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Expert's return ticket to space
Getting to space is difficult, and coming back is just as hard. ESA will test the science and technology of reentry by sending the new Expert experimental vehicle on a fast and fiery return trip to space next year.
The Expert (European Experimental Reentry Testbed) spacecraft is being built in Italy by Thales Alenia Space and is revealed in detail on the new Expert web site.
The information from Expert's flight will test the computer models of the harsh heating and aerodynamic conditions encountered by space vehicles during their passage through Earth's atmosphere.
This is not the first time that ESA has studied the challenging art of reentry. In October 1998 the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator (ARD) was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket on a suborbital arc reaching up to an altitude of 830 km. It splashed safely into the Pacific Ocean after a 101-minute flight and was recovered for detailed technical analysis.
Blunt nose and four flaps
ARD had a 'classical' Apollo-type capsule shape, but Expert will use a novel elongated conical pyramid. Its very small angle of attack means it will hit the atmosphere very much like a bullet: nose ahead, straight and fast – at about 5 km/s.
The blunt nose will create a detached shockwave that will carry off much of the heat generated by the friction with the air.
The nose is made of heat-resistant ceramic material attached by a complex mechanism to the metallic conical body. The junction allows for differential expansion of the ceramic and metallic parts while maintaining a smooth surface and minimising disturbances to the airflow.
Four flat sides with four fixed flaps and rear thermal blankets complete the shape. Flaps will control the flight in the atmosphere and reduce the speed before the parachute is released.
The flight conditions will be recorded by temperature, heat-flux and pressure sensors, spectrometers and an infrared camera. The reentry trajectory will be tracked for Expert to be recovered for detailed analysis in Europe.
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The refrigerator-sized Expert, weighing about 430 kg, will be launched on a Russian submarine-based Volna rocket on a suborbital path, hitting the upper layers of the atmosphere on the way back down at an altitude of about 100 km.
The 5 km/s is not quite as fast as a spacecraft returning from orbit, but it is enough for a realistic test and for comparing the measurements with simulations and wind tunnel tests.
Fresh and detailed experimental data will allow designers to refine the aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic models for the future. For example, a full-sized European spacecraft could bring back scientific samples from the International Space Station – and possibly, one day, astronauts home from space.
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"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. "
- Martin Van Buren -
If we browse thru brief ITIL history, we can see that ITIL (or its basic concepts) was present in IT since the wheel invention. There lies the key to its popularity in IT service business. What can an IT business do to improve it's functioning, but turn to ITIL, or some of its derivatives, like MOF or ISO/IEC 20000? You educate and certify people, define your functions and processes and introduce tools for their automation. And then you are ITIL compliant. Or not?
ITIL is best practice guidance. In the V3 it becomes a bit more prescriptive, but still it stays a framework that basically tells us WHAT we SHOULD DO. In ITIL V3 there are some more ideas on HOW, but that's not its forte. You can define everything by ITIL recommendations, and it can help you a lot in your Service Management work, but you are still not ITIL compliant. Because there is no such thing as ITIL compliancy. You can measure your processes and report on them all you want, but no one guarantees that you made it there.
An international standard for IT Service Management, ISO/IEC 20000, is heavily based on ITIL. It deals with most important ITIL processes, but also adds some new. It defines requirements and code of practice for ITSM, and also provides the tools for assessment and audit of the system.
By ISO 20000, use of ITIL is not mandatory, but since 20000 is by its nature above ITIL in the pyramid, implementation and certification is much easier (read: "only possible") if it is ITIL supported. ISO 20000 requirements are very short, not much juice there. HOWs and SHOULDs are in ITIL, SHALLs are in ISO 20000. So know your ITIL.
Also, it doesn't hurt if a company is ISO 90000 certified. You know, mindset and experience...
So, a possible path of implementing ITSM is combination of ITIL and ISO 20k: You define the phases of implementation with processes according the pain you feel in your processes. Also you implement ISO 20000 Plan-Do-Check-Act methodology and metrics for every considered process. Educate people, define the scope, processes and roles. Implement automation tools. Check. Act…
A tiny catch: ISO 20000 requires full frontal coverage, all processes have to be implemented. Scope can be limited only to a specific customer or part of organization. But you can keep your ITIL phased implementation, process by process, or in groups of processes. Apply what ITIL tells you, and implement what ISO20000 requires in each phase. In the end, you have a Service Management organization functioning on best practice principles and ready for ISO20000 certification.
ITIL Qualification Scheme is for the people. Companies are not certified. Example: my company certified a bunch of people in ITIL Foundations 5 years ago. 95% of them left the company since then. In the meantime, we recognized the cost of repetitious certification of new employees. So we developed internal informal ITIL training, to support our business needs and processes. Only higher positioned people get formal ITIL certificates. We created internal support policies, procedures and work instructions, some of them included in our ISO9000 QMS, some external.
So if a company wants to be competitive, and introduce order and best practices in their service business, it should definitely think about ISO/IEC 20000 certification.
ISO20k doesn't introduce much overhead, it just tells you in advance what things shall be done eventually, and keeps you from wandering in the dark. If implemented right, certificate should be a bonus, not the target.


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Telstra & Mog announce an Aussie-friendly music streaming services
Hot on the heels of the impending Australian launch of Spotify, Mog &Telstra have announced a 320kb music streaming offer that won't eat into your data allowance.
It looks to be a similar strategy to the Spotify/Three business model that worked very well in the UK.
Having met with the guys from Spotify Australia last week, I expect big things when they properly open the doors here down under. I can't help but wonder if they have a similar big network deal in the pipeline.


