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A proposal to build a hotel, aquatic complex, water park and swimming museum at Oceanside's massive El Corazon property is getting a second look from city officials.
The project was proposed earlier this year by the Swimming Hall of Fame Partners, which includes the Florida-based International Swimming Hall of Fame. The group operates a hall of fame in Fort Lauderdale, but is looking for a new West Coast home.
The Oceanside Economic Development Commission agreed last week to recommend the city enter talks with the Hall of Fame group and Sudberry Properties, which has development rights over El Corazon. City staff must now get City Council approval before talks can begin.
"All this does is provides us with an opportunity to sit down, go over their plans and their financial ability to pull this off," outgoing City Manager Peter Weiss said last week.
Meanwhile, grading is under way on a section of the hilly El Corazon property to prepare for land for 22 new soccer fields.
Officials hope the fields will draw thousands of visitors each year to Oceanside and kick off development on the rest of El Corazon, a 465-acre former sand mine that the city wants to transform into an oasis of park land, open space and residential and commercial development that could include two hotels.
Sudberry Properties President Colton Sudberry called the aquatic complex and Swimming Hall of Fame proposal "an interesting idea" and said he would be willing to support it if developers can prove that they "can make it happen."
"We think it would be a really neat thing for the community," Sudberry said.
The City Council is expected to vote in January on whether to pursue the talks. Mayor Jim Wood said on Wednesday he will support that because he wanted more information to the proposal.
"I think it's an interesting idea but I want details," Wood said.
Deputy Mayor Jerry Kern said the Hall of Fame proposal sounded like "a great idea" but he also wanted more information.
Kern said the soccer fields would attract a lot of visitors for tournaments, which could spur commercial interest on the property, including the need for more hotel rooms in the area.
The city obtained the El Corazon property in 1993 but various efforts to develop the land over the years have been unsuccessful.
In 2009, the city completed a master plan for El Corazon, which is bordered by Mesa Drive, El Camino Real, Rancho Del Oro Drive and Oceanside Boulevard. The plan includes natural open space, park land, two hotels of 150 rooms each and 300 residential units over commercial space.
Sudberry was chosen as the master developer in 2011.
Doug Eddow, the city's real estate manager, said on Tuesday that Sudberry was expected to submit its own proposal for a commercial and residential development project next year.
The city is also reviewing another proposal from Stirling Development, which owns an 11-acre portion of El Corazon near the intersection of Rancho Del Oro Drive and Ocean Ranch Road, to build 80 condominiums on its property.
The Swimming Hall of Fame proposal would include a 400-suite convention hotel, a 30-acre water park, an aquatic facility with a 70-meter competition pool, a swimming museum with 15,000 square feet of exhibition space and beach volleyball courts.
Sherman Whitmore, one of the developers on that proposal, said El Corazon would be ideal for the project because of its location in sunny Southern California, where tourists and athletes abound.
"I'm excited about it and I'm looking forward to working with the city and Sudberry," Whitmore said on Thursday.
However, Diane Nygaard, president of the Friends of El Corazon, said she was not convinced the project would fit with the master plan for the property. For example, the master plan envisioned two hotels with 150 rooms each but the project proposes one hotel with 400 rooms.
"What we do in one location (of the property) affects the rest of the park," Nygaard said. "There's nothing wrong with exploring this but let's make sure that what we explore is consistent with the plan."


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Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center has been awarded $795,000 in state funding for its new Wellness Connection Place, a groundbreaking coordinated care program for adult mental health patients.
The three-year award, announced Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is one of just 37 statewide and the only one designated for a Western New York hospital in the second phase of the competitive Vital Access/Safety Net Provider Program.
Memorial is in the process of renovating its outpatient adult mental health center to establish a one-stop, multi-service center called the Wellness Connection Center. The one-stop center will provide primary care, outpatient behavioral health treatment, health promotion programming, addiction screening, health insurance and financial assistance counseling and community-based service linkages.
A key component of the center will be Wellness Connection Place, which will combine primary care medical services with an adjoining patient resource center as part of a comprehensive approach to serving mental health clients, many of whom suffer from one or more chronic diseases.
Primary care and health education services at Wellness Connection Place will be fully integrated with the mental health center and with all other services provided on site.
"Memorial's innovative care model for integrating primary care and behavioral health services has attracted national and statewide interest as evidenced by the sizable grant funding we have been able to attract on a competitive basis," said Memorial President and CEO Joseph A. Ruffolo.
In addition to the $795,000 award announced this week, Memorial received $1.98 million in state funding to support the renovation and expansion of its Adult Outpatient Mental Health Center, including construction of the Wellness Connection Place. Construction is scheduled for completion in January 2014.
Last month, the medical center received an additional $500,000 award from the state Office of Mental Health to operate Get Well/Stay Well, an innovative project to be jointly offered with The Dale Association to provide one-stop primary care, behavioral health and senior services at the Summit Family Health Center in Wheatfield.
