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Pre-Game Show Notes: They aired the Road to Slammiversary PPV, right down to advertising the Steiners vs. Team 3D. There's something really really sleazy about continuing to advertise that match, especially when it could cost nothing to run a crawl across the bottom of the screen. Of course, when compared to what WWE is pulling this week, TNA are saints in comparison, but that shouldn't prevent the company from doing the right thing. You can't win back street credibility with hardcore fans (who make up the bulk of your paying customers) when you screw them. It's understandable there was an injury; it's inconceivable to act like that injury doesn't exist until after you have the customers' money....Leticia Cline needs work on her on-air personality. Lord knows she's pleasing to look at, but she doesn't come across as someone who knows or is passionate about the product, especially when compared to Christy Hemme, who was perfect in the same role...James Storm's promo building the match with Frank Wycheck were really damn good. Storm has to be considered one of the most improved wrestlers of the year if this keeps up....It sure as hell looks like Jeff Jarrett's silhouette in the King of the Mountain preview.
Slammiversary PPV
TNA opened with their original NWA:TNA opening from the era of the Wednesday night PPVs followed by a music video meshing footage of Nashville with historic moments from that era. They aired a video of Jeff Jarrett clobbering a Tiger Woods lookalike with a guitar.
Mike Tenay welcomed us to the PPV as the band LoCash Cowboys. performed the TNA Slammiversary theme music live. The Nashville Municipal Auditorium looks damn full on TV.
LAX vs. Rhino & Senshi (with Hector Guerrero)
No Chris Harris, so I'm wondering if he's the mystery guy in the King of the Mountain. Senshi and Homicide against each other live on PPV sounds great to me. Rhino starts off with Homicide. The crowd chants Rhino's name so Homicide goes off them. Homicide ducks under a clothesline attempt but is caught with a press and slam. Homicide charges Rhino in the corner. Rhino caught him and went for a powerbomb but lost his grip and Homicide fell over the ropes to the floor, feetfirst. That could have been a disaster but thankfully he was OK. Senshi tagged in, but Homicide drilled him into the corner and tagged in Hernandez.
Senshi drilled Hernandez with a kick to the leg several times. He tries to shoulderblock Hernandez but is shoved off. Senshi attempts a second but fails. Hernandez clips Rhino in the corner, but is drilled by several trademark Senshi kicks to the head. Rhino clotheslines Hernandez, setting up a near fall. Senshi goes to work with a series of strikes but is caught and beeled across the entire distance of the ring. Hernandez does it again, then tags in Homicide.
Homicide drills Senshi with a back elbow as he rebounds off the ropes for a two count. Homicide catapults Senshi into Hernandez' waiting arms, where he's hit with a belly-to-belly suplex. Senshi kicks up at two. Hernandez locks in a bearhug but Senshi bites him to break it. Hernandez nails the Cracker Jack. He goes for a powerbomb but Senshi drilled him with a series of rights,. Hernandez falls backwards with Senshi on top. Senshi drills a double stomp then tags Rhino. Homicide and go back and forth. Rhino then nails Hernandez with a belly-to-belly. He hits a spinebuster on Homicide but Hernandez breaks it up. Hernandez and Senshi go at it. Senshi ducks under Hernandez and holds the ropes, so Hernandez goes to the floor. Senshi hits a great springboard flying forearm to the floor.
Konnan handed Homicide the slapjack but Hector Guerrero grabbed it and clotheslined Homicide's throat over the top rope. Rhino KILLED Homicide with a gore and scored the pin.
Your winners, Senshi and Rhino!
This was a really fun opener. The work was good all the way through and the crowd, which is super hot, made it even better. I've written it before but the TNA PPVs from Orlando and outside venues are like night and day from an atmosphere standpoint.
Mike Tenay and Don West noted that "as everyone knows, Scott Steiner suffered a freaky injury" in Puerto Rico and won't be appearing tonight. They said they will be following the story as the PPV goes on. They previewed the rest of the card.
They aired a King of the Mountain match preview package.
Jeremy Borash was outside Jim Cornette's office saying he was trying to get an update on the King of the Mountain and TNA Tag title situations. Eric Young showed up. Tracy Brooks showed up and tried to romance Young in order to get him to give up the match. Young started losing his mind over the idea. His delivery is awesome. Gail Kim showed up and told Young to focus on the biggest match of his life. She kissed him and told Brooks that was a kiss from a real woman, then sent Young on his way. Kim warned Brooks she was watching her and left. Brooks called her a bitch.
The announcers previewed the X-Division championship bout. Kevin Nash joined the announcers. Guru Sonjay Dutt, doing a Benny Hinn-like gimmick, came to ringside, dropping flower pedals in his wake. What he was doing at ringside was never explained. I'm not sure what to make of the gimmick yet, but at least TNA didn't make him Honkytonk Dutt or something. Nash said he felt like Jim Jones with several of his children out here. Don West quipped, "Hope there's a better ending." That was funny.
TNA X-Division champion Chris Sabin vs. Jay Lethal.
The crowd was chanting "Black Machismo" at the bell. Lethal opened up with a hiptoss and several punches. Sabin tried to scamper out of the ring but Lethal grabbed his leg. Sabin peppered Lethal with punches to the back but was caught with an elbow. Lethal nailed headscissors off the ropes, sending Sabin to the floor. Lethal charged with a suicide dive to the floor. Lethal went to the top and hit a double axehandle to Sabin's head for a near fall. Lethal really does a good job of meshing the Macho Man spots to his own signature moves. Sabin drilled a headbutt and knee to the face. Sabin 's improvement is evident too of late as he plays to the crowd at all the right times instead of going from move to move. Sabin rides Lethal in the ropes, choking him against the middle rope. He steps on Lethal's throat, mocking the Randy Savage twirling finger. The crowd starts chanting, "Let's go Lethal."
Sabin thumbs Lethal in the eye, then slaps him several times. He follows that up with several punches in the corner, toying with him. He chokes Lethal with his boot. The crowd tries to rally Lethal. Sabin hits a leaping elbow in the corner. Lethal comes back with a flying forearm of the ropes. Lethal suplexes Sabin for a two count.
Sabin comes back with a running boot in the corner to kill Lethal's momentum. Sabin goes for a top rope hurrancanrana but Lethal holds on. Lethal flips Sabin into a faceplant combination but Sabin gets his shoulder up at two. Lethal goes for the top but is caught with a mule kick to the chest, then an enziguiri to the head. Lethal kicks up at the last second.
Sabin goes for the Cradleshock but Lethal escaped. He attempted a full nelson suplex but Sabin backed him into the corner. Lethal kicked out of a pin attempt. Sabin went for Cradleshock but was superkicked. Lethal nailed the Lethal combination and the top rope elbow. Lethal scores the pin.
Your winner and new X-Division champion Jay Lethal!
Don West tells Kevin Nash, "Happy Father's day." Lethal and Nash hug. Lethal celebrates with the belt. Another good match.
They aired a video feature on the Slammiversary press conference that led to the James Storm-Frank Wycheck angle.
Leticia Cline interviewed James Storm and Jackie Moore. Storm said Wycheck better kiss his wife and kids goodbye. Jackie Moore asked Cline how much she paid for her implants, then told her to ask for a refund because they were a little lopsided. Not as funny as you might think reading this.
Ron Killings & James Storm vs. Frank Wycheck & Jerry Lynn (with Kyle Vanden Bosch)
They gave no explanation as to why Killings was a heel or teaming with Storm beyond the idea they were both TNA original roster members and offended by the attention Wycheck received at the press conference for the PPV. No mention of those TERRIBLE Killings "movie" vignettes so let's hope those have gone the way of the Dupp Cup. Wycheck and Lynn came out wearing Tennessee Titan jerseys accompanied by the Titan's Kyle Vanden Bosch.
