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Boss Vanessa Videl Makes Him Earn It
Duration: 24m, 18s, Starring Vanessa Videl, Sledge Hammer
Stern boss Vanessa Videl rips into her employee for his poor performance at work. She decides he needs to earn his keep, so she spreads her legs so he can watch her masturbate before she makes him eat out her wet pussy. She makes him undress so she can suck his black cock, and he lays her back on the desk to fuck her missionary. She sit son his huge dick to ride it cowgirl, and she gets on all fours on the floor to take it doggy style. She finally lets him give her a sloppy facial before they both get back to work.
Boss Delorosa Makes Him Earn His Job
Duration: 17m, 54s, Starring Delorosa, Dino Bravo
A fired employee arrives at his bosses house to beg for his job back. She's angry to see him, but he begs her and says he'll do anything. She decides to take him up on his offer, and she makes him lick her feet and suck on his toes before tugging her panties aside so he can eat out her wet pussy. She sucks his cock to make him nice and hard before he fucks her missionary. She rides his dick cowgirl, and she bends over so he can pound her doggy style. After he's satisfied her with multiple orgasms, she finally takes his cum all over her face.
Cheyenne Hunter Fucks Her Brother-In-Law
Duration: 15m, 57s, Starring Cheyenne Hunter, Adam Wood
A balding nebbish lays in bed and masturbates when he's caught by his brother's wife. She's disgusted by his actions, and she decides to punish her husband for letting him live with them by sucking his hard cock. She hikes her skirt up and sits on his face so he can eat out her wet pussy, and they 69 before she sits on his dick to ride it cowgirl. He fucks her while spooning her, and she gets on her hands and knees to take it doggy style. He finally jerks his load into her open mouth, and she swallows his hot cum.
Kelly Leigh Takes A Load From Rod Fontana
Duration: 18m, 14s, Starring Kelly Leigh, Rod Fontana
Sexy and submissive blonde Kelly Leigh is told to get on her knees by her stern lover. He strips and makes her kiss his shoe and suck his hard cock, and he has her take her dress off before she continues blowing him. She lays back and spreads her legs wide so he can fuck her missionary, and she bends over the couch to get pounded doggy style. She sits on his dick to ride it reverse cowgirl, and he plows her tight pussy until he jerks his load all over her pretty feet and makes her lick them clean.
MILF Syren De Mer Is An Anal Whore
Duration: 17m, 29s, Starring Syren De Mer, Trent Soluri
A younger dude arrives to pick up his buddy for their baseball game. But his buddy isn't home, so MILF Syren De Mer is willing to keep him busy. She removes her pink satin robe as he gapes, and she gets him over his initial nervousness by kneeling in front of him to suck his hard cock. She steps out of her panties and sits on his dick to ride him cowgirl, and he slides his dick up her ass to fuck it while spooning her. He pounds her butt hole doggy style, and he finally jerks his load into her open mouth before she swallows his cum.
Busty Blonde Rachel Love Milks Him Dry
Duration: 24m, 49s, Starring Rachel Love
Busty blonde MILF Rachel Love teases the camera by slowly stripping out of her skimpy outfit. She frees her large natural tits from her corset and slides her black panties off before sitting back on the couch and spreading her legs to masturbate. She's joined by a lucky man, and she undoes his jeans to suck his hard cock. She gets on her hands and knees to get fucked doggy style, and she sits on his dick to ride it reverse cowgirl. She girnds her bald pussy on his rod until he finally blasts his cum deep in her tight twat.
Kendra Secrets Takes His Cum In Her Twat
Duration: 13m, 52s, Starring Kendra Secrets, Sienna West, Mario Cassini, Will Steiger
Busty brunette Kendra Secrets lays naked on the couch while a horny man sucks on her huge tits. He throws her leg over his shoulder and slides his hard cock into her bald pussy to fuck her missionary. She rubs her erect clit as he pounds her, and he lays beside her to ream her twat while spooning her. She gets on her hands and knees, and he eats her out from behind before taking her doggy style. He thrusts his dick in and out of her tight snatch until he shoots his hot cum deep inside of her, and she pushes the cream pie out with a smile on her face.
Mikela Kennedy Loves Anal And A.T.M.
Duration: 15m, 15s, Starring Mikela Kennedy, Totally Tabitha, James Bonn
Busty blonde MILF Mikela Kennedy smiles as she drops to her knees to suck a throbbing hard cock. He holds her hair back as she bobs on his knob, and she gets on her hands and knees to take it up her tight ass doggy style. She gives him ass to mouth, and he lays beside her on the couch to plow her butt hole while spooning her. She moans in pleasure and talks dirty to him as he reams her asshole, and she again drops to all fours so he can fill in her ass until he finally shoots his hot cum deep inside of it.
Roxy Blaze Gets An Internal Cumshot
Duration: 10m, 35s, Starring Roxy Blaze, Steven French
Busty blonde MILF Roxy Blaze is naked and on her knees sucking a huge dick. She looks into the camera as she takes as much of that cock into her wet mouth as she can, and she lowers her bald pussy onto that rod to ride it cowgirl. He lays her back to fuck her missionary, and she bends over the couch so he can pound her doggy style. She blows him again to taste her own pussy juices, and she lays back and puts her legs over his shoulders so he can ream that cunt until he finally gives her a messy cream pie.
Duration: 13m, 43s, Starring Liz Summers, James Bonn
Blonde MILF Liz Summers craves some younger cock, and she wastes no time climbing astride a lucky dude on the couch. She bounces on his dick cowgirl, and he picks her up the fuck her standing missionary. He lays her back and pushes her legs back to ream that wet pussy, and she sucks his rod to taste her own juices on it. She gets on her hands and knees so he can plow her doggy style, and he pistons his huge schlong in and out of her tight twat until he finally shoots his hot load deep inside of it, and she pushes out the messy cream pie for the camera.


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Today I installed Fedora 15 in a VBox VM to try out Gnome 3. After installing the guest extensions almost everything works fine. Except for the slow response time in fullscreen mode (HOST+F).
By that I mean textareas responding only after I've typed whole words, window dragging won't register etc.
However in maximized window mode everything runs smoothly.
Anyone have a similar experience? What can I do?
VirtualBox guest settings are as following.
- 1 CPU core (no limitations, 2,2Ghz host)
- 128 MB video memory
- 3d accel enabled
- 2d accel disabled (it says this is only for windows guests)
- rest is defaults
I also have a graphics card that uses nvidia's optimus technology but I doubt that this is the problem.
Host OS is Windows 7 Professional

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Counseling Services
New Student Counseling Services (NSCD)
Academic Counseling
Individual counseling is available by appointment throughout the semester at the Downtown Campus. Counseling services include educational planning, transcript evaluations, career counseling and short-term personal counseling. Appointments can be made by calling the New Student Counseling Department at 415-267-6555.
Career Counseling
Career development workshops and classes are offered at the Downtown Campus. Individual career counseling is available by appointment throughout the semester. For more career counseling information, call us at 267-6555.
The counseling staff at the Downtown Campus are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender sensitive counselors.
Students are required to reserve a seat at the Downtown Campus for testing. Please call (415) 267-6543 for more information.
Financial Aid Counseling Services
It is the goal of City College of San Francisco to keep the doors open to all students no matter what their economic background. We feel it is imperative that we help students find funding avenues to meet the college costs. Please visit the CCSF Financial Aid website for detailed information on applying.
Disabled Students Program & Services (DSPS)
If you are a student with a disability, your involvement with the Disabled Student Programs and Services (DSPS) can be thought of as a partnership between you and the Disabled Students Programs and Services staff. The DSPS staff consists of faculty members, counselors, disability specialists, technology and media specialists, instructional assistants, interpreters, and office staff. They are people you can work with to plan support services that will help you move toward your goals.
