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A broken jaw is a break (fracture) in the jaw bone. A dislocated jaw means the lower part of the jaw has moved out of its normal position at one or both joints where the jaw bone connects to the skull (temporomandibular joints).
Alternative Names
Dislocated jaw; Fractured jaw; Broken jaw; TMJ dislocation
A broken or dislocated jaw usually heals well after treatment. But the jaw may become dislocated again in the future.
Complications may include:
Airway blockage Bleeding
- Breathing blood or food into the lungs
- Difficulty eating (temporary)
- Difficulty talking (temporary)
- Infection of the jaw or face
- Jaw joint (
TMJ) pain and other problems
- Problems aligning the teeth
The most common cause of a broken or dislocated jaw is injury to the face. This may be due to:
Industrial accident
Motor vehicle accident
Recreational or sports injury
Symptoms of a broken jaw include:
- Bleeding from the mouth
- Difficulty opening the mouth widely
- Facial bruising
- Facial swelling
- Jaw stiffness
- Jaw tenderness or pain, worse with biting or chewing
- Loose or damaged teeth
- Lump or abnormal appearance of the cheek or jaw
- Numbness of the face (particularly the lower lip)
- Very limited movement of the jaw (with severe fracture)
Symptoms of a dislocated jaw include:
- Bite that feels "off" or crooked
- Difficulty speaking
- Drooling because of inability to close the mouth
- Inability to close the mouth
- Jaw that may protrude forward
- Pain in the face or jaw, located in front of the ear or on the affected side, and gets worse with movement
- Teeth that do not line up properly
First Aid
A broken or dislocated jaw requires prompt medical attention because of the risk of breathing problems or bleeding. Call your local emergency number (such as 911) or local hospital for further advice.
Hold the jaw gently in place with your hands while traveling to the emergency room. A bandage may also be wrapped over the top of the head and under the jaw. The bandage should be easily removable in case you need to vomit.
If breathing problems or heavy bleeding occurs, or if there is severe facial swelling, a tube may be placed into your airways to help you breathe.
Temporarily bandaging the jaw (around the top of the head) to prevent it from moving may help reduce pain.
Treatment for a fractured jaw depends on how badly the bone is broken. If you have a minor fracture, the fracture can heal on its own. You may only need pain medicines and to follow a soft or liquid diet for a while.
Surgery is often needed for moderate to severe fractures. The jaw may be wired to the teeth of the opposite jaw to improve stability. Jaw wires are usually left in place for 6 to 8 weeks. Small rubber bands (elastics) are used to hold the teeth together. After a few weeks, some of the elastics are removed to allow motion and reduce joint stiffness.
If the jaw is wired, you can only drink liquids or eat very soft foods. Have blunt scissors readily available to cut the elastics in the event of vomiting or choking. If the wires must be cut, consult a health care provider promptly so they can be replaced.
If the jaw is dislocated, the health care provider may be able to place it back into the correct position using the thumbs. Numbing medicines (anesthetics) and muscle relaxants may be needed to relax the jaw muscles.
The jaw may need to be stabilized. This usually involves bandaging the jaw to keep the mouth from opening widely. In some cases, surgery is needed to do this, particularly if repeated jaw dislocations occur.
After dislocating your jaw, you should not open your mouth widely for at least 6 weeks. Support your jaw with one or both hands when yawning and sneezing.
Do Not
Do not attempt to correct the position of the jaw. A doctor should do this.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
A broken or dislocated jaw requires prompt medical attention. Emergency symptoms include difficulty breathing or heavy bleeding.
Safe practices in work, sports, and recreation, such as wearing a proper helmet when playing football, or using mouth guards, can prevent some accidental injuries to the face or jaw.


