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Shutdown Pressing Power Button
zh-CN:Shutdown Pressing Power Button
First of all, make sure that
button module is loaded (check the output of
lsmod). If it is not, load it manually and set it to load at boot.
First solution
If you want to shutdown your system by simply pressing the power button, do the following:
- Install the acpid package and add
acpidto the
DAEMONSarray in /etc/rc.conf.
- Create a file in
powerwith following content:
# /etc/acpi/events/power # This is called when the user presses the power button event=button/power (PWR.||PBTN) action=/sbin/poweroff
To be able to test it, make sure the
acpid daemon is started or restart it if it is already launched, see Daemon for instructions. To test it without actually shutting down, comment out the
poweroff line and check your user/messages logs.
From now on, pressing the power button (lightly, not for a few seconds) should properly shutdown the system. Note that if you have hibernate configured and working you may want to change the last line with:
If you are using a more sophisticated Window Manager, you should use its own shutdown call, so it would save its session etc.
Change the action in
/etc/acpi/events/power to:
action=/opt/kde/bin/dcop --all-users --all-sessions ksmserver ksmserver logout 0 2 0
As of KDE 4.4, you can still use dcop as shown above.
Alternatively, you can use
- Delete (or comment out)
- Open System Settings.
- Go to Advanced>>Power Management.
- Select "Edit Profiles" and choose the current profile. (In KDE 4.4, the default profile is "Powersave.")
- Select "Shutdown" as the action for "When power button is pressed."
- Press Apply.
- With dcop and PowerDevil, the power button works only when KDE is running. Also, KDE needs to start from KDM (it probably also works when started from GDM). It does not work if you start KDE with a "startx" command.
- The PowerDevil configuration is per user. To configure the power button for other users, repeat these steps for each user's account.
For Xfce 4.4 change the action line to:
action=echo POWEROFF | /usr/lib/xfce4/xfsm-shutdown-helper
For Xfce 4.8 change the action line to:
action=echo POWEROFF | /usr/lib/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper
SLIM and Xfce4
To get the Xfce4 logout options window (logout, restart, shutdown, suspend, hibernate etc..) to appear when you hit the power button, you will need to do the following:
Create two scripts somewhere logical (/usr/local/sbin/ or something, it's really your choice):
#!/bin/sh # xfce4-shutdown-as-user.sh # # Check how many users are currently logged into X. # If only one user is logged in, run a script which sets # up the environment to call xfce4-session-logout. LOGGED_IN_USER=`ls -trl /tmp/.ICE-unix/ | tail -n -1 | cut -d' ' -f3` NUM_X_USERS=`echo $LOGGED_IN_USER | wc -l` if [ $NUM_X_USERS -eq 1 ]; then sudo -H -u $LOGGED_IN_USER /usr/local/sbin/xfce4-user-session-shutdown.sh fi
#!/bin/sh # xfce4-user-session-shutdown.sh # # Set up the environment so that DISPLAY and # SESSION_MANAGER are valid, and xfce4-session-logout can run HOST=`hostname` SESSION_ID=`ls -t /tmp/.ICE-unix/ | head -n1` # Note that distros use different syntax for the SESSION_MANAGER variable (this script has Debian's format). # If this does not work, then try something like SESSION_MANAGER="local/$HOST:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/$SESSION_ID" # instead. You can always find the correct format for your distribution by looking at the # value of SESSION_MANAGER in a X session. DISPLAY=:0.0 SESSION_MANAGER="local/$HOST:/tmp/.ICE-unix/$SESSION_ID,unix/$HOST:/tmp/.ICE-unix/$SESSION_ID" /usr/bin/xfce4-session-logout
Now map the acpi event PBTN to the script. There are a couple of ways of doing this. The example below is from /etc/acpi/handler.sh:
button/power) echo "PowerButton pressed!">/dev/tty5 case "$2" in PBTN|PWRF) logger "PowerButton pressed: $2" /usr/local/sbin/xfce4-shutdown-as-user.sh ;; esac ;;
In your ~/.xinitrc file you will see a line similar to this:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4
The dbus stuff is already handled by startxfce4 so you need to remove dbus-launch and any flags you may have so it reads:
exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
Log out and back in again and hit the power button.
Second solution
- Add your user to group power
gpasswd -a [user] power
- Install the acpid package and add
acpidto the
DAEMONSarray in /etc/rc.conf.
- Edit
... case "$1" in button/power) #echo "PowerButton pressed!">/dev/tty5 case "$2" in PWRF) logger "PowerButton pressed: $2" /sbin/poweroff;; *) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;; esac ;; ...
To be able to test it, make sure the
acpid daemon is started, see Daemon for instructions. To test it without actually shutting down, comment out the
poweroff line and check your user/messages logs.


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- Dress a bit more formally for the first day until you get a sense of the culture and style. A good rule of thumb is to avoid extremes in terms of clothing, jewelry, or scents at the start of your internship. Here are some general guidelines that may be helpful depending on your industry:
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- Another item in your backpack could be a journal to keep track of all your activities, so you can assess your own performance. A pad of paper and pen might be handy–to take instant notes as you meet new people. Jot down their names, so you can address them correctly the next day. Your new co-workers will be impressed by your efforts. You might want to tuck a snack bar or drink into your case for an energy boost on your busy first day.

