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A Game Shop
Safe & Fun Game Downloads (Rating: 39) , Votes:English game website with hundreds of game downloads, online games, freeware, and shareware. Read reviews, watch game videos, download games, and play games in your web browser.http://www.download-free-games.com
Halo Game (Rating: 26) , Votes:Video gaming site with information about Halo, a game for Xbox. Provides in-depth tutorials, screenshots, guides and news.http://www.abouthalo.info/
Shop Boss Pro - Auto Repair Software (Rating: 2) , Votes:Shop Boss Pro is auto repair shop software for the independant automotive repair shophttp://www.shopbosspro.com
Buying & Selling Sites for Massively Multiplayer Online Game (Rating: 6) , Votes:IGE is a diversified service provider operating network of buying and selling sites for massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) virtual currency and assets on the Internet. IGE offers fast, secure, and guaranteed delivery of your World of WarCraft Gold, Age of Conan Gold, Warhammer Gold, FFXI Gil, WoW gold and other game currency.http://www.ige.com
MMO Top 200 - MMORPG Game Sites & Private Servers (Rating: 6) , Votes:Provides a top 200 directory of massively multiplayer online gaming web sites ranked by popularity.http://www.mmotop200.com
Play Free Games Online (Rating: 20) , Votes:Comprehensive online game collection with no signup process or complicated steps to get started - just a simple way to play games online free of charge. Classic NES, Action, adventure, arcade, and sports are a few of the game categories.http://www.excessively.net
Shop Insurance from Endsleigh (Rating: 0) , Votes:Endsleigh now has insurance policies for all types of shop. Get a quote for your shop insurance and cover things such as business interruption, loss of stock and employee theft.http://www.endsleigh-business.co.uk/shop-insurance.htmlCategory: Directory/Business/Insurance
Games Directory (Rating: 3) , Votes:Internet directory for online (web browser-based), console, emulation and PC games, game cheats as well as gaming resources in a comprehensive range of categories.http://www.arcadeforce.com
Yosemite National Park Gift Shop (Rating: 1) , Votes:Offers everything Yosemite ranging from books, clothing, backpacking supplies, souvenirs and home furnishings. Come have a look today.http://www.yosemitegifts.com/Category: Directory/Shopping/Gifts
Auto Repair Shop Management Software - WinWorks (Rating: 11) , Votes:Affordable auto repair shop management software. Since 1993, Auto Shop for Windows makes writing work orders easy and keeps fleet vehicle maintenance records along with tracking customers and maintaining vehicle service history.http://www.winworks.com
Coyote's Game (Rating: 0) , Votes:Coyote's Game sells authentic Native American Indian jewelry and beadwork online. Our items include beaded crafts, silver jewelry and more.http://coyotesgame.com/
Compare DVD Rental - ChooseDVDRental (Rating: 116) , Votes:Compare DVD rental services and game rental. Includes independent reviews, user ratings, comprehensive search and comparison tools, latest news and frequently asked questions.http://www.choosedvdrental.co.ukCategory: Directory/Shopping/Entertainment
The Golf Shop Online (Rating: 8) , Votes:Online outlet for the golf shop at Stover Golf Club, Newton Abbot, Devon. Full range of equipment and accessories. Callaway approved retailer.http://www.thegolfshoponline.co.ukCategory: Directory/Recreation & Sports/Golf
Penguin - UK Book Shop (Rating: 9) , Votes:The official UK book shop and online book store of Penguin Books, publishers of literary, fiction, reference, autobiography, academic and classic books. Read more with Penguin UK - online book sellers.http://www.penguin.co.ukCategory: Directory/Shopping/Books
Mac Games - Game Downloads for Your Mac Computer (Rating: 6) , Votes:Mac computer users can browse and download a large selection of games that are compatible for the Macintosh operating system. Selection includes freeware games that have no time limits or advertising.http://www.downloadfreemacgames.com/
Portugal Shop (Rating: 5) , Votes:An online shop dedicated to Portuguese made products. There his a selection of handmade in Portugal equestrian equipment where Portuguese horse tack and ridding apparel are on focus. There is a choice of Portuguese embroidery tablecloths and tray cloths.http://www.portugalshop.comCategory: Directory/Europe/Portugal
Cruga Biltong - Tastes of South African (Rating: 2) , Votes:We make and supply biltong and boerewors for the UK market. Our biltong is marinated to a traditional family recipe using the finest herbs and spices and includes Original, Peppered and Chilli beef flavours as well as Game, Beersticks and Chilli Bites.http://www.crugabiltong.co.ukCategory: Directory/Europe/United Kingdom
Rushbox Surf Shop (Rating: 2) , Votes:UK Surf clothing retailer featuring Rip Curl, O'Neill, Reef, O'Shea and Rise brand mens and ladies ranges.http://www.rushbox.co.uk
Soccer Shop | Upper 90 (Rating: 1) , Votes:An online soccer retailer specializing in the latest soccer cleats, jerseys, equipment, and apparel. From premium soccer shoes like the Nike Mercurial Vapor and the Adidas Predator to soccer jerseys from both club and national teams, we offer all of the premium gear for players and fans alike.http://www.u90soccer.com/Category: Directory/Shopping/Recreation & Sports
Naija Wedding - Bridals Gift Shop (Rating: 45) , Votes:The one stop bridal house. We import UK/USA designer gowns from big names such as Bonny, Mori Lee, Eden Bridals, Forever Yours etc. Cosmetics, bridal train accessories, gifts, lingerie, wedding car decor, silver certificate holders, wine goblets, party poppers, just married towels, bags sunglasses, hats etc.http://www.naijaweddings.net
Bicycle Shop (Rating: 6) , Votes:Quality bicycle shops should stock a full selection of bicycles including road bikes and mountain bikes as well as BMX bikes and children's bicycles. Learn how to recognize a reputable bike shop, find popular online bike shops, and browse the cycling information resources.http://www.bicycleshop.us/Category: Directory/Recreation & Sports/Cycling
New York City Designer Bridal Shop (Rating: 3) , Votes:CYMBELINE NYC showroom-shop is a designer bridal high end salon. In our New York wedding store you'll find your dream wedding dress.http://www.cymbelinenyc.comCategory: Directory/Shopping/Weddings
Luxury Safaris (Rating: 195) , Votes:UK based tour operator for luxury safari holidays to Kenya and Tanzania. The site features some of Africa's most famous game reserves, safari lodges and tented safari camps.http://www.luxury-safaris.co.uk
Jewelry Factory (Rating: 0) , Votes:Shop online for custom and fashionable jewelry at wholesale prices.http://shopjewelryfactory.com/
Hallmark Ornaments at The Ornament Shop (Rating: 10) , Votes:Hallmark Christmas Ornaments - The Ornament Shop has a large selection of Hallmark ornaments.http://www.ornament-shop.com/
Shop Poetry - The Official Site (Rating: 5) , Votes:An online community and blog for poets with tips on writing poetry, as well as articles about different styles of poetry.http://www.shoppoetry.comCategory: Directory/Arts & Humanities/Humanities
Vaporizer Pen | Vapor Cigarette Starter Kits | Vape It Now (Rating: 1) , Votes:Vape it Now sells the best Vaporizer Pens. Shop online for our vapor cigarette starter kits, batteries, e-liquid, and accessories for sale. Buy online today!http://www.vapeitnow.com/Category: Directory/Shopping/General Merchandise
Killer Guides (Rating: 16) , Votes:Sells strategy guides for games like Matrix Online and Everquest 2. Overviews of spells and skills are an integral part of all manuals. The portfolio includes several EQ2 class guides as well as references for Matrix influence and Runescape gold. Featured authors are members of EQ2 raiding guilds.http://www.killerguides.com
Final Fantasy XIV Guides (Rating: 0) , Votes:Provide tips and tricks of the game.http://www.ffxivarrguide.com