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Weekly Apps Roundup #1
Some time ago I decided to start a weekly column, Apps Roundup,
KDE Installer Project.
Re: Weekly Apps Roundup #1
great work Dre! an apps roundup is definitely welcomed, at least by this KDE user...
i remember the days when people used to moan about KDE not having good PR and communication channels. it seems that the reaction has been to attack it via traditional OSS means: volunteers picking up the slack and providing the information needed/desired. between the dot, the (new) app round up, tink's great interviews, the KC KDE, apps.kde.com, and the regular announcements by the project team re: releases i think it is now very easy to keep up with what KDE is doing in a nearly blow-by-blow manner. i would dare say that KDE just might have the best/most comprehensive communications between project and users in the open source world today.
it's to the point that people even occasionaly moan on linuxtoday.com about hearing too much about KDE.
/me chuckles
oh, and nick is a very cool guy working on a very needed project. if you have time, please consider pitching in some code... the installer already does quite a bit and it would be great to see it completed...
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2001/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: Weekly Apps Roundup #1
I see that a new version of aethera, kapital and rekall were released this week by the kompany. Very cool i've noticed that kapital is moving right along.Its kind of cool to see the adds for it on apps.
By Craig at Sat, 2001/05/19 - 5:00am
KDE is great, but...
First, let me say that KDE is much better than GNOME. I use it every day. But I was browsing the source code today, like I do every day, and came across the following comment in the KWin source: [troll snipped]
By Former KDE user at Sat, 2001/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
> But I was browsing the source code today,
I wonder which code you were browsing. Because it didn't appear in today's CVS nor did it appear in CVS from 12 days back:
tackatx@D228:/usr/src/kde0705/kdebase > grep -i -r cock *
> I am going to commit a patch to the GNOME CVS today
Ah, you are just trolling ...
By Torsten Rahn at Sat, 2001/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
Good to see such strong Free Speech support, being a Free software community site and all.
It sucks when somene spends 15 minutes trying to share their thoughts with the community, then, all of a sudden realizes "Oh, shit, All my words are belong to KDENews."
Keep up the good work, admins.
By james at Sat, 2001/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
Do you mean "[snip troll]"? Most people think freedom ends, where it starts to affect other people's freedom.
By Lenny at Sat, 2001/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
That's not what it means to radical egalitarians.
By Chris Bordeman at Sun, 2001/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
Why should we tolerate lies, slander and homophobia on this site? Why should we tolerate articles meant to cause tension and hatred within our community, and especially articles that have absolutely zero basis in reality? Who does this article help or benefit?
In fact, I should have deleted the whole article. The only reason I didn't was because of Tackat's response.
By Navindra Umanee at Sat, 2001/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
You're in the right, I think. In fact, I think you should delete this whole thread. Marking trolls as such or deleting parts of their comments is bound to stir up more controversy than just deleting them. Responses to trolls are hardly ever relevant anyway, and they only serve to encourage more trolling no matter how scathing they are.
Only thing is, if you're going to do this, you should probably have a well-defined policy.
P.S. Pleeeeeeeease can we have HTML posting back?
By not me at Sat, 2001/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
We will. Now that Gnotices has been upgraded, we're bound to follow too. ;)
The thing is, our current version of Squishdot doesn't have secure HTML posting, so I either have to fix it or upgrade. I'm going for the upgrade, but that also involves upgrading Zope. Also, we have made changes to the version of Squishdot that we are using so I'll have to port them forward.
I'll probably start on this tonight or tomorrow, and hopefully minimize the downtime (that is, if we don't run into hardware problems...)
By Navindra Umanee at Sat, 2001/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
homophobia??? That word reeks of little minded Political correct thought police. Please lets not make this site a political correct zone.
By Craig at Sun, 2001/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
Fine, then ignore the word if you don't like it.
Hope this helps you in your situation.
By KDE User at Sun, 2001/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
Sorry no windows on this machine but i think your advice would be better suited for the thought nazis's.
By Craig at Sun, 2001/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
I think part of the point the other posters were making is that this bulletin board is for fruitful discussion of KDE. Not for attacks of KDE, GNOME, or other environment. Not for attacks of various social groups (including gays). After all, some KDE software developers just might be gay, and you just might be using software written by a queer. There are other venues for political commentary of either type on message boards elsewhere. The KDE moderators are definitely limiting speech, but they have that right because this board is their property.
By Air/Conditioner at Sun, 2001/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
Spreading lies and hate, that's what Nazis do usually. Calling people nazis, because they dont want to tolerate hate and lies, indicates that you got many things very wrong.
By Lenny at Mon, 2001/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
No my friend nazi's spread lies and intolerance of others options and views. Nazi's imprisioned people for what they said. The also had an extreme intolerance of religious views while being lead my homosexuals and occultists. Just like todays liberals and there thought censorship. While is seems ok these days to make fun of the pope or other religious leaders as soon as someone pokes fun at the homosexual agenda the libs come out of the wood work like cockoaches screaming homophobe homophobe. I just don't have tolerance for the thought nazi's and there intolaerance of anything not PC.
By Craig at Mon, 2001/05/21 - 5:00am
Enough is enough.
Sorry, but I'm starting to get tired of this. You don't even know half the facts, yet you rant like a crazy lunnie at me.
As for your misguided rant, the troll is ACCUSING people of more than one type of discrimination and presents LUDICROUS and FALSIFIED proof of its statements, just to get people like you out of the woodworks. These kinds of lies, falsity and obvious trolls we do not tolerate here, period. Sorry, there is no discussion about it.
If you don't like it, well apparently there's nothing I or you can say to change that. Why not go to Slashdot for the kind of stuff you are looking for? They are extremely open and even have a forum dedicated to trolls (see the trolltalk forum). You can also try www.geekizoid.net when they come back.
By Navindra Umanee at Mon, 2001/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: Enough is enough.
lol I was'nt supporting the trolling efforts of the post i just hated your PC liberal to the rescure routine.
By Craig at Mon, 2001/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
Ok, my last reply on this thread. Craig, so you think the police is commiting a crime, putting murders and thefts into jail? Hey, they are cutting their freedom to hurt and murder people. police is baaaad. Get a clue.
By Lenny at Tue, 2001/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is great, but...
O man don't i feel stupid. I did'nt realise that some poor innocent homosexual was robbed and murdered here on the dot. I better watch what i say in the future. Boy do i feel bad.
By Craig at Tue, 2001/05/22 - 5:00am
playing around...
Strange, strange,... Very strange.
I am used to check regulary these pages, long time without such kind of words. Suprisigly enough, I chek also Gnome web site... and found similar comment (undigned post or obviously missigned one). Just guess that someone is playing arround to get Gnome and KDE people fighting?
Lets do like gnome people, ignore that stuff
By stephane PETITHOMME at Mon, 2001/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: playing around...
He's a Craig Mundie's follower. They just dont like GPL. Well, with Qt they can choose to pay ;-)
By Víctor R. Ruiz at Mon, 2001/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: Kivio
On the last version I compiled I had the problem that I could not connect anything.
By Michael at Sun, 2001/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: Kivio
Okay, I saw it on "Kernel Cousin KDE #9 For 15 May".
By Michael at Sun, 2001/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: Weekly Apps Roundup #1
I was wondering... is there a chance that killustrator and kivio could be merged? They do very similar things in many situations, that is, they are both mainly tools to graphically represent something in an organized way. Wouldn't it be nice if you could use certain kiilustrator features (blending, curves) in kivio, and certain kivio features (stencil organization, connectors) in kivio? Just a thought
By Carbon at Sun, 2001/05/20 - 5:00am
fixed kivio
Michael: Indeed it was a problem with the kivio version I had too.. major bug if you'd ask me.
can't find killustrator... stupid adobe causing problems...
By Funk at Thu, 2003/01/09 - 6:00am

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Ranger 5
Goals: This was America's third attempt to study interplanetary space and photograph the Moon before crashing into the lunar surface.
Accomplishments: A malfunction caused the spacecraft batteries to drain after eight hours. The inert spacecraft missed the Moon and ended up in heliocentric (sun-centered) orbit. Mission controllers tracked it to a distance of 1.3 million kilometers (808,000 miles). Scientists did get back about four hours of data from a gamma ray experiment.


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Watch 36 (2014) movie online free full putlocker. 36 (2014)
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit's experimental film consists of 36 static camera shots that tell a story of how we store memories in the digital era. Sai, a location scout working for a studio, takes pictures whenever she's working and stores them on her computer. One day, she finds out that she has lost all the files saved on her laptop and sets about trying to restore them with help from an old friend, Kai. The film hinges on Sai's missing photo files, but the main character is not a person: Memories stored on digital devices and disappearing old buildings are the main characters.
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about Joslin research
Only a multi-disciplinary approach, such as that found in the Research Division at Joslin Diabetes Center, can fully explore the most promising pathways to prevent, treat and cure type 1 and type 2 diabetes and their complications. For diabetes is not a single disease, but rather a complex problem caused by multiple genes and environmental factors that call for scientists to attack it from many perspectives.
Uniquely Joslin
Our investigators, who engage in both basic and clinical research across the sections into which the Research Division is organized, are advancing science at an unusually fast pace due to Joslin's unique environment. What sets us apart is our critical mass of researchers whose focus is diabetes and our one-of-a-kind resources that facilitate rapid scientific progress.
For example, Joslin's Diabetes Research and Endocrinology Research Center (DRC) provides the infrastructure necessary to support research efforts across all the disciplines and encourage the development of young scientists. The DRC offers researchers specialized technical assistance as well as a network of colleagues from across the medical and scientific community. The DRC framework facilitates translational research—that is, the collaboration between basic scientists and clinical investigators—resulting in breakthroughs that make a difference to the millions of people living with diabetes.
These types of collaborations offer an incredibly rich setting in which to work, and provide a significant asset to our researchers. Two other important examples are our affiliations with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, which enables Joslin researchers to work with investigators with complementary interests and expertise through such programs as the Harvard Stem Cell Institute; the Clinical Islet Transplantation Program at Harvard Medical School; and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center on Immunological Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes.
Extraordinary Teamwork
But perhaps it is the collaborations that occur within the walls of Joslin that most often give rise to the important questions that stimulate thinking and drive progress toward cure and prevention of diabetes. Here at Joslin, independent thinking and creativity are valued and supported because we recognize these are the ingredients that lead to greater understanding and discovery. Researchers have the opportunity to exchange ideas and challenge one another in a setting that nurtures teamwork and allows for the unpredictability of research. The scientific process requires a multi-disciplinary team approach like the one found at Joslin Diabetes Center.
Where else could you gather the experts necessary to understand why some people who have lived with type 1 diabetes for 50 years do not have complications? Joslin's 50-Year Medalist Study is an example of the unique relationship between clinical researchers at Joslin and their colleagues who specialize in genetics, biochemistry and cell biology. The discovery that many of the 50-Year Medalists still have insulin-producing islet cells now requires an even broader course of action.
Certainly tackling the complexity of diabetes complications, such as cardiovascular, kidney and eye disease, warrants a comprehensive and creative approach. Where else could you find a database of biological and psychological data from patients with diabetes, stretching back decades? Joslin Clinic records have been invaluable in studying how complications develop and progress over time. Genetics researchers at Joslin are studying what changes in the genes make people with diabetes susceptible to these complications. Other investigators focus on the impact of insulin on blood vessels. And still others specialize in the molecular mechanisms that lead to long-term complications.
Or consider the mystery of islet failure in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. At Joslin, groups of investigators who specialize in different disciplines collaborate: researchers from the Integrative Physiology and Metabolism Section who focus on insulin action on islet survival; scientists from the Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology Section who study islet growth and action along with the regeneration of cells; and experts from the Immunobiology Section who study autoimmune responses.
Moving Forward As Never Before
This is an extraordinary time for diabetes research at Joslin Diabetes Center. From discoveries in basic research to testing drugs in clinical trials, Joslin investigators are using their knowledge, experience and cutting-edge technology to move us forward as never before. To extend the reach of our work, Joslin investigators not only partner with their colleagues down the hall and in the Harvard community, but work with scientists across the globe. We are committed to conquering diabetes in all of its forms and will continue to lead the scientific community on new pathways of discovery in diabetes.
"What sets Joslin research apart is our critical mass of researchers whose focus is diabetes and our one-of-a-kind resources that facilitate rapid scientific progress."
--George L. King, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer


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spyd3rr necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
We are a new website that connects college-bound students with mentors. We want to provide access to college mentors to all students looking to apply to college. This will help to provide students from all backgrounds with equal opportunity to discover what would help to maximize the appeal of their application.
Users will consist of two types, consultants and consultees.
Consultees include: college-bound students, parents
Consultants include: professional consultants, teachers and educators, current college students
Some existing sites with a similar consultant/worker matching concept include:
We want a site that is attractive and professional, but not overly serious.
See attached for a simple wireframe of the home page, but THIS IS NOT A GUIDELINE because we want to give you the flexibility to put together what you think will look best! It just provides some content for you to work with. We will provide feedback as soon as possible.
Some sites that we like are:
The home page has a few purposes
1. Explain the purpose of the site
2. Show people how to get started
3. Provide information on us - about us
4. Portal to general advice
The dashboard is what a consultant would see as a summary of the activity related to him/her. This would include
1. Upcoming appointments
2. Unread messages
3. Recent appointment History
4. Navigation to other mentor pages (see wireframe)
Also attached is our current logo, but the colors can be changed depending on how the web design works out. I also uploaded a second logo that uses some better colors. Feel free to use either one.
Please include all graphics and layout in .psd, as well as high-resolution image. Please include links to any external images.


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7:00 pm
Uncorked: Wine Made Simple "Uncorked: First Taste" In this first episode, we discover what wine is by meeting the people who make it, write about it, cook with it and of course - drink it. We learn how wine happens by talking with winemakers and grape growers. We'll meet Lettie Teague, executive wine editor for Food & Wine Magazine and her good friend Peter Travers, film critic for Rolling Stone Magazine. D
7:30 pm
Clodagh's Irish Food Trails "The Skelligs, Co Kerry" NULL
8:00 pm
This Old House "Cambridge Project, Part 2 of 15" The crew removes a central chimney brick-by-brick so the bricks can be re-used on another job, host Kevin O'Connor visits an "eco" resale store, and landscape contractor Roger Cook removes a sick Norway maple with the help of an arborist. D
8:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe Classics "France's Alsace" After village-hopping and wine-shopping along the Alsatian wine road, we savor the world-class cuisine and art of Colmar and visit the birthplace of Champagne.G
9:00 pm
Travelscope "Cruising Alaska's Inside Passage" Cruising with the PTV at Sea group on the luxurious Regent Seven Seas Mariner, Joseph travels through Alaska's Inside Passage with stops in Prince Rupert, BC, Juneau, Skagway and Sitka, Alaska for scenic and cultural experiences. D
9:30 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "Chicago: Chicago's Chicken Vesuvio" Lidia travels to the Windy City to visit Caputo's, a family-owned Italian grocery in Elmwood Park, a very Italian suburb of Chicago. Lidia also brings her viewers for a stroll along the main thoroughfare of Chicago's Little Italy, Taylor Street, which is currently undergoing a major Renaissance. Grandma joins Lidia in the kitchen as her taste-tester, while Lidia prepares Cauliflower Soup and Chicken Vesuvio. D
10:00 pm
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Autumn Desserts" Bridget reveals the secrets to the ultimate Apple Dumplings. Then, Adam reveals his top picks for cake carriers. Next, Chris learns about the best apple varieties for baking at Saratoga Orchards. D
10:30 pm
Simply Ming "Fermented Black Beans & Ketchup" Guest Chef: Jason Santos. Today's master ingredients actually started out in the same place even though they ended up on opposite sides of the globe-fermented black beans and ketchup. On today's SIMPLY MING, Ming takes the pair and combines them to make Stir Fried Pork Chops and Peppers with Spicy Ketchup, a spicy appetizer with his Warm Beef Dip with Crudites and a spin on a classic with his Bacon Wedge with Tropical 1,000 Island Dressing. D
11:00 pm
Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage "France: Fort St. Jean Baptiste and the Colonial Frontier" Early settlers faced many hardships in taming Louisiana's wilderness. There were no formal communities or laws, food was scarce and there were very few women. Chef Folse visits with Rick Seale at Fort St. D
11:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe Classics "France's Alsace" After village-hopping and wine-shopping along the Alsatian wine road, we savor the world-class cuisine and art of Colmar and visit the birthplace of Champagne.G


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Hey Jamie,
I ran this by the PDC crew. There are per-event ICS links but, as you note, not an ICS feed for the whole show which would indeed be useful. I'm told that a full ICS feed normally is provided for PDC and MIX shows, it just wasn't this time for some reason.
I wouldn't call OData useless here, just differently useful. It enables these URL-line queries, for example:
http://odata.microsoftpdc.com/ODataSchedule.svc/Speakers?$filter=FullName+eq+'Scott Hanselman'
http://odata.microsoftpdc.com/ODataSchedule.svc/Speakers/$count -> 73
http://odata.microsoftpdc.com/ODataSchedule.svc/Speakers/$count?$filter=FullName+eq+'Scott Hanselman' -> 1
http://odata.microsoftpdc.com/ODataSchedule.svc/Sessions/$count?$filter=TrackId eq 'Cloud Services' -> 19
Hi Jon,
Thanks for the reply.
I would question whoever gave you the information about the full ics feed for previous events - I routinely check for such a feed every time a PDC or MIX comes around and can say with near-certainty that they have never provided such a thing.
I did think long and hard about insinuating that the OData feed is useless but in the end I decided it was merited because I honestly feel that that is what it is; I won't be using it. The current options to find PDC scheduling information are to either go and wade through a website or handcraft OData URLs; I'll take the browse option thanks very much.
I accept that the feed could be used to drive 3rd party apps/services hence argubly it *is* useful - but iCalendar/ics would still be much more suitable.
I do worry about Microsoft offering up OData as a panacea because, as I think I've proven herein, that's not what it is. Advocating open standards is to their credit but it shouldn't be to the detriment of existing open standards - especially ones that are so much more suitable.
Thanks again for the reply, I hope others wade into the debate. Maybe you could raise it on your blog?
Here's an iCalendar feed:
I was all set to write this up vis-a-vis OData when I realized it also raises some tricky timezone issues. Need to make sure I understand them before I write this up!
Ah nice one, thanks Jon. Now if only there were a way to subscribe to that in my new Windows Phone :)