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In the aftermath of the violence visited on the Sikh Community following 9/11, Sikhs have worked tirelessly to educate others about the Sikh faith and have continued to participate and contribute to the communities in this great country where we live and work.
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Skip to comments.Rick Perry's Ace in the Hole: Rudy Giuliani
Posted on 08/15/2011 10:51:07 PM PDT by South40
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani continues to mull the possibility of a 2012 presidential bid, but his true power in the race may come if he decides against running and instead throws his support to Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
The two men are good friends, and Perry was the only Republican governor in the country to endorse Giulianis presidential campaign in 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
Maybe people forget that Rudy is pro PARTIAL BIRTH abortion. He's discussed it many times with Sean Hannity, so it should be public knowledge.
Rick and Giuliani, Rick and Giuliani, Rick and Giuliani,
Something stinks..
Perry could have endorsed pro-life Duncan Hunter, he could he endorsed pro-life Mike Huckabee and he could have endorsed pro-life Fred Thompson. Heck, he could have held his nose and endorsed pro-life Juan McCain. But he chose to endorse PRO-ABORTION Rudy Giuliani instead.
Two peas in a pod.
Some could have forgotten and some could just not care. I think the majority of his supporters just don't care.
If Sarah announces, she gets 2 checks from me, one for 20.12 and one for 2016. Suck that Chris.
Perry is for open borders,
Perry opposed Arizona's SB 1070 saying, "I have concerns with portions of the law passed in Arizona". Even if he didn't think it was 'right for Texas', when Obama and the left were attacking AZ over the issue conservatives sided with AZ, open borders Perry did not.
Rick Perry opposed Obamas stimulus plan but took billions in stimulus money to balance the Texas budget,
Perry was hand-picked by Karl Rove and is an establishment Republican.
He does not deserve the support of the conservative base.
He's NOT a Conservative. I have very mixed feelings about his candidacy. On the pro side- He's done a great job for Texas for 10 plus years, governing as a financial conservative. He has the appeal, gravitas, whatever to whip the crap out of Buckwheat, as well as the money. He CAN and WILL win the primary and the election. On the Con side- I have a close, trusted relative, whom I refuse to identify, who worked for Perry closely, and he hates him. He says that Perry has surrounded himself with thugs, just like obama. He says Perry IS JUST LIKE obama. For myself, I find Perry to be very scary, but still better than obama.
I can't see it. From what I've read these past few days he'll be an easy target for his opponents and the press. His past cannot withstand the scrutiny it is sure to get.
Perry's speeches make GW Bush sound like a sissy.
But of course the Perry record doesn't match the tough rhetoric.
I hope Palin runs, and wins, and I will support her. I will support Bachmann if Palin doesn't run. But if Perry wins the nomination as I believe he will, I probably will have to support him. Dumping Buckwheat is the main priority.
PRO-ABORTION Rudy Giuliani WAS TOAST when Florida didn't come through for him.
What a dumb pick anyway, and what conservative Evangelica would choose a pro-abortion candidate to endorse? Or is Governor Perry a Methodist like pro-abortion former First Lady Laura Bush?
Guiliani would be hard-pressed to beat Huntsman for 6th place.
The "big sin" he's associated with is a Texas dream law 10 years ago which passed with veto proof majorities. It was tightened in 2005 by unanimous consent of the legislature and a repeal bill never even made it out of committee this term. Here's an FR thread explaining the Texas dream law.
Perry's signed bills against human trafficking (HB 1372, 4008 & SB 11 of '07), on increased border security (probably the Rangers on the border he's mentioned; HB1 of '07), for tougher employer sanctions (HB 1196 of '07), on document fraud (HB 126 of '07) and signed Voter ID. Source: http://www.txcc.org/illegal-immigration & Reuters (Voter ID signing)
As he mentioned in the Waterloo, IA Q&A Sunday, he did send Rangers to the border: Texas governor sends Rangers to Mexico border (2009)
He also mentioned arial assets on the border:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry says Predator drones should patrol Texas border (2009)
Texas gets a second aerial drone for border security (2011)
He's not for amnesty or "pathway to citizenship" as a reward:
In A December 2006 editorial, Gov. Perry wrote: "I would rather know who is crossing our border legally to work instead of not knowing who is crossing our border illegally to work. A guest worker program that provides foreign workers with an ID removes the incentive for millions of people to illegally enter our country. It also adds those workers to our tax base, generates revenue for needed social services and it can be done without providing citizenship." and "Along with millions of Americans, I think it is wrong to reward those who broke our laws with citizenship ahead of those who have followed the law and are waiting to enter this country legally. And like millions of Americans I do not support amnesty." (Emphasis mine.)
Source: http://governor.state.tx.us/news/editorial/10326/
He's a critic of E-Verify's lack of impact on Texas but it is used in thousands of Texas business although not required. However, Texas does require and use the I-9 "employment eligibility" forms which is where E-Verify is supposed to take its info. So in a real sense Texas already verifies eligibility, and under Perry it became harder on employers who violate the law and those who provide documents to defraud employers. Hutchison says Texas state doesn't use E-Verify to weed out undocumented workers applying for jobs (PolitiFact, 2010)
A mandatory E-Verify bill failed to pass the Texas legislature this year Business leaders say mandatory E-Verify plan would harm small businesses (2011)
Perry also got a ban on driver's licenses for illegals through too (SB 1). ID measure passed quietly, while sanctuary cities bill died noisily
A bill banning "sanctuary cities," added by Perry to the recent special session, passed the Senate but failed in the Texas House. Same story as above: ID measure passed quietly, while sanctuary cities bill died noisily
Gee. Look at that! Old open borders RINO Rick, Governor Goodhair. He's never done anything about illegal immigration or border control. /s
The two men are good friends, and Perry was the only Republican governor in the country to endorse Giulianis presidential campaign in 2008.
That's enough for me. What conservative would endorse Guiliani?
Rick Perry's Ace in the Hole: Rudy Giuliani
an aside: Someone at Fox Nation is dyslexic.
I'm pretty sure that 'Ace In the Hole' isn't correct.
(short digression) I have suddenly realized why Obama went from state legislator to Senator to President: it's the IDEAL pathway to avoid scrutiny, to avoid a paper trail of having to make real decisions, major appointments or most anything that might cast suspicion and reach the White House. In that sense, he's a perverse genius.
I know more about Perry than I know about most family members and he's been a candidate about 3 days. Obama? You can't ask! That's racist! (apologies for digressing.)
I'd be careful throwing the word "thugs" around. We certainly know what that means with Obama. His administration is dripping with Chicago crime family knee-cappers.
I found to resign for endorsing Kay Bailey Hutchison. That may have been to score points for Kay Bay or maybe it was a little bit of "hardball," who knows. I didn't find any follow-up. Other personnel changes I saw were routine.
I read a piece linked from that TPJ "watchdog" report. It was written by Dallas Morning News about a land deal Perry made and the crap they pile in there to make it sound more scandalous is amusing including mentioning some Dem donor's dead father's ex-business partner paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein. Then there's something about a guy having an airplane used for an arms deal in a conflict that killed thousands or something. None of it had anything to do with the land sale. It was pretty amusing and written like juvenile literature.
It's obvious from the TPJ primer and hit pieces on Perry already coming out in the national press, the Left is leading with their old "Republican politicians are rich, corrupt, amoral wheeler dealers" template.
(When does Obama get vetted?)
RINOs, all of them.
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Happy Christmas, everybody! Today's musical offering is a number I like to call:
Snow Is Falling
This was Dimentia 13's contribution to Midnight Records' annual Christmas album in 1987. I think it was '87. That's the cover there to your left. I did another one of these the year before called "Christmas Comes to Those Who Wait." This song (Snow is Falling) is pretty cheezy, actually. The idea was for each band's contribution to act as a demonstration of what was on the band's records. So this song attempts to mash together all the various psychedelic stylings on offer on the first two Dimentia 13 LPs.
The Sanskrit section is an invocation for opening the Bhagavad Gita. I found it in a Hare Krishna book. The lyrics are supposed to be self-parody, but they're still embarrassing. I like the ending, though. Nice fake raga guitar.
We're all supposed to go out and see Alien Vs. Predator this afternoon. Woo-hoo! And I'm supposed to cook the traditional Warner Family Christmas Tempura. We'll see how that turns out.
Got a new article up on Suicide Girls yesterday. This will be my final bi-weekly article, it seems. From January they're making all the columnists once-a-month. Like the cramps. So any of you who want me to contribute excess writings to your blogs and suchlike, let me know. Especially if it pays.
I got the new KISS DVD, by the way. Thank you Santa!


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Film Soirée
I work at a private liberal arts-based college that is composed of three different "schools": arts & sciences, business, and education, with several departments within each school. One of the problems with this compartmentalization—quite typical though it is in academia—is that one doesn't always have the chance to get to know and interact with colleagues in other departments. So, a few years ago, I began doing a campus-wide faculty film soirée each semester. I pick a film, write a bit about it, and then turn it over to the college administration to publicize the event, send out invitations, and order the food and wine.
On Friday, we did The Battle Of Algiers. I made some brief introductory remarks and then we watched the projected DVD. Afterwards, the group (which also included spouses, friends, etc.) adjourned to eat, drink, and chat about the film. Almost no one had seen it before, and it was fun to circulate and listen to the various pockets of conversations about the movie.
Much remarked-upon was the "even-handedness" of the film. Of course, Pontecorvo's sympathies are clearly with the Algerians and the FLN, but the French are not caricatured, and the commanding Colonel is richly-shaded. Something I noticed this time around: kids and cops. The early terrorist attacks are sometimes carried out by kids, and they shoot cops in the back. Pontecorvo doesn't show us the faces of the cops, and thus wards off our empathy. The accompanying music in these scenes—by Ennio Morricone and Pontecorvo himself—is sphagetti-western-flavored, with echoey electric guitars. The scenes almost look like they could belong in an action-suspense thriller, thus distancing us from the deaths. Then, the French plant a bomb in the Casbah, and dozens die in the attack. This scene is deliberately staged not as thriller but as tragedy. Strings swell as wounded or dead children are carried out of the smoky rubble—it's a moving scene, and makes a strong play for our empathy.
But to complicate our response later, a bomb goes off at a racetrack. The angry French crowd turns and seizes a young Arab kid selling cigarettes, and a French cop puts himself in danger by jumping in and saving the kid's life. The film is constantly complicating the simple opposition of the French and Algerians with such grace notes. And for a movie that uses, Eisenstein-like, a "collective hero", remarkable attention is paid to individual characters.
My colleagues seemed to appreciate the film and enjoy discussing it, but they made it clear to me that next semester I should perhaps think about following up The Battle Of Algiers with its opposite: an (1) American, (2) comedy, (3) in color. Animal House came up in our conversation as a possibility.


