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His birthday landed on Sunday this year, and it was a great experience to be able to advance in the Priesthood on his big day.
Caleb is such a good kid. He is a huge help to his parents, a great friend to his siblings, and he is a crack up! I love to be around him. I love this young man (I can't really call him a boy anymore) so much. He has many great things ahead of him, lots of exciting times in the next few years.
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McDonald's Corp. says it's enhancing training and offering a new hotline for workers in response to mounting allegations of sexual harassment.
Street fests, an unusual estate sale, wearable technology and a massive bike ride usher in the long holiday weekend. Here are a dozen things to do in and around Chicago.
Federal prosecutors in New York City say Michael Avenatti used a doctored document to divert about $300,000 that Stormy Daniels was supposed to get from a book deal, then used the money for personal and business expenses.
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I am not sure what is so bad about Shehzad Roy's opinion about excluding chapters related to Muslim conquerors from text books of early classes? Instead of indoctrinating with a predefined opinion (right or wrong) focus should be on capacity building of a child's brain. Once the brain is developed to think freely then present history with alternate view points on it so that a child can make up his own mind on the issues. Whats wrong with that?
The problem is that most people seem to be used to of blind following of their sufis, mullahs, ayotullahs etc and too much into blind nationalism. Is it necessary to develop a child's brain on india hatred? Yes, we have problems with India over Kashmir and many other issues but instead of teaching them establishment's version of history we can help them develop an understanding of concepts like freedom, justice, free thinking etc and I am sure once a child will grow up and if he sees injustice being done not only in Kashmir but also in FATA, Balochistan etc then he will develop discontent with the situation in these areas.
The problem is they want to develop hatred with India or other enemies but not with the injustices they were doing which lead to divisions because the establishment and their supporters are doing injustices in their own country which are sometime worse than what India is doing in Kashmir. India never used aerial bombings on occupied Kashmir's civil population but Pakistan establishment did it many times on tribal areas.
We need to understand that Jinnah and Iqbal were not brought up on India hatred but still they are known as founders of Pakistan.


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For various reasons (the main reason being pretty bad experiences with the Thunderbird development builds in the past), it's been almost a year since I tried the nightly builds of Thunderbird. Today, however, is a new day, and I was pleasantly surprised when I decided to give what will eventually become Thunderbird 3 another go.
I like what I see so far! The most obvious change is the addition of a tab bar, which on first thought might seem like a pointless concept in a mail application. However, when thinking more about how e-mail works (and just about any other form of communication for that matter), you realize that it's very much and constant exchange of information back and forth. Incidentally, tabs are about exactly that.
I often find myself switching between reading an old e-mail and composing a response, and having those as two tabs would be much more convenient than switching windows (which is always a hassle on the Mac if both windows belong to the same app). Right now it doesn't look like it's possible to get the compose window in a tab, but let's hope that will come in the future.
I'm also hoping that a double click on an e-mail would open in a new tab rather than a window. Or how about dragging an e-mail to the tab strip!
There is some UI redundancy that I'm guessing is still being thought out. For example, when you select an e-mail you see two Reply buttons; one in the main toolbar with an easily recognizable icon, and another text-only button in the preview pane. The latter feels more contextual, but it makes the traditional icon feel redundant.
Shredder –- using the retro looking icon made by Jason Kersey.
The development builds of Thunderbird 3 go under the not exactly reassuring name "Shredder" and can be downloaded from mozilla.org — obviously at your own risk; be sure to back up your mail first. Overall, I'm really excited to see that things are moving forward with Thunderbird Shredder and I'll definitely stay on the trunk from now on (or at least until it actually lives up to its temporary name).


