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Indiana law requires that the registrant notify the Indiana Board of Pharmacy in writing of any theft or significant loss of any controlled substances upon discovery of such theft or loss. Thefts must be reported whether or not the controlled substances are subsequently recovered and/or the responsible parties are identified and action taken against them. You will need to print a copy of the filed DEA Form 106 and submit a copy to the Indiana Board of Pharmacy by faxing 317.233.4236, e-mail to email@example.com, or by mailing to 402 W Washington Street Rm W072, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46204.


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Patiala (Punjab), Oct 11 (IANS) Punjab Police Friday said they have seized synthetic drugs worth Rs.100 crore and arresed five smugglers, busting a major inter-state drugs racket.
The huge seizure was made by Patiala police following raids in Punjab and Haryana.
Additional Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta told media persons here that the Patiala district police made the recovery of drugs like Parvon Forte, Parvon Spas, Proxyon, Spasmocip Plus made from dextropropoxyphene hydrochloride salt, and other substances banned under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
The drugs were being manufactured by Pioneer Pharmaceutical and Prime Pharmaceutical Limited, based in Haryana's Karnal district. The recovery was also made from the pharmaceutical unit.
Gupta said the pharmaceutical unit was supplying the drugs all over the country.
Those arrested are four residents of Delhi and one from Jalandhar. The pharmaceutical unit's owner, Prithvi Singh Chaudhary, and his son Pradipt Chaudhary fled from the factory, leaving their vehicle behind when police raided the premises.
Punjab Police got a whiff of the large-scale, inter-state smuggling of drugs following three recent recoveries of synthetic drugs made in Rajpura circle of Patiala district.
"The arrested people disclosed during investigation their links in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat and some other states. Punjab Police are fully confident of catching a few other big fish from these states too," Gupta said.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Apple Inc. slid more than 12% Thursday, having tripped a Nasdaq circuit breaker earlier as analysts rushed to cut their price targets for the once-favored company, following a lackluster earnings report.
By the closing bell, Apple AAPL, -0.11% had shed 12.4% to rest at $450.50, down more than $63 from the previous close. That put the stock back to its level from last January — effectively erasing the entire year's gains that saw the shares run up to $700 by late September only to come crashing down in the final weeks of the year.
While the results late Wednesday came roughly in line with Wall Street's estimates, the forecast disappointed analysts who have already been worried about slowing demand for the company's flagship iPhone. See: Apple shares tumble on results, forecast
At least two have downgraded the stock to neutral ratings, though nearly 80% of the covering brokers still rate the shares as a buy. Most analysts still bullish on the shares are pointing to expected new products that may re-ignite interest in the company. Read: Apple's next challenge: Finding a catalyst
"We think Apple is losing the screen-size wars as demand is moving away from the iPhone's 3.5"/4" and more toward ~5"," wrote Peter Misek of Jefferies & Co., who cut the stock to a hold rating and slashed his price target to $500 from $800. He called the slowdown in iPhone sales "real and material."
Several others cut back their price targets on Apple's shares on Thursday in response to the report.
"Momentum is a powerful thing, both on the positive and negative side, and it is tough to try to call a bottom in Apple's negative stock momentum," wrote Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research, who trimmed his target to $725 from $750.
Several analysts made more drastic cuts, though most retain their buy ratings on the stock. At least 30 analysts cut their targets on Apple following the report, with the average reduction totaling about 15%, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray cut his target to $767 from $875, citing Apple's gross-margin forecast for the March quarter that remained below the 40% level that most investors were hoping to see.
"Given new guidance, it appears highly likely that gross margins will be down sequentially in March despite coming off of a launch quarter," Munster wrote. "The implication of a down sequential gross margin from a launch quarter fuels fears that gross margins will be structurally different than they have in the past."
Before the report, the highest price target on Apple was $1,111, set by Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets. He cut his target to $888 on Thursday, citing the decline in Apple's share price, but adding that he believes "there is quite a bit of bad news priced into the stock at current levels, while estimate resets lower the bar for the future."
For the December quarter, Apple reported flat earnings growth on an 18% gain in revenue. IPhone shipments of 47.8 million units came in at the low end of analysts' forecasts — though still a quarterly record for the company following the launch of the iPhone 5 in late September.
The company's forecast was also a concern, as Apple projected a revenue range of $41 billion to $43. Analysts had been looking for revenue of $45.6 billion. The company predicted a gross margin range of 37.5%-38.5% for the March quarter.
Bill Choi of Janney Capital noted that "results and conservative guidance will fuel additional competitive concerns around iPhone," leading him to trim his estimates and cut his price target to $610 from $745.
"While Apple shares may be under pressure over the intermediate term, we believe long-term fundamentals remain intact, and we continue to believe Apple will leverage its ecosystem and innovate on new products," he said.