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Knight Rider Classic TV Show
"Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless in a world of criminals who operate above the law."
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Been looking for almost 2 months cant find anywhere.
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This 3rd generation Firebird represented the low point of General Motors' performance, technology, and quality control. The engines of that era were choked down with anti-smog/pollution equipment that exceeded the designers' abilities to incorporate those systems into an intergral part of the engine management system. While today, things have improved with anti-smog equipment designed within the operating parameters of the engine management computers which allows the engines to breathe and operate efficiently, the cars of the late 70s/early 80s were choked down into lethargy with horrible performance and crappy gas mileage.
Quality control was also a major problem of that era with GM - the Japanese already had a choke hold on the American auto industry, and GM, Ford, and Chrysler were still trying to incorporate the Asian quality control and manufacturing techniques into their plants. Most cars of that era were plastic and aluminum monstrosities that would fall apart quickly (which my parents can attest bitterly to).
With that said, the show was still entertaining enough although a little silly to watch today.
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Knight Rider
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Year: 1982-86
David Hasselhoff is Michael Knight Edward Mulhare is Devon Miles
Patricia McPherson is Bonne Barstow
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William Daniels is the voice of Kitt
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Since Liv is finally here and we now know that the little baby in the belly is a girl, it's time to get back to the nursery to add the finishing feminine touches.
The room is pretty gender neutral, perhaps even erring on the side of more boy-ish with its rust red accents, dark wood furniture and animal wall art (painted by Kevin's incredibly talented mom and aunt). I purposefully left several of the fabric additions – such as curtains, slip covers, bedding, pillows – until after Baby S was born so that we could use these details to help complete a little boys or little girls room.
Here's the fabric inspiration board I've been mulling over since early December:
You can see that there are two distinct palettes I was leaning towards – turquoise with tan/brown/yellow/green accents if babe was a boy and coral with similar color accents if he/she was a girl.
All of these fabrics are from Thibaut, a fabric and wallpaper store I originally fell in love with after discovering their huge and beautiful selection of wallpaper (which I showcased a while back as part of the Favorite Fabric series). After perusing their website a bit, I fell for several of their prints in fabric form and I decided they were perfect for the nursery.
Now's the hard part, which fabric to use where? Which final color palette to build off of? Which patterns compliment each other without being too distracting? (I love, love mixing prints – but it's a thin line!) Can't wait to check out the samples.
If you're catching up on Project Nursery, here's a link to the vintage wall art addition, changing table makeover, nursery wall striping tutorial, painted animal project, the initial inspiration board and the before picture posts.


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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Food & Travel, June 2011
If you're thinking of travelling to Estonia this year - and have thought about visiting the islands (especially Muhu and Saaremaa), then you must check out Frances Pearce's article "Baltic Flavours" in the June 2011 issue of FOOD and TRAVEL. Lots of good suggestions and mouth-watering photos.
Photography: Emma Wood (you can see more photos shot in Estonia when browsing her "Gourmet Traveller" folder).
3 comments:
- Nisrine Merzouki said...
I'm not familiar with Baltic flavors and would love to dicover more. The pictures of Estonia are beautiful.
- 2:17 pm, May 29, 2011
- Holly said...
Hi! I just discovered your blog and absolutely love it‼! I stumbled upon it because I was trying to research some of Pokhlyobkin's Estonian recipes, in particular milk based soups. Do you know anything about soup that is, according to Pokhlyobkin, is made using both fresh and sour milk and egg? You whisk egg and some sugar and salt with sour milk and then add them to simmering fresh milk while whisking? Again, I really enjoyed your blog! Thank you very much! Holly
- 12:06 am, June 08, 2011
- Pille said...
Nisrine - Estonia is a lovely place to visit, trust me!
Holly - welcome to Nami-Nami and thank you for your kind words! I'm ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Pokhlyobkin before. The soup you describe doesn't ring a bell either. It sounds a little like our "snow ball soup" (lumepallisupp), but it only uses fresh milk (you whisk egg whites with some of the sugar, form into small "snowballs" and boil them in hot milk; put aside; heat milk with sugar and egg yolks until thickened, then serve with those "snowballs").
- 10:20 pm, June 09, 2011