Airsoft Shop (Rating: 13) , Votes:Airsoft Shop is an direct distributor of Airsoft products, based in Bucharest. They represent the following manufacturers in Romania: Classic Army, Tokio Marui, G&G, G&P, King Arms, BlackHawk, Abbey, Guarder, KJW, KWA, KSC, Viper and Xtreme. They sell products like guns, pistols, clothes and tactical gear. Users can buy online. Shipping all over Romania.http://www.airshop.roCategory: Directory/Shopping/Recreation & Sports
Automotive Repair Shop Management (Rating: 5) , Votes:Elite Worldwide supplies solutions for automotive industry professionals, including marketing solutions, seminars, and events.http://www.eliteworldwidestore.com/
Shoes & Footwear (Rating: 0) , Votes:Shop for shoes & footwear at the Official Lacoste UK Store. Browse the latest range of Designer shoes & boots and place an order online today at Lacoste UK.http://shop-uk.lacoste.com/shoes/5200000,en_GB,sc.html
GS Lee Tattoo Piercing Shop Mississauga (Rating: 20) , Votes:Gwan Soon Lee Tattoo Piercing Shop Mississauga, Toronto, Brampton, Oakville, Burlington, GTA. We are a custom art tattoo studio. We do all types of tattooing, including Tribal, Portraits, Animal, Dragon Tattoo, Phoenix Tattoos and much more.http://gwansoonleetattoo.comCategory: Directory/Arts & Humanities/Visual Arts
Early Learning Centre - Children's Toys (Rating: 19) , Votes:Find children's toys, babies toys, indoor toys and outdoor toys to stimulate the imagination of children of all ages at the Early Learning Centre, the UK's premier online toy shop.http://www.elc.co.ukCategory: Directory/Shopping/Kids & Teens
Ultimate Top 200 Game Sites (Rating: 0) , Votes:A top list of mmorpg websites with over 40 categories including Lineage 2, Ragnarok Online, World of Warcraft, and more.http://www.ultimatetop200.com
Auto Body Shops Irvine (Rating: 0) , Votes:Certified auto body shop located in Irvine, Orange County CA. Major insurance companies are accepted. Repairs all makes and models.http://www.fladeboecollision.com/
Shop New & Used Cars (Rating: 0) , Votes:Shopautoweek.com is an authoritative online resource for anyone researching a new or used car.http://www.shopautoweek.com
Trail Cameras (Rating: 36) , Votes:A comprehensive guide with information, tips, and user reviews on all the major scouting cameras. The reviews and photo gallery will help you make that tough purchase.http://trailcameras.netCategory: Directory/Recreation & Sports/Outdoors
Pac - Man (Rating: 0) , Votes:Official PAC-MAN site by Namco Bandai Games featuring news, game releases, fun facts, and downloads. PAC-MAN returns! Who can forget the countless hours and quarters spent avoiding pesky ghosts while chompin' on dots and gobbling up the fruit for bonus points? Relive the retro arcade action!http://www.pacman.com/en
Childrens Books (Rating: 5) , Votes:Inspire their imagination with children's books from Shop.LEGO.com. From graphic novels to books to help them create their own LEGO inventions, you'll find the perfect books for kids of all ages.http://shop.lego.com/ByCategory/Department.aspx?d=275Category: Directory/Shopping/Books
Carpet & Flooring Shop (Rating: 3) , Votes:Flooring specialist offering carpets, solid wood & laminate flooring, underlay & rug collection . Free carpet samples delivered upon request for UK.http://www.ukcarpetsdirect.com/Category: Directory/Home & Garden/Home Improvement
Texas Electricity Providers (Rating: 4) , Votes:Shop Texas Electricity helps consumers and businesses compare and shop electricity plans in Texas.http://www.ShopTexasElectricity.comCategory: Directory/Business/Environment & Energy
Jewelry Collection at Fragments (Rating: 2) , Votes:Fragments is the place to shop for Fine jewelry. From breathtaking necklaces to stunning earrings, you can never go wrong with their jewelry. Shop the Fine Jewelry collection at Fragments and get free ground shipping with your order.http://www.fragments.com/fine-jewelry.html
Nigeria Online Auction & Shopping Store (Rating: 25) , Votes:Shop online in Nigeria auction, bid, buy and sell computers, mobile phones, laptops and computers virtually anything.http://www.mybidmonster.com.ng
Watch Shop (Rating: 34) , Votes:Brand name watches including Rotary, Citizen, Seksy, Tissot, Police, Guess, Sekonda, Seksy, Calvin Klein, Casio, and Accurist from Watch Shop UK. Massive range of mens and ladies watches - Huge discounts and free delivery.http://www.watchshopuk.com
Shop Women's Sandals Online (Rating: 6) , Votes:Shop women's sandals online at SandalUp. Discover the latest fashionable selection of ladies summer sandals, including flats, wedges, gladiators and high heels.http://www.sandalup.com
Electric Guitars (Rating: 4) , Votes:Read about the history of the electric guitar and learn how to shop for an electric guitar. Browse leading guitar manufacturers and compare guitar features and specifications. Shop for a broad selection of electric guitars and tabs.http://www.electric-guitars.us/
LikeU - Jewelry (Rating: 6) , Votes:Online shop deal with fantastic items of jewelery at amazing low prices. Also provides designer makes, Portuguese products, baby products and a lot more.http://www.ekmpowershop8.com/ekmps/shops/salvador/index.asp
The Old School Game Vault (Rating: 3) , Votes:Sell your used video games and consoles.http://theoldschoolgamevault.com/Category: Directory/Shopping/Entertainment
Muscle Car Tools (Rating: 7) , Votes:Professional shop tools and equipment used for auto repairs by technicians and car builders around the country.http://www.musclecartools.com
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An Exchange
November 20, 2011
My friend is getting this (note the amazing pom pom of doom)…
…in exchange for this.
In case you don't know the photo she referenced for the painting, it's this one:
Ridiculous, right?
She's used a few different photos of mine for other projects and it's always fun to see the photo vs. painting comparison (like this one and this one).
Can't help but think it's not the fairest exchange so I'll be throwing in an extra somethin' somethin'.
Happy Sunday!
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Krista Austin, PhD, CSCS, is an exercise physiologist, nutritionist, and NSCA-certified strength and conditioning specialist. She is also a research associate with the International Center for East African Running Studies.
Austin was a performance nutritionist with the English Institute of Sport, where she provided services to 18 Olympic sports and the England cricket team. Most recently she served as a physiologist with the United States Olympic Committee, where she worked with multiple sports in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games. In particular, she is well known for her nutrition work with USA Taekwondo.
Austin is owner of Performance & Nutrition Coaching, LLC, which provides physiological testing, nutrition, and coaching education to professional and amateur athletes as well as Olympic national teams, including USA Track & Field, USA Canoe/Kayak, USA Wrestling, and USA Triathlon.
A former collegiate tennis player, she obtained a PhD in movement science from Florida State University and holds a master's degree in exercise physiology from San Diego State University. She is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and has also served as associate editor of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism.
Performance nutrition can improve health, workforce productivity, and resilience. Incorporating nutrient timing into daily life not only can help people achieve their weight management goals but can also improve mental fitness in the workplace. In this hour-long webinar, Krista Austin, author of Performance Nutrition: Applying the Science of Nutrient Timing, provides techniques to help fitness and health professionals develop nutrition programs that improve health as well as improve resilience and vigilance for work and activities of daily life. Fitness trainers, strength and conditioning professionals, nutritionists, dietitians, and health care professionals will learn the scientific evidence behind performance nutrition in order to differentiate facts from common myths in the world of nutrition and exercise.
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Hulu may soon face content changes, MIUI gets Jelly Bean support, Microsoft simplifies the Windows 8 EULA, and Dropbox updates its web interface with instant updates.
