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Chester County SC Wills on South Carolina PioneersChester County and its county seat, the town of Chester, were named for Chester County, Pennsylvania. The county was formed in 1785 as part of the larger Camden District but was later transferred to Pinckney District (1791-1800); it became a separate district in 1800. Scotch-Irish settlers from Pennsylvania and Virginia moved into this upstate region beginning about 1755. During the Revolutionary War, American forces under General Thomas Sumter were defeated here at the battle of Fishing Creek in August 1780; the Americans were victorious at Fishdam Ford in November of the same year. The Landsford Canal was built in 1823 to allow boats and barges to bypass rapids on the Catawba River; this canal is now open as a state park. In later years the availability of hydroelectric power encouraged the establishment of textile mills in the area. South Carolina governor, United States senator, and judge Donald S. Russell (1906-1998) lived in Chester as a boy.
Early settlers: Price, Akin, Hamilton, Love, Boyd, Featherstone, Griffin, Love, Cherry, Harbison, Dugan, Bell, OBrient, Grisholm, Head, Roden, Hatfield, McLonen, Jordan, Owens, McDaniel, McCannon, McDonald, Harper and Cabean, William Bell.
Chester County Records Available for Members of South Carolina Pioneers
- Chester County Will Book A (1779-1797)
Chester County Will Book B (1792-1802
Chester County Will Book C (1803-1805)
Index to Chester County Will Book (1789-1819)
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Index to Chester County Will Book E (1810-1814)
Index to Chester County Will Book F (1817)
Index to Chester County Will Book F-2 (1815-1817)
Index to Chester County Will Book G (1817-1822)
Index to Chester County Will Book H (1820-1825)
Index to Chester County Will Book I (1824-1826)
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Index to Chester County Will Book K (1829-1831)
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Chester County Will Book A (1779-1795), Transcripts
Testators: Archer, Alexander;Archer, William;Attabery, William;Bell, John; Bond, Isom;Bradford, Robert;Braidy, Alexander;Brown, James;Brown, Katharine;Carter, Benjamin;Colvin, John;Cooper, Hugh;Crosby, Richard; Crosby, Thomas;Culp, Peter;Dods, John;Donly, Hugh;Flemming, John; Franklin, Thomas;Gaston, John;Gill, John;Gore, Elizabeth;Haroer, Daniel;Henderson, Edward;Hitchcock, John;Hitchcock, John(2);Hughes, Thomas;Kidd, John;Knox, John;Loveing, Christopher;Marrick, John; Martin, William;McDonald, Timothy;McKinney, Patrick;Moffet, William; Moor, James;Moor, James;Morris, Thomas;Neely, James;Nisbet, James; Quinton, Samuel;Rainey, Robert;Rives, Nathaniel;Roberson, James; Rogers, John;Sadler, Isaac;Sealey, John;Sleeker, George;Steavenson, David;Steel, James;Stephenson, James;Stewart, RobertStrong, James; Taylor, William;Walker, John;Walker, Robert;Wall, Drury;Weer, William; Weir, William (2)
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|This is the article on the anime-only crime lord. For the Academy teacher of Konohagakure, head to Daikoku Funeno.
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|大黒天善 Daikoku Tenzen
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Tenzen Daikoku (大黒天善, Daikoku Tenzen) was a crime boss who lost many men to the blade of Zabuza Momochi during the latter's attempted coup d'etat of Kirigakure.
Looking for revenge years later, he sought out Zabuza Momochi to capture him, but when he discovered that Zabuza was dead he instead plundered Zabuza's blade from his grave in the Land of Waves. He was an aide to the daimyō of the Land of Water and a politician.
Part II
Itachi Pursuit Mission
After being warned by Sasuke Uchiha (under the impression that Sasuke is, in fact, Suigetsu Hōzuki), he sends out his men to fight Suigetsu, who he believed was coming to take the blade of Zabuza Momochi. Suigetsu defeats the men and enters Tenzen's room, asking for Zabuza's sword. Tenzen's bodyguard attacks Suigetsu with the sword in question. As the guard takes a swing at Suigetsu he misses, as Suigetsu simply uses the Hydrification Technique to reform, and in moments the bodyguard is defeated. Sasuke enters the room and Tenzen tries to blame Sasuke for Zabuza's death. Suigetsu explains that he doesn't care; he then takes the sword and leaves the place with Sasuke, but not before chopping the pillars in the room with the blade, forcing the castle to crumble. His fate is unknown, but it's likely he perished as the castle fell.
- Daikoku has a lot of power in both the political and criminal worlds, and was shown to be feared by regular people.
- He had control of even more men than Gatō had, and even had control of his bodyguards.


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Deering Estate at Cutler
Miami, FL 33157
Charles Deering, son of William and Abbey Reed (Barbour) Deering, was born on July 31, 1852, in South Paris, Maine. His father - co-founder of Deering, Miliken & Company, a dry-goods wholesaler in Portland, Maine - gave up textile sales to manage E.H. Gammon's harvester manufacturing plant in Plano, Illinois. In 1883, the senior Deering bought out Gammon and moved the plant to Chicago, where he began incorporating a newly-developed twine binder into his harvesting machine. In 1902, Deering Harvester Company merged with its leading competitor, McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, and formed the core of International Harvestor Company. Charles Deering, who had served as Secretary of Deering Harvester, became the first chairman of the Board of the new conglomerate and headed it from 1902 to 1910.
Charles grew up with a great appreciation of agriculture, a keen business mind, and developed a strong interest in the fine arts. Both Charles and his younger brother James (1859 – 1925) passionately amassed works by the Old Masters as well as painters of their own day. James collected 15th to 19th century art for his mansion, Vizcaya, also located in Miami, Florida. Charles preferred to fill his mansions in Sitges, Spain and also built the Stone House to house works of the Spanish masters, such as El Greco, Diego Velasquez, and Rembrandt. In total he amassed more than 4,000 pieces of art and had one of the largest collections of art in the world. His art collection was appraised at $60 million dollars in 1922.
As a connoisseur and art patron, Charles befriended and often supported financially the work of several key artists. He had close associations to important artists such as John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn. In fact, Sargent encouraged Deering to pursue a career in painting. He often sketched and painted portraits of prominent individuals. A painting of William Denison Whipple, Brevet Major General, U.S. Army hangs in the library of the Stone House. This painting was completed by Mr. Deering in 1894.
Upon his death, Charles Deering gave his collection to his two daughters, Marion Deering McCormick (Mrs. Chauncey, 1886–1965) and Barbara Deering Danielson (Mrs. Richard, 1888–1982). The women donated many works to the Art Institute of Chicago in the decades following their father's death. James Deering also left his collection to Charles's daughters - his nieces. His influence on art, architecture, and natural preservation lives on at the Estates he built here and in Spain. The sea side home in Maricel still serves as an art museum and the Deering Estate at Cutler is growing in importance as a creative studio for local artists and art.
