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Several people were injured this morning when the Bald Head Island Ferry ran aground off Battery Island
U.S. Coast Guard officials said the investigation into what caused a Bald Head Island ferry to run aground Tuesday morning could take months.
Lt. Lane Munroe would not speculate during a news conference Tuesday what caused the accident while the investigation is ongoing.
"It would be false to try and speculate right now," said Munroe, the command center chief of Coast Guard Sector North Carolina. The Coast Guard will take the lead in the investigation, he said.
At least 21 people were injured when the ferry Adventure struck a sandbar off Battery Island, according to the Coast Guard.
Munroe said Coast Guard investigators, who were dispatched to the area from Wilmington, are focusing the investigation on why the incident occurred.
During their initial investigation Tuesday, Coast Guard officials worked with the ferry's crew members and evaluated the boat's stability in the water.
He said Bald Head Island Limited, the ferry's operator, planned to have a tug boat help dislodge the ferry from the sandbar at 7:50 a.m. Wednesday during high tide.
Munroe said 13 passengers were rushed off the ferry by Coast Guard officials and medical personnel, and taken to area hospitals for treatment.
A 14th person was transported because that person was assisting an injured passenger, Munroe said.
Amanda Hutcheson, spokeswoman for Brunswick County, said 10 people suffered minor injuries, two were moderately injured and one person was potentially seriously injured in the accident.
The seriously injured person, Hutcheson said, was airlifted to New Hanover Regional Medical Center. One other person was taken to New Hanover and the rest were taken to Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport.
Dosher Memorial Hospital spokesman Kirk Singer said 12 people went there by ambulance and another seven passengers walked in on their own.
One of Dosher's walk-in patients was passenger Matthew Fleming, 35, of Supply.
Fleming said it was like "hitting a brick wall" when the ferry en route to Bald Head Island from Southport struck the sandbar about 9 a.m.
"We were cruising along. I figure it was full throttle," a shaken and limping Fleming said as he came ashore nearly three hours after the wreck. "It was a dead stop."
John Jenks, of Wilmington, also said the accident happened suddenly.
"We were just going and then all of a sudden, it just stopped dead," said Jenks, who was standing outside the boat's passenger quarters facing Southport.
He said the boat was going around 30 miles per hour and "the suddenness of the way it stopped was incredible."
Fleming and Jenks were among 53 passengers and three crew members aboard the 64-foot pedestrian ferry that runs between Bald Head Island and the Deep Point Marina in Southport.
Fleming was inside the passenger compartment with several others, when a short time into the ferry's fourth trip of the morning, the boat ran aground.
The impact sent several people "flying," including himself, said Fleming. He said he saw some passengers bloodied as a result.
Jenks said the impact of the crash knocked him off his feet and slammed him into a door.
While Jenks hurt his back and knee, photos he took show a woman with blood running down her face and a man with a bloodied lip holding a towel to his eye.
"Some people got pretty seriously hurt," Jenks said. "There was one guy who looked like he'd broken his shoulder, some guy hit his head and was feeling really dizzy, some other dude was holding his chest. There was some lady in the cabin who looked like she really was having difficulty breathing."
Fleming said the scene was chaotic and no one knew what happened.
"At first everybody thought we hit another boat," Fleming said.
Fleming said Dosher hospital staff told him he would be sore for several days, but did not have serious injuries from the accident.
Even if his pain subsides quickly, it will take Fleming a few days to calm down from the incident.
"My nerves are shot," Fleming said.
Singer said he was unable to say what types of injuries the emergency department was handling, but by 2 p.m. none of the injuries could be "classified as serious," and none of the injured had been admitted to the hospital.
Officials have said the injuries do not appear to be life-threatening. Even still, at least three victims were strapped to backboards and physically secured when brought on shore Tuesday.
All three were wearing neck braces or were otherwise stabilized.
According to a press release from the U.S. Coast Guard's 5th District Public Affairs, the ferry radioed for help about 9 a.m.
The Coast Guard sent crews from Coast Guard Station Oak Island and the Coast Guard Cutter Bayberry was diverted to assist.
The crew of the Bayberry used its shallow-water skiff to rescue 13 injured passengers from the Adventure and transfer them to smaller rescue boats, the release said. The rescue boats then took the injured passengers to Deep Point Marina.
Fleming said it took some time for the Coast Guard rescuers to get on board because of the shallow water.
Jenks said once the obviously injured were removed from the boat, Coast Guard crews returned and rescued the walking, delivering them back on shore in Southport. There, Jenks said, a ferry worker refunded his $24.75 ticket fee.
Munroe said the Coast Guard sent three small boats to help retrieve ferry passengers and at least 12 Coast Guard members responded to the crash.
As of 1 p.m. Tuesday normal ferry operations resumed because the ferry company operates multiple ferries, Bald Head Island Limited spokeswoman Joyce Fulton said.
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Scholarship at Bluffton
Making a case for change
Dr. Jonathan Andreas believes economists use the wrong statistic to determine the most common measure of a group s welfare. And he invokes Bill Gates to make his point. Per capita income, whether of a family or a country, is determined by the mean, or average, income of the group s members. So, if Gates walks into a room, its occupants average, and per capita, income will rise but that doesn't mean everyone s welfare will also increase, maintains Andreas, an assistant professor of economics.
He asserts that a more accurate reflection of the wellbeing of individuals in a group
is median income the actual income of the person in the middle of the pack. Nobody
cares about median income in economics, says
Andreas, arguing that use of mean income makes wealth look greater than it really is for the average person. This should be our policy goal, to increase median income. To illustrate, he notes that more than half of Americans have yet to regain their real earning power of 10 years ago, thanks to a 2001 recession that was among the smallest on record but was severe in terms of median income. For most Americans, their real income dropped for years, adds Andreas, pointing out that many people felt the recession continued well beyond its official end in November 2001.
He is now trying to make his case about median income which was part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois-Chicago in broader forums. Andreas, who earned his Ph.D. in economics in 2009, has an upcoming article about his research in the Journal of History of Economic Thought. He also plans to present his work at two economics conferences this year and eventually to publish his dissertation in a book. Publishing in economics wasn't in his plans when Andreas graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa with a bachelor s degree in American studies. I had no interest in economics in college at all, he admits. But that changed when, after graduation, he spent three years traveling and working in developing countries in Central America and Asia, seeing disparities between nations that were explained by economic variables, he says. I wanted to learn why there are such huge differences, he continues, and why some people are rich and some are poor.
Still, as he moved through graduate school at Illinois- Chicago where he also holds a master s degree in economics and on to Bluffton in 2007, I never really intended to publish, Andreas says. He thought he could make a difference in people s lives through teaching, he explains, and considered research a way of becoming a better teacher, but then I stumbled across something I think can make some difference in the field of economics through publication. A Schultz Fellowship from the university is providing additional time this year and next for Andreas to work on enhancing his dissertation, including his argument about median income. Economists are constantly criticized for doing a poor job with ethical decisions about individual well-being, he says. This is a place where we could improve. If we re not paying attention to the statistical measures, we re not going to have policies that help people.