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Brocade's profits collapse is over
But Klayko's crew has work to do
Fibre Channel networking giant Brocade has kissed its profits collapse goodbye with a roaring first fiscal 2012 quarter.
Revenues were $561m, up 2 per cent sequentially and 3 per cent annually – a bit weak in growth terms but a revenue record for Brocade. Profits were $59m, a huge boost on the previous quarter's $4m loss and more than double the year-ago quarter's $27m.
Brocade's quarterly revenue and profit numbers
Overall revenues have been flattish for the past five quarters, apart from a dip in the third fiscal 211 quarter, so where did the profit jump come from? Storage business revenue was $406.4m, the biggest revenue contributor, and it grew 12 per cent sequentially and 4 per cent year-on-year. Storage product revenue was where the big jump was: it grew 17 per cent sequentially and was helped by demand for 16Gbit/s Fibre Channel products.
Recent Brocade profit history
The Ethernet business disappointed. Its revenues were $154.3m: 18 per cent down sequentially but representing a 1 per cent annual rise. Ethernet sales to service providers grew while sales to enterprises and the US federal sector declined.
CEO Michael Klayko said: "[There was] strength in both our Storage and Service Provider businesses. We look forward to delivering on our next wave of innovation focused on the Campus LAN market and to transition these customers to our new portfolio of solutions." Ah, we have Campus LAN announcements to look forward to and that should, hopefully, boost the Ethernet side of the business.
Brocade improved its gross and operating margins in the quarter, which helped the profit figure.
In the earnings call Klayko put the 16 gig Fibre Channel boot into Cisco, which has no 16Gbit/s product, by saying: "We also saw the fast ramp of our next-generation 16-gig Fibre Channel products continuing in Q1. In fact, 16-gig products accounted for 27 per cent of our total director sales in the quarter. There's no doubt that our decision to transition the SAN industry to 16 gig was well timed and is validated by strong customer demand."
Sales SVP Ian Whiting said: "I think there's just a general acceptance in the marketplace today that Fibre Channel is the technology for data centre and cloud deployments, driven by virtualisation." He didn't mention FCoE.
Brocade sees increasing sales of its VDX switches and VCS software, both of which are intended to scale over time. It hopes that this will build a steadily increasing Ethernet revenue stream as data networking customer demand continues to grow.
Enterprise Ethernet sales were weak, with Klayko identifying this along with Brocade's remedy: " We ... saw a decline in our Enterprise Ethernet revenue in the quarter as we transition to a whole new portfolio of products that are engineered to be the most innovative enterprise campus solutions that the industry has seen in more than a decade." He said the new product launch would take place on 6 March.
Bloomberg has reported that private equity firms trying to buy Brocade have given up because the firm's market worth is now too high for them to make money. Brocade is on its own and has to grow in the Ethernet business whilst preserving its Fibre Channel business for as long as possible. ®


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text: Lycoming College physics and psychology departments enhanced through Alden Trust grant September 27, 2012 Download Image: Web Lycoming College students studying physics and psychology are getting a more in-depth learning experience thanks to new instruments and updated laboratories that have been made possible through a grant from the George I. Alden Trust in Worcester, Mass. The physics department has acquired instruments in the areas of mechanics, electromagnetism, modern physics and condensed matter, and thermodynamics. The psychology department now features a new biopsychology teaching lab and equipment for use in processing biological samples. "Students are now able to learn through a more rigorous laboratory experience, not just through a professing experience in the classroom where they hear about it, do homework about it and read about it; they are actually able to do it," said Dr. David Fisher, professor of astronomy and physics. "That's one of the really grand things about these new instruments; and they also will allow us to conduct better laboratory demonstrations." Among the key acquisitions are a blackbody radiation system, which identifies the relationship between an object's temperature and the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation it emits, and a muon physics system, which measures properties of an esoteric elementary particle. "We're purchasing items that are honest-to-goodness instruments rather than merely equipment, so although they may have particular names that imply particular uses, they're very multi-dimensional," Fisher said. "Now we can expand the range of what is available in the laboratory setting with some of these instruments. And that will allow us to have some wider latitude with student senior research thesis work as well." According to Dr. Rebecca Gilbertson, assistant professor of psychology, Lycoming's newly renovated biopsychology laboratory gives students the ability to conduct behavioral neuroscience research, an opportunity not typically offered at most small private liberal arts colleges. "The biopsychology laboratory suite is comprised of the rodent vivarium, animal behavioral testing laboratory and biopsychology teaching lab with recently purchased equipment including a centrifuge," Gilbertson said. "The biopsychology laboratory is the most recent addition to psychology laboratory facilities, which also include the capability for psychophysiology and electroencephalography [EEG] testing for human participants." Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.


