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Springfield, Ohio — What started out as an effort to help physics students better understand the equations first created by James Clerk Maxwell, which became the basis of the field of electromagnetic, has become an international phenomenon.
Best-selling author Dan Fleisch, Wittenberg associate professor of physics, recently learned that Cambridge University Press has completed negotiations to publish Korean and Chinese complex-language editions of his book, A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations, meaning that it has truly circled the globe in less than two years. The English-language edition of the book, now in its eighth printing, has been a No. 1 best-seller in the areas of waves and mechanics, electromagnetic theory and mathematical physics, while it has also reached as high as No. 4 in the physics category on Amazon.com.
A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations was originally published in English in January 2008, and a Japanese edition was released in April 2009.
"When I received a copy of the Japanese edition last month, I was humbled and gratified to see the amount of work that Cambridge Press and the Japanese publisher put into the translation of the text, equations and figure labels of my book," Fleisch said. "To think that they're about to go through the process again in order to make my book available to people in the most populous nation on Earth is truly overwhelming."
Fleisch made headlines last winter after he traveled nearly 700 miles to personally deliver a copy of the book to Michel Cuhaci of Ottawa, Canada, on Christmas Day 2008. Cuhaci planned to give a copy of A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations to his nephew, an engineering student, as a Christmas present. Due to a printing error, the book was missing pages, so he gave the popular book a negative review on Amazon.com.
His rating of the book didn't change after Fleisch made the spur-of-the-moment holiday trip. His review did, however, with Cuhaci enthusiastically encouraging visitors to the Web site to purchase the book.
National Public Radio picked up the story first, which led to phone calls from other news outlets, including SkyNews in London, The Guardian and the London Daily Telegraph. Fleisch was also interviewed by the Canadian Broadcast Company for its show "As It Happens," which is heard throughout Canada and by more than 100 NPR stations in the United States. (Web site) Several Canadian newspapers also picked up the story, as have numerous Web sites, such as Fark.com.
Fleisch later heard from a reporter in Taiwan, and he has since been asked to contribute to the "Explorations in Science" Web site of Professor Michio Kaku, a world-renowned physicist and best-selling author. "The Book Depository" in the United Kingdom has also asked Fleisch to provide a list of 10 books that have been important to him.
A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations is filled with student-friendly features, including podcasts and interactive solutions on the book's accompanying Web site. Since Maxwell's equations are the basis of radio, television, radar, wireless and other communications technology, Fleisch decided the time was right for a book dedicated to them while on sabbatical in 2005. He researched Maxwell's work at Cambridge University in England and at the Maxwell Foundation in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The 2007 recipient of Wittenberg's top faculty prize, the Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award, Fleisch is an expert in the areas of radar cross-section measurement, radar system analysis and ground-penetrating radar. A member of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers. Fleisch received his B.S. in physics from Georgetown University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in space physics and astronomy from Rice University. He joined the Wittenberg faculty in 1998.
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text: Education leaders speak out for more revenues Hundreds of people from across the state, including two busloads of MTA higher education members, crowded into Gardner Auditorium in the State House on May 5 waving yellow fliers marked "Invest in Our Communities." They were on hand to show their support for a bill carrying a similar name and theme: An Act to Invest in Our Communities. The legislation, filed by Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz in the Senate and Rep. Jim O'Day in the House, would raise $1.37 billion in revenues by increasing the state income tax rate while also increasing the personal exemption in order to eliminate or reduce the impact on low- and middle-income families. Speaker after speaker rose to testify on the need for more revenues to protect services that are vital to the long-term health of children, seniors, our communities and our economy. "I am president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, and I am also a parent," Paul Toner said at a press conference before the hearing. "We talk about closing the achievement gap between rich and poor. The only way we are going to be able to do that is provide students with excellent schools and also good wraparound services – the human and social services they need to be successful. "It's not just K-12," he continued. "Our higher ed campuses are in desperate need of new resources. Tuition and fees have gone through the roof. We need to keep our public higher ed system not only excellent, but affordable." Rosemary Jebari, president of the Framingham Teachers Association, testified about the "slow erosion of services" in public schools she has witnessed in recent years. The impacts include increasing class sizes, the loss of social services, a lack of books and supplies and costly new fees for extracurricular activities and bus service. Joseph LeBlanc, president of the Massachusetts Community College Council and chair of the MTA Higher Education Leadership Council, noted that "more courses are being taught by adjuncts that at any time in our history. "I say shame on us," he added. Adjunct faculty members work hard for low pay and no benefits, he explained. Meanwhile, their students are deprived of the advising services that full-time faculty are able to provide their students. Like many of the speakers, LeBlanc talked of the need for a fairer tax structure to provide adequate revenues in the face of growing inequality in the U.S. Testifying at the May 5 hearing, Joseph LeBlanc, president of the Massachusetts Community College Council and chair of the Higher Education Leadership Council, Shauna Manning, president of the Classified Staff Union at UMass Boston (center) and Rosemary Jebari, president of the Framingham Teachers Association.More Photos "While these continue to be great times for the haves, the have-nots are struggling," he said, describing how many of his community college students must work full time in order to support themselves. Several speakers talked of the severe cuts in social services, including home care services for the elderly and disabled. Others emphasized that cutting services is "penny wise and pound foolish" since Massachusetts attracts highly educated talent because the state has cultural amenities, good schools and safe, attractive communities. Shauna Manning, president of the Classified Staff Union at UMass Boston, said, "Most UMass graduates remain in Massachusetts after graduating, working and paying taxes in the state. There is a significant return on every dollar the state puts into public education – it is a long-term investment in the state economy and our communities." William Brooks Harrelson, president and CEO of Accordare, Inc., a small software services company in Arlington, took part in a panel of business leaders who told legislators that raising his taxes would actually be good for the business climate because the budget cuts taking place right now are making Massachusetts a less attractive destination. "The cuts mean that smart, mobile professionals move away," Harrelson said. He added that someone posted a message on Arlington's community e-mail list stating, "Life isn't fair, but it's not the taxpayers' responsibility to make it all better." "In fact it is," said Harrelson. "That's what taxes are about. Cooperation, mutual betterment, development of a better society. This is what we do together." More Photos from the May 5th State House events. Subscribe to MTA News Headlines by Email

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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger will consider handing Jack Wilshere his comeback on Saturday - but only if he is ready for the Premier League.
The 20-year-old had been earmarked for a return in the Capital One Cup tie at Reading on Tuesday but Wilshere's steady progress since a 14-month lay-off earned him a place in the squad for last weekend's defeat at Norwich.
The England international was not used - "the game was too intense," explained Wenger - and instead got another 90 minutes under his belt for the under-21s on Monday. Now the Arsenal manager must weigh up the pros and cons of starting Wilshere against Queens Park Rangers.
"What I am considering is that he wants to play, it is an important game, but we want the players to be ready physically and he has not played for 14 months," said Wenger.
"It was planned for him to play next week at Reading and also we consider how the squad are physically and mentally. Physically Jack is at 80 to 85 per cent.
"What you have to consider first is that he has no setback and that you don't put players in situations, when they are tired and don't have coordination, that they pick up an injury. That is what you look at.
"After if you look at a more selfish view you can say a guy can play an hour. But during this hour it is important that he is fit enough to play. It is true [that you only get to 100 per cent by playing] but at the right time. It is difficult to plan."
Wilshere's own fitness is one major part of the equation. The other is the condition of Wenger's alternatives in midfield. He is without the injured Abou Diaby and Tomas Rosicky, and may opt to rotate his squad after below-par performances against Norwich and Schalke.
"We were flat physically a little bit on Wednesday night," admitted Wenger. "It is difficult to explain as Schalke had a harder game than us maybe at Dortmund [at the weekend]. Maybe we had not got rid of the disappointment of the Norwich result."
