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Guests will very likely notice an expanse, empty except for a few makeshift-looking bamboo structures, on the approach road just before reaching Wild Mahseer. This is the Balipara market site which, for one day each week, is transformed into a hive of activity as stallholders bring in their assorted merchandise to display and sell.
If you are fortunate enough stay at Wild Mahseer on a Saturday, market day, it is definitely well worth a visit.
The market acts as a magnet and attracts people from all over. It gives visitors a canny insight into everyday life in Assam. Be amazed at the number of different languages spoken and the kaleidoscopic mix of people coming from so many different ethnic backgrounds that include tribesmen from the north wearing hornbill headgear and mystic sadhus.
Wander down the narrow aisles between stalls heaped with brilliant patterned saris and shawls, snug winter jackets and little girls' lacy party frocks. Bargain for bangles, beads and nose rings, hunt for henna or rummage through piles of cooking utensils. Stroll past rows of sacks overflowing with pungent, vivid spices and dusky blocks of palm sugar. Feast your eyes on ground sheets piled high with polished red carrots, plump purple brinjal, ruby red tomatoes, emerald green beans and small newspaper packages of short dumpy scarlet chillies – the hottest in the world.
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The deputy leader of Harrow council has reiterated her warnings about low grit supplies, ahead of what is forecast to be a snowy weekend.
As Stanmore Politics reported yesterday Councillor Susan Hall told residents at a public meeting that "if the weather gets worse we could be in real trouble. If we have a bad week we will be out of salt completely."
Today in the Daily Express she said the situation was "deeply worrying," and that the 2,000 tons of slat the council ordered in December had still not arrived.
"Waiting for our salt to come is on a par with waiting for Billy Bunter's postal order, only with marginally less chance of success."
"We are conserving our supplies carefully and will have to eke it out as there appears scant chance of any fresh stock arriving."

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Didn't Durge get blown up by a clone trooper after Obiwan jumped out of him?
I agree on the whole Dooku/Anakin fight... I liked it, but it goes against Anakin facing Dooku aboard the Separatist Flagship at the onset of ROTS. They seemed to pick up their fight from the end of AOTC what with Anakin saying he'd learned much since their last visit... Why would you say that if you'd seen him just a little while ago, ya know?
I finally remembered the other point I was going to mention - Tatooine. I'm pretty sure Anakin never went back to Tatooine after AOTC (that's even one of the reasons why they put Luke there, because they knew Vader would never return). This movie/show is just negating pretty much everything in the Star wars universe I guess.
I saw this yesterday with my little girl, and was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it (though since severing post-OT from my canon, I like just about everything since it never "really" happens ). Ziro was hilarious! I loved the animation; I thought it was beautiful, like a digital watercolor painting. I didn't read everything in this thread, but has anyone mentioned about when they said Admiral Yularen? As in Wulf Yularen, the white-suited Imperial officer. Neat little tie-in there. I'll be there for the TV show for sure.Edited to add: I think the "problem" Lucasfilm has with this is that it's clearly a kids' show with a serious theme. The LFL of the past would have made a cartoon about podracers, or padawans in school, or gungans, etc. To make a kids' show about war and with the complexity of the prequels and clone wars mythos is just counter-intuitive. The characters and situations are for adult fans, the storylines are for kids, so you have adult fans disgusted with how it was handled and kids exposed to gay Hutts and decapitated bounty hunters!
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Howdee all,
Yesterday we did our monthly Raleigh/Cary food and shopping trip.
We always like to stop at
The Garden Supply Company for its wonderful plants and décor.
During the Christmas Holiday Season the Store is ablaze in color and amazing décor.
I love looking at the imaginative ways they decorate the trees.
Gorgeous décor and great ideas for those that love to decorate for the season.
Aren't these ornaments adorable?
There are Santa and Snowman collections.
Trees decorated with Santa, Snowmen and presents.
Pink Flamingos for decoration.
Tree in shades of white~with touches of blue and silver
The Garden Supply Company is always a delight to wander around in.
Always something new and different, whatever the season.
If I had a home I would buy the owl lamp below!
This place is enchanting to the eyes and senses
If you go to the back of the store you can pour yourself a complimentary cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate.
I wandered around enjoying a yummy cup of tea and enjoying all the delightful decorations.
This particular tree was Buddha inspired.
A very cool upside down Owl tree…this tree was suspended from the ceiling,
another trend in Holiday trees.
I didn't count the trees that were decorated, I am guessing 15 to 20.
Whimsical and practical…a great place to store peppermint treats!
The store sells other wonderful creations..
I loved the snowman tree topper!
I look forward to this treat every year!
I just sent my new Panasonic Lumix camera in for repair so all of these are taken with my ipod touch.


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Ben Gleib was just named by TBS one of the "funniest comedians working today."
He is host, writer, and executive producer of the Emmy nominated "Idiotest," the hit comedy brain teaser game show in it's 4th season on GSN, with 210 episodes. It's the most watched original program on the network.
His hilarious hour-long standup special "Ben Gleib - Neurotic Gangster" is currently airing on Showtime.
He is also a regular on "The Today Show" with Kathie Lee and Hoda, on their "Guys Tell All" segment, and you may have seen one of his recent appearances on "@Midnight with Chris Hardwick" on Comedy Central.
Recently he was guest co-anchor for a week for ABC News digital, from ABC News world headquarters in New York. An unusual gig for a comedian, another example of why he is one of the most multi-talented comics in the country.
For 7 years he was a round table regular on "Chelsea Lately" on E! with over 100 appearances! He also played himself on a memorable episode of the E! scripted series "After Lately."
He has toured sold-out arenas all over North America with both Chelsea Handler and Dane Cook, has been headlining comedy clubs around the globe since 2007, and has performed on "The Late Late Show," "Last Comic Standing," and twice on "Last Call with Carson Daly." He is constantly on tour, and is likely performing soon in a town near you.
Esquire once called him one of "Six comedians who could be comedy's next big thing." The other five were Aziz Ansari, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Demetri Martin, and Flight of the Conchords. It came true for all of them and it now seems to be Gleib's time.
He is the first comedian to ever live stream a full headline set on Facebook Live, and has been doing it for one show in each city on his current tour, 100% improvised, each set getting over 300,000 views. His act is chock full of hilarious material, but he's also one of the best improvisers in standup comedy.
A truly unique voice in comedy, he's even been a frequent on-air contributor on CNN, "The Young Turks," and NPR, winning a Golden Mic for his work on Southern California NPR's "Patt Morrison's Comedy Congress." Recently he created, executive produced, hosted and was head writer on a spinoff special for GSN called "Political Idiotest," blending his game show with his love of politics. And he was the anchor of GSN's interstitial series "Man VS Fly."
An accomplished voice over actor, Gleib is one of the stars of Kevin Smith's "Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie," is the voice of Marshall the Sloth in "Ice Age: Continental Drift," (the #2 animated movie of all-time internationally,) and voices Dali in "The Book of Life" starring Channing Tatum. His voices have also appeared in "Phineas and Ferb," and youtube series "The Melvin Bros."
His podcast "Last Week on Earth with Ben Gleib" on the Smodcast Network debuted at #9 on iTunes Comedy, and was #1 on Stitcher for over 20 weeks. Every Wednesday, he hilariously summarizes news and politics, occasionally being joined by celebrity guests like Bryan Cranston, Meghan McCain, Bob Odenkirk, Sam Donaldson, Moby, Adam Devine, and his parents. (You can subscribe, rate and review on iTunes.)
He hosted "Oscar Roadtrip" which was featured on ABC's Oscars Pre-Show for the 85th Academy Awards. He co-wrote and stars in the scripted webseries "CINEDOPES," available for free on Youtube. Gleib is also one of the leads in the upcoming feature film "Bad People - The Movie" and is making his dramatic acting debut in the sci fi short film "CHANNEL."
In 2007, he starred in the primetime NBC hidden camera comedy series "The Real Wedding Crashers," a show in which he played multiple characters.