Tools for teachers; success for students
Teaching remedial reading in Topeka, Kan., in the 1980s, Dr. Sarah Cecire found, with the help of some fourth- and fifth-graders, what has become the focus of her research during the last 20 years. Her students enjoyed word processing projects on the Apple IIe computers that were then new to schools, recalls Cecire, now a professor of education at Bluffton. And when she introduced Twist-a-plot stories, which allowed students to take stories in different directions electronically, she had fourth- and fifth-graders begging to stay in from recess to read and write. I got really interested in the technology at that point because it took these disinterested kids and made them want to read, she says. I got the interest because it captured the interest of my students.
Creative use of educational software to enhance teaching and learning has been the primary subject of Cecire's research ever since. Holder of a Ph.D. in educational technology from Kansas State University, she has made more than two dozen presentations on the topic at national and regional conferences, and about 20 more at workshops and teacher in-service programs. She was also a contributor to The online learning idea book: 95 proven ways to enhance technology-based and blended learning, published in 2007. The last two years, Cecire has been a presenter at the national spring conference of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities Center for Research in Adult Learning. Her subjects have been Wikis in the classroom and assignments to engage students in online/blended learning environments; at this year s conference, she is presenting on use of Web 2.0 tools.
In 2001-02, Cecire was the Ameritech/SBC Fellow from the state of Ohio. In that role, she developed materials to aid faculty in creating student-centered Web activities; created an assessment tool to assist colleges teacher education departments in determining how to integrate technology into their programs; and conducted faculty development workshops. Since coming to Bluffton in 2006, she has added to her list of presentations through her work on the value-added component of the Ohio Department of Education s school district report cards. As a value-added specialist, she has been training school personnel, first in Delaware, Ohio, and for the last few years in a seven-county area of west central Ohio.
Applied to students in grades 3-8, the value-added dimension is used to determine individual schools impact on children by measuring how much they progress from one year to the next. By comparing students to themselves, value-added helps factor out home environments and better include top students, who have sometimes been short-changed by achievement testing aimed primarily at bringing low students up to increase passage rates. All students top, average and struggling can show growth, notes Cecire, also Bluffton's director of graduate programs in education and co-editor of The Ohio Journal of Teacher Education. It s not perfect, she concedes about value-added, but it s better than the previous model, where you had to have a certain percentage of students pass the achievement test. The goal is school improvement, Cecire points out, adding that research has indicated that the impact of a series of effective teachers can mitigate even the effects of poverty on students. That s what this is after how we can make our teachers as effective as possible, she says.
Research in the church
Dr. Gerald Mast was introduced to substantive research as a Malone College undergraduate in the mid-1980s. He then learned about presenting and publishing findings as a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1996, one year after earning his Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication at Pittsburgh, Mast came to Bluffton, where he has put the research skills he acquired to extensive use.
The professor of communication has written or co-authored two books and been co-editor of three others. His next book, The Calling of Christ: Being the Church in Life and Vocation, is scheduled for publication in fall 2011. About the same time, Mast expects book-form publication of a collection of essays which he is editing with Trevor Bechtel, assistant professor of religion that were written for a 2009 Bluffton conference on 16th-century Anabaptist leader Pilgrim Marpeck. In addition, he and Dr. J. Denny Weaver, his co-author and a Professor Emeritus of religion, are working on a follow-up to their 2009 book, Defenseless Christianity.
Among his other projects for publication, Mast is writing an entry for the fifth volume and the first since 1967 of Mennonitisches Lexicon, the German-language Mennonite encyclopedia. And he just finished an essay on what he calls the myth of redemptive violence in evangelical popular culture, which will be published within a three-volume set of essays on that culture. The latter writings are only the most recent additions to a list of academic articles and chapters, nonacademic essays, encyclopedia entries and book reviews that runs--- along with his list of conference and other invited presentations for several pages. I ve been a fairly eclectic researcher, says Mast, adding that the relationship between language, especially religious language, and social change has taken a central role in the last decade.
That focus has evolved from an interest in slogans of social movements, which was related to his first significant research project at Malone. He was in a rhetorical theory and criticism class taught by Dr. Kim Phipps, now president of Messiah College, who required group research projects apply in rhetorical theory to American social movements of the 1960s and 70s. While other groups studied the civil rights, women s and anti-war movements, his group addressed the gay rights movement. Malone s library had a complete absence of resources on the topic, Mast remembers. But the AIDS crisis had just begun and, when the members of his group went looking for information at the University of Akron, they saw fliers and brochures for AIDS activists. They subsequently located one who not only exposed them to gay literature but also traveled to Malone to speak to the class about his life and activities as an activist.
That was my first major initiation to research that went beyond a library to talking with the people whose activities and ideas he was studying, says Mast, who graduated from Malone in 1987 with a bachelor s degree in communication arts. Moving on to Pittsburgh, he encountered rhetoric and communication faculty who expected graduate students not to stop at writing papers but to present them as well at National Communication Association and other conferences. They were absolutely committed to getting us into the national conversation, he recalls, and that extended to publication. Many of them provided pages of commentary meant to help students revise their papers for presentation, he says, and one, Dr. John Poulakos, pushed students to carefully consider feedback from conference audiences that would lead to further revisions and submission for publication. Those teachers saw his work in the range of possibility for publication, Mast continues, and they taught me how to write, including how to form an argument.
His first book, Separation and the Sword in Anabaptist Persuasion was published in 2006. His second solo effort is The Calling of Christ, which deals with how church routines and practices from communion to committee meetings shape individuals daily lives. The publisher, Herald Press, wants the book to be read and discussed in Sunday school classes, Mast says. He s also trying, he notes, to make it accessible to college students who he hopes will be persuaded to go to church despite its flawed, imperfect people and usable in some of their classes. You can t live the Christian life without being shaped by its practices, he argues, pointing out that he unapologetically makes a case in the book for rooting one s life in those practices. Doing so gives individuals leverage against reduction of their identity to their work and consumption, he says, explaining that popular media often change people into consumers and identify them by what they buy. The church provides leverage against that complete domination, Mast maintains. An editor of Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History and vice chair of The Mennonite magazine board, Mast has also been adviser for many communication students departmental honors projects.
Birth of a book
When Dr. Lamar Nisly says that getting a book published involves periods of anticipation and long periods of waiting, the professor of English speaks from experience. His new book, about Southern Catholic writers Flannery O Connor, Tim Gautreaux and Walker Percy, was published in January by Mercer University Press. But its roots go back to his graduate-school experience at the University of Delaware in the 1990s. I've had a lot of interest in these authors for a lot of years, says Nisly, noting that O Connor was the subject of his father s doctoral dissertation. Paul Nisly was also an English professor, at Messiah College, where his son earned his bachelor s degree in 1990.
When he got to graduate school, Lamar Nisly wanted to explore something in the realm of literature and religion. He was interested in the faith-related questions and issues raised by O'Connor and Percy. Their fiction became part of the focus of his dissertation, and Gautreaux entered the picture after Nisly heard him read one of his short stories at a conference in the late 90s. He subsequently bought a collection of Gautreaux's stories, and I've been hooked ever since, he admits. Nisly did his initial work on what would become the book Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim Wayfarers: Constructions of Audience and Tone in O'Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy for a summer 2002 conference on American Literature and the Question of Belief at Calvin College. By spring 2008, the book had been accepted for publication by Mercer, where it remained in the queue until its recent release. You have to love a project if you re going to live with it for so many years, says Nisly, who came to Bluffton after graduating from Delaware with his Ph.D. in 1996.
