concept useful.
Not every interesting idea takes the form of a paper in the
Journal of Theoretical Biology. Another quite different
geometrical interpretation of the genetic code has been presented to
the world in the form of a design for a toy. Mark White, a physician
and inventor in Bloomington, Indiana, discovered that the genetic
code can be represented succinctly on a dodecahedron (a solid whose
surface consists of 12 pentagons) or its dual the icosahedron (made
up of 20 triangles). Each face of the dodecahedron is labeled with
one of the four nucleotides, each of which appears three times. Any
grouping of three adjacent faces, read in the right order, generates
the appropriate amino acid. White has made prototypes of toys that
incorporate this design. He observes that the icosahedral model is
closely related to the very first proposal for a triplet genetic
code, the "diamond code" devised in 1955 by George Gamow.
This neatly closes the circle and takes us back to the beginning of
the story.
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Funny thing is that both Arduino MEGA and GSM_Shield library are "supported" by the IComSat.(At least it's said in its website :p)
Hey, GOOD news!I had the amazing idea of opening the GSM_Shield.cpp and change all the "mySerial" for "Serial1", and deleting all the #include NewSoftSerialBy doing this, I just changed the comunication to Serial1 (pins 18 and 19) of MEGA, so I jumped the RX to the TX to these pins aaaaaand... the results are the following:system startupno callno callno call...And when I called the shield from my cellphone:incoming voice call from xxxxxxxxx (my number)YES, it's working!! I'm so happy!! That's it my friends!
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I updated my bio today to more accurately reflect reality.
I updated my bio today to more accurately reflect reality.
My contributions to the community have radically changed as of late. Due to my good fortune in being able to go to debconf2 (see my write up about it ) I decided to devote my work on the open source community to debian.
Since then, I've created two debian packages for inclusion in debian, imapfilter and limewire. imapfilter is already in the archive, but limewire is still pending.
I also have decided to become a debian developer, and am almost completely done with the applications process.
I also wrote a gtk frontend for the new debian installer.
I'm tremendously happy about working with Debian, and I couldn't have gotten as involved as I have without the help I got from Mako, Tolleff, and Joerg.
I plan to continue improving the debian-installer and package a number of gpl truetype fonts for inclusion in main. Im' currently discussing licensing issues with a number of font authors.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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I'm working on just such a thing. Can you elaborate on what some of the Leonardo's quirks are?Mike
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I finally got around to watching Knocked Up last night. Thought it was a great comedy flick.
I finally got around to watching Knocked Up last night. Thought it was a great comedy flick.
"You know I love the guy but I swear he writes like freaking Yoda."-Dean Winchester
R12:2-Be Transformed
I watched Resident Evil: Extinction last night. This movie was ok, enjoyable. Not as good as the other movies in the franchise, but still fun, with some great action and effects. This movie seemed more like a setup to a possible, and likely, 4th movie. By itself, it was much weaker than the others, but like I said, seemed like they did this one with the sole purpose of leading into the next installment; if that makes sense?!? I love Milla Jovovich, who is always great, and newcomer (to me anyways) Spencer Locke was pretty cute, I mean good too. This movie definitely had things going for it, but in the end I was disappointed - but like I said, I still enjoyed the movie. The very end sequence was pretty sweet.
BTW - Glad to hear you enjoyed There Will Be Blood GG. Daniel Day is a badass.
"That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't."
I watched The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. I thought it was a great flick. Very recommended.
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
Last weekend I saw Juno and Rambo 4, loved them both.
Super Bowl XLII and a New York Football Giants Win!!!!!
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
Oer thelast couple of days I have watched EDTV, The Truman Show and White Men Cant Jump
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
#24 - Gone but not forgotten
Finished up two movies today.
Renaissance - Visually awesome, but a bit complicated. I started it the other night and was pretty tired, so that may have added to the plot confusion for me. Or maybe it was because it's a French movie (at least it was in English!)
Black Snake Moan is one I've wanted to see for a while now and I loved it. Sam Jackson once again proves how great he is as an actor. Christina Ricci was also great. She and Sam have great chemistry together and the best parts of the movie are the ones with just the two of them. I had no idea Justin Timberlake was in it and to my shock...he was surprisingly good as well.
[FONT=Book Antiqua]He passes to Moses - He shoots, he scores![/FONT]
Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
BSM has been on my list for a while, too. I got the soundtrack and was surprised at how passable Samuel L was as a blues singer. He's not going to win any Handey Awards anytime soon, but he's not half bad.
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This month I focused on testing for the next release. My free time for the project was a big short anyway, as my family move to our new home and I had quite some janitorial work to do.
One lesson learned for the start. Some time ago I had problems with tests going crazy and eating memory. This can bring down the whole system which is bad. My solution at this time setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS,&rl) to cap the memory usage. While that works, that is also one way to shoot yourself in the foot. I was wondering why tests that work flawlessly on 32bit systems fail with "mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory". Doh, 64bit platforms need more memory than 32bit ones. Now I raised the limits unconditionally and everything is working again. Would be good to check the difference to see how much more memory 64bit apps that in average - its not twice as much I think.
I did lots of valgrinding and obviously found and squashed a few leaks. It would be really nice if each library would ship a suppression file as part of the dev package. The file could be installed to /usr/lib/valgrind/
From time to time potential users show up on irc and get scared when I ask them to build the latest version from the sources. In the need for having an easy way to offer testers and translators the latest version, I took a look at glick. It is actually pretty straight forward. The resulting glick files where initially somewhat large, but after pruning development files, they are just about 6 Mb. I have two of them online - one for 32bit and one for 64bit systems. How to use them? Just download and run them - they don't install anything. The only downside I can see so far is, that the glick bundle would use the same settings as the properly installed one, which could be harmful if different versions are run. Also the path to the example songs in the bundle is somewhat cryptic - /proc/self/fd/1023/share/buzztard/songs :/. Having better desktop integration of such bundles would be great too, but less see how glick evolves.
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Family: Scolopacidae, Sandpipers view all from this family
Description ADULT SUMMER Has striking rufous crown and ear coverts, and dark-centered rufous back feathers. Underparts are white, with streaking on neck and chest, and arrowhead streaks on breast and flanks. ADULT winter Has gray-brown upperparts and white underparts. JUVENILE Recalls summer adult, but lacks streaking on breast and flanks, and has only hint of rufous on crown and ear coverts.
Dimensions Length: 6 1/2" (17 cm)
Habitat Common, more so in west than east. Nests on tundra from Alaska to Siberia, migrates across region and winters from Gulf coast to South America.
Observation Tips On east coast, migrants are commonest in fall.