In 2006, he sold a pilot to FOX called "The Gleib Show" produced by Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, Broadway Video, and NBC Universal. This was based on a show he did for 3 seasons for the National Lampoon Network, and for 4 years before that in college at UC San Diego. It became a class that students could take for 4 units. (This helped several of his friends graduate. Gleib had the honor of speaking at that graduation.)
His online videos have received more than 25 million views, he has worked for all 4 broadcast TV networks, and many of the major cable networks and digital platforms.
In 2008, he shot a pilot where he got to meet and mess with Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, and ruined a John McCain press conference, getting kicked out by the Secret Service. You can see those clips here.
On the radio, he is a regular on the hugely popular shows The Bob and Tom Show, and Kevin and Bean.
He also enjoys freestyle rapping, has a rap group called BENS, and is proudest that he is probably better than you at ping pong.
He is also aware that he has to work on his posture. He's 6'1" but looks like he's 5'9".
A social media addict, Gleib is always posting weird and funny things online. Follow him here:
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A Toys-R-Us advertisement made its way around the Internet yesterday followed by a trail of outrage and discussion regarding gender and science education. The offending ad, blogged yesterday by Lisa Wade from Sociological Images, features side-by-side sets of three microscopes and three telescopes of various colors and magnifications, with the lowest strength equipment corresponding to the pink instrument, AKA the girl's instrument.
The image is a bit blurry so to clarify, the maximum magnification of the microscopes are black -1200x, red-900x, pink-600x; the two black telescopes featured reach 525x and 250x, while the pink one is labeled at 90x.
As Dr. Isis, who has blogged about the ad over at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess, noted, nobody would dare deny that pink is the color most positively associated with the female gender. I also wouldn't expect to hear any arguments that it is also the color most negatively associated with masculinity (unless you happen to be a Jewish frat boy from New Jersey). The ad gives the impression that the girl version of the science toys are the weakest in functionality, making Toys-R-Us seem to be promoting the idea that science is a man's activity.
Well, yeah. Men far outnumber women in scientific areas of study and professions, most notably in the top hierarchical tiers. But they shouldn't (Larry Summers you can eat me). So why not give the girlies crutches like these pink toys to get them involved in science and equalize the discrepancy?
Dr. Isis put it nicely:
I get the alleged altruistic intent, even though it only very thinly veils a heap of patriarchal baloney — we're showing the girls that they can do boy stuff and still be "girly" too, even if the work they are able to do with the tools will be, by design, subpar… I worry about needing to send the message that science must be fashionable to attract girls, because I fear that fashion is deeply rooted in the patriarchy — rooted in a culture that teaches girls to be subservient, demure, and open to the sexual whims of their male counterparts… Creating a separate but equal dichotomy for children has the potential to be the biggest science FAIL in the history of the universe.
OK. So there's a few different things going on here, so let's examine this issue more closely. First, I want to address the question: Is it is correct to assume that the science toys manufactured for girls are less powerful? If so, what are the implications of that? Could Toys-R-Us, a corporation that has the power to majorly influence the perceptions of children, be either intentionally or unintentionally using this gendered color dichotomy to reinforce the idea that science is for boys?
I wanted to give them the benefit of doubt. So I went to the Toys-R-Us website and looked at their entire selection of microscopes and telescopes. They are all part of a Toys-R-Us exclusive line called "Edu-Science" which is listed under the categories of "Learning" and "Science and Discovery". Using screen shots from the website, I put together these image clusters so you can get a better idea of where the pink products fall in the line-up.
Here we see that while the pink telescope has the lowest magnification offered, it has a black counterpart. It's not like the lowest-end model ONLY comes in pink. That would would have looked really bad for Toys-R-Us — as bad as it did in their advertisement.
With the microscopes, the pink item is placed at a mid-ranged level and has a black counterpart, so it's not the case here either that the girls' instrument is the weakest. So it seems Toys-R-Us is not SO bad after all, although they definitely have a shitty coupon book-making team. They're a business and their goal is to sell more products, and either they're testing if pink science tools can do that, or they've established that they can and are riding the wave. So with this in mind, I would like to pose these questions to those put-off by the ad: Would you rather see the pink telescope eliminated completely from the product line, or have a pink telescope offered as an alternative to the high-end models? Is the fact that a pink microscope exists offensive? Given that its functionality is the same as the other $34.99 model, would it be inappropriate to give that to a girl?
Not to taint your opinions, but I know what my choice would be, and I'm sure you will be able to guess after I say that I personally despise pink and all it stands for. It's like the Communist red of Capitalism, inextricable from its associations. What I would prefer is to see the pink=girl association shattered forEVER and have kids' toys and clothing offered in a range of colors. I really don't like Apple products because they are all too god damn cute for me, but I'm going to use it as an example and point out that when the first colored iPod line, the iPod mini, was released in 2004, there wasn't a silver one and a pink one, there was silver, orange, pink, blue and green. Choices, they're the spice of life.
There's something else that's bothering me about this whole thing, and I don't know if I've quite nailed it down. But it's two-part and one has to do with the answer to this question: Given that the functionalities of the pink telescope and microscope are the same as their black counterparts, would it be inappropriate to give the pink instruments to a boy? Imagine your son or nephew ripping off your wrapping paper to find a pink microscope, or a pink anything, and I think you know the answer.
While the pink items might be marketed towards the girls, who are inclined to pick them because it is aligned with their gender role identity, girls more-or-less have a choice if they want the pink or the black one. But boys can't choose. If a male chooses something feminine, he is emasculated and ridiculed for his selection, sometimes automatically labeled as gay. And I find this to be very sad.
The second part has to do with all the shit that I get for wearing Dr. Marten combat boots on the regular. I love them, yet a certain Laboratory Goddess who will remain nameless, despises them. She has said that I am far too lovely to be wearing those grungy boots, and I adore her for that because I knew she says it with love, the criticism mostly in jest, but still. But I don't want to be just a pretty girl all the time. I want to be MORE than a pretty girl. My ability to wear combat boots in the face of criticism comes from the same place that allowed me to excel in math and science my whole life — it's a place of defiance against norms. And I know some people love high heels and shoes that are girly, and I do too sometimes. (Especially the ones she got me for Christmas last year!) But if we are going to criticize a toy store for pushing pink science toys on girls to keep them aligned with their gender roles, we can't criticize those girls when they break out of those roles. Then they're damned if they do and damned if they don't, and that only leads to neurosis.
To conclude, If we want to stop producing adult women with notions of intellectual and societal inferiority that keep them from pursuing and advancing in scientific fields, we need to stop ingraining these notions in our kids by segregating them with "boy" and "girl" versions of goods based on the notions of gender that create the dynamics we're trying to change. And then if those kids grow up with the freedom and confidence to break societal modes, we need to support them, not punish them.
OK, that's all I've got for now. One of these days I'll tell you about my black ballet shoes.


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Haha, here's a cute list of some inspiring TED talks. Seen less than half of these, but the one on "before I die…" is one of my all time favorite.
It's a widely documented fact: bad days are cumulative. They begin with pouring yourself a bowl of cereal, only to find that you're out of milk. They escalate with discovering that the hot water isn't working in the shower, and they percolate over a terrible morning commute. Add in a thunderstorm or an unexpected tiff with a co-worker and, well, it is all downhill from there. Your bad day will keep on rolling, picking up more and more material as it spins, like a tumbleweed of annoyance.
Bad days are the worst. But these TED Talks are very likely to cheer you up. Enjoy.
|[ted_talkteaser id=1283]Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude
What better to do on a meh day than to stop and smell the flowers? Photographer Louie Schwartzberg's talk lets you do that very quickly, as he gives them to you in timelapse form. This talk meditates on the…
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Minorities are the emerging face of the subprime crisis
When Alberto and Rosa Ramirez began looking for a home, they never imagined that 18 months later they would personify a national real estate crisis. It's not that they bought a house with walls crawling with toxic mold or inherited an insane neighbor next door or, even, God forbid, that they didn't buy at all. They bought, and they love, their slice of the American Dream.
