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Roohollah Merrikhpour-Roll It Sketch Board
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Interview with Roohollah Merrikhpour : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Roohollah Merrikhpour : How to make a big skateboard mobile and easy to carry? How can we (designers) have a big sketch board everywhere in our small stylish bags?! .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Roohollah Merrikhpour : We wanted to design a mobile and easy to carry big size (A3 or A4) sketch board without loosing any quality of regular sketch boards. "Small but full size!", how can we achieve this in a new product? this was what we worked on. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Roohollah Merrikhpour : We plan to mass produce this product with a new material like aluminum or a new kind of processed wood based material. We may use crowd funding to collect our expected finance for the next step. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Roohollah Merrikhpour : It took 6 weeks of work on the very first idea to reach to the final prototype. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Roohollah Merrikhpour : This project started based on a very personal need and an internal motivation. The need for sketching is a well known desire for every design geek and we all suffer that! .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Roohollah Merrikhpour : We haven't have a plan to sell the rights of our design to a company or organization. We basically design it for ourselves. But if there is a good offer we surely consider it. .
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I have two more cute designers with Scor-Pal proojects to share:
Karolyn Loncon
Laura Bassen
Don't forget to stop by the Scor-Pal blog today.
I will announce the winner of the Scor-Buddy on Saturday, so stop on back.
Great news - we received our die shipment and expect a stamp shipment today. I will send a newsletter tonight to let you know about all of our restocked items!
But I can tell you that Digits Dies are HERE! There is a crazy amount of interest in them....so I am glad they are back in stock.
Karolyn used the Numbers dies along with the Digits dies - they look AWESOME together!! I am sure she used a cut file for the grad cap. Perfect timing for this card :)
Laura rocked the Think Fast stamps and dies! Here coloring is swoon-worthy (drool-worthy too)
TONIGHT is release night - yayyyy! (at midnight eastern time)
So, why not share our entire release with you???
I hope you love what we have been up to :)
I can let you in on a little secret. We will have a mid-release that includes dies for our June stamps. I would have loved to release them on June first, but I just couldn't make that happen. Some things are out of our hands :) I will let you know with each stamp set what you can expect to be able to purchase on June 14th.
Please welcome...
Briny Blue
1 - large fish dies (four)
2 - small fish dies (four)
Crystal Clear
1 - jar and lid dies
2 - inside of jar die to make a shaker
3 - vases dies
Green Thumb
1 - watering can and rain boot dies
2 - veggies dies (four)
TAM stamp set.
Off the Charts
no coordinating dies
Chart Toppers
3 x 4 stamp set to coordinate with Off the Charts
no coordinating dies
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Word Bubbles
I hope you are as excited as I am :)
Thank you so much for stopping by
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About kfork
Can anyone by some means mimick another person's IP ?
Can any malware, despite uptodate AV, do something hidden and unknown to the user?
If the answers are YES, then there needs to be critically urgent, massive movment against such acts of "demand-payment" or similar acts so that no body even dares to commit such act in future.
If something is supposed to be "protected" protect it by better means, do not leave the locks open and then blame a passer-by.
I believe that the Internet had a monopoly of giants that all of the others followed slavishly then, as well
Half of the pages were brokenSee? That is where you had the FREEDOM rather thanhaving to follow the iron-clad nonbreakable cookiecutter codes of today.
without exposing their information to GoogleI was not speaking of blogs but how Google exposes your data. See these sites http://www.googlesux.com/, http://www.googlethis.net/ or read about this actual report - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Has-Serious-Lapses-but-Still-Tops-Google-57117.shtml or this BBC report - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6740075.stm
No I do not mean just better looking but better functioning too. Geocities changed hands but there were similar other services in plenty. What I mean is now internet is a monopoly of 2 or 3 giants and all sites follow those slavishly (see the omnipresent FB and Twitter icons).
Geocities or similar sites did not actually need html knowledge and even if they did there were as many sites as there are cookie-cutter blogs today. People who could not code were still there at that time and much independently rather than having to "expose" their data to large business merchants like Google.
"IRC and chat rooms instead of Twitter." - Wrong. It was not ONE IRC and chat room. There were innumerable and plenty of chat providers as compared to one or three major players now.
You said "it seems like your problem" - actually it is not my problem BUT the problem of the current gen that they/you do not understand how the monopoly is killing the variation and FREEDOM that net actually was. I only hope that the current trend dies by following laws of nature and the net that was returns.
You can share a file with e-mail, or flash drive.
Ten years ago Internet was much better. It was not just Google+Facebook+Twitter. Sites were "individual", sites were devoid of slavish icons (of FB, Twt etc)
There were plenty of chat rooms, plenty of email providers, and individual sites on geocities, tripod etc rather than cookie-cutter same-same looking blogs.
Social exchange, exchange of fun, and exchange of knowledge was no less. Websites did not belong to monopolistic giants but belonged to all.


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Marcella Perez
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- Marcella Perez
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- Biology and Forensic Science
Marcella Perez, a junior biology and forensic science major, is the Multicultural Greek Council president, an active member and vice president of Delta Phi Lambda, section and spirit leader in Loyola's pep band, and a dancer for "AfroDesent," Loyola's African dance team. Perez is also part of the women's two-hand-touch football team "Rice Bowl," which is part of the on-campus Filipino organization, KAPWA.
What has been a motivating factor for you in your work here at Loyola?
A huge motivating factor for me is the older generations and the future generations. Ever since I was little, I have dreamed of becoming a doctor. People said that I was too young to make such a serious decision. Now, I'm still working hard to become that doctor. I want to prove to the people who don't believe in the students of my generation that we aren't going to all be failures; there is still hope for our generation and future generations.
What ultimately sold you on coming to Loyola?
The great reputation the University has for its science programs was a big sell. I was recruited by other schools to run on their cross country and track teams, but in the end, academics came first. Loyola had such a close-knit community, it was in Chicago (the city I love), and it offered many new opportunities. I was looking for a school that could help me excel in my academics. Since I am on the pre-med track, I believed that Loyola was perfect for me. The fact that I received scholarships and grants from the University really helped me decide where I was going to go as well.
How did you get involved in research/service at Loyola?
Entering college, I had a passion for community service and helping people outside of school. We had a designated amount of service hours we had to complete by the time we graduated and I definitely exceeded the minimum. When I came to Loyola, it was natural for me to find service programs that I could participate in. My freshman and sophomore year, I volunteered with Loyola4Chicago at a homeless shelter off the Lawrence stop. It was definitely an eye-opening experience for me since I grew up in the Chicago suburbs. More recently, I've be able to volunteer with my sorority, and being able to go out into the city of Chicago, volunteering for races, cleaning up neighborhoods, and helping out people who need it, puts a smile on my face.
What do you think differentiates Loyola from other universities?
I think what differentiates Loyola from other Universities is the fact that it is a Jesuit university and we are taught to uphold certain values. However, even though it is a Jesuit university, the school is still open to students from all faiths and it is accepting of all people. The diversity on campus is starting to improve as well. Also, the University is conscientious about the environment and supports protecting life on the lake.
What advice would you give students about how to get the best out of their education?
Keep an open mind. If you are close-minded, you will not get the most of your education because you are not accepting of other people's views. The lessons you learn at Loyola might be from students, faculty, and staff that come from different backgrounds compared to where you came from.
What do you like most about Loyola?
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Here Comes Everybody (tech at Penn State)
July 28, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: alpha user, conferences, eduweb, folksonomies, ideas, Penn State, tags, Veen | Leave a comment
I'm reading Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations and also was fed a video of Shirky talking about his book by someone in my network (the section about flash mobs is especially engaging: "nothing says dictatorship like arresting people eating ice cream," for example).
And the commentary I'd like to add is that this is, to some extent, what we're doing. Someone has an idea, puts the call out there to see if anyone's interested, and people throw their hats into the ring, cooperatively arranging taxonomies (er, folksonomies, really) to tag and aggregate content, resulting in a pool of information and new ideas being created.
It's what I've seen in action growing slowly over a year, accelerated by the TLT Symposium and Twitter, sparked further by TweetMeets and BS Breakfasts and Bookclub, and burst into full flame (as far as I can tell) in Learning Design Summer Camp here at Penn State. And I'm convinced that this is the way to do it.
But it's happening this way (or similarly, at least) elsewhere: EduWeb happened recently, and people were Tweeting and videostreaming (alternate) and liveblogging sessions, and it was almost as good as being there, minus a significant amount of in-person networking and fun. But it can be done. I've been caught up in this plus Jeffrey Veen's idea of an audience ombudsman for conferences and trying to figure out how this works in purely-online communities.
And it really goes back to the idea of an alpha user, I think. But the thing is that we've got a bunch of them here at Penn State.
More to develop on this idea. But it will have to hold: I've got a meeting for our campus tour podcast project coming up.