Our counselors have specific expertise in disabilities, including disability entitlements. These entitlements include accommodations, which are designed to give students an equal opportunity in the college setting (e.g., extended time for tests, a quiet testing environment, Braille, or electronic text).
After verifying a student's disability, the counselor will recommend appropriate accommodations. Counselors also help students identify their academic and career goals and develop necessary coping strategies. Besides English, counseling is provided in Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
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For more information, please contact the Downtown Campus DSPS Counselor at:
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The Family Filmgoer
A pretty hilarious off-the-wall crime comedy
"HIT & RUN," Rated R — Action comedy fans among college-age filmgoers will appreciate the crazy, offbeat nature of "Hit & Run." However, the strong profanity, crude sexual language and weird instance of nudity in the film definitely land it in 17-and-older territory. Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard, who wrote the screenplay and co-directed with David Palmer) is living a lie. His idyllic rural life in Southern California with his beloved Annie (Kristen Bell) doesn't include telling her that he has a past and that it's catching up with him. Annie, an academic, has a chance to teach at a big university in Los Angeles. Charlie promises to go there with her. What he fails to mention is that he's in the witness protection program and that moving to L.A. will make him a target. As soon as they set off in his vintage Lincoln Continental, things go crazy. Randy (Tom Arnold), the semi-competent federal marshal charged with protecting Charlie, tries to stop him, but he keeps crashing his car and knocking himself out. Annie's jealous ex (Michael Rosenbaum) gets word to Charlie's former criminal cohorts, who are out of prison. They are led by the volatile Alex Demitri (Bradley Cooper, barely recognizable in dreadlocks), intent on revenge. For some reason this movie is a total hoot.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The script includes strong profanity, crudely explicit sexual language, and homophobic slurs. A group of elderly people about to have a sex party in a motel are seen totally nude. The mayhem includes crazy car chases, a couple of bloody fist fights, gunplay and threats.
Robert Pattinson earns his adult acting chops in this pretentious cautionary tale of our time
"COSMOPOLIS," Rated R, Limited Release — Philosophically inclined film fanciers 17 and older may find much profundity in "Cosomopolis," adapted by director David Cronenberg from a novel by Don DeLillo. This fable about the downfall of a 28-year-old billionaire as society crumbles around him includes highly explicit sexual situations and nudity that make it problematic even for high-school seniors. And, anyway, the irritatingly enigmatic dialogue, which may work great in a literary novel but not so well on film, would likely put them off. Robert Pattinson, vampire heartthrob from the "Twilight Saga" films, moves easily from that PG-13 netherworld into an R-rated land of gaseous cinematic pretension. As emotionally dead billionaire Eric Packer, he spends most of the film in a huge stretch limo, trying to get across gnarled Manhattan streets to his barber. Along the way, rioters fling dead rats, symbolic of the elite 1 percent to which Eric belongs. They deface his limo and set fires (there's an implied, nongraphic self-immolation) to make their point. Eric has explicit, very talky sexual encounters with brainy women, except for his new wife (Sarah Gadon), who seems to despise him. He coolly commits a murder. He knows that his empire is collapsing and that he's under threat of assassination himself.
THE BOTTOM LINE: In addition to explicitly mimed sexual situations and nudity, the film includes graphic gun violence and stabbings. Characters drink and smoke and use some profanity.
Sylvester Stallone and his growing gang of past middle-age action heroes blow up more stuff
"THE EXPENDABLES 2," Rated R — There ought to be enough heavy gunfire, explosions and macho banter in this sequel (to "The Expendables," R, 2010) to satisfy action movie aficionados 16 and older, despite the advanced median age of the cast. The mayhem involves enough spattered blood (though it has a fake, post-production look to it) to earn an R and make the film problematic for under-16s and surely not for middle-schoolers. Sylvester Stallone returns as special-ops mercenary Barney Ross. In a prologue, he and his team, including Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and Toll Road (Randy Couture) rescue old compadre Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from captivity and torture in Nepal. After that, Barney's antagonistic CIA contact, Church (Bruce Willis), sends him on a mission to retrieve stolen weapons-grade plutonium from a villain named Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme, great as a bad guy) in an old Soviet-era mine. When Vilain hurts the team's youngest member Bill The Kid (Liam Hemsworth), it gets personal. Ross and the guys pretend to be cold mercenaries, but they can't help saving women and children and whole villages along the way. Oh, and Chuck Norris makes an appearance as a one-time cohort. The movie is silly and jingoistic and it stereotypes other cultures, but it is mostly just bombastic fun.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The action features multiple gun battles and explosions, as well as martial arts combat and fights, with and without brass knuckles and chains. The blood flies as bullets hit and knives sink in, but the gore really isn't graphic for an R-rated film. Characters use occasional profanity, and there is mild sexual innuendo.


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Red Tarns Track
A viewpoint offers a spectacular panorama of the valley and Aoraki/Mount Cook.
Time: 2 hours
Type: Walking Track
Follow the path to Black Birch Stream. Cross the bridge then climb steeply to the Red Tarns. A viewpoint offers a spectacular panorama of the valley and Aoraki/Mount Cook. The tarns were named from the red pond weed that grows in them.
The park is alive with the most wonderful alpine plants. In summer look for the striking Mount Cook buttercup, the large mountain daisies and watch out for the fearsome wild spaniard or spear grass! The braided riverbed of the Tasman is home to the kakī/black stilt, one of New Zealand's rarest birds.
What to expect on a walking track:
• Easy to moderate walking from a few minutes to a day
• Track is mostly well formed, some sections may be steep, rough or muddy
• Suitable for people with low to moderate fitness and abilities
• Clearly sign posted. Stream and river crossings are bridged
• Walking shoes or light tramping/hiking boots required


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LVD, Pullmax Combine Key Operations
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Belgium's LVD Company and Sweden's Pullmax AB have entered into an agreement to combine sales, service, production and research-and-development efforts, while maintaining their independent corporate identities. Among the agreement's terms: LVD will manufacture Pullmax punching machines, and Pullmax will represent LVD's laser-cutting, punching, bending and shearing equipment, as well as its software and mid-range automation products.
See also: LVD-Strippit, Inc., Pull-X Machines, Inc.
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Team Maggie Update Day 28
It's MOVING DAY!!!! Goodbye Inpatient Maggie... Hello Outpatient Maggie!!!!!
From Mom Lauren last night (Tuesday August 20th)
This mama is exhausted tonight so just a quick update! Maggie had a good day! It was very tiring for me as I tried to move a lot of stuff into the Neely house. I got a lot done but still have so much to bring over tomorrow. Amazing how much one accumulates after 6 weeks in the hospital! I also made a trip to CVS to get a few food items for us to start with. That was a work out carrying all the bags back by hand..ha.
The plan is still for us to be discharged tomorrow (Wednesday August 21st). A home nurse came today and gave me a TPN tutorial. Another nurse will be at the Neely house tomorrow night to help me. I am overwhelmed with all the meds and such that I will be responsible for. It's been so nice to have nurses here to help..now it's all on me! Plus I have to get back into the cooking and cleaning routine and be Maggie's mom and nurse! It's going to be an adjustment but one I know we can handle.
Looks like Maggie will have her first outpatient clinic visit Friday.


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Working together is quite a trip
In his song "Citizenship," Dave Kinnoin sings, "Working together is quite a trip / It's fun and meaningful and totally hip."
We totally agree.
You may know Dave, our favorite singer-songwriter, for his award-winning CD CHARACTER COUNTS! Strikes a Chord and the National CC! Week anthem. On Sunday, he was featured in the South Pasadena Patch for his dedication to volunteer work.
When he's not making music, Dave uses his other skills to practice caring and citizenship. With the One Small House organization, he makes tables and helps build houses for impoverished families in Mexico. He works with at-risk and special needs kids through the Jeffrey Foundation, and his company Song Wizard Records helped fund a comic book by The Kids of Widney High, a music group made up of developmentally disabled adults. Kinnoin also makes and serves the occasional meatloaf at the Ronald McDonald House.