"It's all very nice and beautiful," Rosa tells me through a translator. "The neighborhood is very peaceful. The problem is not with the house at all. It's the price of the house."
Indeed, in a different era (when housing prices were lower), their story might have been one of those bootstrap tales about homeownership transforming immigrant lives. The husband and wife work as strawberry pickers in the fields around Watsonville, and each earns about $300 a week. They have three children. Not only did they dream the impossible dream, they managed to finance it.
It all began when they were talking to another family about escaping their subsidized apartments and getting a real house. The other couple -- Jesus Martinez and his wife, who also have three children -- work as mushroom farmers, earning about $500 a week each when there is work. The two couples decided to pool their resources and begin house-hunting. Given their total income, they estimated that they could afford payments of $3,000 a month. They spotted an ad in the local magazine La Ganga for Maria Avila of Rancho Grande Real Estate and called her.
"We wanted to live in Watsonville," says Rosa. "But [the real estate agent] said the houses there were older and more expensive." One of the first homes they were shown was a "new" four-bedroom, two-bath house in Hollister for $720,000. When the Ramirez's heard the price, they worried that they couldn't afford it.
But the couple says they were assured them it was possible. "The monthly payment was supposed to be $4,800, but then after we bought it, it went up to $5,378," says Rosa, speaking of their zero-down mortgage with a one-month "teaser rate." "Our agent told us that once we refinanced, we could get the payments down to $3,000 or less." For a number of months Avila, who arranged for the loan with New Century Mortgage, paid the difference between what the buyers had said they could afford -- $3,000 -- and the actual loan payment. According to the buyers, this arrangement was supposed to carry them over until the group refinanced.
The money-saving refinance failed to materialize, and eventually, Avila stopped subsidizing their current mortgage. (According to my analysis of interest rates during the period, hitting the $3,000 number would have been virtually impossible under any circumstances. An interest-only $720,000 loan at a 5 percent interest rate [15-year fixed] yields a $3,000 mortgage, but such mortgage rates weren't available to anyone, much less a laborer with low income, no down payment and no other assets. Plus, that doesn't count another $750 a month in taxes and insurance.) The two families continued to make the payments, sometimes sacrificing basic necessities, other times borrowing more. "It was very difficult," Rosa says. "Sometimes we would eat less, and we took out personal loans from Bank of America."
(Maria Avila and Rancho Grande Real Estate declined to comment. Earlier this month, New Century Mortgage, the nation's second largest subprime mortgage lender, filed for bankruptcy. It's also facing a federal criminal probe.)
Last November, the families stopped paying their mortgage and sought the advice of Pamela Simmons, an attorney who specializes in predatory-lending cases. Upon reviewing the loan documents, they discovered more bad news. Despite the intention that both couples would be buying the home together (they'd submitted income information for three of the four buyers), the loan was made exclusively in Alberto Ramirez's name. This meant that he was solely responsible for the debt. The couple also discovered that the home wasn't nearly as valuable as they thought: When a new real estate agent valued the house, he told them he'd list it between $560,000 and $580,000. They have sent a letter of demand to Rancho Grande, claiming the brokers breached their fiduciary duties by selling Alberto Ramirez a home he couldn't afford. Rancho Grande declined comment.
How did a strawberry picker earning $15,000 a year qualify for a loan of $720,000? The answer, say the experts, lies in a lending industry that got too innovative for its own good.
Last week, a coalition of civil rights groups, including the National Council of La Raza, the Center for Responsible Lending and the NAACP, called for a national six-month moratorium on foreclosures -- after observing that the subprime crisis disproportionately affected minorities. "The point is to just take time out and provide services to families who might be vulnerable as a result of payment shock," says Janice Bowdler, senior policy analyst for housing for the National Council of La Raza, referring to the hybrid loans that begin with low fixed rates, then jump to adjustable-rate mortgages. Bowdler adds that they are hoping many homeowners can avoid foreclosure by taking advantage of such financial tools as changing their current loan terms or refinancing.
According to NCLR, "[f]orty percent of Latino families and over half of African Americans who receive home loans get higher-cost mortgages, predominately subprime loans." In a study released last month, an analysis of 2005 federal mortgage lending data of large subprime originators in six metropolitan areas, African American borrowers were 3.8 times and Latino borrowers were 3.6 times more likely to receive a higher-cost home purchase loan than white borrowers. One argument is that these groups naturally get subprime loans because they have bad credit or are buying in riskier neighborhoods. But according Fannie Mae, there is an enormous lending disparity across the nation: One study found that 50 percent of all borrowers qualified for a cheaper loan than the one they eventually got. They even discovered that female buyers tend to get higher-cost loans than male counterparts.
But for Rosa and Alberto Ramirez and many others like them, a foreclosure moratorium won't help. It's not that a better loan would have remedied their situation -- it's that they can't afford the home they bought. "Many of my clients can't afford their homes in any circumstance," says Simmons. "I have a dishwasher who bought a house and never even moved in. The moment he saw the first payment, he knew he couldn't afford it."
Indeed, the Ramirez family exemplifies a type of new buyer that didn't exist a decade ago. Neither Rosa nor Alberto speaks English, so they were completely dependent on their real estate agent and their mortgage broker for advice and to translate and educate them about the process. "In other business transactions in California, if you negotiate in Spanish, you are required to provide translations of all documents. But real estate contracts are exempt from this," explains Simmons, who currently has 30 active cases and sees her potential caseload growing by the day. "There's a large increase in the amount of borrowers reaching out to lawyers with subprime loans. I've gotten to the point that I have to say to a lot of people, 'I can't represent you, I have too many clients.' It's astounding to me. I neither expected nor have I seen anything like this in all the years I've practiced law. It's as if in real estate it's gone back to the Wild, Wild West of San Francisco in the 1800s."
Simmons says that she's seeing more non-English-speaking clients -- mostly Latinos but also one Filipino -- who had little understanding of what they had gotten themselves into. "I meet with a lot of clients who have negative-amortization loans who are stunned to find out that their payments are not even covering their full interest," she says, mentioning a couple she met that morning whose adjustable negative-amortization payments had risen beyond their ability to pay. "The wife is crying -- it was awful. I had the very sad task of explaining to them that they cannot afford their home. Forget about actually paying off their home in 30 years -- they can't afford the interest-only payments."
Maeve Brown, co-founder of Oakland-based Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, says most of her clients fall into one of two categories. There are the non-English-speaking, first-time home buyers who "buy homes that they can't afford, with mortgage brokers raking in the fees and an added twist that the homes are often substandard and they are appraised above their actual value." The other kind of cases involves seniors -- often African American -- who are persuaded to refinance their homes with more expensive adjustable-rate loans that carry steep prepayment penalties.
"Buying a housing is a complex process," says Brown. "I think we've been sold a bill of goods about the American dream: that it's fast, it's fun, it's easy. Well, it's not easy -- it's really complex. The ideal would be that every buyer retain their own counsel to protect them from their realtor and their broker, because though there are great agents and brokers out there and they have a fiduciary duty to represent your best interests, in the end, it's a contract and you're on the hook for it."
Regarding subprime lenders going bankrupt, she has "no sympathy whatsoever. They created this monster."
Advice and Self-Protection
What if you're not up to reading (and comprending) the fine print of a refinance or a new home loan? Housing advocates offer the following advice:
- Bring your final loan documents -- before you sign -- to one of the free U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-certified housing counseling agencies around the country. They will read them and make sure you are signing what you have agreed to. "You have a legal right to final documents at least 24 hours before you sign, and don't accept pressure that this isn't possible," says Maeve Brown. HUD phone number: (800) 569-4287
- Don't be deceived by the term "payment" -- it may have little to do with your actual interest rate. It can mean many different things, depending on the loan terms. It can mean a negative-amortization loan, in which, in essence, the borrower goes deeper into debt every month, or it can mean an interest-only payment. It can even describe an extremely good "teaser rate" that can be as short as a month long. Always ask what the loan's APR is -- the total price of the loan in percentage-rate terms.