Since then, not surprisingly, a number of his many published and reprinted articles, invited lectures and conference papers and presentations have dealt with one or more of the three writers highlighted in the book. In addition to academics, its audience, he hopes, will include devotees of Southern culture and those interested in how authors address audiences to whom they want to communicate matters of faith. O'Connor, Gautreaux and Percy do that in very different ways, despite their common regional and religious backgrounds, says Nisly. He attributes those differences to their individual experiences with Catholicism and how they were influenced by the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s. Nisly's next book project is Conversations with Tim Gautreaux, which he is editing and is tentatively scheduled for publication in 2012.
Returning to his interest in literature and religion, he is considering a future research project on how sin is used as a touchstone in fiction. He is also thinking about studying how a range of American literature looks at fears about security an offshoot of his stint as Bluffton's Pathways Civic Engagement Scholar in 2008-09, when the civic engagement theme on campus was Living with Uncertainty. Regardless of the project, what you end up getting into is intriguing, says Nisly, who also chairs the humanities division at Bluffton. I do enjoy research, he adds, tracing that back to his father and the importance of reading in his family, and to his college experience. I like having a chance to focus on it.

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As some of you may know, I've upgraded or should I say tried upgrading my Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop to 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). Sad to say, the result was a disaster. Although the whole installation process was successful, I ended up having an unbootable system. Since I'm not yet in the mood to fix it, I decided to just try Ubuntu 10.10 by installing it on Mac OS X as guest OS using my favorite free virtualization software VirtualBox.
To those of you who would also like to install Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) on Mac OS X via VirtualBox, here is a step-by-step guide (with screenshots) on how to do it:
1. Download the latest version of VirtualBox for OS X from HERE, and then install it.
2. Run the VirtualBox application and create a new virtual machine.
3. Allocate RAM to your virtual machine. The recommended amount of memory is 512MB but I decided to portion out 1024MB since my total RAM is 4GB.
4. Create a new virtual hard disk for Ubuntu.
5. Select the type of virtual hard disk. I recommend you use dynamically expanding storage for a more flexible disk space.
6. Decide on the size of disk space that will be allotted to your virtual machine.
7. The virtual disk will be created once you click on the "Done" button.
8. Turn on the virtual machine by clicking on the "Start" icon.
9. The first run wizard will appear to help you install the OS, in this case Ubuntu 10.10.
10. Select the media that contains the Ubuntu 10.10 ISO installer.
11. Since the installer was saved on my hard drive, I added it using the virtual media manager.
12. Once you are done, the Ubuntu 10.10 installation process will follow. If you are already familiar with Ubuntu, just install it like you normally would.
For those of you who have not used Ubuntu before, watch out for the Ubuntu 10.10 installation walkthrough on my next post. I will also give a screenshots tour and share with you my first impressions of using Maverick Meerkat.


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Does Your Datacenter Have An SLA?
from the prove-it dept
I have great concerns about whether or not mission-critical applications are having their SLA's met in datacenters, whether they are hosted in-house, third-party supported, or any other form of datacenter-based hosting. First, consider the alternative: the server sits in a room next to your expert developers. Sure, it's probably a SOX violation, but I can tell you this much: that server will not go down often, and if it does, you can be sure that it will be restored as fast as humanly possible. That's the advantage to having an expert babysit your system. If you have two experts in different geographic locations and each babysits a server in case one goes down, then you have about the best support possible. However, for large systems, this may not be convenient, etc.
But how do you know that a datacenter-hosted app has this type of support? First, you need to know for sure what the SLA spells out in terms of support and monitoring. Look for this in your SLA:
"If your app encounters event W, person X will do Y about that specific event within Z amount of time"
I guarantee that anything less specific than that, or anything as specific that's not in writing in the SLA to that effect, will not be honored. Vague responses equal no responses, because why would the datacenter host open themselves up to liabilities by initiating a response that wasn't specified in writing? Specific, measurable responses with noted responsible parties are required to be honored for the SLA or the datacenter host can be held accountable for any failure to respond as specified.
So assume you have an acceptable SLA in place, and you know what they're supposed to do. How can you be sure they'll actually do the things they say they'll do? Well, you obviously need to know before you can count on your apps for something mission-critical, so while the mission-critical app is still running somewhere else (i.e. being babysat by an expert), you set out to prove that the support can respond -- by staging various types of failures. You could tell the host about the staged failure attempts, but then they'll know and will definitely staff and respond appropriately. I would stage failures and not tell the host that the failures are a test. After all, from the host's perspective, any failure is a failure. Be sure to measure closely the response and check if the SLA was honored as expected. Any failure to honor it, for any reason, should be a strong indication that the host is not prepared to honor the SLA, thus potentially costing you your mission-critical app.
Do not allow a complicated roll-over or automated monitoring to imply that the datacenter can respond to any event with seamless mission-critical app coverage. An inexperienced datacenter admin simply hitting the wrong button can send any app to Davy Jones' locker in a big hurry. If you truly want mission-critical backup performance, ask yourself what would happen if the datacenter was completely unresponsive? For example, what if it were hit by a hurricane and completely wiped out? How soon could you be back up and running, and at what capacity? If you can't answer that, you better find an answer before some unpredictable event knocks out your one server running everything.


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Kings County Distillery Thursday 3pm and 5pm Tours
Kings County Distillery
Thursday, March 16, 2017 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
We're excited to host distillery tours every Thursday in addition to our regular weekend tours. This tour starts at 3pm and lasts approximately 45 minutes. Enjoy tastings of our three whiskeys at the end!
Please enter the Navy Yard through the Sands Street Gate, at the corner of Sands Street and Navy Street (use 299 Sands St. in mapping software) on the Dumbo side of the Navy Yard. Kings County Distillery is the first building past the gate. Be prepared to show ID at the guardbooth to enter the Navy Yard. Closest subways are A/C at High Street and the F at York Street.
New York City's oldest distillery
In order to purchase these tickets in installments, you'll need an Eventbrite account. Log in or sign up for a free account to continue.


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Ferrari Car Key
Car locksmith professionals generally offer a wide range of services for your Ferrari key. Qualified technicians should have years of experience with various brands of car keys and locking systems. When it comes to your car keys, you must be able to trust a professional team of technicians who can provide you with the best services possible.
Make sure the technicians are legally licensed, bonded and insured. You should be able to contact reliable technicians anytime night or day. They should be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and be able to assist you in 30 minutes.
Auto key services tend to include emergency locksmith services, lost car key rekey, programming transponder chip, ignition key stuck or broken, duplication of Ferrari car key, lost Ferrari key solutions, key replacement, make spare Ferrari car key duplicate, broken Ferrari car key, extraction of Ferrari car key from the ignition and Ferrari ignition replacement.