Steve Milunovich of UBS cut his price target to $600 a share from a previous $650, while maintaining his buy rating. He called the stock "oversold," and added that the stock "needs a catalyst, which may come with new products in the June quarter."
Citigroup, which downgraded Apple to a neutral rating earlier this month, cut its price target to $500 from $575.
"We suspect Apple's results will do little to assuage investors' concerns about share and profitability," wrote Glen Yeung of Citi in a note to clients. While he predicted that Apple would likely launch new products this year, including a lower-end iPhone, he said risks would likely remain in focus.
"With so many uncertainties, now supported by falling consensus estimates, we believe investors will continue to focus on risks in the Apple story, limiting share appreciation," he wrote.
Sacconaghi of Bernstein kept his outperform rating on the shares, noting that "sentiment is low, valuation is compelling, and several potential catalysts exist," adding that "at some point, the cash has to matter," adding that Apple has about $145 per share in cash on its balance sheet.


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Lawmakers are trying to ease the financial burden Medicaid places on Alabama by passing a bill designed to streamline the $5.63 billion program's operational system.
The bill under consideration could change the present "fee-for-service" basis of Medicaid payments to a for-profit, managed care plan or a combination of nonprofit and for-profit companies.
The Medicaid Advisory Committee commissioned by Gov. Robert Bentley does not want to use for-profit managed care companies.
More than 930,000 people use Medicaid the in state. Trimming services to patients is not on the table.
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Texting While Driving: Are You an Offender?
For the growing number of tech companies developing safety measures for texting while driving, the reasons are often personal.
Matt Howard, a co-founder of Reston, Va.-based Zoomsafer, began work on the service after nearly hitting a neighbor's son while texting in his car. Looking for an application for his BlackBerry that could prevent that from happening, he was surprised to see nothing available. Zoomsafer's BlackBerry app is now scheduled to become available in a few weeks, followed by versions for Windows Mobile and Google (GOOG) Android.
Timothy Smith, chairman of Aegis Mobility, heard about the company from someone who lost his son to a driver talking on his cellphone.


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Shitstorm Subsides: Jon Fitch is Back in the UFC
Well that didn't take long. Jon Fitch is once again a UFC fighter, and will still fight Akihiro Gono at UFC 94, as planned. Apparently all it took was a conversation with Lorenzo Fertitta. MMA Rated has the scoop:
"Communication kind of broke down with Dana (White) so we talked with Lorenzo," Fitch told MMARated. "(I) just got off the phone with him and we came to an agreement. We're going to move ahead and I'll be back in the UFC. We're going to sign off on the video game and I'm back. It was never even about the agreement or the contract. It was the approach that we felt Dana was being a little bit hot-headed and was threatening us right off the bat. It didn't seem like a professional way of doing things."
Cooler heads, as they say, have prevailed. Should the ease with which this was resolved once Fitch and his management team were able to speak with someone who wasn't Dana White perhaps tell us something? Threatening, bullying, saying things in the media such as "[Expletive] them. All of them, every last [expletive] one of them," maybe that's the kind of thing that doesn't help negotiations with one's employees, who one claims to want to be "partners" with. Thankfully Lorenzo Fertitta is on board to smooth things over.
Now you have to wonder, what lesson will Dana White take from this? Fitch did sign the contract. The UFC got what they wanted. Will White now be convinced that he can get what he wants if he plays good cop, bad cop with Lorenzo? Or will he see that sometimes talking things over is preferable to flying off the handle? Let's hope it's the latter. Right now Lorenzo is looking like Michael Corleone and Dana is looking like Sonny. And we all remember what happened to Sonny.Read More DIGG THIS


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SEATTLE, Wash. - December 21, 2006 - YachtWorld.com, the leading Internet resource for the international yacht broker community, has been rated the most visited marine Website by an independent ranking agency.
Alexa, a company that provides data on Website traffic, has ranked YachtWorld.com as number 4012 out of more than 18 million Internet sites, leading all other marine-industry Websites. The nearest broker-focused competitor was rated at 629,684.
According to Comscore, an Internet measuring tool, YachtWorld also has the highest number of minutes per visitor for a marine site. The research data reveals that visitors to YachtWorld.com average 74 page views per session.
"We are pleased to be ranked as the top marine Website in visitors and page views, and we intend to stay number one," said James Nolan, group general manager of YachtWorld.com and boats.com. "We are continuing to enhance our extensive search engine optimization programs to ensure high rankings in both paid and unpaid results in searches for marine-related terms."
"We passed a major milestone in September 2006, when we recorded more than three million page views in a three-day period," added Nolan. "During the month of September, YachtWorld.com hosted more than 100,000 visitors and experienced double-digit growth over the previous year in page views, site visitors and e-mail leads to brokers. The best news is that YachtWorld.com brokers reported September sales of more than $58 million in boats listed on the site."