- If you are buying in a market you're not familiar with, do some research about comparable prices -- via the Internet and Sunday open houses -- to make sure that you can judge a supposed "great deal" for yourself.
- Mortgage brokers and real estate agents have a fiduciary responsibility to represent your interests, but don't automatically assume brokers or real estate agents are your friends. There are many, many ethical professionals out there, but, if you're not well-informed, you may not be able to ascertain your agent's integrity before it's too late.


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OpenFaces 2.0: Open New Possibilities for your Web Applications
As announced by TeamDev on March 26, OpenFaces, a JSF components library, evolves to version 2.0. The new release adds 6 new components and introduces extensive tuning to existing functionality, all Open Source.
Current JSF component libraries make an attractive alternative to a variety of web frameworks in development of web applications. The new OpenFaces 2.0 keeps up the tradition of putting the content to the web with the desired quality and look and feel. Tables, calendars, filters, graphic text you name it
The new release of the OpenFaces significantly extends the existing library functionality and brings in 6 new components. It's now possible to interactively build complex filter criteria using the new CompositeFilter component and layout components with the new LayeredPane component. The new functionality in the extended buttons, command link and checkbox components include Ajax support and advanced appearance customization.
Significant enhancements were made to DataTable and TreeTable functionality. These components were enriched with the functions like vertical and horizontal content scrolling with frozen header/footer rows and columns, interactive drag&drop column reordering and column visibility customization. Together with the revised API, numerous filtering extensions were made possible - customizing search condition, case sensitivity, placing filters inside or outside the table and many more.
The full list of components with the demo is available on the OpenFaces website OpenFaces. The release notes with details on new functionality and fixes and are available on the OpenFaces help and support community TeamDev Support: Community: OpenFaces and in What's New in OpenFaces 2.0 web document.
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Goldberg's Picks: The 5 Best Load Funds for 2013
These funds are worth considering if you can avoid the sales charge.
The differences between load funds and no-load funds decrease every year. Funds that charge loads are almost always available without the loads through financial advisers and 401(k) plans. What's more, some fund firms -- Pimco being the most prominent--offer share classes that don't charge loads, as well as those that do.
With that in mind, here are my five favorite load funds for 2013, listed from lowest to highest risk. Of course, if you use an adviser, you'll pay for them one way or another. But that's also true if an adviser puts you into no-load funds. If you're a do-it-yourself investor, avoid funds that'll charge you a load, these gems included. Symbols below are for the funds' institutional share classes, which don't charge commissions but typically require large minimum investments.
1. Templeton Global Total Return (symbol TTRZX) is not your grandfather's bond fund. Manager Michael Hasenstab invests mainly in bonds and currencies of fast-growing emerging markets in Asia, Europe and Latin America. He also has a big slug of assets in economically troubled Ireland. His portfolio is structured to benefit from a slide in the euro, the yen and the dollar against emerging-markets currencies.
Hasenstab is worried about higher interest rates, so he has the fund well-cushioned against them. If interest rates were to rise by one percentage point, the fund's share price would likely fall less than 2.5%. The fund yields 4.0%, so even if its price fell 2.5% over a year's time, you'd still earn a positive total return.
Returns have been superb. Over the past three years, the fund returned an annualized 11.1% -- putting it in the top 1% among international bond funds. Older sibling Templeton Global Bond Fund (TGBAX) has done just as well since Hasenstab took over in 2001. (All returns in this article are through December 24.)
2. Jean-Marie Eveillard posted most of the fabulous record of low-risk First Eagle Global Fund I (SGIIX) before stepping down as manager in March 2009 and becoming a "senior adviser" to the fund. Over the past ten years, First Eagle returned an annualized 12.6% -- an average of 4.5 percentage points per year better than the MSCI World All Cap stock index.
The question is whether the fund's three co-managers can do anywhere near as well as Eveillard in running this unusual fund. I think they can and will. They've positioned the fund much as Eveillard did. It recently had only 70% of assets in stocks and 1% in bonds. The rest was in cash and gold. First Eagle, which looks for undervalued assets worldwide and holds stocks an average of almost ten years, has been about 30% less volatile than the MSCI World index.
3. Although the American funds didn't do particularly well in the 2007-09 bear market, I still think of American as the Vanguard of load-fund shops. They offer low fees, and they employ patient managers and analysts who over time have produced solid returns, generally with below-average volatility.
American Funds Fundamental Investors F-2 (FINFX) is actually the firm's most volatile large-company fund, but that's not saying much. Over the past ten years, the fund's Class A shares (ANCFX) returned an annualized 9.0%, putting it in the top 4% of large-company blend funds. But over that period, the fund was only slightly more volatile than Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. (The F-2 share class does not have a ten-year record.) As with all American funds, Fundamental Investors is piloted by multiple managers, each of whom is responsible for a slice of the fund's assets. This fund's F-2 shares, the cheapest class offered by American, charge just 0.42% a year. The fund has $51.5 billion. At last report, 22% of assets were in foreign stocks.
4. Speaking of the American funds, American Funds New World F-2 (NFFFX) is a unique offering -- and my favorite of all load funds. I don't know why other fund shops haven't copied it. Roughly 10% of assets are in emerging-markets bonds, and the rest are divided between emerging-markets stocks and multinational companies, mainly those based in Europe, that do a lot of business in developing markets. So the fund's top holdings range from América Móvil (Latin America's giant wireless- service provider) and Nestlé to Samsung and Anheuser-Busch InBev.
The mix has produced higher returns than most diversified foreign funds, which emphasize developed markets, with less volatility than most emerging-markets funds. Over the past ten years, the fund's Class A shares (NEWFX) returned an annualized 13.7% (As with the other American fund, New World's F-2 shares do not have a ten-year record). That's an average of 5.5 percentage points per year better than the MSCI EAFE, the most popular developed-markets foreign benchmark, but an average of 2.5 percentage points per year behind the MSCI Emerging Markets index. During those ten years, the fund was just a hair more volatile than the MSCI EAFE but 22% less volatile than the MSCI Emerging Markets index. Annual expenses are just 0.76%.
5. If you want a purer emerging-markets fund, consider Oppenheimer Developing Markets A (ODMAX), which keeps a much smaller slug of assets (about 25%) than New World in developed markets. Over the past ten years, the fund returned an annualized 19.7%, putting it in the top 1% of diversified emerging-markets stock funds. Over that period, the fund was about 7% less volatile than the emerging-markets index.
Oppenheimer isn't my favorite fund family. Questions about the firm arose after Oppenheimer Core Bond A (OPIGX), supposedly a fairly sedate fund, plunged a catastrophic 35.8% in 2008. The firm has made changes in its top ranks since then, but it's difficult for a fund firm to recover from such a disaster. Still, Developing Markets fund is a good choice.
Steven T. Goldberg is an investment adviser in the Washington, D.C. area.
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When enclosing your regular expression in double quotes, back references require two backslashes.
For example, \1 is the ascii character \1. You need to provide \\1 to get the back reference.
When enclosing your regular expression in double quotes, back references require two backslashes.
For example, \1 is the ascii character \1. You need to provide \\1 to get the back reference.
Pay attention that some pcre features such as once-only or recursive patterns are not implemented in php versions prior to 5.00
Although \w and \W do include as "word characters" locale-specific characters (like "�" if you are using the "fr" locale), \b and \B do not work the same way.
For example :
"foo �tait bar" => /\W(�tait)\W/ => This captures correctly "�tait".
"foo �tait bar" => /\b(�tait)\b/ => This fails to capture it.
This is confusing, because the manual talks in both cases about "word characters", but fails to mention the difference in behaviour.
Hi there
This was originally made by someone eles but it didn't work correctly and so I remade it and as far as I know it works right.
* strip_selected_tags ( string str [, string strip_tags[, strip_content flag]] )
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Like strip_tags() but inverse; the strip_tags tags will be stripped, not kept.
* strip_tags: string with tags to strip, ex: "
<quote>" etc.