- Hulu CEO Faces Big Changes Some changes may come to Hulu this fall that could make it more difficult to find television content on the video streaming site. An acquisition of an investment firm by Comcast, News Corp. and Disney could mean that some shows may be pulled from Hulu or lose their exclusivity with the site. It also could mean that even more ads may show up on Hulu. [Variety]
- MIUI Gains Jelly Bean Support MIUI, one of your favorite Android ROMs, updated today with Jelly Bean features. MIUI users are now able to use Google Now and other Jelly Bean tweaks along with the MIUI experience. [MIUI]
- Microsoft Radically Overhauls License Agreements for Windows 8 Microsoft radically simplified Windows 8's end user license agreement. Instead of the usual long-winded legal talk, Microsoft replaced it with plain English. The full EULA has yet to be released, but it mentions things like the "personal use" of Windows 8 for system builders, as well as what you can't do with the software. [ZDNet]
- Instant Web Updates! Dropbox updated its web interface with a small, but welcome change. When you make a change to a file either on your computer or phone, Dropbox will instantly update the file on its web interface, meaning you no longer have to refresh the page to see the changes. [Dropbox Blog]
- Awesome biteSMS Messaging App Updated with Theming, Quick Reply Improvements, and More Popular third-party iOS SMS app biteSMS updated today with theme support and better quick reply functionality. The app also fixes a few UI issues on the iPad, while also adding a couple of new features, like the addition of contact photos in notifications. [Cult of Mac]


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Philadelphia Union acquired former Drexel defender Jeff Parke from the Seattle Sounders on Friday for allocation money and a 2013 first-round pick in the supplemental draft.
The 30-year-old Parke has two goals and five assists in 210 games in eight MLS seasons with New York and Seattle. He grew up in the Philadelphia area.


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Boy found safe after nearly 10 hours in New England woods
Maine authorities say a 9-year-old boy was cold but in good health after spending more than nine hours in the woods in Stacyville.
Rowen Ross, of Sherman, was found huddled under a tree around 9:45 p.m. Friday, nearly 10 hours after he was last seen behind Katahdin Middle School.
Dozens of volunteers joined game wardens, Penobscot County deputies and state troopers in searching for the boy, some using snowmobiles and other vehicles. Army National Guard and border patrol helicopters also were involved, along with a K-9 team, Baxter State Park rangers and local rescue squads.
Game Warden Lt. Dan Scott says the boy knew he was lost, walked until it got dark and then sat down on a property line between Penobscot and Aroostook counties, waiting to be rescued.


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Lady Gaga was pelted with eggs in Sydney by some angry fans after she performed on stage in a wheelchair.
The animated pop singer had dodged the eggs as she was leaving an Australian gay bar, Entertainment Weekly reported, but Rolling Stone reports they hit some in her entourage.
At the concert, Gagaperformed her new song, "You and I," in a funeral-like black shroud and mermaid tail in a wheelchair at the invite-only Sydney concert, according to Australia's Herald Sun.
Founder of the Life Rolls On Foundation, Jess Billauer, was also unimpressed with the stunt. He told Radar Online that although he hadn't seen the show, he wished Lady Gaga would reach out to the disabled community.
"I invite her to learn more about the 5.6 million Americans who live with paralysis," he told the site. "They, like me, unfortunately, don't use a wheelchair for shock value."
"I extend a personal invitation to Lady Gaga to attend one of our Life Rolls On events where quadriplegics and paraplegics surf, skate and snowboard, so she can see how much is possible beyond a wheelchair. Maybe that will be the most shocking to her of all."
Roman Reed, a lobbyist for research on spinal cord injuries, also tweeted a response: "Dear @lady gaga how about using your celebrity status 2 try 2 get us out of wheelchairs. Instead of cruising one. Cool?!" he said, according to Entertainment Weekly.
While Gaga hasn't given an explanation to her shocking dress change, Entertainment Weekly notes that on Taiwanese talk show Channel V, she said her new mermaid-tailed alter ego Yuyi the Mermaid was in "incubation."
The international pop star is no stranger to controversy. For the MTV Music Awards last September, she arrived and accepted her trophy for "Bad Romance" in a dress made of raw meat.
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Testifying before Congress certainly focuses your attention.
Testifying before Congress certainly focuses your attention.
I had that opportunity on July 10, at the request of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The topic: the impact of the national Affordable Care Act on jobs and the economy.
I was the only witness from Massachusetts, where our state health care reform has offered a template of what is coming nationally. My hope was that I could speak to economic realities rather than ideologies, using facts and experience rather than fear and polemics.
What follows is the testimony I offered. For those interested in a deeper dive, there also was an interesting, sometimes feisty question-and-answer period, a video of which can be found on my Facebook page (Senator Daniel A. Wolf), or the Committee's website, http://oversight.house.gov/
Good afternoon and my sincere thanks for the opportunity to testify about such an important issue for the American people.
I come before you to share the perspective of a person who, thanks to the hard work and dedication of a team of remarkable individuals, achieved amazing success in one the most challenging businesses of today, aviation.
Twenty-five years ago, as a mechanic and pilot, my dream was to start an airline. With one plane, one route, and six employees, Cape Air flew its first scheduled flight in 1989.
Today, headquartered in Massachusetts, Cape Air operates in 11 states, four U.S. territories and commonwealths, and three foreign countries. We will carry 725,000 passengers this year, and generate $105 million in revenue.
Cape Air now offers nearly 1,000 full-time jobs, with about 500 of them based in Massachusetts. Nearly 300 of our employees have been with the company for more than a decade.
Cape Air's success allowed me, at age 52, to enter government and two years ago, voters from the Cape and Islands chose me to represent them in the Massachusetts State Senate.
My primary goal is to help government and private businesses partner in ways that make our communities healthier and our economy stronger. What's informing my perspective includes six years on the Federal Reserve Board's Advisory Council for New England, noard chair of one of the largest chambers of commerce in Massachusetts and as trustee of the largest mutual bank in the Cape and Islands region.
I've come to realize that one of the most important values we must embrace is that every American should have access to affordable, excellent health care.
We have come a long way toward accomplishing that goal in Massachusetts, and we have done so without stunting business growth, and without cutting jobs.
I'm here to debunk myths, dispel fear and misunderstanding about the 2006 health care reform act that Massachusetts enacted with strong bipartisan support. It also is the template for much of the Affordable Care Act now sanctioned as the law of our land.
From Cape Air's first day in business, we offered health care coverage, knowing that affordable health care helps us retain a great workforce. This year, Cape Air's health insurance premiums will total close to $3 million, roughly 3 percent of the company's gross income. The company will pay just over half of that cost, employees the rest.
In 2007, when Massachusetts health care reform went into effect, there were dire predictions of the impact on businesses like Cape Air.Here's what really happened:
We added some new dependents under 26 years of age to family plans. Beyond that, the transition was seamless. There was no bureaucracy or heavy lifting in the front office.
Since then we've added 15 percent more Massachusetts-based jobs, with our total revenue growing far faster.So much for health care reform stifling business.
The Massachusetts Health Care Reform was designed to ensure access, not curtail cost. With landmark state legislation now close to passage, building on the success of the 2006 act, Massachusetts is on the verge of implementing new strategies to contain costs, while continuing to provide coverage for more than 98 percent of Massachusetts residents.
But I can also report that health care costs have not spiraled because of the plan, far from it.
This year, Cape Air saw a 5 percent increase in premiums – too much, but far from the 15 to 20 percent increases we saw year after year before reform took effect. Last year, our increase was 4 percent. The previous year, we were able to negotiate a 5 percent decrease.Cape Air's success should be seen in a state context.
Unemployment in Massachusetts has dropped from 8 percent in 2009 to 5.8 percent in May of this year. This is 2.4 percent below the national average.
Massachusetts ranks 8th in the nation in job creation this year, adding 37,800 new jobs through May.