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September 11 was the second saddest day of America's history since Bill Clinton was elected president, and has been since, until NASDAQ dropped 200 points in one day in 2008. 911 was an inside job plotted by BEARS (Bush-loving Emirate Arabs that Relish in Sadism)!
American freedoms were attacked in an unprovoked action by United States, forwarding the BEAR agenda. This attack caused president George W. Bush to take bold action in invading both Afganistan and Iraq. These two wars, along with the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act (which stands for "Pretending all Americans are Tied with Rioutous Infidels and Ostracized Terrorists") and a number of other secret programs (that one must not discuss at the risk of emboldening America's enemies) are the only things protecting American freedoms. The anniversary of should be celebrated by going to Disney World or shopping, and with unquestioning devotion for our President and his noble administration. Since that day, Prof. McDoc and the Colbert Loyalists have been combating terrorists. Obama likes french fries and titties. He also loves chicken and waffles, among other gluttonous foods served at KFC and Popeyes. Please feel free to compare 9/11 to even the most trivial misfortune that befalls you since in no way does that demean the significance of the attack. i.e. I just got dumped by Mark, it was totally comparable to the 9/11 attacks.
9/11 is the result of islamocommunohomolibrohollywoodblogofascists attacking America by crashing airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the McDonalds on 42nd and 12th in New York, symbols of the three most American things: money, war, and fat people. They were able to get away with it because Bill Clinton is a stupid islamocommunohomolibrohollywoodblogofascist in disguise. Clinton personally stamped the entry visas for each of the hijackers. I love cock; I personally own three roosters. Be careful, they bite. These hijackers felt that by comitting sucide and taking thousands of Americans with them, they would have sex with endless virgins in heaven. Much like the endless breadsticks served at Olive Garden. They were wrong though, because Americans are always right. Currently these terrorists are to be found being raped by the wrong side of pineapples in Hell. America! F**k yeah, motherf**ker! Hope they serve McDonalds in Hell, bitches.
According to the "El Presidente", 9/11 changed everything. Just like when Michael Jackson went from being a black guy that liked old white women to being a white woman who likes little white boys. RIP MJ. Michael Jordan, not that islamocommunohomolibrohollywoodblogofascist from Jackson 5.
It is also the anniversary of the day that Stephen Colbert's father and two of his 311 older siblings were killed in an "accidental" airplane crash. Did you know 5 in 5 Muslims are terrorists? This is true. Look to you're right. This person is a terrorist. Go to Lowe's (or Home Depot, if you're hispanic), buy a 2x4 and a shovel, hit this person with the 2x4 and bury them with the shovel in you're backyard. You're welcome, and America thanks you!
From the point of view of pro-terrorist architects, 9/11 was not a terrorist attack, but an attempt at reshaping the architecture of the Twin Towers. Needless to say, the re-shaping failed and envoked the wrath of the always so overly energetic population of America.
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The Mendocino County Public Health Department is warning customers of A Frame Espresso at 1080 S. Main Street in Fort Bragg that they may have been exposed to hepatitis A. One kind of smoothie made at the shop may have contained the recently recalled Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen berry mix, produced by Townsend Farms and sold at Costco warehouses in many western states (www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm355166.htm).
This product has been identified as the source of an outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the United States, with at least 118 victims identified to date, including 51 in California.
If you consumed a Mixed Berry smoothie from A Frame Espresso between March 4 and June 8 you may have been exposed. According to the owner, no other items sold at A Frame Espresso contained the recalled product.
Hepatitis A is a contagious liver disease that can develop from 2 to 7 weeks after consuming contaminated food or drink. The virus is shed in the stool (feces) of infected people starting a week before symptoms occur. Hepatitis A can range from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a serious illness lasting several months. Illness includes fatigue, abdominal pain, jaundice, abnormal liver tests, dark urine and pale stool. In rare cases, particularly individuals who have a pre-existing severe illness or are immune compromised, hepatitis A infection can progress to liver failure. Exposed individuals that develop any of these symptoms should contact their healthcare provider right away.
Hepatitis A vaccine may prevent disease, but only if given within two weeks after eating the contaminated food. The smoothies from A Frame Espresso that may have been contaminated with hepatitis A were sold more than 2 weeks ago, so vaccination now will not prevent infection. Individuals that have been vaccinated against hepatitis A or have had hepatitis A disease in the past are protected and unlikely to become ill. Most children are vaccinated against hepatitis A which has been recommended for California children since 1999.
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Jewish World Review April 1, 2013/ 21 Nissan, 5773
Connections and coincidence: History is full of mysterious relationships, including clusters of greatness
By David Shribman
JewishWorldReview.com | In olden times, when people wrote on paper and employed postage stamps, letters created unlikely connections.
The most remarkable set of correspondence in American history was surely the letters between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson after the two men left the White House.
In England, there were the letters, written sometimes during cabinet meetings, sometimes three times a day, between H.H. Asquith, who became prime minister of Great Britain in 1908, and Venetia Stanley, a London socialite. And there were the letters between David Lloyd George, who succeeded Asquith as prime minister in 1916, and Frances Stevenson, who became his second wife.
Not long ago the New Yorker magazine published a series of affecting letters between the writer Daniel Mendelsohn and the novelist Mary Renault. These provide poignant insights into a young man's searchings and longings.
Hardly anyone pays attention to the letters between Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, and his father, the notary public who swore in his son by the light of a kerosene lamp in a Vermont farmhouse in August 1923, but they offer great insights into a man whose virtues only now are being celebrated.
In her provocative and readable new biography of Calvin Coolidge, Amity Shlaes examines those letters and quotes one that the young Coolidge, then a student at Amherst College, wrote his father on the occasion of the death of Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1894. Referring to "the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table on whom the years sat so lightly and who had just declared that he was 85 years young," Coolidge noted with great regret that only "Gladstone is left of those great men who were born in 1809."
Indeed, the year 1809 produced perhaps the most unlikely connections of all time.
William Ewart Gladstone, four times Britiain's prime minister, was but one of several giants born in 1809. The others included Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, the poets Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Lord Tennyson, the composer Felix Mendelssohn, the American frontier explorer Kit Carson, the inventor Cyrus McCormick and the author Nikolai Gogol.
How are we to account for this astonishing blossoming of political, scientific and artistic power from the boys of 1809? Was it merely a coincidence that so much genius was created in a single year, or did social, political and cultural events conspire to produce an especially fertile environment?
While the crop of 1809 was unusually bountiful, we stand in wonder, too, at other examples of generational fecundity -- the ties that bind but mystify.
How was it possible for Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederic Handel and Domenico Scarlatti, three of the titans of serious art music, to all have been born in the year 1685, with Handel and Bach born just over a month apart? (Taking this one step further, what are we to make of the death of Joseph Haydn in that luminous year of 1809? And could it be possible that Kit Carson's birth in December 1809 -- on Christmas Eve! -- was some celestial compensation for the death of another explorer, Meriwether Lewis, two months earlier?)
History is full of surprising connections, none more beguiling than the West Point Class of 1915, known as the class the stars fell upon. That class produced nearly five dozen generals, accounting for more than a third of the class. Among them were two with five stars (Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley), two with four stars and seven with three. The West Point Class of 1976 has produced two four-star generals (nearly three dozen generals in all) and is the only class to have produced commanders of two concurrent wars, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Their only known rivals for achievement might be the Harvard Business School Class of 1949, which counts among its ranks onetime chiefs of Xerox, Johnson & Johnson, Capital Cities/ABC, General Dynamics and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under their sway were the Hilton hotels, Rockefeller Center, the Chicago Bulls -- and a powerful government bureaucracy.
"People push each other to excel, but some of it is circumstantial, having to do with the opportunities presented to a certain group at a certain time," says Laurence Shames, who wrote a book about this group of Harvard overachievers. "The men of the Class of '49 may not have been smarter than others but they had a great deal more life experience, partially because they were veterans of World War II. They had values beyond business and beyond making money that gave them a riper sense of leadership."
These clusters of excellence have occurred throughout history, thrusting men and women of talent together and then, through the friction of their interchanges and the fertility of their friendships, elevating all of them to greater heights. Perhaps that explains why Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The New York Times, John G. Roberts Jr,. the chief justice of the United States, and Yo Yo Ma, the celebrated cellist, all took degrees from Harvard College in 1976, the year that produced so many West Point generals.
And consider the men who studied at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., with Franklin Pierce, later the 14th president. They included William Pitt Fessenden, a distinguished senator and treasury secretary, and the writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Pierce later appointed Hawthorne consul to Liverpool.
Coolidge was not isolated from this cluster phenomenon, either. Three members of his Amherst Class of 1895 were state legislators, one was an editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette (a precursor newspaper to today's Post-Gazette), one was the winner of a great balloon race and another, Dwight Morrow of Pittsburgh, was an ambassador, a senator and eventually the father-in-law of Charles Lindbergh.
Coolidge also was close to Harlan Fiske Stone at Amherst, who was a class ahead of him. Coolidge appointed Stone, who had been a Wall Street lawyer, as his attorney general and, later, to the Supreme Court. Franklin Delano Roosevelt elevated him to chief justice in 1941.
This theme can be carried too far, of course, and we're probably already past that point. So consider the year 1961. Among those born that year were Eddie Murphy (April 3), Boy George (June 14), Meg Ryan (Nov. 19), Heather Locklear (Sept. 25) and Aaron Sorkin (June 9). None of them has much if any connection with a man born Aug. 4, 1961. You know him as the 44th president of the United States.
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It has been some time since my last blog post. While the grazing has not dampened, the demands of my new job meant I had to choose pushing out posts on Instagram (@thehungrycow) than crafting blog posts. Moohehe. But I do miss blogging. And there's only so mooch one can express with 140 characters!
But I digress.
Being a fan of Jamie Oliver's TV shows, I was quite excited to try out his restaurant, Jamie's Italian, when it opened in Singapore. But alas. The visit somehow didn't materialize until one recent day, long after the opening hype subsided.
It was a Sunday dinner with the famooly at Jamie's Italian Vivo City.
Served hot from the oven, the white-based Pizza (~$24.50) was eagerly snapped up by us hungry people. Notes of cheese and herbs punctuated with the earthiness from the mushrooms made this white pizza delicious. I like that the pizza base was slightly chewy and not overly thin.
Another winner was the Tagliatelle Bolognese ($26) with its ribbons of pasta swaddled with a rich pork and beef sauce, and dotted with bread crumbs for texture. What was disappointing was the Italian Steak & Fries ($29.50). The thin, straggly pieces of dead cow were miserable and more expected from a local BBQ party than from the kitchen of a proper restaurant. And a celebrity chef restaurant at that.
To fix the disappointed feelings we had, we opted for some antioxidant boost in the form of the Super Food Salad ($18.50). Moohehe. Containing grilled avocado, candied beets, pulses, grains, pomegranate, broccoli, cottage cheese, nuts, grains and harissa, this was a salad that offered a variety of flavours and textures. All it needed was a fat pinch of salt to really bring out its flavours.
Because desserts are not quite our thing, we ordered up a bread basket. Moohehe. We got tempted by the attractive display of bread in the centre of the restaurant lah. Pity it wasn't worth ordering. Let's just say the Artisan Bread Basket ($7.50) tasted anything but artisan.
It was a night of hits and misses. Oh Jamie's. Maybe we'll just stick to pizzas and pastas the next time.
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Tesla Motors unveils 'Superchargers' at event near Los Angeles
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HAWTHORNE -- Addressing a key concern consumers have about electric cars -- their range between charges -- Tesla Motors (TSLA) on Monday unveiled an aggressive plan to build a nationwide network of high-speed "Superchargers" to make it possible for drivers of its all-electric Model S sedan to go on long road trips without having to make long stops to recharge their batteries.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has been dropping hints about Tesla's foray into electric vehicle charging for months, wore a black "Supercharger" T-shirt and spoke before an enthusiastic crowd at Tesla's design studio in Hawthorne. Some of the biggest applause came when he announced the charge-ups would be free for Model S drivers.
"You can drive almost anywhere in California right now," said Musk, who spoke in broad terms about the initiative but offered few details. "We've built these up in secret and are unveiling them for the first time tonight."
The Supercharging stations, which Tesla says will be twice as fast as any now in use, will be installed at highway rest stops, with the idea that drivers can top-off the charge on their battery while they go to the bathroom and grab a bite to eat. Six stations are already installed in California: at Gilroy, Harris Ranch, Tejon Ranch, Barstow, Folsom and Los Angeles.
By 2015, Tesla plans to expand to more than 100 charging stations across the United States.
In a video widely viewed on the Tesla Motor Club forum, Musk previously said the Tesla connector can deliver up to 90 kilowatts to the vehicle -- twice as much power as what would ordinarily be considered a fast charge.
"At 90 kilowatts, you're recharging about 100 miles of range every 20 minutes," Musk said in the video. "If you're traveling between cities, you don't have to stop for very long in order to recharge enough range to go to the next leg of your journey."
Tesla says the Model S was designed with supercharging in mind, and that frequent supercharging should not degrade the battery.
The Model S is available with three battery pack options that offer roughly 160, 230 or 300 miles per charge. All Model S vehicles equipped with the 300-mile battery or the 230-mile battery will be able to use Superchargers, but those equipped with the 160-mile battery will not.
The Superchargers will be rolled out along major highway corridors, and will be powered by solar panels from SolarCity, making it possible to "drive on sunlight." Musk is the chairman of SolarCity; his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive run the company.
The Superchargers can only be used by Model S drivers; they won't work with other plug-in electric vehicles. Drivers of the Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt and even the Tesla Roadster are out of luck.
"More power to them," said Felix Kramer, a well-known electric vehicle advocate and the founder of CalCars. "Tesla is moving more quickly than others to have a network of high-speed chargers, and they are giving their customers a fantastic new service."
Kramer owns a Nissan Leaf and a Chevy Volt and has reserved a Tesla Model X, a crossover SUV slated to launch in 2014. He noted that the nascent electric vehicle industry has yet to settle on a single standard for fast-charging, and that it makes sense for Tesla to get in the game.
Electric vehicles have an onboard charger to transform alternating current from the electrical grid to DC, or direct current, for recharging the vehicle's battery pack. One of the key challenges to fast-charging is the connector or cable that attaches to the battery -- it has to be able to safely carry the current.
Electric cars are a game-changing technology with one big challenge: the battery. Most electric vehicles on the market have limited range, making it hard to drive from San Jose to San Francisco and back without stopping to recharge. And many industry experts say that mainstream consumers will never fully embrace electric vehicles until they can travel as far as a gas-powered car on a single charge.
Tesla's Model S already has the longest range of any electric vehicle on the market. By moving into charging, Tesla is trying to conquer the long road trip problem.
But some analysts criticize Tesla's decision as overly ambitious, given the enormous pressure the company is under to ramp up production of the Model S.
Tesla has more than 12,000 reservations for the Model S and has said it will make 5,000 Model S cars by the end of the year. But that target seems increasingly elusive, and in recent weeks Musk has backed away from that figure, focusing instead on the company's plans to produce 20,000 cars in 2013.
"It seems curious to go to the expense of setting up your own charging network," said John Gartner, a senior analyst with Pike Resarch. "There's already a West Coast EV highway that is being deployed along I-5. Rather than use what's already out there, Tesla seems intent on doing its own thing."
1. A Model S with the most powerful battery pack will be able to add 150 miles of range in about half an hour.
2. The Superchargers will be installed along major highway corridors across the country; six are already installed in California.
3. The Superchargers can only be used by Model S drivers: they won't work for the Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt or even the Tesla Roadster.
For more information, go to www.teslamotors.com/supercharger