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Recently, I traveled to Whole Foods to see if they had any type of potato bread (mix, fresh, not fresh) to turn this awesome Daily Spud recipe into a grilled cheese. Instead I stumbled on Whole Foods' "cheese remnant" section (which I had thought they discontinued) where I found two cheeses I had never heard of: 'Vintage Van Gogh' and 'Black Pepper Bellavitano.' From there, I decided to make two simple, quick grilled cheese sandwiches featuring these cheeses and the onion rye bread I had sitting at home. Such a great idea. Since everyone is probably most intrigued by the Vintage Van Gogh, I will start with the Satori Black Pepper Bellavitano.
"A creamy Cheddar-style cheese with a unique Parmesan taste – coated in cracked black peppercorns. American Cheese Society winner in 2009!" (Cow's Milk/Pasteurized) (Whole Foods Cheese Display)
After tasting this most definitely yummy cheese, I looked back at my rudimentary photo of the display accompanying the Bellavitano. Whole Foods description is 100% spot on. The Black Pepper Bellavitano has the creaminess of a fantastic Cheddar with the bite of a Parmesan (and black peppers). A great combination in my opinion. If you like mild cheese, this particular variety is not for you. However, if you enjoy a cheese that is not timid and most definitely out front, you should get in your car right now and drive to your local Whole Foods.
Although this was a worry when using onion rye bread, the Bellavitano did not get lost behind the strong flavor of the bread. It actually complimented it very well.
"The fruit of the black pepper vine, used since antiquity in European cuisine, is present here again to accent our finest creation – rich, nutty, creamy BellaVitano. By adding just the right pinch of cracked black peppercorns, we impart a spicy zestiness that's nothing to sneeze at. To the beautiful life!" (Sartori Cheese)
I love Van Gogh, so much that during my 11th grade French class, I painted a tie based on a Van Gogh painting. Therefore, when I saw cheese named after Van Gogh, I just had to buy it … and then devour it.
Normally when I stumble on a new cheese, I google said cheese and up pops a 1,000 results all explaining the cheese. This time, I was not as lucky. Thankfully, the [now defunct] blog Corks and Curds posted an article specifically about Vintage Van Gogh, answering many questions you and I probably have:
"I am pleased to announce I have discovered an aged Gouda-style cheese that is both delicious and widely available: Vintage Van Gogh from Roth Käse in Monroe, Wisconsin. Made from full-cream cow's milk, this mild Gouda is aged only six to eight months–in contrast to the three to five years of more 'serious' aged Goudas. The cheese has a wonderfully mellow and creamy texture, with only a slight hint of caramel." (Corks and Curds)
Unfortunately, since the cheese is packaged by Whole Foods themselves, I am not sure if my Van Gogh is from Roth Käse, but my guess is that it is.
The Vintage Van Gogh is the complete opposite of the Black Pepper Bellavitano. It is extremely mild and creamy and blends nicely in sandwich form. While eating the first half of my Vintage Van Gogh grilled cheese, I was afraid the onion rye was overshadowing the Van Gogh. However, as I continued to munch on the sandwich, the flavor of the cheese really began to come through. My suggestion to you, if you want to use this cheese on a flavored bread, would be to make sure that you don't skimp on the cheese. I believe the second half of my sandwich simply happened to have more cheese than the first half, allowing me to truly taste the Vintage Van Gogh.
This was a very successful experiment if I do say so myself. I was able to try two new cheeses that I had never heard of but will never forget. I haven't thought of future uses for these cheeses, Vintage Van Gogh and Sartori Black Pepper Bellavitano, but I am sure with a couple of added ingredients and a different bread, they would make even more fantastic gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. If you have any suggestions, please leave them in the comments.
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Age: 35
Occupation: Attorney, Botto Gilbert Schottland Lancaster PC
Residence: Round Lake
Hometown: Several!
Family: Husband, Bruce; two reluctantly adopted stray cats of indeterminate age
Education: Juris doctor, University of Illinois College of Law; bachelor's degree, economics, University of Illinois
Favorite McHenry County restaurant? Green Pea Pod in McHenry
Favorite movie? I am not a huge movie fan, but I am a sucker for a cheesy romance novel
One word that describes you? Capable
What is your job and what makes you so good at it?
I am an attorney and contrary to many people's opinion that attorneys are argumentative and combative, the strongest tools I have are compromise, reason, and empathy. That doesn't mean not staying firm in my position to benefit my clients, or not fighting for what my clients deserve. It just means that being an attorney is a sales job and no one is going to buy what I am selling if I am rude, uninterested, or instantly combative. In my line of work, I don't have to resort to name-calling and bad-mouthing. If the opposing side and I don't agree, there is a tie-breaker (the judge or arbitrator) to resolve the issue.
What accomplishments and innovations are you most proud of this year?
As my year was bumping along and I was dealing with the everyday aspects of my job, I had a major motor vehicle accident. I had pretty serious injuries and it kept me home for several months. This led to a lot of unusual accomplishments for this year. I learned to sew (sort of). I caught up on 10 seasons worth of shows I never knew existed. I learned to let both my mom and my husband cook in my kitchen (really hard). I found out what a lot of my clients go through when they suffer major injuries. I rediscovered how wonderful my friends and family are and what a special person I have in my husband.
The year is not over yet and I may still accomplish or innovate in a way that will "wow" my business and law colleagues.
How do you give back to the community and what drives your service?
I have served on boards and committees in numerous organizations in McHenry County, but what I take particular pride in is in one-on-one contact with young people. I have an open door policy for anyone who wants to shadow an attorney, I participate yearly in Woodstock School District 200 career events, and am available as a resource for University of Illinois students and graduates from both the law school and undergraduate programs. I volunteer regularly for scholarship committees and for question-and-answer sessions for current students. I want to help every young person have access to education and to reach their potential.
What is something you have never done but want to do some day?
Take a cooking class in the south of France, during a three-month tour of Europe, of course!
What is the best career advice you have received?
To never be afraid to speak up. Being a younger female in an area dominated by older men is a challenge for all the immediately obvious reasons. However, it is also an opportunity to provide a different perspective and perhaps offer a solution no one else has thought of. I was the first female partner at my law firm and I truly believe that it was partly due to the fact that when someone asked for my opinion, it never occurred for me that I wasn't supposed to give it, even if it was in direct opposition to someone else's opinion.
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"Carolina has been an interested and active professional for many years within McHenry County. Not only has she been active within her own professional career, Carolina has also volunteered for community based programs and is currently a member of the McHenry County Community Foundation Board of Directors," said fellow board member Rick Schildgen.


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Houston home prices keep shooting up, but they're still among the most affordable in the nation, a new report showed.
ZipRealty, an online residential brokerage firm, examined median home sales prices in 30 metro areas and estimated family income data from the Department of Housing & Urban Development to generate a ranking based on affordability.
Houston ranked No. 8 , with a median sales price of $185,00 in February and an estimated family income of $66,000 in 2014. Houston's affordability index of 2.8 means the median price house is 2.8 times the region's estimated family income. The median sales prices used in the study represents single-family homes, townhomes and condos.
Locations east of the Rocky Mountains were the most affordable, with Chicago leading the list, followed by Philadelphia and Orlando, ZipRealty found. The most expensive housing markets are in California. Homes in Orange County are selling for 6.4 times the 2014 estimated family income, while homes in the Bay Area go for 5.7 times the average family income.
"In the most affordable areas of the nation, homes are available for just over twice the annual average household income," ZipRealty CEO Lanny Baker said in an announcement of the study. "While the cost of a home is still a very significant expenditure for families everywhere, it's interesting to see these regional differences in affordability. The cities at the top of our list are far more affordable than other places, particularly the larger California metros. Our list offers families a handful of metros where the cost of housing is relatively more affordable."
Most affordable housing markets:
- Chicago; 2.2x affordability index; $160,000 median home price in February 2014; $72,400, 2014 estimated family income
- Philadelphia; 2.4x; $190,000; $78,800
- Orlando; 2.6x; $140,000; $54,800
- Richmond, Va.; 2.6x; $187,750; $72,900
- Dallas; 2.7x; $180,000; $67,900
- Raleigh, N.C.; 2.7x; $203,000; $75,800
- Baltimore; 2.7x; $229,000; $83,500
- Houston; 2.8x; $185,000; $66,000
- Tucson; 2.8x; $157,000; $56,300
- Nashville; 2.9x; $187,000; $64,00
Least affordable housing markets:
- Orange County, Calif.; 6.4x; $540,000; $84,900
- SF Bay Area; 5.7x; $550,000; $97,100
- Los Angeles; 5.6x; $340,000; $60,600
- San Diego; 5.6x; $405,000; $72,700
- Brooklyn; 5.5x; $345,000; $62,500
- Long Island, N.Y.; 5.5x; $345,000; $62,500
- Sacramento; 3.7x; $250,000; $68,000
- Portland; 3.5x; $270,000; $77,300
- Denver; 3.4x; $258,000; $76,700
- Boston; 3.3x; $309,950; $94,100
The report comes as Houston has seen record prices and a short supply of houses on the market, according to the Houston Association of Realtors' latest monthly report. The average price of single-family homes shot up 12.5 percent to $247,534 in February while the median rose 11.7 percent to $181,500 over February 2013. Both were records for the month of February.
In fact, local home prices are rising so fast that the Harris County Appraisal District began spreading the word early this year that property valuations landing in owner's mailboxes could reflect that. See story here.