The VAP program was established by the state's Medicaid Redesign Team and awards funds to support projects that improve community care and achieve defined financial, operational and quality improvement goals related to integration or reconfiguration of health care services.
"Keeping the mental health population physically healthy and connected to the benefits and services they need to live independently in the community will reduce their reliance on costly emergency room visits and hospitalizations," said Memorial Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Sheila K. Kee. "The Wellness Connection Place will be a win-win for the state, regional health insurers, the Niagara community as a whole, and the patients served by this initiative."


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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
Macmillan Publishers has launched Macmillan Films to adapt the publisher's books into movie projects. (Deadline New York)
The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY, will present a staged theatrical reading of Elizabeth Bishop's letters as a work-in-progress tonight in New York City.
Two e-books currently cost more than their hardcover counterparts in the Amazon store. (New York Times)
Jonathan Franzen's glasses were stolen off his face at a reading in London on Monday night. "A police helicopter was dispatched and one of the larcenists was found hiding in bushes, leading to the safe return of Mr. Franzen's glasses." (New York Times)
Kenyon author Ngugi wa Thiong'o has emerged as a "late favorite" by the bookmakers to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. (Guardian) Cormac McCarthy has also seen his odds improve dramatically in recent days. (Jacket Copy) The winner will be announced on Thursday.
Former president of Penguin Canada David Davidar, who stepped down last year "amid accusations of sexual harassment," has sold a novel about the publishing industry to McClelland & Stewart. (Star)
Booksellers finally heard details about Google Editions, which is planned to launch in the United States later this year, at a conference in Rhode Island last week. (Publishers Weekly)
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AS A SENIOR IN 2013-2014: Fall Singles: Posted a record of 2-8 in the fall season … Fall Doubles: Tallied an overall record of 6-1 in the fall … went 3-1 with partner Chelby Cooke … won the Gold doubles consolation final over BYU's Nicolette Tran and Toby Miclat at the Cal Nike Invitational on Sept. 28 ... went 4-4 with partner Nicolette Wolny … tallied one loss with partner Delphine Rouvillois … Spring Singles: Went 10-8 in dual singles competition playing between the No. 4 and 5 position for Santa Clara … began spring conference play with two wins over Milica Hadzi-Tanovic of USF 7-5, 6-2 and Laura Mueller of LMU 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 … posted a record of 3-5 at the No. 4 position … tallied a 7-3 record at the No. 5 spot … topped Mikayla Morkel-Brink of USD by a score of 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 … defeated Toby Miclat of No. 58 BYU) 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 ... Spring Doubles: Tallied a combined 5-13 dual doubles record … split time between the No. 2 and 3 positions … partnered with Delphine Rouvillois at No. 2 doubles, going 2-4 … went 3-7 with Nicolette Wolny … with partner Elaine Chesoni, posted a 0-2 record in the middle of the spring season.
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Decorating With Flowering Branches
Try out these ideas and tips, inspired by the images above:
• 1 Our favorite way to display flowering branches is just on their own in a simple vase, like the crabapple branches we brought home from the market. A good rule of thumb is to choose a vase that's about half as tall as your branches. For textural interest, try and select branches that have unexpected curves and forks, rather than going for a "perfect" look. These are fantastic on a mantle or even on the floor in front of a fireplace.
• 2 These photos from Elle Décor (via This is Glamorous) demonstrate how to achieve an equally stunning effect with just one or two elegant branches as with a big, lush arrangement. Simple, slim containers are great for the latter, while a fat spherical vase makes a nice counterbalance for a lush bouquet.
• 3 Sarah from the fabulous Saipua cut short sprigs from a bunch of dogwood for the bouquets and centerpieces for a wedding. Since the blooms themselves can be so exquisite, this is a great thing to do if you've got an extra branch left over or a piece that's broken off.
• 4 It's always nice to work flowering branches into a mixed bouquet to add some height and texture, as in this beautiful arrangment from Ink and Peat.
• 5 Lastly, for some practical tips… if you're lucky enough to have your own flowering tree or shrub to harvest, remember to prune properly, cutting your branches right at the source (not leaving stubs). Also, before you arrange branches (store-bought or pruned at home), prepare the ends to allow for maximum water absorption: For skinny branches, cut a lengthwise slit in the end of the branch, and for fatter branches, use a hammer to smash the end of the branch. (Image from Sunset.)
More flowering branch inspiration from Apartment Therapy:
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Gun and the Gospel: Early Kansas and Chaplain Fisher is mainly an autobiography, but Rev. Fisher's inevitable participation in Free State politics serves to intertwine his personal history with that of the new state.
He places particular attention to historical contexts: he traces the roots of the struggle over slavery, and its explosive effect in Kansas.
The three chapters included here are personal and political histories of three men who made indelible impressions on the development of the state.