Jerry Lynn and Ron Killings, making his return from knee surgery much earlier than expected, start off. Killings looked good early, showing no ring rust, right down to doing a handspring out of the corner and a split before nailing a kick to the face. Lynn hits a back elbow off the ropes, then a deep armdrag on Killings. James Storm tagged in, so Lynn tagged in Wycheck.
The crowd into Wycheck. Storm shoulderblocked Wycheck down to the mat. Storm put on a football helmet. Killings tossed him a football, which he fumbled to mock Wycheck. Crowd booed that. I thought that was a funny idea to get the crowd behind Wycheck. Storm headlocked Wycheck. Wycheck shoved him off into the ropes but was shoulderblocked down again. Lynn tried to give Wycheck advice.
Wycheck hits several shoulderblocks, then dropkicked Storm. Killings tried to kick Wycheck, who ducked. Killings crotched himself, then bumped to the floor. Wycheck press and tossed Lynn to the heels on the floor. Wycheck hit an atomic drop on Storm, then tossed him over the top. Storm tried to skin the cat but Lynn dropkicked him to the floor. Wycheck went after Storm on the floor but was clotheslined. The announcers played it off like Wycheck hit the back of his head on the concrete, playing off his concussions. They tossed him into the railing. Storm set up Wycheck, then kicked him in the face.
Killings handed Storm a chair but the referee took it away. This allowed Wycheck a chance to tag Lynn, who nailed some offense before being tossed to the floor. Killings took out Lynn on the floor then tossed him back in. Storm hit the Whirlybird on Lynn, then sipped from a bottle of beer. Storm spit the beer on Kyle Vanden Bosch, who tried to get in the ring but was held back. Killings tagged in and he and Lynn nailed each other mid-ring with high cross bodyblock attempts.
Storm and Wycheck tagged in. Wycheck slammed each and dropkicked Killings. He drilled their heads together. Storm ducked a clothesline and Killings took it. Storm superkicked Wycheck for the pin but Vanden Bosch pulled him out of the ring to break the cover and began beating on him. Jackie Moore jumped on Bosch's back but he flipped her over.
Inside the ring, Killings continued to work over Wycheck. Storm brandished the beer bottle. Killings held Wycheck but Lynn stopped Storm. It looked like Lynn was a step or two behind where he needed to be. The idea was that Storm ended up hitting Killings but I'm not sure if that was the case. Wycheck then hit Lynn's finisher, the cradle piledriver for the pin.
Your winners, Jerry Lynn and Frank Wycheck!
I thought this was another fun match. They booked the hell out of this to try and make it entertaining and put Wycheck in a position where he looked good but didn't embarrass the business either. It was obviously something that meant more to the live crowd then most of the audience at home, but it didn't feel forced once they were in the ring.
They aired a Bob Backlund vs. Alex Shelley video feature.
Bob Backlund vs. Alex Shelley
I expect this will be something silly but if they wanted, I bet these two could have a decent match. When I interviewed Samoa Joe a few months back, he noted that he'd love to wrestle Backlund or learn from Backlund's amateur background.
They pushed on the commentary that Backlund lost his mind after losing "the World title" to Kevin Nash in Madison Square Garden. Backlund and Shelley shook hands to open the bout. Backlund took down Shelley with several single leg takedowns. Shelley went to the floor to catch his breath, then returns to the ring. He chopped and punched Backlund, then hit a hiptoss. He cinched in a shortarm scissors. Backlund tried to escape but was caught again.
Backlund escaped and hit a butterfly suplex. He nailed an atomic drop, sending Shelley into the corner. Chris Sabin came to ringside and grabbed Backlund's leg. Backlund pulled him into the ring and hit a drop toehold on Shelley into Sabin's crotch.
Backlund did the Backlund bridge for the pin.
Backlund offered Shelley a handshake as Sabin snuck up from behind. Sabin went for a crossface chickenwing but Backlund reversed it. Backlund then locked it in on Shelley. Kevin Nash came to the ring to break it up. He and Backlund faced off. Jerry Lynn came to the ring, presumably to calm Backlund but Nash kicked him in the face. Sabin and Shelley began working over Backlund as Nash watched on. They tossed Backlund to the floor, then took worked over Lynn. Jay Lethal hit the ring for the save, nailing elbows. The elbows weren't over with the crowd. Nash walked off instead of facing off with Lethal, but stared at him from ringside. Sabin and Shelley beat on Backlund on the floor, sending him over the railing into the crowd. They played Lethal's music. They did too much going on at once here for me.
The lights went on out and Christopher Daniels began cutting a promo from somewhere in the audience. He said that he went to Sting, who told him to be true to himself and find something that satisfies his drive. He said that he used Sting's life and his relationship with "Our father" (God, who apparently left WWE for TNA). He said that he realized he's always been an angel sent from the heavens to do his bidding. He says the God he follows says take an eye for an eye and a life for a life. Daniels says that his God has no tolerance for those who wronged him. This should be a big career making promo but feels too scripted. Daniels says that his God has given him the talent to become the World champion. He says that his God has asked him to beat Sting in the ring and his will will be done. They started playing Daniels' music before he was finished. I got the idea behind this, but I think a pre-taped feature may have worked better to get this over.
They aired a Christy Hemme vs. VKM feud package.
Damaja & Basham (with Hemme) vs. Voodoo Kim Mafia
My Lord, Hemme looks great. Anyway, they brawl as soon as VKM hits the ring. Damaja and Basham are down, so Kip James charges Hemme into the ring. This lets Damaja and Basham jump VKM and they ring the bell. Basham nails a legdrop on BG James. The announcers were blaming the entire feud on Hemme. Damaja was taking several shots to the face so he raked BG's face and tagged in Basham. They tagged in and out working over BG.
Basham missed a diving headbutt. Kip James and Damaja tagged in. Kip nailed a tilt-o-whirl slam. Basham and Damaja went for a double suplex on Kip but BG speared one of them. The other was rolled up into a small package by Kip and pinned. Wow, talk about a nothing match.
Kip tossed Damaja over the ropes. VKM stalked Hemme, who headed up the ramp, She tried to run off but Lance Hoyt came from backstage to grab her. They carried her back to the ring. Kip James teased a chokeslam but Lance Hoyt hit a running boot on him. Basham and Damaja attacked BG James. Lance Hoyt slapped BG then hit a running boot to the face. Hoyt was screaming at VKM that it was his time and their time was over. Hemme and Hoyt began playing tongue hockey.
Backstage, Leticia Cline was in Jim Cornette's office with Rick Steiner. Cornette told him he was sorry about Scott Steiner's injury but they were going to have to forfeit the match because as tough as Rick was, he couldn't face Team 3D alone without a partner. Steiner said he had one and whispered a name into Cornette's ear. Cornette beamed like Steiner told him it was Jackie Fargo, Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey all at once. He asked Steiner if "he was here?" Steiner said he was. Cornette told him that he has himself a title match. Steiner ran off barking. Please, please, please don't let this be Lex Luger or Buff Bagwell. Please! Cline asked who it was and Cornette said that if Steiner wanted her to know, he would have told her.
Back in the building, LAX jumped Hector Guerrero at the Spanish Announce table. Konnnan was in Guerrero's face screaming. That's three angles in like 25 minutes!
We go to a video feature on the Eric Young vs. Robert Roode feud.