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Why Do the Lakers Squander so Many Leads and Why do They Play Poorly on the Road?The reflexive, mainstream media answer to the title question of this article is that Kobe Bryant "is not clutch" or at least that he has "not been clutch" this season. There are two problems with that kind of thinking:
1) "Clutch" statistics inherently involve a small sample size of data that contains a variety of kinds of plays and shots that cannot just be mixed together to produce any kind of rational, coherent analysis.
2) While it is true that Kobe Bryant's overall performance on the road--which comprises a much larger sample size than just his "clutch" statistics--this season has been much worse than his overall performance at home, the Lakers' problems go deeper than Bryant's road field goal percentage.
Kevin Ding, a rare NBA beat writer who actually provides excellent analysis instead of just filing by the numbers postgame reports, recently offered his take on the Lakers' road problems:
The Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder flat-out have the speed and bounce to win without refined execution--and to win for sure when they indeed do execute. We now know even better than three months ago how badly the Lakers needed at least an infusion of offensive creativity from Paul at point guard.
Lakers coach Mike Brown did craft this plan to play through big men Andrew Bynum and Gasol in the post, but Brown will admit the limitations of that approach.
"The post is the easiest place in basketball to double," Brown said.
That's why Brown is so often looking like a one-man bowling team with those constant underhand waves at Derek Fisher and Steve Blake to hurry the ball across halfcourt. The Lakers need every precious shot-clock second to set up the proper spacing, get Bryant a touch, throw the ball into the post, draw the double team, pass it back out, set up and fight for the re-post, swing the ball to the weak side to look for something there and ideally reach a fourth option on offense before the 24-second clock expires.
Doing all that is not a particularly fun way to play the game, which is a basic reason the Lakers do not do it when they're messing around instead of approaching the game in the most businesslike manner. (And if you've got a lead, is it human nature to stay businesslike or try to have some fun? Yeah, now you know why the Lakers blow so many leads.)
That cavalier attitude is what bit the Lakers in Washington, with Bynum piling up seven turnovers and Bryant jacking tough shots up before double teams arrived instead of everyone making patient passes, cutting toward space and doing the work.
Bryant has played a major role on five championship teams and he has been the Lakers' primary playmaker for the vast majority of his career. Is it logical to leap to the conclusion that his subpar road performance this season "proves" that he is a selfish gunner who is simply trying to move up the all-time scoring list or does it make more sense--based on Bryant's track record and the Lakers' anemic offense overall, as documented by Ding above--to give Bryant the benefit of the doubt and assume that Bryant is trying to do whatever he can to help the Lakers win?
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Register of the William A. Drayton Papers, 1913-1946.
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Army and Navy Club of America
Brandigen, E. D.
Commission for the Peace Conference in Ljubljana
Committee for a Fair Trial for Draja Mihailovich
Curwen, Mary
Drayton, Kolman
Gavrilovitch, Milan
Jovanovich, M.
Karovitch, Pavle
MacKinnon, M. L.
Milosavljevitch, Lazar
New York Herald
Pashitch, Nikola
Phillips, William
Sachutch, Kaross
Serbian Red Cross
Serbian Relief Fund
Serbian Society of Great Britain
U.S. A.E.F. Headquarters
U.S. Embassy London, Office of the Military Attache
U.S. Passport Bureau
Vesnitch, Milenko
Witton, M.
"Financial Scheme for Serbia."
American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris, 1919
Banat, Serbian territorial claims, 1919
Biographical file
"American Who Will Fight for Serbia." by Hayden Church, 1918
Certificate of exemption from military service
Delegation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Letters to the mother of W. A. Drayton
Letters of introduction and recommendation
"A Young American Friend of Serbia."
Bulgarian Military Occupation of Serbia, 1915-1918
Bulgarian-Serbian frontier claims and reparations, 1919-1920
Cer Mountain, battle, August, 1914
Georgevitch, T. R., "The Truth about Rumanes in Serbia", Paris, 1919
Goricia, Italian occupation, 1918
Interallied Commission, Paris, 1919
Report on the Violations of the Hague Convention, by the Bulgarians in Occupied Serbia, 1915-1918
International credit and international government currency
Italian occupied territories, 1918-1919, treatment of inhabitants
Italian-Yugoslav territorial disputes, 1919
Jugoslav Committee in London. "Austria-Hungary's Effort to Exterminate Her Jugoslav Subjects."
Lazic, Ant., "Ethnographic Frontier of Italy, Yugoslavia, Germany." (In French)
Montenegrin National Assembly, Deputies, 1906-1913
Paris Peace Conference, 1919
Commission on Reparations of Debts -- Project for Treaty with Bularia
Delegation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Dalmatian question
Frontiers between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Italy
Goritza and Gradiska
Memorandum concerning the claims of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Military effort of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the war of 1914-1918
North Frontier
Persecutions of Slovenes and Croats under Italian occupation
Serbo-Bulgarian relations
Economic and Financial Section. Memorandum concerning the Peace Treaty with Austria
Democratic Autonomist Party of Fiume
"Report of a Yugoslav Interned in Italy," Paris, 1919
Serbia, World War I, Reconstruction and relief
Serbian Army offensives, Autumn, 1918
Smodlaka, J., "Jugoslav Territorial Claims", Paris, 1918
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Captain Seafort wrote:He was facing the prospect of a lifetime stuck on the same ship as Neelix.GrahamKennedy wrote:The contrast with Tuvok always struck me. Tuvok, under his emotional control... was an asshole. Seriously, he was rude, arrogant, inflexible, and just basically a giant dick to everyone around him. And when he lost control it was always horror and death and violence.
Good point.
Maybe Vulcans are assholes without emotions and perhaps that is why they need to repress them. Whereas Spock's human side makes him easier to control the asshole-y-ish behavior.


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Managed Extensions: Measuring Strings
Welcome to this week's installment of .NET Tips & Techniques! Each week, award-winning Architect and Lead Programmer Tom Archer demonstrates how to perform a practical .NET programming task using either C# or Managed C++ Extensions.
A recent client of mine wanted text to be displayed in a Label (static) control only if the text could fit. If the text could not fit into the Label, the user was to see a string indicating that the text was too long and they could double click the item to drill down into the details of the value (which displayed another dialog). Using .NET, this turned out to be much easier than I first anticipated.
I've created a simple Managed Extensions demo to illustrate how to do this. Here's a figure of that application being run a few times:
As you can see, the code is tested by entering text into a multi-line TextBox (edit) control and then clicking the Display button. If the text fits nicely into the Label control, it's displayed. If not, the text "Too large" is displayed instead.
This is accomplished by performing the following steps:
- Call the Label object's CreateGraphics method. This method returns a Graphics object for the current device context.
- Call the Graphics object's MeasureString method, passing it the string to be measured and the font that will be used to display the string. The return value will be a System::Drawing::SizeF object that contains the height and width of the string as it will be rendered in the current device context.
- Compare the SizeF, Height, and Width property values to the Height and Width properties of the Label control to determine if the text will fit.
Here's how that code would look (copied from the article's demo):
private: System::Void button1_Click(System::Object * sender, System::EventArgs * e) { Graphics* g = label1->CreateGraphics(); SizeF size = g->MeasureString(textBox1->Text,label1->Font); if (size.Width < label1->Width && size.Height < label1->Height) // fits { label1->Text = textBox1->Text; } else // doesn't fit { label1->Text = S"Too large"; } }
The last two things to point out are:
- I pass the TextBox object's text and the Label object's font.
- I compare on both height and width because a carriage-return/line-feed pair (the TextBox MultiLine property is set to True) would not be measured as they're not displayable characters. Therefore, I want to make sure that the text also displayed vertically.
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To download the accompanying source code for this article, click here.
About the Author
The founder of the Archer Consulting Group (ACG), Tom Archer has been the project lead on three award-winning applications and is a best-selling author of 10 programming books as well as countless magazine and online articles.
This article was originally published on September 22, 2004
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Learn Arabic – Language Teacher for English Speakers
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Longest Cow Ever
filed in Animals, Nepal, Photo on Oct.11, 2008
Long cow is looooooooong! We're now about halfway through the second half of the Annapurna Circuit (the "Jomsom Trek"), and this gigantic bovine showed up out of nowhere! My friend Brian (from Ireland) took this photo, and Hans is the one in the middle.