* strip_content flag: TRUE will also strip everything between open and closed tag
function strip_selected_tags($str, $tags = "", $stripContent = false)
preg_match_all("/<([^>]+)>/i", $tags, $allTags, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
$replace = "%(<$tag.*?>)(.*?)(<\/$tag.*?>)%is";
foreach ($allTags[1] as $tag) {
if ($stripContent) {
$str = preg_replace($replace,'',$str);
$str = preg_replace($replace,'${2}',$str);
return $str;
Before I 'fixed' it, when running
strip_selected_tags("this is
a test
 and this is bold","
")
You would get back
"this is
a test
 and this is bold"
Why? Because it did not take into account that there could be options etc in the HTML Tag.
My one works perfectly when stripping just the tags or the tag and its contents too!
So now when you run
strip_selected_tags("this is
a test
 and this is bold","
")
You get back
"this is a test and this is bold"
Or when running
strip_selected_tags("this is
a test
 and this is bold","
",true)
You get back
"this is and "
Hope it helps someone :)
ive never used regex expressions till now and had loads of difficulty trying to convert a [url]link here[/url] into an href for use with posting messages on a forum, heres what i manage to come up with:
$patterns = array(
$replacements = array(
"\\1",
"\\1",
"",
$newText = preg_replace($patterns,$replacements, $text);
at first it would collect ALL the tags into one link/bold/whatever, until i added the "?" i still dont fully understand it... but it works :)
About strip_selected_tags function from two posts below:
it does not work if somebody uses tags without ending ">" character, like this:
<p  bold text </b</p
This is even valid HTML (but not valid XHTML)
In the character class meta-character documentation above, the circumflex (^) is described:
"^ negate the class, but only if the first character"
It should be a little more verbose to fully express the meaning of ^:
^ Negate the character class. If used, this must be the first character of the class (e.g. "[^012]").
If, like me, you tend to use the /U pattern modifier, then you will need to remember that using ? or * to to test for optional characters will match zero characters if it means that the rest of the pattern can continue matching, even if the optional characters exist.
For instance, if we have this string:
and apply this pattern:
The whole pattern is matched but none of the _ characters are placed in the sub-pattern. The way around this (if you still wish to use /U) is to use the ? greediness inverter. eg,
For even better prestanda of the code below, use;
$f = array();
foreach($allTags[1] as $tag){
$f[] = "%(<$tag.*?>)(.*?)(<\/$tag.*?>)%is";
if(sizeof($f)) $str = preg_replace($f, ($stripContent ? '' : '${2}'), $str);
This will not use preg_replace on every tag, instead it collect the regex as array, and then executes and should be better.
It also check so there are any regex to replace! If not, it will not start preg_replace! :)
Added the "<?php" so it will highlight the code!
For anyone who sees this error:
Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: PCRE does not support \L, \l, \N, \P, \p, \U, \u, or \X at ...
As this manual page says, you need PHP 5.1.0 and the /u modifier in order to enable these features, but that isn't the only requirement! It is possible to install later versions of PHP (we have 5.1.4) while linking to an older PCRE install. A quick look at the PCRE changelog suggests that you probably need at least PCRE 5; we're running 4.5, while the latest is 7.1. You can find out your PCRE version by checking phpinfo().
I suspect this ancient PCRE version is included in some officially-supported Red Hat Enterprise package which is probably why we are running it so might also affect other people.
Back references are a great way to achieve exact matching when it would have been impossible any other way. Take these three strings.
1) "www.www.com"
2) 'www.www.com'
3) "www.www.com'
The regex /^("|').+?("|')$/ would match all three strings but what if you needed the 3rd string above to be illegal because the quotes are not the same? You could write four different regexes to check for every possible case OR you could use back references.
/^("|').+?\1$/ will match strings 1 and 2 but not string 3. Try this code for further proof:
$int_count=preg_match("/^(\"|').+?\\1$/", $str_test, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
The preg_match function will not match against $str_test because the quotes are mismatched. If you change $str_test to
$str_test = "'www.www.com'";
the preg_match will work.
Concerning note #6 in "Differences From Perl", the \G token *is* supported as the last match position anchor. This has been confirmed to work at least in preg_replace(), though I'd assume it'd work in preg_match_all(), and other functions that can make more than one match, as well.
9. Another as yet unresolved discrepancy is that in Perl 5.005_02 the pattern /^(a)?(?(1)a|b)+$/ matches the string "a", whereas in PCRE it does not. However, in both Perl and PCRE /^(a)?a/ matched against "a" leaves $1 unset.
The last sentence does not indicate a bug. If the string "a" should match against the regular expression /^(a)?a/, the last "a" in the regex must be matched by any literal "a" in the string. The rest of the string is "", which obviously does not match the first /^(a)/.
For example, you want to cut an some
 element.
Accurate, from
 to correspond
 element.
Here is proof-of-concept code to do this:
$str = "<dqiv1>1+<div2>2+<div3><c>3</c></div3>2-</div2>1-</div1>";
preg_match("#
 ( ".
" ( (?>[^<]*) ( < ( ([^/d]|d([^i]|i[^v])) | /([^d]|d([^i]|i[^v])) ) )? )* ".
" | (?R) )*
#xi", $str, $m);
it match accurate from <div2> to </div2>. And, if you change <dqiv1> to <div1>, it will match from <div1> to </div1>


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VTune1 from Intel is a proprietary system-level profiler and performance analysis tool for Intel architecture. It introduces minimal overhead and therefore can be perceived as relatively unobtrusive. VTune works by collecting data via a kernel module from various CPU counters. This information is collected when an interrupt is generated. The granularity of the data can run from a process level down to an instruction level and is accessible through a highly-usable and configurable GUI.
VTune, when fully configured for your application and operating system, can identify performance issues at several levels of granularity from system-level to microarchitecture-level. As a tool for developers, it is extremely valuable since it has a global view at all granularities. OS performance counters can also be monitored and correlated to instruction-level hotspots. By using this correlation, we can answer questions such as "When the memory use in our system begins to ramp, what happens to our applications CPU usage?" If the source code in your test application is hooked into the VTune application, we can also drill down from the application level into threads and down to code functions.
It is impossible to outline all the features of VTune and indeed many of these tools described in this paper, however, the interested reader is directed to the references.
Intel Thread Checker
The Intel Thread Checker is a plug-in for the VTune debugging environment. It can be used to locate hard to find threading errors such as race conditions and deadlocks.
The system activity reporter (sar) is a lightweight open source tool licensed under GPL that is used for collecting system-wide performance measures. The tool is generally installed by default on Linux, however, sometimes it may need to be installed using the sysstats package. Like top and ps, sar collects data from operating system counters via the proc file system. It provides performance data at system-level granularity reporting on a wide variety of metrics such as CPU usage, disk IO, memory, network IO, and IRQ. The tool can update these values at intervals of a minimum of 1 second.
sar can only provide information at system-level granularity and is used only to provide snapshots and overviews of overall system performance. Spurious or unexpected measurements from sar can be a first indication of performance issues of the system as a whole or of a single process or group of processes. It can be configured to run in the background, constantly providing a readily accessible database of system performance at any second during the day.
Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) consists of a kernel patch and tool chain that gives the user the ability to trace events on the system. These events can be system kernel events (such as context switches, or system calls, and so on) or any application-level event. It is GPL licensed and has minimum impact to the run-time performance of traced applications. It can be used to isolate performance problems on parallel and real-time systems and analyze application timing. Any code that the user would like to be analyzed needs to be recompiled to be instrumented by LTT.
Alternatively, LTTng (Next Generation) is also available, which adds features such as a GUI Trace Viewer. See Figure 9.
The iostat command is used for monitoring system input/output block device loading. With multiple block devices in the system, it can be useful to determine which device(s) is currently the bottleneck. iostat provides a per device view of the number of transfers per second on each device as well as read and write rates. See Figure 10, for an example of the "extended iostat device" only output during a large file copy. Note: Observe the temporary increase in device activity while the file was being copied.
iotop is a Python program with a top-like user interface that can be used to associate processes with I/O. It requires Python version 2.5 or greater and a Linux kernel version 2.6.20 or later with the TASK_DELAY_ACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING options enabled. Therefore, a potential recompilation of the kernel may be required if these options have not been enabled by default. iotop is licensed under GPL. iotop provides data regarding the amount of Disk IO occurring within the system on a per process basis. This lets users determine which applications are using the disk(s) the most.