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You can use some of the same methods as these guys are kind enough to illustrate.here
For something like those overkill "speaker door panels, you would lay out your fittfitted panel and probably make a big opening in it to access the backside of your work. Your speakers would need rings so fix them in place where you want them and stretch the fabric over the rings. Fasten the fabric down to achieve the shapes you want. For strength you can build up the backside as much as you like. Pictures are worth more, look here , some very amateur work but combine what they are doing with the workmanship of the bicycle guys and you should be starting to get some ideas. If you plan to do door panels, remember to set them both up at the same time and do them together through each step so you can make make them as identical as possible. Very tough to completely make one and then turn around and try to make a mirror image of it starting from scratch.
I like this kind of stuff. Simple ways to make one-off parts without all that borking around with originals, molds, and stuff. Notice how nice a final finish the spandex gives versus "fleece". Though for some reason the fleece guys never quite seem to get around to completely finishing their work. You also note where they state they aren't using fiberglass at all but rather an epoxy resin mix.
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im good at body work and all but i was wondering how the best way to fiberglass a sub box and amp rack in to a single cab dodge ram or where the best place would be in that matter
Im thinking about doing the same thing with my g/f's car, i want to build her a custom fiberglass box, but ive been reading and reading and i think i got the jist of that..however, i haven't found much info about how to secure things to your dash say if i were to make a fiberglass guage pod and wanted to put it right in the middle of the dash...do you just use some sort of 3m adhesive after you make it or do you screw it to the dash or what? also i was curious as to what types of materials you use to make a mold to fit the contours of your car..for instance if i wanted to install some device like a gauge or tweeter or maybe even something bigger like a monitor into a corner of the window like where the windshield, dash, and roof support all meet, how would you make a mold for that...i understand for areas that don't have a crease or crevasse that you can build something using MDF, but what do you do to go about making sure my end product fits into the contours of the crack so that it looks nice..should i just free form it, or can i make something out of clay and line it w/ foil or what? sorry its really wordy and theres really only 2 questions in this message, but these are 2 questions that i can't find answers to...also do you have any pics of your camry b/c i used to have a 93 and im interested in how you transformed it
hi my dear friend,
I maybe can answer you... but one problem my English is bad?!
listen to me I am an professional fibre glass boats builder.
1. before you create the fibre glass mold, you must Crete your model...
a. like boat, b car, c box, d bike etc..
2. the model can be made of wood, clay, foam or gypsum
3. the foam can be easy shaping it but i did not try it??
4. I am making boats using wood, plywood and gypsum for easy shaping
but i mix the gypsum + water + fibre glass mat then I apply it on the
place that i want.. and while it is wet... it will be so easy to shape it??
remember this.....
5. then i use hi voltage 1000 Watt light to heat the gypsum to let it dry...
6. then i start sanding it with ruff sand paper why.... because I am going
to apply wall white filler on it then leave it to dry...
7. sand it with soft paper starting with 22o grit then 400 then 1000..
8. then apply 2k primer 2 to 3 coat's leave it to dry then sand it.. and
check the boat carefully if it need more filling or sanding????
9 apply epoxy paint or marine paint with hardener and reducer...
otherwise your paint will get burn.. because of the chemical reaction
(from the fibre glass material)
10. then you you can sand it with 2000 grit and polish it if you want good
finishing and also easy to release the mold...
11...its the time apply the mold re lase wax...you can yous American meguare's
12. wait for sometime then wipe it with cotton cloth then apply another coat
of wax then wipe it.. applying and wiping will leave a very thin film of
wax that you are unable to see it plus it will make the surface of your
paint more shiny..
13. its time to apply the gel-coat with brush.. use black gel-coat for mold??
14. give proper time for the gel-coat to dry like 3 hours then use tissure
fibre on top of gel-coat.. and then 300 or 450.. fibre Glass Matt and resin
15. don't forget to have special fibre glass roller to take the buble's out
16. apply 4 to 5 layer of fibler glass mat leave it to dry 24 hours
17. next day you can release the mold but I RECOMMEND YOU to do not use
steel screw drive and hummer to release the mold.. but you can use
wood wedges..try to remove it slowly from the edge firs from all direction
then it will come easy.. but don't forget to use a glove.. okey.. as the
fibre glass will be like stingray when it dried??
18. here you go .. your mold is ready... wax it again wipe the wax apply any
color of gel-coat u want wait for some time apply the f.g. material
then release it next day...
19. at the end remember any mistake at your model it will transfer to your
mold !!??
I hope what all the information mentioned above will be helpful for you and feel very sorry to be the first one who answer your question as there might be more people at USA who got more experiance than me..
thanks you
ga from the middle east
Depends on the kind of dash you are working with... I know that you can glass something to a metal dashboard much the same way as any other bit of bodywork (kind of like firberglassing a hood scoop onto a hood using a fiberglass mat and resin). The same thing can be done with plastic dashbaords like the mid 70's and newer GM's as long as the surface you are mounting to is scuffed up first. I doubt that you could do that to a vinyl covered dash though.
Here's a thought, you could also use screws hidden on the inside of the enclosure to secure it to a dashboard and hide the edges with another line from another feature on the dash.
maybee I can help
Hello everyone,
I am new to this message board. I may be able to help some people in the are of fiberglass work. My back ground in custom cars includes building several custom cars as well as building exotic replica cars such as AC Cobras and Lamborghinis for a company called Lone Star Classics. The bodys on the kit cars are all fiberglass so i have had to do a ton of fiberglass body work. I also have experience as an aviation maintenance tech. I have done quite a bit of composite fab for aircraft use using carbon fiber, kevlar,fiberglass, and even Quartz fiber. If I can help you please dont hesitate to ask.
Here's a link to another forum that is about fiberglass stereo stuff along with dashes and door panels and other how to stuff. http://www.the12volt.com/installbay/...ics.asp?FID=16
If you search there are some links in some of the posts on there that have very detailed "how to" information about making a sub enclosure and other stuff. I hope this helps.
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Hey Fellas
Been gone for a while, but I'm back. I've just started to work restoring my old 94 Aerostar, Yes Aerostar. It's in good shape, but needs the rockers and the AC done. The old girl has 110K, so for 2-4000$ it's better than 40000+$ for a new one.
But I have a ?, the front door panels have split across where the door handle is. It seems Ford forgot to put in 2 door pins. How could I fix the cracked plastic? I can recover them for 40$ each compared to 100+$ for used and 500$ for new.
I would really like to make some custom ones, but they are not just flat ones. Any ideas?
How to head liner
Anyone have a good idea for making a head liner fo a 1941 foor door Chevrolet? I had the idea to make it on top of the car over clear plastic sheet out of resen and kitty hair. Is there anyone out there that has done this ? Please fill me in
top of the car wouldn't work as the car has roof braces/supports running down the roof, your best bet do an online search of your local area to see if you find someone who redoes headliners
new to the sight,some great info so far.
ive just been given my moms 1998 vw passat.ive now got the outside looking perfect but the interior needs alot of work.the door panels are covered in a fleece like material so could i just cover them in resin and use bondo to smoothe them over because i like the rough shape of the panels.
as for the dash,its made of plastic so could i bondo it?
im not planning anything too drastic for the interior but want it smooth
if you want the dash smooth, just take it out and sand it, bondo won't stick to plastic too well, especially if its ever had armour-all on it, same goes for every interior panel, nothing sticks to that silicone based body shop wrecking liquid
thanks,hopefully ill have the dash out by tonight
Hey im no expert but from what ive done and seen some amazing things done for your box if you want to make a custom box, if your a beginner then make a box some what realtive to the style you want square wedge circle or what ever. Well lets say your sub is a 10 well make the hole like 14inch or so and make a lip on it or make the out side edge higher. Take some fiber glass strech it or just let it hang or how ever you want to make the design then put some resign let dry spray with the color of your car then PRESTO you have a custom box just the stlye and design of your own mind. Also depending on the size weight and position the box and same with sub you might want to slap a few more sheets of fiber on there so it will be able to support the weight of the sub, or make some support beams inside the box for the sub, but thats unnessary holes in it but you could just fill it in then sand. This can be applied for the amp also, you can even make it so the amp is like hanging over the sub parrellel or diagonle (not sure how to spell that one) to the sub. Also i would suggest if you dont want to fiber glass every thing for sound slap the car with some dynomat extreme, it's a sound deadener, makes the base sound REAL GOOD.
glassin' for the masses
Im a FNG to the site, but I wanted to say thanx to the people putting up the info on glassing consoles and enclosures. I'm starting a custom interior in my 87' c10 shortbed. She looks pretty ruff from years of abuse, but she's got a good heart. I'm going to try and post pics of it as it progress' and would like to see some pics of others projects. Misery loves company!!!!