Eric Young vs. Robert Roode
Roode was browbreating Young as soon as he got into the ring. Young fought back but was taken down and nailed with a series of boots. Young tosses Roode to the floor. Young went to the top and Brooks tried to get him to stop. Young acted like he was listening, then when she turned her back, he hit a bodypress over her to the floor on Roode. Roode and Young battled on the floor. Young was dropped throat-first on the rail. Roode chokes Young against the ropes. Brooks slaps Young in the face. I'm waiting for Gail Kim to get involved. Roode scored a two count. Roode scored another near fall and began choking Young on the mat. He nails a snapmare and then snaps Young's neck forward as he leaps over him. Roode screamed at the crowd and began chopping away at Young. He charged Young in the corner but was nailed with an elbow.
Roode cut his offense off and hit a neckbreaker for a two count. He cinched in a rear chinlock. Young got to his feet and fell backwards with the electric chair. Young went on the offense, finally hitting an elbow and a clothesline for a near fall. Roode whipped Young into the corner and he did the Flair Flop. Young went to the floor, where he teased Brooks by dancing her in a circle, the pulling her pants down. She was hardly wearing the underwear you'd expect to get a pop from the crowd.
Young went to the top. Roode tried to stop him but was shoved off. Young hit a top rope elbow for a two count. Roode nailed a jawbreaker and a clothesline. Roode went to the middle rope for his signature kneedrop but Young caught him with a boot to the face. Brooks got into ring, so Young picked her up in a Fireman's carry and ran her head into Roode's crotch while Roode was on the corner. Young pulled Roode atop of her and hit a death valley driver on both. Young only got a two count. Young began having words with the referee. Roode rolled out of the ring and grabbed a chair. Young went to grab him, but Roode blasted him with the chair and pinned him.
Your winner, Robert Roode!
The ring announcer said that Young's TNA contract was now null and void and he's going to be fired. Roode took the mic the and told Young he was fired. Jim Cornette came to ringside. He tells Roode that he's going to open his ears and shut his mouth. Cornette told Roode he was warned he was going to keep an eye on the match because he wanted it settled fair and square. Cornette said that what he just saw wasn't fair and square and announced the match was to be re-started.
They rang the bell and Roode went right after him with punches. The crowd got behind Young, chanting his name. Gail Kim attacks Brooks from behind as Brooks was going to hand Roode a chair. They battled up the entranceway. Roode stalked over Young, who rolled him up for the pin. Young wins his freedom.
Your winner, Eric Young!
Backstage, Jeremy Borash was with TNA Tag Team champions 3D. Brother Ray said that tonight was a historic night for TNA was supposed to be a historic night for tag team wrestling. He said they and the Steiners were going to get it on but that's not going to happen. He says that's not going to happen because Scott Steiner isn't here. He says that some people claim Steiner has a throat problem, but the truth is Steiner talked a lot of crap and punked out on the fans, the business, and his brother Rick. He said that it hurts him to say that but a month ago they had nothing but respect for The Steiners. He said a month ago, the Steiners crapped on Team 3D's legacy. Ray said that Rick's been out of the business for years, so what kind of partner could he find. He said he hopes Scott gets well soon so they can finally kick his teeth in. Trademark good promo from Team 3D.
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The holiday season is a wonderful mix of sights and sounds, family and gift-giving, celebration and thanksgiving. It seems the season gets bigger, noisier and more hectic with each passing year. In fact, in addition to the increased volume of traffic, crowd noise and music during the holidays, some of the toys on the market… Read More »

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Japanese circuit bender Kaseo loves taking Pikachu toys and doing wonderful things with them. We've seen his stuff before, with the legion of singing Pokemon, but his latest work is well worth a look.
Witness the Pikatron, a handheld distortion device that's basically a guitar-looking synthesiser that uses Pikachu as a medium to channel the spirit of 80's sci-fi movie soundtracks.


text: Massage Therapists Washington massage therapists are so much more than just people who work away the pain and soreness in clients limbs and joints. They are certified healers that understand the body s pressure points and the ways in which physical pain manifests itself mentally, and vice versa. A good massage therapist knows exactly where to go to relieve the pain, often uncovering afflictions that the client simply had no idea existed.


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Love Letter to the Earth
Thich Nhat Hanh
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While many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a tipping point. He believes that we need to move beyond the concept of the "environment," as it leads people to experience themselves and Earth as two separate entities and to see the planet only in terms of what it can do for them. Thich Nhat Hanh points to the lack of meaning and connection in peoples' lives as being the cause of our addiction to consumerism. He deems it vital that we recognize and respond to the stress we are putting on the Earth if civilization is to survive. Rejecting the conventional economic approach, Nhat Hanh shows that mindfulness and a spiritual revolution are needed to protect nature and limit climate change.
Love Letter to the Earth is a hopeful book that gives us a path to follow by showing that change is possible only with the recognition that people and the planet are ultimately one and the same.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Born in Hue, Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk, poet, scholar, and human rights activist. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is author of more than one hundred books, and is one of the best known Buddhist teachers in the world today. Previous best-selling books include Being Peace and Buddha Mind Buddha Body. He lives at Plum Village, his meditation center in France, and travels worldwide, leading retreats on the art of mindful living.


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HARGEISA, Somalia — If a country isn't recognized, does it make a sound? Here in Somaliland, the semi-autonomous northern part of the failed state of Somalia, I discovered that the answer is an emphatic yes.
The government in Mogadishu has virtually no influence in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, or over the territory's 3.5 million residents. Since 1991, when the end of Said Barre's dictatorship plunged
Somalia into anarchy, Somaliland has written its own Constitution, held four peaceful elections, established a central bank that prints its own currency,
built schools and universities, and created an elaborate security apparatus that has managed to keep at bay terrorist groups like the Shabab, a Wahhabi group that operates with impunity in southern Somalia.
Though Somaliland also borders the tempestuous Gulf of Aden, virtually no pirates haunt its coast. In fact, the maximum-security prison in Hargeisa currently holds some 70 accused pirates. During the drought that thrust the Horn of Africa back into the news last year, Somaliland dodged the worst effects of famine by spending around $10 million — a combination of government, private and diaspora resources — while in the south tons of food given by foreign groups were stolen.
About 50 percent of the $43 million budget (pdf) goes to security and policing. When I left Hargeisa, the government mandated that I travel with an armed guard. Shukri Ismail, the only female on the first National Electoral Commission, told me locals tolerate such arrangements because "if you don't live in peace, everything else is trivial."
This has left Somaliland with an ironic disadvantage: comparative stability. Unlike Eritrea, East Timor, Kosovo and South Sudan — recent additions to the community of nations — Somaliland goes about its business mostly free of violence or political infighting. And so it gets passed up for economic opportunities, like the $9 million job-creation grant the World Bank gave South Sudan earlier this month.
Yet it needs them. The state power utility only reaches a fraction of the 1.2 million who live in Hargeisa, and the rest is provided privately at great expense. Piped water is also scarce, and secondary roads are crumbling in many places.
Poor infrastructure is one reason Saad Shire, Somaliland's minister for planning, is bullish about formal international recognition. He says independence would remove barriers to foreign assistance, foreign loans and foreign investment. For now, "very few people will venture to invest in a country that is not recognized," Shire told me. The country's cash comes from a small tax-base and remittances of about $500-600 million annually from Somaliland's diaspora.
Despite the potential benefits, foreign influence appears to be a pet peeve here. This is partly because of pride at what's been accomplished without outside help. Ismail, currently the director of Candlelight, a prominent local NGO, said that during the drafting of the Somaliland Constitution in the early 1990s, "We were slaughtering our own goats, our own sheep, spending our own money collected penny by penny from the community." And as Nicholas Eubank of Stanford has demonstrated, living largely without foreign aid or foreign intervention constrains resources in a way that leads to more inclusive government.