After Charles Deering's death in 1927, his immediate heirs owned the Estate for more than half a century. The property was put up for sale after the last heir - Charles' daughter, Barbara Deering Danielson, passed away. In 1985, the Nature Conservancy brokered the deal that allowed the State of Florida and Miami-Dade County to purchase the property.
The Charles Deering Library at Northwestern Library (named after Charles Deering) was built in 1931 and took two years to complete. The Library was donated by the Deering and McCormick families, generous benefactors of Northwestern University for over a century.
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THIS JUST IN: Judge decided will take up issue of possible state misconduct "post trial" - decided to go right into the Frye Hearing. That means at this point trial will *not* be delayed! The Frye hearing involves the 911 call and damaging to defense report by state-hired audio expert who claims it is Trayvon Martin who can be heard on the call screaming for help and even hears him say: "I'm begging you".
There were major developments in a pre-trial hearing for George Zimmerman on Friday that could have significant implications.
BRIEF SUMMARY: State accused of withholding from defense cell phone pictures and deleted text messages from Trayvon Martin's cell phone. The defense is asking for sanctions against the state, Judge Debra Nelson has yet to rule. Miami-based criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Richard Sharpstein of Akerman told me that like all discovery violations the Judge can decide whether the failure to provide was inadvertent or willful and she can sanction anything from fines, to a trial delay, even dismissal, "but that's for egregious violations and only under the most extreme and rarest of circumstances."DO THE PICTURES/TEXTS EVEN MATTER?
The content does not matter as much as the withholding. In a hearing last week, Judge Nelson already ruled that text messages and cell phone pictures depicting alleged drug use, fights and guns are out of opening statements and can only be brought in during trial on a case-by-case basis. Local 10's legal analyst Lee Stapleton explained how the rules of evidence bar them because they are not relevant to the night of shooting. If Zimmerman knew Martin before the shooting, and had information that he perhaps liked to fight, hold guns, use drugs and so forth than it could have been relevant, but since he did not know that about Martin at the moment of the confrontation it is not. This explains why the state believes the defense released the texts and pictures with the intention to taint and/or prejudice the jury pool. Perhaps knowing they would not be allowed in but also knowing plenty of potential jurors would see them before trial.
According to Luis Calderon, former prosecutor and current Orlando criminal defense attorney: "could result in a contempt hearing, a motion to disqualify the prosecutor and a bar complaint. Significant delays in the trial to say the least."
UM Law Professor Mary Anne Franks sees it differently, "Defense would have to show why the failure to turn over the pictures impedes its ability to be prepared for trial on the date set. Given that the judge has ruled that Martin's fighting/drug use can't be referenced in opening statements, it's not clear that the failure to release these photos should matter. Likely the defense really wants as much publicity for these photos and for prosecutorial misconduct as possible."
Meantime, Orlando-based criminal defense attorney Amir Ladan told me via text message: "If Mark [O'Mara] can establish that the State has not disclosed the evidence in a manner that allows their forensics expert to extract and analyze the data, it certainly could give rise to the judge granting the previously denied motion to continue so they can be adequately prepared for trial. Prosecutors are held to very high standards. If it's established that they were playing hide the ball with evidence or other discoverable material, it certainly undermines their credibility in the eyes of the court. Prosecutors must always conduct themselves so as to be above reproach."
Jury selection is scheduled for Monday. Zimmerman faces 2nd degree murder for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin which he claims was in self-defense.
George Zimmerman appeared in court today, sitting silently and stoically as attorneys for both sides rattled off arguments at the start of what is expected to be a two-day hearing in Sanford.
His legal team will be asking Judge Debra Nelson to bar state prosecutors from using certain terms that they deem are racially-charged, inflammatory and disparaging to include "profiled", "vigilante" and "wannabe cop."
She is also expected to make a crucial decision regarding a 911 call that captured the voice of someone screaming in the background moments for the sound of one gunshot. Question is: who was it? Zimmerman or Martin?
This has become a central piece of evidence. Legal analysts tell me who the jury believes is crying for help could be a deciding factor in this case…that's if they hear it.
While some experts have said they can't tell whose voice it is, the state found Forensic Acoustics Consultant Alan R. Reich who produced a report that not only claims the voice heard crying in the background is definitively Martin, but added that he can make out the late teen saying "I'm begging you" and Zimmerman making a "seemingly religious proclamation "These Shall Be" which he added is, "reminiscent of an evangelical preacher."
You can probably understand why the defense wants this report barred from the trial, we'll have to wait and see what the Judge thinks later this afternoon or tomorrow morning.


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Having an intimate examination can be uncomfortable enough, but the thought that a medical student might be examining you without your clear consent is hard to accept in 2011.Although Canada only introduced guidance that explicit consent from patients was needed for pelvic examinations less than six months ago (and following much dissent in the press), in the UK and Australia this has been established policy for many years. But researchers from Cardiff and Dundee universities who were exploring UK and Australian medical students 'professionalism dilemmas' found that the students often told stories of performing intimate examinations without consent. Sometimes they challenged being asked to perform an examination by a doctor-tutor, but more often the stories were of going along with requests despite knowing it was against their school's policy.
The researchers conclude that having a policy is not enough to change the behaviour of doctors who request students to practice examinations of patients without consent despite clear guidance which says this is wrong.
So where next? To try and quantify how common some of the professionalism dilemmas such as this are, the researchers are now carrying out a survey of all medical students in the UK which can be found here, and have set up a Facebook group to support the research. They also hope to study why the policies have not had the impact on doctor-tutors that would be expected.
Press Release from University of Dundee.
EDIT: Annabel Bentley has suggested that action needs to be taken. What do you think?
Rees CE, & Monrouxe LV (2011). Medical students learning intimate examinations without valid consent: a multicentre study. Medical education PMID: 21251051
You can see some of the discussion about this on twitter via @storify here.
Edit 7/2/2013: This paper got a lot of press coverage especially in Australia. Here the authors, Lynn and Charlotte, respond to the media coverage of their research. There were shocked at the reaction and decided not to engage in the media storm. Right decision?


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Rasa N16
The firstborn of the Rasa babies, Rasa N16 remains an old favourite for many and has a huge percentage of repeat customers. Small and cosy, it is one of the best known vegetarian restaurants in London and specialises in South Indian food, always maintaining the same very high standards that twice earned it the title Time Out Best Vegetarian Restaurant.
Opening Time
Monday to Thursday 6:00pm to 10:45pm
Friday 6:00pm to 11:30pm Saturday Lunch 12:00pm to 3:00pm Dinner 6:00pm to 11:30pm
Sunday Lunch 12:00pm to 2:45pm Dinner 6:00pm to 10:45pm
55 Stoke Newington Church Street London N16 OAR
Tel: 0207 249 0344
How To Get There
How to get here: Bus routes: 73 Also 67, 76, 106, 243 goes past Stoke Newington High Street from where you can walk to Church Street.


