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What is the Molecule Mattress? Molecule Mattress Dealers
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The Molecule mattress is an ultra-breathable memory foam mattress that's fantastic for hot sleepers that crave the sense of foam but don't enjoy the heat retention a traditional foam mattress is famous for. Right now this mattress is only available through their site . Once you place your order it should arrive in about 5 business days. It includes a 100-night sleep trial at which if you don't like it after 100 nights, they will allow you to return it at no charge to you.
How Much Does it Cost?
Below are the current costs of the mattress. Please note that they often have discounts and coupon codes to make the price more competitive. Right now they are offering $200 off prices listed below.
|Retail Price
|Twin XL
|Cal King
Overview of this Molecule Mattress
Here is a video overview of the Molecule highlighting some of its benefits. This mattress is on the softer end of the spectrum but not the squish king of soft. The foam recovers fast but you sink into it to get more contouring and hug. I believe the best portion of the mattress is that it does not insulate as much as a conventional foam mattress. This is ideal for hot sleepers.
Who Sleeps on a Molecule Mattress?
Molecule has many athlete brand ambassadors. Their slogan is that we're all athletes meaning we all need proper rest and recovery to perform our best the next day. Here are a few athletes who sleep on a Molecule:
Nastia Liukin: 5 time olympic medalist
Susan Francia: two time olympic gold medalist
Ryan Hall: American record holder for marathon and half marathon
Sara Hall: 2012 US National cross country winner
Structure of the Molecule Mattress
Below are the building details as listed on their website:
Wicks away heat and moisture to keep skin comfortably cool. As your body temperature changes during the night, Molecule's advanced cover material responds dynamically, adjusting evaporation and cooling. Microban® antimicrobial treatment keeps your mattress fresh and clean.
Microban is a registered trademark of Microban International, Ltd..
The most restorative rest occurs when your body temperature is cooler. Only Molecule offers this revolutionary airy, intense open-cell structure for consistent cooling even when compressed by your body weight. Cozy support with more than seven-times the airflow of classic memory foam.
Active people need more support and airflow than conventional egg-crate foam mattresses can deliver. Ergonomically-engineered Molecule features a meticulously-engineered matrix of hexagon-and diamond-shaped channels which respond to your unique anatomy and encourage airflow even at the deepest melancholy points. You awake refreshed with relief from sore muscles and joints.
The base of the Molecule mattress. An ample 7″ of firm support promotes healthy spine alignment. Breathable materials encourage even more airflow and heat transfer.
My Molecule Findings
The Molecule has a stretchy knitted cover which works nicely with the mattress. This is the first mattress I have reviewed where the cover is made with microban technology. Even though it has microban, I'd still advise using a mattress protector just to keep it in pristine condition.
My Molecule Recommendation
The Molecule isn't your average 3 layer foam mattress. It looks like one and even feels similar to some others I've tried but what sets it apart is that it's among the coolest sleeping foam mattresses I've tried. A popular way to tackle heat issues in mattresses is to use a phase change material in the cover which is cool to the touch but this effect is temporary and at some point, the mattress will heat up. Molecule has designed the foam and cut of the foam for maximum breathability where using phase change materials is not essential. Molecule Mattress Dealers
I found this mattress for a bit on the softer end of the spectrum and for it might not be best for stomach sleepers but most back sleepers and side sleepers will appreciate the design, cooling and pressure relief this mattress offers.


text: I use dolly (http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/ and search for dolly) from which nettee is forked and pdsh (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdsh). Both are great but dolly has certain advantages for my environment. In my case, I wrap it up in a service delivery tool for a 50 node cluster where rapid deployment is key. It is just some perl code that essentially looks like this: foreach list_of_machines if they answer, add them to the list done login to the nodes via pdsh to start the dolly processes perform the transfer done! There is actually a lot more to my code, but it is all environment specific and deals with managing our custom apps. I can push 1.6G (which includes an svn checkout over the wire) to all nodes in approx 15 minutes. The checkout is the longest part, the actual file copy to the nodes is less than 5 minutes with our GigE network. The nodes are busy processing while the data transfer is in progress (this is an HA cluster). When I researched this initially, I found there were actually a lot of environment specific questions I needed answered, hence a lack of real standardization on how these things are done. Scaling is often the hardest part... at least IMO. I will say that my dream would be for something like dolly to get some sort of transfer recovery mechanism, though I realize that would be quite difficult in such a topology. As an aside, I know that the dolly author (Felix) reads this list. I assume dolly itself is now unmaintained? Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of David Mathog Sent: Freitag, 8. August 2008 18:12 To: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] copying big files (Henning Fehrmann) Henning Fehrmann <henning.fehrmann at aei.mpg.de> wrote: > Coping a big file onto all nodes in a cluster is a rather > common problem. I would have thought that there might be a > standard tool for distributing the files in an efficient way. > So far, I haven't found one.

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PORTSMOUTH, VA -- When performed properly, aerobics, resistance training and swimming may be beneficial for pregnant women, according to a recently released study by researchers at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP), VA.
"In the past, physical activity was looked at to be potentially harmful to the developing baby, and there's just been hesitancy to adopt the new recommendation. Through our study, we hope to show that exercise is safe for pregnant women," said Capt. Everett Magann, chairman of the medical center's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and professor for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).
The study was published in the August 2009 Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and is the culmination of nearly 10 years of global research by Magann and Capt. Marlene DeMaio, co-author of the study and director of research, NMCP's Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and associate professor, USUHS Department of Surgery.
The health benefits of exercise for pregnant women included improved aerobic capacity and blood pressure, improved response to carbohydrates and decreased blood glucose, study authors found.
In addition, the study found that pregnant women's self-esteem improved, as did the physical discomforts of pregnancy.
DeMaio said information published by other international scientists supports their study, such as research by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, as well as their counterparts in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
"There are documentations, studies and consensus recommendations by every English-speaking governing board in the world that say exercise in low-risk pregnant woman is not only safe, but recommended," DeMaio said.