Wisely choosing to focus on Harper's Ferry instead of the incident at Pottawatomie Creek, Fisher paints a valiant portrait of John Brown.
A similarly heroic-- and therefore equally distorted-- biography of General Jim Lane is also included.
Reverend Fisher's greatest personal claim to fame lies in his dramatic escape from Lawrence with Dr. Charles Robinson and other prominent men on the night of William Quantrill's bloody raid; unlike the chapter on John Brown, Fisher's chapter on Quantrill exults in the man's criminal past.
In addition to the description of Quantrill and the actual raid itself, this chapter is significant in that it carries the immediacy and emotional outrage of a survivor.
Reverend H.D. Fisher's memiors constitute valuable historical material, however biased, specifically because his bias reflects the partisan nature of the conflict between pro- and anti-slavery supporters.
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Make no mistake, Microsoft isn't playing coy in the smartphone market any longer. The folks in Redmond are making a significant jump forward in the mobile arena, announcing that the upcoming version of Windows Phone, codenamed "Mango," will be heading to a device near you in time for the holidays. As its competitors have raised the bar of expectations to a much higher level, Microsoft followed suit by adding at least 500 features to its mobile investment, which the company hopes will plug all of the gaping holes the first two versions left open.


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Andy Murray is set to continue his ground-breaking partnership with coach Amelie Mauresmo.
The pair initially teamed up just for the grass-court season but had talks immediately after Murray's quarter-final loss to Grigor Dimitrov at Wimbledon.
Murray had made it clear he would like to continue working with the Frenchwoman, having enjoyed the experience despite the disappointing end to his Wimbledon title defence.
But, with no confirmation forthcoming since the championships, doubts had begun to grow about whether they could agree a deal that suited both.
The key factor for Murray will have been the amount of time Mauresmo is prepared to travel with him.
But photographs from Murray's training camp in Miami showed Mauresmo with him and the rest of his team, indicating an announcement of an agreement is close.
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As a keen Australian rules football (AFL) supporter, I loved this article mapping out coaching dynasty's that exist in AFL football. The basic premise of the article suggests great coaches aren't born, they are bred.
After reading this I thought about the challenge of building good coaching and leadership in organizations today. For the most part there is not the same public scrutiny and very visible performance data available on our companies leaders as there is with any major league sport, but there are definitely similar challenges. How do you reinforce the same themes and key messages week on week, and still keep your team engaged? How do you provide feedback, build confidence and the capability of your team? How do you make the right choices at the selection table?
Clearly there are some common themes and challenges for organization and sport. So what are the common attributes that separate a dynasty successful coach from a regular coach? Here's three themes I believe are key:
Positive role models
Of all the key attributes behind a good coach, providing a positive role model is a prime factor in establishing a coaching dynasty. Approximately 90% of what we learn is through our experience and observation. It is then no coincidence that the writer of the AFL coaches article observed many of the top coaches in AFL had all been exposed to at least one of the great coaches that came before them. Through observation and indoctrination of successful coaching practices, they were able to learn their coaching craft and also become very successful coaches.
A winning culture
Successful coaches set up their teams for success by creating a winning culture, by reinforcing some very clear standards of behavior, which become part of the fabric of how a team behave. It is then by no means a coincidence that coaches whom are a part of and have experienced a successful coach learn the power of establishing a winning culture that builds accountability, trust and loyalty amongst a team.
Story tellers
AFL football can be a very complex and intricate game, yet teams play it best when the do the routine, basic things required by the game in a consistant and repetitive fashion. Coaches therefore need to rely on simple messages, retold and reinforced many different ways, reinforcing what needs to be done on a week in, week out basis. Like any job, football can be monatonous, so the challenge as a leader is to be able to help their team members understand and be inspired to change or maintain their behavour in order for them to become a more successful team. Consistency and quality require a fair degree of repetition no matter what the profession. Being able to learn new perspectives and new insights from great story tellers, supports not only successful teams, but role models to a future generation of coaches.
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MALDEF Victory: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds the Protection of All Persons in Redistricting
Court affirms that everyone deserves political representation, regardless of race, age, disability or citizenship status
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against several residents of Irving, Texas who sought to compel the City of Irving to adopt voting maps for city council districts that ignored thousands of city residents. The residents sued the city and sought a court order requiring the city to apportion its council districts based only on residents who are over the age of 18 and U.S. citizens instead of total population. The federal district court ruled against the challengers in February 2011. MALDEF represents several Latino residents of Irving, Texas who intervened in the case to help defend the city's redistricting plan. The changes in redistricting sought by the challengers would have overturned well-established redistricting law and also would have severely reduced representation of Latinos in Irving by packing them into overcrowded districts and burdening representatives elected to represent Latino neighborhoods.
The court held that the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause allows voting districts to be based on total population, as opposed to citizen voting age population. In yesterday's decision, the Fifth Circuit chided the challengers, reminding them that this exact issue had been decided by the Fifth Circuit over ten years ago.
Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF President and General Counsel, stated, "The Fifth Circuit has reaffirmed the basic principle, secured by the Constitution since the end of the Civil War, that every person is a constituent deserving of representation without regard to voting status, age, or other characteristic. It is shocking that in the twenty-first century, there are still those who would argue that our law should treat some persons as less than full human beings who count as fractions or not at all. The court's decision firmly rejects such retrograde assertions."
Nina Perales, MALDEF Vice President of Litigation and lead counsel for the Latino intervenors in the case, added, "The Fifth Circuit's decision should put an end to frivolous litigation that seeks to destabilize democracy and strip political representation from whole classes of people, including children and others not yet eligible to vote."
The court's opinion can be found online here
Founded in 1968, MALDEF is the nation's leading Latino legal civil rights organization. Often described as the "law firm of the Latino community," MALDEF promotes social change through advocacy, communications, community education and litigation in the areas of education, employment, immigrant rights and political access. For more information on MALDEF, please visit: www.maldef.org.
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NCAA, Ohio State complete investigation into remaining open items
The Ohio State University today announced that the institution and the NCAA enforcement staff have completed their joint investigation into the remaining matters not part of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions hearing Aug. 12. As a result, the university has received a supplemental Notice of Allegations from the NCAA and has submitted its response. The filing of this response completes the university's submissions to the committee. The university is hopeful that the Committee on Infractions will review these materials and render its final decision in the near future.
The recent notice from the NCAA had two allegations. The first was related to the "extra benefits" violations discovered through a joint investigation with the NCAA and publicly announced by the university Sept. 1 and Oct. 3 involving Robert DiGeronimo, who at the time was a representative of the institution's athletics interests (also known as a "booster"). In February 2011, he arranged for cash payments of $200 each to four current or former student-athletes at an annual charity event for a nonprofit organization of which DiGeronimo was a board member. Additionally, the student-athletes attended the event without written approval from the athletics director or his designee. Further, DiGeronimo arranged for five student-athletes to be overcompensated by a total of $1,605 while they were employed by businesses owned and operated by the DiGeronimo family.
The second allegation asserts that the institution took insufficient action to monitor DiGeronimo, resulting in a "failure to monitor" allegation, primarily due to DiGeronimo's overpayment to student-athlete employees and cash payments at the Cornerstone of Hope charitable event. This allegation only concerns a booster and does not relate to any of the issues discussed at the Aug. 12 Committee on Infractions hearing.
"Over the past three months, our athletics department staff has continued to work cooperatively with the NCAA to conclude our inquiry into the remaining items related to our football program," said athletics director Gene Smith. "Throughout the entire process since we discovered possible infractions, the athletics department has consistently worked with the NCAA to investigate any allegation, take responsibility, self-report its findings to the NCAA in a transparent manner, and take necessary remediation steps. That is what we have done on this last open issue, and we accept that we should have done more to oversee Mr. DiGeronimo's activities.
"We look forward to working with the staff and the Committee on Infractions to reach a timely resolution of the case. On a personal note, I deeply regret that I did not ensure the degree of monitoring our institution deserves and demands," Smith said.
As a result of the additional allegations, the university will self-impose a reduction of five scholarships over a three-year period beginning next year. Also, the university disassociated DiGeronimo Sept. 20 and is taking further steps to enhance its education and monitoring programs. This action is in addition to the self-imposed sanctions previously identified to the Committee on Infractions Aug. 12. Those include vacating the 2010 season (including the Sugar Bowl), vacating the 2010 Big Ten football championship, imposing a two-year probation period, seeking and accepting the resignation of then head football coach Jim Tressel, and forfeiting the university's share of the Big Ten's payment for having played in the 2011 Sugar Bowl.
Documents related to Ohio State's NCAA investigation can be found at http://www.osu.edu/news/ncaadocs/


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No windows, tiles all around, a large sink, lots of storage space and a door that can be locked from the inside make the small room situated to the right of the entrance to WhateverLab the perfect place for our Fotolab/Chemielab (and thanks to Bina & her mad restoration skillz, it is actually useable again as of 01/11!).
- 2011-11-20
- next fotolab-meetup
- 2011-05-23
- There's now a Fotolab mailing list as well as a Fotolab soup, yippieh!
Darkroom equipment
- Kaiser VCP 3500 enlarger for 35mm film (with filters)
- Durst enlarger for 35mm and medium format film
- Developing tanks:
- 1x large (fitting either 2x 35mm or 1x 120 film)
- 1x small
- Film reels:
- 3x adjustable (for 35mm & medium format film)
- 1x for 35mm film only
- 1x Jobo Duo-Set Reel #2502 (does not fit standard-sized tanks!)