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Garry? Garry?
Anyway - here's how they said good-bye:
When the pope's plane took off, thousands of Mexicans took to roofs and used mirrors to reflect sunshine in a farewell gesture. One family brought an armoire outside and flashed light at the plane with its full-length mirror.
Um....wouldn't that be dangerous? Or not, I guess. But don't ever wave mirrors at me if I'm flying a plane above you, okay?


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Golf course employee killed in mowing accident
Dennis Miller, 66, worked at Cherry Wood Golf Course
A 66-year-old golf course employee was killed Tuesday afternoon in a mowing accident in Westmoreland County.
The accident happened at Cherry Wood Golf Course on Truxall Road in Bell Township, just outside Apollo.
According to a release from the county coroner, Dennis Miller was operating a tractor that was pulling a mower when he somehow got separated from the vehicle and trapped in the mower reels.
Miller, 66, of Leechburg, Armstrong County, was pronounced dead at the scene.
County detective Thomas Horan said the mower was on the 14th hole when something caused the tractor to tilt backward. He said the mower had blades in the rear, and the man fell onto them.
Investigators said the area isn't hilly and it's unclear what caused the tractor to tilt.


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Global Demand Shifts East as Asian Solar Markets Explode
China's 2013 solar installations totaled more than that of any other country in any other year, but that fact is emblematic of a larger shift.
While the top 10 solar photovoltaic (PV) markets in the world accounted for more than 80 percent of end-market demand last year, a clear shift to the east took place. According to NPD Solarbuzz's Marketbuzz 2014 report, last year marked the beginning of an end-market demand shift from Europe to Asia.
Japan, China and Thailand were the three fastest growing markets. Each more than doubled demand levels compared to the previous year.
At the same time, three of Europe's top markets trended downward.
"The PV industry has emerged from a challenging transition but continued growth in major markets and a shakeout of uncompetitive capacity is leading to renewed optimism in all segments of the industry," Michael Barker of NPD wrote in a report summary.
The trend also manifests itself in NPD's projection of global PV market sizes for this year. The nations in the quadrant I of this chart grew in 2013 and are slated to continue doing so this year. Four of those six countries are in Asia.
NPD previously predicted that demand would skyrocket in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region this year, accounting for more than 50 percent of all new solar PV demand in the world next year. APAC countries are expected to install more than 23 gigawatts (GW) of solar PV in 2014, which would set a new record for solar PV installed annually within any region.
While the U.S. market is clearly growing, setting its own records in 2013, its growth rate is far less than China and Japan. Still, PV installations in the U.S. last year were about 15 times greater than they were in 2008.
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The enduring pandemic will make conventional forms of travel difficult if not impossible this summer. As a result, many will consider virtual alternatives for their vacations, including one of the oldest forms of virtual reality – books.
Watchdog Accuses Trump's NOAA of 'Choosing Extinction' for Right Whales by Hiding Scientific Evidence
By Julia Conley
As the North Atlantic right whale was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of critically endangered species Thursday, environmental protection groups accusing the U.S. government of bowing to fishing and fossil fuel industry pressure to downplay the threat and failing to enact common-sense restrictions to protect the animals.
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Since even moderate-intensity workouts offer a slew of benefits, walking is a good choice for people looking to stay healthy.
How to Rock Your Walk
Walking isn't just fun and healthy. It's accessible.

"Walking is cheap," says Dr. John Paul H. Rue, a sports medicine doctor at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. "You can do it anywhere at any time; [it] requires little to no special equipment and has many of the same cardio benefits as running or other more intense workouts."

Want to up your walking game? Try the tips below.

Use Hand Weights
Cardio and strength training can go hand-in-hand when you add weights to your walk.

A 2019 study found that weight training is good for your heart, and research shows it reduces the risk of developing a metabolic disorder by 17 percent. People with metabolic disorders have a higher chance of being diagnosed with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

Rue suggests not carrying weights for your entire walk.

"Hand weights can give you an added level of energy burning, but you have to be careful with these because carrying [them] over a long period of time or while walking could actually lead to some overuse injuries," he says.

Make It a Circuit
As another option, consider doing a circuit. First, put a pair of dumbbells on your lawn or somewhere in your home. Walk around the block once, then stop and do some bicep curls and tricep lifts before walking around the block again.

Rue recommends avoiding ankle weights during cardio workouts, as they force you to use your quadriceps rather than hamstrings. They can also cause muscle imbalance, according to the Harvard Health Letter.

Find a Fitness Trail
Strength training isn't limited to weights. You can get stronger by simply using your body.

Often found at parks, fitness trails are obstacle courses with equipment for pullups, pushups, rowing, and stretches to build upper and lower body strength.

Try searching "fitness trails near me" online, checking out your local parks and recreation website, or calling the municipal office to find one.

Recruit a Friend
People who workout together stay healthy together.

One study showed that older adults who exercised with a group improved or maintained their functional health and enjoyed their lives more.

Enlist the help of a walking buddy with a regimen you aspire to have. If you don't know anyone in your area, apps like Strava have social networking features so you can get support from fellow exercisers.

Try Meditation
According to the 2017 National Health Interview Survey, published by the National Institutes of Health, meditation is on the rise, and for good reason.

Researchers found that mind-body relaxation practices can regulate inflammation, circadian rhythms, and glucose metabolism, as well as lower blood pressure.

"Any form of exercise can be turned into a meditation of some type, either by the surroundings you are walking in, like a park or trail, or by blocking out the outside world with music on your headphones," Rue says.

You can also play a podcast or download an app like Headspace that has a library of guided meditations to practice while you walk.

Do Fartlek Walks
Typically used in running, fartlek intervals alternate periods of increased and decreased speed. These are high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts, which allow exercisers to accomplish more in less time.

One study showed that 10-minute interval training improved cardiometabolic health, or lowered the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, just as well as working out at a continuous pace for 50 minutes.

Research also shows that HIIT workouts increase muscle oxidative capacity, or the ability to use oxygen. To do a fartlek walk, try walking at an increased pace for 3 minutes, slow down for 2 minutes, and repeat.

Gradually Increase Pace
A faster walking pace is associated with a lower risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and respiratory diseases, according to a 2019 study.

Still, it's best not to go from a stroll to an Olympic-worthy power walk in a day. Instead, increase your pace gradually to prevent injury.

"Start by walking at a brisk pace for about 10 minutes per day, 3 to 5 days per week," Rue says. "Once you've done this for a few weeks, increase your time by 5 to 10 minutes per day until you get to 30 minutes."

Add Stairs
You've likely heard that taking the stairs instead of an elevator is a way to add more movement into your daily routine. It's also a way to step up your walking. Stair climbing has been shown to decrease the risk of mortality and can easily add a bit more challenge to your walk.

If you don't have stairs in your home, you can often find them outside a local municipal building, train station, or at a high school stadium.