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The other night I met my friends Bonnie and Marie at Mongo's Grill in Maple Grove. We try to get together once a month for lunch or dinner but sometimes life gets in the way and before we know it we have missed a month.
Bonnie and Marie were the first people that I met as I stepped into the world of ultra-running. We've been friends since.
I had been looking for a running group in Minnesota, looking for longer distances to run and looking for someone to run with. I found an online community called Minnesota Dead Runners Society. I had been reading the emails from the group for quite some time when someone (I think Bonnie) mentioned she would like to have a meeting for beginning ultra-runners. I didn't even know that ultras existed nor did I realize that people ran upon trails. Bonnie posted the meeting place as Lake Como on a weeknight. At the time I worked for Berkley, downtown Minneapolis, so I figured I'd just work late and meet this new group of people at 630 at Lake Como. I was nervous! I had never met a group of people via online before.
When I walked into the coffee shop there were about a dozen people in attendance, as well as Bonnie and Marie. We listened to Don Clark, Larry Pederson and Tom Andrews speak about ultra-running. I couldn't get my head around it. Really. I thought they were crazy, but crazy in a good, inspiring way. At the end of the meeting Bonnie invited me to spend the weekend with she and Marie as Bonnie ran the Ice Age 50 Mile and Marie ran the 50K. I committed myself to the Ice Age 50 Mile and that is where the ultra-running began for me!
So, the Mongo Grill: I was very pleased! It was vegetarian and vegan friendly. It could even be raw friendly as you wouldn't HAVE to have your dish grilled as I chose to.
This is how it went down: I took a bowl and proceeded over to the huge buffet lined with a zillion different vegetables. I could choose from mushrooms, broccoli, baby corn, water chestnuts, spinach, pea pods, boy choy, red and green peppers, bamboo shoots, red chilies, bean sprouts, red onions, green onions, yellow onions, tomatoes, celery, peas, cabbage, potatoes, beans, carrots, jalapenos, zucchini and squash, to name a (not) few. For protein there was beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, salmon, calamari, crab, scallops, sausage and tofu. There was brown rice, white rice, shanghai noodles, steamed noodles and wraps to pick from. For sauces you could add thai peanut, orange pineapple, teriyaki, honey mustard, Mongolian, sweet and sour, red wine, spicy szechuan, lemon, garlic, red pepper, curry, BBQ, black bean or chili garlic. Isn't that amazing! I couldn't believe all of the options and I certainly couldn't believe how fresh everything was.
After I filled my bowl with all that it could possible handle I brought it up to the cook for grilling. He poured the contents of my bowl onto the hot grill and in about 3 minutes it was all ready and plated for me. Fabulous!
I must say, when I first looked at the bowl that was going to hold my bevy of luciousness I didn't think it was large enough. I thought I could eat 6 of the bowls and I said so. In all honesty, after I finished my plate I was full and couldn't eat any more.
The prices weren't too bad: $12 for the meal or $14 if you want to add all you can eat salad bar.
I will certainly go back at another time. We all enjoyed it.
Tomorrow I'm meeting up an ALL RAW restaurant. I'm so excited! I'll have to post about that experience on Sunday. I really can not wait. It isn't often – I should say it has never happened - that I have visited a restaurant and happily wanted to chose every item upon the menu. What a concept! Most of the time I look up the menu online and can't find a thing that I want to eat. This usually happens when I meet my book club or when I am meeting others who don't eat the same way as I. I am enjoying picking out new restaurants and eating with others who are open to another way of eating. I am really, really digging this.


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>Possible side effects of oral contraceptives during the initial therapy include nausea, vomiting, fluid retention, headaches and dizziness. Oral contraceptives may also be associated with an increase in blood pressure and an increased risk of thromboembolic disorders (development of clot-like vein occlusions, which can lead to an emboli).
>Fitness and Diving Issue
>It has been suggested that oral contraceptives may increase a diver's susceptibly to DCS because of the hormonal changes, which may reduce venous tone and increase water retention. This could affect circulation and theoretically cause the blood to "sludge", which may interfere with the elimination of nitrogen from the body. To date, no research has found evidence to support this belief.
>In fact, unless oral contraceptives pose a clinical problem for women, there is no data to show that their use during recreational scuba diving is a contraindication.
>Additional Considerations
>But what about contraception -- are there any specific hazards attached to contraceptive methodologies which women and their consorts should consider. Current thinking is that oral contraceptives do not impose any increased risks on women divers. Most oral contraceptives used in the USA carry a 3-4 fold increase risk of spontaneous non fatal thrombotic events, while pills containing desogestre (and gestodene, a progestin commonly used in pills in the UK and other European countries but not in the US) may carry a 6-8 fold increase in risk compared to no pill use. When considering this increased risk of thrombosis, hyperbaric researchers have been speculated that OC use might increase the likelihood of developing DCS or exacerbate the extent or severity of tissue injury by promoting more rapid and profound activation of the clotting cascade after a gas accident. No animal studies have been done which support this hypothesis. On the contrary one experiment of DCS was done with pigs wherein half of the pigs were premedicated with oral contraceptives and then subjected to chamber profiles inducing DCS injuries. The study found that extent of injuries was identical in the treated and control pigs. No human epidemiologic surveys of sufficient sample size to offer any information that is clinically useful have ever been done.
>Recently the gynecologic literature has suggested that 50 percent of thromboembolic on OC may be due to interactions of the medication with inherited clotting disorders, the most common abnormality being a protein substitution in the chain of molecules forming clotting factor V. This substitution renders factor V resistant to cleavage by activated protein C which would inactivate its pro thrombotic action. The resultant disorder is called activated protein C resistance. Underlying coagulation defects have been implicated as increasing the risk of DCS. As a matter of fact, heritable clotting disorders have been implicated in idiopathic aseptic necrosis of the femoral head and a host of other vascular complications. Those populations with a high incidence of factor V Leiden mutation, the most common genotype responsible for this coagulation defect, should be alert to and aware of clotting disorders. Think of them when you encounter the unexpected, undeserved "hit" that just seems too severe for the dive profiles when reviewing the diver's log and history. And, of course, ask about oral contraceptive use.


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Online Education: Impact on Job Seekers and Future Implementation
Q&A with UAlbany School of Education Associate Professor Peter Shea
Last year more than six million college students—or one in three U.S. college students—took a fully online course, according to UAlbany Associate Professor Peter Shea. (Photo Mark Schmidt)
ALBANY, N.Y. (July 23, 2012) -- With the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics well below the expectations of leading economists, the employment outlook for the U.S. remains precarious. Some analysts speculate that the rise in the unemployment rate is tied to the influx of recent college graduates into the job market, including those who received their degrees through online programs.
Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Practice Peter Shea of UAlbany's School of Education is an expert in online learning, secondary and higher education. He is principal investigator on a U.S. Department of Education grant to research and develop an online system to support teaching in k-12 settings. Shea discusses the development and future of online education, and the impact for job seekers with degrees from distance learning programs.
Q: What is 'online learning' and how has it evolved since its introduction?
A: Online learning is a form of distance education that uses the Internet to promote interaction between students and content, teachers, and other students. Since its introduction, online learning has evolved in a number of ways. The introduction of standard course management systems (e.g. the Blackboard system) has made the experience more predictable and easier.
UAlbany Associate Professor of Education Peter Shea
Since the Internet allows for two-way communication, online learning has advantages over older distance education models that relied more on one-way communication or very limited two-way communication. These advantages and the relative ease-of-use of new technologies have created opportunities for increased access, convenience, and flexibility resulting in dramatic growth. Last year more than six million college students—or one in three U.S. college students—took a fully online course.
Q: What are the benefits of online educational programs?