DeMaio added that there are plans to continue the research with a focus on military members.
"There is great potential for military relevant research," DeMaio said. "These findings will be important for the military at large, as well as the civilian world."


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Missed ya this morning..it was only 40 degrees..had a great time...about 8 of us showed up..
I may be free next week to play some..so let me know..
They are active..just don't update their page much..I actually started the Boerne site and maintained it for quite awhile..but its hard to do that one and this one...your welcome to jump in and take over..can get you on the admin list if your game..
Send a note to the group there..you will be surprised..you should get some responses..I think they play Sunday evenings and I think its Tuesday nights but not sure
What is your level?
Enrique, there is a group that plays out of Boerne on here..Boerne Baseliners..I know they get together at the City Park courts at least twice a week..I have traveled up there numerous times to play with them...perhaps get in touch with that group and wouldnt mind coming up to play..not that far..I live just in town off of I10 West in SA..
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While Hurricane Rita spared Arkansas the massive rains some forecasts predicted, farmers will still be out of the field for a few days.
Immediately after Rita left the state, Chris Tingle began assessing what had been left in her wake. So far, it isn't too bad for the soybean crop.
"From what I've seen, the storm wasn't devastating," said the Arkansas Extension soybean specialist Sept. 26. "Fields I normally see flooded after a couple of inches of rain aren't even in standing water this morning. That shows how dry we were. The forecast looks favorable too. Optimistically, maybe we can get back in the field by the end of the week."
Much of the state received 4 to 6 inches of rain.
"White County got close to four inches. Around Stuttgart, they got around 5.5 inches. We're going to be checking what the winds and timing of the winds did."
The day before Rita hit, Tingle was traveling through northeast Arkansas. Every combine "capable of cranking up" was in the field.
"There wasn't much dew out this morning, so they're blowing and going trying to beat the storm. Machines are still working on rice. A lot of the soybeans are ready to be cut. From the looks of things, though, rice is the bigger concern. It will lie down and lodge so much easier."
Of the beans being cut, producers are seeing some serious quality problems. That's a result of recent hot, dry weather.
"From June through the first part of August, there wasn't nearly enough rainfall. If you look at the plants' water demands coupled with evaporation rates, the wells had to be left running. Producers couldn't catch up to the water demands."
Now, at harvest, producers are paying the price. Tingle said he's receiving an "enormous number" of calls from growers and elevators about shriveled seed and overall poor quality.
"I just visited a Poinsett County grower. He cut a 68-acre field of early-planted (late April) Group 4 beans. The grower watched the field closely all year. He got a good stand under irrigated conditions.
"Based on history, we knew he'd take a yield hit. We were hoping for about 45 bushels per acre and wound up averaging around 38 bushels. That's pretty close to what we're hearing across the state: yields are down 8 to 10 bushels off what was expected."
Tingle suspected a bit less than 2 million acres of soybeans remain in the field. "By the time the storm hits we might have 40 percent of the whole crop out."
With Rita bearing down, Tingle was looking at several scenarios.
"If we get 6 or 8 inches of rain in a 24-hour period, it could lead to some serious problems. But I don't think it'll impact the yield of our crop too badly.
"We've got a late crop anyway. There are 250,000 acres in the state that are late and need a rain — they're that late and well within seed fill. A rain could actually help the late crop.
"If the rain turns out to be of the slow, soaking variety it'll keep us out of the field for a week or better. But we don't want to get into the scenario we ran into last year where, during harvest, we got into a cycle of rains and couldn't get the crop out, leading to a quality drop."
Regardless, the big concern is seed-bean production. A majority of the state's seed-bean production is still in the field.
"So if it rains a while, gets cool and those beans weather, it isn't a positive. Our germination and emergence will be impacted for next year."
What about storage and river traffic?
"Growers are saying they've been charged up to 50 cents per bushel for storage. That's cutting into the profit margin for this crop — especially when we're staring at an 8- to 10-bushel decrease on average.
"I've heard storage shortages have led some folks to dump grain in big piles and cover it with tarps until bin space becomes available. On-farm storage is certainly paying for itself this year."
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text: Chester Arthur (1829-1886), the 21st U.S. president, took office after the death of President James Garfield (1831-1881). As president from 1881 to 1885, Arthur advocated for civil service reform. A Vermont native, he became active in Republican politics in the 1850s as a New York City lawyer. In 1871, an era of political machines and patronage, Arthur was named to the powerful position of customs collector for the Port of New York. He later was removed from the job by President Rutherford Hayes (1822-1893) in an attempt to reform the spoils system. Elected to the vice presidency in 1880, Arthur became president after Garfield died following an assassination attempt by a disgruntled job seeker. While in office, Arthur rose above partisanship and in 1883 signed the Pendleton Act, which required government jobs to be distributed based on merit. Suffering from poor health, he did not run for reelection in 1884.


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bradley12112 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 49 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
Daily deal site, with a social networking element and a social conscience.
From this page we like several of these designs- particularly numbers 1, 7, 14, 36, 59, and 75-
We really like the simple, clean, beautiful.
An eye pleasing design focusing on the deal. Ideally a style sheet with a header displaying our logo (provided) a link to login (my account) the identity of the user if already logged in (see livingsocial.com).
Side navigation with four buttons (clear correlation between button selected and content displayed), one for "current offers", one for "how it works", one for "other cities", one for "past deals". A mountain similar to (or exactly like) the logo mountain to be displayed in the space under the 4 side navigation buttons, possibly with some semi-transparency.
A footer that contains links for "terms", "privacy", "sales opportunities", "franchise opportunities", "cities", "contact", and "share".
Lay out for the deal being offered (see livingsocial.com and make up your own deal in this space for an example).
Pastel colors that compliment logo design, clean, easy to navigate, corporate look.