Even when he's making music, Dave does so to serve others, contributing songs to the "Comfort for Court Kds" program, and writing and recording personalized songs for seriously ill children through the Songs of Love Foundation.
Dave also spoke to the Patch about his work with the Josephson Institute and CHARACTER COUNTS!. He said, "I'm not going to live forever… I want to leave knowing that I did something to make things better."
He's definitely done that, and we hope he keeps making things better for a long time to come.
* Read the story about Dave in the South Pasadena Patch.
* Check out Dave's 2010 Parent's Choice Award-winning CD CHARACTER COUNTS! Strikes a Chord.
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hi Tony Whitfield here
Dave has been a part of my world
a long time also i am part of the kids of widney high i co wrote the comic book Beyond The Sky's The Limit!!!!!!!!
Please go to http://www.kidsofwidneyhigh.com to find out more about our band and comic book!!!!!!!!!!
i thank you
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With most of the major categories dominated by R-rated films, this year's Oscars might not hold a lot of interest for families.
"Jonah Hill has more acting Oscar nominations than Robert Redford," points out The Daily Beast's Kevin Fallon in his article "10 Facts about the 2014 Oscar Nominations That Will Make You Sad." Another one, according to Fallon: "Six of the nine Best Picture nominees are rated R. The rest are PG-13. This is sad if you're not an adult. Or have a family. Or are even slightly wholesome." The biggest night of the year in Hollywood - a night when the stars gather to celebrate the greatest achievements in the world of cinema - is one that, unfortunately, might not hold a lot of interest for family audiences, who have frequently been left out in the cold when it comes to the major categories at the Oscars. Especially in recent years, the Academy Awards have tended to favor the more "serious" subject matter that seems to be almost the exclusive domain of R-rated movies nowadays. Out of the last 30 Best Picture winners, exactly two in three - the same ratio as this year's nominees - have been rated R. Of the rest, only two were rated PG, and not a single one was rated G. In fact, pooling all 170 nominations in the Best Picture category since 1983, there have been only three G-rated nominees total, and two of them were animated. Which is all to say that, for families, the Oscars can feel a little bit like watching a stranger unwrap Christmas presents: It may be fun enough while it lasts, but it's hard to feel overly invested in the results. Not only does this year not deviate from the trend, it's also one of the more "restricted" years in recent memory. Most of the categories are overwhelmingly dominated by R-rated material, including the four acting categories, only two of which even feature performances from PG-13 movies (Best Actress for Judi Dench in "Philomena" and Sandra Bullock in "Gravity," and Best Supporting Actor for Barkhad Abdi in "Captain Phillips"). Of course, not all R ratings are created equal. The rest of the films run the gamut in terms of content and subject matter. The R rating for "12 Years a Slave," for "violence/cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality," for instance, is certainly different from that of "The Wolf of Wall Street," which includes Quaalude-and-cocaine binges, graphic sexual content and, according to a tally by Slate's Forrest Wickman, a record-breaking 544 F-bombs - 541 more than the minimum to automatically earn it an R. (Other websites quote slightly different numbers; all are pretty mind-boggling.) While the latter film has been widely criticized for glorifying the greed and debauchery it supposedly seeks to indict - and possibly helping to further line the pockets of the real-life Jordan Belfort, according to Indiewire - Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" earns what some might consider a responsible R rating for realistically portraying the atrocities of antebellum America. Although not completely accurate to every detail of Solomon Northup's autobiographical account of his time as a slave, it has been praised for its accuracy to the slave experience as a whole. As film critic Susan Wloszczyna wrote in her review of the film, watching it will make viewers feel "that they have actually witnessed American slavery in all its appalling horror for the very first time." The fact that there are only three PG-13 movies in the running for Best Picture makes a film such as "Gravity" - thought to be a serious contender by most Oscar prognosticators - all the more special. For one thing, it's arguably the most appropriate of the bunch for a broader audience (provided one's family members aren't afraid of dying alone in space). It's also remarkable for being one of the few real box-office hits of this year's Oscar season, having raked in more than $700 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo, which means people actually saw it. And with its emphasis on visuals over dialogue to tell its story, it is closest to what many term "pure cinema." Meanwhile, two of the year's underdogs in the Best Picture category, "Philomena" and "Captain Phillips," actually stand pretty good chances with nominations in the acting categories. For Dench, this marks her seventh Oscar nomination (all since the age of 63). For Abdi, "Phillips" was his first movie ever. Beyond the three PG-13 Best Picture nominees, however, there are still a few categories that might hold families' interest. Best Original Song will see "Let It Go" duke it out with Pharrell Williams' "Happy" from "Despicable Me 2," and a number of popular films such as "Iron Man 3" and "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" are up for technical awards. But if there is one reason for families to tune in to this year's Oscars, it's the Best Animated Feature category, which seems poised to wind up in one of two historic ways: If "Frozen" wins, it will mark Disney Animation Studios' first ever award in the category, and what could be more appropriate than an animated fairy tale originally considered for adaptation by Walt Disney himself? The other possibility is that the award will serve as a farewell of sorts to legendary filmmaker and master storyteller Hayao Miyazaki ("My Neighbor Totoro," "Spirited Away"), who directed his final feature with this year's nominee "The Wind Rises." Or possibility number three: "The Croods" wins, and a sinkhole opens up and swallows the Dolby Theatre just to reiterate that anything can happen on Oscar night. The good news is that the Academy Awards' 86-year history is full of family-friendly options worth revisiting. So even if this year's nominees skew toward stronger content than most people would prefer, it's still possible to enjoy Oscar night. Just pop some popcorn and watch an old classic on Netflix or Amazon. The 86th Academy Awards ceremony will be broadcast March 2 on ABC at 6:30 p.m. Mountain time.%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D149519%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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Landing Pages for PPC Campaigns
With a PPC marketing campaign, content or web design changes are not necessary. Although
in order to create really effective Pay Per Click advertising, you might want to
make some changes. In fact, a site is not even really needed. A landing page that answers the searcher's query and points them in the right direction for more information is all that is really required.
Compelling content that gives visitors what they are looking for and converts them into buyers or leads is what you really need.
Your Pay Per Click Marketing Campaign landing pages should load fast. This means you shouldn't clutter them with heavy images and unnecessary information. Don't let your visitors wait too long because they are likely to get frustrated and go somewhere else. And all this after you paid for them to visit your site.
Create Compelling Content
For the most part, visitors tend to scan websites, looking for the information or offer
they saw in your PPC ad. It's best to leave out extraneous content that does not fit into your ad's objectives. A cluttered website can be confusing, so it's important to organize relevant information in a clear and concise format. Use a clear and compelling call to action to lead
your visitor to your offer.
Use Easy to Follow Navigation
Make it easy for your visitors to find what they are looking for. They are there to accomplish a task, be entertained, learn something or take advantage of an offer. Make it easy for them to do what they and you want them to do. A user-friendly website is an efficient website that maximizes productivity and minimizes frustrations. It values the visitor providing them with a positive & rewarding experience.
Follow Some Simple Usability Rules
Consider what your visitors experience might be after they click on your pay per click advertisement. For example, if your target market is baby boomers or senior citizens, they most likely will have difficulty reading smaller text, so create landing pages with larger, easy to read fonts. If your demographic targets are mostly women, use language that appeals to women.
Be sure your page loads quickly. And always include a compelling and prominent call to action.
Track Conversions from Pay Per Click
If your website is not a product driven e-commerce site, you might also consider using a short form for your visitors to fill out requesting more information or to obtain a free product or sample. You can then use this form to track conversions at least at the PPC marketing level. If it is product driven, and they can purchase directly from your site, be sure to put some form of metrics in place for tracking conversions.