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Representative List of Recent Courses Taught: Distance-Learning Courses:• Creative Writing I-IV • Craft and Reflection I-III• Graduating Seminar Preparation• Creative ThesisResidency Seminars:• Scene Writing for Stage and Screen• The Art of Dialogue
Education: B.A., Creative Writing, University of Kansas; M.F.A., Playwriting, Boston University
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions: Plays: New Life The Cry of the ReedOff the CliffPathetiqueTolstoy's Den Screenplays:Pera PalasRace Point The Prophet's WifeProductions:US: Huntington Theater Company, Long Wharf Theater, The Lark Theater Company, Theater at Boston Court, Counter Productions, Open Stage Theater, Boston Playwrights' Theater, Provincetown Theater Company, Stage Left StudiosEurope: Arcola Theater (London), Gate Theater (London), Theater Kozmos (Austria), Landestheater Tubingen (Germany).
Teaching Philosophy: In the movie Julia, Lillian Hellman, brilliantly portrayed by Jane Fonda, gets so frustrated that she flings her typewriter out the window. It's 1934 and she's working on her first play, The Children's Hour, which will go on to win her the Pulitzer and make her famous. As a largely self-taught playwright, I've thrown a few typewriters out the window myself. As a teacher, my job is to help you realize your own brilliance, no matter how many typewriters get flung about. What I try to convey to my students is that playwriting is a private, solitary, and sacred occupation. Each play is a problem the playwright poses herself and sets out to solve. With each play, the writer must learn how to write a play all over again. Your best assets are your instincts and subconscious. Your greatest tool is craft.
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That's It! - Exhibition
Exhibition of the work of Eero Aarnio in Oporto, Portugal. This exhibition was held in December of 2001 at the Art Gallery Árvore, organized by Vestigio.com and supported by ESAD and Fundação Banco Comercial Português.
The name of the exhibition and the chairs exhibited were a choice of Eero Aarnio himself.


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Slain journalist's legacy was his passion for truth
By PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader | August 23. 2014 10:43PM
American soldiers tend to wounded comrades at the scene of a firefight in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, in September 2010.
August 2012: "As the war rages on, the flow of victims and blood shows no signs of letting up," Foley narrates in a video published from Aleppo, Syria. (GLOBALPOST.COM)
GlobalPost, the online international news outlet for which Foley, 40, was working when he was abducted in Syria in 2012 - and when he was captured in Libya by dictator Moammar Gadhafi's forces in 2011 - has put together a collection of what his colleagues feel are examples of Foley's best work. The videos include footage of a firefight in Afghanistan, the youngest casualties of war in Syria, and his own account of being kidnapped by Gadhafi forces.
Image from video shot from a moving car before James Foley and two other journalists were taken captive in Libya in 2011. A fourth journalist was killed. "I didn't want to be the guy that said 'Let's turn around,'" Foley said later in an account of the capture and his six-week detention. (GLOBALPOST.COM)
"The threat of civil war is also likely motivating many soldiers to continue fighting. Omran (a soldier) said that a strong central leader like Gaddafi was needed to prevent the breakup of the country.
September 2011: In an interview with James Foley, Matthew Van Dyke, an American citizen, recounts his six months of captivity in a Libyan prison near Tripoli.
James Foley leaves a legacy of video and print journalism on GlobalPost.com, the online news outlet for which he was working when he was captured by Islamic militants in November 2012. (GLOBALPOST.COM)
Pieces like that one aren't produced without going to where the conflict is, hitting the streets and talking to locals, said Phil Balboni, co-founder and CEO of GlobalPost.
In April 2011, Foley was held in a Libyan military detention center while working for GlobalPost.
"Each day brought increasing worry that our moms would begin to panic. My colleague, Clare, was supposed to call her mom on her birthday, which was the day after we were captured. I had still not fully admitted to myself that my mom knew what had happened. But I kept telling Clare my mom had a strong faith. I prayed she'd know I was OK.
"I said 10 Hail Marys between each Our Father. It took a long time, almost an hour to count 100 Hail Marys off on my knuckles. And it helped to keep my mind focused. Upstairs in the warden's office, a distinguished man in a suit stood and said, 'We felt you might want to call your families.' I said a final prayer and dialed the number. My mom answered the phone. 'Mom, Mom, it's me, Jim.'?"
Hammerl was killed and the others were detained in a Libyan jail with him.
In a video at GlobalPost, Foley recalls the incident by saying, "Every day I have to deal with the fact that Anton is not going to ever see his three kids anymore. I was part of that decision-making process that took him away from his kids and his wife."
"It's another example of how he put the story before himself," said Balboni. "He had a knack for dealing with conflict, capturing it and presenting the story to the world."
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In the history of Heavy Metal not many bands can claim to be able to celebrate their breakthrough twice. ACCEPT managed this four years ago, as, with their reunion record »Blood Of The Nations«; returning with a vengeance by charting all over the World and topping critics's and fan polls in the process. In their home country Germany, ACCEPT charted at an incredible #4 in the Media Control Charts, making this highest position in the band's career to date.
Built around the nucleus of original members Wolf Hoffmann (guitars) and Peter Baltes (bass), with new vocalist Mark Tornillo and Hermann Frank (guitars) and StefanSchwarzmann (drums), Accept completed a global march of victory, peaking in sold out tours and outstanding festival shows.
The successor »Stalingrad« maintained the high level with, yet again, over 100.000 records sold, followed by numerous nominations as "record of the year", a completely sold out world tour and overwhelming chart entries (#5 in Hungary, #6 in Germany, #8 in Finland, #16 in the UK Rock Charts, #17 in Switzerland and #22 in Norway, to name but a few).
Now »Blind Rage«, the latest instalment in this amazing return, is ready to write history once more. The band's creative streak has delivered a thunderstorm of riffs, only one Wolf Hoffmann is able to set aflame. Besides the "red ACCEPT-line", as the band likes to call it, the only goal was to "remain interesting". Another factor that has turned into an ACCEPT trademark, is the voice of singer Mark Tornillo. The New Jersey born musician has been the man behind the microphone since the ACCEPT reunion took off in 2009. Within the course of the three albums, he has grown into his role as frontman of these "teutonic terrors". Wolf Hoffmann, who likes to call himself a "notorious nagger", praises his band colleague and states that "his accomplishment is outstanding".
While ACCEPT like to get newly inspired as far as the creative aspect is concerned, they put the fine tuning of »Blind Rage« into the most capable hands of producer Andy Sneap (HELL,CARCASS, EXODUS). After the two previous records »Stalingrad« (2012) and »Blood Of The Nations«, the decision to work with Sneap again, was far more than a "never change a winning team"-situation. "There is so much more behind this", states Hoffmann. "Sneap and I just got closer somehow."