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False Killer Whales, Pseudorca crassidens
« Database Home Animalia Chordata Mammalia Cetacea Delphinidae Pseudorca crassidens
Description & Behavior
False killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846), receive their name for their resemblance to Orcinus orca. "Pseudes" in Greek means false. Like its namesake, they are dolphins, not whales, and the fourth-largest member of the Delphinidae family. Adults measure between 4.3-5.96 m and weigh a maximum of 1,360 kg. The longest adult male on record measured 5.96 m long, and the longest female on record measured 5 m. They are mostly black on the dorsal (upper) surface, fins, flanks, and flippers, with lighter coloring on the ventral (under) surface. Their flippers are somewhat unusual in that they feature an "elbow" similar to that of long-finned pilot whales.
False killer whales are a very gregarious species often found in large groups of hundreds or more. They also join other cetacean species, commonly bottlenose dolphins. Their long lumbar vertebrae enable them to be active swimmers, and they are known for their speed and agility as well as for their breaching behavior. False killer whales use sounds similar to those of dolphins for sonar and to communicate with each other.
The average life span is estimated at 58 years for males and 62 years for females.
World Range & Habitat
False killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, are a wide-ranging species found in all tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate seas. They are known to inhabit waters ranging in temperature from 9-31°C, although they prefer the warmer waters. False killer whales are typically oceanic, coming closest to shore around oceanic islands. Little is known about the migratory patterns of false killer whales, and no data exist at this time for global population figures though they are typically found in groups of 10 to 20 individuals which may be part of larger schools of hundreds of false killer whales spread over very large areas.
Feeding Behavior (Ecology)
False killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, feed mainly on squid and large pelagic fish such as dolphin fish aka mahi mahi, Coryphaena hippurus (most commonly observed prey in Hawaiian waters). They feed mainly during the day (diving repeatedly to over 200 m) consuming up to 5% of their body weight (from captive individuals). Cetacean diets are typically assessed by examining the stomach contents of stranded animals or fisheries bycatch animals. Related: BBC News: How whales and dolphins focus sound beams on prey
Life History
Generally the life history of false killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, is similar to that of orca (killer whales); individuals mature slowly, reproduce infrequently, and are long-lived. Females reach sexual maturity around 10 years (8.25 to 10.5 years), males much later at 18 years. Females ovulate once annually giving birth to a single calf following a 15-month gestation period.
Conservation Status & Comments
False killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, are not hunted commercially. They are caught as bycatch, particularly off the coast of Hawaii where longline fishing for tuna and swordfish is common. It is thought that the small Hawaiian population, estimated at 123 false killer whales, may be genetically extinct, meaning that there are so few left that they are becoming genetically similar, which causes genetic defects which will eventually lead to their total extinction. There is also a larger (estimated 484 individuals) offshore Hawaiian population though little is known about them at this time (see the Baird Report below).
False killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, are classified as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
A taxon is Data Deficient when there is inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction based on its distribution and/or population status. A taxon in this category may be well studied, and its biology well known, but appropriate data on abundance and/or distribution are lacking. Data Deficient is therefore not a category of threat. Listing of taxa in this category indicates that more information is required and acknowledges the possibility that future research will show that threatened classification is appropriate. It is important to make positive use of whatever data are available. In many cases great care should be exercised in choosing between DD and a threatened status. If the range of a taxon is suspected to be relatively circumscribed, and a considerable period of time has elapsed since the last record of the taxon, threatened status may well be justified.
References & Further Research
Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood, and M.A. Webber, FAO species identification guide, Marine mammals of the world, Rome, FAO. 1993. 320 p. 587 figs.
Robin W. Baird, A review of false killer whales in Hawaiian waters: biology, status, and risk factors, Report prepared for the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, December 23, 2009 (PDF 1.1MB)
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A better than expected jobs report released Friday will most likely soothe worries that the economy has entered a "spring swoon," but it continued to show that the pace of economic growth remains too slow to put a big dent in the unemployment number.
The economy added 165,000 jobs in April while unemployment dropped modestly to 7.5 percent, the Labor Department reported.
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The number beat expectations with analysts estimating that the economy added 145,000 jobs last month, according to a Reuters survey of economists.
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"All things considered, 165,000 isn't the biggest monthly gain in payrolls you'll ever see, but it's enough to assuage concerns that the economy had stalled again," Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist for Capital Economics, said in a statement.
The report contained good news about job growth in recent months. The number of jobs added for March was revised upward from 88,000 to 138,000 and February figures were also revised up from 268,000 to 332,000.
Friday's jobs numbers are certain to fuel ongoing concerns about the economic impact of across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester. The cuts went into effect March 1 and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected they could lead to 750,000 fewer jobs this year and scale back economic growth by 0.6 percent.
"Now is not the time for Washington to impose self-inflicted wounds on the economy," Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Alan Krueger said in a statement. "The Administration continues to urge Congress to replace the sequester with balanced deficit reduction, while working to put in place measures to create middle-class jobs, such as by rebuilding our roads and bridges and promoting American manufacturing."
Both Democrats and Republicans have derided the blunt nature of the sequester cuts, which do not allow agencies to pick and choose where they can slash their budgets.
But other than a recent effort to make sure the sequester did not lead to flight delays, there is little evidence there will be a deal to delay or greatly alter the way the cuts are being implemented.


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Harvest Ridge Winery opened its doors Nov. 1, bringing wine production to western Kent County.
Human beings didn't invent wines, author Philip Seldon once wrote, we discovered them.
Seldon no doubt would be pleased with a new discovery in western Kent County: the Harvest Ridge Winery, which opened to the public Friday.
While Harvest Ridge may have just officially started popping corks for local wine aficionados, it's actually taken more than three years to reach that milestone, said Charles R. "Chip" Nunan III, who co-owns the business with his father, Chuck.
A Delaware native, Nunan initially had no thought of going into the winemaking business. He'd first worked in his father's property cleaning business in Pennsylvania, then came to Dover 10 years ago to take over the local franchise. His life started to change in 2010, when his parents, on a trip to South Carolina, chanced upon a winery "out in the middle of absolutely nowhere," he said.
A home vintner who had been making batches of basement wine for decades, the elder Nunan decided to put the family's 175-acre spread near Marydel to use for something other than growing corn.
"My dad figured that if that guy in South Carolina could have a winery out there, then we could do it in Marydel," Nunan said. "We had all this beautiful land, and we wanted to make our own wine with our own grapes."
From the beginning, Harvest Ridge has been a family enterprise, Nunan said.
"My dad calls this his '300-year project,' because it's something for generation upon generation," he said.
The first crop was planted in 2011 and there now are approximately 15 acres under cultivation with another 35 planned for the near future.
It will take some time: the first few years or so in the life of a grape vine are spent growing and being "trained" so that the best fruit-producing stems lie below a canopy of leaves that helps protect the bunches as they grow.
Although their output does decrease with age, a properly maintained vine can produce good quality grapes for decades.
While details in the production of each vintage of wine differ depending on the variety of grape, after harvesting the collected fruit is crushed and fermented before bottling. At Harvest Ridge, that work is done on site in a large, thoroughly modern production building, full of gleaming stainless steel tanks and piping.
Grapes grown at Harvest Ridge include the Viognier, Merlot, Chardonnay, Malbec, Landot noir, Vidal blanc, and others.
The latter two have been extensively grown in the northern United States and Canada, which somehow seems appropriate since Harvest Ridge's vintner hails from Ontario.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, Milan Mladjan has a degree in winemaking he has put to good use for the past seven years.
Winemakers are slowly discovering that Delaware, with its good soil and temperate climate, is a great place to grow grapes, he said.
"Delaware hasn't had a history of winemaking, but it is an emerging industry, along with New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland," Mladjan said.
"We're right in the middle of all of them," he added.
"We've got some great growing soils here," Nunan said in agreement. "It's very sandy, which means it drains well and the grapes like that. They don't like having what we call 'wet feet.'"
Having dry weather around harvest time actually improves the flavor of wines, Nunan said. The vines tend to take in too much moisture if the soil is wet just before harvesting, diluting the final product.
"You'll get a much stronger flavor when it's drier," Nunan said.
The first harvest, which was processed and bottled in Virginia because Harvest Ridge's processing plant still was under construction, was better than hoped for, Nunan said. They brought in four tons of grapes, twice the expected amount.
With completion of the processing plant in 2013, all of Harvest Ridge's future efforts, from planting vines to ringing up sales, will be done on site. That includes varieties of wines made from other fruits, including apples purchased from Fifer Orchards in Camden.
The future, Mladjan said, "looks great."
"The potential we have here is great," he said. "Kent County's main industry is tourism, and we're another reason to come over, to stop here, or even to extend a stay here."