Formed in 1995, YachtWorld.com is the premier online sales channel for yacht brokers around the world. The site lists more than 100,000 boats for sale in 115 countries by some 2,300 brokers in 60 countries. The total value of boats listed is over $30 billion. Headquartered in Seattle, Wash., YachtWorld.com has a major office in the United Kingdom, and service offices in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Dubai, Russia and the Netherlands. YachtWorld.com and its sister Website boats.com are business units of Dominion Enterprises, based in Norfolk, Va.
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Exploring GIS Data and Making Simple MapsJune 24, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Mānoa Campus, MAGIS Lab, Govt. Documents and Maps, Hamilton Library Ground Floor
The goal of this free workshop is to understand the types of GIS data, GIS data structures, and to learn make simple maps using GIS Software. We will be using ArcGIS 10.2.
This 8-hour free workshop is targeted to individuals with little or no prior GIS experience. There will be two sessions, each session is 4 hours. Participant needs to attend both sessions.
Requirement: Must be comfortable with Windows environment. Familiarity with Excel or database software will be helpful.
After attending the workshop individual should be able to
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Space in the workshop is very limited and is restricted to UH Manoa faculty, students, and staff only.
Sign up by June 20, 2014. To sign up please fill out the registration form at http://bit.ly/1kH9Ai1
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Tuesday, June 24
Exploring GIS Data and Making Simple MapsMānoa Campus, MAGIS Lab, Govt. Documents and Maps, Hamilton Library Ground Floor
Pacific Asian Lecture Series 4: Global Trends in EntrepreneurialismMānoa Campus, Business Administration (BUSAD) G-301


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Sending her to public school is not an option. Both my husband and I thought that public school was largely a waste of time. Most of our education came from reading textbooks during school out of boredom. But, we are open to her doing every other child-activity she is interested in. I also plan on volunteering to be a girl scout (co)troop leader when she gets to be of age.
The only things that I can add are to advise you against forcing yourself to get involved in something that you don't enjoy, just for the sake of "fitting in".If you are a football-hater, please don't force yourself to attend the Friday night high school games just because "that's what everyone does". I am not sure what the football culture is like in Texas vs. small-town Ohio (where I am) but here people won't think less of you if you don't go to the games. However, they will think less of you if you go to the games and are visibly not enthusiastic about it.Don't spread yourself too thin. If you try to do everything, you run the risk of people thinking that you are either fake, or trying to take over with your "big city ways".Pick just a few things that you can really enjoy (the library, the rotary club, the garden club, the bridge society, etc... small towns often have a LOT of stuff going on) and get involved with your new town that way.
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Libelium becomes an eHealth IoT Cloud Services provider with the release of the MySignals Cloud:
Choose between User/ Developer Plans!
User Cloud Plans
The user plans are meant to be used to test the performance of MySignals. These are the best plans if you want to try in a quick and easy way the MySignals Kit including all the sensors on different users as each one can have its own profile. All the data is sent to the Libelium Cloud, so users do not need to set up their own servers.
Developer Cloud Plans
The developers plans are the best option for users who want to store the data gathered by MySignals in their own servers. This type of plans allow to use the Cloud API to read the information from the Libelium Cloud and write it in their own Cloud platforms.
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IMPORTANT: You can always use MySignals at no cost in the standalone and Bluetooth modes (only visualization not storage).
|MySignals SW (eHealth Medical Development Platform)
|Blood Pressure Sensor PRO [BLE]
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|SPO2 Pulse Oxygen in Blood Sensor PRO [BLE]
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Data stored in the MySignals Cloud may be accessed to be visualized in external Web and mobile App's
Data can also be stored in a third party Cloud.


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Humanoid Robot HR-2 239
Denix writes "The HR-2 humanoid robot was constructed during a period of three months at Chalmers University in Sweden. It has 22 degrees of freedom which enables it to easily move around imitating human motions. The robot is also equipped with stereovision giving it possibilities to perform hand-eye coordination. For that task an artificial neural network is evolved. Furthermore, the artificial brain is capable of tracking faces as well as recognising them. The HR-2 is also able to speak. The website also contains a movie (35.5 MB) of the HR-2 in action."


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Quinnipiac poll: Voters think this president is the worst since WWII
A new poll shows voters have some pretty shocking opinions on our past and current leadership. See which president has earned the most ire since the Second World War.
By Compiled by John-Henry Perera
on July 3, 2014 10:43 AM
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Bobby Jindal rejects Mitt Romneys gifts theory
No, I think thats absolutely wrong, he said at a press conference that opened the RGAs post-election meeting here. Two points on that: One, we have got to stop dividing the American voters. We need to go after 100 percent of the votes, not 53 percent. We need to go after every single vote.