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Earth's vast oceans teem with innumerable microscopic plants that make the fertility and abundance of the United States' Grain Belt look like, well, a drop in the ocean. These tiny phytoplankton are essential to life on Earth, says biologist Sam Laney.
"Just like plants on land, phytoplankton do photosynthesis: They suck up carbon dioxide and exhaust oxygen. About half of the oxygen on the planet comes from phytoplankton, so every other breath you take is phytoplankton air. In fact, Earth didn't originally have oxygen in its atmosphere; the evolution of phytoplankton is responsible for there being oxygen for us in the first place.
"Moreover, phytoplankton are the base of marine food webs. Tuna fish or squid ultimately exist because earlier in the food chain, somebody ate some phytoplankton."
But Laney, a scientist at Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution, has his own individual perspective.
"Most oceanographers think about phytoplankton as a crop or population—you know, a big biomass of plants. They think of them as 'conduits for geochemistry'— which is fine. But they're individuals, too. I'm interested in them as individual beings, not just as a collection of millions of cells."
"So, what is life like for a phytoplankter? If you were a phytoplankton cell, how would you see your environment? What things are important to you? What sorts of situations would you experience over your short lifespan, and what types of things can you do in response?"
That's always been one of the real challenges of phytoplankton ecology: You can look under a microscope and see a cell. But you can't track it over its lifespan or through its history. Terrestrial ecologists have it easy—they can tag a lion. We oceanographers cannot tag an individual phytoplankton cell (a phytoplankter) and follow it around in the ocean. It's hard to see the world the way a phytoplankter does.
I try to get around this problem by looking at things a phytoplankton cell can change about itself within a day or two, because that would be its lifespan. Because a population is just a bunch of individuals. If I can tell you how a single diatom—a type of phytoplankton—can respond to a passing cloud, then I can tell you how diatom populations respond to passing clouds.
How does a phytoplankter's life story begin?
Well, it's born, but then again it's not really "born"— a cell and its sister are formed when their parent cell divides in two. Each daughter's job is to survive long enough to itself reproduce. The name of the game is absorbing enough nutrients and energy to grow large enough that you can divide—and to do that quickly, because somebody is trying to eat you.
While people can eat burgers or mac 'n' cheese and get both energy and nutrition out of the one meal, phytoplankton have to get theirs in two separate servings. They get energy from absorbing sunlight, but they have to absorb dissolved nutrients to get their nutrition. In the open ocean, the nutrients near the surface often well up from deeper water. So nutrients are coming from below, but the sunlight is coming from above. If you're a phytoplankton cell and you're up too high in the water column, you get lots of light but no nutrients, and if you're down too low, you get plenty of nutrients but not a lot of light. The best place for phytoplankton to live is in a sweet spot in the middle. That's one way a phytoplankter sees the world: It's looking in two directions for the two important things that it needs.
Sounds like an uncertain existence.
Talk about extreme environments! If you're a tree that lives for years, you can bank on having pretty decent light levels over most of your life. But if you're a phytoplankton that lives only a few days you might have decent light one day, but then a current pushes you down into the water column so that tomorrow you've got little to no light. What do you do if your daily reality is: Will there be light tomorrow?
Passing clouds can also cause fluctuations in sunlight. Over the ocean clouds are often intermittent, so a phytoplankter experiences dim light, then bright light, then dim again, and so on. When the sun rises in the morning, how does a phytoplankter plan ahead? Will it be a uniformly cloudy, or sunny, or a bright-cloudy-bright-cloudy day? It makes a big difference to a phytoplankter. It has to be very flexible in its responses to changing light conditions.
How do phytoplankton harness light energy?
Photosynthesis starts with absorbing sunlight, which is done by chlorophyll and other colored pigments. Chlorophyll is found inside structures called chloroplasts where the individual chlorophyll molecules are packaged into little bundles called "reaction centers." The job of a reaction center is to absorb a photon of light and shovel that energy into useful energy-storing or electron-storing molecules such as ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and NADPH (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate).The cell uses ATP and NADPH in reactions that make compounds the cell needs: the sugars, lipids, amino acids, and DNA. This energy can also go to repairing cell damage, providing energy for swimming if you can swim, and of course for reproduction when it comes time.
It sounds a little like an assembly line in a factory.
Yes, keeping a smooth flow of energy through its reaction centers is really important to plants. Once the reaction center has processed one photon, it's ready for the next one. It's just "one photon at a time, one photon at a time …". But if it has to wait too long between photons, the assembly line is sitting idle. That's inefficient.
Chlorophyll works like this: When a chlorophyll molecule absorbs a photon, it rings like a bell—it starts resonating. But a chlorophyll can only deal with a certain amount of energy at a time. If it gets two photons' worth of energy at once, it can break. This is the other reason why plants do as much as they can to keep a smooth flow of energy through all the reaction centers. You don't want your assembly line idle, but you also don't want it breaking down when light levels suddenly increase.
What can a phytoplankter do to respond to changing light conditions?
That's something I'm investigating right now. If a cell experiences lower light it can make more chlorophyll, but that takes many hours and costs a lot of energy. You can't use that response to adjust to rapid changes in sunlight caused by intermittent clouds, for example. So you need other, faster responses to keep feeding chlorophyll just the right amount of energy: enough so that they're not idle, but not so much that they get overexcited and break.
To accomplish this, phytoplankton have evolved other types of special pigments, including ones called xanthophylls. In land plants, these are the yellow-colored pigments that remain in leaves in the fall after the green chlorophyll has gone away.
Some of these xanthophylls help phytoplankton absorb more light, but others help them get rid of excess light, acting like sunscreen. Some xanthophylls actually do both and can quickly shift from being a helper pigment to being a protective pigment. Shifts in light ultimately cause tiny shifts in the structure of the xanthophyll molecules. Those slight structural shifts make them behave differently enough so that they either feed light to chlorophyll, or shunt light away, keeping a smooth flow of light energy through the reaction centers.
I've done experiments in the lab to try to mimic some of these light level situations to see just how fast and how strong these rapid responses can be. These xanthophyll pigments can flip-flop within minutes to convert from helper into protector pigments. That's a pretty amazing little trick for a microbe.I've also looked at photosynthetic responses to natural cloud variability in the actual ocean off Hawaii, where it's not always as sunny as people might think. Most days have some cloud cover, and you might get one cloud-free day every ten or so. People had thought that these pigments flip-flopping back and forth don't really boost photosynthetic performance much in the real world. But from what I see, I think that maybe it can change phytoplankton's overall efficiency by 25 percent—which is nothing to sneeze at.
A 25-percent enhancement over 30 minutes might be enough to matter ecologically—it could make the difference between being able to reproduce today or having to wait until tomorrow to divide. And while you're standing by overnight, waiting for the sun to come up, you are prey!
What are some other reasons to study phytoplankton as individuals?
We tend to assume that when single-celled organisms divide asexually, they produce two identical daughter cells. Scientists have known for a while that when diatoms divide, they produce one daughter cell that is slightly smaller than its sister.
So I've been looking into this: Is there any difference other than size between two diatom daughter cells, and if so, which daughter cell does better? For organisms that give birth to twins, there are a lot of studies about whether the older or the younger twin does better. These are obvious questions to ask about puppies or monkeys or people. Sometimes it surprises me how we've gotten this far without asking these same types of questions about phytoplankton.
How did you investigate this and what have you found?
I did an experiment with my WHOI colleagues Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik where I made time-lapse movies of diatom cells dividing generation after generation. I wrote software to keep track of individual cells in these movies.
We just published our study in the September 2012 issue of Limnology and Oceanography, and we showed that the smaller of the two diatom daughters typically inherits more of its parent's cellular material (or cytoplasm), and that they subsequently grow faster and divide sooner than their larger sisters. It looks like diatoms "favor" the younger daughters somehow.
This is the first time this has been shown in diatoms—that the parent cell actually favors one daughter over its sister. Other studies suggest it's true in bacteria as well, and so maybe this type of favoritism is a more universal feature in microbes. That could have significant ecological implications.
How did you arrive at this area of research?
I've got an engineering degree and a biology degree. I used to think that the engineering degree was useful because it allowed me to build things—which is true. But now I'm beginning to think that the engineering degree is valuable because it allows me to apply "engineering-style thinking" to biological systems.
By "engineering-style thinking," do you mean thinking about phytoplankton cells as machines?
Exactly! You can look at a machine in a physical sense, with gears and a motor and wires. A phytoplankton cell is like that: There's stuff inside that does certain jobs, and these things are connected to one another, so that the whole cell acts as a coordinated gadget. A mechanical engineer will get it when you describe a phytoplankton cell in this way.
But you can also look at machines in a more abstract sense, a coordinated network of individual items linked together that, as a whole, do a certain thing—in the case of phytoplankton, to grow and reproduce. This might be the way it's seen by operations engineers who do factory design and care about the flow of things through a large complex system.
For instance, think about how you might plan for a factory that makes iPads: You have to get different raw materials, and then you have to process these through a factory so that iPads come out the other end. You need to optimize the flow so there are no bottlenecks, so that everything is working smoothly from where the ore is mined to where you buy your iPad in Boston.When I first started thinking of phytoplankton from an engineering perspective, I thought about them as little computers, asking questions such as: What's their algorithm for dealing with changes in life? Now it's more like phytoplankton as "dynamical systems," which is how an operations engineer might think of this problem of keeping light energy flowing smoothly through a cell.
The mathematical tools that engineers have developed to tackle these problems can now be used by people like me who aren't operations engineers. In my case, it's the flow of light through a plant, and what happens if the flow of light is disrupted.
It's pretty phenomenal, the complexity of the phytoplankton organism, given how supposedly simple it is. It's not a tree, it's not a Venus flytrap, it's a microbe. It doesn't look complicated compared to bigger plants, but it doesn't take much for a very simple system to display complex behavior.
You have a philosophical approach.
That's because I spent the first two years of college studying political philosophy!
Do you recommend that?
Yep! All science students should study a little philosophy, especially the philosophy of science. A lot of people know how to pose a scientific question and address it, but that doesn't necessarily mean they've got a big picture or appreciate the limits to knowledge. Anybody who has studied the philosophy of science will tell you that you can never prove anything; you can at best only disprove something.
Having that liberal arts background helped me perk my ears up to these types of ideas. For me, science isn't for answering questions; my job is to make questions!
As a scientist you're on the frontier of knowledge. There is nothing ahead of you but empty space, until you start putting ideas into it. Some of the best scientists are the ones who are comfortable looking into the black, where nothing is known, and realizing how much nothing is known, and then still being willing to take that step forward.
This work was supported by a NASA New Investigator Award, a WHOI Ocean Life Institute Postdoctoral Scholarship, and the WHOI Penzance Fund.