Range Great Lakes, New England, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Northwest, Texas, Southeast, California, Southwest, Eastern Canada, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Western Canada, Alaska
Voice A shrill jeet call.
Discussion Compared to similar Semipalmated, has relatively long, dark legs and rather long, tapering dark bill. Sexes are similar.


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11 here on the TX/OK border. Roads still icy. Winds are supposed to be 25-30 again today. High 15. Wife is visiting grand kids in Dallas. They are having rolling 20 minute power blackouts. I believe this is happening all over North TX.
Canada Geese are looking for handouts in the back yard.


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A particular challenge facing researchers lies in fungi's metabolic similarity to mammalian cells. Existing antifungal agents are unable to distinguish between infected and healthy cells, and frequently end up attacking the latter. Hence, patients commonly report hemolysis and nephrotoxicity as treatment side effects.
Leveraging IBM's polymer synthesis and computational expertise, as well as IBN's nanomedicine and biomaterials research expertise, the researchers transformed PET, a common plastic material, into novel small molecule compounds that self-assemble in water into nanofibers. Via electrostatic interaction, the nanofibers are able to selectively target fungal cells and penetrate their membrane, killing them in the process.
According to Dr Yi Yan Yang, group leader, IBN, "The ability of our molecules to self-assemble into nanofibers is important because unlike discrete molecules, fibers increase the local concentration of cationic charges and compound mass. This facilitates the targeting of the fungal membrane and its subsequent lysis, enabling the fungi to be destroyed at low concentrations. The result is a highly efficient killing strategy that causes minimal damage or toxicity to surrounding healthy cells."
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Hi... quick update. I released (ahem) adslcheck. Vry small thing that 'themes' the BT ADSL Checker for use with your own site. Mail me if you'd like it.
Also fixed a bug and added a feature to someone else's open source script, which is to do with this and can be found here.
I'll be updating my notes in a bit with the new webcomics i'm reading now.


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Gangway to Galilee
In Gangway to Galilee, kids set sail on an inspiring adventure with Jesus! Invite all your mates and get into ship-shape, for Jesus is the captain of this vessel. Kids learn that Jesus is big on grace, mercy, might, and majesty, but he's also "big on us." Grab your church and come all-aboard for the Gangway to Galilee voyage with Jesus and his disciples around the Sea of Galilee.
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237 Main Street, Amagansett, NY 11930
Price rangez:
Seven days, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday until 3 a.m., Memorial Day-Labor Day.
Friendly service and outdoor tables in summer are a trademark of this red-sauce Italian restaurant, where children are welcome and the price is right. Portions are large and each entree comes with a salad. Although all the familiar Italian dishes from chicken parmigiana to pizza are here, the fish of the day is recommended. Felice's shares a building with the Lupo family's pizzeria.


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North Korea: Alternative Spring Break
The division of Korea in 1945, the Korean War which spanned from 1950 to 1953, and resulted in the separation of the Korean peninsula, are some of the events that have left deep wounds in the people of both nations and continue to influence relations with North Korea. Further straining the region are the United States' military presence in South Korea and North Korea's nuclear development program which have brought it much attention in recent years.
Since 2003, both the U.S. and North Korea have participated in the Six-Party Talks meant to address the threat posed by a nuclear North Korea. In April 2009, North Korea quit the talks and announced that it would reverse the ongoing disablement process called for under the Six-Party agreements and restart its Yongbyon nuclear facilities. Given the history and legacies of the Korean War, decades of economic sanctions on the DPRK by the U.S., and current political tensions on the Korean peninsula that have been exacerbated by both increased U.S. military presence on the border and the DPRK's emerging nuclear program, it is vital for Americans to travel to this country to in order to help establish people-to-people ties.
The Citizens Diplomacy Reality Tour to North Korea will give participants the distinct opportunity to see inside this tightly guarded nation and gain first-hand perspective the effects of both U.S. and North Korean policies. Participants will have a chance to put a human face on this ongoing political dispute and help facilitate understanding and respect between people of different nations. Experience a slice of daily life at a school, farming coop, and temple and visit landmarks like the Sinchon War Museum and the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
If you want to learn more about what is like to travel to North Korea check our past participants blog post:
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"Any day as an American in North Korea is sure to be an immensely rewarding and stimulating experience"
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- Mangyongdae native house (birth place of President Kim Il Sung)
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- Kim Il Sung Square, Central Art Gallery, Foreign Language Bookshop, Tower of Juche Idea, Monument to Party Founding, American spy ship "Pueblo",Victorious Fatherland and Liberation War Museum
- Kaesong and Panmunjom (DMZ) and Koryo History Museum
- See a prtion of the Concrete Wall
- Visit the Kumsusan Memorial palace where late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie in state
- Visit the Korea Film Studios
- Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace
- Rakwon Paradise Microbrewery
- Drive to the western port city of Nampho
- Visit the Kangso Mineral Water Factory
- Visit the Chongsanri Cooperative Farm
- Double-room accommodations in a 3 star hotel in Beijing and North Korea
- Ground transportation on the day of the flight to the DPRK and all the transportation in the DPRK
- Round trip ticket from Beijing to Pyongyang on Air Koryo
- Welcome dinner in Beijing and three meals a day in the DPRK
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:31 PM GMT on June 25, 2010
The first tropical depression of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season appears imminent in the Western Caribbean, as the areal coverage and intensity of heavy thunderstorm activity associated with the tropical wave (Invest 93L) continue to increase. The storm has developed a surface circulation near 16.5N, 82.5W at 8am EDT, about 100 miles northeast of the Nicaragua/Honduras border. This is far enough from land that development will be slowed only slightly. Satellite loops show a poorly organized system, with only a modest amount of heavy thunderstorm activity near the center. However, the developing storm is affecting the weather across the entire Western Caribbean, and bands of heavy thunderstorms are quickly building over a large region. Pressures at ground stations and buoys all across the Western Caribbean have been falling significantly over the past day (Figure 2.) Water vapor satellite loops show that moist air surrounds 93L, and there is not much dry air to slow down development. There is an upper-level high pressure system a few hundred miles west of 93L, and the clockwise flow air around this high is bringing upper-level winds out of the northwest of about 10 - 15 knots over 93L, contributing to the 10 - 15 knots of wind shear observed in this morning's wind shear analysis from the University of Wisconsin's CIMSS group. Sea Surface Temperatures are very warm, 29 - 30°C. The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) currently favors upward motion over the Caribbean, which will act to increase the chances of tropical storm formation this week. The main negative for 93L is a combination of lack of spin and wind shear. Last night's pass of the ASCAT satellite showed a broad, elongated circulation, which will need to tighten up in order for 93L to become a tropical depression. The Hurricane Hunters are scheduled to fly into 93L at 2pm EDT this afternoon to see if a tropical depression has formed.