Is Your Walk a True Cardio Workout?
Not all walks are equal. A walk that's too leisurely may not provide enough burn to qualify as cardio. To see if you're getting a good workout, try to measure your heart rate using a monitor.

"A target goal for a good walking workout heart rate is about 50 to 70 percent of your maximum heart rate," Rue says, adding that maximum heart rate is typically calculated by 220 beats per minute minus your age.

You can also monitor how easily you can carry on a conversation while you walk to gauge your heart rate.

"If you can walk and carry on a normal conversation, that's probably a lower intensity walk," says Rue. "If you are slightly breathless but can still have a conversation, that's probably a moderate workout. If you are out of breath and can't talk normally, that's a vigorous workout."

Takeaway
By shaking up your routine, you can add excitement to your workout and reap even more rewards than a basic walk provides. Increasing the pace and intensity of a workout will make it more effective.

Simply pick your favorite variation to add some spice to your next walk.

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Much of Eastern Oklahoma, including most of Tulsa, remains an Indian reservation, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
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The coronavirus may linger in the air in crowded indoor spaces, spreading from one person to the next, the World Health Organization acknowledged on Thursday, as The New York Times reported. The announcement came just days after 239 scientists wrote a letter urging the WHO to consider that the novel coronavirus is lingering in indoor spaces and infecting people, as EcoWatch reported.
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Today, we're delighted to announce that FontFont is offering many more typefaces in the Typekit subscription library — including FF Ernestine, FF Spinoza, FF More, FF Amman, FF Utility, FF Kava, and additional styles of popular fonts like FF Meta and FF Dax. Overall, we have added 22 new and updated FontFonts (totaling 121 new variations) to the library. Quite a few, but this is just a portion of the FontFont catalog — a diverse and carefully curated selection of web-ready typefaces capable of serving many needs.
The new families, in alphabetical order, are FF Amman Sans and Serif; FF Angie; FF Avance; FF Chambers Sans; FF Ernestine; FF Ginger; FF Karbid, Text, and Slab; FF Kava; FF More (also in Wide and Condensed); FF Spinoza; FF Utility; and FF Zwo Correspondence. In addition, FF Dax Condensed now has Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic styles; FF Meta Condensed now has Book Italic, Normal, Normal Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic styles; FF Prater Sans and Serif now have Bold styles; and FF Speak now has Italic, Heavy, and Heavy Italic styles.
One way to get to know these FontFonts better is by studying their web font specimens. For instance, typefaces are sized and positioned differently within their em boxes. Designers should be aware of these subtle size and spacing differences so that we can compensate accordingly when we set CSS font-size.
Even when size and position are relatively consistent, as with these three FontFonts, character width and built-in spacing have a big effect on how big the type looks. FF Spinoza has nearly the same cap-height and x-height as FF Ernestine and FF Amman Serif, yet it sets much smaller.
Another way to get to know the FontFont catalog is to look for your favorites at FontFont.com, where you can read about their individual histories and the type designers who drew them. FontShop also offers some fantastic educational resources.
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BOSTON, July 16 (UPI) -- Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wants to add another death-penalty specialist to his defense team, court papers indicated.
In papers filed Monday, Tsarnaev's lawyers repeated an previous request to appoint David Bruck, a Virginia lawyer whose client list included Zayd Safarini, serving life for his role in the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan; and Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-Owhali, one of four men serving life for the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the Boston Herald reported.
Already on Tsarnaev's team is Judy Clarke, who helped Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph get life sentences.
"If this case did not present 'exceptional circumstances' justifying appointment of an additional lawyer learned in the law applicable to capital cases ... no case would," Clarke wrote in the motion.
Tsarnaev, 19, pleaded not guilty in federal court last week to 30 charges, 17 of which carry the death penalty, arising from the twin bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon April 15. Three people died and scores were injured.
His legal team tried to add Bruck in April, but a judge denied the request with a promise to review the decision after the indictment.
Prosecutors have not indicated whether they will pursue the death penalty. The Herald reported last week that U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz's office sent victims a questionnaire asking them for their thoughts on the death penalty, among other matters.
Tsarnaev's brother Tamerlan, 26, was killed when run over allegedly by Tsarnaev as he escaped a shootout with police following the bombings.


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Editor's note: Annette Lang is an experienced personal trainer and educator. Scott Lundberg has done extensive work in experience design. The Focus On article, "Personal Experience," in the February 2003 issue discussed how you can enhance your personal training program by adopting basic concepts from this experience framework. The June 2003 column discussed Annette's experience assessment. This month, Scott does a follow-up analysis of Annette's experience assessment.
After having defined Annette's core experience, I have made the following simple changes to her experience assessment: new things to try that will enhance the core experience, some things to stop doing because they contradict and sabotage her intentions and some things that turn lemons into lemonade by making a small modification.
Spend more time specifically learning about older people's movement issues and concerns in general. This is because of Annette's age, the age of most of her clients in the last several years, and the current demographics in our society.
Reward the clients' flexibility. Annette travels extensively for teaching responsibilities, and is unable to be in New York at the same time each week. This potentially negative aspect can be changed into part of the positive experience. She should specifically make it a point to share with clients all that she learns. She should also pass on the t-shirts, bags, videos, product samples, reprints of her articles, and extra workbooks that she acquires. Not only does this let them know she appreciates their scheduling flexibility, but also will improve her credibility as her clients understand more about all that she does.
Develop a more consistent look that speaks about who she is as a personal trainer and her desire to be respected as a professional. She currently dresses well but a bit too casually and inconsistently image-wise. She dresses like she does when she works out. This sends the wrong message — coaches don't look like players for a reason. Her look needs to say Reebok, movement=success and I am a personal trainer and educator.
Annette's message needs to be part of her graphic identity as well. She already closes all of her e-mails with "make it a great day for someone else." That is excellent, but that message is not necessarily consistent in business cards, brochures, etc.
Over all, Annette was a difficult client because she already does so many things right. I hope these suggestions are helpful and this process helps her understand better what she is achieving as a fitness professional. This awareness is often times all that it takes and she will probably have even better ideas about how to improve her client's experience, their relationship together and her business.
According to Annette, "These are things I am going to begin implementing to make the experience I provide more complete and consistent. The experience assessment helped me focus on what I need to do for my business based on who I am, the opportunities I have, and the relationships I am developing with my clients."
This same process of experience assessment can work for you if you are a brand new trainer, or a large chain of health clubs. The questions are the same, but the answers are uniquely yours, just as the client relationships you will develop.
The primary value of the experience assessment is identifying what we can do to take advantage of our unique strengths and opportunities to be better at what we do and attract and retain the people who are interested in what we provide.
Annette Lang can be reached at www.annettelang.com. Scott Lundberg can be reached at [email protected].


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Officer honors those who gave ultimate sacrifice with song
Uniontown Officer Mike Garrow inspired to write song after officers' deaths
Uniontown K9 Officer Mike Garrow, overcome with emotion after two western Pennsylvania police officers were killed in the line of duty, decided he needed to honor them.
"I returned home from the funeral of Lower Burrell police Officer Derek Kotecki, a fellow K9 officer," Garrow said. "The song just started to come to me."(Listen to the full song HERE)
Garrow said he completed the song after returning from East Washington police Officer John David Dryer's funeral.
He recorded the song to honor all of law enforcement during Police Week in Washington, D.C.
"This song is dedicated to all the law enforcement officers who paid the ultimate sacrifice and unfortunately the ones who will," Garrow said. "Every day when you put on the vest and the gun it can happen and anything can happen."
Garrow said he hopes his song allows people to see police officers are men and women, husbands and wives, and people who are loved.
"I'm sure when these officers ran into these situations, they didn't know that it would be their final day, and their families didn't know it either, and those tragedies are so important to think about and remember," Garrow said


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Topper wrote:Subban was less than ordinary. The two saves Ferraro raved about where shot into Malcolm. There was no cross ice stretch to cover the back side, the puck hit Subban's pads centre of the net. Starting the black guy against the Germans is so 1936.
PAHL - O - TICKS!!!!!Topper wrote:So Subban stinks in the trial, stinks in his pre tournament game and yet is named the starter.
Binnington plays very well vs Sweden and is named backup.
I can only think they figure the Germans (don't mention the war) are considered an push over and Subban is on a very very short leash.
Same reason Corrado is sitting in Canada while Harrington is a mess out there. Swear to God Hockey Canada is just a national version of the worst municipal rep team.
It makes me laugh to hear the TSN goofs fall over themselves apologizing for Subban's gaffe's. Makes my heart giggle to know he's a Boston prospect.