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Riesling Report: Von Hövel Oberemmeler Hütte Riesling Spätlese 2009
We're celebrating the Summer of Riesling by trying a different bottle every weekday. Got a favorite riesling? Recommend it in the comments!
This is wonderful wine. It's light and lithe for a Spätlese, with a creamy minerality (picture standing barefoot in a cool, rushing stream, the rocks soft and round under your toes, the green scents of moss and pine all around.) The flavors swirl and meld together: fennel seed, greengage plum, apricot jam, a hint of almond. Sweet pear and applesauce notes (with flecks of vanilla bean) are balanced with tart, prickly acidity and hints of spearmint. There's a tangy lime hard candy flavor too, a drizzle of caramel on green apples, and a delicate floral note tucked between the slate and fruit.
If you're leery of sweet wines, this Mosel riesling may convince you that you've been missing out—it's deep in flavor but not overrich, detailed and complex and most importantly, balanced. It's perfectly happy alongside good bread and fresh mozzarella, and would shimmer with a fresh crab salad, but it could stand up to something richer too; try miso-glazed cod or duck glazed with ginger and soy.
Around $24, sample provided for review.
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I am interested in learning about manifold learning (no pun intended) and would like to know of some references that discuss the subject from a more geometric perspective. By manifold learning I mean the idea of studying high dimensional data using techniques from geometry. I'm interested in knowing how topics from differential geometry and topology such as Hodge theory and Morse theory can be used to study questions in manifold learning. I thought I would ask if people have any recommendations for papers or books that explain these topics more from a more geometric perspective.
Update: I expect that there is no mythical survey paper that explains all aspects of manifold learning to someone that knows about geometry and topology. Specifically, I would be interested in knowing of some survey papers which explain how tools from Riemannian geometry would be useful in manifold learning. Perhaps how such tools can be used for nonlinear dimensionality reduction.


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Fine arts students display work
PRINCESS ANNE, MD- ARTventure Time, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's spring fine arts student show, opens with a reception Thursday, April 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Mosely Gallery in the Thomas Briggs Arts and Technology Center. It will remain on display through April 24.
The title is based on a popular children's TV program and "recalls the creativity and openness children experience during play," said Susan Holt, instructor of fine arts and gallery director.
Student drawings, paintings and computer generated illustrations make up the bulk of the show. Holt said there also will be a mural celebrating the legacy of Nelson Mandela, whose successful struggle against the apartheid system in South Africa enabled him to become the first black president of the country. Titled, "Reconstructing Mandela," the piece is a collaboration between students and faculty.
"A grid was placed on a photograph of Mandela dividing it into 20 sections," Holt said. "Each artist then painted one section in his or her unique style." The canvases, she said, will be put together to reconstruct the image of the iconic world leader and displayed on the gallery wall in a 20" x 50" mural.
The exhibit is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Seniors graduating in May from the university's fine arts program as a precursor to their show in the gallery May 1-15 will be featured in an event April 15 at the Get'n Grounded Café in Princess Anne. The UMES Jazz Band will perform from 5 to 6 p.m. while student artists greet guests. Six pieces of their art will be on display and offered for sale.
Call 410-651-7770 for more information on both events.
Gail Stephens,assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580.