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Margaret Atwood will roll out her newest book not on land but at sea. The author of more than 40 works of fiction, poetry and essays will preview "MaddAddam" aboard the Queen Mary 2 on an August transatlantic sailing from New York City to England.
"MaddAddam," which won't be released until September in the U.S., completes the trilogy that began with "Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of the Flood."
The book will be sold on board ahead of the British release date, and Atwood will be on hand for book signings during the cruise. A spokeswoman says guests also may get to attend a Q&A with Atwood during the journey in the ship's Illuminations Theatre.
No stops during this seven-day crossing, so passengers will have time to read the new book and browse other titles in the ship's library. Of course, there are 14 decks to explore, including an on-board planetarium and pool and spa.


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Don't be so quick to write off sales as a dirty word, said Sean McDonald, president of Your Full Potential and chairman of CUNA's marketing/business development council.
"Business development is a sales job," said McDonald. "It's not pressure selling but consultative selling and building relationships. At its heart is the art of building sustainable, meaningful relationships. In the communities you serve and in the business community it all starts and ends with building that relationship."
Since March, McDonald has been on a mission to stop the common misperception that business development and marketing are interchangeable terms with the launch of the Credit Union Business Development Academy.
"I would say business development and marketing have to work together and have a good relationship, but they are very different disciplines," said McDonald. "There are still a lot of credit union executives that believe business development refers to commercial/business accounts and loans. That is simply not the case. Business development encompasses everything from building relationships to cross-selling to community development."
He added that business development essentially touches all aspects of the credit union and its core remains sales beyond just setting up a table at a SEG or at an event.
"We need to ask am I spending most of my time focused on building, sustaining meaningful relationships with a center of influence in the communities served," said McDonald. "Does sitting at a table with balloons and donuts add value to your credit union? Most of the time people see the table and try to avoid eye contact and find ways to ignore you because they automatically think you are trying to sell them something. How about offering a workshop on the financial topic of their choice instead to employees? Or showing up with and iPad slideshow video about how the credit union can help make it easier, more convenient to bank? The idea is to do something different, be bold and help change their perception and build awareness that their credit union is relevant. We know that consumers don't know who we are or what we do, so we should take every opportunity to change that, building one relationship at a time."
Designed to complement existing resources, the academy offers a mix of one-on-one coaching, two monthly webinars and monthly interactive roundtable discussions with all participating credit unions where everything from current challenges to best practices are shared. In addition, participation in the program is open to anyone at the credit union. So far three credit unions have signed up and a few more have been slated for 2013.
McDonald said his goal is to build awareness of all the resources that are available through CUNA, NAFCU, CUES, and the leagues.


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Hello 2014 and happy new year to everyone!
One of the new things for this year will be the regular Linux Game Awards done by various Linux and FOSS gaming site (and which has been spearheaded by the great LGDB).
And the first winner is:
The votes have been quite clear, but our friends from SuperTuxKart got a very respectable 2nd place:
You can expect some further promotional news coming up this month for 0 A.D. so stay tuned :)


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LONDON (Reuters) - As hundreds of models have strutted down catwalks in New York and London this month for the fall fashion shows, one face has emerged from the crowd — British model Cara Delevingne.
At New York Fashion Week last week Delevingne, 20, walked in 13 shows, including Marc Jacobs and Oscar de la Renta, and in London this week she sashayed in various shows, for Burberry, having previously modeled for Stella McCartney. Milan and Paris come next.
The catwalk success of the British model, whose strong eyebrows and snub nose are her defining features, has Britain's press stalking her every move and has drawn comparisons to the attention once garnered by fellow Briton Kate Moss.
Open a fashion magazine or the social pages of a newspaper and there is Delevingne, with the model gracing the March issue of British Vogue while also partying with the A-list crowd including singers Rihanna and Rita Ora.
She is plastered on billboards across London as the face of Inditex's high street chain Zara and has built a large social media following, by posting photos of her modeling, partying and napping, attracting 468,000 Twitter followers.
"She has this unique striking look, which is almost part Brigitte Bardot, but then mixed with an elfin quirkiness. There's a rarity about her look, which has put her on the map and into countless campaigns and runways," said Carmen Borgonovo, fashion director at online boutique my-wardrobe.com.
Moss, 39, and Delevingne do have something in common - the same scout.
Sarah Doukas, who spotted 14-year-old Moss at a New York airport in 1988, was the first to see the potential of Delevingne at a fashion show at her daughter's private school, Bedales. She signed her up to Storm Model Management in 2009.
But unlike Moss, Delevingne comes from a privileged background - as her attendance at the 30,000 pounds ($46,000) a year school Bedales suggests.
She is the granddaughter of former English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens, founder of the 1960s pirate radio station Radio Caroline, and grew up in the wealthy London suburb of Belgravia with her father, a property developer, and her mother, a personal shopper. Her sister Poppy is also a model.
Delevingne first came to attention appearing in Burberry's 2011 campaign. She became the face of Burberry in 2012.
She was named Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards last November and has continued to climb the ranks, rising to number 17 on models.com's Top 50 Models list from 25 before the start of this month's fashion season.
"Cara is one of those girls who combine energy, wit, enthusiasm and the kind of edgy beauty that marks her out from the general pool of beautiful models," says Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman in an introduction to the March magazine.
Fashion industry experts said with the fickleness of the fashion industry it remained to be seen whether Delevingne would challenge the success that Moss has enjoyed for over 20 years.
But they said part of the appeal of the model-of-the-moment is her personality on-and-off the catwalk, with Delevingne clearly having fun and trying to remain modest.
"I don't like Cara the model. I'm just Cara. And for some reason, these people keep hiring me," she told reporters backstage at the London Fashion Show.