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A Quantum Dot Molecule Λ-System Coupled to a Photonic Crystal Cavity. Nature Communications.. 2015.
Cavity-Stimulated Raman Emission from a Single Quantum Dot Spin. Nature Photonics. 8. 2014.
Leveraging crystal anisotropy for deterministic growth of InAs quantum dots with narrow optical linewidths. Nano Letters. 13(10):4870-4875. nl402744s.pdf (3.82 MB). 2013.
Quantum control of a spin qubit coupled to a photonic crystal cavity. Nature Photonics. 7(4) Carter PhC qubit.pdf (992.15 KB). 2013.
Controlling the nuclear polarization in quantum dots using optical pulse shape. Physical Review B. 83 10-1226-4261.pdf (571.62 KB). 2011.
Optical control of one and two hole spins in interacting quantum dots. Nature Photonics. 5(11):703-709. 11-1226-3607.pdf (247.3 KB). 2011.
Electronic spin polarization and detection in InAs quantum dots through p-shell trions. Physical Review B. 81 09-1226-3623.pdf (273.53 KB). 2010.
Ultrafast optical control of entanglement between two quantum dot spins. Nature Physics. 7:223-229. 10-1226-4276.pdf (436.28 KB). 2010.
Directing Nuclear Spin Flips in InAs Quantum Dots Using Detuned Optical Pulse Trains. Physical Review Letters. 102 09-1226-0054.pdf (414.14 KB). 2009.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The late Apple chief Steve Jobs, before he died, swore to destroy Google Inc.'s Android operating system, calling it a "stolen product" and promising to spend every last penny that Apple has to bring it to the ground.
We've all heard the story. It's become a sort of legend in the tech world, an ongoing epic narrative that will split Earth and heaven asunder like Ragnarok.
Since the story was made public in October 2011 in Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, investors and tech geeks alike have kept an especially close eye on products that both companies appear to be developing concurrently, and right now that means television. In an interview with Brian Williams, Apple's AAPL, -4.62% current Chief Executive Tim Cook hinted strongly that Apple plans to redefine the television, sparking widespread speculation that the company would replace its current set-top
box, Apple TV, with a full television set.
Read Apple Insider post on Tim Cook and Apple TV.
Read Minyanville's "Apple vs. Samsung and/or Google: Which of These Brands is Past Its Prime?"
This comes on the heels of news that Google's GOOG, -3.21% competing system, Google TV, has pretty much flopped due to a combination of factors: lack of development, low consumer interest, and a failure to get big content providers like Fox and Hulu on board from the get-go. (Fox and MarketWatch are both owned by News Corp.) Google's been far more concerned with its position in the smartphone wars than it has been with its televisions or set-top boxes, and the product has suffered accordingly.
One thing that separates Apple from its competitors has always been its incredible focus. Once the company introduces a product, it develops the absolute pants off it; just look at what Apple designers have done with the all-in-one desktop or the portable MP3 player. This should make Apple fanboys and girls optimistic that their corporate sweetheart might succeed where Google appears to have failed.
Read Minyanville's "Analyst Says Nintendo's Wii U Will Sell Out Through March, but May Falter Afterward."
There are several caveats, however.
The first is price; one of the main problems that people who aren't already on the Apple bandwagon have with the company is that its products are often prohibitively expensive, and Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes that Apple's set would run between $1,500 and $2,000. If Tim Cook wants to change the way we all think about television, he should probably focus on not making us choose between an Apple TV set and, y'know, rent.
Another hurdle for Cook to jump is consumer interest. While the Apple head may claim that TV as we know it is antiquated, the way we watch TV has evolved in a fairly linear way since the medium began: First we added remote control, then cable and satellite, then digital TV and DVR. Each of these developments — adding channels, streamlining processes, allowing greater freedom of choice — has been built into the existing framework of television. The system is so ingrained in people's minds that changing it could simply be a non-starter.
Read Minyanville's "How the Fed's Easy Monetary Policy Will Impact Economic Activity, Asset Prices in 2013."
One factor Apple may not have to deal with is competition. What company has the resources or the operating system framework in place to create a similar product? Unless Google reboots the Google TV project, Apple may be the only company that can create both the hardware and the operating system for such a device.
One possibility is that Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -3.19% might enter the television game if Apple does, but it would have to completely redesign its old Microsoft TV systems. In Steve Jobs's never-ending, Beowulf-like quest to destroy Google, Apple may just have a win on its hands.
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Indeed, knowledge about the mechanisms of allergen immunotherapy and its relationship to the dendritic cell remains incomplete. Collaborator and former mentor John Schroeder first demonstrated that dendritic cell Toll Like Receptor (TLR) mediated immune function is impaired in allergic individuals and that this impairment is counter-regulated by allergic IgE receptor signals. Intrigued by these findings, Dr. Tversky began to work with Schroeder's group to demonstrate that this impaired TLR mediated immune function could be reversed using allergen immunotherapy. However, the mechanism by which this occurs is not known.
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President Barack Obama's penchant for diplomacy and soft power is being tested by the burgeoning crisis in Ukraine, as he seeks to punish Russia for annexing Crimea while preventing a larger conflict should Moscow continue encroaching on its neighbors.
Lengthy phone calls between Obama and Vladimir Putin failed to convince the Russian president to back off, despite Obama's efforts to improve U.S.-Russia relations. Secretary of State John Kerry's last-minute marathon talks with his Russian counterpart also got the U.S. no further.
An initial round of sanctions that targeted Russian government officials were mocked in Moscow, and the administration moved Thursday to expand them _ even as Obama insisted Thursday that there was a less confrontational option.
"Diplomacy between the United States and Russia continues," Obama said from the South Lawn of the White House. "We've emphasized that Russia still has a different path available _ one that de-escalates the situation, and one that involves Russia pursuing a diplomatic solution with the government in Kiev, with the support of the international community."
Critics, as well as some foreign policy analysts, say Obama's initial response to Russia needed to be more muscular, not the nuanced approach the president has often preferred in international affairs since he took office in 2009 vowing to wind down a decade of war.
"My concern with the Obama approach is it's very incremental, very measured," Barry Pavel, a former National Security Council staffer for both President George W. Bush and Obama, said prior to the Thursday announcement of additional restrictions on Moscow. "He's not been good at wielding negative tools. He's better at wielding positive tools."
Pavel, now vice president of the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy think tank, and director of its Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, pointed to the 3-year-old conflict in Syria, where Obama has been reluctant to intervene. Obama has insisted that Syrian President Bashar Assad must go, Pavel said, "but never gave Assad a single negative incentive, never took a single negative action."
Similarly, the initial sanctions against Russia, Pavel said, were limited enough that he feared Putin "must be thinking, 'Wow, they really are as wimpy as I thought they were.' I would have taken sanctions and cranked them up to the point where they immediately cause Putin and his core accomplices to feel enormous economic and other pain."
The White House all week threatened to escalate the sanctions. The naming of influential Russians in Putin's inner circle Thursday suggests a marked ratcheting-up in Obama's willingness to take a "proactive and indeed forceful line," said Michael Geary, a European studies fellow at the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan global policy institution.
"You can see an interesting contrast between mentioning red lines with Syria and the piecemeal approach he's adopting now with Russia," Geary said of Obama. "Step by step, (he's) slowly squeezing some very influential Russians."
Obama, who campaigned against Bush's launching of the war in Iraq a decade ago, has been criticized for taking too long to make up his mind on foreign policy threats, including the Syrian civil war. But some analysts say the former law school professor's deliberations may be more appropriate to the moment.
"He's got to be careful and determined and not over-promise that he can put Humpty Dumpty back together again," said Andrew Weiss, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research on Russia in Washington and Moscow. "There's a sense we're hostage to provocations, and small-scale actors could trigger further worsening of this crisis, and that's a place no president wants to be."