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At 27, Harwood Arms head chef Stephen Williams has been cooking for just six years. However, he's got two things fellow gastropub-runner Gordon Ramsay does not: a London Gastropub's first Michelin star and a kind demeanor in the kitchen. The London Evening Standard spoke with him to discover what's behind his good attitude and what's on his great menu, and celebrate the fact that nice chefs can and do finish first.
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As Chinese New Year approaches, a new fad is sweeping the country -- and it has nothing to do with snakes. Nope, it seems that 'rentable boyfriends' are popping up to fill a big need for single Chinese ladies…
Get your mind out of the gutter! Not that kind of need. What these girls need is for their families to stop pestering them to get married. The Telegraph reports: ""It can be a particularly miserable experience for girls who don't bring home a boyfriend, leading to endless questions about why they're not dating and where their life's going. In this sexist society, ladies over 27 who aren't hitched are labeled 'leftover women.'"
Unhitched chicks can visit the shopping site TaoBao, where they can rent a boyfriend for about $48 a day. Pay a little extra for an "appropriate kiss" to add authenticity to the charade.
Does anyone else think this is genius? Is there an equivalent for the already-marrieds who are constantly shrugging off questions as to when they're going to procreate? That might be harder since, you know, they'd expect a baby to show up at some point. But really, what's with everyone always having an opinion?
There's all sorts of psychobabble on how you're supposed to be honest and true to yourself, but I imagine no one that says that has ever had to deal with a Chinese mother of an 'old maid' daughter. I don't blame these ladies a bit for fudging their relationship status to get a little peace at home.
I bet women here could use something like this, especially with Relationship Status Awareness Day (aka Valentine's Day) around the corner. You could have your fake boyfriend pick you up at the office to ward off meddling coworkers, or post his picture on Facebook to keep your married girlfriends from their pitying 'you'll find someone eventually' comments.
Besides, who knows? Maybe one of these setups could spark a real romance. The couples would have to spend a little bit of time getting to know each other, just to keep their facts straight. What if they end up liking what they see? Now that would be a great story.
What do you think of this trend? Good idea or bad idea?
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nasher168Posts: 2518Joined: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:34 pmLocation: Derby, UK Gender: Male
Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for all
BBC wrote:Nasa has released new images of the Apollo landing sites on the moon, taken from an orbiting spacecraft.
Obviously, the die-hard conspiracy nuts won't buy it, but meh, fuck 'em. We have the photo, we win.
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|Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:18 pm
SquawkPosts: 2011Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:25 pm Gender: Tree
Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
In fairness "we" won 50 years ago. This won't change anything.
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|Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:37 pm
RigelKentaurusAPosts: 372Joined: Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:24 am Gender: Male
Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
It's been disproven once and for all 40 yr ago.
Only those with no concept of reality cling to the fantasy that the whole world staged it. They're the same people who cry "faked! fotoshopped!" at every evidence you present them, but feel vindicated by the rumour of a death-bed confession. It takes no amount of effort to point at these new LRO images and cry "fake" as they have for the previous, lower resolution images.
|Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:42 am
FAJAPosts: 119Joined: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:07 pm
Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
You never disprove a conspiracy, all evidence which disproves it is merely taken as an indication of just how hard they are trying to cover it up. People will (and have) just shout "photoshopped". I swear you could physically take some of these people to the Moon, show them the landing sites, the tracks, and the mirrors and seismometers that were left and they still wouldn't believe you.
"We must try to understand the beginning of the universe on the basis of science. It may be a task beyond us, but we should at least make the attempt" - Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell
|Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:37 pm
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Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
Some would insinuate that being drunk at 9 in the morning to be signs of serious issues.
Me? I'd insinuate it as signs of no plans and a refrigerator full of Whiskey and Guinness.
|Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:14 pm
LallapalalablePosts: 1205Joined: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:35 pmLocation: That place between childhood and adulthood Gender: Male
Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
I always wondered why the photo wasn't taken sooner. We have telescopes that can see celestial bodies billions of light years away, but this took decades to produce.
Whatever the reason: FINALLY. Eat a dick, conspirators. Eat a whole bag, they're free.
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|Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:06 am
IBSpifyPosts: 463Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:06 am Gender: Pinecone
Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
Lallapalalable wrote:I always wondered why the photo wasn't taken sooner. We have telescopes that can see celestial bodies billions of light years away, but this took decades to produce.
clearly it's because our photoshopping abilities hadn't advanced far enough to fool the moon truthers (is that what they are called?)
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Full-immersion holographic sex achievement points will destroy society
|Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:25 am
DaealisPosts: 235Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:48 pmLocation: Tampere
Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
Conspiracies... No. Just Don't. These are people who get obsessed with one coincidence and can build up a "theory" around that one obscure detail in a matter of hours and it's a freaking cult the next day. Thank you internets, for letting the nutjobs congregate that much faster.
It's one of those 'cannot be unseen' type of things(or like the movie Inception), where once an idea takes hold you see the evidence of it in everything and continuously build up the little scraps of mysterious data, convoluting the facts until you can't see but your own conspiracy.
And if any new evidence will pop up, you can just harness the power of the dozens of previous datascraps to identify a singular similarity between them and either dismiss it as a proof of the conpirators trying to hide it or as something that makes your castle in the clouds that much more solid.
From an example earlier this week: I ventured to the parts of YT where madness lies, ie. the water car videos. Stating as a problem to one of those videos, that hydrogen is volatile as fuck, you can't store it as safely as gasoline. I think I linked a video of a hydrogen balloon being blown up(spectacular energy output).
The response was(paraphrasing): "Oh no, we just use hydrogen gas, not HHO! Hydrogen is very stable, safer than gasoline!"
Haven't gotten an answer back yet, when I pointed out to the "professor" that in order to burn hydrogen, you still need the oxygen, ie. You'll be using 2H and an O in there somewhere anyway.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein
|Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:24 pm
malicious_blokePosts: 305Joined: Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:12 pmLocation: Proper Westcountry Gender: Male
Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
Correct me if i'm wrong but can't you see most of the apollo landing sites with a fairly cheap telescope?
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An obituary for Ellen Delaney in 1901 said that she was buried at the catholic cemetery in Boston. In 1904 when Daniel died, his obit did not state where he was to be buried. I posted to a message board inquiring about the location of Boston Cemetery and was told that it wasn't called that anymore. It is now Mount Olivet Cemetery. About 5 years ago, I made a request to RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) for a photo of the Delaney's headstone and a wonderful volunteer took the time to not only take the photo above but explain to me that Boston Cemetery and Mount Olivet were not the same cemetery. He said that for some reason the cemetery closed at Boston and that the majority of the burials in Boston were removed to Mount Olivet but he did not know when this happened.
I finally get someone at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Moline to check into the burials for me. I had asked if the church were indeed the caretakers for the cemetery and if they had burial records. I also asked why the cemetery at Boston closed and why the need to move the remains.
I received part of the answers to my questions. I was told that:
1. Yes, according to church records, Daniel and Ellen Collins are buried at Mount Olivet.
2. No, they do not know why Daniel's date of death is not on the stone.
3. The graves were moved from Boston Cemetery to Mount Olivet in 1961
4. No, they do not know why the cemetery at Boston closed and why the graves were re-located.
BIG BONUS INFORMATION = total confusion:
The reply also told me that the Delaney stone was located in Section 7, Lot 61 and in the same place are the graves of Ray Sheern (died 1907), Helen Sheern (died 1900) and Ann Sheern (died 1892) . The lot was purchased by E.F. Sheern in 1911.
Ann Sheern is my 2nd great grandmother and E. F. Sheern is her son my great grandfather. Ray and Helen Sheern are children of E. F. Sheern. E. F. Sheern married Jenny Delaney who is the daughter of Daniel and Ellen. Are you with me still?
Now with all this information here is my confusion:
E. F. Sheern buys the plot in 1911 in Mount Olivet but his mother and children and his in-laws the Delaneys died before that.
Let's assume that everyone was buried originally at Boston Cemetery. The church says that the graves were moved in 1961. Why would E. F. Sheern buy a plot that remains empty until 1961. E.F. Sheern died in 1939 and is not buried there.
Why was Daniel's death information never etched on his stone? His sons and daughter all had money enough to have it done?
Were the remains really removed from Boston Cemetery? Maybe just the headstones were moved?
By the way, Boston cemetery still has graves and markers.
Time to put on my rabbit ears and fasten my seat belt. It could be a bumpy ride on the way to finding the answers