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Softbank Corp <9984.T>, Japan's third-largest mobile carrier, is in talks to buy a majority stake in U.S. operator Sprint Nextel Corp for more than 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion), according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Softbank said reports about the talks were "based on speculation" and it had no comment. Sprint declined to comment. The report drove Sprint shares up 16 percent in premarket trading Thursday.
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Sprint Nextel, whose market capitalization was $15.12 billion at Wednesday's market close, is the third-largest U.S. carrier, with more than 56 million users at the end of June.
Kevin Roe at Roe Equity Research estimated Softbank could be offering about $6.40 per Sprint Nextel share, a 27 percent premium.
Softbank is in talks with several banks to borrow money to finance a bid, the source told Reuters. One analyst said this deal might be the Japanese company's only option if it has eyes on the American market.
"In terms of (Sprint) standalone, we believe the asset represents the only way for a potential new entrant to get a national presence immediately in the U.S.," Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche wrote in a note to clients.
Softbank, founded and led by Masayoshi Son - Japan's second-richest man, according to Forbes - was the first of Japan's leading mobile carriers to offer Apple Inc's iPhone in Japan.
It lost that monopoly last year, when rival KDDI Corp <9433.T> also began offering the iPhone. Softbank faces tougher competition at home against KDDI and market leader NTT Docomo <9437.T>.
The company has grown from a packaged software distributor 30 years ago into a broad telecoms group worth more than $40 billion. It took over Vodafone Japan in 2006.
As it chases market share, Softbank said this month it would buy smaller mobile service operator eAccess Ltd <9427.T> in a $1.84 billion deal. It said the buy would give it a total of 39 million users, just ahead of KDDI's 36 million.
Japanese media said buying Sprint - which competes in the United States against Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc - would also make it cheaper for Softbank to procure smartphones and other mobile devices.
Sprint, led by Chief Executive Dan Hesse, has been bleeding customers for years and is in the middle of a costly network modernization project that involves upgrading its Sprint network. At the same time, it is decommissioning the Nextel iDen network it bought in 2005.
"The challenge is not access to capital," said Roe. "The challenge is that they're sub-scale (much smaller than rivals AT&T and Verizon) and going through a very challenging network transition."
Sprint may also be attractive as it has a majority interest in wireless data company Clearwire Corp , which owns attractive spectrum, Wells Fargo's Fritzsche said. Analysts at Evercore said Softbank and Clearwire are both in the process of upgrading their networks to the same standard, which might add further synergies.
Clearwire shares rose 23 percent in premarket trading.
Fritzsche said regulators would likely look favorably on a deal that would bring an outside international player to the United States.
Japanese companies made a record 642 cross-border deals last year, according to Thomson Reuters data. Buoyed by a stronger yen, the value of all overseas deals rose to $69.5 billion, up 81 percent from 2010, also a record.
The biggest foreign acquisition by a Japanese company to date was Japan Tobacco's <2914.T> 1.8 trillion yen buy of British-based tobacco firm Gallaher in 2007.
The Japanese are no stranger to U.S. wireless companies. NTT Docomo was once a major shareholder of the former AT&T Wireless and explored an outright bid for the company at one time.
Meanwhile, Sprint is considering whether to make a bid for smaller rival MetroPCS Communications , which this month agreed to merge with Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, a source told Reuters this week.
It was unclear what effect, if any, the Softbank offer might have on Sprint's potential pursuit of MetroPCS.
(Additional reporting by Mari Saito and James Topham, with Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore; Writing by Ian Geoghegan and Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Ron Popeski and John Wallace)


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Okay, so what'd I do wrong? The right column is below the left column. --GuildKnightTalk2me 01:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Looks great, Gboyers! Thanks. --GuildKnightTalk2me 00:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Vehicle Articles
I want to gather all the discussions into one area so that in the future we don't have to refind everything and reference just one page.
So unlike the German wiki, some vehicles share the same articles while others don't. What qualifies them to be in the same article?
- If the vehicles are of the same types and of the same names.
Example 1, example 2, discussion
There are three separate kinds of Hotring Racer in Vice City. Because they are of the same type (a racing car) and of the same name (Hotring Racer), they qualify to be in the same article.
- If the vehicles are of the same types and of similar names.
The Mesa Grande from VC and the Mesa from SA are the same type of vehicle but their names are different but similar. The Sentinel and Sentinel XS are not the same type so it is allowed to be separate.
- If the vehicles are of different types but of the same names.
Example 1, example 2, example 3
The Speeder in GTA 1 is a car but the Speeder in all other appearances is a boat. Even though they are vastly different from each other, their name being the same qualifies them to be in the same article.
Vehicles of the same type but different names should be in separate articles, like the Stretch and Limo.
If there are any objections/suggestions/corrections, please reply.
--Spaceeinstein 20:21, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Featured Vehicle
Can Someone change the featured vehicle tto the Swift
I had removed the ambulace. Now you add the swift. Jason Diaz 04:08, February 6, 2012 (UTC)
Default radio station
I propose a deletion of all trivia related to default radio stations. There is a section that defines all peds that sets the vehicle's radio station to the preference of the specific ped. So if the ped likes one station and appears in a vehicle, then that one station would play in it just for the ped. The vehicles themselves do have default radio stations but only if the ped has no preference or if no one is driving it beforehand.--spaceeinstein 16:31, September 23, 2010 (UTC)
Possible vehcles in a GTA game set in Japan?
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Background Color
Background color(light green, maybe) and linked text(orange) are similar so there's some trouble in using this table. How about change the background color of this table? Maybe more lighter or another? --Mr.Korean (talk) 13:44, July 5, 2015 (UTC)


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As Hollywood's awards' season progresses, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: it's good to be the king.
"The King's Speech," the historical drama that shows the rise of Britain's King George VI to the throne and the speech therapist who helped him overcome a stuttering problem, scored big at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, picking up another lead actor honor trophy for Colin Firth and also winning the outstanding cast award, the SAG equivalent of best film.
"I'd like to thank security for letting me in the building," Firth joked, perhaps referring to how his film has so quickly become the Oscar frontrunner.
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Natalie Portman continues to dance her way into the hearts of voters and her fellow actors, picking up a SAG Award for her work in "Black Swan." She won the Golden Globe earlier this month for the same role as a talented, but disturbed ballet dancer.
Christian Bale and Melissa Leo of "The Fighter" maintained their winning streaks as well, with each claiming the supporting actor nods for their roles in Mark Wahlberg's hard-luck boxing drama. Both actors also won Golden Globes in the same category.
On the television side of the ledger, HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" took the top prize for a TV drama and Steve Buscemi won best actor, collecting his first SAG award to pair with his Golden Globe win. Julianna Margulies was the other drama winner for her work on "The Good Wife."
Al Pacino won for his portrayal of Dr. Jack Kevorkian in "You Don't Know Jack" and Claire Danes was honored for her work in "Temple Grandin." Comedy legend Betty White also picked up a SAG for lead actress in a comedy for her role in "Hot in Cleveland." "30 Rock's" Alec Baldwin won his fifth consecutive trophy for lead actor in a comedy.
"The Social Network" had a quiet night and seems to be flagging after picking up the best picture award at the Golden Globes. "The King's Speech" is shaping up to be the movie to beat at the Oscars, as it leads the field with 12 nominations, and picked up the Producers Guild Award last week with director Tom Hooper claiming the Directors Guild Award January 29.
Ernest Borgnine received the SAG's Lifetime Achievement Award. The seasoned thespian, who won the Oscar for lead actor in 1955's "Marty," has also starred in other famed films such as "From Here to Eternity," "The Wild Bunch," and "The Dirty Dozen."
"There are millions of those in the world who would love to be in our shoes," he said as he accepted the award. "We are a privileged few who have been chosen to work in this field of entertainment...I hope we will never let our dedication to our craft fail."
Selected Reading: Los Angeles Times, NY Daily News, Entertainment Weekly.


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In Videos: Every Jelly Baby Scene in 'Doctor Who'
"I left my jelly babies in the TARDIS.... They're a delicacy I discovered on Earth."
Yesterday, we briefly mentioned how the Beatles did not like having candy jelly babies thrown at them while on stage. While poking around YouTube looking at jelly baby experiment videos, I found an awesome compilation of every jelly baby scene in Doctor Who.
Along with his out-of-control curly hair and extraloooong scarf, one of the signature quirks of the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) was his love for jelly babies. He offered them to everyone and anyone, including his archenemy and Dalek-creator, Davros.
And there's a memorable bit at 4:16 in which the Doctor tries a bluff, telling some primitive-looking warriors, "Now drop your weapons, or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby." Video, after the jump.
Every Jelly Baby in 'Doctor Who'
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Chicken Legs is a big fan of sloppy joe's. I like the flavor of sloppy joe's, but I hate how messy they are. I always end up eating them as an open faced sandwich. I decided to solve this problem by putting the sloppy joe mixture in a biscuit cup for dinner last week. YUM! They tasted great and were much easier to eat. We both agreed that we liked the biscuit cups better than our usual open-faced sandwiches. Give this a try for an easy lunch or dinner. I promise you can't just eat one!
Sloppy Joe Biscuit Cups
(Printable Recipe)
1 lb ground round
1/2 cup ketchup
4 tsp sugar
4 tsp mustard
4 tsp vinegar
4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp dried minced onion flakes
1 can (10-count) regular refrigerated biscuits (not Grand's)
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, grated
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cook meat slowly in skillet. Drain and put back in skillet. Add ketchup, sugar, mustard, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and minced onion flakes. Cook slowly over low heat for 10 minutes, to allow meat absorb the sauce.
Separate dough into 10 biscuits; place each biscuit in ungreased regular-size muffin cups. Firmly press dough in bottom and up side of each cup.
Divide meat mixture between biscuit cups. Top each biscuit with grated cheese.
Bake 17 to 20 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown and cheese is melted.