Obama's biggest hurdle is not of his making, Weiss said. Given the amount of trade it does with Russia, Europe has been reluctant to embrace sanctions against Russia that would bite too deeply, he said.
"The Europeans have $400 billion or more at stake," Weiss said. "These are not nickel-and-dime issues. They go to the heart of their economic prosperity."
That makes it important for the U.S. to proceed in a careful way so it doesn't expose differences and a lack of unity about how to respond, Weiss said.
Obama, who leaves this weekend for a trip to Europe likely to be dominated by worries about Ukraine, has invited the leaders of the G-7 nations _ called the G-8 when the group includes Russia _ to meet on the sidelines of a previously arranged meeting on nuclear security at the Hague.
That meeting could help stiffen European resolve to come down harder on Russia.
"I don't want to suggest there any magic bullets, but I also think we shouldn't minimize the importance of these meetings," said Lee Feinstein, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, a nonprofit group that support trans-Atlantic cooperation. He is also a former U.S. ambassador to Poland and foreign policy adviser to the Obama administration.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has said that the administration's stance on Syria emboldened Putin, has called on Obama to send military aid to the Ukrainian government, as it has requested.
Obama flatly ruled out military intervention in Ukraine in a television interview this week, saying that for the U.S. to engage Russia militarily "would not be appropriate and wouldn't be good for Ukraine, either."
That's largely in line with public opinion. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that Americans were opposed to U.S. involvement in Ukraine by nearly 2-to-1.
The national survey, conducted March 6-9, found more than half _ 56 percent _ did not want the U.S. to get "too involved" in Ukraine. Twenty-nine percent wanted the U.S. to take a "firm stand," but most of that group said the U.S. should consider only political and economic options.
The poll also found more people disapprove_ 44 percent _ than approve _ 30 percent _ of the way the administration is handling the situation. More than a quarter _ 26 percent _ had no opinion.
Obama is open to criticism "mainly because there's so little he can do in Crimea on the ground that his response invariably looks not aggressive enough to Republicans," said William Pomeranz, deputy director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.
U.S. officials are certainly trying to map out the "practical question of how does one support Ukraine without provoking Russia to expand" and invade more territory, he said.
"They're moving in increments in response to what Russia is doing, but President Obama also has the responsibility of making sure that this doesn't escalate into a bigger war," Pomeranz said, "and no other politician has that responsibility to consider when they're making recommendations."


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to cite two White House aides -- one current, one former -- for contempt of Congress, another step toward a constitutional showdown between the Democratic-controlled Congress and the Bush administration.
Former White House counsel Harriet Miers refused to appear at a Senate hearing on July 12.
The committee voted 22-17 along party lines to approve a report calling for contempt citations against former White House counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten for failing to comply with subpoenas issued in the investigation into the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year.
The panel's decision now goes to the House floor for a vote.
The full House is unlikely to take up the issue before the August recess, a Democratic leadership aide told CNN.
"This is not a step that as chairman I take easily or lightly, but it is one I believe necessary -- not only to allow us to gain an accurate picture but to protect our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government," said committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Michigan, at the start of the meeting.
White House spokesman Tony Snow called the contempt citations "pathetic" and said the citations are "not likely to go anywhere." He said the Democratic leaders of Congress have been pursuing a "fishing expedition" over the firings that has turned up nothing. Watch the White House reaction to the citations »
"What you have right now is partisanship on Capitol Hill that quite often boils down to insults, insinuations, inquisitions and investigations rather than pursuing the normal business of trying to pass major pieces of legislation, such as appropriations bills," Snow said.
The citations were requested in response to Miers' and Bolten's failure to comply with subpoenas issued by the committee for documents and testimony, including Miers' refusal even to appear at her scheduled July 12 hearing.
White House counsel Fred Fielding alerted the committee on June 28 that the White House would not provide the documents as required by the subpoena, asserting President Bush's executive privilege.
"The investigation did not begin with the White House but has ended up there only after a review of thousands of pages of documents and obtaining the testimony and interviews of 20 current and former Department of Justice employees," Conyers said.
"We have been open at all times to reasonable compromise and have been fully respectful and cognizant of the prerogatives of the executive branch."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she hopes "the seriousness of the charges and the actions taken by the committee will lead the administration to negotiate on how they will release the information to the Congress of the United States, which they have a constitutional responsibility to do."
Republicans argued that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bush administration, and that if the committee wanted the truth, it should take up an offer by Fielding to have White House officials be interviewed in private.
"How can the majority say they want answers and then pass up the opportunity to get those answers?" asked Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the committee.
Democrats countered that under Fielding's proposal, the officials would not be under oath and there would be no transcript.
"What I am not open to is accepting a take-it-or-leave-it offer which would not allow us access to the information we need, would not even provide for a transcript and would prevent us from seeking additional information in the future," Conyers said.
Some Republican committee members expressed fears that moving ahead on a contempt citation in the U.S. attorneys' investigation would weaken Congress' position in future confrontations.
"Some may argue that the stakes in this confrontation are so high we can't afford the risk that we might lose," Conyers said.
"And I would say to them that if we countenance a process where our subpoenas can be readily ignored, where a witness under a duly authorized subpoena doesn't even have to bother to show up, where privilege can be asserted on the thinnest basis and in the broadest possible manner, then we've already lost. We won't be able to get anybody in front of this committee or any other."
Smith said the proposal that Bush is asserting something improper is a "myth" and that the committee sentiment would be different if there were a Democratic president.
"The majority knows that it would leap to the barricades of executive privilege if a Democrat were in the White House, just as it did when the Clintons were there, bobbing and weaving in Whitewater, around Paula Jones and away from Monica Lewinsky -- trying to sweep it all under the rug," Smith argued.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, said that instead of the contempt citations, the committee should direct the House clerk to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, exclusively on the executive privilege claim.
"That would be a chance to resolve a dispute between two equal branches of government," he added.
But Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, said, "There is no precedent for not even showing up" to testify. "If we don't challenge it, it will most definitely affect our ability to get information in the future. It will legitimize this refusal, this contemptuous refusal, to even appear."
If the full House approves the contempt citations, the Justice Department -- which is at the center of the controversy -- will make the decision about whether to pursue the citations, Snow said.
The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia would have to present the citations to a federal judge in District Court.
However, the Justice Department on Monday sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee saying that it will not present the citations to the court even if the House votes for them.
Brian A. Benczkowski, principal deputy assistant attorney general, said the department's position was "that the criminal contempt of Congress statute does not apply to the president or presidential subordinates who assert executive privilege."
The Bush administration has insisted that the prosecutors' firings were handled properly, but some critics have alleged the attorneys were forced out for political motives and, in one case, to allow a protege of White House political guru Karl Rove to take one of the posts.
The controversy has led to the resignations of at least three top Justice Department officials and triggered widespread criticism of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who repeatedly told a Senate committee in April that he did not recall details of the firings. E-mail to a friend
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The House voted 223 to 193 yesterday to block the Bush administration's sweeping new eligibility rules for overtime pay, giving Democrats a significant victory that they hope will boost the party's standing among middle-class voters in key battleground states in the fall election.
Twenty-two pro-labor Republicans, most of them from the North and the Midwest, joined a solid bloc of Democrats to prevent the Labor Department from enforcing the regulations, which took effect Aug. 23. But it is unclear whether yesterday's action will stand.
The White House warned this week that President Bush might veto the underlying bill -- a $142.5 billion measure funding education, worker training and health programs in 2005 -- if it contains the overtime amendment.
Last year, the House added a similar provision blocking the rules, but GOP leaders, under strong pressure from the White House, jettisoned it during final House-Senate negotiations on the bill. But repeating that maneuver could be more politically perilous as the election nears, according to some legislative aides.
Business lobbies, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Restaurant Association, favor the new rules, while major labor organizations have been seeking to undo them.