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In 2009, the Eagles moved up two spots to draft Jeremy Maclin at No. 19, sending an additional sixth-round pick to the Browns.
The following year, they dealt a couple third-round picks to the Broncos and swapped the 24th selection for No. 13 to select Brandon Graham.
History shows they're not shy about moving up in the first round.
So the obvious question this year is: Will they stay put at No. 15? Or try to make a deal?
The Eagles have an extra second-round pick, thanks to last year's Kevin Kolb trade. I took a look at the draft trade chart, which assigns point values to different picks. The Eagles' first three picks - the 15th selection in the first round and the two second rounders (46 and 51 overall) - add up to 1,880 points.
Based on the chart, trading all three picks could get them to the fourth overall pick.
If the Eagles packaged their 15th pick with just one of the second-rounders, they could get to the No. 8 pick.
Of course, the draft chart only provides some guidelines. And as Andrew Brandt of the National Football Post pointed out, it's flawed this year since rookies won't be getting paid the same. The Eagles would have to find a willing trade partner, and as always, the market dictates everything. For example, SI.com's Peter King advises to throw away the chart when it comes to the No. 2 overall pick this year. That's because the Rams are likely to deal that pick to whichever team wants to make the most attractive bid to land Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III.
The Eagles created some buzz over the weekend when Griffin revealed that he met with the Birds at the combine. The Inquirer's Phil Sheridan wrote today about the possibility of the Eagles seriously considering moving up to land Griffin.
Meanwhile, King wrote that Griffin "really enjoyed his time" talking to Andy Reid.
And John Czarnecki of FoxSports.com gets the impression that Reid would trade Michael Vick straight up for RG3.
The truth is teams meeting with prospects at the combine is just part of the process. In the coming months, that process will continue, and select prospects will visit the Eagles' facility. Every year, there are prospects the team likes, but can't draft.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Reid really likes Griffin. The charismatic and talented QB seems to be liked by most at this point, which is why the Rams are in great position to get teams into a bidding war for that No. 2 pick.
Having said that, I've reached the point where I won't rule anything out with the Eagles. Not after they surprised us with the Nnamdi Asomugha signing, the Michael Vick signing and the Donovan McNabb trade to the Redskins in recent years.
One other thing to keep in mind - not necessarily as it pertains to Griffin, but as it relates to draft trades - is that the Eagles are in position to trade players too. DeSean Jackson could be a trade chip if they franchise him. And Asante Samuel could be dealt too.
In other words, the Eagles have some pieces they can use to get creative and move up if they covet a prospect who is unlikely to last to the 15th pick.
If you missed my weekend posts, I offered some thoughts on the Eagles' quarterback situation as a whole and updated the most recent developments in the wide receiver market.
UPDATE (2:30 p.m.)
After checking out some of the comments, I wanted to clarify a few things about this post:
** The point was not to show the Eagles have enough chips to trade up to No. 2 and draft Griffin. I simply wanted to show that they do have some interesting assets if they want to move up in the first round. Like I mentioned, using the draft chart, even the 15th pick and both second-rounders would only get them to the fourth pick. And the value of the No. 2 pick is probably even greater this year because of Griffin.
** I've mentioned this several times in previous posts, but it bears repeating. Samuel is still a very good player, and cornerback tends to be a coveted position. But keep in mind that he is due a reported $9.5M next season and is 31. He is also most effective in a specific system, and not the most versatile defensive back.
As for Jackson, any team wanting to acquire him (assuming the Eagles use the franchise tag) would have to meet his (and Drew Rosenhaus') demands for a new contract.
So again, both Samuel and Jackson could be valuable trade chips. But the Eagles would need to find the right suitor for each.
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Introduce a little fun with this one fluid ounce of pure pleasure! Warming massage oil that tastes good. Rub quickly, it warms, blow and it gets hot, and it is edible, so lick it off!
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i drip some of my partners clit, gave it a little blow and she liked it even more licking it off her clit and tastes pretty yummy if you like strawberryAnonymous - June 28 2015
We don't usually use this, I put some on his man part and he immediately ran to the bathroom saying it burned him. It does taste like strawberries though, it didn't burn me but he did not enjoy this at all.Anonymous - February 24 2015
It actually tastes like strawberry, and not gross which surprised me. It does get warm, my boyfriend said it burned him though, but I might have used too much.Anonymous - February 6 2015


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I found the following Database Architecture Diagram for Oracle Database 12c on Oracle Education's website. It lists all the processes and the relationship between processes and other database components. I recommend you to take a print on A3 paper.
And below is a YouTube link which gives database architecture overview.
Oracle Database 12c Architecture Overview
Update - 1 (11-Jul-2013):
Below is Oracle Database 12c Multi-Tenant Architecture Diagram:


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(Editor's Note: The following was printed in the September/October 2008 issue of Michigan Capitol Confidential. Rep. Andy Dillon, D-Redford, survived the recall election outlined below and was re-elected to a third and final term in the Michigan House of Representatives on Nov. 4. This article is being republished here to highlight the court decision that allowed the recall effort to move forward and protected the Constitutional rights of Michigan voters.)
An effort to remove Michigan Speaker of the House Andy Dillon, D-Redford, from office has succeeded in placing a recall question on the Nov. 4, 2008, ballot in Dillon's district - the same general election ballot on which the lawmaker will stand for re-election to his third and final term in the Michigan House. Those organizing the recall are targeting the Speaker for his role in pushing through the state tax hikes and budget increases during 2007 (see "Total Recall...," March/April 2008 Michigan Capitol Confidential).
Needing 8,724 valid names from Dillon's district to initiate a recall election, those seeking his ouster originally believed that they had collected more than enough signatures to place the question on the August primary election ballot. But because of a Michigan law requiring signature gatherers to be registered to vote within the district of the targeted lawmaker, and the subsequent discovery that some of the gatherers collecting signatures were not registered within the district, the Michigan Bureau of Elections invalidated 2,053 of the submitted names, leaving the recall proponents 776 names short of their mark and seemingly putting an end to their campaign.
However, a federal court ruling on a similar case had recently invalidated a residency requirement for petition circulators in Colorado, holding that the ineligibility of a citizen to vote on a particular electoral matter did not preclude that same citizen from exercising other First Amendment political rights. Using this precedent, recall proponents filed a lawsuit claiming that the Michigan law also violated the U.S. Constitution. The court agreed, ordering the Bureau of Elections to reconsider the 2,053 names without using the residency law and - if at least 776 of them were valid - to place the recall question on the November ballot. On Sept. 5, the Bureau of Elections announced that the signature requirement had been met and certified a recall election for Nov. 4.
Reinstating a recall that was assumed dead was just the latest of many colorful legal and political disputes regarding this ongoing drama. Here are just a few:
On May 1, when the signatures were first submitted, recall proponents and the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance had planned a press conference inside the capitol building but were denied the use of a room by the Speaker. "They want to have a press conference in one of my rooms? Yeah, right," said Dillon to the MIRS Capitol Capsule daily newsletter (www.mirsnews.com - subscription required.)
The weather permitted the recall team to hold its news conference on the steps of the capitol instead.
That same afternoon, the Speaker held his own press conference to detail his reasons why the question should not appear on the ballot. According to MIRS in a separate article, the "top story" from this event was Detroit Free Press capitol reporter Dawson Bell asking Dillon why he didn't "just let the voters of his district vote" on the question," to which Dillon responded by accusing Bell of having a pattern of bias when reporting on the recall story.
Earlier, as the signatures were being collected throughout the spring, partisans of both sides filed injunctions asking local courts to put a stop to alleged illegal conduct. Those siding with Dillon accused the pro-recall side of fraud and violating the state prohibition on out-of-district circulators - the allegation appearing to be related to the law that would later be ruled as unconstitutional. Part of the fraud allegation was an assertion that 279 names were forged - a charge that the pro-recall side later refuted by producing a sworn deposition from a Democratic activist who stated that she had been paid by Dillon's attorneys to infiltrate the recall campaign and deliberately solicit bad signatures.
Throughout the campaign, those collecting signatures against Dillon repeatedly claimed that they were receiving "harassment and intimidation" from pro-Dillon partisans in general and Redford Township government officials in particular, led by Redford Township Supervisor Miles Handy. The pro-recall side would file an injunction, alleging that township police officers were being used to intimidate recall petition circulators canvassing door-to-door.
To document and publicize their claims, the anti-Dillon group produced a humorous five and half minute YouTube video titled "The Thugs of Redford Township," done to the theme of the old "Dukes of Hazzard" television show, which alleges harassment of petition gatherers by Handy and one of his police sergeants.
In a surprising later development, Handy unexpectedly lost his own bid to continue serving as Redford Township supervisor when Democratic primary voters rejected him on Aug. 5 - the same day that Dillon's opponents had originally scheduled as the date of his recall election. Absent the recall question and with only mild Democratic opposition, Dillon easily won his primary.
Dillon has a Republican opponent in the Nov. 5 general election and Republicans in the Michigan House note optimistically that his margin of victory as recently as 2002 was just 681 votes.
Another interesting possibility is that voters may decide to both remove Dillon from office for his present term via the recall, but still re-elect him for the new legislative term that begins on Jan. 1, 2009. In this instance, he would be required to vacate what remained of his present term in office but could return in January.
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We are an established marketing research company, with a solid book of business with Fortune 500 clients. However, we are looking to re-brand and "update" ourselves -- as the last time we went through this process was back in 1995 and it is long over due.
Marketing Research is a "business consulting" type of industry, so we are looking to communicate a solid, steady, and strong corporate feel about ourselves -- yet, we want to also be thought of as young, energetic, dynamic and innovative.
We collect marketplace insights and advise our clients with recommendations and conclusions based on the results we find.
We are unique in our industry in that we offer our clients two key research techniques --- so we would like our logo to somehow communicate that we are more than just "one"
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At 9,600 feet, Notch Peak is a moderately tall mountain as mountains go in the Basin and Range region of the Western USA. What makes Notch Peak so spectacular is the over 4000 foot cliff face that falls nearly straight down just a few steps from the peak itself. The cliff face itself starts at Notch Peak and stretches around the saddle and westward below Sawtooth and adjacent peaks. It is a sight to behold after a 4 mile hike from the trailhead, when you come to the edge and the world falls away at your feet.
Layer after layer of ancient limestone forms the cliff face from below, deposited as uncountable millions of tiny skeletons in an ancient sea over 450 million years ago. Just to the east, away from the cliff and below Sawtooth, lives a grove of bristlecone pine trees. Who knows, but these may be several thousands of years old - old to us, though very very young by the standards of the cliff they grow near.
Here along the ridge of the House Range, we have a commanding view of the surroundings. The narrow white band of hardpan (dried lake plain) to the south is within the Tule Valley while the much broader tan-white hardpan to the southeast marks the remains of Sevier Lake. The Sevier Lake bed is bounded to the east by the Cricket mountains. To our immediate west, the Confusion mountains form the next range with the Snake Range in the far distance, home to Great Basin National Park. To the south stretch the Wah Wah mountains.
On the day of this hike, we could see for 50 or more miles in all directions.
Utah is a state located in the westcentral region of the United States of America. Utah is the 13th largest state by area, ranks 34th by population and 10th by population density of the 50 United States. Utah was the 45th state to be admitted into the Union, on January 4, 1896. Utah is landlocked, being bordered by the states of Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Nevada on the west, Colorado on the east and Arizona to the south. Utah is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population is about 2.82M with 95% being Caucasian, 2.4% Asian, 1.7% Native American and 1.3% Black. The state capital and largest city is Salt Lake City.Source: wikipedia