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Chris Brown Kicked Out of Rehab, Then Ordered to Return
Chris Brown lasted only two weeks in rehab. But he didn't leave voluntarily. He was asked to go.
At first, Breezy's decision to seek treatment for anger issues was seen as a PR stunt to help improve his image in the eyes of a judge that has a power to toss him in jail, due to a probation violation.
Upon his exit, which made him seem noncommittal about addressing his issues, his rep stated that Brown was instead choosing a course of outpatient treatment to learn to deal with his anger issues.
As it turns out, Breezy was actually booted from the facility.
Why was he removed? His probation officer claimed that during a family session, he smashed his mother's car window with a rock, according to CNN. Why the heck did he do that? Because Joyce Hawkins said she wanted her son to remain in treatment, like any good mama would.
Brown broke program rules with violent behavior and was thus discharged. Now, he has been ordered to go back for 90 days.
Brown went to rehab after he got in a mess of trouble for an assault charge in Washington, D.C., that threatened his probation from the Rihanna beating case. As per his probation terms, if he runs afoul of the law -- as he did in the nation's capital -- he can end up in the clink. A Secret Service agent might help Breezy's cause there, but his choice to go to rehab would show a judge that he was working to get his you-know-what together.
The new probation report revealed key intel about Breezy's rehab ouster:
There is much concern with the probationer's new arrest and his violent outburst that resulted in his discharge from a treatment facility.
A letter from the facility included in the report stated that the singer's prognosis is "guarded" and that he needs professional help.
Breezy attended an L.A. County hearing today (Nov. 20). His lawyer met with the judge and prosecutor while the R&B star was attended to by on-off girlfriend Karrueche Tran aka Not Rihanna.
It was determined that Brown must return to a facility for three months of treatment, and the terms are pretty harsh.
The 'Fine China' singer will leave the rehab location three times a week to work eight-hour shifts doing community service, as he owes 1,000 hours as part of his punishment from the Rihanna beating. He must work on community service three days per week through next August in order to hit the deadline.
Breezy still faces jail time. The DA reserved the right to ask for a probation revocation related to the D.C. arrest -- which could lead to jail time -- and the judge requested a thorough report from the probation officer related to that incident. It is due at Breezy's next court date on Dec. 16.
He will head to D.C. on Monday, Nov. 25, for a hearing in the assault case, although his lawyer is working on delaying it.
This legal drama could impact forward progress in Breezy's career… but hey, everyone loves a comeback, right? Let's hope he gets and accepts the help he needs.


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EMS' oldest living alumna looks back on making history at Penn State
EMS' oldest living alumna looks back on making history at Penn State
Meet Alexandra Tillson Filer, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' oldest living woman graduate and the and the first woman to graduate with a degree in metallurgy from the college in 1938.
Born in 1916 in Franklin Furnace, N.J., Alexandra Tillson Filer, 97, was raised in one of the most important mining towns in the country at the time. Also known as the Franklin Mine, this mineral location was made famous through its production of rare zinc and manganese minerals. In its heyday, this mine produced more minerals – more than 300 different types – than any other mine in the United States.
Filer's father served as the superintendent at Franklin Mine for many years and she recalls sitting in a "…special little chair in my father's office and listening to the conversations between engineers, geologists and salesmen."
She also vividly remembers notable figures such as President Herbert Hoover, and mining engineer and former New Jersey Assistant State Geologist Frank Lewis Nason making regular appearances. Nason had been in charge of the Geological and Mining Exhibit at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and had included about 40 rocks and ore specimens from the Franklin Mine in the display.
"My father was a mining engineer, as was Mr. Hoover, so that's how they knew each other. When he (Hoover) used to visit, he wasn't yet president – he was the U.S. secretary of commerce under President Warren G. Harding." On one occasion, Mr. Hoover addressed her directly, saying, "Speak up little girl, if you have any questions."
Question she did, and it was this naturally driven curiosity for metals and mining that drove her to come to Pennsylvania in 1934 to study at the Pennsylvania State College, as it was then affectionately known. Her father had investigated colleges with programs in metallurgy (although Filer had wanted to study mineralogy) and decided that she should attend Penn State because he said "it had the best faculty."
Back then, Filer had to overcome much opposition to women studying science and engineering.
She remembers quite vividly that when she went to her first metallurgy class, the professor said "What the hell are you doing in my class! Obviously he wasn't expecting a girl in his metallurgy class, even though my name was on the attendance sheet! He must have thought that my name 'Alexandra' was misspelled and was supposed to be 'Alexander' and was another male student."
But thankfully things have changed since then. Gary Messing, distinguished professor of ceramic science and engineering and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, noted that "I can't imagine any professor asking this question today as women compromise 22 percent of our faculty and students today. Women fill critical leadership roles in departmental and University-wide student and research organizations."
Filer proved to be a hard worker, focusing the majority of her time on her studies. "As a student, I was recruited by the nation's second oldest fraternity for women, Kappa Kappa Gamma. I didn't do a lot of social events with the group though, as I spent most of my time working hard in school."
Filer graduated in 1938 and was the first woman to graduate from Penn State with a degree in metallurgy. As Filer tells us, "The graduating class in metallurgy that year was small, just myself and seven young gentlemen."
After her graduation from the relatively new metallurgy program, Filer would go on to marry a geologist, Russell Filer, and together they founded the Mineral of the Month Club. "We met after I moved to California, and we were introduced by the librarian at our local library. We discovered we were both interested in minerals."
The club sent mineral specimens to schools and private collectors all over the world. Filer used her knowledge of both metallurgy and geology to dictate the fact sheets that accompanied each mineral sample. "My husband and I corresponded with people all over the world, gathering information and mineral samples. We got others interested in learning about mineralogy."
Filer and her husband, Russell, currently reside in Yucaipa, Calif., where they have a large collection of both books and mineral samples from around the world. Filer is very pleased that more young women are now majoring in earth sciences and similar fields. We believe Alexandra Tillson Filer's story is truly inspirational and serves as an example for young women pursuing careers in the sciences at Penn State today and in the future.


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As I have mentioned in earlier description I have the idea that these days many people underestimate the beauty and appearance of rose cut diamonds. This earrings are an example of this statement. They are made of Victorian rose gold 18ct and the rose cut diamonds has open backs they have a stunning beautiful luster. In total there are 22 rose cut diamonds in flower form. I love them dont't you?


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CHILLICOTHE, OHIO: A trial has begun for an Ohio man charged with aggravated murder and other crimes in the slaying of his daughter-in-law, who was strangled with a zip tie and dumped in a septic tank.
The prosecutor told jurors Monday in Chillicothe it�s reasonable to infer William Inman, 48, murdered his 25-year-old daughter-in-law, Summer. The prosecutor says Inman ruled the family and wanted to help his son, who was in a child custody dispute with the woman.
Inman�s attorney says it was his son, William Inman II, who killed her. The defense says the elder Inman and his wife, who lived in Akron briefly, helped kidnap their daughter-in-law in Logan to talk about concerns about the grandchildren and then tried to cover up their son�s crime.
Inman�s son and wife were convicted in the slaying.