Since January 2007, Massachusetts ranks third in the nation in economic performance, as defined by our gross state product.
Meanwhile, additional state spending for health care programs resulting from payment reform only represented 1.4 percent of the state budget in 2011 -- which includes a 400,000 net increase in the number of non-elderly insured residents.
And the Health Connector – the Massachusetts version of the health insurance exchanges in the Affordable Care Act – has reduced premiums in the last two years by 10 percent.
These facts explain why surveys consistently find that about two-thirds of our residents support the state's health reform.
As important and positive as enacting the Affordable Care Act is and will be, it's not the last word. Access is only one of the pillars on which great health care is built. The other issues to address are cost, complexity, outcomes and transparency.
I look forward to a national conversation about all of them, and especially an understanding of the link between a healthy business climate and access to health care for all.


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TheOutlawEzE Wrote:Was wondering if there are any fixes for Eden and new version of makemkv. Seems to think for a second and then kick out the disc, makemkv work on its own but script doesn't. thanks in advance for any advice!
Hmmm.. I have not had any issue. If it's not finding the disk that doesn't have anything to do with Eden, and is just windows scripting. I'll test the script tonight on another machine and try and add in an option to specify the drive (with the method I mentioned earlier in the thread, but I'll add an option to change in the bat option), which should fix the issue.
I'll work on this tonight when I get home. Thanks for your patience guys.


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Can you point out every Valve game that makes an appearance here? Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2... the list goes on.
[Video spoiler] I just wish Gordon hadn't killed Chell, especially considering how half-assed the animation on that kill was. Plus, they seem like they'd be such good friends.
Valve World [YouTube via Reddit]


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As president of national retailer Hobby Lobby, Steve Green has his own kind of personal passion, but it has nothing to do with arts and crafts.
His passion is collecting rare biblical texts and artifacts that tell the history of the Bible and its impact on people's lives; he has spent millions since November 2009 assembling the world's largest private collection of such texts and artifacts and plans to build a national museum near the National Mall that would open in late 2016.
More than 450 items from the so-called "Green Collection" will on display Thursday through Feb. 1 at a former Hobby Lobby store in Colorado Springs as part of the exhibit called "Passages" after making stops in Oklahoma City, Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C.
Green has been working for Hobby Lobby since graduating from high school in 1981. The company was founded by his father, David, in 1972 in Oklahoma City. The chain now includes three stores in Colorado Springs and 525 others in 41 states that employ 23,000 and generated sales of more than $3 billion last year. Members of the Green family also owns the Mardel chain of Christian bookstores and Hemispheres chain of furniture stores. Steve Green also authored the books "Faith in America" and "The Bible in America."
Steve Green was interviewed Tuesday between previews of the exhibit.
Question: What do you hope people will gain from seeing "Passages?"
Answer: One of the main objectives is for people to gain an appreciation for a book that many have on a shelf in their homes. I hope it will encourage people to read the book and have a greater appreciation for it. Most people, more than 90 percent, have a Bible in their homes, but we are probably the most ignorant population ever about what's in it. We don't teach it in the schools and we don't read it. The collection includes many items that are one of a kind or just a handful exist. To see what is on display here, you would have to travel the world (if it was not exhibited in one collection). When you know that people have given their lives for this book, in my opinion that makes the value of this collection priceless.
Q: How has your Christian faith shaped how you do business?
A: If you look at our statement of purpose, we want to honor God in all we do and by running our business by biblical principles. We believe that the Bible is a good guidebook for life. We have not always operated according to biblical principles, but that is what we strive to do and it has worked well for us. The most visible example is that we remain closed on Sunday; we do that to honor God and allow our employees and their families time for worship. On April 15, we increased our internal minimum wage to $14 an hour. We started at $9 an hour five years ago and our profits have increased every year. That is not as much biblical as it is that we have been blessed and want to share it with our employees. It also has helped us draw better employees. We also offer health care benefits to our employees and operate a health care clinic at our corporate office.
Q: How have the recession and other economic challenges effected Hobby Lobby?
A: Our business has not been as impacted by the recession as many others. It is said our industry is recession-proof. I don't know that it is, but we have seen our furniture chain ride the wave of the economy, while Hobby Lobby has seen sales increases throughout the recession. On a same-store basis, our sales have been up by single-digit percentages for the last couple of years.Q: As one of the parties challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's requirement that employers provide health insurance that cover contraception services, what is your expectation of how the case will be decided?
A: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit (in Denver) will hear oral arguments next week. Each side will have about 15 minutes to make their arguments and we hope to have a ruling soon after that. I will be out of town and not at the hearing. We are hopeful, but we have been hopeful before. It is rare for the full court to agree to hear the case, and they granted our request to do so. Eventually I expect (the case) to go to the (U.S.) Supreme Court, especially if we end up with different rulings from different circuits, which has been the case so far.
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Tests show LLNL detection instrument can monitor the air for all major terrorist threat substances
Security and law enforcement officials may some day have a new ally - a universal detection system that can monitor the air for virtually all of the major threat agents that could be used by terrorists. This type of system is under development by a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers, and has already been tested in laboratory and field experiments.
In their latest advance, the team has conceptually shown that they can almost simultaneously detect four potential threat materials - biological, chemical, explosives and radiological - along with illicit drugs.
Their work, using a system called Single-Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometry, or SPAMS, is described in the June 15 edition of Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal published by the American Chemical Society.
"We believe SPAMS is the only detection instrument that can autonomously detect multiple types of threat agents and trigger alarms within less than a minute," said Matthias Frank, an LLNL physicist and one of the paper's co-authors.
"What sets this work apart," Frank explained, "is that we did our experiments with all these types of threat agents within minutes of each other without reconfiguring the SPAMS instrument." (In some cases, surrogate materials were used.)
Last spring, the researchers announced that their instrument could perform as a three-in-one detection machine, monitoring the air for biological, chemical and explosive agents.
Since then, the Livermore team has added the capabilities of detecting illicit drugs and powders from radioactive metals. They developed the software capability to assist in detecting metal powders and the algorithms to help detect all four threat agents at one time.
The paper's lead author, LLNL physicist Paul Steele, notes that three factors are particularly important in developing a detection machine like SPAMS: sensitivity, false alarm rate and response time.
"What we have accomplished," Steele said, "is to make an instrument that is very sensitive, with a very low false alarm rate, but very fast. That's unique. Other systems that are just as fast and sensitive have higher false alarm rates."
Besides Frank and Steele, other researchers on the SPAMS team include chemists Eric Gard, David Fergenson, Keith Coffee and George Farquar; forensic chemist and graduate student Audrey Martin; microbiologist Sue Martin; and electronics engineer Vincent Riot.
In lab experiments, SPAMS was tested against four types of materials terrorists might use -- spores of a non-pathogenic strain of Bacillus anthracis (other strains of this bacteria cause anthrax); diethyl phthalate (a nerve agent surrogate), natural cobalt powder (a surrogate for Cobalt 60 and other radioactive metals) and trinitro-1,3,5-triazinane (RDX, a high explosive). Additionally, it was tested against pseudoephedrine (used to synthesize methamphetamine).
In single- and multiple-agent tests, SPAMS accurately identified each substance and set off the correct alarms within an average of 34 seconds after their release against a background of air as the system was open to the environment. All of the measurements were achieved within 26 to 46 seconds after the compounds' release.
The two multiple-agent tests involved the use of natural cobalt powder and RDX, and a non-pathogenic strain of Bacillus anthracis and RDX.
In field experiments, SPAMS has been tested at San Francisco International Airport. As part of a background study, the mass spectrometry system analyzed the air for about seven weeks in 2004-05, recording data, though it lacked the capability to set off alarms. The system records were later analyzed in the lab to evaluate whether any alarms, false or real, would have been triggered.