The sound couldn't be better: Homogenous and authentic, dynamic yet versatile. And you can hear the musical wrath that gets ACCEPT going and also led to the album title. "The feeling that the world is in a constant riot was crucial. No matter, where you look, it is blind rage that let people decide to do the most absurd things."
The cover done by Daniel Goldsworthy will hit you right in the eye. Grimly snorting, the proverbial beast, we all have inside of us, unstoppably stomps through the hellfire this world is becoming.
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Buffalo (50-20-7) at Montreal (40-32-6) (AP)
Sabres look to clinch Northeast Divison title (Sportsticker)
Buffalo Sabres (50-20-7) at Montreal Canadiens (40-32-6) (The Sports Network)
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Buffalo (50-20-7) at Montreal (40-32-6) (AP)
Sabres look to clinch Northeast Divison title (Sportsticker)
Buffalo Sabres (50-20-7) at Montreal Canadiens (40-32-6) (The Sports Network)
Game # 78: Buffalo @ Montreal (SabresFans.com)
'Miroslav Satan was booed every time he touched the puck on Friday night, joining a not-so-exclusive club that counts Darcy Tucker, Dominik Hasek, Chris Neil and Alex Ovechkin as current members, Phil Esposito as a lifetime member, and Doug Gilmour as a very special member.'
'"We didn't win, obviously, but there still was a tremendous sense that we accomplished something," Carriere said. "We had a character team, everybody on that team loved to play the game."'
'"It would be nice to bring home the President's Trophy," Sabres defenseman Jaroslav Spacek said. "Nobody wants to talk about it, but it gives you home-ice advantage for every series."'
'Drury taught this team how to win. In his case, it's always been more a disdain for losing. It's hard to imagine him leaving the situation he has in Buffalo for a lesser one elsewhere, especially if the Sabres offer him a contract in line with his value. The Sabres would likely need to give him between $6 million and $7 million per season, about what he would get on the open market.'
'It was the second time this season the Sabres scored twice while short-handed, but it was the first time they did it with a goalie in the net. Drury and Jason Pominville scored empty-netters against Toronto on Nov. 22. The Sabres' record is three, accomplished March 19, 1998, when Alexei Zhitnik scored twice and Michael Peca added another.'
'"I really believe the culture is ready for a change," he said. "I think everybody realizes how dastardly head injuries can be. They can be career-ending, and we cannot afford to lose skilled players in that fashion."'
'"I think it was an all-around good night," Roy said about the penalty killers. "We generated more chances than we normally do and we worked really hard. I think we just out worked them. We had four on five and we were battling for pucks. You really have to bear down when you get chances on the penalty kill because you don't get many."'
Injuries frustrate Islanders' Campoli in 2nd season (Erie Times News)
20 minutes of doom (Newsday)
Photo gallery (Newsday)
Five Sabres goals in the first put Isles away (NewYorkIslanders.com)
'"The first period was obviously our best, and then we got pretty sloppy after that," Drury said. "But at the end of the day, it's still a `W,' and it's better than getting on the plane with a loss. … Sometimes you win ugly."'
'Buffalo has already clinched a playoff spot, but coupled with an Ottawa win Friday night, could not clinch the division. The Sabres will get that opportunity on Saturday when they battle Montreal, with a chance to take the division and the Eastern Conference with a win (needing 109 points).'
'After no scoring in the second, the Islanders came out with some energy in the third scoring two quick power play goals by Viktor Kozlov and Tom Poti making it 5-3 with fifteen minutes left in regulation. Dainius Zubrus banged home the puck on the power play to increase the lead to 6-3.'
'"The first period was obviously our best," said Drury, who has captained Buffalo to its first back-to-back 50 win seasons in franchise history. "It got pretty sloppy after that. But at the end of the day it's still a "W" and it's better than getting on the plane with a loss."'
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Freawaru wrote:Seriously, except for some Theravada *forums* I have never known anyone who believes that the elements construct the biological body.... I will turn this around. Please provide prove (suttic, meditational, rational or otherwise) stating that the gross body refers to the biological one!
Sylvester wrote:I'm just wondering if you may be familiar with Tse-fu Kuan's "Mindfulness in Early Buddhism"? He has some really interesting comments on the Uppatipatika Sutta, SN 48.40 which seems to be the favourite resort for the proponents of cessation of the pleasure faculty in 3rd Jhana. He quite rightly points out that that sutta is very problematic and somewhat inconsistent with the sutta treatment of Jhana factors on several scores.
Sylvester wrote:By a coincidence, the schema in the Uppatipatika Sutta mirrors the Dhammasangini's enumeration of dhammas in the Rupa Jhanas - which text influenced what text?
Brizzy wrote:What is one thing that the Buddha continuously asked his followers to practice? - Mindfulness of Body.
What is the most common reference to meditation the Buddha makes? - Jhana.
Now without being a genius, would'nt the jhana taught by the Buddha be the actual means for the the fulfillment of Mindfulness of Body.
Why would the Buddha exhort his followers to practice a meditation that cut off the tie between body & mind?
Would'nt he rather teach a means of experiencing a calmed body with a perfectly calm mind?
Modus.Ponens wrote:Regarding deep jhana, I see no more than indirect sugestions that deep (visuddhimagga) jhana is the jhana that the Buddha teached. In this subject, MN111 is a direct proof of the contrary as is also other suttas quoted in the essay.
Modus.Ponens wrote:He permeates & pervades, suffuses & fills this very body with the rapture & pleasure born of composure. There is nothing of his entire body unpervaded by rapture & pleasure born of composure.
Yundi wrote:A similie is that of watering a garden. When watering a garden, there is water (citta), there is holding the hose in the appropriate direction (vitakka) and there is sustaining (vicara) the direction of the hose & the water flow.
This is watering a garden.
Yundi wrote:Jhana is the same. The mind has ekkagattacitta or one-pointed mind. The mind is stuck on the arisien nimitta & factors of jhana. Mind awareness is no longer within the body (kayanupassana) but the body receives the flowing benefits of jhana.
But the mind has gone beyong being aware of this. The mind is elsewhere.
Sylvester wrote:Dear Geoff
Can we be certain that "kaya" may not be a Pali idiom for something in addition to the physical kaya? The usage of "kaya" in the Susima Sutta, SN 12.70, where the released-both-ways arahants "dwell touching with their kaya the formless attainments" does open up a clear and distinct possibility that "kaya" (at least in this context) has nothing to do with the rupa kaya.
Kāyesu kāyaññatarāhaṃ, bhikkhave, evaṃ vadāmi yadidaṃ – assāsapassāsā
I tell you, monks, that this — the in-&-out breath — is classed as a body among bodies
Ñāṇa wrote:Actually the simile in question, pertaining to the first jhāna, is the following:
Just as if a skilled bathman or bathman's apprentice would pour bath powder into a brass basin and knead it together, sprinkling it again & again with water, so that his ball of bath powder — saturated, moisture-laden, permeated within & without — would nevertheless not drip; even so, the monk permeates... this very body with the rapture & pleasure born of withdrawal. There is nothing of his entire body unpervaded by rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal.
Ñāṇa wrote:What you are describing is a case of being "stuck internally" (MN 138). Such a description of jhāna as sammāsamādhi cannot be sustained by a close reading of the sutta-s.
Ñāṇa wrote: 1st jhāna:
• pain faculty ceases (dukkhindriya) [SN 48.40] which is any physical pain, physical discomfort born of body-contact to be experienced as pain and discomfort [SN 48.37]
Sylvester wrote:I think, that if we allow for the possibility that "kāyikañca vedana" actually refers to feelings born at any of the 6 ayatanas, many of the difficulties posed by the Uppapatika Sutta, SN 40.10 would disappear. Otherwise, it would really be difficult to reconcile the persistance of the "bodily" equanimity feeling in the formless attainment with how the formless attainments are understood.