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PARK CITY, Utah — The Baltimore Ravens finally got over the hump and won an AFC championship, but it was a sports victory of a different sort that filled the air Sunday afternoon at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Linsanity," the documentary about the rise of unlikely NBA point guard Jeremy Lin, premiered in Park City to rousing response, easily making it one of the most crowd-pleasing documentaries to play the festival this year. Sports fans stood up and cheered, while a coach said he thought it should be mandatory viewing for high school athletes.
Rags-to-riches tales don't come any richer than this. Raised by Taiwanese immigrants in Northern California, Lin was overlooked at every stage of his career before becoming a sensation quite literally overnight a year ago. Lin's high school team wasn't given a prayer against Southland powerhouse Mater Dei. Recruits at Pac-10 schools passed him by. He went undrafted before being signed by various NBA teams and relegated to their lowly D-league squads.
Even when he's leading the Knicks to a spectacular run, Lin is disrespected by Kobe; in a famous clip presented in the film, Kobe says he barely knows who Lin is — right before the point guard lights up the Lakers for more than 40 points.


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Walletpop Podcast about Comics Speculation with Phil Jimenez
So, Walletpop recently did a podcast about the world of comic book speculation with "Astonishing X-Men" artist Phil Jimenez, the VP of CGC, a buyer at the enormous NYC-based retail store Midtown Comics, and me!
Listen! To me being a huge wet blanket about the profitability and wisdom of investing your money in comics! Thrill! To me taking a dim view of the future of comics as purely collectible objects!
It's actually a video, where you won't see me because I called in by phone, and I don't really have much to say until about sixteen minutes in when we start talking about Obama comics and variant covers. I go back and forth with Jimenez about fans who ask for signatures and put comics on eBay later this evening, and why consumers drive so many megacrossovers.
My favorite quote: "[Speculating] does take the joy out of it, unless your joy is money."


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Systems Alliance
The Systems Alliance is the representative body of Earth and most of its colonies in Mass Effect.
The Systems Alliance is responsible for the government and defense of all extra-Solar human colonies, and it represents humanity on the galactic stage. It is a supranational government, with a parliament appointed by sovereign member nations on Earth. The parliament does not convene on Earth, but rather in the Arcturus System on Arcturus Station, the largest human-built space facility. It has direct control over a large spaceborne navy.
The Systems Alliance was chartered by Earth's eighteen most prominent nations in 2148, after the discovery of alien technology on Mars provided access to FTL technology and knowledge of mass relays, ancient point-to-point relays that allowed instantaneous transit between star systems and star clusters. In 2156, the Systems Alliance was given control of the Systems Alliance Military, a force provided by member nations. In the same year, Pluto's moon Charon was revealed to actually be a mass relay encased in ice. After melting it, the Alliance went through the relay and discovered the Arcturus system. They continued exploring outer space using FTL technology and various mass relays, establishing colonies along the way.
Politically, the Systems Alliance had little clout, until the inevitable happened. In 2164 an Alliance exploration force was attacked by an alien patrol while trying to activate a newly discovered mass relay, the beginning of what would be known as the First Contact War. The aliens found the Alliance colony of Shanxi, attacking and occupying it. An Alliance fleet dispatched from Arcturus defeated the enemy fleet and retook Shanxi. The Alliance geared up for full-scale war with the aliens, but war was averted by the alien's peers. The attacking aliens, called turians, were part of a galactic organization known as the Council, based at an ancient space station called the Citadel. The two other member species, the asari and salarians, noticed the turians preparing for war and stopped them, opening relations with the Systems Alliance. As it turns out, activating dormant relays was restricted by the Council, as in the past hostile species had been found on the other side. Of course, the Systems Alliance could not have known about this. With this misunderstanding resolved, the turians backed off, and the Systems Alliance became the political face of humanity to the rest of the galaxy.
The Systems Alliance grew in power over the next few decades, butting heads with a race called the batarians over control of a region of space called the Skyllian Verge. The batarian government never formally declared war with the Alliance, but sponsored pirates and slavers to attack Alliance colonies.
In 2183, the Citadel fell under attack by by an AI race called the geth, led by an ancient sentient ship called Sovereign. The Alliance managed to defeat the geth fleet and Sovereign and were rewarded with membership on the Council.
The Systems Alliance has dozens of colonies, spread out among many star clusters. Normal FTL is insufficient to traverse between the star clusters, so mass relays must be used. Not all human colonies are under Alliance control.
Threat Assessment
The Systems Alliance is a major power in the Mass Effect universe, but its territory is small compared to United Federation of Planets and tiny compared to the Galactic Empire. Technologically, they are somewhat below the Federation, and far below the Empire. It would possibly be a minor power in Star Trek, although it should be noted they should have been a minor power in the ME universe, too, and the same factors which prevented that may apply in ST. It would be an insignificant power in Star Wars. Their power and influence could be considered comparable to that of the Earth Alliance from Babylon 5.
They possess a fleet of hundreds of ships, ranging from kilometer-long dreadnoughts to hundred-meter-long frigates. In addition, they have fighters, possibly numbering in the tens of thousands (a senior military officer has casually mentioned the option of building 12,000 fighters instead of the Normandy SR-1). Dreadnoughts are rare, and before the Reaper invasion the Alliance possessed at least nine. A starship's main weapon is a magnetic mass accelerator, which accelerates metal slugs to hundreds or even thousands of kilometers per second. A dreadnought's firepower with such a weapon is in the double-digit kiloton range. Cruisers carry a handful of fighters in the baffles under their armor, while dreadnoughts have hangars; the Alliance also possesses dedicated fighter carriers. For defenses, ships use kinetic barrier shielding and GARDIAN point defense lasers. The point defense lasers are noted for having made long-range ship-to-ship missiles obsolete in the Mass Effect universe. Kinetic barriers are effective at blocking projectile attacks, but do nothing to stop directed-energy weapons such as lasers and particle beams.
Regarding tactics, dreadnoughts can engage at ranges of tens of thousands of kilometers, while cruisers are limited to thousands, and frigates fight between hundreds of kilometers and "knife fight" ranges of tens of kilometers. GARDIAN defense lasers are limited to within 10 kilometers. At close range, frigates and fighters use disruptor torpedoes, which can bypass kinetic barriers and create fields that warp space-time in a localized area. The rapid asymmetrical mass changes cause the target to rip itself apart.