The researchers determined that while a few particles showed up as spores among the almost one million particles studied, there were so few that no alarms would have been triggered.
"What distinguishes SPAMS from other instruments is the high-quality information we receive from the instrument in the form of single-particle mass spectra," Frank said. "As a result, we get specificity and many fewer false alarms. We're very enthusiastic about how the system is working, not only in the lab but also in field tests."
For the future, the Livermore team would like to develop ways to make the SPAMS machine smaller and less expensive.
They would like to find opportunities for additional field tests, such as at airports, where SPAMS could be used to screen checked and carry-on baggage and at passenger portals. The instrument also could assist in screening people for disease and might help law enforcement authorities in examining suspicious powder samples.
Source: DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Posts tagged 'Starbucks'
The Blog-entry: "How Starbucks might kill freelancing – or the other way around" inspired me to set coffeeshops in a larger frame and constitute a coffeeshopcentric-worldimage, just as some other guys did in a different way (whose names I forgot).
Anyway: Let' start with that well-known Globalization-everywhere thesis: Just as people are travelling more, national and cultural borders erode, goods are shipped from any place to your house, so is a working place not a local place anymore. And it doesn't need to be: communication is possible via phone, blackberry, skype, mail, (corporate-) wikis, video-conferences. Information isn't even anymore local on your notebook's harddrive: Data is stored and edited on servers around the world — cloud computing, driven by Google-Documents, for example.
Skimming several centuries: Agriculture, Industry, Service, and now the Information age. And information is not bound to any place, they are in, with and between people, not in shabby offices.
And now you have the decision to work where?
Yes, in a coffeeshop.
Coffeeshops are cosy, nicely decorated, and if not so, they draw at least interesting people. The TAZ-Café in Berlin with the proximity of the editorial office is a good example for that: Cool, self-considered-"somehow"-left-wing people are just sitting around. With or without notebook. People, definitely with notebook, are what you meet in St. Oberholz, also in Berlin (picture says everything). The most important thing is, that there is a current influx of people. And W-Lan.
Starbucks is out! It is extremely expensive. But they probably were the first with reliable W-Lan-connection, years ago. I think that Starbucks today draws rather established businessmen- and women. And tourists.
But working in a café is nothing new, although the hippy trendy terms "coffeeshop" and "freelancing" suggest so. Also, this is not a new phenomenon of the information age.
Philosopher Jürgen Habermas wrote in" The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere" that coffee-houses are a sign of a new openess, bringing forth enlightnment. This characterizes the 18th century — No W-LAN and Starbucks around, can you imagine that?
Around the same time (18th cent.) the Tatler-Magazine (still existing today in a modern form) even had categories such as White's chocolate-house (for gallantry, pleasure, entertainment) and Will's coffee-house (poetry). Of course, the 18th century allowed only elitist groups to be in the coffee-houses that often.
Coffehouses, not yet coffeeshops were basically places for an exchange of ideas. A social place, that constantly remind us of the world outside, and isn't this important for a constant flow of ideas? On the other hand, you are observed and need to look at least a bit busy. Seeing and to be seen! I guess this was extremely important for intellectuals and writers: Influence — giving and taking — and self-positioning among elitist circles. Networking and Self-marketing, as we call it today.
Let's jump to newer times: Harry Potter was written in The Elephant House I once visited in Edinburgh. As I remember from a JK Rowling documentation, she just flet from her massive problems at home. This is the escapist-notion of coffee-houses: fleeing from problems, being among coffee-drinking, chatting people with the illusion that live goes on in a coffee-drinking-way.
So, would we have great literature such as Harry Potter or older books, whithout Coffee-houses? Or the other way around, are there coffee-houses because of creatives like JK Rowling? The HerrHorn.com Blog asks, what was first, the person or the institution:
"I'm wondering how it actually happened that freelancing is now so closely associated with coffee shops? Was it coffee shops first and suddenly everyone thought, "Oh, brilliant… let me freelance, now that I can hang out at this coffee shop all day and night". Or was it freelancers first until one morning over a cup of coffee some business school graduate thought "Oh, brilliant… all those freelancers want to hang out at a coffee shop all day and night". Hen and egg thingy, I guess."
My answer: If we translate freelancers with free-thinkers and coffeeshops with coffee-houses there is a clear answer: Free-thinking within the enlightnment period allowed for coffee-houses. People just wanted to have an exchange with other people and not to read alone in their bedroom. Thoughts kindle things, not reverse. Coffee-houses then promoted free-thinking further and further. A transformation of the public sphere, speaking in the terms of Habermas ,was taking place.
In the W-LAN-coffeeshop-era there is no barrier anymore to communicate worldwide. Interestingly people seem to feel isolated in their rooms, even though facebook, skype and twitter allow for a communication overdose. No, people still want to got to coffeehouses or special Webmeetings (I blogged about Webmonday Hannover or SocialBar for example.) Being physically at a communicative place and being simultaneously virtual around the world; this needs training, otherwise it is extremely exhausting, as I myself figured out when doing everything but fulfilling nothing.
"Wir nennen es Arbeit" (We are calling it work) describes how the digital Bohème challenges a new formulation of what work actually is. The French term "Bohème" also stresses the fact, that this "class" of people was and is still a minority that live excentrically and financially insecure.
Working with the absolute need of W-LAN in coffeeshops is just the consequence of the extremely flexible We-are-calling-it-work in connection with the instant possibility of real-life as well as virtual communication. This new Bohème also hopes to find new projects to work on and to connect worldwide. Or to rephrase an old slogan "Bohèmians unite!"
To come to a point: Freelancing and coffeshops with W-LAN are a great supplementation. Coffeeshops will search for the audience of the creative class, this is just a free-market mechanism. Otherwise competitors will attract the creative class.
Dear HerrHorn.com, there is no reason to think that freelancing will die without coffee-shops with W-LAN (As this WallStreetJournal story suggests). And yes, I think the consequences of a — however improbable — dying of coffeehouses with W-LAN would be extremely severe in a creative and cultural sense.


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"I think many times God probably is upstairs and looking down and He's kinda going, 'Gosh! Can you imagine? I made that guy! He runs like that. I made that kind of football player.'" -Joe Gibbs, iamsecond.com I'm not sure if you've noticed, but there is a new video worth checking out on iamsecond.com. It's […]
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No. 1 UConn women top No. 13 Penn State
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Make it 3 for 3 against the Top 25 for UConn.
The top-ranked Huskies breezed through ranked teams this week like they were lightweights on the schedule, leaving no doubt coach Geno Auriemma's team will again be the one to beat in March.
But after Penn State became the latest ranked team to go down, the real question is, what chance do teams have at beating the Huskies?
"If we keep getting better," Auriemma said, "then it's going to be really hard to beat us."
Just ask the Lady Lions.
Bria Hartley tied a career high with 29 points and Saniya Chong had 16 to help Connecticut beat No. 13 Penn State 72-51 Sunday, snapping the Lady Lions' 22 game home-court winning streak.
The Huskies (4-0) knocked off their third Top 25 team of the week, beating No. 8 Maryland 72-55 on Friday night and No. 3 Stanford by 19 points on Monday.
That's scary news for Oregon, Boston University, Monmouth and the rest of the nonconference teams left on UConn's schedule.
"If we stay stagnant, don't move forward from here, we're setting ourselves up to get beat," Auriemma said. "The fact that we beat three really good teams this week, that's great. That's great for the players, great for their confidence. That was a big test for them."
They built a 23-point lead early in the second half against the Lady Lions (2-1) and held on to win the program's 199th game against a ranked team.
Breanna Stewart added 14 points for the short-handed Huskies, who were without two of their best players, preseason All-American Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and sophomore forward Morgan Tuck. Mosqueda-Lewis injured her elbow against Stanford, and Tuck is expected to miss at least a month after undergoing right knee surgery Tuesday.