Figure 1. Morning visible satellite image of the central Caribbean disturbance 93L.
Figure 2. Combined plot of wind speed, wind gusts, and pressure at buoy 42057 in the Western Caribbean. Pressure (green line) has fallen significantly over the past two days, and winds are beginning to increase.
Forecast for 93L
The greatest risk from 93L to the Western Caribbean will be heavy rainfall, and the nation most at risk is Honduras. The counter-clockwise flow of air around 93L will bring bands of rain capable of bringing 4 - 8 inches of rain to northern Honduras over the next two days. Heavy rains of 3 - 6 inches can also be expected in northeast Nicaragua, Cuba, Belize, the Cayman Islands, and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The storm is moving west-northwest at about 10 mph, and this motion is expected to gradually slow over the next five days to about 6 mph. I expect that by tomorrow, 93L should be closer to being directly underneath the upper level high pressure system to its west, which would act to lower wind shear and provide more favorable upper-level outflow. NHC is giving 93L a 70% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Sunday morning, which is a reasonable forecast. The storm will probably be a tropical depression or tropical storm with 40 mph winds when it moves over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday. The storm will probably spend a day or so over the Yucatan, resulting in significant weakening. Once 93L emerges over the Gulf of Mexico, it will take the storm 24+ hours to recover its strength.
A trough of low pressure is expected to swing down over the Eastern U.S. on Monday. If this trough is strong enough and 93L develops significantly, the storm could get pulled northwards and make landfall along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. This is the solution of the GFDL and HWRF models. If 93L stays weak and/or the trough is not so strong, the storm would get pushed west-northwestwards across Mexico's Bay of Campeche and make landfall along Mexican coast south of Texas, or in Texas. This is the solution of the NOGAPS, ECMWF, and Canadian models. A likely landfall location is difficult to speculate on at this point, and the storm could hit virtually anywhere along the Gulf of Mexico coast given the current uncertainty in its development. The amount of wind shear in the Gulf of Mexico next week is also highly uncertain. There is currently a band of high shear near 30 knots over the Gulf. The GFS model predicts that this band of high shear will lift northwards, keeping low wind shear over the Gulf next week. However, the ECMWF model keeps high shear entrenched over the Gulf of Mexico, which would make it unlikely 93L could intensify into a hurricane. In summary, I give 93L a 60% chance of eventually becoming Tropical Storm Alex, and 10% chance of eventually becoming a hurricane.
Elsewhere in the tropics
A tropical wave a few hundred miles northeast of the northernmost Lesser Antilles Islands is producing a modest amount of heavy thunderstorm activity. This system was designated Invest 94 by NHC this morning, and is passing beneath a trough of low pressure that is generating 30 - 40 knots of wind shear. However, by Sunday, the storm will be in a region of much lower wind shear, and NHC is giving the storm a 10% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Sunday morning. We do have one model, the GFS, which develops the system early next week. The GFS model takes the storm to the northwest and then north, predicting it will be very close to Bermuda on Tuesday.
Figure 3. Hurricane Celia as a Category 4 storm at 20:55 UTC Thursday, June 24, 2010, as captured by NASA's MODIS instrument.
Impressive Hurricane Celia hits Category 5
The first Category 5 hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere this year is Hurricane Celia in the Eastern Pacific. Celia's 160 mph winds make it tied with Australia's Tropical Cyclone Ului as the strongest tropical cyclone in the world so far in 2010. Celia has likely peaked in intensity, and is not expected to threaten any land areas.
Wind and ocean current forecast for the BP oil disaster
East to southeast winds of 5 - 15 knots will blow in the northern Gulf of Mexico today through Tuesday, according to the latest marine forecast from NOAA. The resulting weak ocean currents should push the oil to the west and northwest onto portions of the Louisiana and Alabama coasts, according to the latest trajectory forecasts from NOAA and the State of Louisiana. I would expect Mississippi to have its most serious threat of oil yet early next week as these winds continue. The longer range outlook is uncertain, and will depend upon what 93L does.
Resources for the BP oil disaster
Map of oil spill location from the NOAA Satellite Services Division
My post, What a hurricane would do the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
My post on the Southwest Florida "Forbidden Zone" where surface oil will rarely go
My post on what oil might do to a hurricane
NOAA's interactive mapping tool to overlay wind and ocean current forecasts, oil locations, etc.
Gulf Oil Blog from the UGA Department of Marine Sciences
Oil Spill Academic Task Force
University of South Florida Ocean Circulation Group oil spill forecasts
ROFFS Deepwater Horizon page
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the University of Miami
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Reality Check: Baldwin ad targets Thompson's ties to pharmaceutical industry
Tammy Baldwin running against Thompson in U.S. Senate race
MADISON, Wis. - Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin is trying to define her opponent in a tough race for U.S. Senate by running a television ad that makes Wisconsin's longest-serving governor look like he's cashing in on Washington connections.
"Tommy Thompson left Wisconsin for Washington," the announcer says in the ad. "Boy, did he. Working for George Bush, Tommy cut a sweetheart deal with drug companies making it illegal for Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. It cost taxpayers $156 billion."
WISC-TV found this needs clarification. When Thompson was the secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush, he did push for the Medicare Part-D program, which is the government's prescription drug plan for seniors. Under that plan, the government is barred from negotiating prescription drug prices. Instead, private insurers that provide the plan work with the drug companies to set costs.
How much has it cost? The $156 billion number cited in the ad comes from a report put together by House democrats in 2008 saying that's how much could be saved in 10 years if the government could negotiate. At the end of 2012, we're only four years into that. Republicans charge that Medicare Part-D has already cost less money than budgeted and seniors have access to more drugs.
"Then Tommy made millions working for a lobbying firm that represents drug companies," the announcer says in the ad.
WISC-TV found this also needs clarification. Thompson did work for the law firm Akin-Gump from when he left HHS to just before he began his run for U.S. Senate. The firm represents a number of pharmaceutical companies. When WISC-TV asked Thompson's campaign whether he did any lobbying work for the firm, the campaign said he was never a "lobbyist," but rather was a "strategic adviser" in Akin-Gump's health care practice.
As far as how much money he made, Thompson has said his net worth is around $13 million. That's not to say what exactly he made while working for Akin-Gump, although he did also make some income from holding stock in the pharmaceutical industry.
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1.10: Scientific Models
Why do scientists need models?