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Torr, Stephen J., Prior, A., Wilson, P.J. and Schofield, S. (2007) Is there safety in numbers? The effect of cattle herding on biting risk from tsetse flies. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 21 (4). pp. 301-311. ISSN 0269-283X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2007.00705.x)


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Food Aid Quality Review: Feasibility and Acceptability Study of Corn Soy Blend and Fortified Vegetable Oil in Malawi (FAQR-Malawi)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01873196
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 10, 2013
Last Update Posted : February 4, 2015
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This research will test alternative methods of ensuring compliance with recommended preparation and targeting of supplementary foods for malnourished children under five years of age.
The hypotheses that the proposed study intends to test are as follows:
- With appropriate behavior change communication (BCC) and social support, and with provision of CSB and FVO in the correct proportions, it is possible to get women to prepare CSB with oil in the recommended ratio of 100:30, and in quantities just sufficient for the target child.
- Providing CSB to Beneficiary Mothers/Caretakers pre-packaged bags of 2 kg with appropriate messaging and with instructions to direct the food to children and to prepare the CSB with oil in the recommended ratio and feed as instructed will result in better compliance.
|Condition or disease
|Child Malnutrition
|Behavioral: Receive extra oil Behavioral: Receives behavior changed messages on CSB package
|Not Applicable
The first stage of the study involves working with the procurement and program staff to ensure that oil and CSB will be available at the same time in sufficient quantities and can be distributed together. We will work with program staff and outside consultants (if needed) to develop locally acceptable recipes for CSB plus oil. A sample of communities with MCHN programs will be chosen, and the intervention (consistent provision of CSB with oil, teaching of recipes using CSB with oil, appropriate behavioral support) implemented. Tufts and locally contracted researchers will interview program staff involved in procurement and supply chain management as well as program staff, and beneficiaries, to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the provision of CSB with oil, and identify barriers and problems. This stage is expected to take six months.
In the second stage of the study, the CSB will be distributed in new, smaller packages in half the sample communities, with the other half continuing with their normal distribution. In preparation for this stage, during the first stage, Tufts researchers will arrange for the production/packaging of a sufficient supply of CSB in the new packages, and will contract with local communications specialists to develop appropriate messages, so these will be available in time for the second stage of the study. Tufts and locally contracted researchers will collect information from program staff on their perception of the feasibility and impact of the change, and will interview beneficiaries to determine how they use the CSB and whether their use changes with the change in packaging/messaging. We may track the effect on intrahousehold sharing through self report of consumption among family members. This stage will last about six months, with data collection from beneficiaries conducted before and up to six months after the start of the intervention.
In addition to interviews and focus group discussions, we will collect samples of porridge as prepared in order to assess the proportion of oil, and we will conduct market observations to determine whether increased distribution of oil affects availability and price in the market, and whether market access affects beneficiary mothers' compliance with recommended preparation method. We will conduct a small number of in-home observations to observe beneficiary mothers' practices with respect to storage, preparation, and feeding of children, of which they might not be aware.
The key outcomes of the study are the proportion of oil in the CSB porridge as prepared, and the percent of beneficiary mothers who meet the standard for the oil : CSB ratio.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|6811 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|Food Aid Quality Review: Feasibility and Acceptability Study of Corn Soy Blend and Fortified Vegetable Oil in Malawi
|Study Start Date :
|July 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2014
Experimental: Receive extra oil
This arm will receive enough oil to prepare the CSB they receive in the newly recommended proportion of 100g CSB: 30g oil. They will receive education and instructions on the new method of preparation.
Behavioral: Receive extra oil
No Intervention: Control-No extra oil received
This group will continue to receive only 1L of oil with their CSB has they already have been. They also will not receive any new education.
Experimental: Receives behavior changed messages on CSB package
Group receiving CSB repackaged into 2kg packages with messages on package on how to prepare. Only in Phase II.
Behavioral: Receives behavior changed messages on CSB package
|No Intervention: Control-No repackaged CSB
- Change in average percent of oil by volume in the porridge as prepared [ Time Frame: Baseline (July 2013), Phase I (October 2013) 3 months, Phase II (January 2014) 6 months ]Having samples of prepared porridge taken from beneficiary mothers analyzed for percentage of oil content. This will allow us to know if the mothers are preparing the porridge in the appropriate ration of 100g CSB: 30g oil.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|6 Months to 59 Months (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
All Beneficiary Mothers/Caretakers receiving supplementary food for their children at the selected FDPs implementing a program change or the control FDPs , are considered part of the subject pool. All beneficiaries will be receiving a program change (consistent with additional oil ration and education on preparation in Phase I, and repackaged CSB in Phase II) in the selected FDPs. Participation in individual interviews, focus group discussions, and observations constitutes subject participation.
Subject Categories
- Beneficiary Children that are part of the taste tests in preparation for Phase I
- Beneficiary Mothers/Caretakers that participate in interviews, focus group discussions, and in home observations
- Care Group Lead Mothers that participate in individual interviews and FGD
- Health Care Workers that participate in individual interviews
- PVO staff members that participate in individual interviews
- Store owners/Market Vendors that participate in individual interviews
Beneficiary Children (Children Under five years old,U5):
Inclusion Criteria:
- Child enrolled in Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) to receive ration (CSB13 and FVO) from 1 of the 16 Food Distribution Points
- Child has an SFP ration card
- Subject's whose mother/caretaker or CSB preparer was contacted to participate in taste test FGD
- Subject's whose mother/caretaker is voluntarily willing to consent to their child's participation in taste tests
Exclusion Criteria:
- All children enrolled in the SFP in the selected program change FDPs are eligible
Beneficiary Mothers/Caretakers (Mothers/Caretakers of Children Under five years old,U5):
Inclusion Criteria:
- Beneficiary Mother/Caretaker enrolled in Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) to receive ration (CSB13 and FVO) for her child from 1 of the 16 Food Distribution Points
- Beneficiary Child has an SFP ration card
- Beneficiary Mother/Caretaker has no age restrictions for inclusion (Note: Mothers/caretakers or CSB preparers will be asked to participate regardless of age and consented appropriately)
- Subject who is voluntarily willing to participate by signing the consent form (or if minor, adult is willing to sign on their behalf). Note: This should will only come after the subject has been educated on all that appertains to their her involvement in this study, the consent script read aloud for them and given the chance to make her own non-coerced, non-persuaded and autonomous decision.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Beneficiary Mothers/Caretakers who were interviewed once for this study will not be interviewed a second time during a later Phase of the study.
Care Group Lead Mothers
Inclusion Criteria:
- Lead mother who covers the catchment area of the selected 16 FDP's
- Lead mother has been present during the program change period
- Subject who is voluntarily willing to participate by signing the consent form
Exclusion Criteria:
- None
Health Care Workers (Health Surveillance Agents, Health Promoters, Resource Persons)
Inclusion Criteria:
- Health Care Workers serving within the catchment area for the 16 FDPs
- Health Care Worker has been present during the study period
- Subject who is voluntarily willing to participate by signing the consent form
Exclusion Criteria:
PVO Staff Members
Inclusion Criteria:
- All staff members from Catholic Relief Services, Africare, Save the Children, Project Concern International (PCI)
- Subject who is voluntarily willing to participate by signing the consent form
Exclusion Criteria:
- PVO Staff members who joined too recently to have experience of the program change Store Owners/Market Vendor
Inclusion Criteria:
- Store owner/market vendor in study districts (i.e. Machinga, Balaka, Chiradzulu and Mulanje districts) who trades in the relevant products (food vendors)
- Subject who is voluntarily willing to participate by signing the consent form
Exclusion Criteria:
- Vendors who do not sell food.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01873196
|Blantyre, Malawi
|Principal Investigator:
|Beatrice L Rogers, PhD
|Tufts University
|Responsible Party:
|Tufts University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
AFP-C-00-09-00016-00 ( Other Grant/Funding Number: USAID )
|First Posted:
|June 10, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 4, 2015
|Last Verified:
|February 2015
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In an interview with Time Out London this week, Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter franchise, revealed that he would like to father a child before turning 30.
"I really want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them. A lot more tired, a lot more happy," said the 23-year-old actor.
He's got big aspirations for his future offspring too. "I'm definitely going to be one of those parents who pushes their kids into things," he said, adding, "I'd love my kids to be a boxer. Yeah! Cricket too." But the 5-ft., 5-in. actor quipped that he will have to find "a very tall wife" to ensure that any kids he has are good at sports.
While he believes he's too old to star as Harry Potter again, he says he would like to play the bespectacled boy's dad. But that's not his only career goal. Before hitting the big 3-0, Radcliffe also plans to direct a production and write a piece of work that he will be proud of. He's also written his first screenplay.
(MORE: 'Harry Potter' Book With Author Notes Sold for $228,000)
For now, however, he's sticking to acting. In The Cripple of Inishmaan, which debuts at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End today, Radcliffe plays a bullied Irish country boy who tries to score a role in a Hollywood film being made on a nearby island.
He's well prepared to play a victim of bullies, telling the Guardian that he "really enjoys stage violence," which he first learned from stuntmen on the Harry Potter set. He says he later made a hobby out of choreographing fight scenes on his lunch breaks.
And the best question of all in the interview: when asked, "Why aren't you a completely f—ed up egomanic?" despite becoming famous at age 11 and a multimillionaire by age 19, Radcliffe humbly replied, "I had really good parents." Good answer.


