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LEWISBURG, Pa. — The documentary film "Thread" will be shown at the Campus Theatre in Lewisburg on Sunday, Feb. 28, at 3 p.m.
The documentary about Afghan women entrepreneurs will be followed by a discussion led by Bucknell senior Palwasha Siddiqi. A native of Kabul, Afghanistan, Siddiqi will discuss a project designed to help children get an education in her home town.
The educational program is sponsored by several groups at Bucknell University — the Bucknell Office of Civic Engagement, the Women's Resource Center, and International Student Services — along with the Center for Non-Violent Living, and C.A.R.E. (Community Alliance for Respect and Equality).
Afghan women entrepreneurs
Filmed in 2005, the film includes Siddiqi's experience with Bpeace (Business Council for Peace), a nonprofit international network of business professionals who volunteer to help women entrepreneurs in countries emerging from war to expand their businesses, create employment, and build a more peaceful future for their communities.
Following the film, she will offer a short presentation about the lives of regular Afghan people.
"Given the military surge that has been ordered in Afghanistan by the U.S. government, and knowing that many local troops may serve there, I think it is important for all of us as American citizens to learn more about our civilian counterparts in that country," said Janice Buter, director of Civic Engagement and Service-Learning at Bucknell, one of the organizers of the event.
Siddiqi traveled to Kabul over the winter break and found that traveling in the capital city was more dangerous than ever. She mentioned several bombings in areas where her younger siblings walk on their way to school.
One aim of her trip back to Afghanistan was to meet with children she is helping by sponsoring their education. Many children in Kabul don't go to school because their families need them to work on the streets or beg for money so that they can buy food, clothing and fuel. Many women are widowed and most Afghan single mothers are illiterate and cannot work outside the home. School-age children run errands and do odd jobs for the family to scrape together an existence.
Collection for Kochah
While the film screening and presentation are free, a collection will be taken to help Kochah provide education to additional children. "Donations to Kochah will assist children of single mothers in Afghanistan with education as well as food and clothing," Siddiqi said.
Kochah is a nonprofit organization located in Kabul dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance and educational opportunities for deprived children regardless of their ethnicity, group, language, religion or gender. Founded by singer-songwriter, human rights activist and Goodwill Ambassador Farhad Darya in 2007, this charitable group assists female-headed households.
Siddiqi has taken on the role of patron by sponsoring 12 children this year through Kochah, paying their families what the kids would have earned - as much as $50 a month - so that they can still eat while the kids go to school.
A senior majoring in management, Siddiqi interned this summer at Prudential in Newark, N.J., where she held a similar fundraiser with a documentary showing and presentation to the advertising agency there.
The youngest member in the Bpeace group, she was encouraged by her U.S. host mother to apply to Bucknell. Following graduation in May, she hopes to continue her education with a master's degree before returning to Afghanistan to open an orphanage.
Siddiqi will speak on WKOK-AM on Feb. 23 at 9:15 a.m. about her experiences and the work she is supporting in Afghanistan.
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By LARRY LAGE/AP Sports Writer
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – Devin Gardner set school records with 584 yards of offense and 503 yards passing and matched a Michigan mark with five touchdowns to help the Wolverines outscore Indiana 63-47 Saturday.
Michigan (6-1, 2-1 Big Ten) lost two fumbles in the second half that gave the Hoosiers (3-4, 1-2) a chance to win in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1967.
Thomas Gordon had two interceptions in the fourth quarter, including one inside the Wolverines 10 with 2:57 left, to avoid an upset.
Michigan's Jeremy Gallon had a Big Ten-record 369 yards receiving and two TDs. Fitzgerald Toussaint had 151 yards rushing and scored for a fourth time with 1:12 left in the shootout.
The Wolverines set a school record with 711 yards of offense, and gave up 572 on defense.
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The New York Red Bulls currently sit joint top of the Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference after a series of strong results against Sporting KC and Real Salt Lake.
The Red Bulls' main problem in keeping the top spot is consistency. Their results record speaks for itself, with a defeat to Columbus and a dull 0-0 draw with Philadelphia. There are several reasons why the Red Bulls are faltering, which if they can fix, will surely see them with a great chance of winning some silverware.
Thierry Henry is a name which should be familiar with most fans across the world, whether it's for his accolades or his controversy over the years. His current goal drought is his longest in the MLS as he continues to strive for his first goal in over seven matches
It is, however, not for the lack of trying. With a memorable piece of genius against Real Salt Lake, for example, he struck the post after a stunning run. If Henry can find his magic again then the Red Bulls will have a sharp attack with a lot of the goalscoring pressure being on the likes of Fabian Espindola who, like the Red Bulls, is inconsistent and also Peguy Luyindula who has failed to impress.
Chemistry is the second area in which the Red Bulls must improve with the constant changing of the makeup of the team - especially in midfield and defence - having caused a disruption in the chemistry of the squad as players try to build up a new understanding. The Red Bulls' midfield of Tim Cahill and Dax McCarty is one area which must be kept the same as the two of them have been the spine for a lot of the Red Bulls' decent results along with the supporting act of Jonny Steele, Lloyd Sam and Eric Alexander.
Keeping the squad fit is the last and possibly most crucial area as it links back up with the chemistry. If the squad can stay fit for the remainder of the season without too many changes, then the Red Bulls have a real chance of getting their hands on some silverware. The fans, who are always there to show support, are just wanting something to cheer about and some silverware will certainly do the job.
Should the Red Bulls had dipped into the transfer market? Maybe, maybe not. The window is closed now and they have to stick with the squad they have got and just aim to grind out the results for the remainder of the season.