A: The major benefits are increased access, flexibility, and convenience while maintaining quality academics. As student demographics have evolved, the need for non-campus based options for higher education has grown. Older students and students with careers, families, and other obligations are able to accomplish their educational goals without the disruption that might occur with full-time residential study. Again, the research indicates that, on average, learning outcomes are at least equivalent to on-campus study.
Q: How is the delivery of online courses expected to evolve in the future?
A: The recent entry of some elite institutions in the online education space has created a lot of headlines lately. Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and other top institutions have begun to offer course content and instruction for free in what are known as Massive Open Online Courses or "MOOCs." Plans are in the works to offer certificates for students who complete these courses.
At present, little is known about the effectiveness of online courses that enroll tens of thousands of students at once, as is the case in some MOOCs, but these colleges create interesting questions about the future of credentialing. For example, will there be a new system that competes with the traditional college degree? What are the business models and will they be sustainable? Will these kinds of offerings provide opportunities to students who would otherwise never attend college, and what will be the effect on the employment sector?
Q: How are online degree programs viewed among employers compared with traditional brick and mortar programs?
A: This is a complex issue since perspectives vary widely. While the common perception is that the average online student attends a private for-profit institution (e.g. Phoenix University), this is not accurate. While some for-profit providers suffer from reputational issues which negatively color perception, the average online student is most likely to be enrolled in courses faculty-designed and led at a public institution.
The most popular format is "asynchronous" in which a cohort of students has a semester-based course to which they can log on, interact, ask and answer questions, and complete assignments in a flexible manner. Due dates and time lines exist to keep students on track. The research to date indicates that this form of online instruction is as at least as good as, and in some cases, better than traditional instruction.
Many colleges do not make distinctions on transcripts regarding the modality of instruction in which the student participated. While some employers may have concerns, the research suggests that these may be misplaced, since most degrees don't indicate that the student studied online. Yet again, reputational issues, whether founded or unfounded do persist and need to be addressed. We can better inform employers about the evidence on the effectiveness of online instruction and raise awareness that reputable accredited online programs are not a cause for concern.
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Thank you ! Awesome work !
Thank you ! Awesome work !
Can we expect all of the 2015 onboards and race-edits, Sanomas? Great work from you up to now.
Well, I really hope so...
Since the Formula 1 web site has been changed and got a completely new (and a bit different) form... note it it's still on BETA, I didn't catch up with it, sorry... and also first I need to contact Dieter on this and see what we can do.
IMO, it's a possible to put them up again, but let's see!
So stay tuned and I'll let you know, thank you everyone for your feed back, I really appreciated it!
p.s: I see new and really cool videos, but I had a problem with playback... no idea why, but I'm working on it!
and tbh, I like the old site, this new thing is confusing me!
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When my cars come in first and win, I feel very proud because I'm Italian.
Enzo Ferrari
I agree with Sanomas at all.
The new site is confusing and impractical.
I have had more problems downloading the videos.
Just as I could, on rare occasions, download the 2014 edition of GP's 720 ... not let me select 1080 !!.
So I'm also waiting for something better and always alert and their orders.
As an example I send the Australian Pole Position Lap in the best quality that I have download (720p) HERE
I see Deiter and thanks a lot for your effort, much appreciated man!
IMO, it's looking good, even having it as 720p much better then nothing... and I think it's very much depend on your Internet bandwidth to have possibility of 1080p format, but let's see if we can do better then that.
I'm sorry I am very busy with real life and I don't think I be able to check up or look over to this topic till few weeks, but don't worry... I'll be back soon.
So then, I'm asking Dieter to keep up the topic and we'll see!
When my cars come in first and win, I feel very proud because I'm Italian.
Enzo Ferrari
Ok guys !!
There is one thing we are certain, and that is if nothing bad happens to us soon, later this year we will have between all complete race editions in full HD at season end.
With that it is sufficient, (taking into account the constraints payment is putting FOM)
PS: PURE PASSION: Although I have 3 MBPS contract, the company has no money to filter the flow and for almost two years I use 20 MBPS,
Onboard Laps and Race Edits in 1080p would be amazing Dieter and Sanomas. Hopefully it's going to work out.
Just a Heads up guys FOM uploaded Australia Race edit
Title #5 for Red #5.
#forza sebastian #forza ferrari
For now, only in 720p: Australia 2015 Race Edit: HERE
Still in 720p: Malaysia 2015 Pole Lap: HERE
Dieter Race edit of Malaysia uploaded today
Title #5 for Red #5.
#forza sebastian #forza ferrari
Ok, Sriharsha
Still, still, and still in 720p, we must be very patient.
Malaysia 2015 Race Edit: HERE
how about full races?
Forza Ferrari
China 2015 Official Pole Position Lap in 720p HERE
Sriharsha, unfortunately I can not download beyond 720p at 3600 kbps, my method does not give me the option. Previously yes he did, or maybe there is no possibility because of changes in the page or perhaps just a paid service.
Doesn't matter, Dieter, 720 is good enough and it's great to have someone doing all the work here.
Thank you very much for understanding GoldenColt.
We will try anyway to get the HD versions (if they exist).
China 2015 Race Edit in 720p HERE
Bahrain 2015 Official Pole Position Lap in 720p HERE
In the Previous years the FOM do tend to show some other laps as well unfortunately now they are only showing pole laps. So the only way to see Official Ferrari onboards is to get Pole Positions.
Title #5 for Red #5.
#forza sebastian #forza ferrari
It's true, and it's a shame because we lose to meet other sounds of engines and driving styles.
Only Ham and Mer. Just change the circuit
Bahrain 2015 Race Edit in 720p HERE
thank you guys YOU ARE THE BEST :D
I can't download las three pole laps, help anyone?


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When the sun was hot and intense on a summer day in China, the sidewalks would be dotted with brightly colored, patterned umbrellas in green flowers, pink polka dots and blue and white stripes. I loved the sight of them, since in the States, we only see umbrellas when it's raining. And in Colorado, where it rains so infrequently, most people never even have an umbrella handy if they're caught out in a storm.
But while driving home from the grocery store today, a hot and sunny day, I saw a woman walking down the sidewalk, holding an umbrella to shield herself from the heat. It was the first time I'd ever seen a woman embrace this practice in the States.
What was funny, is that the Asian women thought my friends and I were crazy for trying to darken our skin. We'd put on our bathing suits, spread out towels on the grass behind the apartment building and bake in the sun trying to get a "healthy" glow. I tried in vain to find sunless tanning lotion in stores there; all that was available were whitening creams, since Asian women admire pale skin. Tanned skin is thought to look provincial. And while I do like how I look with a kiss of sun on my face and shoulders, I've learned to embrace the fact that I'm white, my legs even ghostly white, that tanning isn't healthy and that sunless tanning creams are my friend.
And thankfully, those creams have come a long way since the 90s - when I was 17, I emerged from my bedroom one morning as orange as an Oompa Loompa. I'd spent the evening before, unbeknownst to my mom, applying layer after layer of tanning cream, hoping to show up to school the next day looking like a beautiful, bronzed sun goddess.
Of course, I looked ridiculous. Even the palms of my hands were bright orange. And there was nothing I could do about it but go to school and endure the teasing. That night, I took a pumice stone to my skin, trying to scrub some of the color off. And if you've ever tried to pumice delicate, non-calloused skin, then you know how painful it is! Several layers of skin later, I was still orange, and the only cure would be time.
Summer's coming to an end soon, but there are still plenty of hot days left for sipping icy drinks like this Watermelon Coconut Breeze, and relaxing outside after the sun's heat lets up in the afternoon. And maybe the cute umbrella trend will catch on here, too. A sea of bright umbrellas on a hot day would sure look pretty.
Watermelon Coconut Breeze
printable recipe
- 4 cups chopped seedless watermelon, chilled
- 2 cups unsweetened coconut water, chilled
- juice of 3 limes
- 2 tablespoons simple syrup, or other sweetener
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
- 1/4 cup mint leaves
- 2 cups club soda, chilled
In a blender, combine everything except the club soda. Puree until smooth, then pour through a strainer into a pitcher. Add the club soda.