Problems with your Ferrari key that technicians should be able to assist you with include:
- Loss of remote key
- Programming transponder chip key
- Ignition key stuck or broken
- Duplication of Ferrari car key
- Lost Ferrari key solutions
- Key replacement
- Emergency locksmith services
- Make spare Ferrari car key
- Broken Ferrari car key
- Extraction of Ferrari car key from the ignition
- Ferrari ignition replacement
Whichever of these Ferrari locksmith services you may need, you can rest assured knowing that highly qualified professionals can help. Check that they can arrive at your location within 30 minutes. So, whether you are in need of emergency locksmith services, loss of transponder chip (which can also be called a remote key), ignition key stuck or broken, duplication of Ferrari car key, lost Ferrari key solutions, key replacement, spare Ferrari car key, broken Ferrari car key, extraction of Ferrari car key from the ignition and Ferrari ignition replacement, you are sure to find a solution.
The car key being made depends on many factors which are sometimes out of the control of technicians and hence they will typically reserve the right to decline making a certain key type. If this is so, check that there will be no charge to you and that you will be notified at the earliest possible time.


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Cyndi Lauper Attacks Miley Cyrus' VMA Performance
I thought Cyndi was all for girls just wanting to have fun?
Apparently not.
The subject of Miley's twerk heard 'round the world came up while Cyndi (pictured above with pre-Molly Miley) was being interviewed on Australian radio, and the LGBT icon decided to pull rank on the 20-year old.
"Now that was Girl Gone Wild. So sad, so sad. That was like Girls Gone Wild. She's in a song that literally says that the blurred lines allowed you to—when a woman says no, that she means yes—and that is frightful because that's date rape. It's like, that's okay, it's cool. And there she is, a young twentysomething trying to prove she can hang with the big boys and girls, you know, basically simulating a Girl Gone Wild video onstage. And I just felt like it was so beneath her and really raunchy, really raunchy. It wasn't even art. It was raunch. It's so sad. I felt really sad for her. I know Gaga mooned everybody and I was laughing to my son, 'This is like the naked video awards,' but at least it was in art. It was like art. The other one was like raunch."
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Prouncing Cheetahs
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Cheetahs are a member of the cat family and are known by their extra-ordinary speed and stealth when they hunt. They can accelerate from 0 to 60 in under 3 seconds, which is faster that most muscle cars of today. To view this gallery, click on the image above.
Giant Pandas
Giant pandas are mammals in the bear family and is native to small regions of China. Although their diet is 99% bamboo, they occassionally enjoy honey, eggs, fish and roots. There are around only 2000 pandas left in the wild and conservation efforts have been made to make sure they will still be around into the forseeable future.
Endangered Koalas
Koalas are marsupial herbivores native to Australia. They were hunted close to extinction for their prized furs until recent. They are now being replenish via breeding programs from zoos around the world.
Red-shanked Duoc Langurs
Duoc Langurs consist of 3 species; Red-shanked, Black-shanked, and Gray-shanked. The images here are of the Red-shanked type, which can be found at the San Diego Zoo. They are native to Southeast Asia with a declining population since they are food for the natives.
Mum Festival
Chrysanthemums are a genus of about 30 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Asia and northeastern Europe. The pictures here are from the Mum Festival at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
Inspiring Sunsets
A collection of inspiring sunsets from around San Diego and places I've visited in the past.
Muir Woods
For those who dreamed of a quiet place to take a walk and see the beauty of nature, Muirwoods would give that experience. Giant trees and sunlight spilling through the folliage make for colorful photographs.
Camera Buying Tips
Are you considering the purchase of a digital camera? With a plethora of selections and features currently available, you have many choices to consider. Come on in and read some tips on what to look for at a budget you can afford.
Photography Composition
If you have ever wondered why professionals take such great pictures; it is becaused they have master the art of photography composition and know the mechanics of their camera. This short tutorial will give you a brief glimpse into photography composition so you can turn your pictures into something more than just snapshots.
Photo Restoration
Do you have a bunch of scratched, faded or water stained photographs that you would like to restore? It is possible to clean up those images and fixed it so that it can be reprinted or enlarged. Depend on how you value the image, this process can take from a few minutes to many hours.
Photo Retouching
This tutorial will show you how to use the clone and selection brush to quickly clean up an image. This includes smoothing out the skin, removing blemishes and other unwanted object in the image. If you have time to kill, after cleaning up the image, you can give that image a personal photo surgery.
Photo Merge
This tutorial is more advanced than the cut out tutorial in which you will get to merge a series of photographs into one. If you've ever been to a reunion, you will notice that not everyone will be able to attend. Using the techniques described here, you will be able to make sure your reunion photograph includes everyone!
Photo Cut Out
This tutorial will show you the basics of selecting a portion of an image and pasting it into another image. Only basic image processing tools are covered to get you up to speed on your photography software. Software techniques include the use of the selection tool and the use of masks.
Site Map
Welcome to smallgallery.com! This is a picture gallery created by Ben, a photo enthusiast, to share his collection of photographs with others. New galleries will be added from time to time with new themes or an on going series. I will be sending a newsletter out once every few months with information on the latest uploads, photography and Paint Shop Pro tutorials. Please sign up if interested.
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I completed Kids on the Slope a few days ago and I must say it is one of the most fantastic series I've ever watched. Jazz as the main driving force of an anime was absolutely unexpected and I was at an utter loss of words. Kids on the Slope was based on something so different and unlike most other anime (and comparatively speaking I would say the music genre is unfamiliar territory of anime), yet it was crafted so beautifully. I'm not asking for favorites.. when have you been at loss of words? Not because the anime was just brilliant, but because it was so different and unexpected, and in a good way?
I'd probably say Angel Beats shocked me a lot. Maybe that or Clannad: After Story.
Angel Beats shocked me in a good way because it was such a beautiful story and ending. Although I'm still posed with some pretty gaping questions.
Clannad: After Story shocked me because Clannad took like 16 episodes for me to really get involved into the storyline it felt like it was draggin but After Story was like right out of the gate interesting.
EDIT: Also I was definitely shocked by the beginning of Kotura-san and the anime in general it just seems new and different.
If an anime simulcasts and no one is around to watch it does it make a sound?
Well speaking of the music genre I got that feeling with the first season of Nodame Cantabile. I started watching it when it first came out and was pleasantly surprised, not only because it incorporates classical music, but because as a whole worked so well, it even inspires you XD
shocked me so good that it is a god damn good tragedy
His Holiness Optimus Maximus Decimus Meridius Colossus Nemesis Nexus Genesis
STEINS;GATE....this anime is so underrated. The story still just makes me go 'wow' thinking about it.
I have to agree with everybody on Koutoura-san because it makes you go from bursting into tears to staring at the screen for a couple seconds in confused happiness thinking: "NANI?!"
Yeah, gotta jump on the Kotoura-san Train. If anything it's the most recent example I can think of. I thought it was going to be all funny and light-hearted, maybe a little ecchi humor here and there, and then Boom! Those first 8 mins hit me like a brick. Was super surprised to find out it's not as light-hearted as it's soft colors and simple character designs imply (I love soft colors and simple character designs).