Playing short-handed and on the road, nothing bedevils the Huskies.
"I think it shows when we can come into places that get a lot of fans and have a hostile environment, we can still get done what we want to get done," Stewart said.
With football coach Bill O'Brien and basketball coach Pat Chambers rooting them on from their courtside seats, Maggie Lucas led a late run that helped the Lady Lions make the game respectable. It just wasn't enough for a comeback win. She came up limping after a 3-pointer early in the second half, taking a brief breather on the bench, but returned a few possessions later.
Her ankle fine after an awkward landing on a defender's foot, Lucas hit a 3 that pulled the Lady Lions to 52-37 and brought 8,194 fans to their feet. Tori Waldner followed with another 3 and Dara Taylor hit a fall-away jumper to make it 55-42 and start the booming "We Are!" chants from the fans.
Lucas kept it going for the defending Big Ten champions with back-to-back 3s that cut the deficit to 57-48.
The sharp shooting just started too late.
Hartley hit a pair of 3-pointers to help UConn steady itself and put the game away. Stefanie Dolson had 11 rebounds and UConn had 13 steals.
Lucas scored 18 points and Waldner had 11 for Penn State. Penn State shot 30 percent from the floor.
"We got away from our offense today," Lucas said. "The shots were there."
The Huskies missed nine of their first 11 shots, which allowed Penn State to hang around and keep the game tied at 10.
With only seven scholarship players, the Huskies' thin roster got their game together and made the Lady Lions pay.
Chong opened and closed a 12-0 run with 3-pointers to break the game open. Hartley shook off a 0 for 11 3-point shooting game at Maryland to hit one and extend the lead to 25-12. Hartley and Chong combined to score 23 points in the first half to help the Huskies build a 37-22 lead.
"I try not to think about," missing 3s, Hartley said. "Coach tells me I have to be ready to hit the next shot."
The Lady Lions played more like the 113th best team in the nation instead of the 13th.
The Lady Lions missed all eight 3-point attempts, shot 23 percent overall from the floor and committed a whopping 10 turnovers. Lucas snapped her 21 for 21 free throw streak with a miss. And Taylor missed an all-alone fastbreak layup attempt, that wouldn't have mattered much anyway in the final score.
"I saw a lot of inexperience," coach Coquese Washington said. "I saw a lot of hesitation and indecisiveness. That leads to inefficiency and ineffectiveness, especially on the offensive end. But we need experience, so we like playing these kind of games because it shows a lot about ourselves."
Penn State would love to turn into the type of elite program the Huskies have built.
First, the Lady Lions have to beat them.
"You can't look long term like that," Lucas said. "That team is built up over so many years. But we want to get better every day and be able to compete at a very high level."


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MONOGAMY. A marriage contracted between one man and one woman, in exclusion of all the rest of mankind; it is used in opposition to bigamy and polygamy. (q.v.) Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. Sec. 857. The state of having only one husband or one wife at one time.


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Beware of the stopwatch
In a comment on my last post, craniac argued that the StopWatch-class should be used for measuring time intervals.
Sadly, measuring a time interval is not as easy as it sounds. There are several mechanisms, I will explain 3 of them and point out their strengths and weaknesses.
1. DateTime.UtcNow
1: DateTime begin = DateTime.UtcNow;
3: ...
5: DateTime end = DateTime.UtcNow;
6: Console.WriteLine("Measured time: " + (end-begin).TotalMilliseconds + " ms.");
This is the fastest mechanism because under the hood it only reads a counter from memory (the code above takes only 76 nanoseconds to execute on my machine). However the resolution is not so great: only 10 milliseconds on recent version of Windows. If you want to measure a piece of code that takes shorter to execute, you will have to execute it e.g. 1000 times and measure how long this takes, then divide the result by 1000.
Another disadvantage is that this is not reliable if the system-time changes. This should be a very rare situation, but could for instance happen through synchronization with a time server.
2. Stopwatch
1: Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch();
2: watch.Start();
4: ...
6: watch.Stop();
7: Console.WriteLine("Measured time: " + watch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds + " ms.");
This mechanism is a bit slower than the previous one (10 times slower on my machine) so for short intervals this may have an impact on the result. However there are some serious issues:
- This can be unreliable on a PC with multiple processors. Due to a bug in the BIOS, Start() and Stop() must be executed on the same processor to get a correct result.
- This is unreliable on processors that do not have a constant clock speed (most processors can reduce the clock speed to conserve energy). This is explained in detail here.
I suspect that you can get a reliable result if you run it on a single-processor machine and disable any power-saving options in the BIOS. I haven't tested this though.
On the upside, it has the hightest possible resolution (which depends on the hardware it runs on).
3. Process.TotalProcessorTime
1: TimeSpan begin = Process.GetCurrentProcess().TotalProcessorTime;
3: ...
5: TimeSpan end = Process.GetCurrentProcess().TotalProcessorTime;
6: Console.WriteLine("Measured time: " + (end - begin).TotalMilliseconds + " ms.");
This mechanism is different from the previous ones because it does not measure how much time has passed, but it measures how long your process has kept the CPU busy. This is great for performance measurements:
- The timings are not distorted by other processes that consume a lot of CPU.
- You can measure the impact that your code has on the overall performance of the system. On laptops, this also gives an indication towards the battery-power that is consumed by your process. This can be important for applications that run for a long time (such as services and other background tasks).
To interpret the measured time correctly, you should realize that time that is spent while your code is waiting (e.g. in a Sleep) will not be counted. On the other hand, if your process is keeping multiple processors busy, the time of each processor will be added (if a dual-core processor is kept 100% busy, the 'TotalProcessorTime' will increment with 2 each second!).
Note that this mechanism has the worst performance: the code above takes 19264 nanoseconds on my PC. This is 250 times slower than using DateTime.UtcNow!
So there is not one-size-fits-all solution to measure a time interval. Personally, if I want to measure how long a piece of code takes to execute, I run it in a loop (e.g. one million times) and measure it using DateTime.UtcNow.


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Contrary to popular opinion which seems to club all kinds of atheists into one type, there are different kinds of 'atheists'. 'Non-belief in an organized faith' is usually considered a ticket to atheism. However there are different kinds of people who profess such non-belief. I could think of four types here:
These are idol-breakers. They would like to break the existing notion of belief in the God as preached by a certain religion or cult they are familiar with. They see a certain religion and its practices to be detrimental and hence they go about shattering those icons, those symbols, those houses of worship. Sometimes these iconoclasts tend to establish a different kind of ideology in the place of the idols they have fought. Certain Communists fall into this category. Karunanidhi and Periyar fall into this category to an extent. Adolf Hitler and Stalin could be grouped into this.
Their non-belief is not scientific in origin and it may not have a rational outlook either. The rejection of God could be out of anger, frustration with the way the world is working, or with a hidden agenda to replace existing faiths with a different ideology. Some iconoclasts who broke up paganism settled down to embrace Abrahamic religion. Some iconoclasts who broke up Christianity embraced Nazism or Communism.
They are practical people who rationalize and see that most things in life can be explained away without involving God or his divine intervention. They see no need for God to run things. They see rituals as an encumbrance to leading a practical life. They see organized religion serving certain vested interests. For them miracles are just coincidences. These people may not have known the deeper topics of science or inner understandings of nature. But they have enough logical and reasoning power to conclude that running of things does not need intervention of a supernatural being and hence there is a good enough reason to conclude that God does not exist. 'Show me the proof, only then will I believe', is their stand.
Some pragmatists may turn into believers if they are touched by supposed miracle. They may take a U-turn to embrace religion and its all elements to become their champions. Some people in their young age may dabble with atheism, more as a rebellious streak, and they may eventually become strong proponents of religion and belief in God after certain incidents or revelations.