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In the coming weeks, millions of Americans will receive 2011 employee benefit open enrollment materials. Yes, it's a pain to wade through all that information, but simply opting for your current coverage could prove to be a costly mistake. Here's why:
Plan changes. Many benefit plans – especially medical – change coverage details from year to year. If you have more than one option to choose from, compare plan features side by side to ensure you're choosing the best plan for your current situation. Common changes include:
· Increased monthly premiums for employee and/or dependent coverage.
· Increased deductible and/or copayment amounts for doctor visits, prescriptions, preventive care, hospitalization, dental or vision benefits, etc.
· Revised drug formularies (the list of covered medications, including copayment levels for different drug classifications).
· Preferred doctors or hospitals may withdraw from the plan's preferred provider network, boosting the cost to use them or even eliminating them as an option.
· Raising maximum yearly out-of-pocket expense limits.
In addition, the Affordable Care Act states that group medical plans offering dependent coverage now must extend that coverage to adult children under 26 in most cases, even if they no longer live with you or are claimed as your dependent. Ask your Benefits Department if this provision applies and how much you would pay in additional premiums. (To learn more about provisions under the Act, visit www.healthcare.gov.)
Compare with spouse's coverage. Compare your employer's plans with those offered by your spouse's employer, particularly when deciding where to insure your children. Just make sure it's apples-to-apples. For example, one plan may charge lower premiums but have higher deductibles and copayments; or it may limit needed coverage – say your kid takes an asthma medication that one plan doesn't cover.
Review flexible spending account (FSA) contributions. If offered by your employer, health care and dependent care FSAs are a great way to offset the financial impact of medical and dependent care expenses. With FSAs, you pay eligible out-of-pocket medical and dependent care expenses on a pre-tax basis; that is, before federal, state and Social Security taxes are deducted from your paycheck. This reduces your taxable income and therefore, your taxes.
You must re-enroll in FSAs each year – amounts don't carry over year to year. If your health insurance deductibles and copayments are increasing, consider increasing your FSA contributions accordingly. To learn more about how FSAs work, visit Practical Money Skills for Life (www.practicalmoneyskills.com/benefits), Visa Inc.'s free personal financial management site.
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· Recalibrate life insurance and disability coverage.
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Now, this has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric, 2005
Drawing by Simon Manfield Plywood, gloss paint, glass, drawing
The work above is actually a collaboration between three artists. Tatham and O'Sullivan hired illustrator Simon Manfield and gave him rudimentary sketches to illustrate in greater detail. This is a fairly isolated collaboration between the three, ie. it's not Tatham and O'Sullivan's normal method to hire illustrators.
It's strikes me as odd for a couple of reasons. For one, illustration is often looked down upon by gallery artists. There are probably a variety of reasons for that. Historically, it was looked at as the commercialization of art. Later on I think it was possibly the apparent style of illustration that was problematic. Even later, maybe with the advent of 'conceptual' art, it was the craft element of illustration that turned up noses. Additionally, it might be the journeyman (or work for hire) element of it that was bothersome. Anyway, various reasons come up to distain illustration and those reasons are subsequently forgotten.


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2. Select the area around the pose and invert as you normally would. (Use the magic wand tool then go under the selection menu.) Make a layer below that and color it a light shade of gray. Do not use any white for anything in this tutorial.
3. Shade it like you normally would. Again, don't use white.
4. Do not color until after the pose is saved. You'll have to color in a different program.
5. When you save, save as a PNG.
6. Open up the pose on this website. It makes the white transparent.
SET THE FUZZ TO 0%. Then select the background. If you need help with this, ask.
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LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actor-filmmaker Vin Diesel, best known for starring in the "Fast & Furious" film franchise, has received the 2,504th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"I never thought it would be here in public on a corner, but I guess in some strange way, 30 years ago I made my living by dancing on corners like this with crowds smaller than this," Xinhua quoted Diesel as saying at a ceremony held Monday in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel on Hollywood Boulevard.
Diesel, 46, was joined by several of his friends, including "Fast & Furious" co-star Michelle Rodriguez.
A New York native, Diesel made his film debut in the 1990 drama "Awakenings".
Five years later, his independent short "Mult-Facial" drew the attention of "Saving Private Ryan" helmsman Steven Spielberg, who created the role of Pvt. Adian Carparzo, a rifleman, in the Oscar-winning drama for the actor.
Diesel also starred in a couple of films including "Boiler Room" (2000), "Pitch black" (2000), action thriller "xXx" (2002) and "Fast & Furious" series.
His next film "Riddick" is slated to hit theatres Sep 6. He will also reprise his role in "Fast & Furious 7" which will be released in July 2014.


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Neighbors: 2 adult brothers killed in house fire in German Township
Home collapses while firefighters battle fatal blaze
A house already gutted by flames collapsed Friday afternoon while firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze, which left two adult brothers dead.
Video: Brothers die in German Township house fire
Neighbors said the two men were inside the burning home in the 500 block of Seventh Street in German Township, Fayette County.
"I put my shoes on to see if anyone was down at the house and see if anyone was in there," neighbor Dre'von Taylor said. "The other neighbor came out and said they were in there, and we both went in there to try to do what we can, but the smoke was just too strong for us to go in."
"(I) grabbed a towel, got it wet, put it over my face -- the other guy did too -- and we tried to go into the house but couldn't get in," said neighbor Robert Lindsay.
Neighbors identified the victims as James and Wilbur Shea. They described both as elderly and slow-moving, saying one brother recently had a stroke, which limited his movement.
Family members said the brothers lived in the home, which has been in the family for generations, more than 70 years.
"It's terrible. It really is. These guys were good guys," said Bill Jacobs, whose wife is a niece of the two brothers.
Jacobs said his wife's childhood memories were in the house with her uncles.
"They were very nice. Very nice, giving, caring, loving and they loved their family," Jacobs said.
Sky 4 flew over the scene of the three-alarm blaze. The house collapsed while firefighters were using hoses outside to put out the flames. (Photos from Sky 4)
"It was starting to deteriorate rapidly, so we did pull our crews out," said Adah Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Ryan Huhn.
Family members said they want answers, especially on what caused the fire that resulted in the house collapsing on itself.
"I'm waiting to find out. I was a volunteer fireman for five years, so I can relate and know what they had to deal with," Jacobs said.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7052416.stmI heard from many professors Watson's personality is not very liked in the scientific community, and many people thought he did not deserve that Nobel anyway, that both he and Crick usurped the mantle of Rosalind Franklin so to speak when they were specifically asked not to, and got to publish there findings before others who were asked to did.
speculation on these matters of genetics should be encouraged, not persecuted.
Political correctness has no place in scientific theories.
And apparently Science doesn't either. The statement:"It is clear that black people are less intelligent than white people-just ask any employer of black people" isn't science GiC, and I think it's sad that you think it is.
1) Watson hasn't examined the socio-economic factors involved.
2) Watson hasn't actually accrued any evidence for his statement- he has applied his own bias and pulled evidence out of where the sun doesn't shine.