What does it mean when the newspaper reports the results of a scientist's most recent climate modelling? Scientists work with models when the system they are interested in studying is too complex, too remote, or too difficult to deal with as a whole. Models are necessary in science, but it must always be remembered that they are models.
Models are Useful Tools
Scientific models are useful tools in science. Earth's climate is extremely complex, with many factors that are dependent on one another. Such a system is impossible for scientists to work with as a whole. To deal with such complexity, scientists may create models to represent the system that they are interested in studying.
Scientists must validate their ideas by testing. A model can be manipulated and adjusted far more easily than a real system. Models help scientists understand, analyze, and make predictions about systems that would be impossible to study as a whole. If a scientist wants to understand how rising CO2 levels will affect climate, it will be easier to model a smaller portion of that system. For example, he may model how higher levels of CO2 affect plant growth and the effect that will have on climate.
Models can be Used to Make Predictions
How can scientists know if a model designed to predict the future is likely to be accurate, since it may not be possible to wait long enough to see if the prediction comes true? One way is to run the model using a time in the past as the starting point see if the model can accurately predict the present. A model that can successfully predict the present is more likely to be accurate when predicting the future.
Many models are created on computers because only computers can handle and manipulate such enormous amounts of data. For example, climate models are very useful for trying to determine what types of changes we can expect as the composition of the atmosphere changes. A reasonably accurate climate model would be impossible on anything other than the most powerful computers.
Models Have Limitations
Since models are simpler than real objects or systems, they have limitations. A model deals with only a portion of a system. It may not predict the behavior of the real system very accurately. But the more computing power that goes into the model and the care with which the scientists construct the model can increase the chances that a model will be accurate.
Types of Models
- Physical models are smaller and simpler representations of the thing being studied. A globe or a map is a physical model of a portion or all of Earth.
- Conceptual models tie together many ideas to explain a phenomenon or event.
- Mathematical models are sets of equations that take into account many factors to represent a phenomenon. Mathematical models are usually done on computers.
- A model is a representation of a more complex system. Models can be manipulated far more easily than the system they represent.
- Models can be used to make predictions.
- Models may be physical, conceptual, or mathematical.
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Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. What is a model?
2. How do scientists create models?
3. How are models checked for accuracy?
4. How did Dr. Hansen check his model?
5. What are the challenges associated with modeling?
1. If models have limitations, why do scientists use them?
2. What are some types of scientific models that you can name?
3. Imagine you make a model to predict an earthquake in a particular location. What factors would you need to include? How accurately do you think your model might predict that earthquake?
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Being a ristorante on Federal Hill is a lot like being just another olive tree in the grove. The challenge is to distinguish yourself so that people will keep coming back, will pick you. Since Zooma has been a fixture on at Atwells Avenue's Italian restaurant row for nearly five years, it looks like they're doing something right.
The first impression streetside is attractive. Flower boxes run the length of the gray-and-violet façade, a homey presence. In warm and sunny weather, a line of tables for two pops up alongside the flowers. The lettering of the name — the two Os in Zooma linked like a magic trick — is catchy, maybe going for hip. Inside, the prominent bar is slick, our attention pulled by large backlit orange Ls. That's a good idea, seeing as the place likes to add "Bar-Ristorante," in that order, after its name. (The extensive list of wines also grabs attention, with many offered by the glass, adding enoteca to its description.)
We wanted something quieter than the bar area, so we requested seating in back. Informality is an option here too, with stools along a counter overlooking the open kitchen. But it was a table for us, the tablecloth not topped with glass or paper, bistro style. The background music was from the Sinatra channel on Sirius, so all that was missing was can-dlelight.
Looking over the seasonally changing menu, we dabbed at olive oil poured into plates for us — no need to turn down butter and request some. Unusually, the Italian bread was better then the focaccia, which was spongy and too salty. Pleasantly, we didn't have to spring for an $8 bottle of San Pellegrino, because their tap water was very well-filtered.
Most of the appetizers are $10 and $11 and run the traditional gamut: mussels in white wine sauce, calamari, both beef and tuna carpaccios. An unusual offering was lightly breaded and pan-fried risotto and montaggio cheese, marinara on the side — take that, mozzarella sticks. The saute di calamari sounded different enough for us to try, so we did and were mostly pleased. Both the rings and tentacles were as tender as I've ever had, accompanied by cherry tomatoes and roasted garlic and tossed with a mild, white balsamic vinegar. Pan-fried rather than deep-fried, they were greasier than desirable, though. For starters, there is also pasta e fagioli, the traditional pasta and white bean soup, and broc-coli and potato soup topped with smoked mozzarella (both $8); and choice of four salads.
Zooma's executive chef Jeff Burgess is especially proud of their primi piatti, 19 pasta courses, more than twice the number of the entrées on the menu. Fifteen are kitchen-made. There are four kinds of ravioli alone, from chevre-filled in brown butter, to a lobster and mascarpone filling with a vermouth-finished sauce. We had the day's pasta spe-cial, whole-wheat tagliatelle with a crimini mushroom, cherry tomato, and artichoke heart sauté ($14). I chose it because of the whole-wheat challenge — such pasta attempts can be more healthful than tasty, but this was quite good, not at all grainy.
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Poll: Bolster Your Career in 2007
Best way for you to bolster your career in 2007:
- Pass a Certification Exam
- Attend Courses / Continuing Ed
- Get My Bachelors / Masters / PhD
- Get Book or Article Published
- Teach a Course
- Gain More Practical Experience
After jumping out to a big early lead, experience was supplanted by passing a cert exam. Now they are neck and neck. No other item even comes close to these 2.
This is the first time I started a forum topic on the main page polls, but this just made me curious why people voted the way they did. I know you could only vote for one item, so please offer feedback on your one vote and maybe even what your second or third choices would have been. Were there any other options not listed that you would have chosen had they been included? If you are not a member yet (as these polls are open to non-members), maybe now is a good time to take the plunge.
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After attack, Kazakhstan publisher goes missing
New York, April 1, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Kazakh authorities today to immediately investigate the whereabouts of Daniyar Moldashev, director of ADP Ltd, publisher of the independent Almaty newspaper Respublika.
Colleagues said Thursday that Moldashev had disappeared, days after being assaulted and shortly before the country's presidential election.
"We are gravely concerned about the health and well-being of Daniyar Moldashev and call on Kazakh authorities to positively determine his whereabouts and ensure his safety," CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova said.


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By Tiernan Ray
Here are some thing going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of BlackBerry (BBRY) are up 16 cents, or 1.7%, at $9.71, as the company's annual shareholder meeting gets underway in Waterloo, Ontario. You can follow along with the meeting via the webcast on the company's Web site.