- graduated cylinders for measuring chemicals
- funnels
- developing trays
- film clips
- darkroom lights
- print tongs
- storage bottles
- Polaroid timer
- a small box of plastic frames for 6x6 transparencies
- Kaiser slide cutter
- paper cutter
- Focus finder (use by placing it in the light's center and look for grain)
- film squeegee
- thermometer
- The gummi squeegee (Abziehrakel) from silkprinting is good enough to dry wet paper.
- clothes line where wet film & prints can be hung to dry
Chemicals & photo paper, consumables
We have chemicals and paper in the lab, but look carefully for ownership labelz.
Free for use is the huge pile of folia that TomK32 brought in to archive your precious 35mm and medium film.
Development times
If you have developed film at the fotolab please take a minute to enter your times ect. into our development times table
Cameras & accessories
- 3 Lomo cameras:
- Colorsplash
- Fisheye No. 2 -- currently borrowed by Emi
- Actionsampler Flash
- 1 small, black camera (possibly pinhole?), origin unknown
- Lomo Colorsplash Flash Chakra Edition
- Metz Mecablitz 20 BC-6 flash -- currently borrowed by Mihi
- a bunch of pinhole cameras made out of black film canisters for 5 Jahre Metalab
- more/new photo paper in various sizes
- loupe
- press for working with baryta
- chemicals for colour film & photo development
- chemicals for print toning (-> selenium toning, sepia toning,.. bleach)
- chemicals and sunshine for Cyanotype [de]
- equipment for rotating agitation
How-To's & Tutorials
SW-Entwicklung How-To (German)
Please refer to the Workshops subpage.
Please refer to the Links subpage.
Photography shops in Vienna
- 1160 Wien: Fotofachversand (online-only orders also possible)
- 1070 Wien: Knips
- 1070 Wien: United Camera
- 1070 Wien: Blende7
- 1070 Wien: Impossible Project Space (instant film products only)
Old News
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There could be two winners. If the first correct answer isn't from an undergraduate student then I'll select a second winner from those undergraduates who post the correct answer. You will need to identify yourself as an undergraduate in order to win. (Put "undergraduate" at the bottom of your comment.)
Some past winners are from distant lands so their chances of taking up my offer of a free lunch are slim. (That's why I can afford to do this!)
In order to win you must post your correct name. Anonymous and pseudoanonymous commenters can't win the free lunch.
Winners will have to contact me by email to arrange a lunch date.
UPDATE: The molecule is heme a, a component of cytochrome a and cytochrome a3. The cytochromes are cofactors in oxidation-reduction reactions where the heme group serves as an electron donor or acceptor. Today's winner is Raul A. Félix de Sousa. Several anonymous/pseudoanonymous respondants were also correct.
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Three Seasons
|Tony Bui
|October Films; PG-13; 110 minutes
|Don Duong, Nguyen Ngoc Hiep, Tran Manh Cuong, Harvey Keitel
Vietnam, in the Western popular imagination, has been endlessly re-imagined by the destructive tragedy of its war. Violent portrayals of U.S. and Vietnamese troops mired in struggle dominate Vietnam's identity in Western cinema. With this history in mind, along comes Vietnamese-American director Tony Bui, whose project clearly consists of articulating a new nation via film.
Three Seasons is a beautifully visual essay on the Vietnam of today, focusing on rain-hazed landscapes, lotus flowers, and the discretely interrelated stories of several characters. After the war's cinematic fallout, Bui's work comes as a much-needed essay on regrowth and regeneration. The title refers to Vietnam's annual triptych of dry season, wet season, and growth season (although a smartly non-linear narrative shuffles up any naturalistic order). Three sentimental episodes serve as symbolic starting-points rather than character studies: a flower picker loses her job to vendors of plastic blossoms, and she transcribes the poems of a dying leper who was once a beautiful man; a streetwise youth must relocate his box of cheap trinkets lost while talking to an ex-Marine (Harvey Keitel) searching for his daughter; a bicycle-cab driver romances a noble yet emotionally wounded prostitute. Three Seasons points a new direction for American films set in Vietnam by replacing scenes of wartime ravages with compellingly contemporary visual lyricism.


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NOTE: All tests were conducted by Tony Bourke. OSNews had no participation in the tests or its procedure.
However, Sun has since changed its tune by releasing Solaris 9 x86. They are now pushing Solaris for the x86 platform, in an attempt to regain market in the low and mid-level server market, as the Intel/AMD systems have been decimating SPARC sales. While this move might signal capitulation, or at least compromise, on the x86 question, they are now engaging in a full-fledged battle with Linux.
Sun's new story is that Solaris x86 is a better, safer, and more stable alternative to Linux. Sun has even gone so far as to offer a a couple of top-of-the-line Intel-based x86 systems in single and dual processor configurations. The systems currently include at no extra cost licensed Solaris 9 x86 pre-installed (no-cost up until January 4, 2004), with an option to purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux for an additional cost.