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With the current boom in the construction and expansion of university recreation centers, the emphasis on the childhood obesity epidemic and a continuation of military conflict overseas, funds and support for fitness at universities, schools and in the military show no sign of slowing down for 2005.
National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Marketing Director Barry Brown says the growth for university recreation centers across the country is expected to continue.
"We don't see a downside. The facilities are being built; the rec centers and products they offer are a drawing card for students. It's still going to grow for quite awhile," he says.
Since university fitness facilities are being used to recruit students, Brown has noticed an increased emphasis on marketing new facilities and new programs to keep facilities enticing. However, the old standby of club sports is still plenty popular.
"Participation in rec sports doesn't show any signs of running down," he says. "Although there are many adults who are overweight, there's a group of young people who are doing differently. There's not a lack of people to step up and participate."
Although more funding is needed to defeat the childhood obesity epidemic, funding from federal and state sources have been significant.
A promising $69 million in grants was awarded in October to various school districts, YMCAs and other community-based organizations across the nation from the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP grants), as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. Grants were given to initiate, expand or improve physical education programs, including after-school programs for students in grades K-12. The grants ranged in size from $64,700 to $721,296 for over a period of 12-36 months, allowing for funding for 2005 and beyond.
"We must now continue our efforts to provide PEP funds for every school district in the country," says Charlene Burgeson, executive director for the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, in a release about the grants. "In 2000, Congress authorized $400 million for PEP. To date, $184 million has been appropriated and less than four percent of our country's school districts have benefited from this important funding. We still have much work to do. Applications alone this year totaled more than 1,500."
The military also expects to see federal dollars. The Air Force expects support for its fitness programs and initiatives including its physical training program, Fit to Fight.
"Senior officials have provided tremendous support of the Air Force Chief of Staff's Fit to Fight initiative," says Major Tracy Witcher of the Chief Air Force Fitness and Sports Branch. "Fitness continues to receive focus and support to improve facilities and programs to help improve the fitness and readiness of troops."


text: Hawaii (Hawaiian: Hawai'i) is a group of volcanic islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The islands lie 2,397 miles from San Francisco, California, to the east and 5,293 miles from Manila, in the Philippines, to the west. The capital is Honolulu, located on the island of Oahu. The islands were annexed by the United States in 1900, and as a U.S. territory saw population expansion and the establishment of a plantation system for growing sugar cane and pineapples. On the morning of December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu. The surprise attack destroyed nearly 20 vessels, killed more than 2,000 American soldiers and propelled the United States into World War II. Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959.


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I love wheat beers. During the summer I'll take a cold wheat beer with a slice of orange over a glass of wine any day. For this party, I used Boulevard Wheat Beer, fresh squeezed orange juice, vodka and blueberries for a new twist on a Summer Brew (usually vodka lemonade + beer).
Blue hydrangea are my summer favorites and happen to be blooming in masses everywhere this year because of all of the rain. I miss my big hydrangea bushes in our old house and have settled on planting them in our urns on the front steps this year.
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The world's tallest building, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower, has just been blown over (no, not literally). If recent plans by Azerbaijani businessman Haji Ibrahim Nehramli go through, the structure, which is currently slated to complete construction sometime in 2016/2017, won't hold its record for very long. Not once the Azerbaijan Tower is built.
According to an article in News.Az — Nehramli, president of the Avesta Group of Companies, plans to erect the next world's tallest building on one of a group of artificial islands in the Caspian Sea, southwest of the country's capitol city, Baku.
These artificial islands, known as the Kazar Islands, will serve as a new hub for both commercial and residential purposes (providing high-rise living space for more than 1 million residents) and will act as a new center for business and commerce. The floating metropolis is estimated to cost an astronomical $100 billion to develop and will give residents access to over 50 hospitals, daycare centers, parks, endless shopping centers, universities, cultural centers, over 150 schools, and thrown in for good measure, a Formula 1 racetrack.
And that's just the artificial islands. The Azerbaijan Tower will ascend 1050 meters high, and upon completion will tower over both Dubai's Burj Khalifa by a staggering 220 meters, and stand taller than Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower by a smaller, yet commanding, 50 meters. For comparison, the Empire State Building stands just 455 meters high.
Interestingly, at $2 billion, the Azerbaijan Tower will claim the world's tallest building crown upon completion in 2018 for a fraction of the price it is costing Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talaal to construct his $20 billion Kingdom Tower. Although once you factor in the $100 billion it will cost for the Kazar Islands–maybe not so much.


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The church is not permitted to take up the sword against idolaters today, but the destruction of pagan cities in ancient Israel shows us how seriously God takes idolatry. We should be moved when we see others committing idolatry and ...Read More
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Sports injuries are common daily occurrences in the U.S. Most sports injuries are due to either traumatic injury or overuse of muscles or joints. Many sports injuries can be prevented with proper conditioning and training, wearing appropriate protective gear, and using proper equipment.
Most sports injuries are due to minor trauma involving soft-tissue injuries--injuries that affect the muscles, ligaments, and/or tendons, including the following:
Contusions (bruises)
Stress injuries
A contusion (bruise) is an injury to the soft tissue often produced by a blunt force, such as a kick, fall, or blow. The result will be pain, swelling, and discoloration. Treatment for contusions includes Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation (R.I.C.E.). More serious contusions may need to be examined by a doctor.
A sprain is an injury to a ligament and is often caused by a wrench or twist. Sprains often affect the ankles, knees, or wrists. The treatment for a sprain includes R.I.C.E. If the ligament is torn, surgical repair may be necessary.
A strain is an injury to a muscle or tendon, and is often caused by overuse, force, or stretching. The treatment for a strain is R.I.C.E. If a tear in the muscle occurs, surgical repair may be necessary.