And, secondly, we need to continue to show how our policies help every voter out there achieve the American Dream, which is to be in the middle class, which is to be able to give their children an opportunity to be able to get a great education. So, I absolutely reject that notion, that description. I think thats absolutely wrong.
I dont think that represents where we are as a party and where were going as a party, he said. That has got to be one of the most fundamental takeaways from this election: If were going to continue to be a competitive party and win elections on the national stage and continue to fight for our conservative principles, we need two messages to get out loudly and clearly: One, we are fighting for 100 percent of the votes, and secondly, our policies benefit every American who wants to pursue the American dream. Period. No exceptions.


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After looking at many predictions from pundits and increased odds that Liverpool have been given by the bookies, it appears that many people genuinely believe that the Reds have made significant improvement from last season.
From the title it is quite obvious that this article will argue otherwise, as Liverpool do not look stronger from the beginning of the previous season. Of course, the transfer window is still open and many players can join or leave.
Nonetheless, after the departure of winger Stewart Downing to West Ham United, the Reds will probably go into the market for a replacement. If they do replace Downing, then they have simply replaced a player with a supposedly better one - because if they don't, subsequently they have less depth in their squad.
Either way (unless they get a real world-class player and not one that simply has a lot hype around them), they would not have made any substantial improvement to the current squad.
This situation can be described as taking two steps forward then taking two back, at the end of the day no progress has been made and a club staying static is actually falling behind slowly as others improve.
Luis Suarez
First and foremost the obvious question of the Luis Suarez saga where the player has publicly declared his desire to leave Anfield, but owner John Henry has insisted that he'll stay for "footballing reasons".
With Suarez suspended for the first six games of the new season, he could not feature for Liverpool even if he was on amicable terms with the club, which means that he'll not play until after the transfer window has closed (should he remain in the Premier League).
Should the Uruguayan leave, it will be hard for Liverpool to replace the quality as they don't have any European football to attract many suitors - and if he stays, it's hard to imagine that he could replicate last season's 30 goals.
This summer, Liverpool have lost four first-team players, which include Jamie Carragher (to retirement, centre-back), Jonjo Shelvey (attacking midfielder), Pepe Reina (keeper) and Stewart Downing (left winger).
Other players like Andy Carroll (striker) were also sold but he left on loan to West Ham since January, Jay Spearing (midfielder) was never really part of the squad and rest of the players that left are mainly youngsters, therefore they have not really contributed much to the squad depth in the first place.
This means that all of Liverpool signings have been similar to players who have departed: Simon Mignolet (keeper), Kolo Toure (centre back), Luis Alberto (winger/ attacking midfielder) and Iago Aspas (striker).
Comparatively, Liverpool have signed players of similar mould to those who have departed - and by simply analysing their stats from last season, they do not look like the best improvements in the world (nevertheless this statement does not intend to limit them to it, as they may prove to be much better).
When a team buys players to add to their current crop, it is always a clear sign of improvement but when they sell players who played a handful of league games then replace them with players of comparable standards only indicates that they have compensated the squad to retain its previous standards.
Loss of big personalities
With the retirement of Carragher and the transfer of Reina to Napoli, Liverpool have lost a lot of leadership behind the dressing room. The contribution of experienced players cannot be underestimated as Manchester United have proved over the past couple of years.
In Liverpool's case this is more significant as they have a large number of young players coming into the team.
When older players like Gerrard and most likely Toure are the only people available for guidance, it is hard to imagine where the team would draw inspiration during difficult times.
It has to be remembered that all the best teams in the world all have a very good balance of youth and experience, which is fundamental to the success of each manager.
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Vincent Racaniello is Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University, where he oversees research on viruses that cause common colds and poliomyelitis. He teaches virology to undergraduate, graduate, medical, dental, and nursing students, and writes about viruses at virology.ws.
The detection of a new virus called XMRV in the blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in 2009 raised hope that a long-sought cause of the disease, whose central characteristic is extreme tiredness that lasts for at least six months, had been finally found. But that hypothesis has dramatically fallen apart in recent months. Its public demise brings to mind an instance when a virus *was* successfully determined to be behind a mysterious scourge: the case of HIV and AIDS. How are these two diseases different—how was it that stringent lab tests and epidemiology ruled one of these viruses out, and one of them in?


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WILKES-BARRE — John Legend's smooth, elegant voice got people in the mood to slow dance during a soulful, stirring performance Thursday.
Backed by a guitarist and a string quartet of two violins, cello and viola, Mr. Legend accompanied himself on piano during a sold out, polished and intimate set at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre. Audience members waiting to return to their seats in the packed house clung to each other and danced to "Everybody Knows," a single from his 2008 album "Evolver."
The nine-time Grammy-winning musician returned to Northeast Pennsylvania, a place that's part of his musical heritage before he achieved international success. Mr. Legend served as music director for Bethel AME Church in Scranton starting in 1995, driving up from Philadelphia where he attended the University of Pennsylvania.