Here is a quote from Sun executive VP Jonathon Schwartz in an eWeek article which sums up Sun's position with regards to Linux and Solaris (full article at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1274623,00.asp):
"Also, let me really clear about our Linux strategy. We don't have one. We don't at all. We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. If you want to buy it, we will sell it to you, but we believe that Solaris is a better alternative, that is safer, more robust, higher quality and dramatically less expensive in purchase price."
With this new push for Solaris x86 I decided to take a fresh look with Sun's latest, Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition and pit it against Red Hat Linux 9 in a number of categories, including features, security, and performance.
To start off, perhaps I should give a little background on myself. I've been an avid Linux and Solaris user (on x86 and SPARC, respectively) for about 8 years now. I've used Linux since the 1.2.13 kernel (Slackware, back in the day), and Solaris since 2.4. I've used them both extensively in my personal and professional work, and I enjoy both of them for their various strengths. I don't consider myself biased toward one or the other, as both have been very good to me over the years.
While I've dabbled with Linux on Alpha and SPARC, I've primarily used it on the x86 platform. For Solaris, I've almost exclusively used it on the SPARC platform, with the exception of a brief stint with Solaris 2.6 x86 several years ago. I own several x86 systems and one Sun Ultra 5, a SPARC-based workstation.
Version Note: For those of you not familiar with Solaris, this may help with some versioning confusing (i.e. Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7).
After Solaris 2.6, Sun decided to change how it named each Solaris version. The next version was Solaris 2.7, but Sun called it simply "Solaris 7". Solaris 8 is actually 2.8, and Solaris 9 is 2.9. They are sometimes still referred to by the old nomenclature (i.e. 2.7), especially when dealing with porting and software versioning.
A bit confused? I've still got more! Solaris versions are also sometimes referred to as SunOS, and different numbering schemes apply there as well.. SunOS was the original operating system released by Sun in 1981 and is based on BSD, where Solaris is based on SVR4 Unix (System V). The last version of SunOS was 4.1.4, which would make Solaris 2.0 (Solaris started at 2.0) SunOS 5.0. So Solaris 9 is also known as Solaris 2.9 and also known as SunOS 5.9.
To evaluate these two venerable operating systems, I used a VA Linux box I procured on eBay a year or so ago.
Processor (2) Intel Pentium IIIs at 600 MHz, 256 KB cache
Motherboard Intel L440GX+
DISK (1) 9 GB Maxtor SCSI LVD
SCSI Controller Adaptec AIC-7896 Dual Channel
Video Cirrus Logic GD 5480 2 MB RAM
It's not the most powerful box around, but it's dual processor, plenty fast, and given the cost cutting nature of the industry, it's still a very common system in terms of both power and configuration.
Red Hat Linux 9
I ran a standard install of Red Hat 9. Before testing, I applied the updates available from Red Hat's site, which among others packages, updated glibc and the kernel, bringing the system to 2.4.20-20.9smp and glibc 2.3.2-27.9.
Linux mentat 2.4.20-20.9smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 11:32:15 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Solaris 9
I used a standard install of Solaris 9 x86 edition. Before testing, I installed the 9_x86_Recommended public patch cluster obtained from Sun's download page. Here is the uname -a from the system:
SunOS mentat 5.9 Generic_112234-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
I did no specific tweaking of either operating system, and except for patches, they are both running as stock installations with off the shelf-style configuration.
A Note On My Choice Of Linux Distribution
If this article gets published with a comments section, it will invariably be filled with comments such as "you fool, you should have used Slackware/SuSE/Mandrake" and "your choice in Linux distributions shows your obvious inclination towards the drowning of cute kittens". So I'm going to quickly address my choice for Linux distributions.
I chose Red Hat 9 for the simple fact that it is a very popular distribution, and is ubiquitous in terms of corporate and personal deployment. Of course it is not the end-all be-all of Linux distributions, but it's both popular and effective, which makes it appropriate as an evaluation platform.
Besides, most of what I evaluate has more to do with Linux itself, and not the distribution. The only significant effect Red Hat has on this evaluation is the specific version of the kernel (2.4.20-20.9) and the use of RPMs (which some other Linux distributions use as well).
I'm sure that despite this little interlude, I'll still receive those flame-trolling comments. To that I say, If you have a problem with my choice in distribution, then feel free to run your own evaluation. Also, your momma is ugly. Seriously. UG-LY.
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Gingrich: Supporters want him to stay in GOP race
NEWARK, Del. – Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that it's still possible for him to win the GOP presidential nomination.
"It's not over and he has not won it yet," Gingrich said, speaking of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who moved closer to claiming the nomination a day earlier after his chief rival, Rick Santorum, dropped out of the race.
"It's very clear that Romney does not, today, have the majority of the delegates," Gingrich said.
Gingrich is correct that Romney does not yet have the 1,144 delegates it takes to win the nomination at the Republican National Convention, but Romney is well on his way with more than half the total.