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Topics: "Wisconsin Sen. Bob Jauch to Retire" & "Election Campaigns and Ghost Written Letters"
Description: Saying Democracy is on "life support" in Madison, long-time Wisconsin Senator Bob Jauch announced he will not seek re-election when his term expires at the end of next year. The Senator joined us in the studio for an interview.
And during this election season, newspapers have been filled with letters supporting one candidate or another. But this week, the Duluth News Tribune exposed a "ghost written" letter that may just be the tip of the iceberg.
Guests: Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar; Chuck Frederick, Duluth News Tribune Editorial Page Editor; Jim Heffernan, retired Duluth News Tribune Editor


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By Sam Mamudi
As the year draws to a close I'm going to have a few data-centric posts about the market in 2012. First up, a look at the top short positions of the year.
Thanks to the number crunchers at Markit here's a list of, in their words, the "15 companies [who] saw their share prices underperform the MSCI World by more than 70% in the weeks and months since their shares were targeted by short sellers." Notable names include RadioShack (RSH), Molycorp (MCP) and Zynga (ZNGA):
(Note: The data is more than a week old, but the numbers are pretty much as they were.)
Of course, perhaps the most famous short of the year isn't on the list; for those keeping track, shares of Herbalife (HLF) are now down about 27% since reports of Bill Ackman's short position first surfaced.


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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
I love the tag line for Waking Up Dead by Emma Shortt. Where there is horror can there be love? You betcha!! I don't know much about this book other than it will be in stores in October, and it has ZOMBIES! Can't wait!
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In our previous article we covered the remaining List::Util subroutines. We used min(list) to find the minimum numeric value in a list. We also worked with its brother, the minstr(list), which as you will recall found the smallest string value in a list. We learned that uppercase letters hold a lower value, surprisingly, then lowercase ones. We also learned to use shuffle to randomly sort our lists, and sum(list) to sum up the numeric values in our lists.
Hash…Not What It Sounds Like
If you have worked with Access or Excel, or any grid-type program, you are familiar with the concept of a hash. These aren't exactly like a hash mind you, but a similar idea. Whereas with a typical list, you refer to the values stored in them by referencing their element or index number, like so:
with hashes you look them up with their key. When you create an element in a hash, you assign it a key value. That key, plus the value, creates a record. If that is still confusing to you, never fear: after our example it should be crystal clear.
{mospagebreak title=Creating A Hash}
If you are familiar with other programming languages, then you will know that a hash is similar to an associative array. Before we create our first hash, there are a few rules you must learn. The first one is the naming convention. Hashes are named like other lists, except that they start with a percent sign (%) rather than the ampersand (@). When you refer to a key you use the curly braces {}, as opposed to parentheses as in regular lists. When you create the hashes, you use parentheses. Okay, enough blabbering; let's create our first hash:
%Brownies = (1,'Chocolate', 2,'Fudge',3,'Vanilla',4,'Peanut Butter');
In the above example we created four key-value pairs. If we printed out the hash, this is how we would do so, and also, the result:
%Brownies = (1,'Chocolate', 2,'Fudge',3,'Vanilla',4,'Peanut Butter');
print %Brownies;
Which prints:
4Peanut Butter1Chocolate3Vanilla2Fudge
Not quite what we expected right? You will note that hashes are not ordered lists and will not necessarily print in the order you enter them. Also, you will notice that the key gets printed along with the value when we print in this manner. We will learn in a short bit how to print only the values when we want to print the entire hash.
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There are several print methods that you can use with hashes. The first we will learn about is printing individual values from a hash. Here, we will use our previous list of different types of brownies to print from:
%Brownies = (1,'Chocolate ', 2,'Fudge ',3,'Vanilla ',4,'Peanut Butter
print $Brownies{1};
You will note that we use $Brownies in our print statement instead of %Brownies. This is because we are only printing a single value, and thus it becomes a variable. The result of this is:
If we wanted to print more than one value from the hash, we would change the $Brownies variable to @Brownies, since there will be more than one value in it. Here is how we return two or more values:
%Brownies = (1,'Chocolate ', 2,'Fudge ',3,'Vanilla ',4,'Peanut Butter
print @Brownies{1,2};
This simplistic code returns the following:
Chocolate Fudge
Note that the keys that refer to your values don't have to be numbers. Here, we will use some text instead:
%HowItIs = (Dumb,'You ', Fat,'YoMama ',UglyGenius,'James Payne
',Nerd,'PHP Programmers');
print @HowItIs{Dumb,Fat,Nerd};
This code assigns the value "You" to the key Dumb, "YoMama" to Fat, and so forth. When we run this program, it prints the following:
You YoMama PHP Programmers
Another thing to remember is that your keys may not equal the same value, but the value inside your keys can. Let's say that in addition to being an ugly genius, I am also a nerd. Here is how I could assign myself to two keys:
%HowItIs = (Dumb,'You ', Fat,'YoMama ',UglyGenius,'James Payne
',Nerd,'James Payne');
print @HowItIs{UglyGenius,Nerd};
The result is of course:
James Payne James Payne
{mospagebreak title=Printing All the Values or Keys in a Hash}
As we saw earlier, you cannot simply print all the values in a hash using the print command. You could, but then you would also get the keys associated with those values as well, which you may not want. Perl has a handy function, called "values," that can help you achieve this goal:
%HowItIs = (Dumb,'You ', Fat,'YoMama ',UglyGenius,'James Payne
',Nerd,'James Payne ');
print values(%HowItIs);
This prints out just the values in the hash:
James Payne James Payne YoMama You
If we wanted to print out all the keys, and not the values, we can do that also, using another function, "keys". Here it is in code:
%HowItIs = (Dumb,'You ', Fat,'YoMama ',UglyGenius,'James Payne
',Nerd,'James Payne');
print sort(keys(%HowItIs));
Note that I sorted this print out also:
And of course if we wanted a list of both keys and values in a sentence, we can do that as well with the following nifty little program:
%HowItIs = (Dumb,'You ', Fat,'YoMama ',UglyGenius,'James Payne
',Nerd,'James Payne');
@All = keys(%HowItIs);
foreach $ItIs(@All)
{print "The key for $HowItIs{$ItIs} is $ItIsn"};
Which gives us the following result:
The key for James Payne is Nerd
The key for James Payne is UglyGenius
The key for Yomama is Fat
The Key for You is Dumb
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There are other ways to create hashes as well. In this next example we will use one of them. Note though that this only works for Perl 5 and later. Here, we will use the => operator to assign values:
%HowItIs = (Dumb=>'You ', Fat=>'YoMama ',UglyGenius=>'James Payne
',Nerd=>'James Payne');
print $HowItIs{Dumb};
This prints out:
There really is no difference between this and the original method as far as I know. Some people say this way is easier to read, but it is really up to personal preference.