"It's good to be back in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It's been a long time," Mr. Legend said to shouts of "We love you!"
The singer-songwriter performed Thursday in support of his fourth studio album, 2013's "Love In The Future," which reached 18 on the Billboard 200 Chart and peaked at 2 on the Top R&B/HipHop Albums chart. Mr. Legend produced the record with longtime collaborators Kanye West and Dave Tozer, and it includes his first No. 1 gold single, "All of Me."
Smoke drifted through beams of light as Mr. Legend emerged center stage in a tuxedo, to the audience's approval. He started the night with a song from the album, "Made to Love," before rewinding back to his earlier albums.
Several women got close to the performer, seated on couches onstage. Mr. Legend advised the rest of the audience not to be jealous, as "they can't use their phones the entire time ... can't use the bathroom, either."
Mr. Legend took the audience on a chronological tour of his best works, starting with "Let's Get Lifted" from his 2004 debut album "Get Lifted." He recalled his former life, trying to make it big, working as a management consultant designing Powerpoint slideshows and making spreadsheets.
"Very sexy work," he said.
But when he caught the attention of Mr. West, he got to perform with him as an opening act for Usher in 2004. Mr. West let him sing one song, and while Mr. Legend asked the audience to sing with him, no one knew the words.
"I'm going to make up for that in Wilkes-Barre," he said, asking the audience to sing along with "Used to Love U," the debut single from that album that hit No. 1 on the Top R&B/HipHop Albums chart.
"You're welcome to sing along with future songs. Are you ready for that responsibility?" he asked.
Legend also covered Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" before moving into hits from "Love In The Future." Based on the applause and calls of approval from the audience, Mr. Legend might have had to make it through a crowd of adoring fans before he made it back onto the tour bus.
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Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Sims 3 Pets (PC/Mac)
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Create perfector imperfectpets for your Sims, from fierce guard dogs to destructive kittens to trusty horses and more as you determine not only how your Sims pets look but their personality traits as well. With a variety of new activities and social interactions, take control of these pets and experience the world from their perspective. Treat your Sims and their pets to an exclusive venue filled with unique objects found only in the Limited Edition. Give your Sims a new member of their household and discover all-new ways to play with life!
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Beyonce delivers the goods at Super Bowl halftime show with her hits
By Mesfin Fekadu
Beyonce sang like she had something to prove at the Super Bowl, balancing out the testosterone levels on the football field with a dance-heavy performance that featured her Destiny's Child band mates and an all-female band.
She emerged onstage singing some of "Love on Top," transitioning to her hit "Crazy In Love" in an all-black ensemble, which matched the dark stage. She ripped off part of her shirt and skirt as she danced hard with background dancers doing the same.
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That is really cool. Like some kind of galactic diff.
"Light echoes?" Is there something wrong with the word "reflections" now? Hmm, let me just check my light echo in the mirror..yep, still pretty.
Amazing work though, from my laymans perspective it seems incredible that they can get usable data in this way.
Is there something wrong with the word "reflections" now?
In human experience, a reflection is instantaneous, where an echo appears after a period of time. Thus echo is more descriptive to layman (remember them?). You know and I know that a reflection isn't instantaneous, it's just not generally perceptible to our eyes like an echo is perceptible to our ears.
A similar distinction is made in the field of sound and acoustics: reverb vs. echo.
HA-ha! You like semantics!
I understood that echo was a useful term in this context, but I couldn't figure out why it was better than reflection. You, sir, have expressed what I could not quite put my finger on.
You're proof that the int3rpipes is more than just trolls, flamewars, and idgits...thanks!
Thats why he said "are colloquially assumed to be instantaneous" instead of "are instantaneous"
That's a cop-out. See previous response to my comment for the correct interpretation of the semantics. (btw, osu-neko ftw!)
Why do I say it's a cop-out? Because it can be applied to any bad definition with equally valid results. For instance, I now assert that the poster to whom you refer "is colloquially assumed to be wrong" as support for my response. See? Meaningless.
That's alright, I'm still trying to figure out which way is 'North' in space... Does North always point to the magnetic pole of Earth even on Mars? Has someone studied the Milky Way and determined that there's a magnetic ring perpendicular to the dish?
North in the sky is defined to be the point directly above the Earth North Pole of rotation. The northern half of the sky is the part of the sky between the celestial equator and the north celestial pole. For a planet north is defined using the right hand rule of rotation. Curl the fingers of your right hand. That is the direction of the planet's rotation. Stick out your right thumb. That is the direction of the planet's north pole. The same rule applies to Galactic north. Just apply the rotation rule to the Galaxy. Once you get outside the Galaxy supergalactic coordinates are used, which are defined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergalactic_plane [wikipedia.org].