Other than that, Angel Beats, Gintama, and Sket Dance all shocked me in numerous occasions.
Clannad: After Story
Clannad is so sad I cried buckets...
This anime also has the power to make the manliest man cry like little babies
Nyan~ :3
Gunslinger Girl. The title threw me off till I watched it and got caught up in it. The ending was twisted and pissed me off lol.
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Clannad: After Story
Clannad is so sad I cried buckets...
This anime also has the power to make the manliest man cry like little babies
just wandering about...
Say "I Love You" Absolutely charming.
RahXephon was most certainly the most surprising, for me. I had very low expectations for it, especially hearing people constantly comparing it to Evangelion. It turned out to be one of my favourite animes, and I barely even thought of Evangelion watching it.
No.6 is another one that ended up being pretty surprising. I was expecting a very fanservicey series with cliche dystopian tropes tossed in, but it turned out to be a rather interesting character study.
I can't think of any others worth mentioning, anime doesn't really shock me often in a good way. Usually if I give my self expectations, it gives me a worse experience, haha.
Ef - A Tale of Memories
Ef - A Tale of Melodies
Both blew me away. Different as to what a love genre is, it's not all. "I like you,.. W-wait, you like me too?!" Kind of thing, they hook up and wham. These two anime (Though, I kind of count it as one, since they're linked) go threw alot of emotions. Happiness, sadness, and in a few fleeting moments, horror. Not in the viewer's case though, but the characters, and you can FEEL what they are feeling. Plus, the dubs/subs, from them are pretty well made. Thanks for posting this thread, by the way, I'm writing down ALOT of these titles!
- Sebastian V.
For me it would be Hourou Musuko Wandering Son. I read the synopsis, but I was unprepared for how endearing the story of this couragous little boy could be. I recomend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
Honorable mention to the first 8 minutes of Kotoura-san. You look at the picture for the anime and you are not expecting what she has to endure at the beginning fo the series.
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At Mt Hotham, 3cm of snow had fallen since Saturday morning with more of the white stuff forecast through until Tuesday.
Snow is expected in Victoria's alpine peaks on Saturday and Sunday, at 1500m above sea level.
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Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill sweeps Razzie awards
Adam Sandler's movie Jack and Jill has swept the board at the Razzie awards, which highlight the year's worst films.
The comedy picked up a record 10 prizes, including worst picture. Al Pacino, who played himself, won the worst supporting actor award.
Sandler was named worst actor and actress for playing both Jack and Jill, a brother and his twin sister.
"He didn't play triplets, but he couldn't have won more awards if he had," said Razzies founder John Wilson.
It is the first time in the 32-year history of the awards that a film has won every category.
It also picked up worst screen ensemble and worst re-make / rip-off - as the film was based on Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda.
Worst screen couple went to Sandler and either himself, Katie Holmes or Al Pacino.
Dennis Dugan had the honour of being named worst director for two movies - Jack and Jill and another Sandler vehicle, Just Go With It - while Sandler and Steve Koren won worst screenplay for the former.
Worst supporting actress was David Spade for his portrayal of Monica in Jack and Jill.
Sandler's worst actor accolade was also in honour of his performance in Just Go With It, which co-starred Jennifer Aniston.
Razzie nominees rarely turn up to claim their prizes at the spoof awards ceremony, and Sandler was no exception.
The ceremony took place on Sunday night at a magic shop in Santa Monica, California.
The Razzie winners are usually announced the day before the Oscars but this year, organisers moved the show to April Fools' Day.
However, Wilson said he had received feedback from voters of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, who suggested they would prefer to hand out their prizes around Oscar time.
"I think our members prefer the faux glamour of having it be Oscar eve," Wilson said.
Nominees are picked by 657 voters in 46 US states and 17 other countries.
The Razzies - officially titled the Golden Raspberries - were founded by film fan and author Wilson in 1980.
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By Seth Falvo
I have a feeling that most of you degenerate gamblers are going to take this weekend off. And hey, that's a very logical decision. The TUF: China Finale is packed to the brim with squash matches and unknown prospects, and if you're the type of person who doesn't normally watch Bellator or Titan FC, it would be an incredibly stupid risk to throw money down on fighters you barely recognize.
Which is exactly what makes a "Gambling Addiction Enabler" for this weekend's fights so appropriate. With the UFC hosting an obscure Fight Pass card — and Bellator and Titan FC featuring guys you've heard of but aren't necessarily invested in — only the most hardcore MMA fans and the most hopeless gambling addicts are going to be risking their money on this weekend's fights. If you fall into either category, we'd be letting you down if we decided not to share our rock-solid (*tries to stop laughing*) gambling advice with you.
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TUF: China Finale: Dong Hyun Kim (-360) vs. John Hathaway (+300)
It's hard to disagree with the odds here. Kim has not only faced tougher competition, but he also has the advantage of fighting on his home continent; not exactly a frivolous observation, as Kim himself would be quick to point out. A straight bet on Kim won't yield an impressive return, but it does make for a low-risk parlay addition.
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A tank style blouse made from a vintage boxy and too big short sleeve blouse. A re-repurpose as the top ended up mine when it was purged from a friend's closet years ago. Back then I liked it oversized, but hadn't worn it in years. The fabric is so pretty I wanted to make something I'd wear again. I used the top part of a McCall's dress pattern (5374) that I already knew the fit of. Basically I just shimmied the pattern around, aligning center fold with center, then traced the borders with chalk to mark cutting line. Made in July 2010. Turned into a great transitional piece for fall!
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We've mentioned handmade shop Alabama Chanin before, but they're back on our radar after we spotted their textiles at the Cooper Hewitt's design triennial. Although their limited edition pieces are beyond our budget, we love looking at their collections for inspiration. Almost all furniture and accessories are upcycled and pieced together from items with a storied past.
Owner Natalie Chanin is primarily a fashion designer, but she works with local artisans in her howntown of Florence, Alabama to make textiles and pieces that can be used for the home as well. All pieces are signed and numbered by the artists who created them.
The Cooper Hewitt describes the collections well: "The pieces from Alabama Chanin's 2009 and 2010 collections are made from organic cotton with quilting, appliqué, and embroidery techniques from the Depression-era South. The garments are imbued with memory and nostalgia, representing a continuum between traditional and contemporary practice."
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Dear Group, I will need some clarification about the FCS computation and its representation at the MAC layer in the 64b/66b test vector given in walker_1_p0700.pdf. As mentioned in the section 3.3 of the IEEE 302.3 standard, "Each octet of the MAC frame, with the exception of the FCS, is transmitted low-order bit first". Given that, in the 64b/66b test vector given in walker_1_p0700.pdf, the four bytes corresponding to the FCS position are 93 eb f7 79. In the same 64b/66b test vector given in walker_1_p0700.pdf, looking at the PCS scrambled "frame", it seems that the FCS values at the input of the scrambler are c9 d7 ef 9e. That would mean that the FCS value is c9 d7 ef 9e and that the FCS is represented LSBit first at the MAC layer level. Hence, I simply would like to know the following: - Considering the 93 eb f7 79 byte sequence, does the MAC layer transmit each byte LSBit or MSBit first? - If the MAC layer transmit them LSBit first, can anybody confirm that the FCS value is then c9 d7 ef 9e. Thanks very much, David.