Foreign meddling hasn't done much good for Somalia proper. More than one person in Somaliland pointed out to me that the ineffectual Transitional Federal Government was born from diplomatic whirlpools such as the 2008 Djibouti Agreement (pdf), which ceased fire between the T.F.G. and armed opposition, and the 2011 Kampala Accord (pdf), which deferred elections and extended the T.F.G.'s mandate. In response to the chaos, Kenyan, Ethiopian and Ugandan troops are fighting a war in southern Somalia, with mounting civilian casualties.
For the near future, Somaliland will be caught between disdaining foreign assistance and requiring it. A communiqué issued after a major summit meeting on Somalia in London last month "welcomed the success in some areas of Somalia in establishing local areas of stability" but made no mention of Somaliland's campaign for independence. Countries outside of the region are loath to stretch their necks ahead of African governments or what leadership remains in Somalia itself.
This irks young people in Somaliland, who have only known the region as a fledgling state. Suleiha, a 15-year-old student I met at Abaarso Tech, Somaliland's top-flight boarding school, told me she was disappointed in the London summit. "We went to that meeting as Somalia, and I didn't agree. We want to be our own country. We have achieved peace. We have our own government."


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There are two ways you can shut down an IRC bot/client. The quick and dirty way is rather simple: exit; It exits the program, shutting down the socket, and everybody online sees yet another "Connection reset by peer" or "Remote end closed the socket" or something. As of version 6.50, all you need to do in order to shut down gracefully is to send a "shutdown" event to the IRC component. It will make sure your quit message (if any) gets delivered, and will forcibly disconnect if there are any problems (faulty server or network issues). After doing this, it will unregister all sessions and clean up after itself. If you want to do something more elaborate on your own, take a look at the following documentation: logged in, "connected", "quit", "disconnect", and "unregister".
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Northrop Grumman Corp. is donating $375,000 to create a science center and teaching lab at the Space Foundation's Colorado Springs headquarters.
The Northrop Grumman Science Center will include a Science on a Sphere laboratory and a teaching facility that will be used for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education programs for teachers and students, as well as for community education outreach efforts.
The Northrop Grumman Science Center is the first major component of the Space Foundation's visitors' center, which is under development at 4425 Arrowswest Drive. Construction will start immediately and the new center is expected to this fall.
"This generous gift from Northrop Grumman makes it possible for the Space Foundation to realize our vision of an interactive destination for formal and informal public and private education – advancing STEM in the exciting context of space exploration, development and utilization," said Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham. "We envision a facility where children and adults can participate in highly interactive learning opportunities in multiple disciplines, including astronomy, physics, mathematics, geography, environmental sciences, planetary sciences and biology."
The center will have both lecture and laboratory facilities that can be used for pre-kindergarten through graduate-level courses, educator professional development and educational multimedia events and presentations for the general public.
"Northrop Grumman is honored to partner with the Space Foundation to create this exciting new educational facility for the Rocky Mountain region that will help lead the next generation into space," said Gary Ervin, a corporate vice president of Northrop Grumman and president of the company's Aerospace Systems sector. "STEM education initiatives like this are critical for today's children to become tomorrow's leaders in space. They are the future stewards of our nation's leadership in technology to keep both our economy strong and our residents secure while advancing our understanding of the world around us."
The center will extend the reach and capabilities of the Space Foundation's education enterprise, which offers space-themed, standards-based education programs to teachers and students. Programs include Space Across the Curriculum teacher professional development courses, STARS science enrichment programs for schools, New Horizons community programs that combine school-based education programs with community events and lectures, Audience with an Astronaut sessions for schools, school and youth tours of major space industry exhibits, including those at the National Space Symposium, lesson plans and teaching resources and a NASA Educator Resource Center.


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TGIF and watch this tour of Jose Cuervo Factory
Reuters.com published this deansguide article September 13, 2008
Tequila the official party liquor, the daddy of the fiesta, the king of the shot, and the emperor of margarita madness is actually an amazing marketing story. What makes an often, horrible smelling, difficult to describe taste that can make the eyes water and throat wretch with a gag reflex similar to food posioning the #1 fastest growing category of liquor in America according to the 2005 Adams Handbook Advance the industry standard.
Granted the premium tequila brands like Patron produce incredibly rich and smooth tasting liquors, but the majority of the tequila sales, 40% plus, are Jose Cuervo tequila of the ilk described above–rotten eggs on sandpaper.
Marketing Strategy
1. Association: Tequila is the party liquor associated with fiestas, parties, food, and music. No other drink symbolizes fun, good times, beaches, and the tropics like a tequila margarita
2. Heritage: Tequila has a long history and heritage of proud producers from a passionate country, Mexico, that crafts the best tequila products in the world
3. Perception: Tequila, like the country of Mexico, symbolizes macho, hot, spicy, and power. It is perceived, and rightfully so, as the drink that is dangerous. For many people it is a brand that signifies their toughness much like a football fan who supports the Oakland Raiders. If you can hang at a Raider game, think of San Quentin at a picnic, then you are tough enough to drink tequila
4. Reputation: Everyone, at least those that drink, have a tequila story. The stories are never pretty, they are usually warning shots to friends, and yet they are told with pride. There is a legend a lore attached to this brand that people want to associate despite the taste and horrific results the drink can produce


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You might already know about the glowing mushrooms of Japan. Every spring, the rains cause bioluminescent fungi to peep out from tree trunks and forest floors. For years scientists believed that these rare mushrooms grew nowhere else in the world. But now the glowers turn out to thrive in the forests of Brazil, too. Four new species like these, pictured, have been discovered there since 2002.
According to National Geographic:
The mushrooms are part of the genus Mycena, a group that includes about 500 species worldwide. Of these only 33 are known to be bioluminescent - capable of producing light through a chemical reaction.
In Japan, you can go on a nighttime tour in early summer to see the glowers. Generally, however, researchers prefer that crowds leave the green guys alone. They're rare, and tend to prefer areas with very little human habitation.
New Glowing Mushrooms Found in Brazil [via National Geographic]


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|Posted: May 19, 2009
Microorganisms produce eco-friendly plastics
|(Nanowerk News) Last year's energy crisis highlighted an unforseen by-product of the looming fuel shortages of the 21st century. Petroleum-based products such as plastics that society takes for granted but now requires to function will run out with the oil. Scientists are looking to microorganisms to pick up the slack and help produce environmentally friendly plastics, according to research presented today at the 109th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
|"Organic waste from agriculture, industries and households forms a very large resource that is currently discarded or at best transformed into biogas. From a sustainability point of view it is desired to convert these organic resources in chemicals," says Mark van Loosdrecht of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, who has been working on using bacteria to transform this waste into bioplastics known as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs).
|PHAs are linear polyesters produced by bacterial fermentation of sugar or lipids (fats). They are produced by the bacteria to store carbon and energy. More than 150 different monomers can be combined within this family to give materials with extremely different properties. These plastics are biodegradeable and are used in the production of bioplastics. However, the high cost of PHA production compared to conventional plastics has limited their use in a wide range of applications.
|Using technology derived from wastewater treatment systems, van Loosdrecht and his lab have developed a process using open microbial cultures to convert organic wastes to PHAs. This new process is able to produce just as much PHA as existing processes at specific rates that are up to three times faster.
|Kevin O'Connor at the University College in Dublin, Ireland, has also developed a new process using bacteria to produce PHAs from waste, only the waste is not organic. O'Connor has found a way to transform traditional plastics into biodegradable plastics. Using a process called pyrolysis, the waste plastics are heated in the absence of air, causing a breakdown of the molecular bonds. What's left is an oil that is then fed to natural soil bacteria that use it to produce PHA.