3) Watson has made an hypothesis into a conclusion without proof. It's absolutely fine to propose a scientific examination to show whether white people are more intelligent than black people, it's not fine to say that your hypothesis that white people are more intelligent than black people is proven without any scientific evidence for it.
4) Watson's claim would mean that the gene for intelligence is the same gene for skin colour- prove it.
Again, it's not about being PC, it's about the Scientific Method. Watson made a claim which is idiotic enough to disprove his own hypothesis.
it's a reality they may have to deal with once more scientific research is done in this area.
Spiffing. I agree. So do the blessed research, gather your evidence and then get back to us.Thats what I am saying. The only people who seem to be obsessed with PC issues are yourself and GiC. I'm certainly not. I'm in favour of proper scientific research, not people spouting theories based on politico-cultural views with no scientific evidence.
The issue I have with this is the way that he stated his hypothesis: "People who have to deal with black employees". As though having a black employee is inherently a problem. There is the racism. Sure, do your research on this subject if you want, but you'd better make sure you state your hypothesis and your findings in a scientific manner. Sweeping generalizations such as this one really ought to be below Nobel Prize winners.
A sweeping generalization is what earned Dr. Watson the Nobel Prize.
Not necessarily. All he did was take Franklin's x-ray data and converted it to molecular data, something that was considered easy by any scientist. The real discoverer of DNA's structure was Franklin, as many scientists would speculate.I would agree with George and Yb-analyst that his statement was more racist than respectfully and scientifically hypothetical.God bless.
Free speculation on matters of race and genetics should be allowed and even encouraged if we are not to retard progress in this field.
If by "free speculation" you mean "respectful, scientific hypothesizing followed by true, unbiased, ethical experimentation" then I agree with you. If, though, you mean the idiot who says, "My black neighbour is wack," then I must respectfully speculate that your hypothesis is invalid.
"respectful, scientific hypothesizing followed by true, unbiased, ethical experimentation"
If the good Dr. meant black folks in general, then I vehemently disagree with him. If he meant the ghetto culture of black Americans, then of coarse, he's 100% correct. Although they do have a knack for finding 40's of malt liquor and vulgar rhyming. Compare the Dr. George Washington Carver to the animal 50cent...
Dr. Watson is a scientist, he made a statement that he believes have scientific methods, if you disagree fine but don't condemn the man until you can scientifically prove his hypotheses to be untrue.
He could have said it much less provocatively and still gotten his point across.
Need I remind you whom you are talking to?
GiC, time for another reposting of the famous Mae West quote....
This is interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stmEvolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.
Interesting, but there are some flaws to his thinking. For one thing monogamy reduces sexual dimorphism, which he expects to somehow begin increasing...social conditions just don't allow for this.But this point is moot becuse he's making predictions ignoring one of the most popular research goals today, genetic engineering. Evolution is over for the human race, we are soon reaching the point where we will control our own evolution, the future human will look however we want it to look. And while there may be inequality between rich and poor at first, in time the technology will eliminate such genetic conditions as stupidity.
Even though I tend to believe that Dr. Watson did not mean anything bad when he said that intelligence in one group of people should not be expected to be the same as in the other, I very strongly doubt that "Africans" can be lumped together as opposed to "Europeans" lumped together. Strictly scientifically, genetically, all politics aside, that is just not a correct approach.
Even if it can be proven that there is a intelligences gene, witch I agree that there probably is. There are many problems associated with playing scientist. Usually when science tries to manipulate something it causes deficiencies in something else. Take modern medicine as an example. When trying to cure an illness usually damage is done to other areas or deficiencies created. I would think the same applies here. When manipulating a gene for more intelligences they have to sacrifice from other areas to increase intelligences. They have to steal from John to pay Paul. Lets say that they increase a humans intelligences through DNA manipulation. I can bet that he/she won't be able to out sprint Bruce Jenner. Nature has it's balance. We only have so much to play with and nature has done it's job well. I say leave well enough alone. If science trys to build an oracle of intelligences it will have to be in a Hubble. It won't resemble human life. As with all science it can be used for good, but due to human nature it probably won't.
I fail to understand where you are coming from. Ultimately, are genes are simply an analog computing device, and one that is turing complete. Thus, I fail to see why we should be limited in our programming capabilities of the human genome; yes, we may be limited by the number of genes, but once we better understand their interaction and the details of the computation there is no reason that we cannot introduce new chromosomes or develop better reading programmes and mechanisms to use the genes we have more efficiently. Theoretically there are no limitations, the only limitations we have exist due to our currently limited knowledge, a problem the next century will no doubt correct.
Your correct. With time comes knowledge. The problem is time isn't on our side as individuals. If we concentrate our efforts on living longer and healthier. We may be able to accomplish the same goals as genetic enhancement. Gaining knowledge through time. After all who knows how intelligent one can become over hundreds of years of life. The problem is everyone is looking for instant gratification.
Dr. George, thus far you're the only one here so far qualified to comment on the scientific merit of his statement. Thank you.
Aristokles, thank you for the compliment, but I must say that I am a doctor only in the USA. In my native Ukraine, my degree is a "Candidate of Medical Sciences" ("kandydat medychnykh nauk"), which is not regarded there as a doctoral degree! It is higher than a Master's, but lower than a doctoral. Here in the US it was evaluated as an M.D./Ph.D. right away, and I officially worked as a postdoctoral felllow, and now I am officially an assistant professor at a university; but if I return to Ukraine and look for professorial positions in universities, I would first have to defend another thesis (a thicker one than for the "candidate" degree)... (and also bribe some high-positioned posh boss )
Although I highly respect George's opinion, a doctorate does not automatically qualify someone to speak, nor does the lack of one disqualify. I had a professor of theology (who holds a Doctor of Ministry and a Master of Divinity) who sincerely believed that the Deuterocanonical books were written in the 17th c. A.D. by the RCC as a part of the Counter-Reformation. People with doctoral degrees are people, too, and they can say some pretty inane things, just as people without them can. All a Dr. before your name means is that when you do say something inane, you have no excuse.That said, my non-doctoral-holding self must concur with Dr. George. His words are quite wise.
He's also an M.D. I'll take his alphabet soup listing of degrees over anyone else's here in a heartbeat on this topic, Y-man.
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This Friday, the infamous looming beast of automatic spending cuts — ominously known as "the sequester" — is set to take place. While partisans ares busy pointing fingers as to who is to blame for the self-created financial crisis, it's easy to forget that if we hit the March 1st deadline, all of us will be affected to some degree.
The White House released data yesterday outlining the expected state-by-state effects of the budget cuts. Amy Brundage, White House regional communications director, said that some of these effects will be felt right away and some will be felt over time. At the end of the day, shrinking our federal budget by $85 billion in automatic cuts over seven months will have a wide range of impacts.