Gingrich, meanwhile, significantly trails Romney and would need to win 94 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination before the August convention, according to an Associated Press analysis of the delegate count. That's an impossible task because most state use proportional systems to award delegates.
The former House speaker has not won delegates since March 13. But he said Wednesday that he will do better in upcoming contests now that Santorum is no longer running.
Gingrich vowed to campaign until the convention in Tampa, Fla., saying he wants to help the GOP reflect a "21st century conservatism."
At a campaign event scheduled between Jazzercize and bingo at a Newark, Del., senior center, Gingrich said he was taking voters' encouragement and donations as a sign of continued support for his campaign.
He said about 3,500 people had contributed money through his website since Tuesday afternoon. He did not say how much was raised.


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Which works better to improve public health: Ordering something to be done, or gently twisting someone's elbow about it?
Former President Bill Clinton says the latter is the best path, and he cites his successful effort to reduce soft drinks in schools as a prime example.
Clinton spoke at a medical conference in Dana Point on Monday and urged doctors and device-makers to work together to save more lives. "Networks that create cooperation will dominate the 21st century, for good or ill," he said.
But some health advocates say such partnerships with corporations have resulted in policies that don't go far enough to protect the public. And even though hardball tactics, like proposed taxes on soda, have been beaten back by the industry every time, critics lament the softball approach favored by Clinton – and the administration of President Barack Obama.
Clinton made the fight against childhood obesity one of his signature causes after he left office in January 2001. A few years later, the William J. Clinton Foundation partnered with the American Heart Association to try to persuade soda companies to voluntarily remove many of their products from school vending machines and cafeterias.
"I got all these activists together," Clinton said at Monday's conference, "and I said, 'You know, isn't it true that half these kids who are overweight get 50 to 60 percent of their calories a day just from the drinks they consume in schools?' They said yeah. I said, 'I think we can make a deal with the soft drink industry to stop that. Take the full-sugar drinks, and even the fruit-juice drinks in their larger portions, and do other things.' And they looked at me like I had become old, senile, was on the verge of dementia and needed to be locked away as soon as possible.
"Before you know it, we had Coke, PepsiCo, Cadbury Schweppes, the big providers of drinks. They agreed that they would work together to do this. And it took them four years, but there has been a 90 percent reduction in the total caloric content of drinks served to kids in schools through vending machines and cafeterias, because they agreed."
Clinton said he appealed to both their moral and business sensibilities by telling them that kids with type 2 diabetes, one of the most troubling aspects of the childhood-obesity surge, probably wouldn't make good customers as adults.
"I made a simple argument: I said, 'I don't think you're trying to kill these kids, are you?' I'm not like all these people that are calling you names. I don't think you ever intended this; it's just happened. I said, 'I'm well aware that a lot of PTAs in schools make all the money they make to operate every year from the payments you make off the vending machines to them. And I don't think you were deliberately setting out to hurt these kids.' I said, 'Neither do I think you want them to be 35 sitting in a wheelchair with an amputated leg instead of being healthy, income-earning people who can buy your soft drinks.'"
Deal struck, lawsuit averted
What Clinton and his allies didn't know at the time was that the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest had been threatening to sue the soda-makers if they didn't do what Clinton was urging – get most sodas out of schools.
CSPI also wanted sports drinks to be pulled. In the fall of 2005, the group sent the big soda companies a warning letter.
"It got to the point where we felt we were being jerked around and wanted an answer in two weeks," CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson says. "And lo and behold, they came out with an announcement with former President Clinton," in May 2006.
"I think Clinton feels he's responsible for the action. We feel our threat of litigation really pushed them toward an agreement," Jacobson said. "If you were in the industry's shoes, would you rather appear at a press conference with Bill Clinton or someone from the Center for Science in the Public Interest? They avoided a lawsuit and came out smelling like roses."
Jacobson says the deal struck turned out "quite good," but more federal regulations are needed, on items like sports drinks that aren't part of federally subsidized school breakfasts and lunches.
Obama's mixed results
The Obama administration also tried working with the private sector instead of trying to force it into action. First lady Michelle Obama has worked with food companies, some of which announced plans in recent years to reformulate many of their products to reduce sugar and sodium levels. But critics accused officials in the administration of standing idly by in 2011 when Congress, in response to intense lobbying by the food industry, blocked some federal guidelines intended to make school lunches healthier.
"They went wobbly in the knees," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, told Reuters.
Other experts said the soda companies weren't making that much money from schools anyway, and so the industry wasn't giving up much by pulling sodas. The agreement with Clinton's group allowed companies to keep juice drinks and sports drinks in vending machines, as well as diet sodas for high schoolers; a 16-ounce Snapple has 54 grams of sugar, compared with 40.5 grams in a 12-ounce can of Pepsi.
California banned sodas from public schools in 2009.
Clinton, in his address to health professionals Monday, seemed to acknowledge the limits of the soft approach, but said it was worth it to keep trying.