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Stacking up Systems
Which one does your library use?
Libraries put books on shelves, called stacks, where books on the same subject next to each other. For example, books about gardening sit next to each other, books by Shakespeare are together, and books about car repair are together.
To keep track of all the subjects, libraries use a classification system. There are two main classification systems:
- The Library of Congress System is used by most university and some college libraries.
- The Dewey Decimal System is used by public libraries and some college libraries.
Both of these systems use call numbers to identify individual books. Call numbers are printed on labels and attached to each book in the library.
Like snowflakes, no two call numbers are alike. Each one is unique to a specific book.


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DWTS Derek Hough Christmas Fun, New Book Release Coming
Isn't this a fun picture? This past week, we saw Derek Hough enjoying and getting ready for Christmas all over LA land! You can view lots of fun photos like the one above at Zimbio Pictures. Pure Derek Hough has even more photos from other days when Derek was seen shopping as well as news on a new book release called "Breakthrough Moments: Lessons from a Life in Motion". If interested, be sure you pre-order your copy at a special price at Amazon. No doubt …this will be a 'must read' and a great gift for dancing and Derek Hough fans!


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Federal researchers are on the front line of Harper's alleged 'war on science' as the country's oil ambitions clash with its scientific agenda.
The government of Canada's official position on climate change is that it's real and requires an "aggressive" response.
Despite that, Canada's ruling Conservative Party government has been leading a slow and systematic unraveling of environmental and climate research budgets, according to local scientists—including shuttering one of the world's top Arctic research stations for monitoring global warming. Hundreds of researchers have lost their jobs, and those that remain are forbidden from talking to media without a government minder.
"They publicly announce their commitment to dealing with climate change and acknowledge that it is a serious issue, but then they go ahead and do the exact opposite," said Andrew Weaver, a climate modeler at the University of Victoria and a lead author of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
"They've closed virtually every funding avenue for climate and atmospheric science. They are deceiving the Canadian public."
The alleged "war on science" is so bad that some scientists are leaving Canada for jobs in countries where they feel they have more opportunities and freedom. Protests by scientists and their supporters have erupted across the country in recent months.
Representatives from Environment Canada, the federal environmental agency, and Industry Canada, the department in charge of economic development and investment, denied that the government has targeted environmental science or scientists. "It is wrong to suggest that science ... in this country is under assault," said Stefanie Power, a spokesperson for Industry Canada.
Primer Minister Stephen Harper's office did not respond to requests for comment; it has previously said the cuts are cost-saving measures to balance the budget and slash the country's $26 billion deficit.
But some scientists and environmental groups say the eliminated climate programs are a tiny fraction of the budget and that at least one of the government's goals with the cuts is to reduce opposition to oil sands development, the backbone of Canada's energy economy. Extracting and processing oil sands crude creates 20 percent more well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions than drilling for conventional oil.
Harper has weakened some environmental regulations, including fast-tracking permit reviews of oil sands pipelines and mines. He has also pulled Canada from the Kyoto Protocol, the global treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and appointed climate skeptics to head scientific agencies, including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, whose work benefits industry.
Canada's natural resources expansion plans are "driving absolutely everything in the country right now," said Tom Duck, an atmospheric scientist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. "Our capacity to do environmental science is being rapidly destroyed. We're hemorrhaging scientists here."
Budgets Being Cut, but Why?
In July, in a rare show of outrage, thousands of scientists, graduate students and supporters marched through the streets of Ottawa in white lab coats to protest the cuts in federal science spending, the first of several protests.
Climate science programs and researchers have been some of the hardest hit from the cuts—especially since the passage in June of the 500-page Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act, also known as bill C-38.
Under that bill, a federal advisory panel established in 1990 called the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy—which for years has urged the government to take a firmer stance on man-made climate change—was eliminated. So was a program that funds a dozen research stations in the Arctic and another that monitors greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions from power plants in Canada. Also cut was the climate adaptation research group within Environment Canada.
The move followed similar rounds of funding cuts since Harper took office in 2006.
The nonprofit Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, which awarded more than $100 million in research grants over the past decade, recently lost all its government funding. Funds were cut for the government's Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario, which runs a number of climate change studies, as well as for the World Ozone and Ultraviolet Data Center, a group run by Environment Canada that has measured ozone and radiation since the mid-1950s.
Twelve thousand government jobs are expected to be affected by the latest cuts, according to the journal Nature—thousands from the sciences.
Critics have questioned the Harper government's austerity claims partly because the environmental science programs that were cut receive so little funding. For instance, Experimental Lakes Area cost the government just $2 million and the National Round Table just $5 million, all from a roughly $11 billion science and technology budget.
At the same time, sectors expected to spur industry innovation like engineering and life sciences saw a boost from the law. For example, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, a nonprofit corporation that funds things like research equipment and labs, will receive $500 million over five years beginning in 2014.
Power, the spokesperson for Industry Canada, wrote in an email that while "discovery-driven basic research" (which environmental science falls under) remains an essential government priority, "we also believe in the transformative potential of science in the marketplace and the need to improve our business expenditure on research and development."
"In today's modern economy, our quality of life is driven by productivity and innovation in the private sector," she said.
Scientists interviewed for this story said they believe environmental programs, especially those focused on understanding and tackling climate change, are seen as a threat to government plans for energy security and economic growth, especially its plans to increase oil sands production and exports. Between 2010 and 2035, the oil sands patch could generate $2.1 trillion in economic activity across the economy, according to the Canadian Energy Research Institute.
As an example of how Harper is obstructing scientific progress on climate change, critics point to its decision to shut the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL). The research station is one of the closest labs in the world to the North Pole and is considered one of the best in the Arctic. It has been collecting atmospheric data since 1992, but it lost its main funding stream earlier this year when the Harper government eliminated the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences.
At the same time PEARL's closure was announced, Harper unveiled final plans to build the new Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, nearly 800 miles south of the previous lab. The administration plans to spend $142.4 million over the next six years to build the facility and another $46.2 million over the next six years on research. PEARL's annual operating budget was just $1.5 million.
Cambridge Bay is too far south to measure ozone depletion or effectively capture the Arctic's response to climate change, according to Duck of Dalhousie University, who spent years conducting research at PEARL and had to lay off nearly his entire research team when funding was cut. Cambridge Bay is a hub of oil and gas exploration, located where the Northwest Passage is opening up because of declining sea ice.
Duck said it doesn't make financial sense to close PEARL and open CHARS if the economy is the biggest issue. "They are using science as cover for the building of the new observatory, but in reality it will be a command and control center for resource extraction and sovereignty."
The CHARS website says the lab "will be on the cutting edge of Arctic issues, including environmental science and resource development." It also notes that the building was announced under "the rubric for Strengthening Canada's Sovereignty and Place in the World."
Environmental Scientists Being Muzzled
In 2007, a year after Harper's Conservatives formed the government, Environment Canada—the country's equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—instituted a new Media Relations Policy. Materials presented to program heads said because there's "one department, one website" there will be "one department, one voice."
Suddenly, journalists couldn't contact scientists with whom they had close ties for years. Instead, they were funneled through media relations officers. Approval for interviews took days or weeks—if they were approved at all. In the United States, many, though not all, government scientists are allowed to speak to media without approval, including those at NOAA.
In 2011, for instance, Environment Canada scientist David Tarasick announced the discovery of the largest ozone hole ever reported above the Arctic, about twice the size of Ontario. The department denied all media interview requests with Tarasick for roughly three weeks following publication of the research. This month, news broke that Environment Canada scientists were restricted from talking with reporters about research showing contaminants in snow near oil sands operations.
The policy has had an impact on the coverage of climate science in Canadian media, according to an Environment Canada 2010 internal analysis of the media protocol obtained by Climate Action Network Canada (CAN), an advocacy group. The number of climate change stories declined by more than 80 percent between 2007 and 2008, the first year of the media policy. Hannah McKinnon, CAN's campaign director, said the situation has only grown worse in the past several years, with even fewer scientists being granted approval to speak with media.
One former Environment Canada atmospheric scientist who was fired last year in a round of budget cuts, and who asked not to be identified because the scientist's current employer collaborates with the department, said media relations managers would send researchers emails warning them not talk to reporters at conferences or public events. Other Environment Canada scientists have reported being shadowed by staff at meetings.
"It is ridiculous," the scientist said. "Morale is so low. People are scared to talk because they know their job is on the line. It doesn't make sense. These are publicly funded scientists doing work for the good of the Canadian public. Why shouldn't they be allowed to talk about it?"
Mike De Souza, a reporter covering energy and the environment for Postmedia News in Canada, told InsideClimate News he has dealt with the restrictions since they were established. Whereas Environment Canada used to be his first stop for sources, he now interviews scientists at private universities who can talk freely and under tight deadlines. But even that can be tricky, he said. "Any university researchers doing work with federal funding are often also constrained in what they say ... because they are worried about getting their funding cut."
Environment Canada responded quickly to InsideClimate News' request for comment about its relationship with media. Previous attempts by this reporter to interview scientists for other stories were rerouted to media relations officers, who wrote back within 24 hours to a few days offering to help set up an interview (often not with the scientist requested) and requiring a list of questions in advance. Many times media officers would join the call when the interviews took place.
"Our response to media inquiries is exemplary," Mark Johnson, a spokesperson for Environment Canada, told InsideClimate News. In 2011, Environment Canada received more than 3,100 media calls, he said, citing internal records. Johnson said agency officials, including scientists, completed more than 1,200 media interviews plus hundreds of email responses.
Johnson did acknowledge that Environment Canada scientists face restrictions on what they can talk about, but he said the same rules apply to all public servants. "In Canada's democratic system of government, [commenting on government policy] is reserved for ministers and their designated spokespeople," he said. "This is a fundamental tenet of our public service values."
Canadian 'Brain Drain' and Growing Awareness
Scientists say Harper's policies are creating a Canadian "brain drain" as researchers flee the country for more stable research opportunities abroad.
Ted Shepherd, an atmospheric physicist, told InsideClimate News he left the University of Toronto in May for a position at the University of Reading in the UK partly because his funding got cut and partly because his wife, also an atmospheric scientist, couldn't find a job in Canada.
"It has been really devastating," Shepherd said. "Either you need an industrial link or be in a small targeted area to get funding, otherwise there is no place to go, especially not for climate. ... The situation is completely different in Britain. Here they are investing heavily in climate science."
Jeff Pierce, another atmospheric scientist, said he is leaving Dalhousie University for Colorado State University at the end of the semester in part because the Environment Canada program he collaborated with, called CORALNet, vanished from the funding cuts.
Coverage by Canadian journalists like De Souza of the so-called war on science is raising awareness among Canadians, McKinnon of CAN said, nearly all of whom believe in climate change.
"Now that the issue is no longer behind the scenes, scientists are starting to feel comfortable standing up and voicing their concerns—and the general public is taking notice."
Weaver, the University of Victoria scientist, said he couldn't stay silent anymore after watching dozens of his colleagues and friends lose their jobs. He has since become one of the most outspoken scientists criticizing the Harper administration's policies. Weaver was a lead author on the IPCC's seminal fourth assessment of climate change trends and is also a lead author on the global panel's fifth assessment, which will published next year.
In September, Weaver announced plans to seek the Green Party nomination for a legislative position in the May 2013 provincial election—a position similar to a state legislator in the United States. He is currently up against two other candidates from the New Democratic Party and Liberal Party and plans to run mostly on an environmental platform.
"Canadians don't typically mobilize against things," Weaver said. "But what is happening has outraged a lot of people. ... I think [the protesting] you're seeing now is just the beginning."