Here's a breakdown of how Texas will be affected, according to the White House:
- Lose $67.8 million in funding for primary and secondary education
- 930 teacher and aide jobs would be at risk
- 172,000 fewer students would be served
- 280 fewer schools would receive funding
- Lose $51 million in funding for educating children with disabilities
- Lose 620 people who work with children with disabilities
- 4,720 fewer low-income students would receive aid for college
- 1,450 fewer students would get work study jobs
- "Head Start" (early education for children 0-5) would be eliminated for 4800 children
Air and Clean Water:
- Lose $8,467,000 in environmental funding that ensures clean air and water
- Lose $2,235,000 in grants for fish and wildlife
- 52,000 Department of Defense employees furloughed, which will reduce their gross pay by $274.8 million in total
- Army funding would lose $233 million
- Air force would lose $27 million
- Navy would reduce procurement of the Joint Strike Fighter and cancel Blue Angels Shows in Corpus Christi and Fort Worth
Law Enforcement:
- Lose $1,103,000 in Justice Assistance Grants
- Lose $2,263,000 in funding for job search assistance
- 83,750 fewer people will get the help they need to find employment
Child Care:
- 2,300 disadvantaged children could lose access to child care
Public Health:
- 9,730 fewer children will receive vaccines for diseases
- Lose $2,402,000 in funds that help the state's abilityto respond to public health threats
- Lose $6,750,000 in grants to prevent and treat substance abuse
- 2,800 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs
- $1,146,000 loss for Texas health departments
- 28,600 fewer HIV tests
STOP Violence Against Women Program:
- Lose $543,000 in funds
- 2,100 fewer victims served
- Lose $3,557,000 in funds that provide meals to seniors
Customs and Border Patrol:
- Reduce its work hours by the equivalent of over 5,000 border patrol agents and 2,740 CBP officers
- Texans could face wait times of 5 hours or more on the land border during peak holiday travel periods
Oil & Gas:
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Chris Martin has said he doesn't think Coldplay will ever be as famous as Take That.
The Paradise singer - who is currently on a world tour with his band - told Bauer Radio he doesn't think Coldplay are handsome enough to compete with Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow.
Frontman Chris said: "I think what we do next will probably be something quite small, but that doesn't mean we don't love doing the big stuff! It's probably good for us to mix it up a bit. You can't keep trying to get bigger and bigger, you can't try and compete with Take That!
"They do have Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow, they have those five handsome men and you don't need wristbands when you have that much talent in the looks department!"
The band performed new song Princess Of China at the Grammy Awards this year with Rihanna. But drummer Will Champion revealed they had their doubts about working with the Where Have You Been star.
Will said: "Chris had written that song quite a long time ago and he had always had it in his head that Rihanna was going to be singing the female part of the song. We questioned whether we should have anyone sing on our album because we hadn't done it before.
"We all love Rihanna and we came to the decision that if we are going to get someone to come and sing on it, it should be the best person and she's obviously an incredible artist and she was the original intention for the female part so it just had to be her really!"
::The full interview and exclusive Coldplay gig will be aired tonight from 8pm across 20 Bauer Radio stations in the UK. More information can be found at www.coldplayindemand.com.


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ATB: Brandon Rush's Triumphant ReturnPosted by rtmsf on November 26th, 2007
Game of the Day. #4 Kansas 76, Arizona 72. The four-days-early game between Kansas and Arizona in the inaugural Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series was everything a college hoops fan could have hoped for in such a meeting between two powerhouse programs. It had stars making plays (Budinger and Rush), tightness throughout (no team had a greater than 4-pt lead in the second half), a tantalizingly close halfcourt buzzer-beater, and an overtime just to fuel the early season intensity. Our thoughts: 1) Brandon Rush (17/8) looks great for a guy who blew out his ACL a mere six months ago. He hit his first shot off the bench, took care of the ball, made both of his threes, and even threw down a couple of dunks in the OT to seal things. 2) Arizona showed a toughness we haven't seen in a while. After getting down ten early (22-12), we expected the Wildcats to pack it in and take their 20+ pt beating while the Phog was rocking – but that didn't happen. Instead, Arizona clawed back to tie the game at halftime, and led the game deep into the second half. We're not sure that happens last year. 3) Chase Budinger's (27/6) potential is mesmerizing – he always seems to be playing better than he actually is playing. For example, he hit six threes tonight, but only shot 10-23 from the field. 4) Arizona may be playing tougher, but they're still playing dumb with the ball. 25 turnovers (14 by their starting guards) at Allen FH won't cut it – given that stat, it's amazing they had a chance to win the game in regulation. 5) Kansas is just scary when it comes to the talent they can put on the court. No surprise there, but this is a 30+ win team that could win the national title if things break right for them.
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Other Games We Saw. NC State 69, #25 Villanova 68. The finals of the Old Spice Classic championship was another close game with a particularly insane ending. After battling toe-to-toe for most of the game (the biggest lead by either team was 7 pts), it appeared that Villanova was going to take the prize when Dante Cunningham tipped in a missed shot with 2.2 seconds remaining to give Nova a 1-pt lead. NC State then passed the ball length-of-the-court to Gavin Grant, who stepped behind the three-point line and was fouled in a ticky-tack call on the shot attempt by Cunningham with 0.4 seconds on the clock. Grant made two of three to put NCSU up by one, so it was then Villanova's turn to throw the ball to the other end in hopes of a miracle. And they damn near got it – knowing they only had time for a tip, Villanova made two tips at the basket (the second attempt was very close and got off before the red light illuminated, according to our Tivo slo-mo) and neither dropped. Still, it was an exciting ending to a competitive game. Courtney Fells led the way for NCSU with 21, but it was a balanced attack from the Wolfpack (Grant & Hickson – 15 each; McCauley – 10) that led to the win. Villanova was paced by freshman Corey Fisher's 21 pts, but special notoriety should go to Casiem Drummond, who with 17 rebounds singlehandedly kept numerous possessions alive for the Wildcats.
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USC 70, #18 S. Illinois 45. This game completely shocked us – not just the result but the margin of victory (SIU's worst loss in seven years). The usually disciplined Salukis couldn't get anything to drop (eFG% = 38%), while the Men of Troy, led by Davon Jefferson (20/5), simply could not miss (eFG% = 65%). We'd watched two or three USC games already this year, and each time they looked uninterested, umotivated and overall underwhelming. Not tonight. Perhaps it had something to do with OJ Mayo's benching (for what reason, Tim Floyd?), but the takeaway is that USC outclassed a reliably good team in every possible way tonight. Randal Falker is the only player who showed up for SIU, producing 17/12 for his efforts.
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Other Ranked Teams.
- #8 Washington St. 71, Air Force 62. Wazzu guards combine for 46/15/13 assts.
- #10 Duke 78, Eastern Kentucky 43. Where did Taylor King (27 pts) come from?
- #19 Kansas St. 82, Rider 69. Jason Thompson of Rider (24/7/3 assts/4 blks) outplayed Michael Beastley (13/10) in this one.
Other Scores of Note.
- UCF 70, Penn St. 59. Another horrid loss for the Big 10, thanks to our friends in State College.
- Missouri St. 73, Winthrop 69. Hard to believe that Winthrop would blow a 16-pt halftime lead at home (24 game winning streak), but they did.