Yesterday's vote came after months of political contention. Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry has vowed to repeal the rules if elected, and Democrats have denounced the regulations as "the biggest pay cut in history." But Republicans contend that Democrats have greatly overstated their impact, and assert that the changes will benefit workers by extending automatic eligibility to as many as 1.3 million new members of the labor force.
"The new rules mean more overtime for more workers," Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said.
Under the new rules, workers who earn less than $23,660 annually will automatically become eligible for overtime pay, compared with the current threshold of $8,060, which was set in the 1970s. But critics say this gain is more than offset by other provisions that exempt certain administrative and white-collar workers from overtime pay even if they work more than 40 hours a week.
They contend that a wide range of employees -- including computer technicians, nurses, journalists, teachers, cooks and funeral home employees -- could become exempt if they perform certain supervisory or managerial tasks.
"There's so much confusion on the facts," said Rep. Sherwood L. Boehlert (N.Y.), a Republican who voted to block the rules. "We've got to expand eligibility for overtime, and I want to make sure we don't have any unintended effects."
Aside from the substantive controversy, Democrats made clear that they consider the overtime fight part of a far broader effort to showcase their support for working- and middle-class swing voters in the coming elections.
"This is important to single moms, working moms with two jobs, who need overtime to pay the bills," said House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.). "It can resonate in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia."
Against this background, GOP leaders had little success over the past two days trying to bring dissident northern Republicans back to the fold. Even a last-minute letter from the Labor Department's solicitor, warning that scrapping the rules could leave the department with no ability to enforce any overtime rules for better-paid workers, failed to rally enough votes to defeat the Democratic-backed provision.
"This is political noise. It's an election year," Boehner said.
The House later approved the underlying bill, 388 to 13. With other legislation stalled, annual appropriations bills this week became the main vehicles for political battling in both chambers. In the Senate, Democrats used debate on a $33 billion homeland security bill to criticize the Bush administration for what they called inadequate protection for ports and other key installations.


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Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2009) — David Brennan, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca, was elected board chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) today at the trade association's annual meeting. Also elected were Pfizer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey B. Kindler as chairman-elect of the PhRMA Board of Directors and David Y. Norton, Company Group Chairman, Worldwide Commercial and Operations for the Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals Group, as board treasurer.
Mr. Brennan succeeds Richard T. Clark, Chief Executive Officer and President of Merck, as PhRMA's chairman.
"It has been a privilege to work with Dick this past year," said PhRMA President and Chief Executive Officer Billy Tauzin. "Under his unfaltering leadership and guidance, our industry has strengthened its commitment to responsible, informative relationships with health care professionals and consumers, we have maintained our collective commitment to world-leading medical innovation and we have worked together to improve patient access to life-changing medicines."
"The PhRMA member companies accomplished much this past year. We strengthened our marketing code, tightened our DTC advertising principles and voiced strong support of transparency of company interactions with physicians," said Clark. "I am also proud of PhRMA's commitment in support of health care reform, including expanding coverage to all Americans. In this time of economic turmoil, the last thing American families should have to worry about is their health care coverage. No one should have to go without the medicines and vaccines they need."
Mr. Brennan was named chief executive officer of AstraZeneca in January 2006. From 2001 through 2005 he was president and chief executive officer of AstraZeneca LP, the company's North America subsidiary. In 2005, Mr. Brennan was appointed executive board director of AstraZeneca, with responsibility for all North American operations.
Mr. Brennan, who began his career in 1975 as a sales representative at Merck, joined AstraMerck in 1992 to help build the joint venture into a multibillion dollar business in the U.S. Prior to the AstraZeneca merger he oversaw business planning and development at Astra Pharmaceuticals, and was appointed senior vice president of commercial operations at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP in 1999.
"The pharmaceutical industry is uniquely poised to be both a source of innovative medicines and a trusted member of the health care community. American pharmaceutical researchers and manufacturers can play a critical role in advancing health solutions that build on the strengths of the U.S. healthcare system and address its weaknesses," said Brennan as he assumed the chairmanship of PhRMA. "I look forward to working with my industry colleagues, policymakers, health advocacy organizations and new, nontraditional partners to promote policies that expand access to affordable health coverage, address the burden of chronic disease and close the gaps in health care quality while fostering continued innovation."
"We have a rare opportunity this year to strengthen our health care system in America," said Tauzin. "We remain committed to work side by side with the Administration, Congress and all stakeholders who are striving to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable, high quality health care coverage. And we will continue our efforts to preserve and fortify policies that foster innovation in our country – policies that have enabled the U.S. to lead the world in the discovery and development of new medicines for patients. I look forward to tackling these challenges with David and the rest of the PhRMA board."
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Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, Mr. Kindler served as vice president of litigation and legal policy at General Electric. He also served as executive vice president and general counsel at McDonald's Corporation before moving into line management at McDonald's Corporation as president of partner brands. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Kindler began his legal career as an attorney at the Federal Communications Commission. He later served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
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During his 30-year career at Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Norton has held a wide range of management positions of increasing responsibility in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. He began his J&J career in 1979 as a product manager for the company's affiliate, Janssen Pharmaceutica, in Australia.
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Politicians have unleashed their NCAA picks, and no Final Four has gone unturned for latent political meaning.
President Obama has carved out a niche as the nation's top political NCAA predictor, holding his annual tete-a-tete with ESPN's Andy Katz. But this year it's a Republican, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who's leading the bracketology charge with a set of picks that should probably turn some basketball-knowing heads.
Here are the NCAA brackets of three incredibly powerful people, and one person who influences the lawmakers who do the actual voting.
Marco Rubio
The Florida senator has upsets all over the place. Notre Dame (7) over Ohio State (2). Ole Miss (12) over Wisconsin (5). UNLV (5) in the Elite Eight. VCU (5) over Kansas (1)! In the Final Four, he picks his undergraduate alma mater, Florida (3), over his law school alma mater, Miami (2).
As brackets go, this one's for tournament dreamers. Unless, that is, Rubio planned to enter these picks in an NCAA pool that awards seed differential-in which case he's doing it for the money.
The bracket proves one of two things: Either Rubio is a champion of underdogs, or he's a hardcore gambler at heart.
President Obama
Nothing too exciting here. Obama's Final Four consists of two one-seeds, a two-seed, and a three-seed.
The president knows his basketball, but this bracket is distinctly lacking in verve. We could talk about why he picked Indiana-a red state that's kind of a swing state, etc.-or we could talk about how his biggest upsets are Minnesota (11) over UCLA (6), Belmont (11) over New Mexico (3), and Michigan (4) over Kansas (1). This is the bracket of a man who just wants to keep things going smoothly, not rock the boat, and keep everyone calm while he's in Israel.
In other words, Obama and Rubio have picked nearly opposite brackets. Which makes sense.
Via David Catanese, the blog Sports Grid has broken down the Obama vs. Rubio bracketological divide thusly:
Although their Final Four's look similar, with top seeds in all spots, their Sweet Sixteen's are diametrically opposed to one another (political jargon for opposite-when in Rome). Here's a simple way of looking at it. The combined seedings of Obama's Sweet Sixteen comes out to a paltry 41. That means that he's almost exclusively choosing higher seeded teams to advance. Rubio's Sweet Sixteen, on the other hand, has a total seeding number of 70, meaning he's got low seeds all over the damn place! Go figure, the liberal goes conservative and the conservative goes all whimsical.
Mitch McConnell
There's really only one thing you need to know about the Senate minority leader's bracket, which can be found at WHAS 11: He's got Western Kentucky (16) topping Kansas (1) and Villanova (9) before inexplicably losing to Virginia Commonwealth (5).
He also picked Louisville (1), where he went to college as an undergrad, to go all the way.
McConnell is the ultimate homer.