You could also create an empty hash if you wanted, and assign values to it later:
%HowItIs = ();
We'll learn how to add to it in a bit.
What if we want to create a hash from another hash? That too is a simple process:
%HowItIs = (Dumb=>'You ', Fat=>'YoMama ',UglyGenius=>'James Payne ',Nerd=>'James Payne ');
%HowItWas = %HowItIs;
print values(%HowItWas);
print "nn";
print keys(%HowItWas);
In the above example, we create our %HowItIs hash and assign it some values. Next, we create another hash named %HowItWas, and add the values from %HowItIs to it. We then print out first the values, then the keys to verify that it worked. The result:
James Payne James Payne YoMama You
If we only wanted to add a few of the values to our newly created hash, we could do so in the following manner:
%HowItIs = (Dumb=>'You ', Fat=>'YoMama ',UglyGenius=>'James Payne
',Nerd=>'James Payne ');
%HowItWas = @HowItIs{Dumb,Fat};
print values(%HowItWas);
print "nn";
print keys(%HowItWas);
The result?
We aren't limited to creating just other hashes with our hashes. We can also create variables:
%HowItIs = (Dumb=>'You ', Fat=>'YoMama ',UglyGenius=>'James Payne
',Nerd=>'James Payne ');
$HowItWas = @HowItIs{Dumb};
print $HowItWas;
Which gives us:
And we can also create lists as well:
%HowItIs = (Dumb=>'You ', Fat=>'YoMama ',UglyGenius=>'James Payne
',Nerd=>'James Payne ');
@HowItWas = @HowItIs{Dumb,Fat,Nerd};
print @HowItWas;
Here we are given:
You YoMama James Payne
We covered a lot of ground in this article, however, there is much more to go. In our next tutorial we will learn to add records to hashes, remove them, check to see if a record already exists, create multidimensional lists, and much, much more. So be sure to stop by often.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past quarter of a century, 37 different actresses have played the female lead in "The Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway. All 37 have been dressed by one woman: Erna Dias.
"I have no favorites. You can't do that," says Dias, who has been a wardrobe attendant with the show at the Majestic Theater in New York since rehearsals began.
She oversees each actress' 16 nightly costume changes — one so short she has only 34 seconds to get it done — and has rearranged her vacations to ensure she's present for each new heroine making her debut as Christine Daae.
"To keep this fresh, when I come in, I try to think of every night as opening night," she says. "I've been in this business 36 years and I never thought this show was going to last this long. This is unbelievable."
The show is celebrating its record-setting silver anniversary and it has eye-popping numbers — grossing over $887 million, using 1,600 tons of dry ice and having its famous chandelier travel 4 million feet. But behind the numbers and behind the scenes, it is people like Diaz who have kept "The Phantom of the Opera" going, one outfit at a time.
It's people like David Caddick, the Grammy-winning musical supervisor who also frequently conducts the show dressed in Edwardian tails. His hair has grown gray over the 25 years he's been with "Phantom."
"It keeps going because people want it to keep going," says Caddick, who leads the show's tours as well. "We have an audience that keeps coming back, and a new audience who have never seen it, and everyone's very grateful for that."
The musical opened on London's West End at the 1,200-seat Her Majesty's Theatre on Oct. 9, 1986, with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman in the lead roles. It crossed the Atlantic and opened on Broadway on Jan. 26, 1988, and has clocked more than 10,400 performances, becoming the Great White Way's longest-running show ever.
"Every single show is a pioneer into the future. Every single one makes it that much further," says actor Richard Poole, who has played Joseph Buquet in the show for 14 1/2 years. "It's an incredible blessing to be in something like this because you don't go into this business for security."
Based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, "Phantom" tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine. Andrew Lloyd Webber's lavish songs include "Masquerade," "Angel of Music," "All I Ask of You," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of the Night."
The musical has played to over 130 million people in 27 countries and has grossed over $5.6 billion worldwide — more than any film in history, including "Avatar," "Titanic," "Gone With the Wind" and "Star Wars."
In the New York production, Poole plays an unpleasant, drunken opera stagehand who is killed before intermission — "It's rough dying eight times a week," he cracks — but returns to play various other smaller roles the rest of the night. He's a classic team player.
"Even the short time that I've been here — comparatively — I see people come and go, but I see the standard — the benchmark — remain the same," he says. "That is attributed to the people who are really in it every single day, week, month, year, decade."
The show has endured through blackouts, 9/11, economic recessions and Superstorm Sandy, a flood in the theater due to plumping problems and one Christine popping her Achilles tendon. It also survived Poole losing some teeth.