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HOWELL (AP) -- A jury has convicted a Michigan man of embezzling more than $100,000 in machinery, tools and precious metals from General Motors.
WHMI-FM and the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus of Howell reports the verdict was returned Wednesday in the case against Jeffrey Michael Eastom. Sentencing is Aug. 29.
According to trial testimony, Eastom was the ringleader behind a group of then-employees from Ideal Setech in Howell who from 2008 to 2010 were stealing metals including copper and selling them to a recycling center. The company housed GM property.
Defense attorney Edwin Literski said during the trial that two of Eastom's co-defendants didn't initially implicate Eastom, but changed their stories ahead of reaching plea agreements.
Two co-defendants have been sentenced and two are awaiting sentencing next month.
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Behind the Split Screens of TV (Jul, 1954)
Behind the Split Screens of TV
By Jan and Bob Jensen
IF MR. KIPLING had been sitting in the gilt-edged Hollywood audience that March evening in 1954 when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the Oscars in their 26th annual awards ceremony, he would have had to eat his words that "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet." They not only met, they talked to each other. On the large television-projection screen at the back of the golden bronze-draped stage, Donald O'Connor, master of ceremonies on the West Coast, was brought face to face with Fredric March on the East Coast, and the many thousands of miles lying between their respective noses had been eradicated by the magic of the communications era in which they live, so that the two were presented in one picture not only to the select audience of 2800 in the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, but to millions of TV viewers throughout the nation.
No Oscar was awarded to those skilled engineers "behind the scenes," the men with the earphones clamped to their heads. But behind the glittering production "out front" was an unprecedented engineering extravaganza. Hollywood, Burbank, New York and Philadelphia were linked as though under one roof for the two-hour program.
When the last golden statuette had been presented and the white ties and ermine departed from the klieg-light gleam, a tired sleepy-eyed crew of engineers, in rumpled, rented tuxedos, was left to pack up the equipment and sigh, "Well, we did it. There were no boo-boos."
It was a satisfactory feeling, after the agitated past 24 hours at the Pantages Theater, a few steps from the corner of Hollywood and Vine. No tuxedos then, but old work clothes, flannel shirts and jeans, in a bustling beehive of preparation. The only calm note was the huge replica of an Oscar standing quietly off stage center.
Workmen with coils of cables hustled back and forth. The orchestra was rehearsing repeatedly one musical phrase, "When you wish upon a star" culminating in a brilliant fanfare, over and over again, dominating the other sounds in the huge theater—the soft mutter of voices, a hammer at work, and the steady hum of the air conditioning outside the improvised television-control room backstage.
Specially built soundproof rooms were temporary headquarters for TV and radio, with an announcer's booth, swathed in monk's-cloth draperies, tucked away in a corner with only a television monitor from which to describe the evening's events. The door to the NBC-TV booth was propped open for ventilation and, inside, busy engineers checked equipment and studied the wavering green
'scopes on the banks of field-camera control units. Paper coffee cups were strewn about their control desks. Most of these tired-looking men had averaged two hours' sleep, for only the day before had they been able to land full force in the theater. Camera and power cables had been installed a week before, but work had been limited to a few hours.
At least 30 NBC engineers were in the theater itself, with another group at the Burbank studios where commercials originated and, of course, the master-control technicians in Hollywood. In addition, there were at least a dozen audio and video telephone men working with them.
Most interesting of all in the intricate setup was a portable wipe unit, designed and built by a field engineer in four weeks' time. Inserted in the control panels, it was responsible for the difficult split-screen effect, with Hollywood on one half and New York or Philadelphia on the other, both appearing in one picture. To get the special effect, the output of the New York video circuit was fed into a high-quality 17-inch picture monitor in a booth backstage at the Pantages. the picture retele-vised and fed into the mixing system and portable wipe unit, producing the split-screen result.
Excitement was as contagious as measles that busy morning in the dim half-light of the Pantages backstage. Somewhere a saw was whining. Telephones were ringing. The audio engineer twisted a few knobs and listened intently in his earphones. "There's still buzz on those mike lines," he said. "It's got to be ground loops. Let's put in a booster amplifier and feed high level instead of low."
They were using 16 mikes altogether, and 24 monitors had been installed in the pressrooms, announcer's booths and backstage which would be fed video and audio. The big-screen projector was installed by RCA, with special equipment to drive it in order to project a reverse picture from behind the screen, instead of from its normal position out in front. To produce such a picture, it is necessary to reverse the horizontal scanning of the projection tube. Since light energy was transmitted through the screen, it was impossible from the rear to tell if the projector was in focus, or had the proper amount of brightness and contrast. So there was a monitor in the audience manned by an engineer with a private line who literally "talked him in," telling him which knobs to turn and adjust.
Eight cameras were ready, two outside the theater and six inside. One was in the theater lobby and the other mounted on a crane across Hollywood Boulevard to televise the celebrities as they arrived. Inside, two cameras were on the tower in the center of the house. One camera on this platform had two turrets, making a total of eight lenses available instead of the usual four. They were using four Electro-Zooms—the lens which can change from a wide shot to a close-up with a flick of a switch—and one English-designed Zoomar. Three cameras were on stage—two on pedestals and one mounted on a crane dolly.
Simultaneously, a radio broadcast of the event was being carried, using much of the same equipment and program material. In the improvised radio booth, constructed off stage left, one engineer monitored the orchestra. A feed from his equipment went to the radio engineer in the same booth, while another leg of this same feed went to the television-audio engineer who mixed it with the TV portion of the program. Similarly, a feed from the TV-audio system, with dialogue from the Pantages stage and the audio portions from New York and Philadelphia, was made back to the radiobroadcasting equipment. Another set of amplifiers, bridged from the TV equipment, fed the PA system inside and outside.
Installing the equipment was something else again. A doorway adjacent to the stage had to be removed just to bring in a camera crane and its equipment.
At least a dozen holes were drilled in the stage floor in order to get cables through to the basement before the realization came that it was a double-concrete structure. The camera cables ended up being run through the plenum chambers of the heating system. To get to the camera on the crane across Hollywood Boulevard, they had to go through the gridiron (the framework above the theater stage supporting the pulleys that raise and lower scenery), through the ventilator, across the building roof, which is in three levels, to the marquee and then across the street.
"But the trolley-car maintenance crew," said an engineer, "took the camera cables over their high-voltage lines across the boulevard for us."
Close to the television booth backstage was an improvised telephone control center roped off in a corner. Here all of the incoming and outgoing video feeds were regulated and monitored.
"Really, there were no problems to speak of," a telephone supervisor said, "for NBC gave us the order in plenty of time, with at least four full days to install equipment."
While NBC had one microwave, the telephone company had eight. They actually used six, with two in reverse. Six circuits and two spares all were going to their Gower Street control center in Hollywood. In addition, there were eight audio lines for radio and TV, one circuit each for production and engineering, and a private phone to connect Donald O'Connor to the studio in Philadelphia, not to mention many business telephones.
Equally as interesting as the split-screen effect was the method of delaying the arrival time of the video signals from the Hollywood film studio and the Burbank commercial studio in order to tie them all together at the Pantages, thus allowing fades from one to the other.
Precaution is an engineer's middle name. He is always ready with an answer if a crisis rears its head. Therefore, that afternoon the crew used the emergency gasoline-engine power supply for the rehearsal, just to be sure it would carry the load if needed. As stand-bys, there were a special 1000-ampere d.c. generator for lighting and the telephone company's separate gasoline generator.
Throughout the day, as problems cropped up, they were speedily solved. There was no complete rehearsal, only segments. A microwave cable had moisture in it, but it was replaced. There was a round-robin feedback but it was remedied by reducing the speaker level in Philadelphia.
It was certainly no accident that the final star-studded production glided by as smoothly as an Olympic skier. So closely knit was the show, few people realized the dancers in the commercials were in the Burbank studios, yet using the orchestra music from the Pantages Theater, several miles «away, that Philadelphia and New York were not sitting in the front-row seats and that the insert from Mexico was a film from another: studio.