Hmm... I made a mistake. I should have said that supergalactic coordinates are described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergalactic_plane [wikipedia.org]
That's alright, I'm still trying to figure out which way is 'North' in space... Does North always point to the magnetic pole of Earth even on Mars? Has someone studied the Milky Way and determined that there's a magnetic ring perpendicular to the dish?
Don't forget that geographic North and magnetic North aren't the same thing. The concept of North predates any knowledge of magnetism, that just turned out to be a convenient way to figure out which direction North was once the lodestone was discovered (but n
R.I.P. Monument Builders
And he got a moose drunk.
And he died from trying to hold in his piss during a drinking game.
While playing Prince of Persia [penny-arcade.com]
And he died from trying to hold in his piss during a drinking game.
The moose won.
This could be used to determine distances very precisely. If we know when that light was emitted and we know the speed of light, then we can calculate with great precision the distance from the star to the reflecting dust cloud.
This could be used to determine distances very precisely. If we know when that light was emitted and we know the speed of light, then we can calculate with great precision the distance from the star to the reflecting dust cloud.
You also have to account for any differences between the earth-star distance and the earth-cloud distance, but it's still the largest ever radar system.
You also have to account for any differences between the earth-star distance and the earth-cloud distance
One could start by assuming that the points which are being illuminated now and have the biggest angular separation from the star are at the same distance from earth as the star. Those points form a circle with a 436 light-year radius. The size of that circle as seen from earth will give you the distance to the star.
I'm assuming that there is enough dust everywhere in space to return a detectable reflect
You also have to account for any differences between the earth-star distance and the earth-cloud distance, but it's still the largest ever radar system.
If they're light echoes, shouldn't it be sonar?
If they're light echoes, shouldn't it be sonar?
LIDAR, actually.
Although... if we know when that light was emitted, then we know the distance to the supernova already. There's four pieces of information that could be known. If we know two of them, we can map out the Earth/Supernova/Cloud system:
When can we point our telescopes at an object hundreds or thousands of lightyears distant, and pick up the light reflected back at us that previously traveled from Earth to that object, then reassemble it into images? Images of the Earth's past, twice as old as the lightyear distance of the object?
We could look at an object 1000 lightyears distant for reflections of Jesus being crucified. Search among objects 250-600 lightyears distant for reflections of people arriving in the "Americas" on ships before Columbus. 176ly distant objects could show us images of Newton getting hit by a falling apple.
Finally a use for the combined computing power of all Earth's computers.
A telescope array [wikipedia.org] acting as an interferometer doesn't need to be a single large sensor like that. We can orbit the array with separations of 1E13, just beyond Neptune. That would give us resolution of something like 5.8E-20 arcseconds. The radius of that regular polygon with 10cm sides is about 7E21m, or about 740,000 light years. Which would show light that left Earth about 1.48 million years ago. Orbital arrays much closer to Earth are sufficient for looking for apples only 175ly away.
The signal to noise is of course extremely high ("astronomical"). That's why I mentioned the combined computing power of all the world's computers. We're gonna need a bigger boat, but that's a good sea to sail her on, to catch this shark
You can look into aperature synthesis [wikipedia.org], which is the technique at work.
You're getting double the information by using two telescopes. Most of the info is redundant. But there is phase info, available to the "phased array", in what you're getting. The interferometry is the method of extracting the phase info. The phase info isn't redundant between the two telescopes. So that extra info is an increase over the single telescope's. The extra info is the increased resolution.
It's not just computing power. We'd actually need to catch enough reflected photons that originated from the Earth, so we'd have anything at all to process.
I think it would be a problem even if there was no other light except what we want to observe, ie. there would be no external noise.
Also, the "mirror" isn't a flat plane, so we'd get a bunch of "Earth photons" that originatead at different times, reflected at different times, and then arrive at our telescope at the same time.
To get anything useful, we'd
The flatness of the surface isn't really a problem, because the photons that arrived a little later (by speed of light, the distance of the "roughness") are going to be extremely similar to the ones that arrived at the time of the first photons reaching the closer parts of the roughness. In fact what helps us is our tolerance of a somewhat soft focus. Since our resolution is 10cm, which light travels in 3.33564095E-10 seconds, our probably much longer exposure (to collect photons) means our focus is not goi
Inverting the ratio by calling it "high" has a way of doing that
Just put the image in photoshop and zoom way in~ duh I see t on TV all the time
I didn't know about McDevitt's version of this idea. I thought of it when thinking through "faster than light travel" applications, when I realized that reflected light "bends space" back to the source, which is effectively time travel. I was helping build a digital camera out of a lot of cutting edge DSP for noise reduction and feature enhancement, including some efforts at reversing the effects of air turbulence confusing light paths to the sensor. It occurred to me that similar processing, but more advan
That's where the reverse ray tracing comes in
There are probably plenty of distant objects with little to no intervening matter. And then there's probably distant objects that have intervening matter that collimates light, either optically or gravitationally.