He explains that a few years back, he cracked five teeth on a piece of equipment but kept going that week with some temporary teeth. Then, one night onstage, he said the word "ghost" and two of his temporaries flew out of his mouth, landing several feet away at the foot of another actor.
"I'm realizing at that point that these teeth are worth a lot more than my dignity of picking them up," he says. "I thought, `I'm a stage hand.' I reached down, picked them up and put them back in. Everyone was going, `Ugh!' — which is perfect for the character."
What has fueled Dias, Caddick and Poole every night for all these years has been the sense of obligation they have to inspire another generation and pass along their passion.
"My philosophy about it is that every time that you go on the stage, you have to realize that there are some people who have never seen a theatrical production ever before. There are people who have spent half a year saving up money to come and see something," says Poole.
"The show has become a revival of itself because now the people who saw it when they were kids are bringing their kids. It's iconic. It's part of the fabric of New York."
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I had to take my best friend to the doctor yesterday for her flu, which is not the flu per se, but is a virus of some sort anyway. Cell phones aren't allowed in the doctor's office, so I stepped outside to check my messages, and the recruiter had called to tell me I got the job! We've been playing phone tag ever since to get all the details sorted out, but at least I know now!
I did manage to have a hypoglycemic thing happen to me yesterday - you'd think that after nearly six years on the BTD that I'd've learned how to avoid them altogether! When I took my best friend to the doctor's office, I was sipping on an iced soy chai tea latte from Starbucks. Heaven in a cup, and I've been treating myself to them too often lately! Generally, they are a between meal thing, and I try to eat some protein within a couple of hours of having one, but yesterday it became a meal, and then I was stuck at the doctor's for 2 hours and then I had to run to acting class. On the way to class I grabbed some sushi thinking that the protein would help, but I think the rice put me over the edge. I felt loopy and shaky and not at all grounded in class, and it showed in my work. I drank my water in class, and ate all the pumpkin seeds I brought for a snack, and ate the rest of my goat cheese brie (yum!) once I got home. It's so rare for me to get shaky at all anymore - I can go for hours and hours now without eating, and have no problems (other than a growling tummy). I think I just went too long without protein and had too much sugar.
This morning my best friend called me at 7am (after I fell asleep at 5am, of course) and she'd had a reaction to the medication they gave her and needed some help, so I went downstairs to do what I could to help her through it and make her more comfortable. Fell asleep on her bed (she couldn't get up from the floor at that point!) and slept until about 10. So four hours of sleep, and I made myself get up and I'm staying up today and will get to bed early tonight. I think I'll just have to wear myself out today to make sure I'll sleep tonight. A walk is in order even though the ankle is still a little achy on the lateral side.
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I had the opportunity on Labor Day to help with the delivery of several Jumpin' Junction inflatables to the United Steel Workers celebration event, at KCHS. The KCHS football teams (Varsity and JV) were there, as a community service project, in place of practice that day. The team was eager to help in any way they could and worked together well, to assist folks setting up and taking down for the event. I got a real sense of camaraderie and teamwork from these young men. How refreshing to not see a single iphone or ipad out there ... the boys were just hanging out together as a team, helping get the work done and taking advantage of any opportunity to kid each other.
While I graduated from one of the other local high schools, and still bleed a light shade of blue, I am proud to have these kids as part of our community. Coach Beeson and staff have obviously instilled a sense of pride to wear the jersey, and be a team. I am sure that spirit will serve them well on the field and off. Go Kards!


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Charles J. McHugh
Charles J. McHugh, 79, died Wednesday, July 17, 2013. He was the devoted husband for 55 years of Mary K. (Flynn) McHugh.
Born in Providence, a son of the late Thomas P. and Emily (McHale) McHugh he resided in Warwick for 52 years. Mr. McHugh was employed as a telephone cable splicer and worked with New England Telephone for 35 years. A Korean War veteran, he served in the United States Army. He served as president of the Telephone Pioneers of America, a doorkeeper at the RI State House, House of Representatives, for 26 years and volunteered his time for many worthy charities.
He was the devoted father of Susan M. McCabe (John), Charles R. McHugh (Beth), Kevin J. McHugh (Margo), Shawn P. McHugh (Christine); brother of Ann Berardinelli, Mary Lou Clark, the late Walter McHugh, Thomas McHugh and Emily Saucier. He was the grandfather of Justin, Jarid, Daniel, Alaina, Jonathan, Shawn, Lindsay, Katelyn, Brandan, Ian, Collin, Ryan, Griffin: and great grandson, Jack.
His funeral will be held Monday at 9 a.m. from the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave. with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Kevin Church, Sandy Lane. Burial with military honors in Rhode Island Veterans' Cemetery, Exeter. Visiting hours Sunday 2-5 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to Providence Ronald McDonald House, 45 Gay Street, Providence, RI 02905, will be appreciated. Information and condolences, visit TheQuinnFuneralHome.com.


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I have a commercial customer that has this old beasty from 1988. He wants a quote to replace the heat exchanger, tubes, inducing fan etc.. It looks like crap, but it still chuggs along on A/C pretty well. Obviously if it's more $$ to fix than replace he'll go for a new unit.
I think it's 150 kBtu heat and 75k btu cool. 3 phase.
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Performance Appraisal is a quarterly or half yearly or yearly activity carried out by companies to check performance of employees. It is a system to check the performance of individual employees for promotion, salary increment or bonus. But this very system to check the performance can cause problems in the smooth working of the organization. A lot of gossips and rumor keeps mongering among employees. They are without head and tail and are carried out by those who are not happy with their performance reviews and feedback.