|The process was initially developed using polystyrene, one of the most widely used plastics, but O'Connor says it also works on other plastics including polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the plastic used to make water bottles.
|Richard Gross from the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, is using bacteria that produce a building block from vegetable oils that can be used to make a plastic that is very much like polyethylene. However, unlike polyethylene, when it becomes waste it can be converted by mild enzymatic methods to biodiesel fuel.
|"We were challenged by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) come up with a plastic that could be broken back down to liquid fuel. I thought about that and realized that we needed to make plastic from building blocks that could later serve as fuel elements," says Gross.
|That basic starting material for this work are vegetable oils that consist of fatty acids. Gross in collaboration with colleagues at DNA 2.0 (Menlo Park, CA) engineered a yeast to specifically ferment a fatty acid into a compound that can be processed into a bioplastic.
|"The plastic is very much like polyethylene. It will process like it, it will feel like it, people will be comfortable with it," says Gross.
|When the plastic becomes waste, it can be broken down and processed into biodiesel using an enzyme. While the process for conversion of the plastic to biodiesel works in the lab, it is not efficient enough for commercial viability.
|"We are now looking for a really efficient enzyme that can convert the plastic back to its building blocks. We have found microbes and enzymes that do break it down completely but we still need to improve their efficiencies," says Gross.
|A press conference will be held on this topic with researchers featured in this press release on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:15 a.m. EDT. It will be broadcast live on the web via the uStream channel at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/2009-asm-general-meeting.
|Source: American Society for Microbiology
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"I still defer to Reggie Wayne as the leader of our offense," Luck said. "But I think as a quarterback there's a natural progression of leadership, the older you get. I definitely feel more inclined this year to share my opinion if I feel like it's necessary, or to talk in front of the guys, or what have you. As a quarterback you assume a natural leadership role."
What Luck can do, he said, is help his teammates understand the Colts' new offense. New Colts offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton was Stanford's offensive coordinator during Luck's final season in college, so Luck knows the offense better than his teammates.
"Not that it's easier, but there's definitely a much higher comfort level," Luck said. "We are technically in a new offense, but I — having played with it in college — makes it so much easier to help teach it, and that is a big part of playing the position."
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Go for gold on Wattle Day
September 1 is National Wattle day.
Wattle is not a unique plant to Australia but has become a symbol of our country for many years.
The Golden Wattle (or acacia pycnantha) is used in the Australian shield, the Order of Australia and is also shown on various Australian stamps.
Many Australian's see the wattle as a national plant of importance and the gold colour of the flower has long been recognised as one of joy and renewal – it's even used in the national Olympic uniforms.
The Australian National Botanic Gardens reported that Archibald Campbell founded a Wattle Club in Victoria in 1899 to promote a Wattle Day demonstration every September. He wanted to encourage recognition of the flower as a symbol of patriotism.
"In 1908 he delivered a lecture entitled 'Wattle Time; or Yellow-haired September' in which he stated that 'by numbers, the Wattle is almost exclusively Australian, and should undoubtedly be our National Flower'.
"Interest in a national Wattle Day was revived in Sydney in 1909. Victoria and South Australia participated in 1910, and Queensland in 1912."
Wattle is among the first plants to regenerate after a bushfire, reminding us of the importance of renewal as it paints our national colours across our land in time of crisis.
Many a grandmother has reprimanded the little ones however for bringing wattle sprigs into their house.
It's a long standing tradition that wattle isn't brought into the house – superstition says it brings bad luck.
But you can still bring the golden joy of wattle into your home in other ways.
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Man calls emergency number to get deported
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, March 5 (UPI) -- A man said he dialed the emergency number in Dubai, UAE, more than 100 times on multiple occasions so he could be deported to his home country of Pakistan.
The 53-year-old Pakistani man, identified by prosecutors as R.S., said he thought of the scheme after he was declared as an illegal after living in the United Arab Emirates' Dubai for 30 years, was broke and had little hope of finding employment after he lost his job with the Dubai police force, Gulf News reported Tuesday.
Prosecutors accused R.S. of abusing telecommunication services and disturbing the authorities by logging more than 100 calls to the emergency number on multiple occasions.
"It was my only alternative because I wanted to be deported and fly back home," R.S. told the Dubai Misdemeanor Court.
He said he dialed the emergency number "for no valid or urgent reason in order to be taken to court and deported. ... They constantly ordered me to stop calling them, failing which they would issue an arrest warrant in my name ... and that was exactly what I wanted them to do."
He said he was fired from his job as a calligrapher in Dubai Police and his residency was canceled because he was absent for several days.
"I couldn't find a job, my visa expired and I don't know where my passport is," R.S. said. "I intentionally disturbed the police to be deported back to Pakistan."
A verdict is expected March 19.
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Linaro developers and engineers can be found at various events across the globe. This week we catch up with Renato Golin of the Linaro Toolchain Team who recently attended the 3rd Annual EuroLLVM event which took place in Paris, France on April 29th and 30th, 2013. Curious about EuroLLVM, I asked Golin for a few more details about this event and more.
Question: What is EuroLLVM and what was your role in this event?
EuroLLVM is the European version of the LLVM Developers Meeting, in US, where we gather to exchange ideas, present the progress of our projects and discuss the future of the toolchain. This time we had many people from the US, including in the speaker list, which is a good indication that this event is making its mark on the LLVM world.
Back in 2011, I organized the first EuroLLVM in London and, following the success we had a 2012 version was organized by Arm. This year, a team of volunteers in Paris got the lead. I was more on the sidelines than organizing the event, helping with lessons learned, getting the badges, taking the pictures, running around solving last minute problems, etc. The credit this year goes to the core team in Paris, they've done an amazing job.
Question: For those who may not know why this event is important can you tell people a little bit about LLVM?
LLVM is an open source toolchain, much like GCC, but with a permissive license, a modern C++ codebase and the possibility of using JIT compilation, which seems to be getting a lot of traction in the graphics community. Another crucial feature, in comparison to GCC, is the ease to add new functionality, even if you keep them private, which makes it very desirable for prototyping or commercializing products on top of it. LLVM has support for a number of architectures, from Arm to SystemZ, and can produce pretty decent code when compared to most modern compilers.
Most people, when talking about why they have chosen LLVM for their personal project, commercial product or academic research, mention how easier it is to get along with the LLVM community. LLVM is young, but it's moving at a faster pace than possibly any other compiler and part of that comes from how the community works. There is very little protectionism on legacy code, and people are generally welcome to submit patches, which get reviewed quickly and constructive reviews are done. I've been following the list since 2009 and don't remember any major flame or aggressive emails through the list, even when people had horribly messed up the code.
Question: Can you tell readers a little about your role at Linaro?
My current role is to understand how LLVM fits around the Arm ecosystem and what we can do about it. For now, we're mainly interested in understanding what LLVM can and cannot do, so that we can create a TODO list and present to the community. It's only when we know that the issues are, how easy it is to implement them and how important it is for the community that we can correctly prioritize and work on it.
Our main focus will be around the Cortex-A* platform, mainly A9 and A15, paying special attention to automatic vectorization (NEON), ABI and cross-compilation issues, as well finding relevant benchmarks for Arm platforms. We want LLVM to perform well where people will use it, not just to look good in the paper.
Question: With Linaro Connect Europe happening in July what can attendees expect to see on the LLVM front?
The Linaro LLVM team has just started, so I can't promise much. I'm working on the 3.3 release now and will run some benchmarks after that, hopefully before LCE, so that we can get at least some numbers out to share with the other Linaro teams, members and the general Arm community, so that we can focus on the right things up from the start.