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Climate Change and GISP2
During the past few decades, researchers have established the existence of a climate system on Earth that is characterized by complex integration and feedback. The sun and all the parts of the Earth - the oceans, the atmosphere, the land masses, the snow and ice masses, all life, and the inner earth - are parts of this system. Changes in any one part of the system affect all the others and ultimately result in climate change. Climate change is actually a continuous process, but in the past the changes have ranged from the slow and gradual to the surprisingly fast and dramatic. This much we have learned about the climate system; but beyond this we are less knowledgeable. How do the parts of the system interact? How will specific changes in one part affect the others and, ultimately, the climate? What patterns of processes occur to produce the changes we have observed such as the cycle of glacial advances and retreats? What climate changes will occur as a result of our activities?
Humanity's production of CO2, nitrous oxide, sulfuric and nitric acids, CFC's and other "greenhouse" gases, as well as our direct impact on large ecosystems, makes understanding the climate system an imperative. From what we do know now, our activities could raise the average temperature a few to several degrees centigrade over he next few decades in addition to altering weather patterns. If so, the potential exists for severe, or catastrophic, disruption of the EarthŐs living and climate systems.
Ice cores, cylinders of ice drilled out of glaciers and polar ice sheets, have played an important role in revealing what we know so far about the history of climate. Today, United States scientists are embarking on a new ice coring project in Greenland with a wide range of state of the art analyses in the hopes of resolving questions about how the climate system functions. Drilling for The Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two* (GISP2) began in 1989. When they reach the bottom of the ice sheet, 3000+ meters thick, in 1992 they will have recovered the longest, most detailed, continuous record of climate available from the northern hemisphere stretching back 200,000 years or more through two glacial/interglacial (cold/warm) cycles.
While long ice core records exist from Antarctica, fewer comparable records exist from the northern hemisphere. The newest theories1 on the transitions between glacial (cold) and interglacial (warm) periods involve changing circulation patterns in the North Atlantic Ocean. The modern ocean circulation pattern includes the well known Gulf Stream. This flow of water brings significant amounts of heat, in the form of warm water, from the tropics to the North Atlantic. When it reaches the North Atlantic and cools, by giving its heat off to the atmosphere, it becomes dense enough to sink to the bottom. This water flows slowly through the depths of the Atlantic to the Indian and Pacific oceans and eventually returns, approximately 1000 years later, to the North Atlantic. It is surmised that during glacial periods this circulation was shut off, changing temperatures in the polar regions. Because CO2 is soluble in seawater, the cessation of this circulation also has important implications for CO2 in the atmosphere. Since the North Atlantic is where this circulation is driven - the cooling, sinking water sets the circulation in motion - it has become a region of significant interest and means that GISP2 will provide a unique record for evaluating these theories.
As an example of the changes to be investigated, the GISP I core (a predecessor to GISP2) has revealed evidence of extremely rapid rises in temperature on the order of several degrees centigrade in several decades2. While the location of the GISP I core precludes further illumination of this event, if such rapid changes can be investigated during GISP2, the mechanisms by which such a change could occur can be understood. Furthermore, our understanding of the relationship between changes in the "greenhouse" gases (such as CO2 and methane (CH4)) and temperature can be investigated by examining the timing and magnitude of their change during different climatic periods.
How Ice Cores Record a History of Climate
How can a history of climate be reconstructed from an ice core? When snow falls it carries with it the compounds that are in the air at the time, compounds ranging from sulfate, nitrate and other ions, to dust, radioactive fallout, and trace metals. When snow falls in a place where temperatures above freezing are rare (there is only a hint of any melting at the GISP2 site in the 750 year record recovered to date), such as in polar regions or at high altitude, the snow from one year falls on top of the previous year without melting.
As each yearŐs snowfall is buried by successive years' snowfall, the constituents contained in the snow are buried along with it. By drilling down from the surface of an ice sheet and analyzing snow from greater and greater depths, a history of the compounds in the air can be obtained. Further, snow that is deeper than 80 meters at the GISP2 site turns into ice from the weight of the snow above it, and trapped in the ice are small bubbles of air. Thus, in addition to trapping compounds from the air, an ice sheet traps a small sample of the air itself. This trapped air is also analyzed and provides information about the composition of the atmosphere at the time the ice formed.
Like ice cores, deep sea cores have also provided information about climate, but from accumulated sediments on the ocean floor. Unlike ice cores, which provide direct climate information, sediment cores provide indirect information. An example of this indirect evidence is the method for determining temperature. When sediment cores are analyzed researchers painstakingly sort out plankton shells which twist in different directions depending on the temperature of the water they grew in. By counting the number of shells that twist each way the temperature of the surface water at the time that they grew can be determined. Understanding the behavior of these plankton in the modern world is necessary to produce a historical record of temperature for the ocean.
Sediments also accumulate very slowly relative to snow on an ice sheet. This results in much longer records from sediment cores, but a much reduced ability to resolve short term changes. While periods of hundreds to thousands of years might be resolved in a sediment core, annual and even seasonal resolutions are possible with ice cores. On the other hand, sediment cores can provide records which are as long as several million years compared with the several hundred thousand years of ice cores. Because of these differences, sediment cores and ice cores provide complimentary climate information; ices cores provide high resolution, direct information and sediment cores lower resolution, less direct records, but from much longer time periods.
GISP2 is located at the highest point on the Greenland ice sheet (38ˇ 28' W, 72ˇ 35'N, 3208 meters above sea level) on the "ice divide" of central Greenland. Ice on the west of the roughly north south divide passing through the "summit" flows to the west and ice to the east flows east. Here the ice moves almost vertically down to the bottom and the annual layers get progressively thinner and thinner as they get deeper. This is the optimal place for drilling. It will yield the longest continuous record available from the ice sheet and each yearŐs snowfall will be thinned the least providing the greatest detail.