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More than 80 per cent of merchandise trade by volume is seaborne, and the share is even higher for most developing countries. In many cases, over 95 per cent of a developing country's international trade passes through one main seaport. Increased port performance can lead to lower transport costs and help boost a country's competitiveness.
There is presently no global comparison of port performance allowing ports and their clients to benchmark against other ports. Identifying standardized indicators that would allow stakeholders to gain a better understand of their ports' efficiency could be an important first step towards encouraging further port reforms, leading to improved port efficiency and country competitiveness.
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss possible ways to measure and compare the performance of seaports. Experts will also analyse whether and how indicators could be developed that would help increase transparency. Experts from governments and port authorities, as well as academics and stakeholders from the private sector, will have an opportunity to share information on recent and ongoing research in this area, and to discuss potential future collaborations, including UNCTAD's role in the process.
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It's common to hear about, and applaud, women who break into predominantly male professions. I read this week (and applauded, from my home office) about 25-year-old Otis Kryzanauskas, who recently graduated with a bachelor of sciences in midwifery from McMaster University in Canada, making him the country's first male midwife. Ever. As he told Macleans.ca , he came up against some resistance (and raised brows), from both peers and pregnant women, during his training. But Krysanauskas, whose was delivered by midwives at home, who witnessed his younger brother's home-birth, and whose mother is a practicing midwife, as well, has felt from a young age that a natural, midwife-assisted birth is "the right way to bring a baby into the world."
Canada, like the United States, has seen a recent rise in the number of women seeking this type of birth. In fact, there aren't enough midwives in Canada to keep up with demand; 40% of women who want a midwife-assisted birth can't secure a midwife, and thus end up going with another option, like a hospital birth. Kryzanauskas is therefore entering a a market that's far from saturated, and perhaps-- hopefully-- paving the way for other men to follow in his footsteps and help deliver more babies in the ways (and places) their families desire. And while he may be the only male midwife in Canada, he's not the only one in the world. Men in countries ranging from Liberia (where safe, professionally-assisted births are not guaranteed, and make all the difference in saving women's and babies' lives), to Switzerland to the United States are breaking the gender barrier and broadening public perceptions around who can contribute to the development of natural birth practices, now and in the future.
It strikes me as strange that these pioneering male midwives have each, in their own ways and their different contexts, created a stir by their very presence in the midwifery profession; men have long delivered babies as obstetricians. (My baby was delivered by a male doctor; I was cool with that). Of course, midwifery and natural birth are a choice many women make as a deliberate move to reclaim an inherently female power: the power to grow and birth babies. On a physical level, this is something only women can do. Ani DiFranco, in her introduction to Ina May Gaskin 's Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta , highlights this reclaiming of female power as a major part of many women's positive experiences in delivering their babies with the assistance of midwives. But she also writes, "I long for this book to be read not just by pregnant women but by all women, and indeed men." Natural, midwife-assisted birth is distinctly different from medical birth in many ways, and advocates raise important questions and criticisms around the latter category, but we should be careful not to assume that the medical birth profession belongs to men, or men to it. Just as women can work as effective doctors and obstetricians, can't men work as effective, compassionate, empowering midwives? Should men not be a part of a cultural shift toward more human-centered hospital practices, and mama/baby-centered births?
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Mayor Don Wesely announced today that one span of the pedestrian/bicycle bridge connecting the ballpark and the Haymarket area of downtown Lincoln will open for the Lincoln Saltdogs first home baseball game of the season Sunday, May 26. The city Public Works and Utilities Department has made arrangements with the contractor to open the west bridge span at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 25. Sunday's Saltdog baseball game begins at 5:05.
"This bridge is a key part of the entire Haymarket Park project," said Mayor Wesely. "The bridge will be part of our excellent trail system and will also provide access all year to the parking areas at the ballpark."
The west bridge span will be open for the Memorial Day weekend baseball series between the Lincoln Saltdogs and Sioux Falls Canaries. Beginning Tuesday, May 28, the bridge will be closed during the day to allow the contractor to complete construction on both spans. The project is scheduled to be completed July 1, and dedication ceremonies will be scheduled that month.
The bridge will be closed for about half an hour on four nights for fireworks displays at the end of Saltdog games. Those nights are Monday, May 27; Friday, July 5; Saturday July 6; and Thursday, August 29.
The two side-by-side spans of the bridge are 265 feet long and enter the Haymarket area on 8th Street north and east of the main Post Office. The project cost about $4.5 million. U.S. Congressman Doug Bereuter was instrumental in securing $3.5 million in federal funds, and the Railroad Transportation Safety District provided $1 million.
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The prolific duo of Drew Brees and Sean Payton were psyched out once again in Seattle over the course of Saturday's 23-15 loss to the Seahawks.
The emblematic sequence for the New Orleans Saints' offensive struggles came late in the fourth quarter, trailing 16-8.
Robert Meachem snagged an uber-lucky, 52-yard pass that glanced off Seahawks safety Earl Thomas to put the Saints at the Seattle 25-yard line with more than four minutes remaining.
The remaining portion of the drive was a tragic example of game management.
Brees was called for delay of game after Meachem's catch, marching the Saints back five yards. It was Brees' eighth delay of game of the season -- most in the NFL.
After an incomplete pass, Brees burned his second timeout of the half to avoid another delay.
Following a second incomplete pass, Payton called a third-and-15 screen to Darren Sproles that was dropped.
With 3:57 remaining in a one-score game, Payton elected to try a 48-yard field goal into the wind on a rainy day with Shayne Graham, who had already missed a 45-yard try.
Graham missed badly, turning the ball over on downs.
It seemed clear most of the day that the Seahawks' physical defense got inside of the heads of the Saints' play-callers. Brees rarely tested the Seahawks' secondary and Payton elected to play for a low-percentage field goal instead of trusting his offense to make a play.
Payton said following the game that he never considered going for it given the down and distance.
Even if Graham made it, Payton's offense would again have to move the ball against a historically good pass defense.
The game management issues killed the Saints' chances of overcoming a sluggish first half. The team wasted all three of its second-half timeouts (two to avoid delay penalties and one to challenge a Seattle catch).
Marques Colston placed the cherry on top of the Saints' late-game meltdown. The receiver caught a pass on the sideline with eight seconds remaining. Instead of stepping out of bounds and setting up a decent Hail Mary opportunity, he spun toward the defense and chucked an illegal forward pass across the field, ending the game.
The Saints will head to the offseason wondering what could have been in their second bitter defeat in Seattle in just over a month.
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Nothing lasts forever, but maybe somethings do
Isaac and Mao
Isaac is the brain, and Mao is the body. They live together. Most of the time,they are happy with each other. But sometimes, Mao will be tempered because it was too much spoiled by Isaac. The big concern from Isaac is he has to seek another body to accompany with when Mao died someday. It's also the reason that Isaac seeks how human being can reach eternity and immortality in a way maybe not physically or spiritually, but informatically.
Starts from Sharism
Sharism is not the Unified Theory itself, instead, it's the beginning of series thoughts. The idea/term was a whim during Wikimania 2007 in Taipei. Later Isaac develops it into a system of thinking, including the holistic philosophy, and some concrete methodologies ( It's why RT matters). Sharism, if perceived as the view of information exchange, can help us explores the origin of life, intelligence, social life, and even probably down to the behaviors of quantum.
Once upon a time
- Isaac Mao was called Xianghui Mao (毛向輝)
- Trained as software engineer and transferred the Isaac part to entrepreneur and seasonal venturer
- Mao lives in China geographically, but Isaac is in information universe
- Many information will become dust, no exceptions even you keep them in a stream
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NE Montana Veterans Memorial Park
Three years ago some folks came up with the plans for a very ambitious project, calling it the Northeast Montana Veterans Memorial Park. The town of Fort Peck, in a unanimous resolution, gave the project a permanent easement to build the monument at Fort Peck Flag Pole Park.
There are other memorial parks scattered around Montana but none in this corner of the state. Lewistown/Fergus County spent $1.5 million to build one. Great Falls spent $1.7 million for theirs. There's one in Missoula, one in Dillon and there's the Purple Heart Memorial in Billings.