The only thing I can promise now is that we'll listen very carefully to all suggestions, so if anyone has any special requests, please make sure you get them to us, or we'll never know how important it is for you.
Question: What else would you like people to know about you, EuroLLVM, or your work at Linaro?
That's about it. ;)
More information about the Linaro Toolchain Team can be found at: https://wiki-archive.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain
More information about LLVM can be found at: http://llvm.org/
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Given all the missions ninja are assigned to - battle, intelligence gathering, diversions - this is a priceless ninjutsu. It is typically used to change into people other than oneself, but one also has the ability to change into animals, plants, and even inanimate objects like weapons. This gives this technique an abundance of uses. The transformation of a skilled shinobi will be exactly like the genuine article, so it will be impossible to tell the two apart. On the other hand, a transformation performed by an inexperienced person will have obvious discrepancies. It will be impossible to deceive anyone with it. This is one of the most basic ninjutsu, as such most shinobi know how to perform it.
The transformation technique is considered to be among the more difficult E-ranked techniques, since it requires constant emission of chakra while mentally maintaining the form. On top of that, the user would be, most likely, interacting with the environment. This puts mental strain on an inexperienced ninja. Thus, the best way to determine if it is indeed a transformation is to cause this strain upon the user; though this is not always successful.[2]
Tsunade of the Sannin possesses a more advanced version of the Transformation Technique, where she disguises her 50-year-old self to appear younger. Her technique is unique as it seems to be permanent, and she does not need to exert herself to maintain it for a long time, whereas a normal transformation would be dispelled when the user is injured or attacked. The only time this is broken is when Tsunade releases all the chakra from the seal on her forehead.
- The Wood Release: Transformation is the only transformation technique known to have a chakra nature.
- Kagerō's transformation into a grotesque, hunchbacked man is similar to Tsunade's, as it did not dispel after being wounded.
- The Land of Demons possesses a variant of the Transformation Technique that is purportedly permanent.
- Kazan earned himself the moniker "Hundred Transformations" due to his mastery and extensive usage of the Transformation Technique.


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I LOVE Random House. They are kind enough to send me grammar and language books from time to time, and some of them are very funny and entertaining. I will be posting a review on the first shortly.
But you have to admit…in the latest package they sent me, this was a bit odd:
I found it funny enough that they didn't even put my actual name on the address. (My coworkers, some of whom simply call me Vandal, were amused as well.) But the GRAMMER vandal?!
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A few days ago I was passing through the tiny town of Guyra in northern New South Wales, Australia. This is an old mining town that is today known for its annual Lamb and Potato Festival, but during the 1920s the town was notorious for being the scene of the legendary Guyra Ghost, Australia's most infamous poltergeist.
On the night of 8th April, 1921, the Bowen family awoke to "tremendous thumpings" in their little cottage. Over the coming days this developed into the usual poltergeist phenomena. There were knockings on the walls while stones were thrown onto the roof and outer walls of the building. Soon, nearly all of the windows in the cottage were smashed. No one could identify the source of the activity, although it seemed to center around twelve-year-old Minnie Bowen.
The occupants held séances to contact the "poltergeist" who was believed to be the restless spirit of "May", Catherine Bowen's daughter from a previous marriage. Minnie allegedly received the following message from her deceased half-sister, "Tell mother I am in heaven, and quite happy. Tell her it was her prayers which got me here, and I will look after her for the rest of my life."
The poltergeist rocked the town of Guyra. The police arrived on the scene and kept vigil over the house although the phenomena continued. One policeman was frazzled by the activity and was sent away for a rest. The locals were so terrified that they armed themselves and began sleeping with their weapons. This resulted in an accident where a five-year-old boy stumbled across a pistol on a bedroom table that sat in wait for "a ghost". The boy believed it was a toy and he picked it up and shot at his six-year-old sister. She survived the incident but was left with a bullet in her skull that couldn't be removed due to its dangerous position.
The Guyra Ghost even attracted international attention, including a visit from a businessman by the name of Mr. H.J. Moors who happened to be a personal friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moors and his five assistants set up traps and created lookout posts but couldn't find any evidence of trickery. They concluded that the phenomena were caused by a poltergeist. The events were so stressful for the family that Minnie was sent to stay with her grandmother in nearby Glen Innes. Miraculously, the phenomena ceased in Guyra, although it followed Minnie to her new home. The people of Glen Innes soon had enough of the activity and the attention, so Minnie was shipped back to Guyra.
By the end of the month the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Minnie had made a confession to the police. On several occasions she had thrown stones and rapped on the walls when she was not being watched. She admitted that she knocked on the walls "for a joke" and threw the stones to "frighten her sister-in-law". This confession laid the matter to rest for the police who declared the whole matter a hoax.
The phenomena ended as quickly as it began. Minnie grew up, married and became Mrs. Inks. She moved to nearby Armidale (where I went to university) and never seemed to speak about the Guyra Ghost again. In the late 1980s, she was crossing the road when she was struck and killed by a passing car.
Today, the 'Guyra Ghosts' is the name of the local rugby team but otherwise, the locals don't like to talk about the story that draws attention to their peaceful town, even though those involved have long since died. However, there are some who are still reluctant to accept that the poltergeist was a hoax. As the local newspaper the Guyra Argus claims, "Historically, Guyra is probably most famous as the home of the Guyra Ghost which made national news in April 1921. The mystery of who, or what, haunted a local residence remains unsolved and the subject of much speculation." After all of these years Minnie Bowen's confession is forgotten (or ignored) in favor of keeping the Guyra Ghost an unsolved mystery.
Dr. Karen Stollznow is a linguist, author, skeptical paranormal investigator and a research fellow for the James Randi Foundation. You can follow Karen on Twitter here.


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Thursday, February 9, 2017
Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary is located in Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Union Territory). It is located very near to Silvassa and Khanvel. One has to travel on the Khanvel road to reach it.
Indragad was around 35 KM away from here. It took us a little more than an hour's time to reach thanks to the narrow roads.
|That's us at Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
Indragad was around 35 KM away from here. It took us a little more than an hour's time to reach thanks to the narrow roads.
Directions to the Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary are tagged in google maps, so follow the instructions.
|Entrance to Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
There was a crowd gathered outside the Sanctuary premises. We got ourselves tickets. It costs us Rs. 100 for four. Outside vehicles are not allowed in the Sanctuary premises.
This is my first trip to a wild life sanctuary. I have been to zoo and national parks before. So I was very excited.
|Sambar at Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
We waited our turn and finally traveled by the bus to reach the spot where the Deer were.
This is the closest I have been to the Sambar Deer and Chital or Cheetal aka Spotted Deer with no barring or fencing between us. The experience was just thrilling as I was not sure how the animal would react with us humans all around them.
Sadly the animals kept walking in the woods thanks to some idiotic animals who got dangerously close to them to shoot selfies. No prizes for guessing who these animals were?
|Sambar at Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
After spending an hour here. We decided to head back to Dadra and Nagar Haveli to have some lunch. I hope Raj and Martina had some good time clicking some amazing snaps of spotted deer and sambar.
|More Sambar at Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
|Spotted Deer at Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
|Lone Sambar at Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
The journey was smooth wall the way. The moment we were nearing Hotel Fountain the traffic jam started. It was a mad traffic jam. It ate around 30 minutes of our time.
|The woods at Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
Finally at 9 PM, Raj dropped me at Borivali, from there I boarded a train to Andheri.
|Spotted Deer at Satmaliya Deer Sanctuary
Long distance travel on the bike is painful. My back and legs were in pretty bad shape. An experience similar to the one I had while travelling to Indurigad near Pune. But then I was happy that I got to explore new places. They bought a smile on my place.