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There are good websites to share with your Players.
Refer Parents to the Irondale Website Hockey Parents tab along the top. There is information about Heathy athletes and the information is geared towards families. This information is geared toward coaches.
The Department of Disease Control (CDC) has a comprehensive toolkit for coaches
Click here to visit the CDC website
Minnesota Sports Medicine has a health library for various sports injuries
Click here to visit the MSM fact sheet about concussion
Minnesota Hockey has a Coaches Resource Center. Scroll down their page to see info on concussion
Click here to visit the Coaches Resource Center
Skin Infection
The Minnesota Department of Heath has a comprehensive website on skin infections in athletes
Click here to visit the MN DPH website
Water Bottles
The Virginia Department of Health has information on the effects of sharing water bottles
Click here to visit the VA DPH website
This is YOUR page on the Irondale Website. If there is any information you would like to see or share, let the Irondale Web Administrator know by clicking at the top to send an email or click on the Feedback button on the Irondale home page
A great tool for parents and team managers:
This is the same clock used at the SuperRink and at Shoreview
Hockey Clock Simulator
Click here for instructions in pdf format (revised 12/05/2009)
Click here for instructions in Microsoft Word format (revised 12/05/2009)
New Privacy Policy


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It is no secret, if you have read any Orangechair posts, that I wanted NBC's Awake to be the greatest show of the season. I thought the concept was brilliant and that the show had nearly endless potential. It is also no secret that not only is Awake not the greatest show of the season, it is also being cancelled. For those of you that haven't seen the show, it follows Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs). After a terrible car crash with his family, Michael's world is torn in two. In one world, Michael's wife survived the crash and his son did not. When Michael goes to sleep in that world, he wakes up in another where his son survived and his wife did not. The show focuses on Michael as he tried to not only understand what his mind is doing but also understand about his car crash and the truth about who he is.
I have identified four fundamental mistakes that took the great idea of Awake and turned it into a cancelled show. Rather than just listing the problems, I'm also going to give you a way that I would try and remedy the mistakes. I have no right to complain about the show if I haven't thought up ways to fix it.
Problem 1: Awake started with an amazing episode that introduced the audience to the Michael Britten's life apart and the two worlds that resulted from it. After jumping in head first and challenging the audience with some fairly advanced psychological ideas, the show hit the brakes. For the next couple of episodes, the show takes on a Law and Order, cookie cutter type style. In each episode, there is a crime in each world and Michael uses information from both worlds to solve both crimes. There is no development of an overarching plot, just crimes to solve.
My Fix: The show wasted too much time focusing on Michael trying to cope with his situation rather than trying to understand it. Episodes that allowed more insight into Michael's condition like "That's Not My Penguin" or "Ricky's Tacos", should have been interspersed with the episodes that did nothing to further a continuing story line.
Problem 2: The show eventually did focus on understanding Michael's psychological problems but did not develop them enough. Episodes consisted of Michael having hallucinations or being stuck in one world, aspects of the psychological problem that can be developed. The problem is the show does not develop them further than a single episode.
My Fix: Tie these odd occurrences together and don't just blame them on Michael's need to cope with the situation, which is how most of the bizarre occurrences were explained. The penguin hallucinations and Michael being unable to travel from world to world should not have been swept under the rug after one episode. These oddities should have been reoccurring to help develop Michael, his condition and the show's storyline in general.
Problem 3: One thing the show did that I loved was spend somewhere near half a season building up the cause of Michael's accident and his condition. Taking away his memory of the crash served perfectly to build up mystery but the show didn't stop there. The show involved Michael's bosses and a couple of dirty cops, allowing them time to talk on screen about the crash as if they had some added knowledge about it that the audience did not. The show also, at one point, added a criminal that seemed to be similar to Michael. The criminal seemed to not only have knowledge that Michael existed in two worlds but he also seemed to be in a situation similar to Michael's. The show was building up the crash and the condition into something big and unique. I was expecting something otherworldly or at least some type of an experiment that was done to Michael, maybe that was my fault for misreading the build but that's what it felt like it was building to. I found myself to be very disappointed when it turned out the police caused the crash to try and kill Michael so he wouldn't reveal that they were dirty.
My Fix: Personally, I would have preferred the cause of the condition to be supernatural or the result of an experiment. No matter what your preference, whether you want the cause to be otherworldly or you're rooting for Michael to just be crazy, the show needed to make a decision. Building to something unique only to have the cause of the crash and condition be dirty cops trying to kill Michael was downright disappointing.
Problem 4: Whether Awake fumbled its series finale because it scrambled to change the end when it found out it was being cancelled or it just had a bad ending, the last five minutes of the finale hurt the show. Rather than giving us an explanation, the show throws Michael through a wild self-realization that results in both worlds being stripped away. With no real explanation of what's happened, Michael escapes both worlds and somehow wakes up in one where both his wife and son are alive.
My Fix: As of right now I'm not really sure what happened with the finale. Is Michael's son dead? Is his wife dead? Are they both dead? Is Michael himself dead? Or is he just crazy? Was it all a dream? Who knows because the show alludes to any and all of these things happening. Rather than giving us an answer, we were given a happy ending. While that's nice, it's not what an audience needs. The show should have either developed an ending that alluded to a next season or created a happy ending that also gave an explanation as to what was happening.
As sad as I am that this how isn't coming back, I do understand why it got cancelled. The show structure had some major flaws that needed to be fixed for it to be a smashing success. I told you what I would do to fix the problems that I saw, now it's time for you to let me know how you would fix it. Hopefully, the next time NBC comes across an amazing show concept they can make it last for more than one season.


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Americans will be celebrating the Fourth Of July is a little over a week, but it's never a bad time to remember when we were conquered by the British. Of course, I'm talking about bands. Somewhere in the early to mid-1960s.
The Beatles tribute band American English has a gig each day of the 4th Of July weekend. Two days from now, on June 26th, Phil Angotti, a Chicago-based singer-guitarist, will perform The Who's Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy LP at Reggie's Rock Joint on State Street, with help from Chloe F. Orwell and Brad Elvis of The Handcuffs, and musician Charlie Short. On the following night, Angotti moves on to FitzGerald's in Berwyn, where he, Casey McDonough, Scott Ligon, and Tony Kidnokis will play the entire Hard Day's Night album by The Beatles.
Tomorrow, June 25th is Global Beatles Day, an online celebration hosted by Faith Cohen that invites people to post messages, photos, memories, and links on the event's Facebook page. Cohen was on the No Limits radio program on Indianapolis station WFYI90.1 earlier today to promote Global Beatles Day, and she has managed to enlist a number of musicians to participate in her quest. "You are all in a position to spread the word, and share the event," Cohen tells visitors to the GBD Facebook page. "Maybe you have a lot of followers who pay attention to your music, writing, ideas, art, or personality. The Beatles are a wondeful thing to celebrate. Music makes the world more wonderful than it is, and easier to bear when it's not"
Happy Global Beatles Day, Faith. And thanks for a great idea.