In our two "major" wars, WWI and WWII, Montana proudly sent 10% of its entire population into the fray in each conflict. That's more men (and women) per capita than any other state. Fifty thousand Montanans put their lives on the line in WWI, and the same in WWII.
Did you ever hear of Capt. William W. Galt? No? Well, he served in World War 2. He was the only Montanan to have been born, raised and buried in Montana after winning the Medal of Honor for "Gallantry in Action." Capt. Galt is just one of 19 Medal of Honor recipients with ties to Montana.
Closer to home, from Scobey, was Pfc. Henry Schauer, U.S. Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for Gallantry in Action in Italy in 1944. He died of natural causes in 1997 and was buried in Oregon, but his name and his heroic deeds need to be remembered in Northeast Montana.
Sgt. 1st Class Henry Hogan was just one of 14 soldiers ever to receive the Medal of Honor in two separate actions. These occurred during the Army's Indian Campaign wars.
These men, and all the men and women who have served this country, some giving the ultimate sacrifice, need to be memorialized for future generations to witness.
There are many medal winners here in this corner of the Big Sky – not all Medal of Honor winners, but Silver Star and Bronze Star winners along with many, many Purple Heart recipients.
Those soldiers and those now serving need to be recognized and memorialized.
The Northeast Montana Veterans Memorial Park is a very ambitious undertaking and will take several years to complete, but with the help of all in these nine northeast Montana counties, the communities, businesses and private sector, it's a project that can be built.
Fort Peck is a logical site for the memorial being centrally located to the nine counties and in a location that is already a tourist 'destination' point.
After visiting with project organizers Tom Markle and Steve Page on this proposed memorial, and doing a lot of research about veterans, medal winners, casualty numbers and more, I feel the need for a memorial of this type here in Northeast Montana is urgent. Project posters all around the area appropriately display these words: "A Place of Dignity, Honor and Respect."
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Closed gantries are similiar to a very precise crane. They have two X-beams that support a moving Y bridge. The Y bridge has a moveable carriage that supports a vertically moveable rigid Z-beam. The end of arm tooling attaches to the bottom of the Z-beam, The EOA tool, or End Effector, can be automatically controlled within the XYZ travel range. Legs support the X-beam. Closed gantries can operate over large work spaces, perform many tasks in that envelope and position parts to an accuracy of typically 0.3mm. Payload capacity can be thousands of pounds. Sage Engineers have pioneered the designs of four generations of gantry systems since the mid 80's, and have continually improved flexibility, reliability, speed, payload, and precision. Your project will benefit from this experience.
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Yesterday, the Social Media team at Research In Motion® (RIM®) celebrated the launch of our new BlackBerry® 7 OS smartphones with our special guests of honor: BlackBerry® super fans, BlackBerry customers, and the new all-touch BlackBerry® Torch™ 9850 and 9860 smartphones.
We always have a blast talking face to face with shoppers and BlackBerry smartphone users, but we are also there to gather important feedback. Your opinions of our smartphones contribute to the creation of their successors, and we were particularly excited to gather feedback on our first sole all-touch BlackBerry Torch smartphone.
So, let's hear what people had to say! Below, you will find early hands-on impressions of the all-touchBlackBerry Torch 9850 and 9860 smartphones straight from our esteemed guests, so you'll know what to expect when they're available in stores. Remember, we may have provided the BlackBerry smartphones, but these opinions belong to press, consumers and smartphone users like you! Please don't hesitate to post a comment of your own and let us know what you think about the new BlackBerry Torch smartphones.
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"GREAT DISPLAY – At 480×800 pixels, this is the highest resolution display on a BlackBerry to date. The extra pixels come in handy, especially for web browsing, and the BlackBerry 7 web browser seems to be dialed in pretty good. Very smooth and usable.
FEELS GREAT – I LOVE the feeling of this device in the hand. RIM set out to build a full touchscreen phone that felt great when held both in portrait mode and in landscape mode and they really succeeded here. The sculpted back of the device almost makes it feel like you're holding a game console controller when in landscape."
Website: IntoMobile
Read more: Video: Hands-on with the BlackBerry Torch 9860
"The hardware itself is very nice, and the first thing that comes to mind when you pick it up is just how light it is. It's also competitively slim at 11.5mm. This nicest thing about the 9850/60 is that it actually feels new."
Website: TheBerryFix
Read more: (VIDEO) RIMs Andrew Bocking walks us through BlackBerry 7 on the Torch 9860
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David Rogers isn't afraid to make waves; in fact, he claims he's sometimes known as "troublemaker-at-large." For him, meaningful change won't happen any other way.
Rogers, who has attended both the UK and European Microsoft Partners in Learning Forums, has done things many teachers would consider unthinkable – like encouraging graffiti in the school and having his students determine their own social media policy. His creative approach, while it sometimes ruffles feathers, seems to be working.
Rogers is not only a Microsoft Innovative Teacher, he's also a Jamie Oliver Dream Teacher and won Best Teacher Blog of 2011 in the Education Blog Awards. He attributes much of his success to a willingness to learn from others, something he does a great deal of through social media. Rogers' blog, Twitter (both personal and school department) and Facebook presence keep him connected to what's going in the world of education beyond his school.
Recently appointed to the role of Professional Tutor at Priory School, Rogers now has
the opportunity to apply his enthusiasm for teaching to developing other educators in the school. Here, Rogers shares with us his unconventional approach to teaching and innovation.
Can you describe how your professional achievements have advanced innovation in education?
I am most proud of helping our young people create their own mobile device policy. The policy has unlocked their use in the classroom. This has involved working right across the school and with creative artists, and has been shared with a wide audience from trainee teachers at the University of Portsmouth to national conferences. I have always taken a different approach, using creative and innovative ideas and teaching methods that often generate great reactions. For example, I caused a storm by allowing young people to use chalk to graffiti what they did in their social time around the whole school. I am also proud of getting on to the Senior Leadership Team with a secondment (temporary job role change) for two years, which will allow me to work with new teachers in order to enhance their innovative spirits. I love the fact that my small department has two Microsoft Innovative Teachers who have attended the European Forums, and I'm hoping to encourage further success this year.
What has changed as a result of your efforts?
Other teachers and students have been challenged to think differently and they now see that small, highly effective ideas can have a huge impact. Also, I like to think that teachers are taking a few more pedagogic risks, including trusting their students and (un)planning.
How can others facing similar challenges implement what you've learned through your work?
Don't take 'no' for an answer, and it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission – challenge people's thoughts and preconceptions by proving them wrong. Never forget what brought you into teaching, and stick to your principles.
How have you applied technology in innovative ways to support your work?
I've used social networking extensively, starting off by exploring how people liked cheese on toast.
What is the biggest obstacle you have had to overcome to ensure students are receiving a quality education?
Constant change in the education system, especially in the curriculum. This causes negativity from other educators which can be difficult to work with.
What is your country doing right to support education?
At the moment, teachers are starting to support themselves through grassroots events such as TeachMeets.
What conditions must change in your country to better support education?
A moratorium on curriculum changes to allow teachers and learning to develop.
What is the best opportunity for innovation in education?
Simple ideas used effectively and talking to young people.
What advice would you give a new teacher (or to anyone wanting to make a difference in education)?
Always remember why you came into the profession and remember that most of the time, Gove (UK Education Secretary), Oftsed and the headteacher aren't in your classroom, so don't be afraid to take calculated pedagogical risks. Create networks using Twitter, Facebook and Partners in Learning; the more you talk to other teachers the more confident you'll become. Never think that you've got nothing to contribute – I'm always learning things from trainee teachers and those new to the profession and I plan on always doing that.
What educational "trend" do you think is helping students? Is there a trend that is getting in the way of learning?
The trend toward exploring technology is helping. I think Geography (my subject) is a leading subject here – we bring the world to life.
I think that closed mindsets are getting in the way of learning as is poor accountability that isn't focused on the learning process over long timescales. Focusing on lessons is not good learning.
If you could give one educational tool to every child in the world, what would it be? Why?
A time machine and a copy of Mission:Explore. I'd love to go back to explore the geography of the past and future first-hand, and Mission:Explore encourages those people to get out there. By the way, the time machine can be imaginary – my tent works for me
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