GISP2 Research
As already indicated, ice cores provide a more direct record of climate than sediment cores. They also provide a staggering breadth of information. One of the cornerstones of ice core research is the d18O (delta-O-18) isotopic record (16O and 18O are isotopes of oxygen; they are the same chemically, but have slightly different weights). Water in the oceans contains primarily oxygen with an atomic weight of 16 (16O, oxygen-16). A small fraction however is 18O, 12% heavier than "typical" oxygen. Water molecules with 18O are the same as regular water in most respects except that because it is heavier, it does not evaporate as readily and condenses slightly more easily than water with 16O. Depending on the temperature of evaporation and how far the water has had to travel before it fell as snow on the summit of Greenland, the ratio of 18O to 16O will vary. This ratio, known as d18O, can be measured very accurately using a mass spectrometer. Over short time scales the change in temperature from summer to winter produces a very clear oscillation in the 18O/16O ratio. This oscillation is used to determine the age of the core at different depths, simply by counting the oscillations. Over longer time periods, this ratio indicates the average temperature of the regions between the evaporation site and the coring site. GISP2 investigators are also analyzing for the ratio of 1H/2H (Hydrogen to deuterium) which will allow even finer detail about source temperature and condensation history to be obtained. Dr Pieter Grootes of the University of Washington and Dr. Jim White of the University of Colorado, Boulder are working on these isotope measurements for GISP2.
The major ions found in snow also have annual signals. Some ions such as sodium (Na+) and chloride (Cl-) are principally derived from the sea. Others such as sulfate (SO4=) come from human, biological, and volcanic activity as well as from the sea. The burning of fossil fuels in the northern hemisphere produces sulfate and nitrate (NO3-) and can be seen as high levels of these compounds in the ion record from previously drilled, shallow Greenland ice cores3. The ion record from an ice core reveals important information about the source of the air to the drill site (which is critical for interpreting other measurements), volcanoes (which produce sulfate and chloride), and changes in the activities that produce the ions such as fossil fuel combustion. Dr. Paul Mayewski (Chief Scientist for GISP2), Dr. Wm. Berry Lyons, and Dr. Mary Jo Spencer of the University of New Hampshire and Dr. Eric Saltzman of the University of Miami produce the ion record for GISP2.
Another property of the core is being studied by Dr. Julie Palais of the University of New Hampshire and Dr. Michael Ram of University of New York at Buffalo. The amount of dust carried to Greenland varies with the amount of land where dust can be picked up by the wind, the strength of the wind, and also, with volcanic activity and fires. Like the isotopes and ions, there is an annual signal of dust in the core. A dust peak is often found in the spring section of an annual layer. Like isotopes these can be counted to determine the age of the core. Volcanoes can produce large quantities of particles and leave a record in the ice. Scanning electron micrographs of the particles from a particularly large dust peak in an ice core may reveal that it is from a known volcano and allow a firm date to be placed on that section of core. For prehistoric times, the dust record is a key tool for reconstructing a history of volcanic activity. Further at the end of a glacial advance there is often a period of dustiness as the glaciers retreat and leave large unvegetated land areas. These periods can be detected by high levels of dust in the core.
An important baseline measurement is electrical conductivity. This research is done by Dr. Ken Taylor of the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. Electrical conductivity measurements (ECM) of the core is a very rapid method to indicate how acidic the core is without the chemical detail of the ion analyses. The value of the measurement is that it can be done for the whole length of the core in high resolution and provide an immediate picture of the core and allow quick detection of interesting areas, such as a volcanic eruptions. Because it is a high resolution, continuous measurement it can be used, along with the other measurements, for time frequency analysis in order to identify cycles in the climate signal.
The relationship between CO2, other "greenhouse" gases and global warming is of great importance and much debated. The ice core record from Vostok, Antarctica shows a near perfect correlation between CO2 and temperature4. Several groups are analyzing the gas bubbles from the core. Dr. Martin Wahlen of the New York State Department of Health will be measuring CO2 concentrations in addition to methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and other gases. Dr. Alex Wilson of the University of Arizona is determining CO2 concentrations and carbon-14 (14C) dating the CO2 in the ice to help determine the age of the core. This information will indicate, for example, not only how much CO2 was in the air at any given time but, based on its isotopic signature,what its source was. Dr. Michael Bender of the University of Rhode Island, in addition to the other gas investigators, will be making special analyses of the isotopic composition of the bubbles. These studies will reveal fine details about how gases might change in the ice with time.
Studies of the trace metal content of the core will help to resolve the debate about large meteor strikes on Earth by detecting iridium, a product of meteor strikes. Dr. Ed Boyle of MIT, whose work on sediment cores has been important in linking climate change and ocean circulation5, will be analyzing for iridium, an element found in abundance in extraterrestrial material, as well as a broad suite of other elements.
Physical characteristics of the core reveal annual layers resulting from the temperature difference between summer and winter as well as detecting any deformation of the glacier that could affect the record. Dr. Richard Alley of The Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Tony Gow and Dr. Deborah Meese of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover, New Hampshire produce the physical record of GISP2.
The Outlook for the Future
After four summers of drilling and the equivalent of decades of analyses all squashed into five years of intense work, what will GISP2 produce? A new view of Earth history will have evolved - the most detailed view of the last 200,000 years ever seen. This view will literally be a "time machine" that will tap a reservoir of information barely recognized as a resource two decades ago. Theories about climatic change will have been tested and perhaps even more importantly, new views of the history of climate will spawn that are perhaps not even possible to guess about today. We cannot look into the future yet, but we can look to the past. From the past we gain perspective, a different view of who we are, what we can do and the environment of which we are a part. By 1992 as the last of the 3000 meters of core come to the surface, a group of scientists, technicians, engineers, and students will have sampled the atmosphere as it was during the onset of the Industrial Revolution, at the earliest periods of modern civilization, and into the last major ice age, through to the last warm period and into the previous major ice age. Unknown natural cycles may become clear, new interactions between the atmosphere and climate may reveal themselves. From this view of the past, the magnitude of human involvement will be placed in sharper perspective and our view of the Earth system will be probed yet farther.