- George Mason 69, South Carolina 68. Mason picks up more major conference pelts as Will Thomas dominated SC inside (22/11).
- Miami (OH) 67, Mississippi St. 60. Does MSU have any other players besides Jamont Gordon and Charles Rhodes?
On Tap Tonight (all times EST). Big 10/ACC gets started in Iowa City, but not much else on the slate for Monday.
- Wake Forest (-2) v. Iowa (ESPN2) 7pm – hard to believe Wake could be favored on the road just about anywhere.
- Davidson (-3.5) v. Appalachian St. 7pm. this is a key SoCon game – why so early?
- Connecticut (NL) v. Florida A&M (ESPN FC) 7pm – already tired of UConn.
- Washington (-22.5) v. Long Beach State 10:30pm – which UW will show up?


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Topic: Kainde Amedha (RPG)
Xenomorphs+Yatuja+Republic+Collonial marines =KEWL!!!!)
You know the rules, if not check the first post on an RPG by BFFC-Mel, or some one.
Species: (sory no Xenomorph players)
Gender: (Yatuja are male only, its just how they are)
Weapons:-(You better be able to carry it)
In space............
Staff Sergant Michale Kain sat in the security booth. "God, I hate my job..." he said to himself. He was a colonial marine, not a corprate security guard. He was supposed to be on the frontier, killing new and deady extraterrestrials. not sitting behind some booth, watching civvies. the comm buzzed. He answered boredly "Yeah, secruity"
John Samson was exited, he found a ship, not just any ship, but a XT ship, this ment millions of things, he could get out of here, get a new better job, Hell, he thought I could quit working all together! He buzzed his supervisor, and then security
3 days later
The ship was full of sentient beings. It was a millitary ship, with soldiers. Cloned soldiers. There were civilians, many of them non human. This was an amazing discovery, so many new species. All peacefull, docked at the station.
2 days later
"Ok sir, at 0200 hours the Schreiber is set to dock. Havent got any messages or confirms from the ship, but its out there. Probly got hit by raiders or something." "Ok, get a containment team down there, dont want to get any spaceborne viruses from any survivors"
0200 hours. standard earth time
Captain Dominic Sanchez's eyes snapped open, he was scared. He felt like he was hanging from something, and looked aroung, he was stuck to a wall by some......."Oh god..." he said to himself. He remembered everything. He felt a odd sense in his chest, like somthing was moveing around
A calm, deep voice echoed through the empty halls "Five minutes until dock with station 58729"
"Oh god. Father, No!" He screamed. Father was the shipboard computer, responsibe for axilaries, and autopilot functions. He felt a sudden pain in his chest. He yelled out, and coughed. The pain came agian and he coughed up blood, screaming. His chest was bleeding now. His screams were cut off. The small snake-like creature emerged from its host, and cried softly. Telling its guardians it was here.
"Okay, I want a nice clean operation you know the drill, Standard procedure." Sgt Kain said. His team was suited up, and they enterd the ship. The doors began to close behind them.
Robert Johnson turned down the volume on the moniters, he had been working double shifts for the past three days, he was tried "Just standard" He said to himself, kicking his feet up, onto the desk, he closed his eyes and fell assleep.
It had been about five minuets since the squad split up into two groups of two. The ship was big, in one group it would take hours, this cut the time in half. Lights were off, but they had shoulder lamps so it was fine. There was a hole in the deckplates. Kain's partner looked downward, saying "Hey, sergent, look how far this goes" Kain was looking upward, into the darkness. "how far?" he said but his answer wans at all what he expected, there was a scream over the comm, and from right next to him. He looked to se what happend, yelling over the comm for a status report, but he was cut off, as the dark, clawed hands pulled him to his death.
no one, can hear you scream...
Dachande stood on the bridge, he clicked his mandibles thoughfully, holding his mask. The Kainde Amedha infested ship had reached a ooman space station. This was bad, the ooman were good prey, cunning, and able to make weapons, But they were arrogant, and stupid in many situations. The hard meat would spread fast.
(Dachande is my character, heres the sheet
Rank:Leader (possibly the highest rank a yatuja can obtain.)
Weapons: Combistaff, Dual shoulder burners, Wristblades, Disk, Speargun, Hand Burner (just a hand held plasmacaster) and dont forget the all powerfull overloading computer/bomb/thingy
Personality:Strong harsh unforgiving, the boss.
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Mrs. LF and I invited three good friends over for dinner on Friday. She did all of the cooking – unfortunately, not much new there – although I was working all day. We had a wonderful evening, which was part inspired by Ottolenghi and part inspired by the French countryside. Not a bad combination, I say!
The starter was directly from the Ottolenghi cookbook, which my wife swears is the best cookbook she has ever bought, and I can attest to the results – bloody excellent every time, and she's made about 10 recipes so far.
The dish she chose was 'Chargrilled asparagus, courgettes and manouri', although we substituted halloumi for the manouri cheese as we can't find it nearby our place. Although it looks like a simple salad, as with many of Ottolenghi's recipes, there is more to it than meets the eye, and it did require quite a bit of prep work, and had a lot more ingredients than you would imagine…but that's what makes their food so tasty, memorable and recognizable.
As an aperitif and to go with the starter, I had selected a slightly chilled Georges Deboeuf 2008 Beaujolais Nouveau, which was really excellent (you can get it at Whole Foods for a discount right now).
The main course was made possible by Mrs. LF's cousin, whose parents own a large country home in France and whose mother grows her own vegetables and keeps her own chickens. She stayed with us a few week's ago and brought a freshly slaughtered chicken in her bag on the Eurostar (how do they allow this, I know?!), so we had been keeping it in the freezer to bring out for a special night with more than just the two of us…as it was one big bird.
The chicken was very 'free range', as you could tell when you saw the joints and bones, which were larger and darker than any chicken you can get in UK supermarkets. The meat was also generally darker and a bit tougher than a UK supermarket chicken, which is the way it should be, and it really had a great flavor running through it. As usual, Mrs. LF had roasted it to perfection, with the skin thin and very crispy, and the bird moist throughout. It was served with fresh green beans, roasted potatoes (which is a secret recipe from her mom) and garnished with roasted garlic and a mish-mash of apples, onions and such. Delish!
We still had some Pouilly Fumé left over from our wedding earlier this year, and thought it would go nicely with the chicken, which it did. To me, it had the trademark 'cat piss' smell on the nose, and was very citrusy and acidic, which cut through the sweetness of the fruit/onion accompaniments and melded well with the bird.
The dessert was also an homage to Ottolenghi, and was a re-creation of what is probably our favorite of their desserts, the dangerous and renowned lemon and marscapone tart. This was Mrs. LF's first attempt at making pastry and it turned out well overall. One of the secrets to this tart – and, by the way, they don't tell you how to directly make this dessert in their book, but do give you the three processes of pastry, lemon curd and marscapone cream in different places throughout the book (!) – is the lemon zest in the pastry shell and the subtle crunchiness (maybe of semolina) that it has when you buy it in the store. It didn't turn out as an exact copy of the version you can buy in their shops, but it was still darn tasty. I will let the picture do the talking here – 'nuff said!