They are complete nonbelievers of a religious God. They are of scientific bent and have asked deeper questions about the forces of nature, and how nature is run. They don't think a God is running this place. They don't think God listens to one's prayers. They do not see God as creator of life. They do not see God intervening into human life. However, they do feel that there could be some supernatural force that has brought this Universe into place. And that supernatural force need not be a conscious being, not someone who is concerned with affairs of men and their petty exams and wars. But they concede that certain supernatural force may be the one that set the universal laws and their properties in motion, only during the first few nanoseconds of the creation of Universe. And thereafter has NOT tampered with Universe ever again. (Example: Albert Einstein)
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Finally, the 'Planet' in Planetary Nebulae?
Astronomers at the University of Rochester, home to one of the world's largest groups of planetary nebulae specialists, have announced that low-mass stars and possibly even super-Jupiter-sized planets may be responsible for creating some of the most breathtaking objects in the sky.
The news is ironic because the name "planetary" nebula has always been a misnomer. When these objects were discovered 300 years ago, astronomers couldn't tell what they were and named them for their resemblance to the planet Uranus. But as early as the mid-19th century, astronomers realized these objects are really great clouds of dust emitted by dying stars.
Now, Rochester researchers have found that planets or low-mass stars orbiting these aged stars may indeed be pivotal to the creation of the nebulae's fantastic appearance.
In a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters, and in recent papers in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of astronomers anchored by Eric Blackman, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, has studied the consequences of a dying star that possesses an orbiting companion.
"Few researchers have explored how something as small as a very low-mass star, a brown dwarf, or even a massive planet can produce several flavors of nebulae and even change the chemical composition of the dust around these evolved stars," says Blackman. "If the companions can be this small, it's important because low-mass stars and high-mass planets are likely quite common and could go a long way toward explaining the many dusty shapes we see surrounding these evolved stars."
Most medium-sized stars, such as our Sun, will end their lives as planetary nebulae, says Blackman. The stage lasts only several tens of thousands of years—a blink of an eye for stars that typically live ten billion—so it is a relatively rare sight. Of the 200 billion stars in our own galaxy, only about 1,500 have so far been identified in the planetary nebula stage.
As the star begins to deplete its fuel near the end of its life, its core contracts and its envelope expands, eventually throwing off its outermost layers millions of miles into space. Blackman says one time in five, this envelope keeps its roughly spherical shape as it expands, but much more often this envelope contorts and elongates into new and fantastic shapes.
The Rochester team's work explored the role of low-mass companions in shaping planetary nebulae stars, both when the companion is in a large orbit and interacts with only the very outer edges of the envelope, and when the companion is in a very tight orbit and so close to the evolved star that the companion is fully engulfed by the envelope.
Blackman, along with post-doctoral fellow Richard Edgar, graduate student Jason Nordhaus, and professor of astrophysics Adam Frank, showed that in the case when the planet or companion star is in a very wide orbit, the planet's gravity begins to drag some of the envelope material around with it. The envelope material—essentially a thin mixture of gas and dust—becomes compressed in spiral waves radiating out from the central star like a twisted wagon wheel, says Blackman. The dust and gas compresses more and more in these spiral waves until they crest, much like waves breaking on a beach. Eventually, a torus of dust forms around the star's mid-section, likely blocking much of the expanding envelope like a belt around an inflating balloon. Over time, such constrained expansion can lead to striking shapes, such as seen in the appropriately named Dumbbell Nebula.
"Originally, we set out just to model the geometry of the envelope under the influence of a binary companion" says Blackman, "but Richard Edgar discovered that as the spiral waves break, they release their compressed, pent-up energy in a burst of heat, sufficient to melt the dust into liquid globules." The globules cool slowly enough to give the molecules within time to align into crystal lattices. Blackman says the team's work show's how a waist-cinching torus could originate to produce certain types of planetary nebula patterns, but it also suggests an answer for why astronomers have detected the puzzling signature of crystallized dust around evolved stars before the nebulae is formed.
In the case when the planet orbits so closely to the primary star that it becomes engulfed by the envelope, a new type of model is needed. Nordhaus and Blackman modeled what might happen as the envelope slows the low-mass star or high-mass planet companion, and found that one of three outcomes is likely to occur.
First, as the companion plows through the envelope material, it can "spin up" the envelope so quickly that the material is ejected, deforming into a large disk or torus around the star's equator.
A second possibility is that the companion spins up the envelope more gently. This causes the inner regions of the envelope to spin around the parent star faster than the outer envelope material. This difference in rotation speeds, combined with the convection of material in the envelope, stretches and amplifies the star's magnetic fields. The stretched magnetic fields can act like a giant spring, ejecting the envelope material out the star's poles as jets.
The third outcome sees the companion itself ejecting out the star's jets, says Blackman. This scenario applies when the companion is an extremely low-mass star or a massive planet that is too small to eject the envelope before it falls to a violent fate. The parent's intense gravity can shred the planet as its orbit shrinks, eventually smearing the planet into a disk of debris around the star. This disk is very turbulent and different parts are orbiting at different speeds, generating a magnetic dynamo that again can throw material out the star's poles at tremendous speeds. Unlike the previous scenario, however, Blackman says that material fired out by these jets would include the remains of the planet or companion star itself.
The Rochester team is now calculating the dynamics of the binary relationship and the characteristics of the magnetic dynamos with more precision. They hope to better understand how these dynamos might facilitate the mixing and transportation of different elements within the nebulae to help produce the distinct chemical signatures astronomers now detect in planetary nebulae.
This research was funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
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QUINCY, Mass.—Elizabeth Warren is in the right place, next to the hole in the highway. She exits an SUV and chats excitedly, one by one, with the construction workers and ironworkers who'd been waiting there for the photo op. It's Aug. 14, and the foreman explains what's being dug: a new road underneath the highway, one that will unchoke the traffic that flows down I-93 from Boston, a project monitored from the foreman's trailer.
"How do you get any work done?" says Warren. "I'd just want to watch this all day!"
Warren tells the workers that she'd been watching the highway project since she "saw the model laid out" in a Quincy municipal building. "Quite frankly," says Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch, "none of the project would be possible without the help of the stimulus."
A dozen reporters stand, digital recorders extended, to capture a conversation about public-private spending that has the rhythm, wordiness, and can-you-believe-this giddiness of the late-night infomercial for juice machines that comes on after you pass out during Real Housewives of Atlanta. Warren is thrilled, just thrilled. "The program I've put together," she tells Koch, "is more effective in reducing the deficit than Scott Brown's program of not focusing on investments and infrastructure. It's really about priorities."
For a few months—they seemed like years—the race for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts was completely disconnected from the economy. In April, the conservative Boston Herald scooped that Harvard University, where Warren taught law, once listed her as a "minority" faculty member. Reporters became amateur genealogists, seeking out records that could validate Warren's claim to be a 1/32nd member of the Cherokee Nation. The Herald's headline department cranked out classics like "Arrows May Fell Warren in Fall" and " 'Pow Wow' Factor." Republicans wanted the swing voter to see Warren as an entitled, elitist carpetbagger. This story should've done it.
But it didn't. When the Cherokee story wound down, Warren remained tied in the polls with Brown. A Suffolk University survey found most voters believing Warren's version of the story and even more voters unable to give a damn about it. Democrats picked Warren to give a prime-time speech at the national convention. Then came Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan. The unexpectedly silly Senate race is all of a sudden about stimulus spending and Medicare and taxes.
You could tell just by watching Scott Brown. On Aug.13, the incumbent's only public event was a charity basketball game in Springfield for a mentoring program called A Path to Manhood. On the front of the $10 ticket: A photo of Brown spinning a basketball on his thumb as preteens gaze at his awesomeness.
On the court, it was even better for Brown. The other politicos on the charity teams swapped out frequently and struggled to get to the net. Rep. Richard Neal—a Democrat, like everyone not named Brown in the Massachusetts delegation—made an early run at the basket, threw a brick, and quickly found his way to the bench. "Basketball!" laughed the announcer when another politician stumbled over the ball. "It's basketball!"