Yundi wrote:However, if the pain faculty ceases, then awareness of the body has ceased, showing the awareness of the physical body ends in jhana.
Yundi wrote:If a practitioner sits in jhana for many hours, do you think they would physical emerge from that jhana without any stiffness in their legs?
Yundi wrote:Or when Sariputta was asborbed in jhana and the Yakka dealt him a blow on the head, why did he not feel this in meditation but felt a headache upon emerging?
Yundi wrote:I have little interest in your second hand scholarship, where you have not demonstrated to date knowledge of Pali.
Ñāṇa wrote:In that case, here's an idea: don't read my posts.
Ñāṇa wrote: AN 9.37
Having attained the fourth absorption, inhalation and exhalation have ceased [stilled, tranquilised].
Rahogata Sutta
Ñāṇa wrote:Also, if we look at some discourses where the reference is specifically to the first satipaṭṭhāna, then it becomes clear that the meaning of kāya in the context of jhāna doesn't entail interpreting it in terms of nāmakāya, and in fact to interpret it as nāmakāya is completely uncalled for. As an example, MN 125:
Ñāṇa wrote:Your statement entails that at any time one isn't experiencing physical pain then awareness of the body has ceased.
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Hi Vince and the TWiV crew
I love the podcast. It keeps me in touch with lots of basic research in virology which I would otherwise miss.
I do pediatric infectious diseases and you can imagine how much time we spend dealing with viruses. In my spare time, I do hospital infection control. I wanted to comment on your questions about this statement in the Fouchier paper: "The pandemic and epidemic influenza viruses that have circulated in humans throughout the past century were all transmitted via the airborne route, in contrast to many other respiratory viruses that are exclusively transmitted via contact. "
In hospital infection control, we institute isolation precautions based on the usual route of transmission of the organism of concern. These are in addition to Standard or Universal Precautions which apply to all patients to prevent exposure to blood and body fluids. The guidelines come from the CDC and are for the most part evidence based. They are:
Airborne: These are organisms that can spread by small airborne droplet nuclei for distances of greater than 3-6 feet. The list is pretty short and includes tuberculosis (not a virus!), varicella-zoster virus, measles, smallpox, SARS, and avian influenza. It was also applied to the 2009 H1N1 influenza but probably wasn't necessary. It is known that VZV can go under the door and infect someone down the hall.
Droplet: these are spread by large droplet particles that spread no more than 3-4 feet after a cough or sneeze. Lots of organisms here but the principal respiratory viruses that fall under this are seasonal influenza, rhinoviruses, and adenovirus. Also includes other infections such as mumps, diphtheria, rubella, pertussis, Mycoplasma pneumonia, Parvovirus B19, plague, group A Streptococcus, and patients with meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b and Neisseria meningitidis, where respiratory carriage is expected.
Contact: spread by hands and other forms of direct contact (stethoscopes). The main respiratory viruses here are respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus, and parainfluenza viruses. RSV (not Rous Sarcoma virus) is a huge problem in children and also in the elderly and immunosuppressed. No vaccine yet, and there is a huge need. I have attached a quite old but instructive clinical study showing that RSV is spread by contact and not through the air – at least not as far as 6 feet. The set-up is not dissimilar from the model for showing airborne transmission in the ferrets! In case you are wondering, folks with lice also get contact precautions....
So flu gets droplet precautions and RSV contact precautions. Go figure...
Keep up with the great podcast
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Natasa writes:
I read your blog and look forward to all new posts. I was wondering if you were going to cover the news story on poultry vaccine strains deadly recombinant?
If so I would appreciate if you could address the following questions in your blog, as none of the articles so far seems to be covering this issue.
Question 1: how many genomes of viruses carried by people who have died or have suffered long-term effects following vaccinations have been fully sequenced?
Question 2: following on above (assuming the numerical answer is low/close to zero) how can we rule out with absolute certainty the possibility that some of the severe or prolonged negative reactions to vaccines are NOT due to recombinant or mutant viral strains (including possibility of vaccine+wild strain recombinants)? Are there any large scale study in the pipeline meant to address this question?
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Dear TWiV Panel,
I have been looking for a list of papers reviewed by the three podcasts recently and I can't seem to find one. Is there a list on your website of papers reviewed or should I just listen to TWiV(P)(M) with a pen and paper at hand always?
Thanks for all the great dissemination of scientific literature, it helps fill what would otherwise be many unscientific hours.
Warm Regards,
Oren writes:
Dear lords of the Twiv.
It is a pleasure writing to you after being a long time fan (the weather in Tel Aviv is extremely hot and humid from April to October).
The show is great and keep me up to date in aspects of virology not in my direct field.
Well, I probably got the Twiv bump (Twiv 115 - color me infected) as now I am starting my own lab in the medical school at Tel Aviv University.
We are currently trying to upgrade the virology lab for the medical students and make it more appealing.
We have low budget wet lab that complement the medical students virology course.
If you or your listeners have any idea for an interesting way to attract medical students it will be highly appreciated.
Keep on the good work and Thank you,
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Marcin writes:
Hello Viro-cides!
Can you please provide your comments to the attached editorial? It seems rather depressing that there are investigators out there that believe that if scientists don't work 24/7 then they are not doing a good job. It seems that it is especially true at Johns Hopkins (see another recent article at: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477020a.html).
Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work with the delightful and engagin podcast! I just suggested to my summer mentee to listen to you and I believe he'll get virally "hooked" as well!
Clarissa writes:
Hi Vince and Rich,
great discussion!
Just to explain why we grow Cotia virus at 34oC. It grows better when we infect cells at 50% confluence. Actually, if we started plaque assay with 80% confluence at 37oC as we usually do for vaccinia, we'd get no plaques at all after 11 days of infection. Monolayers must be infected at 50% confluence or even less than that, and we set the growing temperature to 33oC-34oC in order to keep cells growing slowly. So I believe the virus grows better under these conditions not because of the temperature, but because it doesn't like old, confluent cells. The adjustments in growing conditions in order to plaque purify Cotia virus took us over 6 months of work...
And yes, I agree with you that this paper has a lot of classical virology. I'm glad we stuck with this despite the opinion of most referees to remove these data and just leave the genomic stuff and phylogenetic analysis! And I'm glad that there are still several virologists who appreciate this kind of assays and pass this to their students.
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Dear TWiV-ers
Since TWiV has, from time to time, gone beyond virology to discuss how science ought (or ought not) to be done, I thought I would bring this article that appeared in TheScientist to your notice.
Gopal N. Raj
Science Correspondent, The Hindu newspaper.
Kerala state, India.
Luis writes:
Dear TWiVessors,
A few months ago, I read in Nature a few notes by Prof. Robin Weiss about recent books on AIDS. One of them, "The origins of AIDS" by Dr. Jacques Pepin, attracted my curiosity and decided to read it. I have just finished it and I must say that it has been an excellent read. The author who worked in Africa many years, describes the likely events that probably started around 1920s with the transmission of HIV from a chimpanzee to a human and ended up in a world-wide pandemic.
In the middle, many societal changes: from the colonial rule in central Africa, establishing new cities in the banks of the river Congo; with mostly male migrants and a thriving sex market. Then, a surge in the use medical injections with non-sterile syringes to treat different diseases (trypanosomiasis, yaws, syphilis, malaria), and also political instability after the independence of different countries that weaken their medical systems and produce a dramatic loss of doctors and health professionals, apart from teachers, engineers, etc... Highly-qualified workers were brought from other countries, and in this context, the infection was exported to Haiti and beyond. Furthermore, uncontrol blood trade in the 70s may have contributed to amplify the infection.
The book is a wonderful combination of contemporary history and epidemiology and health science.
The link for the commentary on Nature is:
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Thank you very much again for your wonderful podcast and efforts to promote science in general and virology in particular… and long life to TWiV!
Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM)
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I got a good deal on Burton Driver X's at the Burton Flagship store. The right toebox is a bit snug, but the important thing is that the ankle/calf/liner fit snug but is not tight (or loose in the case of liners that cant velcro around my calf).
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Stiffer will "help" with control but making sure your turns and skills are Solid is a prime way to help with control issues. I started out the same way always looking to my boots to help with control. Went as far as using the Burton Driver-X but later I figured out what helped out much better than stiffer boots. I took a clinic at Park City when it came to snowboard skills and Freestyle progression. At first I thought it was going to be a waste of a day but it turned out that it helped me to become a solid rider. I have big calves, but not wide feet, but today my MAX stiffness range for resort riding is a 7. I use two boots and switch back and forth from my 32 Lashed stiffness rating if about a 5. And my Burton Grails with a stiffness rating of a 7. I use my Lashed with my Skate Banana and my Grails with my TRS. The only time I break out the Drivers is for Backcountry Pow. And then I'm using either my Rome Mod or my Burton Fish. But it's rare when I use either due to living on the Easy Coast now.
What I'm trying to say, and I'm sorry if I hijacked this thread, is save your cash. The boots can only help so far with board control. Try these three things first and if they don't work then go after the stiffer boots. Tweak out your bindings, rotate your heel cups, try a newer set of angles, check that your boots are centered in the bindings, relocate your ankle straps to a higher position. If your bindings are older check out upgrading those first. Next widen your stance and if your bindings can be set up for canting try 3 degrees to take the strain off your knees. Finally and I know this idea sucks, take an advanced skills class and tighten your skills. It helped me a lot, also you could try looking at a new board too but with not knowing your current setup that could be a waste of time.
Just stating an opinion and some things that improved my skills when stiffer boots didn't seem to help anymore. Sorry so long of a post.
big calves, wide feet looking for semi-stiff boot
i might make a drive up to big bear to try on some boots but I'd like to know beforehand what boots I'm looking for...this has been a constant battle...
it doesn't help that at this point in my riding i keep trying to go stiffer for more control..
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This exhibition introduces youngsters to ideas about why and how cultures develop. It features a dig's worth of interactive elements: Tots can piece vessels together, weigh and examine replicas of artifacts, decipher the meaning of symbols in a mosaic and don a costume reminiscent of Indiana Jones's garb. Along the way, they learn about the tools and procedures archaeologists employ after they bring home their loot.
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Recently I bought a book someone here mentioned called Buddhist Saints in India. It wasn't what I was hoping for..
Does anyone know of accounts of Buddhism after the tipitaka which speak of saints? As long as it seems historical, (i guess there are zen legends?..
This book from Bhikkhuni Sobhana's list looks right:
Taranatha. Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India.


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Increasing the amount of time someone spends on work does not directly result in better work. In fact, depending on the person, the opposite may be the case—spending less time at the office may improve the results. Johanna tackles myths of measuring work by time.
"Have you heard the new thing that Andrew is doing?" Gabe asked, shaking his head as he headed towards the cafeteria with Cynthia.
"No, what?" Cynthia said.
"We have to fill out time cards with our actual time on them. He wants to know how much time we really spend at work. The more time, the better."
Cynthia stopped. "Are you serious? I thought I'd seen everything, but this really takes the cake."
"Yeah. We're supposed to be about 'sustainable pace.' This crazy time card thing is going to make the pace anything but sustainable. I don't understand why he thinks he can measure our output by the time we spend here. I have good days and bad days. Sometimes, I think I spend a lot less time here on the good days and produce twice as much! Of course, sometimes, I just stop writing code on the bad days so I don't produce four times as many bugs!"
Cynthia grinned. "Well, I've certainly had those days. How can we make Andrew see the error of his ways? Maybe get Tina, the other director, to talk to him?"
"Maybe. Or maybe we should explain that velocity has not much to do with time spent at work. Maybe we should baseline our features per week now and measure our features per week after he does this time card thing, especially if he insists on overtime. What we have to do is make our pain his, because this is total craziness."
Time Is Not Results
I've seen managers try to reward employees by the number of hours that the employees' cars were in the parking lot. People can game that measurement easily—just leave the car in the parking lot for the week. A colleague did that and was only discovered after the snowplow plowed around his car after a surprise snowstorm. He had already gone home for the storm and had left the car. His management was quite surprised and quite angry about the employee's deception.
When you use time as a measurement for how good people's work is, you beg them to game the system and exhibit some of this crazy behavior. Time at work does not equate to good work. It never has, and it never will. Oh, you can't work without spending time working somewhere and on the work itself, but that doesn't mean that you have to spend lots of extra time at work.
How Much Time Can People Work in a Day?
Everyone's day will be different, but there is some upper reasonable limit to how much people can work in a day. People can work about eight good hours a day on an intellectually challenging job before mental exhaustion sets in. Some people can work fewer than eight hours. This means that if you want people to accomplish more work, then you should restrict their time at work to no more than eight hours a day.
Some of you are saying, "Huh? What did Johanna just say? Restrict the time at work?"
Rank the Work
When you timebox the time people spend at work, they will start to make decisions about the work to do. They will postpone the not-important-enough work. They will start to prioritize the remaining work. That means they will start to manage their individual project portfolios. They will start to rank the project work.
They will decide to complete the strategically important work. Or, if they are not sure, they will ask you. Expect some tough questions about which projects are most important. That's OK, because if you are a manager, you need to be able to answer those difficult questions. And, if you have decided that people are not machines and you cannot expect 100 percent utilization because that's craziness, then you already have started to rank the project portfolio.
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Johanna: I agree with your article but to a point. I work with folks who typically arrive to work around 9:30/10:00 and after taking their 1- to 1 1/2- hour lunch, go home around 4:30. (These are the same people who take 1/2-hour morning and afternoon breaks. These are the people who complain they are overworked and need more team members.) Granted, there are days (when it's a blue moon) when they stay later (to meet a deadline), but from an ethical standpoint, they have failed. If looking at their time at work from a legal standpoint, they have stolen a part of their paycheck, which was payment for a 40-hour workweek. So I can understand why management wanted team members to show their time--they probably were sending a message to the entire team (those who DO put in their time and those who DON'T put in their time) that management knows who the workers are/aren't. BTW: The folks I mentioned at the beginning are those who surf the Internet, shop online, and rarely do "real" work. They expect the "newbies" to do the work so they have time for their own agenda. And the "newbies" do the work, put in a 40-hour (or more) workweek, and are much more valuable than these long-term employees.


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|Over 200lbs definitely 159. I'm 5'11" 190 and I ride a 159 for almost 100% park.
K2 Turbo Dream - Which Size? 156 or 159. Or suggest a board...
Greetings, thank you in advance to those that help - many of my questions have been answered via search feature, but I finally need to ask the "Which Board?" question. Hopefully someone can suggest a size - I am open to other board suggestions but it might be too late this time around. (I tend to get wordy, so I bold-ed the key words for those that don't want my life story).
I have a slight preference towards K2 and based on what I am looking to do, had decided on the K2 Turbo Dream. Went to the local shop planning on picking up a 156, however the guys there felt I would benefit from going with 159 instead (they had both...). Picked up the 159, however I am not 100% convinced yet that I should be on that size. I will note that one of my reservations is that I am coming off years of riding an old 162 Nitro (here) that I felt was way too big, stiff, and heavy for me, I am hesitant to purchase another board that might be too large.
-I am 26 years old, 5'10", and my weight fluctuates between 200-215 lbs (*hoping* to go down as I get back in shape). Both size boards specify the exact same weight range.
-My shoe size is US 10.5-11 depending on shoes, currently have size 11 Burtons, so toe drag is a slight concern but the difference in the two boards is 24.7cm and 24.9cm - is 2 mm going to really help?