Our guests wanted a dessert wine, and unfortunately I didn't have one that would work with the lemon tarts in my little faux cellar (and Mrs. LF said I was not to buy anymore wine, as she wants us to drink what we have first…urgh!).
In any case, we opened a bottle of some really lovely white sweet wine that we found on our travels to Switzerland last year around Christmas time. We had a remarkable Swiss Syrah wine when having a steak at the legendary Café de Paris in Geneva, and liked it so much that we hunted down the winemaker (Bernard Coudray of Domaine La Tourmente) and set up an appointment to go and visit him in the Valais canton the next day, even though he was officially shut :). We bought some of the Syrah, some of a red blend which is the only one he ages in oak, and some of this, the very fruity and acidic Johannisberg. While it didn't go with the tart (way too acidic and therefore cancels out the fruit taste of the wine), it was still nice to have, and I drank it more as an after-dessert drink.
Well, after that we finished up with a digestif of Thunder toffee vodka (I know, a bit strange, but we had bought some at Taste of London and wanted to see how it was), which had been in the freezer for days. It definitely tastes more like vodka than toffee, but it does have a subtle burnt caramel taste to it…not bad.
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It will be a gathering place for take outs, hits, misses, hard liners into the gap and intentional mocks. The Sporting Green columnist blog will be good to go on Friday.
It's a little bit Jenkins, a touch of Ostler, a dash of Ratto, a spoonful of Knapp, John Shea on baseball, Nancy Gay on football, maybe some fantasy advice, perhaps SFGate's Betting Fool and much more.
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I'm a geek. If you've ever me (Laura) there would be little doubt in your mind. Part of my geekdom, is that I loved the game Mastermind. I got it when I was around 12 or so. I've always been a sucker for logic games. So the makers of Mastermind had a Mastermind tournament going backstage at the Teen Choice awards and several Twilight stars: Justin Chon, Charlie Bewley,Kiowa Gordon, Bronson Pelltier played. Watch the video and the final rankings to find out which Twilight star won!
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26 August 2011
Often the places one's mind travels while in a certain place are more important than the place itself. What follows are some stray hints at the deliberate researches, happenstance investigations & random (mental) walks I've been taking while at Denniston Hill. (There have been random physical walks as well. Those are fun, too.) All of it circles around an unexpected intersection where art, capitalism, community and anarchy make contact.
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Championship: Sky sources: Brighton to name Oscar Garcia as interim boss
Brighton will name Oscar Garcia as their new interim manager, Sky sources understand.
Last Updated: 27/06/13 11:38pm
Gus Poyet led Albion to the Championship play-offs last season but he was sacked as boss on Sunday for an unspecified breach of discipline.
The Uruguayan claimed he was informed of the club's decision while working as a TV pundit for the Confederations Cup, although the club has denied this.
But Brighton have acted quickly to name his replacement, with 40-year-old former Barcelona, Valencia and Espanyol midfielder Garcia due to take over at the Amex Stadium.
Garcia led Tel Aviv to the Israeli Premier League title in 2012/13 and also assisted Johan Cruyff with the Catalonia national team.
Poyet is appealing his sacking, while assistant manager Mauricio Taricco is back at work after a suspension imposed on him was lifted.
Coach Charlie Oatway is still currently serving a club suspension.
Maccabi have already stated that their assistant coach Ruben Martinez and head fitness coach Juan Torrijo Navaro are leaving the club to join Garcia in his next role.


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FlowPaw turns programming into a physical experience that engages the senses. It's an electronics toy that allows you to build all sorts of gadgets and gizmos. Its four "claws" are mikroBUS ports into which you can plug Click Boards. Four Click boards are included in the package: a proximity sensor, an 8×8 red LED display, an accelerometer, and a buzzer.
Programming the FlowPaw is easy with the included FlowStone STEM graphical programming software. Programs are built by picking and connecting pre-existing components in a flowchart. You can start by tweaking one of the 25 provided examples. Some FlowStone components are actually nuggets of Ruby code. As you refine your creations, you'll start hacking a variable here, an expression there and your coding confidence will grow. FlowPaw responds in real time to anything you do in FlowStone, so you can get immediate feedback and learn by trial and error.
The FlowPaw board itself contains a powerful STM32F415RG ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller, four digital inputs, four analog inputs, four pushbuttons, four LEDs, eight servo motor connectors, and a USB port used for powering and programming the FlowPaw (a USB cable is included). Rubber pads on the bottom allow it to be used on a desk safely. There are mounting holes as well in case you want to secure it, e.g. to a robot. The FlowPaw is 131mm wide at its widest point, and 80.43mm wide at the heel. It is 105mm long and 24mm high without Click boards installed.
The board also has an external power connection pins, a screw terminal for external power to your connected servos, and a jumper to select whether servo power comes from the FlowPaw's main power or from the screw terminal.
With the ease of programming, the ability to customize with different peripherals, and the cute design, FlowPaw is an excellent way to introduce children to microcontroller programming.
More advanced users can program the FlowPaw through its 2×5-pin JTAG port which is compatible with the mikroProg for STM32.


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The IPL-ST7 interface library (DLL) works together with any in-circuit debugger and programmer of the inDART-ST7 series and inDART-STX series for ST Microelectronics ST microcontrollers. It is a DLL which includes all of the low-level functions that allow you to set up the instrument and perform, from within your own Windows application, most of the programming commands and functions of the DataBlaze user interface.
The IPL-ST7 Programming Library contains C written routines, and can be used to operate the instrument from within, for example, a Microsoft Visual C or Visual Basic application, as well as any other programming language that supports the DLL mechanism. Full documentation and examples are included.
A USB software protection key is provided with every copy of IPL-ST7; the protection key must be plugged into a USB port on the PC where the library functions of IPL-ST7 are used.
Download IPL-ST7 Programmer's Guide (PDF file, 157K)
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After viewing the Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Goats Cheese Tart on Jules blog, I knew this would be the perfect starter to my Easter Sunday menu. And I am thrilled to say it was, everyone loved it and my mother in law asked for the recipe! It was so easy to make, better than any shop-bought tart. I served some salad along-side the tart. Thanks Jules, for sharing this delicious recipe, I will definitely be making this again and again!
Every year we purchase our leg of lamb from a nice butchers called Wishbone. They are known for their rare breeds, their lambs are free range and where possible Salt Marsh Spring Lamb and sourced from only the best farmers in Wales. This year we bought a 3kg leg of lamb and hubby insists on preparing the leg and cooking it, that's his job every Easter. He rubs the lamb in a lemon, rosemary and garlic mix, and it is heavenly.