Now you too can read it and go a exploring places over the weekend.
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- Bear Necessities (30 points): Complete the Story Mode.
- Bear Faced Cheek (10 points): Achieve a 10x Combo bonus (not achievable in Multiplayer).
- Teddy Bear (10 points): Get an A grade for a Story Mode Chapter.
- Brainy Bear (10 points): Get an AA grade in 10 Puzzle Mode levels.
- Never Leave A Bear Behind (30 points): Collect all the snowmen and break the cages in Story Mode.
- Housing Slump (10 points): Destroy 50 trapper generators.
- No Bears Were Harmed (10 points): Complete a Chapter in Story Mode without losing a life.
- The Right To Bear Arms (10 points): Kill a trapper of each type (not achievable in Multiplayer).
- Trophy Bear (20 points): Collect all 10 extra life pick-ups.
- Smarter Than The Average Bear (30 points): Complete the Puzzle Mode.
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The HP2973 development system consists of an EB194 AVR multiprogrammer with AVR-ISP, an EB083 E-Blocks Development Board, and a universal switching power supply. Together, they provide a low-cost way of developing AVR projects and learning AVR programming.
The USB cable shown is included also, as it is part of the standard EB194 package.
Follow the above links for detailed descriptions of the two boards. Below are summarized overviews.
The included CD-ROM contains a range of development tools including the ISP programming software and an Integrated Development Environment for writing code in assembly and for debugging. A free GNU C compiler can be added to the IDE for those wanting to write programs in C.
This product is fully compatible with the Flowcode for AVR programming tutorial software. In-circuit debugging with Flowcode can be achieved by using a FlowKit system.
It includes switches on Port A and Port B I/O pins, a quad 7-segment display, a 2-line by 16-character alphanumeric display, a simple analog light sensor, and a potentiometer for sensor simulation.
E-Blocks can be put together to form a variety of systems that can be used for teaching and learning electronics, and for the rapid prototyping of complex electronic systems.
Each E-Block has one or more 9-way D-type connectors that provide up to eight input/output lines and a ground line. These D-type connectors allow connection between E-Blocks to be made in buses of multiples of 8 lines, just like a real electronic system. Power is routed separately to those E-Blocks that need it.
Processing E-Blocks based on PIC, dsPIC, ARM or AVR microcontrollers, Altera FPGAs, Arduino or Raspberry Pi control the whole E-Blocks system. Processing E-Blocks provide up to five input/output ports with up to eight lines per port.
Please see the E-Blocks Category for a list of available components. For more details on E-Blocks, see the E-Blocks User Guide (in English, French, German and Spanish) or watch the Introduction to E-Blocks video.


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Court allows KC charter school to stay open
Ruling blasts state officials who wanted Gordon Parks Elementary closed
A Cole County judge ruled Monday that Kansas City's embattled Gordon Parks Elementary School can remain open.
Judge Daniel Green blasted the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for illegally trying to close the charter school.
DESE had rejected the school's application to renew its charter this spring, saying that the school had some of the worst standardized test scores of any school in Missouri. Gordon Parks was chartered to help children who may be years behind in school, and many of its students live in poverty.
School leaders said they recognized the problems with the test scores and had been working to make changes. They said the state ordered the shutdown before those changes had an opportunity to take effect.
Last week, Gordon Parks Elementary School leaders said the latest round of test scores, which have not been released to the public, showed a dramatic improvement.
Green said the state's effort to close the school were "unlawful, unreasonable, arbitrary and involved an abuse of discretion." Green said the state had held a private meeting to discuss those plans when the charter renewal was being made in May.
The University of Central Missouri, which had sponsored the school, said it felt the school should stay open. Neither UCM nor Gordon Parks Elementary School leaders were aware of the meeting.
School leaders said last week that they planned to reopen the school this fall if the court sided with them. They said they lost so many staff members after the spring shutdown was announced, that the school may only be able to support classes from kindergarten to second grade.
"In a victory for our children, Gordon Parks Elementary School has been saved," Gordon Parks Board President Doug Curry said. "We will need all of the support we can muster to meet and improve upon our ambitious goals enabled by today's favorable court decision."
"As sponsor wanting to renew the charter for Gordon Parks Elementary School, the University of Central Missouri is pleased with the judge's decision to support the request to continue the school's charter for another five years," the University of Central Missouri said in a statement. "With the legal proceedings behind us, we can move forward with plans to educate students. We are committed to working with Gordon Parks Elementary School and its leadership to provide a quality education for students who face many challenges in their lives"
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued a statement about the ruling late Monday afternoon, saying it was disappointed.
"The Department believes charter schools have a viable place in public education. However, they all need to be high quality schools. We hold all schools in Missouri accountable to the same high standards," the statement said.


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The role of spirituality in health care
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In 2002, Dr. Donald Moss, then president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB), decided to devote his entire annual meeting to exploring "the role of spirituality in health care." Given the growing interest in the subject at that time, this seemed like a good idea — just not one that was unanimously embraced. One member of the association resigned immediately following the conference.
"His point of view was that the word 'spirit' or the word 'religion' shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence with 'science,'" said Moss during a recent conversation, "which I think is a very archaic attitude."
Times have changed.
With more than 75 percent of all medical schools in the U.S. having integrated spirituality into their training programs – up from just three schools 20 years ago – it's safe to say that this once marginalized subject has made it into the mainstream of modern medicine.
What remains to be seen, however, is what role spirituality might play going forward.
Moss points out science-based investigations of the confluence between spirituality and health are not particularly new, citing the work of 19th-century scientist Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin and father of modern statistical analysis who, in 1872, wrote an article probing the health effects of intercessory prayer.
"Here's a man who was certainly respected by scientists, and he thought it was an interesting question," said Moss. "He even said, since so much of the world's population believes that prayer is effective, isn't that in itself some evidence?"
According to Christina Puchalski, professor of medicine and health sciences at George Washington School of Medicine and director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWISH), the number of people asking these kinds of questions began to drop right about the time Galton died.
"Spirituality has been foundational in health care for centuries but became overshadowed by early 20th-century technological advances in diagnosis and treatment," wrote Puchalski in a recent article. "Though these advances were dramatic and resulted in countless lives saved, the scientific focus moved the culture of medicine away from a holistic, service-oriented model …"
Thanks to the efforts of people like Puchalski and Moss, now head of the College of Mind-Body Medicine at San Francisco's Saybrook University, this trend is changing, with an increasing number of medical researchers and practitioners aiming to "reclaim medicine's spiritual roots."
One group Moss singles out as a key contributor to this reclamation are Christian Scientists.
"Christian Science, like certain other denominations, has cultivated prayer for healing," he said. "So, even though I like it when the studies show that the effects of prayer are not narrowly limited by denomination, I also think it's important to pay attention to people who actually cultivate the practice of prayer for healing, whether it's a spiritual healer, a Christian Scientist or anyone else."
It's this capacity for healing Moss tries to foster in his graduate students as well, regardless of their spiritual or mind-body practice.
"I hope we're creating a place in our school where people will come with the spirit and the capacity for healing …" he said.
Even so, many obstacles remain when it comes to integrating spirituality with conventional medicine.
"I think it's healthy when religion or spirituality, or both, come back into the medical practice," said Moss. "We have to be aware of our patient's spiritual needs and religious needs."
In his 2002 address to the AAPB, Moss suggested four questions to help doctors bridge this divide: Is faith, religion or spirituality important to you? Has faith been important at other times in your life? Do you have someone to talk to about religious matters? Would you like to explore religious matters with someone?