The only pieces of news out of the meeting so far this morning was that shareholders re-elected all directors of the company, and that they formally approved the name change from Research in Motion to BlackBerry. CEO Thorsten Heins noted that 19,000 institutions had installed an instance of the BES10 server software for mobile devices, calling the software the "single most opportunity for us" for selling more devices and services.
Shares of chip equipment maker Applied Materials (AMAT) are up 52 cents, or 3.4%, at $15.66, after the company yesterday kicked off its analyst day session, in conjunction with the Semicon West trade show in San Francisco, and projected profit of $1.50 to $2.15 per share by 2016, which would be well above the 62 cents the Street expects for the fiscal year ending this October.
Edwin Mok of Needham & Co. issued a skeptical note this morning, reiterating a Hold rating, and writing that things the company trumpeted, such as three-dimensional NAND flash chips, and 20-nanometer chip fabrication, will not in themselves drive the kinds of earnings growth the company has projected.
Shares of Barnes & Noble (BKS) are up 75 cents, or 4.3%, at $18.41, after the company late yesterday announced CEO William Lynch resigned. Executive chairman of the board Leonard Riggio gave no details about the company's intention for its "Nook" e-book reader business, but said that "the Company is in the process of reviewing its current strategic plan and will provide an update when appropriate."
Stifel Nicolaus's David Schick this morning writes that he sees very little "wiggle room" for the company in the Nook business, save perhaps for a sale of the business. However, he also opines that "Ultimately, we believe NOOK success will depend on more effective content distribution across all channels, including Windows 8 (still maturing), a yet-unnamed third party tablet (impossible to judge yet), and continued investment in lower tech e-ink readers (hopefully a focus after color-tablets are outsourced)."
Shares of International Business Machines (IBM) are down $3.60, or 1.9%, at $191.38, after Goldman Sachs's Bill Shope cut his rating on the stock from Buy to Neutral, and cut his price target to $200 from $220, writing that "We believe that pressures on IBM's growth markets and higher-margin revenue streams may intensify in the near term, weakening some of the key sources of IBM's earnings and cash flow resiliency in coming quarters."
In case you missed it, Taiwan's Want China Times this morning reports, in an article sans byline, that Foxconn Technology Group is staffing up for production of Apple's (AAPL) "iPhone 6," citing a recruiting agent in China's Henan province. The article refers to the iPhone 6 as "scheduled to be rolled out the second half of the year." It's not clear if the article is referring to what other have commonly expected to be an "iPhone 5S," or to another model beyond that.
Apple shares are up $1.32, or 0.3% at $416.37.
Microsoft may unveil the details of a restructuring plan this Thursday, according to AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, citing multiple unnamed sources. Swisher writes that "The effort, said many insiders who have talked to Ballmer and other involved, is to create something that is being called "functional coherence" at the company, although it is not among Microsoft's talking points when the restructuring will be made public."
Microsoft shares are up 3 cents at $34.36.


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Basics of Geometry
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This chapter introduces students to the concept of reasoning in a geometric setting, with emphasis on proving theorems about angle pairs and segments.
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Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
This chapter covers parallel and perpendicular lines and planes. Also considered are angle relationships and the equations of lines and slopes.
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Triangles and Congruence
This chapter explores triangles in geometry with respect to congruency and angles. Also covered are some unique types of triangles.
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This chapter continues to explore triangles with an emphasis on triangle relationships, properties of segments and angles, and the properties associated with the sides of triangles.
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This chapter introduces students to polygons and quadrilaterals, including parallelograms, rhombi, rectangles, squares, kites, and trapezoids.
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This chapter starts with a review of ratios and proportions and then introduces the concept of similarity. Similarity is applied to polygons, quadrilaterals, triangles, proportionality with parallel lines, dilations and fractals.
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Right Triangle Trigonometry
In this chapter, the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse are proved. Then, trigonometry is introduced, starting with the tangent, sine and cosine ratios, and then extended to any triangle, through the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines.
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This chapter covers all the parts of a circle and explores the properties of tangent lines, arcs, inscribed angles, chords, angles and segments that are formed by chords, tangents and secants, equations and graphs of circles.
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Perimeter and Area
In this chapter, students learn how to find the perimeter and area of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, and circles.
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Surface Area and Volume
This chapter extends what we know about two-dimensional figures to three-dimensional shapes. Different types of 3D shapes and their parts are defined. Then, surface area and volume of prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres are found.
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Rigid Transformations
The final chapter of Geometry transforms a figure by moving, flipping, or rotating it. First, it looks at symmetry, followed by the different transformations.


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Cris 'Cyborg' Justino vs. Martina Jindrova Added to Lion Fight 11 Card
- Written by Dave Walsh
Lion Fight 11 on September 20th has already been shaping up to be a pretty incredible card, featuring Kevin Ross vs. Tetsuya Yamato and Nampon vs. Cosmo Alexandre, but now a third big fight has been added by the way of former Strikeforce champion and current Invicta FC champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino (formerly Santos). Cyborg is perhaps best known for her run in Strikeforce which included wins over Marloes Coenen as well as Gina Carano. She is just coming off of a win over Coenen at Invicta FC and it was announced today that she will return to Muay Thai under the Lion Fight banner on September 20th against Martina Jindrova of Holland.
Jindrova fights out of Brutal Gym in Holland with a record of 17-5 and looks forward to making her Lion Fight debut against a star like Cris Cyborg.
"I know Cyborg is a huge MMA star and this is a big challenge for me to fight an opponent like her," said Jindrova. "She is very strong with hard punches, kicks and knees. But this is not an MMA, this is Muay Thai and she will be fighting me against my rules. I'm very proud to be on this historic Lion Fight 11 card and am ready to make a great knockout win for the fans."


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Congrats again Bama fans.....
Congrats again Bama fans.....
the hit on murray was WAY cheap. bon, even if it was legal after the turnover, it don't make it right. murray is TOUGH and he had a great game. congrats to georgia's fans, coach richt and the dawgs, they just ran out of time!
that said, wow what a dang football game. just another boring sec defensive struggle. i am glad the bcs computers can't watch football......if they could they would rematch bama and georgia and dump the irish to 3rd!
john mccallie
Truly a great game to watch........Roll tide
Definitely an exciting game. Stinks GA falls out of BCS. Can't wait for some kind of playoff.
the longhorns take the lead. you better quit lookin at rtf!
hey i think there should be a prize for the 1000th poster on page 100 of this awesome thread. i will buy the 1000th poster a college team hat of their choice!
john mccallie
I have to give Alabama all of the credit they deserve. They played sixty minutes of smash mouth knock your @(#& in your watch pocket football.