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Just before the start of the RootsTech conference, I will be one of the presenters at the Association of Professional Genealogists' Professional Management Conference on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at the Radisson Salt Lake City hotel.
The topic I've been asked to present is Launching and Effective Marketing Campaign.
- Description: Have your past attempts at marketing your genealogy products or services been haphazard, disorganized and ineffective? Learn how to build an effective marketing campaign and measure the results for repeated success!
- Summary: Participants will learn how to track marketing campaign projects and tasks, how to build a marketing network, why timing is important in marketing, and how to measure the effectiveness of a campaign.
I hope to see many of my genealogy colleagues at this year's APG PMC! I know it will be a fantastic even filled with educational and networking opportunities for genealogy professionals.
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Susan Pierce Named Interim Director of School of Nursing
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Susan Foley Pierce has been named Interim Director of the School of Nursing in the College of Health and Human Services at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her appointment was effective July 22, 2013. Pierce previously served as a Visiting Professor and Interim Dean of the school during 2008-09.
Pierce has both an MSN and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and an RN Diploma from Union Hospital in Fall River Massachusetts. She also has completed certificate programs at Georgetown University (Bioethics) and UNC (Academic Administration).
She served on the nursing faculty at UNC from 1976-2007, where she held numerous administrative positions including Associate Dean, Program Coordinator of the RN-BSN Outreach, Undergraduate Extended Study, Undergraduate At Risk Student Advising and the Cardiovascular Nurse Specialty Program. She also served as an Associate Faculty Scholar at the Duke University Institute on Care at the End of Life and as an Instructor in the School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Says Pierce, "I thoroughly enjoyed working with the dedicated faculty and staff of the school and am pleased to be among this talented group again."
Charles Hardy, Dean of the College of Health and Human Services, states, "The School of Nursing and the college are extremely happy to have Dr. Pierce in this most important leadership position at UNCW."


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It is common, when travelling on the rim of praetorian space, to hear stories of colonies being lost and ships going missing without a trace. Many dismiss these as just ways of explaining the kind of disasters that happen when a small colony is cut off by solar storms or long periods of subspace turbulence, while others believe them to be true. The praetorian empire for a long time has covertly known about a threat coming from the chaotic space that covers a large portion of the Omegalon galaxy and has started taking a much more active role in defending colonies from an unestablished, unidentified threat. In G.R. 2011 a colony on planet Mai XI that was supposedly undefended was attacked...
Force Roster
Praetorian Empire:
Mobile Infantrymen: 15
Advance Guardsmen: 5
6WD Assault Jeep: 1
4WD Assault Quad: 2 (Outflanking turn 2)
Generic Space Heroes: 1
Xenkan Raiders
Warriors: 20
Elite Drop Troops: 5 (Landing turn 2)
Dreadnought: 1
Lord Winston Monty: 1 & Only (Landing Turn 2)(Lord Dekxlar was away on vaction)
Scenario: Death Race
The game would be 5 turns long, both armies would gain a point for each mini-fig killed and for each structure point an enemy vehicle is reduced by, whoever had the most points at the end wins.
The battlefield consisted of a road which the Praetorian forces would deploy along. A large open area which had a few trees which for speed don't actually exist, trees and barriers would provide some cover, there was also a statue of the first deadly spacemen (their seen all over the Omegalon galaxy, on every praetorian planet due to their discovery of a section of the holy rules tome and his connection to it) and a river.
Dreddy the infallible dreadnought, with his Mk4 OTC arm, he would end up being a pretty effective damage sink.
This wall of OTC wielding enemies would have my mini-figs shitting themselves the whole battle as they gradually advanced.
My opponent was so cocky, he decided he didn't need 4 of his figures and kept them on this statue the whole battle.
Praetorian troops took cover behind barricades. I knew my brother would be putting his drop troops behind my defenses so I kept some advance guards behind my front line.
After a bit of haggling over the battlefield set-up I decided to keep the peace and took two unmighty pennies for just having a few barricades.
Round 1
Consisted of just moving forward into combat range.
Round 2
Praetorian Empire
Praetorian Infantry opened up on the advancing enemy and killed two, most were out of range but their heavy armor saved them quite a bit.
Xenkan Raiders
Dreddy move towards the 6WD Jeep in the corner of the board, taking with him 3 Xenkan Warriors.
Xenkan shooting is a joke with a -2 penalty to skill and damage, which only pissed me off more when one of my elite Advance Guards was killed by them.
Praetorians: 2
Xenkans: 1
Round 3
Praetorian Empire
4WD Quads entered the battlefield on the Xenkans left flank, they opened fire on the group of Xenkan warriors who split up to follow dreddy, but both failed on their skill roll.
Another Xenkan warrior was hit by the volley of Praetorian fire, while others were saved by their armor. The 6WD assault jeep and surrounding troops opened up on dreddy and with some lucky rolls brought him down 2 structure levels, making his Mk 4 OTC too large to use normally.
Xenkan Raiders
The enemy hero and accompanying drop troops attack the Mobile Infantry, they killed 4 of them, the mini-fig attacked by Lord W.M. had so much damage done to him by the two OTC's he was splatted across the road. One of the drop troops landed close to my hero and tried to take him, he failed and with Generic Space Hero #1 having done nothing all battle he will be able to respond, The rest of the Xenkans opened fire but none landed any hits. Now it was time for GSH#1 to respond.
He used a heroic feat to try and set off the enemies flight pack and have him uncontrollably fly off in some random direction, the dice came up a 2...
The Xenkan elite drop troop flew of, careering towards Dreddy, landing straight on Dreddies OTC which had started charging with a DIVERT ALL POWER attack. GSH#1 looked on in joy as...
...His opponent turned into a fine red mist and covered Dreddy in blood. Dreddy enjoyed this.
Praetorian Empire: 6
Xenkan Raiders: 5
Round 4
Praetorian Empire
My troops pulled back in order to avoid the drop troops killing too many.
An Advance guard fired his plasma shotgun at the enemy hero at point blank range, the 2d8 blastgun (fire) weapon ripped through Lord Winston Monty. Two drop troops were killed by combined fire from Mobile Infantry and Advance Guards. Once again my jeep and surrounding troops opened fire on Dreddy and managed to beat his armor roll 25 to 20, but my opponent decided to use the two unmighty pennies that had been 'sitting ugly' since the start of the game, things got violent at this point and I ended up with a minor head concussion due to a high speed flying d6, this dice actually ended up saving Dreddy when it rolled a 6. at this point movement was becoming hard due to the number of bodies stacking up.
Xenkan Raiders
The Xenkans were now right on top of the Praetorians, but just out of reach of CC, which would happen on the final turn. Their shooting was once again useless doing no damage. although one was killed by a Xenkan Warrior who was just in range.
Praetorian Empire: 9
Xenkan Raiders: 6
Round 5 *LAST ROUND
Praetorian Empire
A Plasma shotgun kills two Xenkans attacking on the praetors right flank.
The remaining drop troop receives trial by Mk2 Flamethrower, he came out medium rare. This turn Xenkan warriors would overrun the praetorians defenses and would be the last turn they would have before retreating to the colony to regroup to fight off the second wave. the 6WD jeep opened fire on Dreddy who was still charging his OTC, but that fucker was like a sponge for damage and didn't get a frigging scratch.
Xenkan Raider
Two Advance Guardsmen were killed by The Xenkan Warriors but unlucky rolls held them back. Dreddy could finally use his OTC, but the Jeep had moved out of the way, the 2010 rulebook isn't too clear on the matter so we decided that Dreddy could move up. but Dreddy had a last second change of heart...
The trooper was dead the second the Mk4 OTC touched his helment, ripping him apart piece by piece. A gory conclusion to a pretty bloody battle.
Praetorian Empire: 12
Xenkan Raiders: 10
Marginal Praetorian Victory!
Xenkan dead pile, half of Dreddy in it.
Praetorian dead pile.
Blood splatters tell the story of this battle better than I ever could.
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With a larger second wave on the way the praetorians pulled back to regroup and defend the colony. they took with them one of them one of the drop troops who was later revived and after much interrogation found out some information regarding what they're after; the colonies computer core.