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GM 12 Bolt Differential - 14 Steps To A Shapely Rear!
How To Set Up A GM 12-Bolt Differential
One of the best performance modifications that can be made to a street machine is a change in rear gears. Going from a stock, economy-minded 2.73:1 ratio to a 4.11:1 performance gear can transform a lethargic loser into a leapin leaver. Youll swear you found another 50 horsepower somewhere. The bad part is that while simple engine bolt-ons can be done by almost anyone with a hammer and a screwdriver, changing a ring-and-pinion gearset is much more involved and requires some dedicated tools that you probably dont have. This is especially true of the GM 10- and 12-bolt rearends, but weve recently run across a few trick tools that make it easier and less expensive to set up the GM rearends at home.
The accompanying photos and captions will show how to install the ring-and-pinion gears and set them up with the correct clearances and specs. We wont get into rebuilding the differential here. For the juicy details on how to do that and how to get more performance out of the diff, check out Improve Your 10- And 12-Bolt Positraction .


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Daido: TKYPhotographs by Daido Moriyama
Availability: Limited quantities
With PRINTING SHOW—TKY, Daido Moriyama re-staged his 1974 performance "Moriyama Daido Printing Show," held at the Shimizu Gallery in Ogikubo, Tokyo, from March 23 to 31. In lieu of mounting photographic prints on the walls of the gallery, Moriyama brought in a photocopy machine and silk screen printing station. Using this equipment, he generated an ad hoc photobook composed of photocopied sheets staple-bound inside a silk screen cover. That book was called Another Country in New York, making use of photographs that he shot while in New York City in the winter of 1971 with Tadanori Yokoo. In the 2011 re-staging of this event at the Aperture Gallery, reciprocating the New York—Tokyo exchange, the photobook that Moriyama produced is titled TKY and features work shot in Tokyo over the last ten years.
Event participants were encouraged to edit and sequence their own copy of TKY, choosing from a menu of interior sheets and two cover options. As such, PRINTING SHOW—TKY is a nexus of photography and performance while also deconstructing the photobook-making process and bringing into focus the shifting role of institutions as loci of content dissemination in a post-web generation.
The remainder of the copies made during the performance are now being offered to our collecting audience.
PRINTING SHOW—TKY is organized as an Ivan Vartanian/Goliga project.


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The g'mara on Eiruvin 55a, expounding "it is not in heaven...nor across the sea" (D'varim 30:12-13), says (Soncinco translation):
Raba expounded, It is not in heaven, it is not to be found with him who, because he possesses some knowledge of it, towers in his pride as high as the heavens [neither is it beyond the sea] it is not found with him who, because of some knowledge of it, is as expansive in his self-esteem as the sea.
R. Johanan expounded: It is not in heaven, it is not to be found among the arrogant; neither is it beyond the sea, it is not to be found among merchants or dealers.
Three of these cases address personal qualities -- pride, excessive self-esteem, and arrogance -- and then there are the "merchants or dealers". (A footnote explains that this is a reference to maritime trade.) What's wrong with them?
I wondered if seafarers didn't have time/ability to learn torah. Someone else at minyan this morning thought this was a reference to people who teach torah only for pay. But we're just guessing.


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Batterymates Fister, Lobaton work well in tandem
CINCINNATI -- Nationals right-hander Doug Fister and catcher Jose Lobaton have been a good battery this season. In fact, in eight games this season, Fister has a 1.83 ERA when Lobaton is behind the plate.
"We are on the same page as natural as we could be," Fister said. "We want to attack hitters with our best stuff. We just try to keep them off balance. We try to stay with no pattern. We kind of throw anything and everything at them all at once."
Lobaton agreed with Fister. They are always on the same page, but it helps, according to Lobaton, that Fister throws strikes.
"Whatever I've seen, I talk to him between innings. I'll say, 'I don't like this, I don't like that.' He is with me. So he trusts me every time I call a pitch," Lobaton says. "That's good. It makes me feel comfortable, and he feels comfortable, too.


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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 equipped with 4G LTE is finally touching down at Verizon starting in just two days. It's been a long time coming, but starting March 1, you'll be able to pick up the premium tablet for $499.
What do you get for $499? Well, first there's the much lauded 7.7″ Super AMOLED Plus screen with 1280×800 resolution, then you've got a 1.4GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 3.2MP rear camera (2MP front), and 16GB of storage, all contained inside of a sleek 7.8mm thick casing. This version of the Galaxy Tab also has that wonderful 4G LTE functionality that has proven time and again to be the speediest mobile data network in the 'states.
The only show stopper? Verizon and Samsung indicate that the Galaxy Tab 7.7 will still be shipping with Android 3.2 Honeycomb. Given that the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), Galaxy Note 10.1, and Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) were all just recently announced with Android 4.0 Honeycomb on board this is somewhat of a disappointment. Given the bad track record of updates for Android products — if I was in the market for a new tablet I might just wait until an official date for the release of Ice Cream Sandwich on the Galaxy Tab 7.7 before making a purchase decision.
The Galaxy Tab 7.7 was announced all the way back at IFA in September 2011. Since then, we've been watching carefully to see when the Tab 7.7 would make it stateside. The very last we had heard about the Galaxy Tab 7.7 release date was during CES 2012 in January when Verizon and Samsung said that the device would be arriving "in the coming weeks". Wow, it's been a long time coming! The $499 price point meshes well with our prediction from the other week, and unfortunately, so does the lack of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich!


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(Pocket-lint) - Panasonic was just one of the many manufacturers to add its name to the list of companies launching tablet devices at CES, with the unveiling of its Viera-branded device.
Due to land by the end of the year, the LCD touchscreen device (currently Japan-only) comes in three sizes - 10-inches (pictured), as well as a 7-inch version and a 4-inch device that doesn't look too dissimilar to a smartphone. Despite all three products running on Android 2.2, there's no access to Android Market but you can get onto Panasonic's own Viera Market. As the tablets are designed to work with a variety of cloud services in conjunction with the maker's Viera televisions and its new Viera Connect smart TV service, we can't shake the feeling that the gadget is more of a glorified remote control (albeit a very fancy one) rather than a standalone tablet.
Most of the tablets on display weren't hooked up to TVs, so we were unable to test out all of the functions, but as pure tablets they were okay. The touchscreens were relatively responsive, although not the best we've seen and the resolution certainly wasn't particularly high, with many of the graphics appearing decidedly pixellated. The products also felt pretty hefty to hold. The screens seemed to be covered in fingerprints - not unusual for a touchscreen device, but Panasonic's display seemed to fare less well in this respect than many other products that we've seen (we noticed lots of cleaning cloths tucked away behind the tablet display on Panasonic's CES stand).
Specs are still very thin on the ground and as the tablets aren't due until later on in the year, it's very likely that they will benefit from a series of design tweaks before they reach us. Let's hope so.
Catch up with all the latest gadget news from the show at our dedicated CES page.