I just hope that my Dawgs performance was enough to hold us ahead of Florida and in the Sugar Bowl. If it isn't, can we please play Oregon, K-State or some other all offensive team? PLEASE?!?!
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Engraved portrait of Caravaggio from 'Vite dei Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti Moderni. Descritte da Gio' by Pietro Bellori (1613-1696), 1728. Sir Denis Mahon Library and Archive, NGI
The Taking of Christ is heavily featured in monographs held in the National Gallery of Ireland's art library, with seven books featuring the painting on their front covers, therefore showing the current popularity not only of the artist but the high level of esteem that this particular painting holds internationally. Indeed a novel was written on this one painting; 'The lost painting; the quest for a Caravaggio masterpiece' by Jonathan Harr (2005) which discusses the commission of the painting, its provenance and then discovery at the residence of the Society of Jesuits, Dublin in 1993.
The principle journal articles that discuss this painting are authored by Francesca Cappelletti (Burlington, 1993), and Sergio Benedetti (Burlington,1993, 1995). Caravaggio is frequently discussed in more general guides to Italian baroque painting, but the earliest books which discuss his achievements date from the late 17th century.
An early critical assessment of Caravaggio's paintings, held in the National Gallery of Ireland, is 'Le vite dei pittori' written by Pietro Bellori (1613-1696) which includes an engraved plate of the artist accompanying the text (see above). This very rare book comes from the collection of the late Sir Denis Mahon and provides an important contextual account of the artist's life (the original edition dating from 1672) and an indication of the contemporary appreciation of his work, being written relatively shortly after his death in 1610.
Suggested Bibliography
Apesos, Anthony. (2010). The painter as evangelist in Caravaggio's 'Taking of Christ' . Woodcliff Lake: Aurora: the journal of the historyof artFine Art Library 709.45CAR
Benedetti, Sergio. 'Caravaggio's Taking of Christ'. Addendum to his 1993 article. Burlington Magazine, Vol. 137, issue 1102 (Jan 1995), pp. 37-38.
Benedetti, Sergio. (1993). Caravaggio : the master revealed. Dublin: National Gallery of IrelandFine Art Library 708.15DUB/NGI
Benedetti,Sergio. 'Caravaggio's Taking of Christ: a masterpiece rediscovered'. Burlington Magazine, Vol. 135, issue 1088 (Nov 1993), pp. 731-746
Benedetti, Sergio. (1992). Caravaggio and his followers in the National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin: National Gallery of IrelandFine Art Library 708.15DUB/NGI
Cappelletti, Francesca. 'The documentary evidence of the early history of Caravaggio's Taking of Christ'. Burlington Magazine, Vol. 135, issue 1088 (Nov 1993), pp. 742-746.
Cassani, Silvia. (2005). Caravaggio : the final years. Naples: ElectaFine Art Library 709.45CAR
Clark, Edward. (2010). Caravaggio's friends and foes. London: Whitfield Fine ArtFine Art Library 709.45CAR
Franklin, David. (2011). Caravaggio and his followers in Rome. New Haven and London: Yale University Press Fine Art Library 709.45CAR
Fried, Michael. (2010). The moment of Caravaggio. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University PressFine Art Library 709.45CAR
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. (2010). Caravaggio : a life sacred and profane. London: Penguin Books LtdFine Art Library 709.45CAR
Harr, Jonathan. (2005). The lost painting : the quest for a Caravaggio masterpiece. New York: Random HouseFine Art Library 709.45CAR
Langdon, Helen. (1999). Caravaggio : a life. London: Pimlico Fine Art Library 709.45CAR
Moir, Alfred. (1982). Caravaggio. New York: Harry N. AbramsFine Art Library 709.45CAR
Montebello , Philippe de. (1985). The age of Caravaggio. New York: Metropolitan Museum of ArtFine Art Library 709.45CAR Strinati, Claudio M. (2010). Caravaggio. Milano: SkiraNote: Text in Italian.Fine Art Library 709.45CAR
Vodret, Rosella. (2010). Caravaggio : the complete works. Milan: Silvana Editoriale Fine Art Library 709.45CAR
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I recently read an interview with Alan Kay at The Queue entitled: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk--and much more and it was, yet again, one of the most informative interviews I've read in a long time. I once had the pleasure to have met and talked to Alan Kay many years ago. His grasp of what computer science "should" be is deeper than anyone I've ever met.
Of particular interest in the article, his comment about C++ was revealing:
"You have to be a different kind of person to love C++. It is a really interesting example of how a well-meant idea went wrong, because [C++ creator] Bjarne Stroustrup was not trying to do what he has been criticized for. His idea was that first, it might be useful if you did to C what Simula did to Algol, which is basically act as a preprocessor for a different kind of architectural template for programming. It was basically for super-good programmers who are supposed to subclass everything, including the storage allocator, before they did anything serious. The result, of course, was that most programmers did not subclass much. So the people I know who like C++ and have done good things in C++ have been serious iron-men who have basically taken it for what it is, which is a kind of macroprocessor." - Alan Kay - 2005
That's probably the most accurate depiction of C++ I've ever read.
Ahkh: Speed doesn't really bother me that much. What bothers me more than anything is the underlying responsiveness of X. Grabbing with the cursor is one of those things. If I grab a corner of a window to resize it, in MS Windows and on the MacIntosh, I'm greeted with an instant (< 1ms) response time on the interaction. In X on ALL of my platforms, many times I'll grab and EXPECT that 1ms responsiveness to often times I'm greeted with a rubber band selector for desktop icons. I usually have to click and wait a few milliseconds (3 - 5) before I am guaranteed my selection.
You do bring up a good point about overall application responsiveness though. It takes upwards of 10 seconds for FireFox to display on some of my machines. It doesn't even render a window for 10 seconds. It sits with the application launch icon in the environment. Sure, I can go do other things, but I'm not doing other things at that particular moment in time. This is yet another reason I don't think X will ever be embraced by the common desktop user. We're dead center in the instant gratification generation.
pbor: One of the biggest flaws I see a lot in open source GUI applications these days is this odd desire for developers to add features for no better reason than to add them. While some folks might appreciate having a file icon in a MRU dropdown, the sad fact is this leads to code bloat and it conveys very little information to the end user. Sure, the metaphor is there, but metaphors were really fun when there were only 50 desktop applications, but with 500 - 1000 desktop applications, the whole concept of trying to remember 500 - 1000 icons plus all of the metaphoric icons within those applications becomes unreasonable.
I'm glad you guys are making the effort to actually look at performance bottlenecks within GEdit, as it seems that many of the open source developers are not. Although I use GEdit rarely, I do use it.