For dessert I made a Lemon Curd and Strawberry Trifle, a recipe I have made before and one I knew would finish the meal off wonderfully. This was another recipe my mother in law asked for. If anyone would like to re-create this yummy trifle, you can find the recipe here: Lemon Curd and Strawberry Trifle
I couldn't resist not making another Chocolate Guinness Cake, we just love this cake and I thought it would be wonderful decorated with mini chocolate eggs. My in laws really loved it and took a huge wedge of it home to have the following day!


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This work is featured fiction.
A different story about AliensEdit
Here's a science fiction story about an alien called Xenu, I didn't write it, someone called L. Ron Hubbard wrote it, and it wasn't even original. Why is it important? All too often advertisements paid for by Scientology turn up on the Internet and some are obviously Scientology but others talk about Dianetics or just promise you ethical happiness etc without making the source clear. Well Scientology doesn't look very ethical, and many reasonable people say Scientologists are more likely to empty your bank balance and make you less happy and less healthy than before. So if you find advertisements
pretending saying they'll improve your life and it all looks too good to be true keep away.
This is at the top of the page because Scientology advertisements have appeared on this page. I don't know why Wikia accepts money from that questionable organization.
This is staying at the top of the page because it may have helped inspire, Scientoligeist - The Spine-chilling Curse of Xenu! May it inspire yet more good creative fiction.
The Aliens of the Flaming Red SunEdit
This story is fiction and is mostly for entertainment. It does have a serious message as well.
- Don't be prejudiced against those who are different from us.
- If real aliens ever contact us treat them responsibly as you would want them to treat us.
- If real aliens ever contact us how they treat us may depend on how we were planning to treat them.
There is also a message about the harm that oppressive societies can cause.
I'm Proxima Centauri, please help me. I'm nearer to the Solar System than any other star. And if you don't help me I don't know who else will. I'm only a little star. And I'm blushing all red because I'm so little. And I can't get yellow or blue like the bigger stars. I'm not a bright shiny star like Sirius. And I'm not a powerful luminous star like Rigel. And my nearest neighbors are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B and they're both a quarter of a light year away. And I'm all alone in a big Galaxy. And I'm scared I'll get hurt.
I'll tell you what my biggest problem is. You see most of my planets are well behaved. But there's one orbiting quite close to me.
That planet's a turbulent one. And the Aliens there are really the weirdest! There's Morowl the ruler and he'll be offended of we translate his name, and there are others with names like, "Blue Tentacles" and "Purple Eye Stalks".
- "Morowl" told other Centaurians what to do and really enjoyed a mudbath until .......
- "Earthlings" really hoped the aliens would like us until .......
- "Blue Tentacles" was at the mercy of a cruel and tyrannical guardian for a large part of his early life until .......
- The Mother of Blue Tentacles wasn't sure how to rescue her child until .......
- "Purple Eye Stalks" was born a slave but gradually became tired of slavery and yearned for freedom until .......
Do you feel like learning more about what those aliens were like and what they got up to? It's here in the story.
By all means, please help fix spelling, grammar, and organization problems. Thank you.
Contents of The Aliens of the Flaming Red SunEdit
The story is here.
Part 1, Getting to know Each OtherEdit
- Chapter 1 The things that crawled out of the slime on the planet Porrila
- Chapter 2 The First Human Spaceship hasn't yet arrived on Porrila
- Chapter 3 It's not altogether nice
- Chapter 4 The Verdict
Part 2, Retribution, Penitence and MoreEdit
- Chapter 1 He cried because….
- Chapter 2 The prisoner knows he is judged
- Chapter 3 Sadistic Guards
- Chapter 4 Punishing Exercise
- Chapter 5 Is this better of worse
- Chapter 6 Prison Psychology
- Chapter 7 Psychologists Decisions
- Chapter 8 Free at last, perhaps
- Chapter 9 The boy won't like his dad's plan
- Chapter 10 Remembering
- Chapter 11 Returning home
- Chapter 12 Home's horrid
- Chapter 13 Sin and repentance
- Chapter 14 Penitence and more
- Chapter 15 Who will like the boy?
- Chapter 16 The Priests who feel guilty
- Chapter 17 What's Aunt Violet's plan?
- Chapter 18 Aunt Violet warns about Marriage.
- Chapter 19 Mistress and servant
- Chapter 20 Family joy and Family problems
- Chapter 21 Crisis Point
- Chapter 22 Crisis Worsens
- Chapter 23 All Alone?
- Chapter 24 Perplexity
- Chapter 25 Brothers in Servitude
- Chapter 26 Freedom the Tough Option
- Chapter 27 Fruitless hunt
- Chapter 28 Rage and Aftermath
Part 3, Freedom and Danger Edit
- Chapter 1 Dash to Freedom
- Chapter 2 They know about us!
- Chapter 3 Escape to the Cave
- Chapter 4 The Eerily Spectacular Cave
- Chapter 5 A New Problem, the other Submarine
- Chapter 6 The Broken Down Sub and the Generator
- Chapter 7 A Fright and More
- Chapter 8 What can go wrong next?
- Chapter 9 Hope and more fear
- Chapter 10 They're horrible snobs
- Chapter 11 Crime and rescue
- Chapter 12 They really respect me.
- Chapter 13 What Happened to Purple?
- Chapter 14 The Engineer and the Homeless Boys
- Chapter 15 True Love never runs Smooth.
- Chapter 16 Struggles
- Chapter 17 Disturbing News and Further Struggles
- Chapter 18 Bad News Continues
- Chapter 19 Working things out?
- Chapter 20 Towards a 'Home' among the Homeless
- Chapter 21 Travelling to where the Homeless live
- Chapter 22 Getting even nearer to where the Homeless live
- Chapter 23 Where the Homeless live
- Chapter 24 Life and the other among the Homeless
- Chapter 25 The Journey Continues
Part 4, Living as Free CentauriansEdit
The Internet gives possibilities for creative writing to branch and develop in different ways which would be hard to manage in a book. It will be interesting to see how this new way to write a story turns out. Readers can choose whether to read first the story of Purple or the story of Blue Tentacles.
Could the aliens really exist?Edit
That's uncertain. Serious scientists can't agree if life is possible round a star like Proxima Centauri. For serious science read Habitability of red dwarf systems. Provided life is possible there it is quite plausible that something like the Aliens of Porrila exist somewhere, either here or in a parallel universe. They probably are not round the star Proxima Centauri that astronomers see here with their telescopes though there could be other life round Proxima Centauri.
There could really be a parallel universe where the Aliens of Porrila are real and entities like humans live on a planet orbiting a different star about 4 light years away. I mean it. Two separate intelligent civilizations so close together and at roughly the same level of technical development are very improbable. Despite this in an infinite multiverse it will happen! The aliens could be here as well!
Can you imagine what it's like to be dying in some dirty place with cockroaches biting you while you are still alive? I can't though Scientologists let Lisa McPherson die that way and sadly that wasn't fiction. If you've the stomach for them here's the Autopsy photos. Here's a further account of what happened,Death in slow motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology
We regret that Wikia puts Scientology advertisements onto some of our pages despite what's wrong.