Drilling Technology
Retrieving a 3000 meter core is not a simple task. Ice must be retrieved from great depths and pressures. Information about the drill's angle, depth, power consumption, must all be relayed to the surface during drilling, and slight flaws in the drill barrel can damage the core The Polar Ice Coring Office (PICO) of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks provides the state-of-the-art drilling technology for recovering this deep core and has spent several years developing a drill capable of working at these depths. The 20 meter long drill consists of a specialized drill head, a core barrel, chip catcher, motor, instrument package, and anti-torque knives all suspended from a 4000 meter cable. The drill is lowered to the bottom of the bore hole where a section of core between 2 and 6 meters long is cut, broken off at the base and winched back to the surface. This core is then sent to a "science trench", a large room cut out of the snow for processing and analyzing the core, while the drill goes down the hole for more ice.
Because the concentrations of the compounds being measured in the ice are very low it would be easy to contaminate the ice samples. The touch of a bare hand would hopelessly contaminate a final ice sample. Once the core sections are in the science trench they are passed through a "core processing line"; a series of stations where the core is processed, sampled and packed for shipment back to laboratories in the United States. The outside of the core is cut first for use in isotopic analyses which are not easily contaminated then the cleaner, inside pieces of the core are rinsed briefly in ultra-pure water under clean conditions and packaged for shipment. Scientists must wear special "clean suits" over their warm clothing to insure that they themselves do not contaminate the samples.
* The Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) is being carried out by scientists from: the U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, NH, Carnegie Mellon University the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, the New York State Department of Health, the State University of New York at Albany, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, University of Arizona, University of Colorado, University of Miami, University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island, University of Washington, the U. S. Geological Survey in Tacoma, Washington, and the University of Wisconsin.
GISP2 is funded by the United States National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs as a part of the Arctic System Science Initiative (ARCSS). The University of New Hampshire coordinates GISP2 scientific activities. Logistical and drilling support is provided by the Polar Ice Coring Office (PICO) at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Permission to work in Greenland is generously provided by The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland and the governments of Denmark and Greenland and is gratefully acknowledged. The 109th TAG Air National Guard, Schenectady, NY, and the U. S. Air Force Military Airlift Command from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey provide air transport. Support at Sondrestrom Air Base in Greenland is provide by the U.S. Air Force Space Command.


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LiquorMan needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 176 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
Galaxy Liquors
We have been open for 7 years under a different name. Over that time we have grown from a sleepy little mom-and-pop corner store to become one of the highest-grossing stores in our area. Because of this we are expanding soon, and tripling our floor space. We plan to relaunch as a larger discount retailer with a new name and hope to draw customers from a much wider area.
Our customers are primarily young professionals in their 20's, 30's and 40's. Their status ranges anywhere from single college grads to couples with young children. Our goal is to create a retail environment that is hip, fun, and casual. Our store is the kind of place where people love to take their time and look around, and are not intimidated by the huge selection.
The name of our store is meant to convey a couple of things. First, that we have a large "galaxy-sized" selection of products; and secondly, that we are a fun place to shop compared to some of the boring, stodgy stores in our area. More of a destination store, rather than just your local shop.
Here are a few notes about what we are looking for:
1. Typeface. We need something futuristic, but clear and legible. One font we particularly like is a ttf font called Anna. Id love to see this typeface used for the word "galaxy", and something different for the rest... but we arent married to it and are happy to consider any alternatives. I have attached this font to the brief.
2. It will be tempting to incorporate "spacey" things in the logo such as rings, spiral arms, neutrons, stars, planets, etc. We arent opposed to graphics like this, but we dont want stock images or clip art used.
3. Keep in mind that this logo will be used on exterior signage, web sites, advertising, apparel, etc. The logo should be streamlined and graphics should be relatively evenly proportioned with text.
4. We also need to include our tagline "Fine Wines Ales & Spirits" or "Fine Wines + Ales + Spirits" underneath the store name.
We'll need high-res rgb/grayscale as well as jpeg. Thanks, and good luck!
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Purdue University researchers are figuring out a way to make smartphones smarter. The goal is to enable the devices to "understand" and identify and tag objects that appear in a camera's field of view. That capability could find use in healthcare, augmented reality, facial recognition systems and robotic cars.
The work of figuring out how to teach computers to identify what is being displayed in an image isn't new. What is unique is having that activity take place on a mobile device.
"You might have 10,000 images in your computer, but you can't really find an image by searching a keyword. Say you wanted to find pictures of yourself at the beach throwing a football. You cannot search for these things right now," said Eugenio Culurciello, an associate professor in the university's School of Biomedical Engineering and department of Psychological Sciences. "The deep-learning algorithms that can tag video and images require a lot of computation, so it hasn't been possible to do this in mobile devices,"
Now, he added, "We have an approach for potentially embedding this capability onto mobile devices, which could enable these devices to analyze videos or pictures the way you do now over the Internet."
Culurciello is working on the concepts with Berin Martini, a research associate at Purdue, as well as several graduate students.
So far the research group has developed software and hardware and shown how the combination could be used to enable a conventional smartphone processor to run deep-learning software. The work was shared in a poster presentation during a Neural Information Processing Systems conference. The team's approach is about 15 times "more efficient" than conventional graphic processors, and they anticipate an additional 10-fold improvement.
Processing of the analysis is done in layers. "They are combined hierarchically," Culurciello said. "For facial recognition, one layer might recognize the eyes, another layer the nose, and so on until a person's face is recognized."
For example, he added, "Say you are viewing medical images and looking for signs of cancer. A program could overlay the pictures with descriptions."
Now Culurciello has started a company, called TeraDeep, to commercialize his findings in "intelligent vision systems." As his start-up's site explains, "We develop embedded hardware modules and server modules that can efficiently compress images and videos into tags in real-time. These tags are used by users to retrieve their memories."