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Felipe Massa's respected race engineer Rob Smedley is set to follow the Brazilian to Williams for 2014.
On Monday it was confirmed the 32-year-old would be replacing Pastor Maldonado at the Grove based team and later they claimed further announcements would be forthcoming.
Asked about the speculation deputy team boss Claire Williams told the BBC: "We have some great talent in Williams but we need to make sure we have all the talent we need to perform right at the top.
"So I'm hoping that before the end of the season or maybe slightly after we'll be making some more announcements in a similar vein to this one (Massa)."
Smedley's appointment would be less of a surprise as the move was predicted even if Massa joined the team or not, now it is believed the 39-year-old has signed a contract at Williams.
The Massa/ Smedley relationship is one of the closest driver/ engineer partnerships on the grid with the Middlesbrough born Smedley often seen as a 'father' figure to the Brazilian, indeed their radio conversations are often among the most shared over the F1 broadcasts during a weekend.
While the move will be well received by fans who have come to respect the relationship between the pair, Claire Williams admit Smedley's role may not be as race engineer to the arriving Massa.
"If Rob Smedley was to join our team," Williams said, "it has to be on his terms, and he has to be given a role he wants to do and that may or may not be Felipe's race engineer.
"Felipe is grown-up enough to join a team without bringing his race engineer with him," she added.
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Move over big squid – there's competition at Te Papa for the most popular exhibit these holidays !
You love the blue whale heart in NatureSpace, including crawling into it, stuffing things inside it (like big toy penguins) and having your picture taken with it.
The model was a highlight of the Whales | Tohorā exhibition. It was so popular we made two of them! The other heart model is now on tour with the exhibition, which closed at the National Geographic Museum in Washington DC on 18 Jan 2009 and will open on 28 February at Exploration Place, in Kansas.
The blue whale heart is a favourite Te Papa photo spot and it's great to see your pics up on Flickr.
If you've got photos of you and your mates with the blue whale heart we'd love to see them!


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Researchers at London University's Queen Mary College and Cardiff University have used a combination of X-rays and computer modeling to offer historians something they could never have dreamed of: a way to read ancient parchments so fragile they cannot be unrolled.
The result: a system called Apocalypto that lets researchers read the unreadable by creating a virtual version of the documents.
In the pre-digital age, the project's researchers explained, people wrote on parchment paper that was very expensive at the time. For that reason, the pages, also known as palimpsests, were often used over and over again.
Made of organic materials like paper, cloth, and even bark, the scrolls were surprisingly long-lasting, but they were still vulnerable to the passage of time. And while digitization of material means that they can now be preserved and shared more easily, a lot of ancient scrolls are very fragile. That means they're safe as long as we don't mess with them, but if we try to open them they will crumble.
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Hence Apocalypto, a £1.3 million ($1.9 million) collaboration between scientists and historians to find ways to safely access data on degraded, at-risk heritage material.
Paper and parchment (animal skin stretched finely enough to write on) documents -- especially those that have been inscribed with metallic-based, or "iron gall" inks – are the first targets for the new technology. Due to its composition, anything written in metallic ink can be seen by an X-ray. Apocalypto will use a combination of micro tomography (industrial CT scanning) and advanced software-based visualization techniques to build a 3D map of the contents of these documents, revealing the hidden or overwritten layers underneath for the first time in centuries.
The Apocalypto team says they don't know what they might find -- if anything at all. "It's fairly safe to say that we're not likely to be seeing any lost works of Aristotle," Graham Davis, reader in 3D X-ray imaging at Queen Mary University and lead for the Apocalypto program, told Information Week.
"The iron content in the ink gives it its good X-ray contrast," Davis continued, "but this ink also can cause degradation of the parchment and may contribute to the reasons why a particular scroll cannot be opened."
If researchers do find information that's been lost for centuries, it'll because of this imaging technology. The special feature of the scanner, Davis explained, is its use of time-delay integration in the X-ray CCD camera. The camera is moved across the X-ray shadow while being simultaneously read out. The read-out speed and camera motion speed are precisely synchronized to produce a continuous high-quality image; as many as several thousand such images may be needed to reconstruct the full 3-D volume image of the target scroll.
But that image needs to be cleaned up, including removal of "noise" (data that's neither ink nor parchment) and the data fully projected and rendered. The process also involves the use of specially designed surface mesh construction and correction algorithms, Davis said.
"This is a milestone in historical information recovery," said Tim Wess, a colleague of Davis' at Cardiff. "The conservation community is rightly very protective of old documents and isn't prepared to risk damaging them by opening them. Our breakthrough means they won't have to. Across the world, literally thousands of previously unusable documents up to around a thousand years old could now become available for historical research. It really will be possible to read the unreadable."
The Apocalypto project is backed by the British government's EPSRC R&D arm.


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GREENVILLE, Ill.-- The Greenville Men's Soccer team played Webster University to a 2-2 tie with both teams having many opportunities to score throughout the game.
Goals were scored for GC by Dusty Knoll, in the 33rd minute, and Sean McQuillan, with an assist by Nathan Mayberry, in the 66th minute. Webster's Clint Carder and Agustin Villalba got the goals for Webster in the 17th and 70th minutes, respectively.
The game went into two overtime periods of 10 minutes each, but neither team could capitalize on their opportunities so the final score remained a 2-2 tie.
Greenville recorded 19 shots while Webster only had 12 in the game. GC keeper, Thomas Crown, made 3 saves for the Panthers.
This tie brings the men's record to 9-5-3 (4-0-3 SLIAC). The Panthers will play again on Monday, Oct. 29 as they travel to Eureka to take on the Red Devils.