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Occasionally, these masked bandits can get into trouble and cause damage to homes in Ellettsville, Indiana. When the time comes to get rid of the raccoons that are becoming a nuisance and causing damage, you will need a trapping service. Raccoons can cause damage if they are improperly trapped. You will want to utilize a business with experience in humane raccoon trapping to rid your property of raccoons.
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distcheck to pass. Since
distcheck takes
quite some time to execute, I want to make as few runs as possible.
In Git, there is the
command that can be used to perform bisection testing of a series of
patches, but quilt does not have anything like that, so to simplify my
job, I needed to implement that for quilt.
I started by defining a shell function that did the actual test, and returned the result.
do_test () { echo -n "running distcheck..." make -j6 distcheck >/dev/null 2>&1 }After that, I added code to add values for some variables used and to process options to the script. The script supports two options:
--lower and
--upper. Both accept a number of
a patch: the lowest patch that was good and the number of the last
known patch to fail the test. I could have supplied the patch names
here, but this was good enough for my purposes.
Note that I am using Bash since it has support.
series=(`quilt series`) # Array of the patch names lower=0 # Lowest item in tested range upper=$((${#series[@]} - 1)) # Upper limit of range while true; do case "$1" in -l|--lower) lower="$1" shift ;; -u|--upper) upper="$1" shift ;; *) shift break ;; esac done middle=$(($lower + ($upper - $lower) / 2))Then we start by preparing the looping by moving to the middle of the patches in the range.
quilt pop -a >/dev/null quilt push $middle >/dev/nullThe main loop will keep pushing or popping depending on whether the current patch fails the test or succeeds. The invariant for the loop is that that $middle holds the number of the current patch to be tested (the patch that
quilt top would report) and
we keep looping until $lower == $upper. Just to
ensure that the right patch is tested, we test the invariant in the
- If the test succeeds, we know that the first failing test is somewhere between this patch and the last known failing test. So, we compute the next midpoint to be between this patch and the last known unsuccessful patch and store it in middle. We then push patches to reach this patch.
- If the test fails, we know that the first failing test is somewhere between the current patch and the last known successful patch. So, we compute the next midpoint to be between this patch and the last successful patch and store it in middle. We then pop patches to reach this patch.
while test $lower -lt $upper do top=`quilt top` echo -n "$top..." if test "$top" != "${series[$(($middle-1))]}"; then echo "invariant failed ($top != ${series[$(($middle-1))]})!" 1>&2 exit 2 fi if do_test $lower $upper; then lower=$(($middle + 1)) middle=$(($lower + ($upper - $lower) / 2)) cnt=$(($middle - $lower + 1)) echo -n "succeeded..." if test $cnt -gt 0; then echo -n "pushing $cnt patches..." quilt push $cnt >/dev/null echo "done" fi else upper=$middle middle=$(($lower + ($upper - $lower) / 2)) cnt=$(($upper - $middle)) echo -n "failed..." if test $cnt -gt 0; then echo -n "popping $cnt patches..." quilt pop $cnt >/dev/null echo "done" fi fi doneNext task: extend quilt to support the
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Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/October 12
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October 12: International Day of Using Bible Verses For Any Purpose Whatsoever
- 1322 - As being hauleth up the cliffs of insanity, Vizzini informeth Fezzik "Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Art this not conceivable to thy smallish cranium?"[1]
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus placeth the first "John 3:16" sign in the New World.[2]
- 1695 - Isaac Newton discovereth the Golden Rule.[3]
- 1941 - Winston Churchill falleth asunder, crying "My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me"[4]
- 1958 - Andy Warhol discovereth that a feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry... but money answereth all things.[5]
- 1989 - Actor Patrick Stewart goeth for a walk. And as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.[6]
- 1995 - Bill Clinton declareth on oath that thrice was he beaten with rods, once was he stoned, thrice he suffered shipwreck, and a night and a day he has been in the deep.[7]
- 2003 - Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, maketh an law that will cut off from the people him that pisseth against a wall.[8]
- 2004 - A court sentenceth Martha Stewart to six months in chains, as well threaten to smite her with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew.[9]
- 2007 - The Angry Video Game Nerd invents the first twenty-syllable expletive.
- 2010 - George W. Bush quotes Ezekiel 25:17 to God before popping a cap in his own ass.[10]