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Like most 8-year-olds, Myles Eckert was already dreaming up ways he could spend a $20 bill he had just discovered laying in a Cracker Barrel parking lot earlier this month.
"I kind of wanted to get a video game, but then I decided not to," the child recounted to CBS News.
That's because Eckert saw Lt. Col. Frank Dailey enter the restaurant. The man in uniform changed his mind.
"Because he was a soldier, and soldiers remind me of my dad," Eckert explained to CBS.
Above: Lt. Col. Frank Dailey enters a Cracker Barrel Feb. 7. (Image source: Screen grab via CBS News)
So, instead of purchasing something for himself, Eckert did something very different on Feb. 7. Something Dailey says he will remember for "a lifetime."
The 8-year-old boy wrapped the $20 bill in a note he had authored to the solider.
"Dear Soldier — my dad was a soldier. He's in heaven now," the note said. "I found this 20 dollars in the parking lot when we got here. We like to pay it forward in my family. It's your lucky day! Thank you for your service. Myles Eckert, a gold star kid."
Above: Lt. Col. Frank Dailey received a touching note from 8-year-old Myles Eckert earlier this month. (Image source: Screen grab via CBS News)
Eckert's father, Army Sgt. Andy Eckert, had been killed in Iraq when he was only a few weeks old. The 8-year-old can only think of what he was like.
"I imagine him as a really nice person and somebody that would be really fun," he told CBS News.
That February day, Eckert even asked his mother to go visit his father.
"He wanted to go see his dad," said his mother Tiffany. "And he wanted to go by himself that day."
She took a photograph of her son visiting his father's grave.
Above: 8-year-old Myles Eckert visits his father. (Image source: Screen grab via CBS News)
Dailey, touched by the Eckert's gesture, said he looks at the note he received each day.
"It's incredible being recognized in such a manner," he said, adding that the child's simple gift has provided him "a lifetime of direction."
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WASHINGTON, March 17, 2009
Though U.S. forces in Iraq have focused their efforts on building the nations self-sufficiency, they have not lost sight of the need for humanitarian assistance.
In recent days, U.S. forces have conducted humanitarian missions throughout Iraq to boost the quality of medical care and deliver health care and much-needed supplies to Iraqis. U.S. forces also are taking care of their own by moving some U.S. soldiers to another base with better amenities and proximity to their unit.
In Wasit province, Iraqi doctors met with the 41st Fires Brigade medical team March 12 at Al Abbas Hospital in an effort to improve the quality of patient care and restore medical services in the area. The visit was part of Operation Gunner Med, a joint medical civil-military operation between the Wasit director general of health and the 41st Fires Brigade.
The most important thing we want everyone to know is that we are trying to open up all the lines of communication so we can discuss things, with the ultimate goal of making things better for patients in Wasit, Army Capt. (Dr.) N.I. Okpokwasili, 41st Fires Brigade surgeon, said.
Okpokwasili pointed out the medical capabilities of Forward Operating Base Delta and explained how his medical team could assist their Iraqi counterparts.
Most of the stuff that you have at Al Abbas is far above what we have over at FOB Delta, Okpokwasili told senior Iraqi physician Nawfal al-Malily and his staff. The American medical system in Iraq is not to completely fix our soldiers here. Instead, we stabilize and then we send them out either to Germany or the United States.
The U.S. medical team can offer weekly training and case discussion, Okpokwasili added. Our surgeons can discuss with your surgeons the things that they know. In that way, we can be a resource, he said. Once you establish if our doctors can help you, then we can establish how.
The Iraqi Ministry of Health and the 41st Fires Brigade also are installing video teleconferencing systems in the local hospitals to enable communication between each of the hospitals as well as Baghdad, Okpokwasili said.
Medical care also was the focus near Forward Operating Base Hunter. Iraqi and U.S. soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Divisions 4th Brigade Combat Team conducted a joint humanitarian mission March 8 to provide medical attention and essential supplies to the residents of Musharah in Maysan province.
During the visit, American medics examined the children for everything from routine stuffy noses to a number of complex health problems, some of which were referred to the Iraqi National Assistance Center in Baghdad for possible treatment in America.
I was just recently attached to this unit, so this was my first mission, Army Spc. Brenda Goode, a combat medic with 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, said. I was really surprised, not only by the diversity of the complaints, but by how nice the people were and how grateful they were for our support.
The children also received school supplies, vitamins, toys, blankets, games and clothes that were donated from families, friends and groups at Fort Hood, Texas. The soldiers also donated medicine and supplies to the clinic.
Its just so kind of the families who sent this to us; not knowing us, but willing to help us, said an Iraqi mother who brought her son in for an ear infection. I am overcome with their generosity.
A rural village in Babil province also benefited from the generosity of Iraqi and U.S. forces. Iraqi police and soldiers of the 4th Infantry Divisions 2nd Brigade Combat Team recently delivered a railcar shipping container packed with supplies, including blankets, water purifiers and generators, to the residents of Jawadia.
Nearly 250 people from 42 families benefited from the humanitarian mission.
"This type of mission is what we look forward to, because we see a difference on the spot, Army Staff Sgt. Travanti Andrews of 2nd Platoon, Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment, said. The [local people] are extremely grateful, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to help out. Everybody wins."
As they help others, U.S. forces also are ensuring they take care of their own.
Soldiers from the 204th Brigade Support Battalion have begun to relocate from Forward Operating Base Kalsu to Camp Echo, where the 4th Infantry Divisions 2nd Brigade Combat Team is located. The move is being made to better support operations, said Army Maj. Thomas P. Bryant, 204th BSB operations officer, adding that the units mission will remain the same.
The new location is generating positive feedback. I like Camp Echo a lot, Army Spc. Evan Rector, a 204th BSB equipment repairer, said. It has a lot of the amenities that you can find back home.
Rector, who arrived at Camp Echo in December, said 204th BSB soldiers have worked on improving their new headquarters building, rebuilding it to meet their needs.
The entire battalion is slated to be relocated and operational at Camp Echo this month, Bryant said.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq and Multinational Division Center news releases. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joe Thompson of the 41st Fires Brigade, Army Sgt. Josh LeCappelain of the 4th Infantry Divisions 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark Schenk of the 1st Cavalry Divisions 4th Brigade Combat Team, and Army 1st Lt. Matthew Pierce of the 4th Infantry Divisions 2nd Brigade Combat Team contributed to this article.)


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June 3, 1924. "Leonard and Edna Wilbur," children of Navy Secretary Curtis Wilbur. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1922. "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co." The maintenance shed. National Photo Co. Collection glass negative. View full size.
Art class circa 1940. "Montgomery High School students, Maryland." Our third or fourth photo from Montgomery High. Anyone have an old yearbook from there? National Photo Company Collection safety negative. View full size.
"Secretary Davis, Christmas tree, 1921." James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor in the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations, moonlighting as Santa Claus. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington circa 1914. "H.E.F. & A.W.L. in Detroiter." Herbert E. French, driving, was the owner of National Photo Company; "Artie" Leonard was one of its photographers. They're at the Tidal Basin on the Inlet Bridge, with the Washington Monument in back. National Photo glass negative. View full size.