Grover Norquist
The president of Americans for Tax Reform included a preamble to his bracket, scrawled at the top: "Hey taxpayer, I chose my winners based on the lowest top marginal income tax rate in each team's home state. In case of a tie, I went with the Right to Work state. Good luck with your brackets! -Grover"
Norquist has done something few are willing to do. He's filled out a bracket based on pure ideology.


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It would appear that the blinks determine how many channels were programmed into the hardware. So 4 blinks is better than 2.
So the later the Tx was made the more channels, limit 5.
Would it be possible to control the throw of channel 4 and 5 with a variable resistor or maybe the digital equivilant?
No real reason at this stage just curious.
I would think a "pot" just like what's used on the 2 normal channels would give proportional control.
The real answer needs to come from the electronic guru's here...
Nop... Quote from PeterV...Originally Posted by diby_2000
Originally Posted by PeterV
He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins.
I remember reading that but....
It does not say that the extra channels can not be proportionally controled, just that they have no facility in the software to adjust the channels end points, Therefore servo thow.
Tested this with the 3-Channel Model: 2239 Radio hoping to use the 4th channel as a light switch. Confirmed that this mod WILL NOT work with this model radio. I guess Traxxas decided to not callibrate or unlock this extra channel feature ... Boo Traxxas. May have to take this radio back and spend the money on a Spektrum... Anyone know if there is any way to unlock that 4th channel? There are the connections available on the circuit board but when a switch is soldered in, radio does not send a signal to the rX.
Nop, it's not a hardware lock, it's a software lock...Originally Posted by M3Roc
So, there's nothing you can do to fix that...
He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins.
There is a programming port at the bottom of the controller... Hmm wounder what kinda info I can get outta that.. Wounder if a JTAG cable will let me get some info from it... Anyone know how to do this kinda software peeking wanna help me try this?
Just a clarification for me, please.
The newer more recent radios are programmed with 4-5 channels?
I just purchased a black radio with red buttons off of ebay and am keeping my fingers crossed that it can be modded.
Wish me luck boys.
I'm sure you can rest assured that the RED button radio should be 5 channel capable. Just go thru the menu to get to the channel modes and look for the 5 blinks as you go thru ch 1 -5. Let us know
i have 2 of these radios, one is from a slash 4x4, 2 channel with yellow buttons, in the menu it only has 2 channels, i also ahve a 3 channel with red buttons from a t-maxx, limited to 3 channels in the programming.
It seems the red or yellow button radios I've checked were made in the last 3- 6 months and were all 5 channel capable. They all came with Slash 4x4's.
2 were red and 2 were yellow.
I just got mine in the mail today and checked to see how many channels were programmed in. I got a max of 4 blinking lights. I'm probably doing something wrong.
In looking at the Menu Tree, does the light blinking really mean anything other than programming the transmitter?
I'm confused.
Last edited by dkur4000; 04-24-2010 at 06:15 PM.
That's where the battery leads power the board, I believe.Originally Posted by zrau17
Last edited by dkur4000; 04-24-2010 at 06:00 PM.
Does anyone know which channel is for the thumb switch?
Is it the RSW or the ISW?
Hey Guys, any news about this? Just curious what's going on these days...
Are all the new TQ 2.4 Link radios programmed with only 2 channels???
Last edited by danielhr77; 05-04-2010 at 11:08 PM.
He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins.
ok silly - stupid - greedy question:
Can the new 2.4ghz 4 channel radio be converted to an 8 channel?
yall know I cant leave well enough alone.
(yes I did ask this before)
MAN, Use Common Sense.
Outside? THERE IS NO BOX !
No, it's not possible...
He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins.
We need get in here. I gotta talk Traxxas into selling me their plugs and programming software. Ha ha.
I know people by their cars...
This is awesome!! I have been trying like crazy to win a 3 or 4 channel radio on ebay for weeks now with no luck. I did however win a new 2 channel high output one for $16, $20 with shipping several weeks back. After reading this thread I grabbed my radio, and you guessed it! It gives me 5 blinks. It is a model 2238 / model 22383940. Looks like a trip to the shack is now on my agenda for today so I can grab a couple of switches. I AM SO HAPPY!! lol
I also have a set of lights coming that I won on ebay. They plug into the receiver. I wonder how I turn them on and off with the transmitter?
Just search for "******* RECEIVER CONTROLLED switch" on Hobby King .com...
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Originally Posted by danielhr77
Thanks a million for that info on the Receiver Controlled Switch. I shall be ordering one of those very soon.
So, I went and bought 2 switches (on-off-on). As I was taking apart my radio, I remembered I had a TQ3 from way back when that was bad but I couldn't bring myself to throwing it away (wife yells at me all the time for this). Has to be a way to use the Red Thumb rocker switch out of it. I looked inside the new controller and found that it had all the mounting needed for the red thumb switch. Pulled that switch from the old unit and dremelled the slot in the new controller for it. It already had the outline that needed to be removed. Wired that red rocker switch into the RSW (my guess is it stands for rocker switch?) location. Works Great! Then took the switch I just bought and put it in the location thats seen on the 4-Channel radio. I was using a battery pack so the servo would only go from center to right position. I am certain once I use the ESC for power, that switch will work in the other direction as well. Very very pleased! You can not tell that my radio is not a true TQ4. Not able to post pictures yet, but I will when I am allowed.
I have to take a moment and thank danielhr77, THANK YOU danielhr77! YOU SIR, ARE "THE MAN"!
Thanks!!! I'm happy it worked for you too...
Just one more thing I forgot, it's possible to split channel 4 and 5 in two separate channels like mavrim explained...
That means, instead of using one 3-position switch, use two 2-position switches and wire the center of each switch to ground and "UP" to one switch and "DOWN" to the other switch...
This way you can control more lights, or even each T-Lock differential independently... Traxxas didn't thought of that one!
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I wired mine up and it didn't work. Must be one that is programmed with only 2 channels. DANG IT!!!!!
Need to get into to the programming part of it to turn on the other channels. Wonder if the jumpers have anything to do with this? HHHMMMMMM. . . . . . .
Any word on how to interface with the chip? Anybody?
Last edited by dkur4000; 06-21-2010 at 11:08 AM.
Probably silly question, but which models are upgradeable. I thought it was the 2238, but then I have seen some things that say that is not the case. I am looking to upgrade my stock SCX10 with a 2.4 and would like the option of running a 3 or 4 channel in the future. I have a MERV and a Slash and really like those two radios.
The only way to know if your TX has 3, 4 or 5 channels is to test it...
He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins.
Darn.... I was hoping there was rhyme or reason. Guess not?
I reported earlier that my transmitter would only do 2 channels after the mod. I've been messing with the programming getting it set up to work with two other receivers I put in my Losi Desert truck (stock spectrum SUCKED!!!) my slash and a scaler I have been working on. Today I decided to plug in a servo on the 3rd channel in my scaler thinking "Wouldn't it be wonderful if this worked?" and lo and behold it did!?!?!?!
I tried the 4th and 5th and they work also!!!!!!
The only thing I really did was to reset the model using Traxxas instructions that came with the receiver to the stock setting.
WHOOHOO!!!! This is AWESOME!!!!!!
So if you do the mod and the transmitter doesn't work for the 3rd, 4th or 5th channel try resetting the transmitter then binding it to the receiver. It just might work.
Last edited by dkur4000; 06-24-2010 at 03:36 PM.
When you say it works, the servo moves from one side to the other when you flip the switch on the 3rd channel? Because, if you plug a servo on the 3rd channel on the receiver with a 2-channel transmmiter, the servo stays centered...
I'm going to try what you said with the other 2-channel transmitter I have that I didn't mod...
He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins.
I agree on the reset. I did the same thing as dkur4000. My transmitter only showed 2 channels when I tested it. I messed with some of the settings and screwed things up so I decided to reset so I could just start over. Then I had 5 channels. I wasn't sure if it was 5 before because I kept messing with it. Just thought it was coincident, guess not.....