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Kenko 82mm Real Pro MC UV Filter
This product is in good stock and is available for dispatch in our normal delivery timescales.
The Kenko 82mm Real Pro MC UV Filter is a two-purpose filter. Its principal function is to cut out UV light, which is the main cause of hazy photos on sunny days, however it also serves as a front-mounted lens protector that may just save your lens' front element from serious damage. Kenko's Anti-Stain Coating repels moisture and makes the filter easy to clean, while Anti-Reflection Multi Coating ... More
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Product Highlights
The REALPRO UV is a multi-purpose, fine-weather filter that blocks UV light, which is the main cause of unclear and hazy photos on sunny days. The REALPRO UV filter adopts UV-CUT glass, which blocks unwanted UV spectrum rays before light fully passes through the filter. This type of glass has a slight yellow tint, but this causes no negative effect on the image. The REALPRO UV filter also serves as a permanent lens protector.
The filter that stays clear
One important feature of the REALPRO series is its Anti-Stain Coating (ASC), which represents a new generation of Kenko coating technology. Thanks to a new formula of coating material, the surface of the REALPRO filter will cause moisture and water droplets to bead up and slip away, leaving the filter clean. You will therefore not need to clean the filter very often, making maintenance easier and safer. Due to the smooth filter surface, dust and smudges do not stick to the glass and can be wiped away smoothly and easily. This is a great feature for photographers who often find themselves shooting outdoors in rough weather conditions.
A clear and sharp image
Kenko's Anti-Reflection Multi Coating technology provides maximum light transmission and protection from flares and ghosting.
Key Features
Slim frame
Use with any lens, with no loss of light. The REALPRO Protector uses an ultra-thin frame to avoid vignetting effects on wide and super-wide angle lenses.
Knurling edge frame
The frame of the REALPRO Protector is equipped with a knurling surface to prevent slipping, making attachment and removal easy and stress-free.
Black almite frame
To reduce unwanted reflections, the REALPRO Protector adopts a black aluminum satin-finish almite frame. The satin finish increases friction between fingers and frame for quick operation, while the satin black minimises internal reflections.
Black-rimmed glass
To reduce the internal light reflections off the edge of the filter glass, Kenko uses black-rimmed glass. This involves treating the outer rim of the filter glass plate with a specific black ink to prevent any leaking of light.
UV protected case
Every REALPRO filter comes with durable, re-usable plastic case with UV-Cut protection, lengthening the life of the filter by shielding it from UV rays.
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Cheese fondue for two
Gazing into your beloved's eyes as you take turns dipping pieces of crusty bread into a pot of bubbling cheese by the glow of the fondue flame: Is there any meal as romantic on a frigid February night? Is there any meal as quick and easy?
Authentic Swiss fondue can be prepared with just a handful of readily available ingredients in less than 30 minutes, leaving you with plenty of time and energy to choose mood music and scatter rose petals.
For a silky and seductive fondue, do as Alpine cooks do:
Choose the right cheese, one that already has a tendency to melt into a smooth and flowing pool (Gruyère, Emmentaler, fontina, Cheddar, Monterey Jack), rather than into stringy strands (mozzarella) or hardly at all (feta and chèvre). Avoid aged cheeses, which are dry and salty compared to unaged cheeses.
Melt it, slowly, in liquid Traditional fondue contains white wine or, less frequently, beer, to thin the cheese and add flavor. Bring the liquid to a bare simmer and then add your cheese just a little bit at a time, stirring constantly. Heating the cheese too rapidly will cause it to separate. Once you've got a smooth mixture, let it bubble for a minute or two. Cheese will quickly harden if it isn't cooked long enough.
Don't forget the cornstarch
Cornstarch doesn't function in this recipe as a thickener. Rather, it helps to create a smooth emulsion of liquid and cheese. To distribute it evenly so it can do its job, place it in a zipper-lock bag with the shredded cheese and shake well before you begin to cook.
If you received a fondue pot as a holiday gift in the past 20 years, now's the time to bring it up from the basement. If you don't have one, don't rush out to buy one. Any heavy nonstick pot will do. Enamel-coated cast iron is the gold standard because of the way it gently and evenly heats cheese, and because it retains heat long after it is removed from the cooktop. Once you have cooked your fondue, transfer it to the fondue pot set over its heating element (most fondue pots are too flimsy and lightweight to melt cheese without scorching), or place the cooking pot on a trivet, reheating the mixture over a low flame once or twice during the meal if the cheese starts to cool.
Many recipes recommend a selection of bread chunks and raw, blanched and roasted vegetables. But in my experience, melted cheese has a tricky way of sliding right off the surface of vegetables. After a particularly frustrating attempt to get some cheese to stick to a boiled new potato, I gave up on using anything but bread -- which never fails to grip the cheese -- for dipping. I like seeded whole-grain bread, which is popular in northern Europe. Cubes of baguette work very well, too. To cut the richness of the cheese and bread, I serve a crisp green salad on the side.
If you've been keeping your fondue warm over a flame as you eat, you will notice a crusty disc of cheese at the bottom of the pot. It actually has a name, la religieuse (because it resembles a nun's cap, according to food historians). Share it with your dinner partner before moving on to dessert. If your pot hasn't been sitting over a flame during dinner, you don't have to go without this treat. Simply return the pot, with a small pool of cheese at its center, to the burner and heat until it is golden and crisp.
Helles-style lager, a flavorful but light style of beer popular in Switzerland, will add character to this fondue without overwhelming it, the way a darker brew might. Spaten and Paulaner are two widely available examples.
4 ounces Emmentaler cheese, shredded
4 ounces Gruyère cheese, shredded
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 clove garlic, peeled
3/4 cup lager-style beer
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
Pinch nutmeg
Cubes of baguette and whole grain bread for dipping
1. Place cheese in a zipper-lock bag with cornstarch and shake to distribute cornstarch.
2. Cut garlic clove in half and rub against bottom and sides of a heavy nonstick saucepan. Add beer and lemon juice to pan and heat over low until liquid comes to a simmer. Slowly add cheese, a small handful at a time, stirring constantly. Stir in nutmeg.
3. Keep stirring until cheese is melted, smooth and just starting to bubble. Let it boil, stirring, for 2 minutes. Place pot on trivet and serve immediately directly from hot pot, rewarming on stovetop as necessary. Or transfer to a fondue pot to keep warm, stirring occasionally as you dip.
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An hour doesn't offer much time to delve into the research processes that genealogists used as they traced the family history of actress Sarah Jessica Parker for this week's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? We sat down with the research team who worked on Sarah Jessica's family tree to talk about what it took to find her elusive gold miner ancestor. I've recapped that conversation here:
First Steps First
Similar to Sarah Jessica Parker's own assumptions at the beginning of the show, research on the tree began with vague ideas that her family was comprised of recent immigrants. The team first developed a skeleton of Sarah Jessica's family history. "We documented every connection and every life event for her ancestors," says Natalie Cottrill of ProGenealogists, who appeared with Sarah Jessica in the episode, "finding information about Sarah Jessica's family in court records, newspaper articles, books, and personal letters published in books." And that's how they found John S. Hodge.
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The first clue about John S. Hodge's life came from his son's obituary, which stated that John S. Hodge died in 1849 on his way to
California from . Since the death date came from an obituary written decades after John S. Hodge died, the team looked for primary sources recorded during or around the anticipated lifespan for John S. Hodge. For starters, the team wanted to determine why the ancestral John S. Hodge was going to Ohio , as the son's obituary stated. Considering the time period – 1849 – it seemed probable that John S. Hodge could have been heading to the California gold fields. California
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The search led to a John Hodge, who was the right age to be Sarah Jessica's ancestor, listed as a miner in the 1850
U.S. Federal Census for . This record shifted research to determining whether the , El Dorado County California John Hodge was the ancestral John S. Hodge, and the researchers turned to records associated with the 49ers. "We found a letter written by someone in California to John S. Hodge, which had been published in a book," says Natalie. "One of my colleagues tracked down the original set of letters, which provided more details, including information about John S. Hodge's 1950 death." Estate and other documents further confirmed that the ancestral John S. Hodge and the Ohio miner John Hodge was the same individual. California
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Arista Networks, Broadcom, Google, Mellanox and Microsoft Collaborate on New Ethernet Specification to Drive Greater Performance and Cost Efficiency for Next Generation Data Centers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 1, 2014 – A consortium of companies including Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL), Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the availability of a specification optimized to allow data center networks to run over a 25 or 50 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet link protocol. This new specification will enable the cost-efficient scaling of network bandwidth delivered to server and storage endpoints in next-generation cloud infrastructure, where workloads are expected to surpass the capacity of 10 or 40 Gbps Ethernet links deployed today.