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I find it interesting that "sabotage" is getting the most votes currently, yet I've seen work places where sabotaging other people in order to get ahead was part of the normal path for clawing your way to the top.I agree that it's a lousy thing to do, but unfortunately it's not always bad for your career out in the real world.
Why is not wanting to spend your free time at office events a "sin".
QuoteWhy is not wanting to spend your free time at office events a "sin". As I said in post #10, *I* don't think it is, but experience and observation indicate that a LOT of people do. Among other reasons, they see it as personal rejection and many people's lives revolve around their jobs and co-workers.
Not attending office parties is probably a worse "sin" in small companies where people are a little too close for comfort. Your absence is noticed to a degree it isn't in a larger place (or department) and if the people talk about each other "like family" you will definitely have an issue if you like to maintain a strong boundary between work and private time.
It got to the point that when I went on interviews, if someone said "we're a family", I thought to myself "I need a job, not more relatives. Certainly don't want my co-workers all up in my personal business." At one place it was a team interview. Six people sat at a table and asked me questions. Then the kicker: "We're family. If you have any personal problems, feel free to share. We care." (YIKES) No, thanks.
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Hello again fellows. I finally got around to doing it and after getting all the workarounds together and clicking upgrade I faced another problem.
It told me that I do not have enough space on Disk C: to perform the upgrade, and that 16GB total is required. That is true, as I only have 5 GB free out of 37. I was assuming it would replace the current files, or something, so I wouldn't need any extra space.
The problem is that it's a single hard drive - the 40 GB one, where I installed windows and most of the programs. This doesn't sound good, and... wow, this is actually worse than not good. This is pretty bad. I was wondering, though, if anyone here had any suggestions. I still don't want to do a clean install and I'm not sure why it wants 16 extra gig of space... Sigh. I doubt I can actually free THAT much.
Edit: I know this is an obvious question but... there's no way to "channel" disk space from one hard drive to another, is there? Virtually for example... Though even if it was, it wouldn't be too good of an idea anyway. Unless it does replace the original files in the end. I noticed my windows folder weighs 15 or so GB, which is about the same as the update installer requires. This points to the fact that it will weigh 16 GB after install, almost like this one, except for the install itself, it for some reason needs the 16 GB... I mean it doesn't weigh 30 GB now does it? Maybe there's a way to trick it into just going on with the install and overwriting the current windows files with it's own, thus having all the space it needs? Oh man... this is bad, real bad, I got less than a month... I do not want to spend my week off reinstalling all of my programs and games and settings... Seriously...
PS: The official Win7 site says you need 16 GB for 32 bit version and 20 GB for 64 bit. Mine is the 64 bit version. The RTM, and the RC too. The upgrade setup said it needs a total of 16 GB, which sounds like the 32 bit version, even though it's not. Maybe it doesn't need the whole 20 GB because it's only upgrading?
Still, I am convinced that it is going to overwrite the files of the RC, which is taking up 15 GB of my hard drive right now. It adds up. Maybe it's some additional programs that take up the other 4 GB. There's gotta be a way to make the setup proceed and bypass the space check. It's going to overwrite the files anyway, so it doesn't need an additional 16 GB of space. Right? ..right?
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Why is your Windows folder 15 gb? Mine is 8 gb. I have 32 bit but doubt it would be half as big. I'd go through it to see if there is another OS in there (duplicate files).
Short of that, can you clean up some bloatware or old files? Try Disk Cleanup to see if it can compress some for you. Then use the CCleaner "Run Cleaner" and Registry tab.
If you haven't culled the bloatware out of your Programs list, now is the time. Use the Revo Uninstaller to get it cleanest possible and ready for Upgrade without importing Vista corruption.
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Alright well I ran CCleaner and was able to fix 322 registry issues and remove about 179 MB of space, right now I'm using the Revo Uninstaller Pro to uninstall stuff, however I have a weird issue with Disk Cleanup - for some reason, and I noticed this before, the "Compress old files" option is actually not there. Do you know anything of this? I like that option, always wanted to use it, but it wasn't here...
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After uninstalling all unneeded Programs with Revo to get the Reg listings, run CCleaner "Run Cleaner" and Registry tab again.
Then defrag using state-of-the-art free Auslogics Disk Defragger to order your HD perfectly.
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Okay well I uninstalled a bunch of unneeded programs, it didn't free up that much space really, in the end I freed about a gigabyte or so... I keep my program list clean, and as you can see on this screenshot I pretty much need all of those programs for something. All the games and autodesk products you see are heavy programs and are thus installed on a completely different hard drive, just so you know.
I still don't get why the compress old files function is not available in disk cleanup however. I'll try your defrag tool you suggested now.
Update: Okay, I used the defragmenter. It tells me my speed increased by +4% now. Also it says in red letters "Warning: Your PC is not optimized". It recommends I download Auslogics BoostSpeed to improve the performance of Windows Core, Internet Browser, Disks and Registry. Should I do this? And how did the defrag process really help me besides just speeding up my system a little?
I still wanna find out what happened to my Compress Old Files function though.
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Come on, I really need some help. Is it possible to make the installer proceed with the upgrade regardless of my free space? Like, bypassing the disk check? I mean it's only going to replace all those windows files, it wouldn't write more on top of them, right? If I currently have 15 GB of the Windows folder, and the setup tells me it needs 16 GB free or so, there's no way it would leave the current 15 GB folder and add another 16 GB on top of it. It's going to overwrite it, and possibly add that one extra GB, which is fine with me.
Come on, there must be a way. I know it's going to overwrite those files and it doesn't really need all that free space. Maybe there's a way to reprogram the setup, I don't know. Please, I really want to avoid doing a clean install when there's an opportunity such as this.