Is it unreasonable for people to question the use of large, by desktop territory standards, toolbar? Do we really need Undo and Redo options in a toolbar? Do we really need ANY of those types of toolbars on a text editor?


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The EuroPython juggernaut rumbles on... see you in Göteborg in 2005!
nconway: Well, at least a wikipedia-editing addiction is a useful addiction :-) So far I've only become addicted to reading it...
An interesting read, by the way. I've been thinking a bit about splines and interpolation and such recently, but in a rather different context. For a long time I've had an ill-informed interest in 3D graphics, and I've spent a small part of the last few weeks trying to turn this into a better informed interest. I've installed blender and played around with it a bit. I'm not sure how much I've learnt yet (apart from the fact that the blender interface almost defines idiosyncracy).
I've also spent a while trying to write a new version of Python's rather dogs-breakfast-y Extending and Embedding manual. It's still very much a work in progress, but if anyone has any comments, I'm all ears.
Hmm, advogato reappears just as I finally set up my own blog. Hmm, what to do. A potential advantage of my own blog is that I can hack on it to support various Emacs/reST-y integration issues, but that's only relavent if I get around to it...
ncm: Well, I'd probably mirror my own blog here in any case, and besides, that's what Planets are for.
We're just putting the finishing touches on the programme for EuroPython 2004.
My, what a lot of talks! Should be good — there's going to be some tough decisions on which track to follow at some points.
The world would be a scarier place if virus writers were less incompetent.
Random Thought For The Day
At the ACCU conference a week or so back, Steve Alexander mentioned that the constituent parts of large Python projects he'd worked on were more loosely coupled than those of similarly sized Java projects.
I wonder if this is in part because of the prominence of unit testing in the Python world.
If you're trying to write a unit test for some object that requires you set up six billion other objects before you can create an instance of the class being tested (a) you don't have a unit test any more and (b) it's just really really annoying. It always helps when doing the wrong thing grates.
I doubt this counts as a particularly profound thought, but I've just now had it strike me. I guess this is also an XP-ish thing: when you come across something that smells bad like the tight coupling I've just been removing, do something about it. Like, now.
Another tangent to this is when you're doing test driven development (I don't feel I can capitalize that phrase in the context of what I've been doing for this particular personal hack) you really have to structure your program in a way that supports this methodology. I'm not sure people always realize this.
To pick two methodologies that in some sense are opposite extremes, consider the arguments that crop up from time to time between the static typing crowd and the unit testing crowd. The static typing crowd are used to structuring their programs in a way that maximizes the advantage of their methodology, i.e. crafting types in such a way that if your program compiles it has a damn good chance of doing what you want. The unit testers are experts at separating their problems into components that can be tested individually and writing thorough tests. I suspect that some of the reasons for the flamewars is a failure to appreciate the other "side's" practices.
(Hopefully you'll have noticed an assumption above that "static typing" means ML or Haskell or something like that. C coders just lose. Java I don't know much about but probably loses too. In C++ it's probably possible not to lose, but oh my, it hurts.)
As to which "side" is better, well, I'm not going to attempt an answer to that question :-) One thing to consider, though, is the side benefits of a given methodology such as the unit testing driving loose coupling. There are probably side benefits to the powerful static type system approach, too. I will notice that for sub-genius programmers, the unit test approach is probably just plain easier.
Of course, there no reason static typing and unit testing are mutually exclusive. Though, it seems to me that a unit test framework for ML (say) would have to include tests that 'merely' assert that some piece of code does or does not compile -- unit testing the type system, in other words. Hmm, the advantages of setting things down in prose: that last thought had definitely not occurred to me when I started this post... I wonder if any work has been done in this direction.
The Hack
Oh yes, the hack I've been working on: a PowerPC assembler in pure Python :-)
This has its own special fun in that a failing test is more likely to show up as a core dump than as a traceback...
Talk at EuroPython
You only have a week left to submit a talk at EuroPython 2004.
Or you can still register at the early bird rate for another fortnight or so.
It's going to be good!
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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ApacheCon Presentation
All went quite well. About 22 people showed up initially and I think 30 people in all because some came in after the break. Only 2 people left after the break, which is good. I thought that I did a good job of covering the information without too many Umms or pauses or getting lost. There were some good questions from the audience and I feel like I helped some people either resolve their problems, guide them to the right place or discourage them from using FrontPage at all. As a viable alternative, I suggested that everyone wait for WebDAV to mature. I think that I'm going to try to work up another presentation to do at ApacheCon Europe in Dublin, Ireland.
Numeric Utilities
During some free time at ApacheCon and while on the plane I wrote the majority of code for the initial versions of numsum, numgrep and numavg. From testing them so far I think they work pretty well and will be well recieved. I'll have to submit them to CVS on sourceforge pretty soon so others can take a look.


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Thread: Penguin Tetra
Penguin Tetra
Does anyone have any experience with this species they'd be willing to share?
I'm shortlisting for future stock for a 350litre tank and would plan on keeping a school of something with my cherry barbs (28) but AqAdvisor tells me penguins can be a bit too agressive for the barbs.
Any info appreciated."Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~
Thayeria boehlkei is the one we're talking about? Quite a few years ago. Timid fish, really needs group security. Peaceful unless live foods are dispensed in which case it displays a feeding frenzy that would make a tiger barb blush.
That's the one. Cheers.
Yes, I was considering a school of 10-15 when I upgrade but I am concerned they may be too boisterous for my rather pathetic and shy cherry barbs. Did you have any aggression or bullying problems with them? Would you keep them with cherry barbs? I'm not rushing into getting anything that I think might not be a good fit with a peaceful community (and I don't even have the tank yet!)"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~
No issues but I did have a bare minimum group of 5. Some discussion about pecking order but less than I get with my harlequins. In my experience not a boisterous species at all! I don't see why they wouldn't mix with cherry barbs certainly if you stick with what you've shown so far, a tank planted well enough to allow for seperate territories.
I don't think I'd keep this species in an unplanted tank.
Knowing how you research you've probably visited this site: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...47883778,d.cGE lot's of great information.
The one time I kept them years back, I never noticed any of the fin nipping going on that's mentioned but I did keep them in a group of 10.Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Sandy Hook Elementary......Lest We Forget
See my profile for my tanks and what fish I keep
Yes, I saw that page. Thanks. Interesting that it's really called the False Penguin Tetra. True Penguin Tetras are not half as attractive: http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/thayeria-obliqua/
Ok, it's still in the shortlist for me then. I may make a few more trips to the LFS to view some in person. I might change my mind when I see them.