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WASHINGTON — The federal government has vowed a quick appeal of a temporary court order that halts federal funding of human embryonic stem-cell research using new stem-cell lines.
The injunction, granted by Washington, D.C., federal Judge Royce Lamberth in response to an action launched by several pro-life groups and two Christian adult stem cell researchers, might even stop research using lines approved by President George W. Bush in 2001.
Judge Lamberth found on Aug. 23 that the National Institutes of Health's approval of 75 human embryonic stem-cell lines for federal funding violated the Dickey-Wicker Amendment prohibiting federal research that is lethal to embryos.
The NIH action lead to the implementation of a 2009 order from President Barack Obama, and his administration wasted no time promising to appeal the injunction.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler told the Politico news website that "the appeal should be filed by the end of the week."
The same site reports deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton saying that the president "thinks that we need to do [human embryonic] stem-cell research, and he thinks his policy is the right one."
But Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Texas, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, welcomed the federal court injunction against the Obama administration's policy, calling the ruling a "victory for common sense and sound medical ethics."
The lawsuit was brought last year on behalf of a Christian adoption agency, two stem-cell scientists, James Sherley and Theresa Deisher, embryos and others. The court found that only the two scientists had "standing" to bring what amounted to an emergency lawsuit because the other plaintiffs would suffer no immediate or "irreparable" injury by having to wait until the lawsuit goes to trial.
But Sherley, a Baptist and a researcher at Boston Biomedical Research Institute, and Deisher, a Catholic who runs Seattle-based AVM Biotechnology, were granted standing on the basis that their work on adult human embryonic stem cells would suffer "irreparably" unless the expansion of human embryonic stem-cell research were halted immediately.
Reasoned the court: Researchers in adult and embryonic stem-cell research were competing for the same federal dollars, but only researchers of adult stem cells relied almost entirely on public funding, while embryonic stem-cell scientists stood a chance of getting private money.
But granting the two scientists "standing" only got their legal foot in the door.
Dickey-Wicker Amendment
The meat of Lamberth's decision is that the Obama-ordered expansion of embryonic stem-cell research violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment.
"The language of the statute reflects the unambiguous intent of Congress to enact a broad prohibition of funding research in which a human embryo is destroyed," wrote Lamberth, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. "ESC research is clearly research in which an embryo is destroyed."
Reached in Seattle, Deisher declined to comment. In an e-mail she sent to friends relaying news of the victory, however, she led with two words: "Praise God."
Deisher, whose research paradigm is to work within the life ethic of the Church, is currently studying links between autism and vaccines made by using embryonic stem cells.
In a previous interview with the Register, she said that while adult stem cells had been used for decades in successful treatment of humans, the experimental treatment of animals with embryonic stem cells produced dangerous side effects and when used with humans would end in "disaster."
Nonetheless, a group of medical research foundations swiftly condemned the Lamberth injunction. Declared Lisa Hughes, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research: "Today's Federal District Court injunction halting federal funding for human embryonic stem-cell research is a blow to the hopes of millions of patients and their families suffering from fatal and chronic diseases and disorders."
Hughes added, "CAMR, and the patients and researchers we represent, remain committed to supporting all stem-cell research and the search for cures that might be discovered from these essential research tools."
NIH director Francis Collins said the injunction "had poured sand in the engines of discovery" by stopping $54 million in NIH research grants due to be issued in September.
Meanwhile, $131 million in NIH research grants for human embryonic stem-cell research has already been issued and won't be taken back.
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The question remains as to whether the injunction applies to research using the lines approved by President Bush in a 2001 order. Will Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund, one of three pro-life legal organizations that acted for the plaintiffs, told the Register, "The Bush regulation from 2001 doesn't exist anymore because it was rescinded by the Obama administration, and it is not resurrected by the preliminary injunction because the order in this case only prohibits funding ESC research under the Obama guidelines from 2009."
The Bush order never provoked a legal action from pro-lifers because it limited research to the use of stem-cell lines derived before Aug. 9, 2001 — preventing the grants from encouraging any more embryo-killing and violation of the Dickey-Wicker Amendment.
The fact that the injunction is temporary does not mean it is necessarily short-lived. Unless it is successfully appealed, it will stand until the D.C. federal court makes a final ruling on the case for a permanent injunction, said Bowman.
Legal experts supportive of embryonic stem-cell research are also urging Congress to take action by either repealing Dickey-Wicker or passing legislation specifically enabling human embryonic stem-cell research. A poll released this week by Rasmussen Reports indicates 57% of Americans oppose public funding for embryonic stem-cell research, though only 23% believe it to be immoral. This suggests the Dickey-Wicker Amendment is safe for now.
Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.


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The isolation facility
The Mars500 isolation facility in which the crew was based was located in a special building on the IBMP site in Moscow. This building comprised of the isolation facility itself, as well as the operations room, technical facilities and offices.
The layout of the isolation facility comprised of four hermetically sealed interconnected habitat modules, in addition to one external module, which was used to simulate the 'Martian surface'. The total volume of the habitat modules is 550 m3.
The individual modules were as follows:
Medical module
The medical module was 3.2x11.9 m and housed two medical berths, a toilet and equipment for routine medical examinations and telemedical, laboratory and diagnostic investigations. If a crewmember became ill, he was isolated and treated here.
Habitable module
This module was the main living quarters for the crew. The 3.6x20 m module comprised of six individual compartments for the crewmembers, a kitchen-dining room, a living room, the main control room and a toilet. The individual compartments (bedrooms), which were 2.8-3.2 m2 had a bed, a desk, a chair and shelves for personal belongings.
Mars landing module simulator
The Mars landing module simulator was only used during the 30 day 'Mars orbiting' phase. The 6.3x6.17 m module accommodated up to three crewmembers and had 3 bunk beds, 2 workstations, a toilet, a control and data collection system, a video control and communications system, gas analysis system, air-conditioning and ventilation system, sewage system and water supply, and a fire alarm and suppression system.
Storage module
This 3.9x24 m module was divided into four compartments:
- a fridge for storage of food
- a compartment for storage of non-perishable food
- experimental greenhouse
- the bathroom, sauna and gym
The technical installations included all necessary equipment for running the study (communications and control, ventilation and air supply, water supply, electrical installations, sewerage, air and water quality monitoring and partial recycling, medical equipment, fire and other safety monitoring systems, emergency equipment, etc.). The crew stayed in those modules under conditions of artificial atmospheric environment at normal barometric pressure.