The research has been funded by the Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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More Than Just a Game for Console Makers
Tech companies are finding new ways to keep video game players glued to the screen. The WSJ's Adam Najberg explains why console makers are diversifying their offerings.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... the the ... a game ... makers is heating ... up with companies like Microsoft taking a multipurpose approach to winning over customers ... joining me now is Asia the Digital Editor Adam Nash Bank ... NJ at and ... said oh consul like the Xbox no longer only for videogames anyone right ... right ... on and that's a good thing his tonsils like the Xbox and PlayStation three ... are getting towards the end of this serviceable life for seven years old ... so ... there are due for refreshed sometime probably later this year early next year were not Iverson shore but what really counts ... is what they're delivering over the box the size the gains ... okay so what it what are they deliver an eleven am I don't have an Xbox so what can ... an Xbox do I'm aside from playing videogames go these days you can do a lot of things aam ... do everything from bring you Netflix to who ... videos ... um it there's all kinds of it in to the Xbox more like a rock CEO or a tea though ... whenever new service is now not just ... games you can even download content for your day is ... akin to what to what extent where all these companies actually produce content themselves ... well ... the whole lecture but it was content to integrate themselves they made ... finance that from production companies ... but essentially they're using a lot of money I mean you mention this earlier this is about a battle to battle for the hearts minds and thoughts on the couch really ... do what you want is you want the people who were sitting in for the TV anyway or invested ... in the consul in your system ... to get everything they possibly could decide they can go shopping there ... I'm you know they they might use Amazon services or they might watch movies ... they might purchase from ... Dell local content or apps ... I mean really is all about getting customers ... why am I videogames a land profitable and now I mean why why does it make sense that the companies and sectors like this on a one to India ... to diversify as ... it makes a lot of sense for Micra soft to diversify don't know exactly what Micra soft or any companies thinking but ... to the battle that we've all been talking about is on about these devices the console is the eye pads the ... new tablet computers to smartphones ... it's really not about that it's about the content ... and what's not obvious rate now because this was to rush to flood the market with devices that will probably continue for awhile ... um it's not clear note game companies are becoming something else to becoming content providers ... and chip companies like Nvidia are producing ... as we saw from a Don Clark story of that they're producing ... gaming devices ... um when shore and there's a lot of fertilization going on and what you're seeing is ... today's game company might end up becoming tomorrow's ... a content company or movie forbid provision company ... there is really not obvious how this autumn a shakeout right now it is really seem like things are changing quickly is there any adult one particular person out there who is really doing it better than another or would you say this is really new territory that no one can tell yet ... it's a very good question aam ... I think if you look to uninstall customer base some of the numbers that I'll give you a little the old rate now but tonight you know the last time I wrote about this ... Apple first Opel and its gaming center had two hundred and sixty million people is it with registered active accounts ... Micra soft for its Xbox live had about um ... CI forty ... and dampened Sony for its ... network the PlayStation network at about ninety million ... that's when you look at the US ... what your what you're thinking is why it's a lot of people ... aam but the numbers are growing numbers are are parts going for some companies I think really the race to get the most active customers is what were talking that I'd say ... uneasy you've heard of ... them including a three match and costs you have to toss Google in their email you also talk but Nvidia as a player in the market and Stanley for Tiger moms that as myself will not let the kids have Nvidia gave the final night there and leaving them behind it that thank ... you ... and they just Nintendo but only just now this new console ... that ... has same functionality using provide the same services ... as the regional we did the we you it's called ... on the issue there are interesting Lee is there just aren't that many games yet because the console so new built specifically ... for the we you to take advantage of its new functionality certainly an area that's changing quickly thanks Fran much at and nice bright Asia Digital Editor ... frustrated added Avista dot com I'm Deborah con thanks for watching


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Whether you are looking to snorkel, swim, or just absorb the beautiful sights, Eleuthera is the perfect paradise for any ocean lover. When you plan your trip to Eleuthera, why not make it even more special by choosing a vacation rental instead of a hotel? Whether you are looking for a romantic rental cottage for two or a spacious home for the whole family, there is a huge selection of amazing deals on Eleuthera vacation rentals. Rentals are great for kids because the homelike atmosphere is so comfortable, and you will enjoy all the convenience of having your own home away from home.
Eleuthera is the spot to be for pristine beaches, underwater exploration, and breathtaking sights. Check out Glass Window, a unique geological formation that looks like a window separating bay and ocean. Powell Pointe Dive Center is a great place for diving, fishing, or just laying out in the sun, or thrill seekers can take the plunge at Current Cut where the cut will throw, tumble, and toss them like a roller coaster ride. Hatchet Bay Cave is a mile long cave that can be explored alone or with a guide, and Winding Bay is a perfect family friendly beach for swimming and relaxing. No matter how you decide to spend your days in Eleuthera, you will know you have made the right choice picking a vacation rental instead of a hotel. A rental home is the perfect way to make your accommodations are as unique as your trip itself, and the benefits do not even end there.
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A Vancouver man charged in connection with an alleged terror plot to bomb the B.C. Legislature on Canada Day had previously made YouTube posts claiming, among other things, that Jews killed Jesus.
John Stewart Nuttall, posted in March that "I agree, The Jews killed Jesus, (they are proud of it)."
Nutall, who posted under the name "Ana Nimity," reportedly also said that "Israel attacked the USS Liberty in a false flag op[eration] to try and bring us to war. We are sick of the Jews trying to run our lives and it is about time they fought their own war."
Reacting to reports of Nuttall's postings, Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said, "We are gratified that the RCMP and their partner agencies and police forces across the country are demonstrating such vigilance in protecting Canadians from harm and potential terrorists acts.