I'm amazed that he was able to observe that and figure out that the common concept of the sky was wrong at the time. I can't imagine how much thought must have gone into something like that.
Well he had already done a lot of work on parallax measurements for astronomical objects. So when the supernova appeared, and showed no parallax against the moon . . . he was on pretty firm ground stating that the moon was closer to earth than the supernova.
More details in Wikipedia.
And even more amazing is that a guy that smart didn't know when to empty his bladder.
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Not actually true, Tycho Brahe's model of the solar system was very similar(geometrically) to Ptolemy(earth in the center) and Copernicus(sun in the center). He put the earth in the center, the sun and the moon were orbiting around the earh while the other planets where orbiting around the sun.
The real breakthrough came from Johannes Kepler( who was working with Brahe and later on was using Brahe's observations) who went away from using circular orbits, and to a certain extent discovering gravity. You can r
The 'common concept' I refer to is that the night sky's background is static, as was mentioned in the summary. I'd have been even more impressed if he'd figured out the Earth wasn't the center of the universe at the same time.
Actually, the scientific community of the time (such that it was) was mostly convinced by Tycho's observations.
...continues to bring surprises like this. I'm just wondering if this is the same method we astronomers use to detect local masses such as transneptunian planets (or "Plutoids", if you will) or asteroids or -gulp!- Near Earth Objects such as the Saturn V Stage discovered and misidentified as a natural coorbiting body a couple years ago? Could light ripples be detected and identified on a pair of plates of the same patch of sky taken a year apart?
xxx times less than yyy == yyy/xxx.
It's common language these days, learn it!
xxx times less than yyy == yyy/xxx.
It's common language these days, learn it!
He wasn't asking how to express it, he was asking them to include YYY if you are going to call something XXX times fainter than YYY so that he has some clue as to the starting point.
This object is 100 times lighter than object B. That doesn't tell you much since object B could be a gnat, a basketball, or a galaxy.
I got a +5 already, so it doesn't matter
But seriously, if something is 20 billion times fainter it's going to be barely visible, regardless of how bright the original is.
It's also more impressive journalism to use "20 billion times fainter" than "1.3 candles" or some other actual measurement.
But seriously, if something is 20 billion times fainter it's going to be barely visible, regardless of how bright the original is.
Our sun is ~20 billion times fainter than it will be when it supernovas. And seems to be bright enough to light up the world nicely. OP is right, it would be nice to know how bright the original was.
sorry, pal, Sol is just too small to supernova. It's short by about 1.4 solar masses. What'll likely happen is it'll burn out of hydrogen, start burning helium and contract, then when it starts to burn heavier elements (lithium, beryllium, through carbon, nitrogen, oxygen...) the outer shell of helium will cool and expand out to the orbit of Venus and possibly Earth. By this time the core'll be burning even heavier elements, but due to the size of the sun it won't even reach the iron cycle - the photosphere
The article that line is a link to (and that the line was extracted from) states (in the first paragraph no less): "as bright as the planet Venus".
Which considering the time frame of the original observation is as precise as you are going to get.
I'm going to take a punt that 99.9% of people get a more accurate idea from "as bright as the planet Venus" (provided they know which dot in the night sky you are referring to by that name) than "an apparent magnitude of -4.5".
Couldn't hold his pee pee!
Tycho's elk and dwarf
Tycho was said to own one percent of the entire wealth of Denmark at one point in the 1580s and he often held large social gatherings in his castle. He kept a dwarf named Jepp (whom Tycho believed to be clairvoyant) as a court jester who sat under the table during dinner. Pierre Gassendi wrote[6] that Tycho also had a tame elk, and that his mentor the Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel (Hesse-Cassel) asked whether there was an animal faster than a deer. Tycho replied, writing that there
http://www.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2008/12/03/index.html [naoj.org]
As the article suggests, the biggest benefit of using light echoes is that the SPECTRUM of the original supernova can be obtained. In other words, while today we mostly see the direct-path light emitted by the supernova's gas remnant, light echoes let us see all the wavelengths of the light emitted at the time of the explosion.
wow... that brings up a whole mess of possibilities! For instance, we can tell from the amount of light reflected and the intensity of reflection, what a local mass is made of (by the absorption spectrum) and extrapolate how dense it is. In the same manner, we can tell what a star is made of (hydrogen and helium, usually, with a mess of other elements up to iron - after which nuclear reactions are endothermic) by its emission spectrum, and if we can be sure that these light echoes are of the same wavelength
all these high powered telescopes that can 'supposely' see 10000000000x millions of light years away and yet there are no close up's of the moon, the flag on the moon, the machines left on the moon or any other human impact images of the moon from multiple sources across the world. No images exist except those from the 1969.
why? Think about it.
you look at the moon through a small telescope (don't do this on a full moon, you'll burn your retinas!). Oh wait, that prenthesis is the whole point of the exercise. Deep space telescopes such as Hubble are insanely photosensitive. They can't even use HST to look at Earth's surface, it'll overload the CCD sensors. Light reflected by the lunar surface is unfiltered raw sunlight. You'd be better off using interferometry to look for your landing sites... it's better for your eyes and better for your cameras..