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The tropical, humid weather is a blessing. In Rio de Janeiro, average temperature is 22º C, but in the peak of Summer (between December and March) it reaches 30ºC. Water surrounds the city's silhouette, side by side with the mountains covered by forests. There are 150 kilometres of cycleway and much more to do than climbing Sugarloaf Mountain.
Running on the sidewalk
Or simply walking. Some say Copacabana, located in the south side, is one of the most famous in the world. With 4 kilometres in length, it's accompanied by the notorious sidewalk pavement ("calçadão") where many cariocas (the city's inhabitants) like to exercise early in the morning.
The stones were placed in 1906, inspired by the pavement of Rossio Square in Lisbon. Copacabana is a favourite when it comes to personal / group training, besides jogging, beach volley and football. When taking a break, you can always refresh yourself with juice, beer or coconut water in one of the kiosks.
It's also one Rio's busiest areas, filled with hotels, restaurants and tourists. New year's eve celebrations usually gather more than two million people on the beach sand!
Surf at Arpoador
Between Ipanema and Copacabana, a small paradise for water sports. Along the 800 metres of Arpoador beach, big waves attract fans of surf, windsurf, kitesurf and bodyboard.
Sunset is more beautiful seen from here. Join this Rio tradition: climb up the rocks, watch the sun fade away and clap at that great moment! After that, you can linger in the water — the beach is equipped with night lighting.
Nearby is Garota de Ipanema Park, named after the poem of Vinicius de Moraes sung by António Jobim. Skating and skate tracks are available.


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This is my current layout:
The sentence on top means "Results in the WHOLE SITE for: abc"
"Whole site" becomes the name of the section if you're searching in a single section.
Then you see each result's title in blue and its section in green. The navbar split up the results based on the item type. In this case you have discussion and scenarios which belong to different section types (discussion tool and brainstorming tool) or, for example, if you're searching a single section, you could have item types like "discussion" and "comments", in the case of the discussion tool.
I can say this layout is decent considering I'm not a graphic designer and I have absolutely no background in UI design, web graphic, or anything else related.
Right now I'm looking for general (and maybe some obvious to experts) advice on readability, on the layout of the results page, and anything you can think of.


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Apr 2, 2014
By Bethany Venable
The chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents has approved Ohio University's new tuition guarantee program – named The OHIO Guarantee – setting in motion plans for a new transparent and predictable tuition structure to begin effective with the 2015-16 academic year. The proposal was adopted by the Ohio University Board of Trustees at their January meeting and presented to Chancellor John Carey for final approval.
The OHIO Guarantee program is the culmination of several months of work by representatives of the University community to design a comprehensive cohort-based, level-rate tuition, housing, dining and most academic course and technology fees. The program intends to assure a student and their family a set of comprehensive rates that will remain in place over 12 continuous semesters, or four years.
A website detailing the fees included and answering questions students and their families may have about the program is available by visiting http://www.ohio.edu/guarantee. Here are some introductory points about The OHIO Guarantee:
Who is included?
The OHIO Guarantee will begin with every new degree-seeking first-year or transfer undergraduate (baccalaureate or associate) student enrolled in fall semester 2015 or spring semester 2016. The program applies to these students regardless of campus of admission or enrollment for classes taken at the Athens Campus. Ohio University's regional campuses do not follow the OHIO Guarantee model.
Continuing students, those who were enrolled prior to summer 2014-15, will NOT be included in The OHIO Guarantee and will continue to follow the traditional incremental tuition model governed by the legislative cap and annually adopted by the Ohio Board of Trustees.
Non-degree students, such as those seeking Post-Secondary Enrollment Option classes, will NOT be included in the OHIO Guarantee.
How does the cohort structure work?
The Board of Trustees will establish a new level-rate structure each year. That level-rate will apply to the new cohort, or group of students, that enrolls for the first time during the following academic year. Students' cohorts will be assigned based on their first semester of enrollment (fall or spring, excluding summer). First year students will pay a fixed rate, which will remain in effect for four years. Students in certain academic programs will pay additional course fees but these will also be set four years in advance.
Students in The OHIO Guarantee will be subject to a level housing rate that represents the various housing options available. Also, students in The OHIO Guarantee will be subject to a level meal plan rate based upon the type of meal plan selected.
For example, if a student's first semester of enrollment is fall 2015, his or her rate would be the Cohort 2015 rate and would be effective for the next 12 continuous semesters, or four years.
An academic year is made up of three semesters, beginning with fall semester and ending with summer.
If a student's first semester of enrollment is summer 2015, they will pay the Cohort 2015 rate for that semester and then begin paying their Cohort 2016 rate beginning that following fall semester. This set up allows students to start earlier at a lower rate and then be part of a guaranteed cohort.
If a student begins their OHIO experience at a regional campus and then transfers to the Athens Campus, they will be placed in the cohort that aligns with the year they began at OHIO. If a student takes classes at both a regional campus and the Athens Campus, they will pay tuition for their Athens Campus classes according to the cohort that began when the student enrolled at Ohio University and will follow the annual Regional Campus cost for classes taken at a regional campus.
What if it takes longer than 12 continuous semesters (four years) to graduate?
A select number of OHIO programs have been identified to the Ohio Board of Regents as requiring more than 120 hours to complete. Students in these programs will automatically receive an additional semester of The Guarantee (meaning they have 13 semesters to complete the degree). However, if a student requires more than 12 continuous semesters/four years to graduate and is not in one of the identified programs, students will pay the tuition rate assigned to the cohort that went into effect the year after your initial cohort. This rate will be in place for the next three terms or one year. This allows a student as early as their sophomore year to know what their rate will be if they stay longer than 4 years.
For example, a student in Cohort 2016 who does not complete a degree in four years will begin paying the Cohort 2017 rate beginning with the 13th semester of enrollment. If the student still has not completed the degree by the end of the 16th semester of enrollment, he or she will begin paying the Cohort 2018 rate and so on until the student is no longer enrolled.
Are there any exceptions?
Ohio University recognizes that there may be situations beyond a student's control which affect the ability to complete a degree within four years. Extensions necessary due to military or reserve duty will be automatically granted. Additional exceptions may include:
The OHIO Guarantee is designed to ensure students and parents can count on a consistent cost of higher education during their time at Ohio University. The program encourages early degree completion and eliminates the guesswork of financing a college education. For additional details and a listing of Frequently Asked Questions, visit http://www.ohio.edu/guarantee/faq.cfm.
What's in a name?
The program's name, The OHIO Guarantee, serves as a reminder that a stable, predictable rate of tuition is a guarantee Ohio University makes to each person invested in an OHIO student's education – both the student themselves and their parents or guardians. By providing an educational experience free of financial guesswork, The OHIO Guarantee empowers students and parents to make important decisions without the uncertainties a traditional tuition structure can bring.
If The OHIO Guarantee symbol looks familiar, it may be because the outside shape mimics that of the official seal of Ohio University. Created by University Communications and Marketing Senior Director of Creative Services Mark Krumel, this design reflects the importance of The OHIO Guarantee as it relates to the entire institution.
The icons that make up the center of the symbol are representative of the path each student takes during their time at Ohio University and beyond: moving through life in school and after, they develop wisdom built on the foundation of their education.
Beginning in the lower left hand corner, the book represents knowledge and the learning accomplished at OHIO. Above that, a mortar board, the ceremonial hat worn during commencement exercises, represents graduation as the culmination of the student's time at OHIO. In the lower right hand corner, a curved starburst, unique in its abstract shape, represents the horizon of the bright future ahead of each Bobcat.