Serve over ice, with watermelon wedges and sprigs of mint.
Yields 1/2 gallon.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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New supercharger network
New supercharger network
Agreed, agreed, and +1 :-)
I don't think Roadsters can use them. Battery chemistry is different and Roadster lacks required hardware. In grand scheme Roadster was just a practice to build real BEV:s. A mean to gather enough money to build the first real money-maker and practical car.
According to George Blankenship, No.
Is there an adapter that allows us to plug in, even if it doesn't supercharge? It would seem that it would at least be equivalent to the HPC at 90W.
My suggestion would be a "side-station" HPC outlet specifically for Roadsters. Much simpler than making a few hundred adapters ...
I agree with the 'side-station idea, while I am buying a model S to give me the same wide smile that I get when I drive the Roadster, there are times I do like to tear up the highway in my white rocket.
What would be cool is for Tesla to build new Roadster batteries that have the same chemistry as the Model S batteries that also provide more power storage as well. Imagine upgrading the Roadster from 400kms to 600kms+ just by changing out the battery to an 85Kw battery... whoa!
Tesla should really include HPC's for Roadsters at these locations. This would take some of the burden off individuals (be it Roadster or Model S owners) who only need a 70A charge. Right now the only 70Amp charge for Roadster owners is at Harris Ranch. If you are making the trip from So Cal to Nor Cal you will have to supplement this charge with a 50amp RV park charge on the I-5. Many Roadster owners use the 101 instead, as it is a safer bet (several HPC's along the 101). I am surprised that Tesla has not included HPC's in the supercharger design; right out of the gates. I hope they do not forget about Roadster owners when implementing their grandiose charging infrastructure.
I wonder if the required hardware could be added to Roadster with battery pack change for a price. Maybe that's the plan, get them use the same infrastructure?
Use this link to charge stations that work for Roadsters. There are at least 70A stations.
Edit: at least 20 70A stations.
Thanks for the link, very useful...
As you can see on the I-5 there is only one 70Amp HPC (Harris Ranch) between the Bay Area and the LA Basin. If a Roadster was doing the trip from So Cal to Nor Cal that is ~200 miles (I live in Orange County so its closer to 250 miles from my house to Harris Ranch). I would not risk making this drive without picking up a few extra miles somewhere in between. There are a few RV parks where Roadster owners can capture a few insurance miles and be able to drive with the A/C on. It would be useful to have a HPC option.
Yeah, ideally all Roadster and Model S charging sites should be able to accommodate the other model. Just to be considerate, like. It's all in the family!
another benefit is that, if all the Superchargers are in use a Model S could use the 70A with an adapter and at least get a few miles while waiting for the Superchargers to free up.
... but politely give way to a Roadster should one limp in! ;)
I really hope they include an HPC for Roadster owners. I have a Roadster and I have let to find ANY charging options above 30 amps and it is normally 200V (one of three phase) at 30 amps for only 6 kw charging. So it is a 10 hour wait for a full charge.
And since I am 400 miles from the nearest service center I am unable to make it without an overnight stop. An HPC would allow me to get there in a day, a long day but possible.
Adding the HPC would also show that Tesla really cares and supports their older generation of cars. A strong selling point for the company.
I stopped by the Tejon ranch charging station (not in my Roadster, unfortunately). There are 2 apparently working supercharger stations with a plug that certainly won't fit the roadster.
It seems that with the software/firmware and an HPC/Supercharger adapter, there should be a way to just decrease the charge to the roadster's specs to allow some top off at the station. I would be willing to pay for such a solution.
I am concerned by the lack of support for the early adopters (who funded the company for a while at little ROI). Backward compatablilty is a key point for the majority of the Tech industry, why not Tesla, which prides itself as a tech company and not just a car company.
The Roadster was never designed to handle that kind of power influx. Speaking from an electronics engineering standpoint, I don't see a viable way to accommodate a Roadster on a supercharger.
I think the proposal was to put up one associated Roadster charger at each station.
yea, I think company should accompany their superchargers by Roadster HPC just to show it cares about older customers and make it as one of the marketing points.
I agree, Tesla should not forget Roadster owners. I travel between San Diego and Yuma, Arizona (185miles). I ususally make it with about 25miles left. Today I just entered Yuma and got stalled on the road, ran out of power which was 1.5miles from my workplace which has a 220v charger. I had to use AAA to tow. There are charging stations along this route.


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A few weeks back, one of the players in Adam's regular group recorded their World of Darkness: Innocents game from near-start to finish. Adam doesn't believe in releasing actual plays as a rule, but he listened to the session in all of its glorious 4.5 hours and put every one-liner, non sequitur, and humorous anecdote (that wasn't an inside joke) got added to a beat track. This was the result. We here at Kicked in the DiceBags hope you find it amusing.
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- 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon crushed dried rosemary
- 1 (.25-ounce) package quick-rise yeast
- 1 1/2 cups warm water (120F to 130F)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- Cooking spray
- Cornmeal
- 3 leeks
- 8 green onions, trimmed
- Coarsely ground fleur de sel
- Combine 3 1/2 cups flour, cheese, kosher salt, rosemary and yeast in a food processor. Pulse to blend. With processor on, slowly add water and 2 tablespoons oil and process until dough forms a ball.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured surface; knead 5 minutes or until smooth and elastic, adding additional flour as necessary.
- Place dough in a large bowl coated with cooking spray. Turn dough to coat top. Cover and let rise in a warm place 1 hour.
- Punch down dough; turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide into 2 pieces, shaping each into a 12-inch circle. Place on two large baking sheets coated with cooking spray and dusted with cornmeal. Cover and let rise 40 minutes or until doubled in bulk.
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Uncover dough. Gently brush with remaining olive oil. Make indentations in top using the handle of a wood spoon or your fingertips.
- Remove roots, outer leaves and tops from leeks. Rinse with cold water; cut into rounds. Arrange leeks and green onions over top of dough. Sprinkle with fleur de sel.
- Bake 20 minutes or until golden. Cool on wire racks.
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UMass Lowell will resume on-campus instruction, research and campus life for Fall 2020. View the plan for more info.
Policies and programs that cost-effectively reduce the burden of asthma, models for interagency/multi-sectoral initiatives to address environmentally-mediated disease, Promoting the development of safer products, materials, and processes as integral to chronic disease prevention, the development of appropriate science capacity to serve the needs of communities confronting environmental risks to health. The development of appropriate science capacity to serve the needs of communities confronting environmental risks to health.
Polly Hoppin is a Research Professor in the College of Health Sciences, and Program Director of the Environmental Health Initiative at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Her work focuses on developing programs and policies that prevent and reduce rates of illness associated with environmental exposures, integrating understanding of links between exposures and disease with development of solutions. Hoppin, Sc.D., has been a national and regional leader on asthma for fifteen years, coordinating multi-agency national and regional initiatives as Senior Advisor at the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Environmental Protection Agency in the late 1990s, and since 2004, serving as Principal Investigator, lead author and facilitator in a series of projects to advance asthma education and environmental interventions, in partnership with the Asthma Regional Council of New England, the Boston Public Health Commission and numerous health care, community and government partners. Her current focus with regard to asthma is leading a groundbreaking initiative to develop and implement a state-level "roadmap" for the primary prevention of asthma in Massachusetts, with over fifty organizations involved in synthesizing the relevant science and in pursuing research as well as policy and practice changes towards reducing asthma incidence. Polly is also co-leading the Lowell Center's work to identify strategic opportunities to reduce dependency on chemicals known or suspected of causing cancer. A third major initiative led by Hoppin, Sc.D., has been elevating considerations about health impacts in decisions about the burning of wood for institutional heat and power, and working with clinicians and other partners to identify and promote policy solutions. She has served on numerous boards and committees relating to environmental health and health policy. Hoppin received her AB from Princeton University and her Doctor of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Prof. Hoppin leads the Environmental Health Program within the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, which encourages health sector decision-makers to prioritize safer materials as they develop research agendas and make policy decisions to reduce the burden of chronic diseases.


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