Also on the shortlist (either instead of or in combination) are black neon tetra and rummynose tetra (although their sensitivity and preference for soft, acidic water makes them a less suitable choice for me).
Current earmarked tank is a Juwel Rio 300. I've not decided yet whether or not to cut out the built in filter, or to leave it and use it as a water polisher (packed with filter floss/foam)."Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
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That's a matter of taste. To me true penguins look a lot more interesting because they're so rare in the shops here.
Pretty much all of the South American tetras do best on soft, somewhat acidic water. I've found that in this country quite a few window cleaning companies sell excess RO water to anyone showing up with some 25 liter jugs and for next to nothing 2-5 euros for 100 liters. Mixing part ro water and some leaf litter or alder cones will do a lot for species like this.
Performing a filterectomy is up to you. They do work well but are a bit of an eyesore. An eheim 2217 or a tetra ex1200 would work well for this tank. I take it you're familiar with http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/fish/f...nister_filters ?
I've read a few accounts that captive breds are ok in anything up to pH8 and quite hard.
I'm not buying RO water. I have no car so getting it to my flat would be so much of a drag it would spoil the hobby for me. I'd rather just choose species that do ok in what I have immediately to hand.
I already have an Eheim Pro 3 and an Eheim Classic 2213 so, thankfully, don't need to purchase anything extra on that front.
The substrate I'm still looking at. I've got ADA Malaya in my tank at the moment but I'm not very happy with it - it's no where near as fertile as some of the alternatives. I'll probably bag it and sell it second-hand. I'd like to switch to ADA Amazonia (will need to pre-soak it in a bin as it'll leech ammonia for a couple of weeks). Enough bags for a tank that size will cost me a bomb though. I don't really want sand - I'd prefer a dedicated planting substrate as I like the fact it doesn't require any vaccuuming and will provide a food source for up to a year for the plants. The other one on the shortlist was Eco-Complete but the bags are as expensive as ADA but much smaller...so not an economical choice.
Thanks for your input by the way...very helpful as I'm casting my nets of choice!"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
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Stars of today's police "tweet-a-thon'' included some of the newest members of the force.
Kiwi cops, joined their law enforcement comrades around the world, for the 24-hour tweet-a-thon which began at 8am (NZT).
Four-legged cuties Cato and Duke, who graduated from the police dog school in Wellington earlier today (Fri) received special mention on the @BetterWorkStory twitter account.
Other animal-friendly tweets included a picture of eager newcomer Asta. The German Shepherd beauty officially became part of the police force yesterday.
The dog squad tweeted "hello and woof from New Zealand''.
More than 160 police twitter accounts from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, Iceland, the Netherlands and Finland were involved in the tweet-a-thon.
While tweets did not disclose specific addressees and locations of incidents, several local police areas were able to reveal through their own accounts some of their daily activities.
@ManukauPolice tweeted about a job involving two men who were "highly intoxicated''. The men had smashed two windows and threatened to kill officers, the tweet said.
Officers also had to deal with two young men who allegedly robbed a 10-year-old boy, another tweet revealed.
The National Police account, @BetterWorkStory tweeted live updates of a cliff-side rescue.
Police officers and the Westpac Helicopter rescue team were called after a man fell down a cliff and became stuck on a ledge.
After two attempts, the Westpac Helicopter team winched the man to safety, a tweet said.
Things were less busy in Bay of Plenty.
@BOPPolice tweeted they had no pending jobs in their system at about 10am.
National police shared a yarn where they were putting a deportee on a flight, only to find it was oversold.
The airline offered money to passengers prepared to get off the plane ... within a minute police say, the deportee was trying to cash in.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
17 comments:
- Renee said...
Spring cannot come too soon this year. Your puzzle ball and knitting look lovely. As always, I really enjoy all the photos and thoughts in your posts.
Have a great day. :)
- January 26, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- kim said...
Yes, yes, use it! It's a perfect pincushion. I think that sweater will be so soft and beautiful. If I can finish a sweater, then you definitely can too! But, then again, who's rushing you? We impose so much on ourselves. This should all be for our own amusement, no?
- January 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- sheepish one said...
lena is a gorgeous pattern, and i love your WIP shot of the sleeve. but kim is right: knitting is a joy, and if it feels like a chore, then why bother? like your puzzle ball, it WILL all come together in the end.
- January 26, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- YarnSnob said...
Lovely pin cushion, all hand sewn too WOW! Your knitting will all come together :)
- January 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM
- MrPuffy said...
There are no answers for so much that puzzles us in this life ~ we can only do our best and that is enough.
Your hand sewn pincushion is simply stunningly beautiful :)
- January 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- Nora said...
The promise of Spring [for you] as we descend into Winter's darkness...
Different thoughts from a different place and time. A different puzzle.
- January 26, 2009 at 6:55 PM
- zebraknits said...
life is a puzzle, isn't it. i don't think i have put my life puzzle pieces together yet like your ball, but some area of the puzzle makes sense. i will ponder on this thanks to you.
p.s. both prejects are beautiful!
- January 26, 2009 at 7:32 PM
- mistybliss said...
i adore your puzzle ball... i've been making these for years, toys for my children and friends children - lots of places for little fingers to grip and investigate, lovely and soft to throw and catch!
Sending you the promise of magic that spring always brings xx
- January 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM
- Jane said...
Join the club! Major life decisions are being thought out over this way. People that I thought I knew, I don't. Wondering about a lot of things lately.
- January 27, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- raining sheep said...
I love the puzzle balls. There is something so wonderful about hand-sewing. I am beginning to be intrigued by the look of it and starting to get a hankering to try it.
- January 27, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- amanda said...
The way the puzzle ball comes together is very clever. and i love that you used the pinky velvet!
- January 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- lucky knitter said...
It is wonderful, how everything fits together in the end. Beautiful puzzle ball!
- January 27, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Lin said...
I have never seen puzzle balls before, yours looks wonderful in that fabric. I love the feel of velvet.
- January 27, 2009 at 4:38 PM
- tiennie said...
What pretty photos. What a fun little puzzle/ball/pincushion to work on!
- January 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM
- mbutterfudge said...
I've never seen a puzzle ball it looks amazing...I'm going to find out more.
Is it just me or has it been a long winter? I've just book tickets for a flower show in May...I am longing for spring, and some good weather.
Off to find out more about the american puzzle balls xx
- January 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- iknitipurl said...
Enjoy the winter as long as you can, once it's gone and spring is here you just might wish for those cold winter nights. :)
- January 28, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- MadMad said...
Wouldn't it be great if all life's puzzles came out as beautifully as your ball?
- January 28, 2009 at 9:30 PM