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May 9, 1960. A landmark image in the history of modern architecture: Julius Shulman's nighttime shot of Ann Lightbody and Cynthia Murfee in Case Study House No. 22, the Stahl residence in the Hollywood Hills, overlooking Sunset Boulevard. Architect: Pierre Koenig. The photo, taken with a Swiss-made Sinar 4x5 view camera, is a double exposure: Seven minutes for the background, then a flash shot for the interior, the house lights having been replaced with flashbulbs. There's a fascinating account of the image at Taschen, where you can order a book on the Case Study houses. View full size | L.A. Mag article.


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The recent downgrade of Atlantic City by Moody's may cause some concern for the bigger business picture in New Jersey.
After all, downgrades by ratings firms are a signal that something is very wrong, just ask Detroit, which became the largest municipality ever to file for bankruptcy last summer.
But State Senate president Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) said, even in the wake of the Moody's downgrade, Atlantic City is not likely to file for bankruptcy any time soon.
"It's not going to be Detroit," he said. "We're not going to let it be Detroit."
Some of New Jersey's largest cities have seen declines in both industrial and residential populations that may give those pondering whether the state is on the road paved by Detroit cause for concern.
But an NJBIZ editorial shortly after the Detroit filing expressed the opinion that the Garden State is far from "the decades-long bleeding in Detroit," citing, among other things, foresight in the shape of reforms expected to save $130 billion over the next 30 years.


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Top 10 scientific supers
NASA, MPIA, Oliver Krause et al/Calar Alto Observatory
Scientists typically coin new terms by cobbling prefixes or suffixes on to old ones; for dramatizing a new label, the prefix of choice is usually "super-." Supersymmetry is just one of many such supercoinages that have appeared over the last century or so.
10. Supersonic: Ernst Mach, 1887
Apparently, supersonic was originally used to denote sound at frequencies too high for human ears to hear, but today that term is ultrasonic. So that complicates the history of the word. But the seminal scientific study of projectiles traveling faster than the speed of sound in a given medium — today's definition of supersonic — came from Mach and a collaborator named Peter Salcher. Hence the term "Mach number," proposed in 1929 to describe, for example, the ratio of a fast airplane's speed to the speed of sound in air.
9. Superego: Sigmund Freud, early 20th century
Seriously? Well, I needed 10. Originally superego referred to something like a conscience, the part of you that controlled your monsters from the id, which suggests that Walter Pidgeon was deficient in this area. Nowadays superego is more commonly used to describe LeBron James.
8. Supersymmetry: Evgeny Likhtman and Yuri Golfand, c. 1970; Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino, 1973
It's a complicated history, but the first ideas of a new symmetry relating matter to force came from Likhtman and Golfand in the Soviet Union. Wess and Zumino's paper got a lot more attention, though. The first actual use of the term supersymmetry was probably in a 1974 paper by Abdus Salam and John Strathdee.
7. Superstrings: Gabriele Veneziano, 1968; Yoichiro Nambu, 1969; Leonard Susskind, 1969; Holger Nielsen, 1970; Pierre Ramond, André Neveu, John Schwarz, 1971. And many others.
I really didn't want to leave anybody out, but the list could go on and on. The idea (now) is that elementary particles are tiny snippets of vibrating string, with different particles corresponding to different vibration modes (the way different frequencies of sound correspond to different musical notes). Originally it was just "string" theory, but Ramond, Neveu and Schwarz linked it to supersymmetry, putting the super into strings. Enthusiasm exploded for superstrings in the 1980s with the realization that it could unify quantum mechanics with gravity, but despite many advances, a full-fledged theory that is testable with current technologies has remained elusive.
6. Superposition: Erwin Schrödinger, 1935
This one has many scientific meanings, but we're talking about quantum superposition here. It refers to the weird quantum situation where a particle can simultaneously be in two different states, like two places at once, or be spinning around an axis pointing in multiple directions. The quantum usage originated in the late 1920s in analogy to the superposition principle for classical waves, but I'm giving this prize to Schrodinger for his famous illustration of the concept with a cat in a superposition of dead-and-alive.
5. Supercontinent: Alfred Wegener 1912-1915
It's really hard to find out who first used the term supercontinent, and when, but Alfred Wegener, a German astronomer turned meteorologist, established the idea. Others had suggested a primordial agglomeration of all the Earth's continents but did not accumulate the evidence and work out the details the way Wegener did. "Supercontinent" is not rigorously defined (it does not necessarily require all the planet's continents to be connected). Wegener conceived it as one huge land mass, composed of all Earth's current continents, that he referred to as the "ur-kontinent." In 1922 he called it die Pangäa in German, which translates into "Pangaea." (By the way, although many experts didn't believe him at the time, it turned out that Wegener was right.)
4. Superconductivity: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, 1911
Kamerlingh Onnes found that electrical resistance disappeared in mercury cooled to near absolute zero. Soon he found that many other metals, such as lead and tin, also lost electrical resistance at such low temperatures. Kamerlingh Onnes apparently called the phenomena "supraconductivity," but that didn't make any sense so almost everybody else called it superconductivity.
3. Superfluidity: Willem Keeson et al, 1930s; Pyotr Kapitza, 1938
Keeson and collaborators observed hints of unusual fluidity, including an ability to move through tiny constrictions, in liquid helium cooled below 2.17 kelvins. Further work by several others, including the Canadians James Frank Allen and Austin Donald Misener, showed that this exceptional frictionless flow could not be explained by ordinary (nonquantum) physics. Kapitza did experiments and reported his analysis in a short paper published in Nature, in which he coined the term "superfluid" to describe the supercold helium. (A similar paper on the flow of supercold helium, by Allen and Misener, appeared in the same issue of Nature.)
2. Supercomputer: Control Data Corp., 1964 (maybe)
The story in the geekosphere is that the first supercomputer was the CDC 6600, produced in 1964 by the Control Data Corp. It was called "super" because it was so much faster than other computers were back then.
But wait. Top Secret documents from the NSA (yes, that NSA) claim that President Eisenhower approved a project to develop "super-fast computers" in the 1950s. NSA claims that "no machine resulted directly from" that project (Hah!).
But perhaps that's right, because NSA bought a CDC 6600 and then bought Seymour Cray's first supercomputer in 1976. Maybe whoever from NSA is reading this will send in a clarification. But I will absolutely not admit who leaked the documents to me. Unless tortured. (It was Google.)
1. Supernovas: Tycho Brahe, 1572; Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky 1931
When a star too dim to see suddenly gets brighter, it appears as a new star in the sky, and so Tycho Brahe's report on the supernova of 1572 called it a stella nova (new star). That was a big deal because in those days the established dogma was the stars were eternal and unchanging. In the 1920s astronomers realized that while many stars did undergo brightening events, a rare few brightened by many orders of magnitude more than the others. Edwin Hubble called them "exceptional novae" but that didn't catch on. Baade and Zwicky began using the term supernova at Caltech in 1931 and published a paper using it in 1934.