Spirituality's continued utilization by an expanding segment of the population and gradual integration by an increasing number of medical professionals is encouraging. "There's a place for active forms of spiritual healing," said Moss. "Whether it's Reiki, or therapeutic touch or Christian Science healing, the direct role for healing – spiritual healing – I think is very important."
Eric Nelson serves as the media and legislative spokesperson for Christian Science in Northern California. Follow him on Twitter @norcalcs.
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I think one of the biggest problems for me was how much the stories are broken up by all of the "cut away" scenes. I understand that Spider-Man is a show made for children and I get that the characters aren't going to be nearly as serious as they are in the comics, but I feel like this was just too far from the source material for me to enjoy it. Another thing that bothered me was how just a few years ago we had, in my opinion, one of the best Spider-Man shows to date, Spectacular Spider-Man, and it was canceled in only it's second season. I had really high hopes for Ultimate Spider-Man to fill the void that Spectacular Spider-Man left, but it just didn't deliver at all.
As far as the voice acting on the show goes, they all seem to have done a really good job… with what they were given to read. So much of the writing in this show just seems so forced.why was Spectacular Spider-Man so much better and the most honest answer that I can give you is that it seems as though Marvel actually put a lot of work into Spectacular Spider-Man. I'm not saying that they didn't put a lot of work into Ultimate Spider-Man, but it's much harder to see in this one. The character designs in Spectacular Spider-Man may not have hit all of the right points for some people, but I really enjoyed it. The action in the show looked really good and it was easy to follow exactly what was happening, because you didn't have a bunch of blur that you had to try and see everything through. The story for Spectacular Spider-Man was your standard Spider-Man fare, but while it was a show essentially for kids, it also appealed to many adults as well.
I really wanted to like Ultimate Spider-Man, but I just didn't. I feel like if this show was about just another teen superhero other than Spider-Man it would have been much more forgivable, but for it to take such a dump on such a beloved character, it is just really sad to see. Now all that I can do is hope that the new Spider-Man movie can really bring something good to the table.


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Town officials are concerned about an expected increase in traffic that may affect already congested driving lanes to Fort Myers Beach if one of the largest retailer corporations in the world moves into the abandoned Summerlin Square property at the corner of San Carlos Boulevard and Summerlin Road.
Last Friday, at a rezoning hearing at the Lee County Hearing Examiner's office, applicants from Wal-Mart and County staff placed all evidence on record about the proposed project not too far off island. The hearing examiner will provide a recommendation to the County commissioners in the near future.
At the request of the Beach Council, Town Manager Terry Stewart and Planning Coordinator Josh Overmyer attended the hearing to listen and participate during public comment about the impending traffic impact that could be caused by the discount superstore.
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Now that a proposed Wal-Mart store may move into Summerlin Square with an expected approval in rezoning, traffic issues concerning the Beach are beginning to surface.
"We do have concerns about the traffic issue related to the site," said Stewart, who added the Town does not oppose the project.
Stewart explained the concern centers on the traffic analysis standards that focused on the Town's permanent population (6,262) instead of the number of people who are part-time residents or daily visitors to the Beach at the height of tourism season (up to 60,000).
"When that occurs, traffic can back up north of Summerlin and all the way down past Target," he said. "Those of us that work on the Beach know that during season, if you have a meeting outside the office after 9:30 a.m. in the morning, you are not going to get back on unless you sit there for an hour."
Ron Talone of David Plummer & Associates, which did the study, stated that the analysis estimates only six extra trips to Wal-Mart from the Beach during peak traffic hours.
"The six trips doesn't seem practical to us," said Stewart. "We need to take a different look at what's been done traffic-wise and, perhaps, try to find some ways to mitigate the impact coming onto the island."
Before the hearing, Beach Mayor Alan Mandel voiced his concern about the same traffic study at a recent Council meeting. He was not happy that the traffic study was completed in December 2011 and 2012, instead of higher impact times such as the spring months. At the hearing, Talone explained that the company added an increased 25 percent adjustment factor to the concurrency report based on the traffic model.
"I am not for or against whether they do that project or not. I am sure it would be an economic boom for that region," Mandel said. "My concerns deal with traffic. Wal-Mart is a lot stronger draw than what was in that shopping center before. I still question their study."
Mandel eluded to a recently completed analysis document by Overmyer that was done for the project. Overmyer, who has been tendered as an expert witness in zoning and land use planning from his 4- years of work for Lee County Department of Community Development in both the planning and zoning divisions, verified compliances in rezoning entitlement and Lee Plan densities and intensities at the hearing.
The LeeTran transfer station within the parking lot at Summerlin Square will also be affected. If it is not accommodated within the proposed development lot, it will no longer be viable on the subject site and will have to be relocated, according to County records. LeeTran is not licensed to use that property and is seeking 200 or more parking spots to accommodate its bus and trolley transfers. That request may be denied, though the hearing examiner asked both parties to work together to find a solution.
"Most of the time, that parking lot is not used to its fullest potential. It would be nice if LeeTran could use some of that for their Beach park-n-ride," said Overmyer. "That's not professional testimony. It's just an observation."
Facts and the process for a Wal-Mart rezoning
Wal-Mart, a noted American retail corporation, could conceivably begin breaking ground at the site of the former Winn-Dixie Supermarket next summer. If approved, owners and developers intend to rezone 21.85 acres to commercial planned development to allow a free-standing discount superstore with an intensity of up to 154,749 square feet of floor area and 3,086 square feet of additional outdoor garden center. The proposed maximum building height is 45 feet at the Summerlin Square Drive location.
"The master concept plan shows a single building with a Wal-Mart being built there," said Lee County Zoning Division Principal Planner Chip Block. "They plan on taking up the area where the old Winn-Dixie center was as well as another portion of the L-shaped center and the old golf driving range behind it for their total area for rezoning the property."
In May 2013, it was reported that the time range for a planned development project of this size could involve six to 12 months or longer for the zoning process and concurrent applications for site development activity under a local development order and building permits before the existing buildings on the intended four parcels would be razed and a new building and center built, according to Block.
"The zoning case has to be finished first so we know what conditions of approval may be associated to it if approved," he said. "Then, the development order looks at those conditions to make sure they are incorporated as part of the development activity. Finally, the building permit has to take a look at the development order to see what conditions are associated to that. We can review them concurrently, but we have to stop at a certain point before we can issue the building permits to find out what previous action had taken."
The closest Wal-Mart store to Fort Myers Beach is currently a supercenter at 14821 Six-Mile Cypress (at the corner of U.S. 41).
Wal-Mart is the biggest private employer in the world with more than two million employees, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 2012, Walmart employed 2.2 million associates worldwide, good for third highest employer overall in the world behind U.S. Department of Defense (3.2 million) and People's Liberation Army (2.3 million)
More than 200 million customers and members visit 10,700 Wal-Mart stores under 69 banners in 27 countries and e-commerce websites in 10 countries. Its fiscal year 2013 sales reached roughly $466 billion.


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This Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) report is dedicated to the increasingly popular topic of 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation' (REDD). Making REDD Work for the Poor outlines how the design of REDD could infuence its poverty implications and the key requirements for ensuring that REDD works for the poor.
REDD systems could offer opportunities to poor people, particularly in terms of increased, stable and long-term financial and non-financial benefit flows to rural areas. Considering such issues within the design and implementation of REDD systems is likely to increase their effectiveness as climate change mitigation instruments. But in practice, REDD could present new risks for the poor. These could include factors sucha s loss of access to land, the concentration of power by elites and distortion effects in local economic systems.
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