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This is a post in many parts, most of them not mine, but let me get straight to the cookies and cocoa, because I know you want to comment but the blog police (as opposed to the Blizzard police) are bringing you down man.
Aunty TJ mentioned a little Firefox Plugin…
You back yet?
Got it installed?
Good back on track...
The way I think of TJ
Aunty TJ, Temerity Jane to many, TJ to most and I'm sure quite a lot more names to a few.
I think of her as Aunty TJ.
Not the kind of Aunty that you hide from under your bed when she arrives at the front door. Not the kind that you screw up your face and turn away from when she puckers up for the Christmas kiss.
Aunty TJ is the one with the bottomless jar of cookies, the one that let's you drink raspberry cordial until you are bouncing off the walls. The one that replaces your baked beans on toast first with exotic stir fry, curries and sugared ants… Of the blogging variety of course.
She's a blogger's blogger.
Adviser to the stars (well, some we think of as stars anyway, think BRK). She's not just another WoW blogger, she's a blogger that plays and occasionally writes about WoW.
TJ is big on comments
She's got a lot to say about commenting at the moment.
Actually she has a lot for you to do!
Forget about losing 40 pound in 8 weeks, become a better blog commenter in a few posts. You will be challenged, but amazed with the results.
Synapses fired
This reminded me of two things.
- The 1st being a poll I did yonks ago on you blog commenting preferences, and
- A little conversation I have been having with Klep (yes, he's a Troll, but of the Shaman variety, so if our ancestors can party together, surely we can chat) about comments, or lack thereof, from our readers.
So here's my challenge for you.
Go check out TJ's Blog Commenting Challenges (#4 ends today), and challenge yourself. When you are looking for posts to comment on, look no further than here, or Klep, or here.
If you were being nice and read to here before going and getting that Firefox plugin, then go get it now and test it out straight away!
- The Becoming People Who Comment Challenge
- The Becoming People Who Comment Challenge, #2
- The Becoming People Who Comment Challenge, #3
- The Becoming People Who Comment Challenge, #4
Sorry Auny TJ
Aunty TJ, I'm sorry I haven't been visiting as often as I should. I admit I have been playing with the other kids rather than dropping by a favorite Aunty. I promise I will be around more often.
Gnomer and Out!
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Projects Abroad Human Rights Office Accra, Ghana - Monthly Reports
Monthly Reports from 2012
Community Advocacy
During the community advocacy session a group of 2 volunteers went to Dodowa to carry out a fact-finding mission. Once arrived, they sat down with an assembly man to discuss human rights abuses within 'his' community. Quite fast the issue of parental neglect/responsibilities came up.
Slum Project
This project largely addresses the rights of communities but over the month of September PAHO focused on the rights of the child within the slum. This was done is three ways.
Juvenile Remand Project – This month our team continued to interact with the young adults of the Boy's Remand Centre and Girl's Correctional Centre three times a week. Art therapy was the main area of focus to which the groups were very responsive, particularly the girls who had thus far been the more difficult of the two to connect with.
Slum Project – Last month our team carried out many fact-finding missions in Accra's biggest slum located at Old Fadama. The community is commonly known as 'Sodom and Gomorrah' meaning 'worst of the worst'. At the beginning of July and after many in house discussions, PAHO decided to concentrate on 5 areas of work;
In 2011 PAHO was extremely involved in the training of Community Watch Committees. Established by the Community Police Unit, these groups have been registered as civilian police for their areas. Recently it was brought to our attention that further training was necessary as a follow up on how the committees performed last year. Over June PAHO held meetings with the Police to discuss presentations and how to go forward.
Over the month of May our team travelled to the outskirts of Accra to educate three farming communities on issues of intestacy and property rights, marriage rights and maintenance. It is common for women of Ghana to suffer physical, psychological and economical abuse following the death of their husbands.
Over the month of April PAHO postponed its projects to concentrate on a month of challenging Domestic Violence in Ghana. Domestic Violence remains one of the most prevalent abuses in Ghana today. It is a social issue which PAHO has tried to tackle since its establishment in many forms; through awareness, the taking on and referring of cases and monitoring.
Over the months of January and February volunteers engaged with the children and staff of Osu Children's Home. The purpose of these visits was to identify issues within the orphanage and come up with a training program for the staff. The training took place last month over three days and focused on child protection and rights, ailments and health.
This is a project in collaboration with the Community Police Unit who recently introduced civil policing to Ghana. PAHO is trying to insure that neighbourhood watch committees, who manage the civil policing, are provided with adequate knowledge about human rights while the Community Police Unit give practical information and training about the roles of the committee members.
CPU Training has been running successfully for the past few months. PAHO has developed a strong relationship with the Community Police and continue to provide training to their neighbourhood watch committees. The aim is to develop good civil policing.At the beginning of the month an evaluation was completed to assess the project.


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Harika's Spectacular Entry in Women's World Chess Championship Semi-Finals!
- KHANTY MANSIYSK (Russia): Grandmaster D Harika came up with a spectacular performance in the tiebreak games to beat Zhao Xue of China and enter the last four stage of the World Women Chess Championship. The Indian set the records right after a rea...
KHANTY MANSIYSK (Russia): Grandmaster D Harika came up with a spectacular performance in the tiebreak games to beat Zhao Xue of China and enter the last four stage of the World Women Chess Championship. The Indian set the records right after a real scare in the second game on yesterday and displayed top form to win the first rapid game and then drawing the second easily as white. The victory means Harika will not only remain in the championship but will also have a fair chance of having a shy at the title with just two matches to go in the premier women event.
In the next round now, Harika will meet Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria who was world champion in 2004. Chinese Ju Wenjun defeated compatriot Hunag Qian, while Stefanova accounted for Marie Sebag of France in the other tiebreak matches.
In the other semifinal, Wenjun will meet Anna Ushenina of Ukraine who had won in straight games against Nadezhda Kosintseva of Russia. Harika won with black in the first rapid game that proved to be the decisive factor in the match. Zhao Xue was the last fancied player remaining and she was knocked out in great style.
Taking a cue from her last game, Harika went for something she knows best instead of speculating. The King's Indian turned out to be a good choice as Zhao Xue could not get favourable complexities she was hoping for. The middle game had all virtues of a typical King's Indian wherein black always had counter play against white's initiative.
Harika obtained a dangerous passed pawn in the center as the game progressed and took it to the seventh rank after Zhao blundered. The game lasted 33 moves. In the return game, Harika faced the Hedgehog structure with white pieces and got a winning position in quick time. However, she played it safe for a long time and obtained the required draw after 85 moves.
Stefanova beat Marie Sebag 2-0 in rapid games, while Wenjun drew both rapid games but won the ten-minute blitz by 1.5-0.5 against Huang Qian to remain in hunt.
Results quarterfinals: Huang Qian (Chn) lost to Ju Wenjun (Chn) 1-1, 1-1, 1.5-0.5; D Harika (Ind) beat Zhao Xue (Chn) 1-1, 1.5-0.5; Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul) beat marie Sebag (Fra) 1-1, 2-0; Anna Ushenina (Ukr) beat Nadezhda Kosintseva (Rus) 1.5-0.5. (PTI)Published 23 Nov 2012, 17:10 IST