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BUFFALO, N.Y.—It's estimated that Americans consume more than 25 billion chicken wings annually. And it's a good bet that many of those wings are served Buffalo-style—that is, slathered in a zesty sauce forever associated with this upstate burg.
The 13th annual National Buffalo Wing Festival, held here over the weekend, paid homage to the fiery finger food, with the usual endless flavor variations, a Miss Buffalo Wing crowning and a nationally televised wing-eating contest. The winner wolfed just under 200 wings in 12 minutes.
But arguably the weekend's signature event was an even messier affair, involving a kiddie pool filled with 20 gallons of Marie's blue-cheese dressing and a group of goggle-clad competitors.
The festival has made an unlikely sport out of bobbing for wings—an endeavor that, true to form, requires competitors to keep their hands behind their backs as they dunk their heads deep into the tub of creamy goo in search of the prized chicken parts.
It is enough of a scene that even festival MC George Shea, the same ebullient host who presides over the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, seemed taken aback.
"We don't bob for wings in Brooklyn," he told the crowd on Saturday afternoon.
Yet another bobbing contest was held on Sunday.
Mr. Shea was also on hand for other weekend wing-related challenges, including the wing-eating championship. This year's two-day festival, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Buffalo wing, drew 72,000 people, including attendees from 54 countries and all 50 states, festival officials said.
To be fair, there is more than mess involved in the sport of wing bobbing.
Festival founder and director Drew Cerza handpicks the six competitors—three on Saturday, three on Sunday—from dozens of applicants, all of whom make their case for inclusion in writing.
Mr. Cerza said he bases his selections not so much on the applicant's bobbing experience—"You don't go to the résumé," he laughed—as their passion for all things wings, all things blue cheese or all things Buffalo—or preferably, all three.
Those who make the cut often admit they don't have much of a bobbing strategy. And they quickly learn that sheer enthusiasm alone isn't enough to guarantee success.
Case in point: Saturday competitor and crowd favorite Richard Nicholson of Fayetteville, N.Y., dug so deep into the tub that he managed to cover his whole upper torso in blue-cheese dressing. But for all his efforts, he emerged from the kiddie pool with a mere 20 wings in the contest's three-minute time frame.
By contrast, Saturday champ Sean Sheler of Grand Rapids, Mich., plucked out 36, believed to be a festival record. "He was a finesse bobber," said Mr. Cerza.
For his part, Mr. Sheler said he was just willing to go with the cheesy flow and "get down and dirty with it."
For most attendees, the event's real attraction is chowing down on the hometown favorite—a culinary creation that came about one evening at the Anchor Bar, a popular downtown Buffalo hangout, when a group of revelers arrived in search of some late-night eats and the all-but-closed kitchen had only scraps to feed them.
The Anchor Bar was serving its signature wings at the festival, along with more than 30 other restaurants, including some from as far away as Arizona and Texas. Some of the festival's featured wings were super-spicy, with names like "Buffalo Insane," "Ghost Face Killa" and "Boom Boom."
The festival also served up Buffalo wing-inspired creations ranging from Buffalo-wing soup to Buffalo-wing fried pierogies. Even nonmeat-eaters had an option with vegetarian wings—essentially, breaded green beans with a spicy kick.


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Additions to 2nd Street Festival include Lushlife, Purples and a pie eating contest
The folks at the fourth annual 2nd Street Festival are ramping up for a big Sunday in Northern Liberties this weekend. On Saturday, they announced their full lineup for Sunday Aug. 5 in a handy-dandy schedule spreadsheet. Additions include new bands, new DJs and even a pie-eating contest. We're pretty psyched about that last one, so let's hit it first – 3:00 p.m. at the festival's Germantown stage, presumably during a set by Variable Elements, a funk cover band also added to the lineup. That stage opens with singer-songwriter Orion Freeman and wraps with a flamenco band.
A big addition to the festival's main stage in the Piazza is Philly hip-hop impressionist Lushlife (listen to his Key Studio Session here). The Poplar stage now opens with a set from soulful songwriter John Francis (hear his Key Studio Session here), feisty Philly rockers Purples (their Key Session can be downloaded here) and ubiquitous MC Kuf Knotz (he did a Key Session too, and it's here). Also on Poplar are mind-blowing Baltimore psych heads Secret Mountains, as well as DJ DNA of Johnny Brenda's popular gospel brunch and twangy rockers Brooke Shive and the 45s.
Last, there's the Fairmount Stage, which is pretty much entirely new additions. Two Philly dance troupes will perform – Philareyto, which specializes in Puerto Rican dance, as well as Fuego Nuevo, a group preserving Aztec dance and culture. Opening that stage will be The Webbs and a jam session with John Fuhr, as well as a set in the middle of the afternoon from the Philly School of Rock.
The 2nd Street Festival runs from noon to 10 p.m. along 2nd street in Northern Liberties; the day also includes craft and food vendors, is free and open to the public. More information at 2nd Street Fest's Facebook page.


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Why the huge discrepancy? Well..they use something called DVOA to determine their odds. So what is DVOA?
DVOA is a method of evaluating teams, units, or players. It takes every single play during the NFL season and compares each one to a league-average baseline based on situation. DVOA measures not just yardage, but yardage towards a first down: Five yards on third-and-4 are worth more than five yards on first-and-10 and much more than five yards on third-and-12. Red zone plays are worth more than other plays. Performance is also adjusted for the quality of the opponent. DVOA is a percentage, so a team with a DVOA of 10.0% is 10 percent better than the average team, and a quarterback with a DVOA of -20.0% is 20 percent worse than the average quarterback. Because DVOA measures scoring, defenses are better when they are negative. For more detail, read below.
It's pretty comprehensive, but if you care to read the full version- here it is: http://www.footballoutsiders.com/info/methods#DVOA
Here's where it gets good. We all knew we had a brutal schedule for the first 8 games, but here are our remaining opponents according to their DVOA: DET 15, MIN 11, NYJ 17, MIA 10, CHI 4, ARZ 21, BUF 26, SFO 1, STL 14 (SEA is .
If you were to take this a set further, I would say that it would be reasonable to deduct 5 points for away games and add 5 for home games. Of course this method is HIGHLY subjective. However, if that were the case, here would be our future record:
@DET -5= 13 vs 15 WIN (CLOSE GAME)
vMIN +5= 3 vs 11 WIN
vNYJ +5= 3 vs 17 WIN
@Mia -5= 13 vs 10 Loss (close game)
@Chi -5= 13 vs 4 Loss
vAz +5= 3 vs 21 Win
@Buff+5= 13 vs 26 Win
vSF +5= 3 vs 1 Loss (Close game)
v STL +5= 3 vs 14 Win
This would put us at 10-6, and most likely in the play-offs but i would say that any game within 10 points of one another would mean a lock which would mean our Lock wins would be vs NYJ, AZ, Buff, STL which I would tend to agree with.
6 Teams make the playoffs and I would venture to say that the following teams are locks to make it barring a major injury:
Of this group, I am least confident in Chicago making the playoffs but they most likely will. In my opinion that leaves about 6 teams vying for that last spot: Minnesota, Arizona, Seattle and (WSH,DAL,PHI). While STL and DET may have a shot they would have to play incredible football down the stretch against incredibly difficult schedules- I think they're both out.
Let's look at Arizona's schedule: vs SF, @GB, @ATL...wow that's almost surely 4-6 and then you add away games at SF and Seattle. THat's already 8 losses. OUT.
Minnesota's schedule includes GB twice, CHI twice, @Seattle , @Houston, @STL. I'm guessing 4 for sure losses, 2 against GB, @Chi, @Houston- then they would only need to lose one other game to have 7 losses. Obviously the importance of this game cannot be understated.
NFC East- Due to the parity in that division, and the fact that each teams knows each other so well. It's very difficult to win 10 games...Especially if the NYG win 10 or 11.
In summary, I think we're in a great spot to make the playoffs provided that we continue to progress rather than digress.


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