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It only offers to compress files of a certain age, I believe.
That is an ad for BoostSpeed which is the Auslogics paid program including defraggers, tweaks, etc. Not needed, IMO.
You can manually compress files by ticking Properties box option given for that after rightclicking drive, and then rightclicking file/folder>Properties>Advanced tab.
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|14 Feb 2010
Is it safe?
And I know about the certain age thing, but I'm saying that the option to check "Compress Old Files" in disk cleanup is not there at all.
And yet again, do you know anything about bypassing the setup disk check?
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Can someone PLEASE advise and HELP me........I am shortly going to have to upgrade from my Trial W'7 to a retail version. I would LOVE to be able to do this method of upgrading using a W'7 Premium Upgrade.....and do it so I don't have to reload Sound Card and Video Card Drivers and Internet settings etc.
BUT.....a fly, I fear is in dat ointment, the man who installed this W'7 RC chose to partition the 1 TB HD into three partitions, and on one of them he installed a friend's copy of W' Vista.......it turned out to be unuseable, so their lies around 400GB of DEAD space........in some ways I really don't see where I will ever need that 400GB.....BUT it would be GREAT if I could re-partition and solve that problem when I do the Upgrade. I am thinking that I would proobably have to do a FULL/Clean install in order to re-partition like that - is that right? Then I would be forced to have to re-install everything again - right?
I have been shopping on and off on EBAY for FULL Retail Versions of W'7Premium and/or Upgrade versions.....which I could probably follow those instructions offered thru this forum and use a Upgrade copy, to save money, to upgrade from this W'7 Ultimate 7100 trial V.
Please advise, need all the clear and smple help I can get,
TKS michael
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Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
A couple things that eat up disc space quickly on small disks:
Hiberfile: If you do not hibernate, you can delete the hiberfile which will give you approx. 8GB space.
You can still "sleep" the PC
Pagefile: I wouldnt turn it off... but make a static smaller PF. Depending how much RAM you have, Windows sets it at 1.5x RAM installed & This isnt necc. IMO.
If for ex. you have 4GB RAM, you can try setting it to 1.5 or 2GB . smallest and largest the same whatever you choose.
this should free up approx 4GB. this should be more than enough
The above will give you back approx12GB HD space.
System restore: Do not disable, especiAlly if you have no alternate back up means, BUT, you can lower how much space it can use if space is a real issue..
If you done a upgrade, you can delete the Windows.old folder after you get what you need from it.
TBH, you better off just doing a clean install though
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In a humorous, heartfelt moment, Robert Downey Jr. was named Best Supporting Actor for his work on Ally McBeal. The troubled actor, who returns to court this month to answer to drug charges, thanked his Ally costar Calista Flockhart, and creator David E. Kelley "who said it was like having a new toy to write for me, and I will do my best not to get sent back to the factory," he said. "Little double entendre there."
There were other memorable moments. Bob Dylan picked up the award for Best Original Song for his Wonder Boys tune, "Things Have Changed."
And, in a dazed conclusion to the night's festivities, Elizabeth Taylor began ripping open the envelope for Best Motion Picture Drama before reading the nominees. Show producer Dick Clark eventually came onstage to keep La Liz from a full meltdown.
The Golden Globes are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a contingent of foreign journalists based in Los Angeles. The awards are often seen as a key Oscar predictor: Over the past 20 years, the Golden Globes' Best Motion Picture Drama has been named Oscar's Best Picture 13 times.


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Quoted from Lolahave you added all those issues into swami?
when fixing is extreme, detox gets tough.......
just make sure you do not jeopardize your steps forward indulging into any toxin avoids
are you taking deflect, intrinsa, polyflora, genoma security.... to speed up your gut healing process? Don t forget all begins in the gut
Quoted from VictoriaAfter following the BTD for more than 10 years and then the Genotype diet for 2 or 3 years, I moved on to the SWAMI and experienced a lot of body pain and headaches for more than 2 months. I feel sure that it was a positive sign of the dumping of toxins. Also, I was losing weight during that time, which has to be releasing toxins also.
The discomfort did lighten and then disappear, so have hope! I still occasionally go through periods of joint pain, although very seldom and short-lived. Afterwards, I always feel better than ever. You have many years of wrong eating behind you and cleaning/healing from all of it will take time as you move into each new level of health. It's a wonderful thing and well worth the effort. (hehe)
Keep an eye on the amount of sugar you might be consuming along with the great chocolate. I'm not saying don't eat it, but just pay attention to the invisible things in your food that could be flaring the arthritis. You may find that you will be able to be satisfied with progressively smaller amounts of chocolate so that you still get the benefits without the sugar. If you are using cocoa and no sugar is involved, my apologies for misunderstanding. ;)
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possibly i need to cut out the soy milk. :-/ I don't want to do it but I can do it as it is a black dot.. it is the only black dot i'm consuming with exception of a very minute amt of mayo made with canola oil (a black dot) and apple cider vinegar - an avoid - very occasionally.
Can you have homemade almond milk? You can make it as rich or as thin as you wish. I made it for years for my daughter who loved it, but wanted to avoid the commercial brands with ingredients she wasn't supposed to have.
to replace the soy milk, i'm thinking of using tahini and water. I've got an order coming from i-herb and i'll try it out soon. i hope it works cause I'd really like to shoot for 100% compliancy. and I can always make mayo with olive oil when i need it.
I'm always in favor of making your own food as much as possible. Especially when dealing with chronic conditions, total compliance is such a good idea.
I have had terrible fatigue for two days now. the pain with the bowel movements is less and less and my ankle is slowly healing up.