(There's probably more to this story, though, since Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate gives the year of supernova's first use as 1926.)
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Quarterbacks (3): Joe Flacco, Tyrod Taylor, Curtis Painter
Flacco enters his fifth NFL season -- and a contract year -- having started 73 consecutive games, including nine in the playoffs, for the Ravens. Taylor (left), a second-year scrambler, will be his primary backup. The only question here is if Painter (right) has convinced the Ravens to carry three quarterbacks for the first time since 2009. We guess yes.
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Baycadron Side Effects
What should I watch for?
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. If you are taking this medicine over a prolonged period, carry an identification card with your name and address, the type and dose of your medicine, and your doctor's name and address.
This medicine may increase your risk of getting an infection. Stay away from people who are sick. Tell your doctor or health care professional if you are around anyone with measles or chickenpox.
If you are going to have surgery, tell your doctor or health care professional that you have taken this medicine within the last twelve months.
Ask your doctor or health care professional about your diet. You may need to lower the amount of salt you eat.
The medicine can increase your blood sugar. If you are a diabetic check with your doctor if you need help adjusting the dose of your diabetic medicine.
Common and Rare Side Effects
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
More common
blurred vision
decrease in the amount of urine
fast, slow, pounding, or irregular heartbeat or pulse
mental depression
mood changes
noisy, rattling breathing
numbness or tingling in the arms or legs
pounding in the ears
shortness of breath
swelling of the fingers, hands, feet, or lower legs
trouble thinking, speaking, or walking
troubled breathing at rest
Incidence not known
Abdominal cramping and/or burning (severe)
abdominal pain
bloody, black, or tarry stools
cough or hoarseness
darkening of skin
decrease in height
decreased vision
eye tearing
facial hair growth in females
fever or chills
flushed, dry skin
fruit-like breath odor
full or round face, neck, or trunk
heartburn and/or indigestion (severe and continuous)
increased hunger
increased thirst
increased urination
loss of appetite
loss of sexual desire or ability
lower back or side pain
menstrual irregularities
muscle pain or tenderness
muscle wasting or weakness
pain in back, ribs, arms, or legs
painful or difficult urination
skin rash
trouble healing
trouble sleeping
unexplained weight loss
unusual tiredness or weakness
vision changes
vomiting of material that looks like coffee grounds
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
More common
Increased appetite
Incidence not known
Abnormal fat deposits on the face, neck, and trunk
dry scalp
lightening of normal skin color
red face
reddish purple lines on the arms, face, legs, trunk, or groin
swelling of the stomach area
thinning of the scalp hair
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.


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The lil Pawpaw is a racetrack style scratcher with an extended kitty-head shaped SCRATCHDECK™ offering an extended surface area to play and sharpen claws. This sturdy scratcher is double-sided, simply pop out the perforated enclosure on back and give your cat a go at it all over again. 2" thickness of cardboard will keep your cat doing what comes natural longer. Kittypods are superior, our materials are of the best quality and provide a much denser surface area so they last longer which means savings for you and saving our planet from unnecessary waste.
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Landing Beaches of Normandy
- Transportation from Paris to Normandy
- Guided tour of the Caen Memorial Museum
- Lunch at the Caen Memorial Museum
- Visit the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer
- Walk on the famous Omaha Beach
- Learn about the day the Allies landed in Normandy
- Explore the Pointe du Hoc, the American Rangers' landing site
- Stop at Arromanches and the Canadian Memorial at Juno Beach
Visit the D-Day Beaches in Normandy
We'll leave Paris early morning and head towards Caen, where we should arrive around 10:15 AM. At Caen, we stop at the Caen Memorial Museum (also known as the Peace Museum) for a guided visit and a short film.
The Caen Memorial Museum tells the story of the various stages of the Second World War, particularly the Battle of Normandy. Your guided tour includes the chance to see everyday objects from life under occupation, maps and models of military vehicles, as well as film screenings that recreate the emotions of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.
After the tour of the museum, you'll enjoy a delicious lunch and drinks at the museum restaurant.
Next we'll depart for the landing beaches at Normandy, where we stop at both the Pointe du Hoc and the American cemetery Saint-Laurent at Omaha Beach for about an hour.
Hereafter we'll make a stop at Arronmanches, and then, as the last sight, continue to the close vicinity of the Canadian Memorial of Juno Beach, where we'll make a short photo stop.
After this intense day we'll drive back to Paris, and expect to be back around 9–9:30 PM.
The tour is available in English and French.
How do I get my tickets?
Shortly after your booking is complete your e-ticket will be send directly to your email, just print it out and bring it on your tour.
Where does the tour begin?
The tour starts at the PARISCityVISION's office. The address will be on your e-ticket.
Please be there 30 minutes before the tour starts.
Where does the tour end?
The tour ends back at the PARISCityVISION's office.
How long does the tour last?
The tour lasts 14½ hours.
- We suggest a good pair of shoes to avoid discomfort. No high heels. Also wear practical clothes according to the weather.


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Copyright And Education In Conflict?
from the questions-to-ponder dept
"What do we, as a society, value more: business rights or education rights?Indeed. For quite some time it's appeared that there's a bit of a conflict in the basics of copyright and the concept of education -- which is all about sharing information and spreading that information. It's one of those things that copyright maximalists (especially the ones who are professors) usually don't like to talk about.
Because we're more and more often hearing stories about IP law effecting things like text book answers, lesson agendas, syllabi, etc. It seems that we are so wrapped up in the idea of personal rights and personal walls around the content that we create or organize that we're losing sight of some truly important values, none more so than the ability to educate our emerging leaders to their fullest. After all, what could do more to promote the progress of our society and way of life as a whole than to educate our masses to the fullest? What standing could one possibly have to impede another's education to eke out further profit?"


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Cybidea, Inc. needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Cybidea, Inc. owns very popular websites such as BestBuys.com (new site is currently under development).
We are preparing to launch several cutting-edge start-ups this year; this is one of them.
We are a very "web 2.0" oriented company that stays up to date with new web technologies and industry trends, participates in social media and has a passion for crafting an amazing user experience and leading the development of new concepts in emerging markets.
Our logo should be crisp, clean, simple, but also illustrate our passion for cutting edge web technologies and rich internet applications.
We aim to be an inviting, friendly community that appeals to both clients and provider's alike. Simple, professional and familiar. Users should feel at home posting a job or seeking a job at our website.
Our core philosophy: To use social networking features and a supportive and efficient community environment to connect buyers with providers, and in-turn, enhance and encourage positive business relationships.
We are open to anything -- be creative!
• The logo should be modern, clear, corporate and sharp
• It should convey professionalism, reliability, and quality
• Logo must be unique - however, please follow the general design "theme" of the ATTACHED EXAMPLE LOGO.
The winning designer will have their biography (if they wish) featured on our website. Do a good job for us and we'll do our best to involve you in future projects -- we are a very loyal company and look for long-term relationships.
All submissions will receive feedback and I will personally answer all messages. I make the final decision on who wins.
Thank you for your participation,
Shane Atlas
Chief Operating Offer
Cyidea, Inc.
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