-I live in NJ, ride NJ, PA, NY, NH, and VT - east coast conditions - typically machine packed powder or granular/ice - powder riding is likely not a real concern.
-Riding style breakdown would be 75% Cruising/All Mtn + 25% Park (Both rails and kickers) I have been riding for a number of years and can tackle just about any trail without hesitation, in the park I am working on getting better at rails and boxes and learning spins on the jumps.
I chose the K2 Turbo Dream, although the decision was between the Darkstar(157), Parkstar(157), and TD(156/159). I demoed a Burton Hero 155 and found that I enjoyed the rocker but had some concern with flex(too soft) and stability on hard pack/ice. Hero 155 waist width was 25.2 and did not experience toe drag. I typically have my stance set just a few degrees off from 'straight?'. The TD has the All Terrain Rocker and what seems to be a nice degree of flex for my typical riding style.
Hopefully that is enough info to help suggest a board size:
K2 Turbo Dream in 156 or 159?
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A custom teardrop trailer used as a portable workstation for collecting problems and implementing solutions.
As the battle over US immigration policy reform rages on in Washington, DC, the artists behind Ghana ThinkTank are traveling to US/Mexico border checkpoints in southern California and Arizona to seek input from the people at the heart of the matter: anti-immigrant activists, civilian border militias, migrant workers and recent immigrants. It's just one of the many First-World problems the think tank has attempted to tackle since its inception in 2006.
New York-based designer Christopher Robbins MFA 07 DM and his cohorts first hatched the idea for Ghana ThinkTank after working for international agencies that expected them to come up with viable solutions to persistent problems plaguing cultures they barely knew or understood. The year before graduating, he teamed up with John Ewing MFA 07 DM and Matey Odonkor MFA 07 DM to turn the tables on well-intentioned but culturally oblivious First-World do-gooders who imagine they can swoop in to developing countries and solve everything. "We're trying to show our own culture what it feels like to have another culture forced on you," Robbins explains.
The project started small – while they were at RISD – with a visit to an affluent community in nearby Connecticut with their teardrop trailer, which houses a video booth for recording people who explain pressing problems. Two of the top problems to surface were a barking dog that was causing tension among neighbors and a lack of diversity at social functions.
The next step was to send these problems to an eclectic array of specially formed think tanks around the world comprised of volunteers willing to brainstorm their own solutions. The trick was putting together groups of people with no connection to mainstream US culture – mechanics in Ghana, incarcerated convicts in New York City, a group of teachers in Mexico. "People who are friends on Facebook or listening to NPR are too similar to us," says Robbins. "We're looking for voices from outside."
The proposed solutions are both telling and hilarious – and the team doesn't allow its own assumptions or discomfort to rule out any ideas. In response to the barking dog problem, neighbors were given free MP3 players to drown out the sound of the barking as well as old shoes to throw at the noisy house. The solution that seemed to gain the most traction was the suggestion to rename the dog Love as a means of diffusing his owner's anger and frustration and creating a less hostile environment for triggering the bark response. And the diversity dilemma was even simpler to solve: hire immigrant day laborers in nearby cities to attend the social functions in question and happily mix and mingle.
In 2009 Carmen Montoya MFA 07 DM got involved in Ghana ThinkTank, too, and the organization has since solved more serious problems as well. Serbs and Albanians in the town of Mitrovica had been divided by a river – not to mention a history of violent conflict – for more than a decade when Robbins and his team rolled into town in 2011. Instead of gathering ideas from affluent New Englanders, Cubans or Iranians, they went to the least likely source of all: the opposite side of the river. Both sides "quickly wanted to talk directly, which was amazing and kind of scary," says Robbins. "The Serbs invited the Albanians to cross the river and start a dialogue."
Ghana ThinkTank – a global experiment funded by a host of museums and foundations, including the Queens Museum of Art and the Rockefeller Foundation – has traveled around the world and evolved with the input of new people. "It's like Frankenstein," Robbins quips. "We created it, but it has taken on a life of its own."
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'Mike Gilbert, the Sabres' director of public relations, said media credential requests for tonight's game rival a big playoff tilt. TV networks from Canada are coming for live shoots. Sports Business Journal wants a seat. The Hockey News is sending a reporter. Sports Illustrated is planning a story and wants to attend. "We're sometimes busy like this in April, not October," Gilbert said. "It's not anything crazy, it's just the volume of requests is incredible high for this time of year."'
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Saturday's defeat at Fulham will NOT influence Arsène Wenger's moves in the transfer market between now and the deadline.
The Arsenal manager has been after a central midfielder for some time and now has only a week to get his man. However before the game at Craven Cottage on Saturday, Wenger was indicating he might look for a replacement inside his own squad and, judging by his words afterwards, the manner of the disappointing reverse has not changed his mind.
"When you lose a game the solution is not always to buy," said Wenger. "Did we play at our best? I say no and so we have to look at why?
"We had problems to win our first few games last year but we won them. This year we did not win - that is the reality. We had 60 minutes to come back on Fulham and we did not do it. Is that down to Fulham' s quality or the fact we were not good enough? Only the future will tell us that."
However the departure of key midfielders Alex Hleb, Gilberto and Mathieu Flamini led some to suggest Arsenal are weaker than last season despite the acquisition of Samir Nasri and Mikael Silvestre.
"Let's not make too much comparison the team is almost the same," said Wenger. "The goal on Saturday was conceded from a corner and was not excusable. You can accept it sometimes when someone jumps higher than you but not when they scored from the middle of the goal area on the six-yard line. That is where we were guilty."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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bob kidd is more of a hastle than its worth. more than two groups of hunters on that lake is too many. there's usually only a couple groups that will work into the lake on a normal day. northwest arkansas is also full of hunters that are new or don't hunt fowl much. many of those hunters don't know that it is uncooth to set up 40 yards on the down wind side you. while you try to work birds, they will typically make the most ungodly noises ever to come out of a duck call or shoot as your ducks work on a swing 80 yards high on the backside.
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Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems.
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A chat with an HK Armorer - MUST READ
Saw this a few days ago,don't know if it will link you or not because I'm computer stupid.
Anyway,as a customer was chatting with the smith he told him about an older USP45 Federal Ammunition sent them for a once over.The smith said the gun appeared to be completely original except the recoil spring was obviously changed,but it has seen a lot of use.Being curious they called Federal and got an ammo count of over 297K rounds.Cool read to reinforce the crap they put these through in original testing.I've heard of Glocks going a long time and further,but I still think the USP is a stronger piece in the big picture.
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Our returning columnist Gregory Kris dissects tech's animal kingdom
Welcoming back Gregory Kris, long-time tech CEO and original LondonlovesBusiness.com columnist, writing about all things data and tech. In his comeback piece he explores the tech types roaming the changing economic jungle.
People who work in the digital sectors are an interesting breed of animal – a veritable menagerie of exotic visionaries and colourless functionaries, inhabiting the digital jungle and striving for success, which is a common part of the food chain for all techies alike.
I've been a member of London's digital scene for 15 years now, and so I've seen the origin of species by means of natural selection a number of times, as both people and business models have been forced to adapt or die in the rapidly-changing environment.
I've seen the advent of e-tailing, instant messaging, social networking, big data and m-tailing. And when you've been to as many parties, networking sessions, coffee Thursdays, wine Wednesdays and drink-a-tanks as I have, you'll start to spot the same types of digital animal emerging from the primordial ooze:
The developer ant
The developer ant is frequently seen in dark spots underground, burrowing away. Although deeply social and always present at parties, when in its natural state the ant does most of the work in the shadows. This can leave the little fellow missing out on the credit, but luckily its natural exoskeleton means it has a tough skin. This comes in useful because it allows this creature to carry many times its own weight on its back.