It's understandable. Your body has been through a lot, with the IBS and then the sprain. You could probably use some deep rest.
btw... has anyone used castor oil as a massage oil for painful joints? the program i'm using to help heal my ankle suggests to rub that into the ankle area that is sprained...
I have not tried it, but I've heard good things about castor oil.
You're only 3 weeks into following SWAMI properly. It's very normal for detox to take even longer than this, especially when you're doing some very deep healing on many fronts at once. As you lose fat, toxins will be released into your body and need to be dealt with. Healing is going to take a very long time.
That said, you don't have to eat every single diamond food in your SWAMI, as long as you eat many of them. Just how many foods are diamonds on SWAMI but an avoid in the Arthritis book? If it's only a handful of foods, you can omit them from your diet and see if that makes any difference.
You definitely should cut out the black dots and any avoids during this healing/detox period. If you share what you're using the soymilk for, we can help you brainstorm alternatives. You may want to start a fresh thread in the cooking forum for that topic, to make it easier to locate the information later. (You're not the only one to cut out soy!)
Castor oil on sore joints can't hurt and may do you a lot of good. It's an avoid when consumed, but fine for topical use. You may also benefit from a magnesium supplement, if you're not already using one. Low levels of magnesium can cause muscle soreness and fibromyalgia symptoms.
I like pineapple or grapefruit juice in my green tea. When I have my "mocha mate" (yerba mate and cocoa powder) I sweeten it with blackstrap molasses. I usually add a bit of coconut oil as well (which is beneficial on my SWAMI.) Other times I use rice milk, with or without the added molasses.
Yes, blackstrap molasses does have a strong flavor and isn't very sweet compared to other sweeteners, but my taste buds have adapted to a low-sugar diet and I find the blackstrap to simply be flavorful and plenty sweet for me. You may want to start out with regular molasses rather than the blackstrap kind; it's not quite as nutritious but it has a milder flavor and you may enjoy it more if your body is used to conventional sweeteners right now.


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Is Christina Aguilera Getting Engaged?
Oh yeaaaa! We forgot Christina Aguilera was dating that guy Matt Rutler. The girl has been so busy posting sneak peeks of her new album and video and promoting the upcoming season of 'The Voice,' that we didn't even realize she was still dating her boytoy.


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China's 7.9 earthquake near Chengdu caused massive amounts of damage and sent shock waves hundreds of miles away. One family here is Grand Junction didn't feel the shock waves but were touched just the same.
The Carlo family received a phone call early Monday morning asking them if they had heard any news about the quake in China. Adrienne Carlo's sister live in Chengdu, a city just 40 miles from the epicenter. However, Carlo's parents were in the city visiting their daughter at the same time of the earthquake.
Adrienne says her heart dropped in her chest while she waited to hear word from her parents and sister. Luckily her husband who jumped on the Internet to check for more news received an email from Adrienne's sister saying the family was OK.
Carlo's parents and sister described what they saw and told Carlo that their apartment complex still had running water and electricity. Chengdu is 14 hours ahead of Colorado, so by the time Carlo heard of the quake her family had returned home and recovered from their frightening experience.
Carlo says she is obviously relieved and is looking forward to her parents return from China after their vacation ends on the 23rd.


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The Central College softball team made it three in a row yesterday afternoon, earning an unexpected run-rule victory over top-seeded St. Thomas of Minnesota, 9-1 in 5 innings in the winners bracket championship of the NCAA Division III Pella Regional. The win itself wasn't so hard to fathom, but the way it happened was difficult to imagine. After working out of a bases loaded nobody out jam in the top of the first and only giving up one run, Central responded with nine unanswered tallies to win the game going away. The Dutch scored runs in every inning – and really made it look easy against the Tommies, who had won 28-straight before getting humbled by Central. Dutch Coach George Wares said his hitters really executed well against St. Thomas ace Kendra Bowe.
"She tried to get us to swing at pitches out of the zone, and she was in a lot of 3-1, 2-0 counts. And when you put our hitters in those kind of counts, they've been pretty disciplined not to chase pitches. And when you play in a situation like this, you want to continue to be aggressive. You've got to get a fortunate bounce here and there, and get them to make a miscue. When we got up 4-1 (after 2 innings), the tables kind of turned and they started to think about things and everything was starting to go our way then."
Every one of Central's hits yesterday was a single, and the Dutch were aided by five St. Thomas errors. Sophomore DP Abby Strajack set the table by going 4-4 from the leadoff spot, while sophomore SP Mallory Scheulenberg earned the victory for the third straight day. Today is championship Sunday, with St. Thomas coming back to play Augustana in an elimination game at noon, with the winner playing Central at 2:00. Wares feels like his team will keep its even keel approach with a trip to the Division III World Series on the line.
"I think every game you move along, the blood pressure might go up a little bit and the heart might pump a little faster, but once they start the game, this group has been very coachable in terms of just settle in and play. We're going to do everything we can to win the game. If we don't, we'll come back and play the second time. If we do, we'd love to go to Eau Claire and play on Friday."
If Central loses today's game, the ultimate regional championship game would be tomorrow morning at 10:00. A win today clinches Central's 13th trip to the Division III World Series. Join us for all of the action on 92.1 KRLS and www.kniakrls.com, beginning with our Pella Motors.com pregame show at 1:45, and first pitch at 2:00.


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I just finished the Portal 2 single player mode, but there are some achievements in some levels of the story mode that I didn't get. Is there any way to go back to a specific level without replaying the whole game?
You can't go back to a specific puzzle, but you can choose to start a specific chapter from the main menu. You will have to play the chapter until you get to the specific puzzle. What achievements were they? Maybe I can help.
Just a lot of achievements, I just looked up how to do them on youtube.