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. -- Christopher Morley


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A battery explosion injuring one or two people has occurred this morning at General Motors Technical Center battery research lab in Warren, Michigan.
According to a report by The Detroit News, authorities were contacted around 9 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) in response to a large explosion. Reports indicate that upon arrival emergency services found "a small fire" stemming from an explosion as well as two people injured. A General Motors spokesman has placed the number of injured people at one, while The Detroit Free Press has indicated that one of the victims has life-threatening injuries.
The Tech Center near the company's Detroit headquarters suffering the explosion is where GM conducts testing on battery technology for the Chevy Volt and other hybrid vehicles. Indeed, David Frederick, the city's fire chief, confirmed in a telephone interview with Bloomberg that an "incident" occurred early in the morning at in a laboratory conducting "extreme testing on a prototype battery."
GM spokesman Greg Martin told the Detroit News that all employees have been accounted for and that the company is "trying to learn more details."
GM has issued a statement to local ABC affiliate, WXYZ:
"We are aware of an incident this morning in one of the laboratories at the Alternative Energy Center at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich. Fire and emergency authorities were called to the scene. The building was evacuated. All employees have been accounted for. We are aware five employees being evacuated on scene by medical personal and only one employee is being further treated.
The incident is still under investigation by GM and the Warren authorities. Any information or discussion of the nature of the work in the lab or cause of the incident is entirely speculative and cannot be confirmed at this time."
GM was eager to point out that the incident was unrelated to the Chevrolet Volt or any other production vehicle.
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US Soldier Kills 16 Afghan Civilians In Their Homes [UPDATE]
UPDATE: According to MSNBC, though no protests or demonstrations were seen Monday morning, the Afghan Taliban has pledged to take revenge against the "sick-minded American Savages",
"The American 'terrorists' want to come up with an excuse for the perpetrator of this inhumane crime by claiming that this immoral culprit was mentally ill. If the perpetrators of this massacre were in fact mentally ill then this testifies to yet another moral transgression by the American military, because they are arming lunatics in Afghanistan who turn their weapons against the defenseless Afghans without giving a second thought."
U.S. and NATO reps are doing what they can to assure people this was not a raid and was the act of a single person. Several people have been quick to shoot down such claims, saying one person cannot be responsible for the amount of carnage cause Sunday morning. One villager told the Associated Press that even if the government tells them this was just one person, they wouldn't believe it.
The identity of the shooter has still not been released, but it has been revealed that the soldier is a 38-year-old staff sergeant who is married, has two children, served three tours in Iraq before being stationed in Kandahar this past December as part of a "village stability operation".
With the war officially over, but hostilities still going on in the middle east, even this is something we never expected to hear.
In Kandahar, Afghanistan, a US Soldier left the military base in the early hours Sunday morning and walked to two villages just a few hundred yards away. According to Minister of Border and Tribal Affairs Asadullah Khalid, the unidentified soldier enterted three homes and opened fire on the sleeping civilians. Samad Khan, who has family members among the dead, said that 9 children were killed along with 3 women.
"This is an anti-human and anti-Islamic act," said Khan. "Nobody is allowed in any religion in the world to kill children and women."
Khan has also demanded that Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who called the incident an "assassination", punish the soldier or hand the soldier over to Khan and the other villagers who lost family members.
According to the BBC, the soldier was thought to have suffered a mental breakdown. Afghanistan's defense ministry have told some news sources that several soldiers, referring to them as "coalition forces", were responsible for the shooting. NATO has yet to comment on the report, however one witness, who declined to give her name, only mentioned the one soldier in question,
"No Taliban were here. No gun battle was going on. We don't know why this foreign soldier came and killed our innocent family members. Either he was drunk or he was enjoying killing civilians."
The American Embassy in Kabul issued a statement saying,
"The United States extends its deepest condolences to the families of the victims of today's tragic shooting incident. We assure the people of Afghanistan that the individual or individuals responsible for this act will be identified and brought to justice."
Tensions in the area were already high after an incident last month after US Soldiers burned a large number of Qurans at a NATO base, which NATO called a tragic mistake. Apart from the 16 confirmed dead, 5 injuries were also reported as a result of the shooting. After the shooting, the soldier turned himself in.
via MSNBC


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QUESTION: My husband has been ill for quite some time. We have been getting in-home services covered by a Medicare agency. The social worker recently spoke with me about switching over the care to a hospice agency. This is a very difficult decision for me. What would be the benefit for us?
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