The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium was formed by the above leading cloud networking technology providers for the purpose of supporting an industry-standard, interoperable Ethernet specification that boosts the performance and slashes the interconnect cost per Gbps between the server Network Interface Controller (NIC) and Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch. The specification adopted by the Consortium prescribes a single-lane 25 Gbps Ethernet and dual-lane 50 Gbps Ethernet link protocol, enabling up to 2.5X higher performance per physical lane or twinax copper wire between the rack endpoint and switch compared to current 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps Ethernet links. The new specification is being made available royalty-free by the Consortium members to any data center ecosystem vendor or consumer who joins the Consortium.
"The companies joining the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium are taking a major step forward in increasing the performance of data center networks," said Anshul Sadana, Senior Vice President, Customer Engineering, Arista Networks. "With ever-increasing server performance and with the uplinks from the leaf to the spine layer migrating to 100 Gbps in the near future, it makes sense to increase the access speed from 10 Gbps to 25 and 50 Gbps."
By deploying 25 and 50 Gbps Ethernet in their networks, builders of mega-scale data centers such as Microsoft expect to achieve operational advantages, including reduced CapEx and OpEx. "The new Ethernet speeds proposed by the Consortium give superior flexibility in matching future workloads with network equipment and cabling, with the option to 'scale-as-you-go,'" said Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft. "In essence, the specification published by the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium maximizes the radix and bandwidth flexibility of the data center network while leveraging many of the same fundamental technologies and behaviors already defined by the IEEE 802.3 standard."
The companies' motivation for founding the Consortium is to immediately set an industry standard definition of the 25 Gbps and 50 Gbps Ethernet physical layer (PHY) and media access control layer (MAC) behavior, including virtual lane alignment, autonegotiation, and forward error correction characteristics, to enable the swift rollout of 25 Gbps and 50 Gbps Ethernet compliant implementations over the next 12 to 18 months through the participation of multiple semiconductor, networking equipment and interconnect vendors in the Consortium.
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John Kernaghan, a columnist with the Hamilton Spectator, recently wrote an excellent article comparing the athlete funding system/sports model in Sweden and Canada. He has given us permission to reprint it here:
Memo to Paul Martin, PM in waiting:
When, as many anticipate, you name a full-fledged sport minister later this month, dispatch him immediately to this Swedish capital to learn how a country with just shy of nine million people enjoys such disproportionate sporting success.
Consider these humbling statistics: Sweden, with less than a third of Canada's population, sits seventh in the world in Olympic medals from 1896 to 1998, well ahead of Canada and many other larger countries.
As another measure, Sweden sits sixth in Summer Games medals with 452 medals while Canada is 15th with 214 medallions.
In the Winter Games from 1924 to 2002, Sweden edges Canada 108 to 96.
If you look at the math, the more remarkable number is the medal ranking in the summer events by a Nordic nation.
The anecdotal evidence is even more compelling. The wave of Swedish tennis players which Bjorn Borg led made the country a global power. Sweden is currently the world's top table-tennis nation, is a rising track and field player and produces elite hockey players in abundance.
So, how do they do it? We asked the president of the Swedish Sports Confederation, the umbrella for the country's 3,300 sports clubs, if anyone from Canada has ever posed that question.
"Not until you," said Urban Dahlberg.
I know what you're thinking. Like Australia or Britain, the Swedes must be providing big salaries, say in the $50,000-60,000 range, to help their best athletes and provide a carrot for others. Nope, it's not that. Sweden's system is similar to Canada's, with stipends almost identical to Canada's top-carded $13,200 being given to the best prospects through the country's Olympic committee.
And Dahlberg points out that many elite Swedish athletes receive little help with travel expenses. "A survey showed about half of the top 7,000 athletes had to pay their own way to participate in top events. The number of athletes who can make a living from their sport has increased, but many still have to pay themselves, especially in sports like skating, gymnastics and canoeing."
And it's not that, like Eastern Bloc nations prior to the fall of Communism, sports success is a blunt instrument of political policy.
The only real political element to Sweden's success is that, as a social democracy, the prevailing philosophy is access for all.
That means most of the countryside is not privatized, but available to runners, skiers and cyclists of all ages to pursue their activities.
And while it means support to build infrastructure, the biggest boon to athletes of all ages and stripes is that high degree of participation and volunteerism.
Dahlberg says about half of Sweden's population between 7 and 70 belongs to sporting clubs. But the more startling number is the estimated value of volunteer help in running sports facilities and administration and coaching in sports clubs: a staggering $2.3 billion. Canada surely has a strong volunteer base, too, but it rarely leans to the actual operation and maintenance of rinks and fields.
The happens within the club system in Sweden, which often encompasses several sports under one name.
Maple Leaf captain Mats Sundin, for example, grew up in the Djurgarden club in Stockholm, playing soccer and hockey.
As he pointed out when the Leafs were in Sweden for pre-season games against the likes of his old club, the system promotes strong loyalties for clubs by neighbourhood.
"When you grow up in a club like I did, the club teams are yours for life."
Mercifully, though, those affiliations don't extend to the kind of tribal behaviour that has stained English soccer.
Two other factors play into Swedish success on the global scene. One is that sport, play and fitness go hand in glove with family life, the second that sport and play is mandatory in Swedish schools.
In fact, the country even has what they call Sports High School. These provide an outlet for high-spirited students who earn the right to ski, skateboard or cycle on school time by sticking to their academic studies.
So, Paul, maybe we should look beyond the last two years of soul-searching that created a national sports policy.
Remember when federal fitness freaks tried to shame Canadians into getting more active, claiming a 30-year-old Canadian would have trouble keeping up with a 60-year-old Swede? Arguably, Paul, we're closer some 30 years later. But we're still well behind when it comes to producing world-class athletes.
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NEWTOWN -- Jessica Rekos was remembered Tuesday as a smart 6-year-old girl who loved her siblings, wanted real cowboy boots for Christmas and ran as much of her world as she could manage.
Those attending a memorial service for Jessica at St. Rose of Lima Church on Tuesday described it as a moving, beautiful event.
"It was full of angels," said Bruce Blanchard, of New Milford, who was at the service that began under dark gray skies and ended in sunlight 90 minutes later.
Jessica was one of the 20 children and six adults murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday.
The emotional highlight of the service was a eulogy delivered by Jessica's mother, Krista Rekos.
Blanchard said Krista Rekos told the full church of her daughter's desire for cowboy boots this Christmas.
He also said that Krista Rekos told the crowd that her daughter, even at 6, was, in effect, "the boss'' of the household.
Krista Rekos is a sixth-grade teacher at the Blackham School in Bridgeport.
Two of her former students, O'Brian Reynolds, 16, and Iman Doss, 17, both of Bridgeport attended the service.
Afterward, Doss said their teacher told her classes several stories about her daughter. One of them involved the time when Jessica was throwing a tantrum and wouldn't stop. Krista decided to take away her daughter's shoes and put them in the basement. Jessica then proceeded to lock her mother in the basement.
"It was a happy moment," Doss said. "Then she started talking about when she went to school that day and started crying."
"She would always come to school and tell us stories about her daughter," Doss said.
During the service, Jessica's cousin, Erin Lafferty, sang a tribute song and her aunt, Karla Lafferty, offered prayers.
A grandfather, a family friend and Jessica's riding instructor were among the gift bearers during the service.
Scores of teachers from Bridgeport and School Superintendent Paul Vallas attended the service.
The service was one of five scheduled this week at St. Rose of Lima Church.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy attended, and a motorcycle guard of 14 police officers from seven departments escorted the funeral cortege to the church.
Small white angels hung from the bare branches of a shrub outside the church. A bank of flowers, balloons and stuffed animals were on the ground below a shelf of candles. The church's bells tolled a single repetitive note throughout the morning.
Access into the church was closely guarded by police. Yellow crime scene tape blocked entry to the church across its lawns.
And yet, throughout the service, people asked permission simply to add to the growing bank of bouquets and teddy bears outside the church.
"We just decided to come here," said Andrea Salcevo, of New Milford.
Tom O'Quinn drove to the church from New York to pay tribute to Jessica. Parking in front of it, he released a bouquet of helium balloons that soared up over the town into the gray sky.
He also left a large sign saying "God Bless America ... The O'Quinn Family, Hermansville, Mississippi'' in front of the church.
"I'm from New York,'' he said. "But my roots are from Mississippi.''
George and Radia Martino drove up from Howard's Beach in Queens, a neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
"We just came to express our solidarity with the people and the town," Martino said. "We wanted to express our sorrow."
Staff writer Linda Lambeck contributed to this report.
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