"The anti-Semitic comments and postings of the accused, which attempt to advance tired, idiotic stereotypes about Jews, appear to be part of a broader attitude of intolerance and hatred. We have confidence that his comments will be taken into consideration as the Crown moves the case forward."
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NWSB insider C-Mac brings us a Northwest Coaching Profile on past Vancouver Canucks head coach and general manager Pat Quinn. Pat Quinn was one of the hardest workers the league has ever seen in both his playing and administrative roles. He earned the NHL's Jack Adams top coach award twice. He's also probably the second greatest coach in team history.
Northwest Coach Profiles: Pat Quinn
January 28, 2012 By C-Mac
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – 33 home games including the first eight of the season at Dugan Field highlight the 2012 Lipscomb baseball schedule announced this week by head baseball coach Jeff Forehand.
The 55-game slate features six opponents that made the 2011 NCAA Tournament and 30 Atlantic Sun contests. Lipscomb opens the season hosting the inaugural "Mule Mix" classic alongside Belmont and Middle Tennessee State as Evansville, St. Louis and Kansas come to the "Music City" for the round-robin tournament.
"Every year we try to have games at home early against some good schools and I think we've accomplished that again this year," said Forehand.
A three-game set against Kent State, an NCAA participant in 2011, awaits next on the schedule for the Bisons before Lipscomb closes out February and the eight-game homestand against Tennessee Tech.
Lipscomb hits the road for the first time in 2012 on the first weekend of March with a trip to Starkville, Miss., to take on Connecticut, a No. 2 seed in last year's NCAA tourney and Mississippi State at Dudy Noble Field.
"The chance to play UConn twice and Mississippi State twice will be very competitive for us and something I think our guys look forward to in playing in that atmosphere," said Forehand. "It also gets us prepared for the Atlantic Sun."
The Bisons return to Dugan Field after the trip to the "Magnolia State" for three-game sets against San Diego and Siena. The squad then hits the road to South Carolina for a non-conference tilt against Wofford before opening A-Sun play at USC Upstate.
A Tuesday-night home game awaits the Bisons return to Nashville as Austin Peay, who reached the NCAA's after winning the Ohio Valley Conference tournament crown.
"Our midweek games are against the usual suspects around here which everybody knows baseball in these parts are pretty good," said Forehand. "When you sandwich those first weekends in with the teams that we typically play in the middle of the week, it makes for a really good non-conference schedule. "
After the mid-week tilt with the Govs, Lipscomb hosts Mercer to open A-Sun play at home before heading back on the road for contests at UT-Martin and Evansville. ETSU then comes to town to wrap up the month of March.
The Purple and Gold continue home A-Sun play to open April with a series against Kennesaw State and a non-conference battle with UT-Martin. Back-to-back trips to the "Sunshine State" sandwiched with a home midweek contest against Western Kentucky follows, as Lipscomb makes the trek to North Florida and Stetson in consecutive weekends.
The Bisons then make the return trip to Western Kentucky to take on the Hilltoppers before returning home to host Campbell and Florida Gulf Coast at Dugan Field. A midweek contest at Austin Peay hails next before Jacksonville comes to Nashville for the final home games of the campaign.
Lipscomb wraps up 2012 with a midweek contest at Tennessee Tech before ending the regular season at rival Belmont. The 2012 A-Sun Tournament returns to DeLand, Fla., after the 2011 event was held on the Lipscomb campus.


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Diane Hartle, co-author of the study and an associate professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Georgia, says a major catalyst for the study was a desire to investigate the practical health benefit of culinary herbs and spices.
"There's a huge difference in eating a bland diet and eating a high spice or herb diet," she says. "It's a good practice to incorporate herbs—you can take ordinary food and herb it up, make it flavorful, colorful and healthier."
Hartle explains that most Americans consume only about 250 to 500 mg of phenolic compounds a day, most derived from coffee and tea. For type 2 diabetics to experience cinnamon's protection against AGE compounds, 1 to 6 grams a day are recommended (approximately 1/5 to 1 1/5 teaspoons).
Hartle and her colleagues also tested table salt, the most widely used seasoning in the West; it had no effect on the formation of AGE compounds. Black pepper was found to rank at a relatively high phenolic content along with ground oregano, pumpkin pie spice, marjoram and garam masala.
"The substances adding the flavor also happen to carry the health benefits; it just happens that way," Hartle says. "There are major health benefits to be gained by not thinking of herbs and spices as just garnishes, but as medicine on the shelf."
Writer Lauren Flemming lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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After a delay of about one hour due to the Nor'Easter that blanketed the area with snow, the match was rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
MLS vice president Nelson Rodriguez made the decision after watching the grounds crew struggle to clear the field.
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D.C. United coach Ben Olsen wanted to play the game despite the conditions.
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The series opener was supposed to open here last Saturday, but was switched to Washington because of Sandy. The teams played to a 1-1 draw.
With starters Rafa Marquez and Tim Cahill nursing calf injuries, Red Bulls coach Hans Backe wasn't keen on playing a game with snow covering the field.
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Endeca, an information access software company, was recognized for Alfresco Content Management and Collaboration Implementation of the Year. Endeca faced the challenge of creating an interactive online community for its employees, customers and partners. This challenge was solved by partnering with Optaros to create and build the Endeca Developer Network (EDeN) portal - the key online community destination for its developer network - which used Alfresco software to combine technical documents, best practices, tools and utilities, code samples, case studies and other information.
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International Partner of the Year
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North American Partner of the Year
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European Contributor of the Year
Alfresco partner Atol Conseils et Développement, a French company that develops solutions for collaborative work and content management, won for its contribution of Category Navigation, which will be integrated into the Alfresco Enterprise core going forward. Atol CD has shown unwavering support through numerous contributions and improvements to the Alfresco core.
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The Alfresco Content Excellence Awards will be presented to the winners at the Alfresco Community Conferences in San Jose, CA (March 12) and Barcelona, Spain (April 22).