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CBS Predictions: 'Hawaii Five-0' Is Certain To Be Renewed
CBS: If Another Sitcom Must Go, It'll Be 'Mom' Or 'Two And A Half Men' That Gets Canceled
CBS: 'Intelligence' Is Certain To Be Canceled
CBS: 'CSI' Is Certain To Be Renewed
CBS: 'Elementary' Is Certain To Be Renewed
CBS: Silent Night, Canceled Show? Which Show(s) Would You Cancel? (Poll)
CBS: No Matter What The Bear Predicts For 'The Good Wife,' Its Crazy Fans Will Claim He Predicted It Would Be Canceled
CBS: 'Mom,' 'The Crazy Ones,' 'The Millers' & 'Two And A Half Men' Could All Be Renewed
CBS: 'Hostages'? 'The Mentalist'? Which Ratings Turkeys Would You Save From The Cancellation Bear? (Poll)
CBS: 'Hostages' Is Certain To Be Canceled, But It Would Have Been Back If Its Ratings Weren't Terrible
CBS: 'The Mentalist' Is Likely To Be Canceled
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You're a beautiful girl Cecil! Collies are a wonderful breed. It sounds like you're a happy girl.
Congrats on being DOTD! I hope you have a fun day!
Dog of the Day
Cat of the Day
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You're a beautiful girl Cecil! Collies are a wonderful breed. It sounds like you're a happy girl.
Congrats on being DOTD! I hope you have a fun day!
Forever in my heart...
Hi Cecil, you are a beautiful girl. Looks like you will have a nice life with a good family. Hapy DOTD
Adopt a shelter pet, Save a life!
Beautiful Girl with time to grow and forefill all the dreams
Happy and secure in love
Love is more than proximity.... its part of the fabric of our souls... We are their Mission.
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Hello Cecil, it's a pleasure to meet such a beautiful girl. I enjoyed reading about you and seeing your photos. I can see that you like to be active outside and don't mind water or mud LOL. I hope you and your human have many years together. Congrats on being DOTD!
Hello, Cecil in Finland! You are a beautiful girl! I would love to meet you and pat your rough coat! Since I can't I hope your person will give you extra petting and hugs for me today I enjoyed reading about all the things you're learning to do, and seeing your photo gallery of all the ways you're having fun! Happy Dog of the Day to you, gorgeous Cecil!
I've been Boo'd ... right off the stage!
Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!
"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas
"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." -- Persius, first century Roman poet
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What a joy it is to see your Cecil as DOTD, such a beautiful girl! Hope today is the best ever for her! Peace and love
Hi Cecil! Happy Dog of the Day to you! It's always a treat when a representative of your most classic and beloved breed is our featured honoree! Thanks to your proud person for sharing your story, and so many exquisite photos with us! It's clear you're quite the beauty (your coat and coloring are gorgeous), and quite the athlete too! And I have no doubt, with your apparent love for the water, you're going to grow into one fantastic swimmer, too! How lucky your family is, the humans and your furry sibs, having a beautiful best friend in you, bringing so much joy to their days with your youthful spirit! Beauty, talent, athleticism and a heart of gold...A family couldn't hope for more in a furry best friend
You're my kind of girl, Cecil!She wants to play with all animals and kiss every human she meets.
Enjoy your much deserved day of honor, sweet baby girl, celebrating to the max with your humans and furry pals, being spoiled rotten!
Lots of love and hugs and kisses to you, beautiful Cecil, and to your furry sibs too!
(Have fun in agility and in obedience school! I'm sure you're going to shoot to the head of the class, and shine in agility, too!)
Star,Tigg'r , Mollie and the10 Gallon Gang!
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Watch here on ESPN (that is, if you can get past the horrible zoom-in, zoom-out nature of the video). Anyway, more odd stuff. Now Favre is apparently considering accepting the bribe. (I'm still calling it a bribe until more info leads me to think otherwise. Here's a definition of bribe: something, such as money or a favor, offered or given to a person in a position of trust to influence that person's views or conduct – that's exactly what this offer is about). As if Favre strongly considering taking the bribe isn't strange enough, Favre then goes on to say that if the Packers won't let him play for the Packers, then they should at least let him play in the division against them. What? Why would he say this right after indicating he may accept the bribe? Because he worked something out in March with the Vikings?
What a really really odd situation this is. Despite our insistence that this is a bribe (again, because with the info we have in front of us presently, it is a bribe), I still want to give a bit of latitude to the Packers front office for now because I do wonder what's really going on behind the scenes. One worry I have is if the Packers have known of Favre's plan to try to play for the Vikings all along and they are trying their best to keep a lid on it to preserve Favre's legacy – to essentially save him from himself. Perhaps they know how damaging Favre-to-the-Vikings would be for his legacy so they're trying to prevent it (and of course, they don't want to face him in the division). But for whatever reason, Favre seems to be oblivious to this.
Umm, and what happened to the Jets trade rumors that had heated up last night?


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With the middle of the year having fallen earlier this week (July 2nd for the curious), it's time to take stock, look back and wonder: What has 2009 taught us so far?
Here are five pieces of wisdom that we've gleaned from the last six months (and handful of days):
President Obama Is The Greatest Hero Of All
As his many comic book appearances have demonstrated, there's no end to our current president's ability to save the world from any genre of threat. Amazing Spider-Man has him fighting supervillains, Youngblood shows him carrying massive laserguns to shoot renegade soldiers taking over the White House, Drafted gives us an alien-invasion-battlin' Barack and Barack The Barbarian brings everything back down to sword and sorcery basics. He's like a modern-day Arnold Schwarzenegger - and enough to make us wonder just how the comic industry would've dealt with John McCain winning the election instead.
Threats To Humanity Are Getting Weaker
Last year, it was the Large Hadron Collider and the possibility that it would rip existence apart when someone flipped the switch, and this year, it was... Swine Flu. It can't just be me, can it? I mean, Swine Flu... Doesn't that seem like a step down from the technological "Our Quest For Knowledge May Destroy Us All" conceptual genius that threatened us last year? Even calling it "the H1N1 Influenza Virus" still sounds kind of shit. Okay, so there's no chance of "hardon" spoonerisms, but still: Pandemics? Haven't we done that already? I'm holding out hope that sewer monsters will brighten the remaining months of the year, however.
The BBC Should Stop Making Us Feel Old
Yes, we know that it's just one of those aimless homilies that you know that you're getting old when the policemen and doctors start looking younger, but selecting a twelve year old to be the new Doctor Who really doesn't make us feel very good about ourselves nonetheless. I know that we started with the oldest of the Doctors and have progressively gotten younger since then - well, roughly - but between David Tennant and Matt Smith, I'm convinced that we'll have our first pre-teen Timelord by 2015. And then, the next one will be a little baby, just like in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Joss Whedon Can Defy The Laws Of Nature
If nothing else, the renewal of Dollhouse proves that he can defy the laws of television. I wouldn't put money on him being unable to fly if he really wanted to.
Terminator Salvation and Watchmen - two downbeat movies offering popcorn versions of pessimistic views of humanity ("Ultimately, man's greed and laziness will lead us to become disconnected from our fellow man and controlled by the machines and mechanisms that we created to ease our daily existences - but doesn't this slow-motion action sequence look hot?") - both failed to meet expectation at the box office, while Star Trek's hopeful, colorful version of a future that may be too lens-flarey to be cuddly but is nonetheless positive surpassed expectations. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles also died a slow death on television. The obvious conclusion? No-one wants to their entertainment to end with the lesson "We're all screwed." The Dark Knight's glossy hopelessness was so last year, people. We hadn't experienced so much of the economic downturn and/or the hopetrain of Obama back then. We were all so much more innocent and desperate to be mistreated by our movies. (Along the same lines - Size Matters: Terminator, featuring human-sized robots, fails to become a hit. Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, featuring giant robots, breaks box office records. I think you can see what I'm saying here. See also: Robot On Robot Action Is More Acceptable Than Robot On Batman Action and Megan Fox Is Hotter Than Moon Bloodgood. Sorry, But There It Is.)
Bolstered with this new knowledge, we look forward to what the rest of the year can teach us - presuming, of course, that the sewer monsters don't decide to team up with Joss Whedon and end the world before then. Pray for us.


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It contains records for the parts of Quebec City (1900-1921), Halifax (1881-1922), Saint John (1900-1912), North Sydney (1906-1912), Vancouver (1905-1912), and Victoria (1905-1912).
There are also records from New York City (1906-1912), and Eastern US parts from 1905 to 1912. These are records of those names of passengers who had the intention of going directly to Canada.
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