The servo moves from one side to the other. I plan on using it with my summit so installed a stock traxxas thumb switch. The 4th and 5th channels behave strangely. When the 4th channel is on the 5th channel won't work. When the 5th channel switch is moved it moves the 4th channel servo. Vice versa when the 5th is on. I only played with this for a little bit. I did get it to work for each channel separately though. I thought I would mess with it more later today and try to understand it better.Originally Posted by danielhr77
At least it's working! I am happy about that!
Just a thought: Maybe when the radios are shipped with like say a slash, mini-revo, slayer or something like that they only activate two channels since that is all that is needed. Maybe upon transmitter reset all channels become available. It's strange but on the reset card the summit is with most other electrics.
Oh well. Not going to look a gift horse in the mouth and just go with it.
Last edited by dkur4000; 06-25-2010 at 11:07 AM.
No, but I got all 5 channels working the way I want! This was my most recent electronics project. Instead of accepting things the way they were, I added a Stellaris ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller to the transmitter for proof-of-concept. My first attempt was with a demonstration board and I got it to fit with a little effort.Originally Posted by noir522
Over the last few months I have been working on adding control over the 5 channels available in the latest Traxxas Link H.O. series of radio systems. I have a TQ2 and a TQ4 version to play with and decided to base my project on the TQ2 just to show what can be done. Here is what I have done:
I have left the original functionality from Traxxas alone because I think it was fine the way it was. This project added control and functionality to all 5 channels above and beyond the original setup.
- It has 10 model memory for custom configurations on top of the original Link functionality.
- It now has a 2x12 character LCD display for the new menu used to configure each of the model settings.
- The menu is driven by a momentary toggle and an incremental encoder knob.
- There is (1) two-position switch 'S1' and (3) three-position switches 'T1', 'T2', and 'T3'.
- Each switch can be assigned to any channel (CH3 - CH5).
- Each channel can be assigned a function (True Position, Mix1 from steering, Mix2 from throttle).
- Each switch position can be assigned a value for its function (servo position, mix%).
- It can be set up anywhere from (3) three-position channels to a configuration that includes steering mix channel, a throttle mix channel, and a 3-position channel.
- True Position is just an assigned servo position. It does not need trim or endpoints and can be set in any order.
- Mix1 from steering can be set up anywhere from full mirror image steering to front only to crab walk steering. There is even an added function which can be assigned to S1 to inhibit front steering for rear only.
- Mix2 from throttle can be set up anywhere from front dig to rear dig to full power on both ESCs.
- If I missed any functionality, I could add it in my firmware.
This was truly a fun project and I think it can cover any current or future RC vehicle that I have or will get. It can work with a Summit, it can work with a comp crawler with mechanical dig, it can work with a super with MOA and rear steer, it can work with a scaler with LEDs and winch, and whatever else I dream of.
Oh, and I think I may have voided my warranty!
HOLY SHMOLY!!! And I thought I did well with the three switches I added.Originally Posted by wantAsummit
LOL EXCELLENT WORK!!!!! Congratulations on a job well done.
How can I mod it so that 3rd channel to have 3 position ?
Remove the three wires from the red rocket switch and wire them to a new 3-position switch...Originally Posted by xxgg
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Like Danielhr77 said. Be sure your switch is on-off-on. It will have three poles. Solder the ground to the middle and one power wire to each of the remaining poles.Originally Posted by xxgg
I searched the Traxxas site here but couldn't find the TQ3 mod thread. It had excellent pics on how to do this.
Can anyone remember or provide a link to the mod?
Here is what I found:
Sorry to divert someone away from the forum here.
Be reminded this is the old TQ3 but the idea and procedure is exactly the same if you have the thumb switch already on your transmitter.
Well, I tried it today with another TQ 2.4hgz Link that I have, had 2 channels from factory, did my 2 to 4 channel mod, reset the transmitter to factory defaults several times and didn't work... "Might" is the word...Originally Posted by dkur4000
He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins.
so to clarify and correct me if i am wrong
If wired as danielhr77 posted you have
1) 3 way switch on-off-on and
1) 2 way on-off
or as mavrim has
1) 3 way on-off-on and
2) 2 way on-off switches
or am I wrong and daniel's way would get (2) 3 way switches?
I'm am looking to do rear steer and servo winch and would like the center neutral on both switches.
I guess if not I could always get a 6 prong switch
and split the rear steer servo with the servo winch
(found this on Scale4x4 )
BTW I just picked up a 2.4 2ch HO link for $45.35 shipped and a spare receiver for $25 on ebay here http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=300446955794
Well here is a less than positive update
Please do not Buy from the ebay seller I posted just above this. I would delete the link but i cant edit the post.
I paid via paypal on the 20th and the radio and 2 receivers didn't get here till today. Thats right 11 whole shipping days from someone only 5 hours away. the payment via paypal cleared right away and it was not shipped out until the 30th.
and that was only after i asked where it was multiple times and he told me he checked and it was shipped out
To make it worse I cant get more than the 2 channels.
This is the 2ch HO model 2238 (22383940 inside the battery cover)
I plugged in a few servos,bound. then tried to navigate the menu tree to ch 3,4,& 5 with no luck.
I also tried to restore default settings for the summit as dkur4000 suggested.
whats odd is I have done the radio reset for default summit, and even deleted the model. i got the confirmation light for both and yet the receiver is still bound.
anyway now i have to sell this one and try with another 2ch HO or get a 4ch HO.... or do i want the 4ch non link? will those work with the link receiver?
I just dont want to give up model memory but have read you can adjust the pots on at least ch3.
Im looking to get model memory and two 3 channel switches.
does anyone have any suggestions b4 i sell this darn thing lol
Last edited by Spoo76; 08-02-2010 at 06:26 PM.
My controller has 5 channel function, but only two channels are used (steering and throttle) and I recently bought an emaxx and out the two speed kit on it. I Did the 3rd channel mod and it works perfectly! Thanks danielhr77 for your hard work.
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Football pitches in north Kirklees have been heavily criticised after all but one of 44 matches in a Sunday league were cancelled last weekend.
Clubs in north Kirklees now fear fixture pile-ups towards the end of the season as waterlogged council pitches continue to be a nuisance.
Clive Cheney, secretary of the Heavy Woollen Sunday League said waterlogged council-owned pitches meant only one of the league's matches was completed during the weekend.
He added: "Some clubs will have to play a lot of night matches between now and the end of the season to make up for cancellations.
"I would like to see Kirklees do more, but in these times of council cuts, I can't see investing in grassroots football to be one of their priorities."
Pete Ackerley, the FA's senior national game development manager told BBC Radio 5's Victoria Derbyshire show this week that the state of council-owned pitches was "abhorrent".
He also said local authorities had decisions to make over whether to build more artificial pitches to accommodate bad weather.
But Mick Binks, club secretary of Cleckheaton and Gomersal FC, believes more needs to be spent on ground maintenance.
He said: "We have age groups from under-9s to under-16s who have not played a match in nearly a month.
"I have been involved with this club for more than 20 years and, though the council cut the grass and line the pitches, I have never seen them spend anything on maintaining the ground.
"I understand the council are under a lot of pressure to save money but we are now paying the price – a lot of pitches have worn away."
A spokeswoman for Kirklees Council insisted its pitches were fit for purpose.
She said: "Most pitches are in reasonable condition and if clubs are careful they will last the season out.
"There are currently no plans to build any more artificial pitches but we have recently opened the brand new 3G facility at Leeds Road playing Fields in Huddersfield and this is proving to be hugely popular with some clubs playing competitive matches on the full size pitch.
"The Football Foundation are keen to develop more facilities of the kind but at a cost of around £600,000 it is unlikely that traditional grass pitches will ever become totally redundant."