Weaknesses: Gets easily squished and eaten by the larger animals.
The first-time entrepreneur platypus
In its native habitat, the first-time entrepreneur platypus can be seen creating nests of bean-bags, in a vague attempt to make their nests more Google-like and welcoming to attract a mate.
This strange creature is a hybrid; half-duck, half-beaver, with a bit of an identity problem. Not quite sure which way is up, but very cute and interesting to all the other animals.
Special skill: The only mammal that can lay eggs – very, very occasionally golden ones.
The serial entrepreneur hummingbird
The entrepreneurial hummingbird is a flirtatious creature, buzzing around from project to project, and from investor to investor – all at dizzyingly high speed. It is best known in the tech kingdom for doing everything a high speed, but in no particular direction whatsoever.
It pauses only to take a quick drink of amber nectar, but even then it never stops flapping its wings.
Evolutionary trick: The serial entrepreneur hummingbird is the only animal that can fly backwards. (Says it all really.)
The one-man sloth
The one-man sloth can often be seen quietly hanging in the corners of noisy rooms with a tired hangdog expression on its face. The tech sloth, generally works on the same project for 12 years and will only ever leave the tree if its branch happens to snaps away beneath its ever-accumulating weight.
Tell-tale trademark: Talks slowly but with great weight about things it saw years ago.
The designer fly
The designer fly's favourite treats include rainforest-grown super foods like acai berry and guarana-banana to keep its energy levels up as it often has problems with Windows (note the capital 'W'). It tends to flit about from project to project, never stopping to do anything more significant than rub its his hands together, sniff about, and fly off to the next more fragrant project.
Happiest: When hovering above a huge number of fragrant projects.
The business development rhino
This beast knows how to plough into situations horn first. It always charges and has very thick skin, but inevitably ends up leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
WARNING! Not compatible for keeping in small spaces with other animals which mainly prefer to keep their distance.
The CEO parrot
The CEO parrot is a special kind of bird. It stands near the tree tops and constantly shows off its bright plumage to attract attention. Best known for making a lot of unintelligible noises and using words that synergistically create functionalistic ideation, it has a tendency to repeat words that it's heard the ants say in order to sound clever, but often misses the mark.
Eyesight issues: In its mind's eye, the CEO parrot sees itself as most beautiful creature in the jungle. The other animals, however, see it as a noisemaker.
The angel giraffe
An idealistic creature that believes its long neck gives it extraordinary long-range vision. Unfortunately, its elongated spine means that it has trouble pumping blood all the way up to its brain.
Weakness: Poor blood flow leaves the giraffe thinking it can cherry-pick the tastiest start-up leaves from the top of the trees, but leaves it vulnerable to not spotting attacks from preying animals with sharp teeth lurking below.
The fat cat
There is always an apex predator in the jungle. The king. The roaring lion, with a passion for making a racket that can be heard from Mayfair to Whitechapel, is known to march around others' territory like it owns the place. The fat cat sleeps in the shade, stealing fresh kills from weaker specimens and frequently urinating on smaller animals.
Scientific name: the Venture Capitalist, this animal is admired by all, but is hard to cuddle up to without losing an arm and a leg.
Gregory Kris is an original dot-com CEO, selling a social network in 2000. Since then he has run and sold three digital start-ups and consulted on digital strategy for the EU. A firm believer that 'data is the oil of the digital economy', Greg is CEO of the generously funded Norwegian mHealth company Your.MD, and has been called 'Europe's Digital Data Baron'. You can follow him on twitter at @gregkris, email him email@example.com or find him in a bunker on the golf course.


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If the two truths are one entity, seeing relatives truth would be seeing ultimate truth and all commoners would always have correct perception.
It's a good point. The two truths are the same entity, but due to the ignorance of self-grasping and its imprints, they appear to be different entities to all beings except Buddhas. Enlightened beings see the two truths directly as being the same entity.


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By Rob Kelly
Arsène Wenger has praised Thomas Vermaelen's "nose in the box" - but says his attack-minded side must be careful not to get caught on the break.
Arsenal were undone by two counter-attacks in Monday night's 2-1 defeat to Wigan at Emirates Stadium, leaving Wenger unhappy with his team's defending.
And he says that when the likes of Vermaelen go forward, his team-mates must cover for him.
"Thomas Vermaelen has been absolutely vital for us. He has a nose in the box to find a goal where it is needed and I must say he is a good finisher," he told the Official Matchday Programme.
"He is the only one, along with Robin, who gets on the end of crosses with headers. When you see him head the ball you have hope that he will score because he really goes for it.
"I like him to go forward on set-pieces but I don't like that we are caught on the break.
"The first job of a centre back is to not concede goals. On the night [against Wigan] I think that we were not focused enough as a unit at the back to do our first job, which was to defend well."
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Royals' GM Moore: Yost "least of our problems"
The Kansas City Royals were a trendy pick to be one of baseball's surprise teams this year. For a while, that was the case: With a May 1 win over Tampa Bay, Kansas City moved into the American League Central lead.
Since then, the Royals are 6-14 – tied with Houston for the AL's second-worst record during that span.
Despite the three-week skid, Royals general manager Dayton Moore has not made major changes to his team, other than sending reliever Kelvin Herrera to Triple-A Omaha this week. Alcides Escobar (.202), Chris Getz (.188), Jeff Francoeur (.161) and Mike Moustakas (.149) have remained in the everyday lineup despite dismal May batting averages.
And Moore has no plans to change managers, telling FOXSports.com Friday that Ned Yost has done a "great" job this year and has only gotten better since taking the position in May 2010.
Moore spoke glowingly of Yost's leadership and steadiness with young players during a telephone interview and added, "He's the least of our problems."
One source indicates that owners David Glass and Dan Glass have given Moore a high degree of autonomy over major team decisions, including Yost's future. So, at least for now, Yost has good job security.
The Royals have suffered a relatively low number of significant injuries this year, but Moore expressed hope that Jarrod Dyson can spark the lineup once he returns from a sprained right ankle. The Royals are last in the AL with 28 home runs, and Dyson's speed had become a valuable commodity.
Dyson has an .847 OPS in 18 games this year. Kansas City is just 1-7 since Dyson's most recent game.
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Creative Play Quick Tip: Make a Medal Chart
July 25, 2012 at 6:00 am melissaanddoug Leave a comment
The Olympics inspire us to get up and get our bodies moving—but there are lots of opportunities to exercise the mind, too. Try one of these graphing ideas for a medal-worthy learning activity:
Draw a grid on a large piece of construction paper or poster board. Along the bottom, write the names (or paste the flags) of a few different countries you plan to follow. When the Olympics begin, mark each medal won by filling in the first open box above the winning country's name. (Handle Stamps or Mini Stamps work well for this. You can also have the child simply color in the square with a marker.)
Create the grid by marking one axis with dates (July 27 to August 12) and the other with numbers. On the first day of competition, mark the medals won by the country you are tracking with a dot at the intersection of the date and medal count. Plot a new point each day as the medal count increases, and connect the points with a line. (Follow multiple teams by using a separate color for each.)
Draw two large, intersecting circles on a piece of paper. Then assign a value to each circle—for instance, "outdoor sports" and "team sports." For each Olympic event you watch, have the child make an X in one of the circles or the overlapping section. (For instance, the pole vault goes in the outdoors section; a swimming relay goes in team sports; soccer goes in the overlapping section, since it is both outdoors and a team sport.) Increase the challenge by adding a circle!
Entry filed under: By Age, By Theme, Creative Play Quick Tips, Creative Play Quick Tips, Educational Activities, More Ways to Learn & Play, Older Kids (12+), Olympics, Play Dates, Preschoolers (3-4 years), Tweens (5-12). Tags: charts, educational activities for kids, graphs, Melissa & Doug, olympics, Summer Olympics 2012.
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