Brown stayed on the court for all but two minutes of the game. He was constantly in motion and got fouled four times—more than all of the other players combined. He missed one foul shot and let out a gut-deep "AAGGGNNH-AGGH!" Moments later, when he sank a three-pointer, he ran past the bleachers (and attending photographers), grinning widely and holding up three fingers.
As a photo-op, it was perfect. As a press event, it was tougher to control. Local reporters insisted on asking Brown about the Ryan choice, which put him in a spot, because he opposed Ryan's budget when it got to the Senate. "I think the corporate tax rate needs to be cut, but I don't know if 25 percent is the number," Brown told reporters. "While we don't agree [with Ryan] on everything, I certainly appreciate his efforts to bring budgetary issues to the forefront."
Brown's just-a-regular-dude appeal is one of his biggest assets. It sets off audible rage alarms whenever you mention it to a Democrat. On Tuesday, when Warren is asked whether Brown's ultra-physical events put her at a disadvantage, she theorizes that for Brown, "the point is to be out and visible in a way where he doesn't have to talk about the issues or take any questions."State Democratic Party Chairman John Walsh, in an interview at his office, made sneering references to Brown's image, accusing him of "hanging up the barn coat and putting on a nice tuxedo" when he got to Washington.
There's a trauma behind the gripe. Democrats underestimated Brown in 2010. Attorney General Martha Coakley, groomed for higher office, sleepwalked through the election until she panicked and tried, too late, to get the state's Democratic machines humming, after Brown had already worked the state in his photo-op friendly pickup truck.
"The truth of the matter is, we screwed that up," Walsh said. "I take responsibility for it. We took the race for granted. I could try and justify it. Scott Brown was sort of a no-account state legislator. Been there for a dozen years, he never passed any legislation. But that's a terrible excuse for doing something you should never do, and that's take the race for granted." And they lost Ted Kennedy's seat.
Warren never gives the impression that she's coasting. On Tuesday, before she got to Quincy, she campaigned at a bar and grill in Dorchester, giving out the kind of hugs you typically see when a mom sees her kid come off the plane after a long semester. She learned that a tot is five years old and offered her a high-five.
Waiting in the main dining room were activists who'd been backing Warren for months. "I'm probably the only person who can say I've had Courtney Love and Elizabeth Warren in my house," said Joyce Linehan. (She used to work for Sub Pop records.) "I'm an Irish-American working-class woman, born in this neighborhood, and I couldn't identify with Brown if he was the last man on earth."
Warren's speech in Dorchester was short, all contrast-building with the Ryan plan. "I'll tell you," she said, "I never thought I would run for office, but when there's a vision like that—and it's put forward as the serious vision of the Republican party—then it's time for all of us to get involved in this race."
As Warren heads to Quincy, Brown attempts to take back the advantage on taxes. His speech to the South Shore Chamber of Commerce is billed as a "major policy address" on taxes. It becomes, basically, a campaign speech accusing Warren of supporting "the largest tax increase since World War II" (a scary-sounding way to describe the plan that Barack Obama ran on in 2008), and deriding her for not voluntarily paying higher taxes. He takes no questions, but he has turned the story of the day into a "spat." In Quincy, Warren pauses during the construction-site visit to answer a press corps that wants her rebuttal to Brown.
"He called you a job destroyer," says one reporter.
"I'm sorry—job destroyer?" says Warren. "We were just talking about how many jobs were created by investments in infrastructure."
"They said they tallied up all the tax increases you support," notes another reporter, "and they say they came up with $3.4 trillion over the past decade. They have a list that they've been emailing out."
Warren responds with an amused Are you kidding gasp. "This is just a made-up number," she says.
"You say that, but they say they have this list."
"Well, show me the list. Do we have to go through this? This is a made-up number. The interesting question is why, right now. I think Scott Brown is very worried about this race. And the reason he's worried is that when Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his running mate, the economic issues clicked into place."
But if the Cherokee-and-trucks stage of the campaign is over, does that mean Warren is winning it? That's what the pre-emptive attacks on Warren's DNC speech were about—portraying her as a spiteful enemy of business, whose YouTube'd speech about what business owners owe to government inspired the damaging Barack Obama riff on the same subject.
"Do you have any second thoughts about your famous YouTube video?" a reporter asks. "They go back to that again and again."
"No," says Warren. She lets the comment hang in midair.
"Why not?"
"Because I told the truth. And I'll tell it again."
Out of nowhere, a construction worker slips into the press scrum to introduce his friends. It feels like Warren is getting bailed out. She was surviving all those tax questions, sure, but nothing makes her point like an ironworker with a thick Quincy accent telling her that he had to work on New York's Freedom Tower because there wasn't enough public spending in Massachusetts.
"I was out for over a year," says Jim Lyons.
"Out for over a year?" asks Warren. "I want to hear that again. I want to make sure everybody heard that."


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OAKLAND — A flurry of sideshow activity Saturday, including one sideshow that stopped traffic on a major freeway, have stoked fears that the illegal car stunt events which plagued Oakland for years are mounting a comeback.
The first sideshow, which occurred in daylight, was particularly brazen. A group of motorists brought traffic to a halt on the northbound lanes of Interstate 880 near the Oakland Coliseum complex and began spinning their cars in circles — a stunt known as doing doughnuts.
At about 6:30 p.m., several cars did doughnuts for supportive onlookers videotaping the action at MacArthur Boulevard and Seminary Avenue, nearby resident Sherry Meek said.
"You can watch the value of your house plummet while it's happening," she said.
Overall, Oakland police recorded 18 calls and incidents related to sideshow activity Saturday separate from the I-880 incident, Sgt. Chris Bolton wrote in an email. The calls came from both West and East Oakland and included one report of 50 to 60 cars parading down city streets.
"We simply lacked the staff to effectively deal with the activity," Bolton wrote.
In one incident, police witnessed a sideshow participant crash his car and flee the scene of the accident, wrote Bolton, who did not say where the crash occurred. The driver has been identified, and police will seek a warrant for his arrest.
No one was injured and no arrests were made in connection with the I-880 sideshow, which began at 4 p.m. and ended minutes later, before highway patrol officers could arrive at the scene, CHP spokeswoman Diana McDermott said during a Monday news briefing.
One video on YouTube shows several cars spinning in circles in the middle of the smoky freeway, while spectators sat on top of their cars recording the action.
"It was like something out of a video game," McDermott said.
The last reported case of sideshow activity on a freeway occurred in 2002 inside the Caldecott Tunnel.
Saturday capped a particularly busy month for sideshows in Oakland. Police so far have logged 60 sideshow-related calls and incidents this year, Bolton wrote. The total for all of last year was 170. Sideshow activity usually peaks in the summer.
While sideshows are back on the rise, they are still not nearly as prevalent as they were at their peak in 2005, when police received over 700 sideshow-related complaints.
Those sideshows often were marked by hundreds of cars speeding down city streets and were increasingly magnets for gangsters and violence.
The combination of tough anti-sideshow laws and a movement among muscle car enthusiasts to police themselves contributed to a sharp decline in sideshows over several years, until they started increasing again in 2012.
Councilmember Larry Reid, who represents a stretch of East Oakland where the sideshows were most frequent, said his office has not been getting calls about disruptive sideshows. Still, the I-880 sideshow was especially troubling, he said.
"That's crazy in broad daylight to tie up the 880 freeway," he said. "That's just as brazen as the shootings in broad daylight."
Tony Bush Jr., an Oakland muscle car enthusiast, who organizes sideshows where most of the activity is away from public view, denounced the I-880 sideshow.
"It gives everybody a bad reputation," he said. "When things like this happen, the good rapport we developed can get tarnished fast."
Natalie Neysa Alund contributed to this story. Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.