"I tried the same thing with the snack providers, and we only got about a 30 percent reduction there. But that's something."
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Tag Archives: Lana Del Rey SNL Performance
In Defense of Lana Del Rey
By: Ali Fornash
After her pretty awful performance on Saturday Night Live this winter, recording artist Lana Del Rey has been under some pretty intense scrutiny. As one of the biggest LDR fans around ( may or may not believe her and I are soul mates). I will admit that performance was a huge flop. She seemed odd, awkward, distant and just "off" (although she was killin' it in the white lace dress). However, she is certainly not the first artist to choke on SNL and Lana openly admitted it was a pretty bad performance. The reasons LDR haters are giving for disliking her are kind of ridiculous:
- The production of her album was paid for by her dad. Okay, so what?! My dad helped me pay for my college degree that led to my career, does that make me any less good at my job? So she is maybe a little privileged, maybe even a spoiled brat. Who is Hollywood isn't? Since when is that a sin?
- Her lips are fake. And? At the risk of sounding redundant, SO WHAT?! So are Megan Fox's, Kim Kardashion's, Jennifer Gardner's and Nicole Kidman's. Just to name a few…
- Her name is fake. Ohhhhh Okay, I am 100% sure that Lady Gaga's real name is actually Stefani Germanotta and Katy Perry's real name is Katheryn Hudson. LDR's real name is "Lizzie Grant". Please forgive her for not wanting to a record under a name that sounds like she is the captain of a middle school soccer team.
Okay, Okay- I know that the "Lizzie Grant" thing runs deeper for skeptics. Lana first tried to make it as a singer about three years ago under her real name, Lizzie Grant, and was unsuccessful. But after some more writing, growing up a little and searching deep within herself she released "Born To Die" this January and it is pure genius, in my opinion. I relate to Lana on every level. Here are the reasons why you should overlook her privilege, fake lips and fake name and surrender to the mystery that is Lana Del Rey:
- Lana stands for something that is so rare in the music industry. She can't be put in a box. Is she Rock? Is she pop? Is she Indie? She doesn't put on a big show with costumes, back up dancers and lights. But she doesn't sit on a stool and strum along on her guitar while signing upbeat lyrics. She is not Beyonce, but she is not Taylor Swift either. She represents something women and our culture aren't "allowed" to be. She is sexy, but no too sexy. She is pure, but not too pure. She is a good girl with a bad streak. She is the girl you want to take home to meet your parents, but you know she is going to be a little wild later that night when you are alone, if you know what I mean… She is "the badest of the good girls." Lana considers herself to be a "secret weirdo", which makes her not only talented but interesting.
- She writes all of her own music. She actually got her start when she was in college when won a music writing competition. Her music is full of hidden meanings and double entendres. It's Brilliant! Her songs are catchy on the surface, but if you are intelligent enough to really dive in and analyze it, you find it is more than it appears to be. Is "Born to Die" about a relationship set up to fail or about the complexity that is the meaning of life- forcing you to ask yourself, "What is the meaning of all this?" Is "Dark Paradise" about a boyfriend that dies or is it really about the hell that a person goes through when suffering from an eating disorder or addiction? Is "National Anthem" about a wanting to be with someone who is head over heels in love with her or about sleeping with a wealthy man for money?
- Her sound is unique. LDR has the darkness of Amy Winehouse, the haunting sound of Dolores O'Riordan (lead singer of the Cranberries), and the power of Adele. That is a pretty awesome mix, no? She is old world while somehow sounding so fresh and contemporary. I am not sure how she does it. It's not just her music or her lyrics either her style is a modern twist on the 60's. She calls herself a "Gansta Nancy Sinatra".
"I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel." – Nancy Sinatra
Maybe she and Nancy Sinatra are much more alike than Lana Del Rey even realizes…..


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Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita Reports on Statewide Voter File and Process for Verifying Voter Registrations
Contact: Jim Gavin
Indianapolis, IN (October 9, 2008) – Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita issued the following statement today regarding the use of Social Security Numbers as an appropriate and viable way to verify voter registration forms in Indiana:
"Giving Indiana voters and taxpayers the chance to participate in the fairest and most accurate election possible is my number one priority as chief election officer. I'm being made aware of instances of voter registration fraud by ACORN and others, from all corners of the state and across the country. I take these very seriously.
Using all available appropriate technology is our best way to combat voter fraud that we know exists in this state and across the country. This is not the time to start foregoing or circumventing the process we have had in place for years that ensures accuracy in our election. We built a statewide voter registration system well within the perimeters of state and federal law.
In Indiana, the implementation of the Help America Vote Act involves the verification of new and updated voter registrations through a number of methods to ensure voters are who they say they are and that they are eligible to vote. These include verification through the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Health and the Department of Correction.
Simply put, we have a lot of people in Indiana who have wanted to participate in this year's election and primary. We've had over 740,000 new and updated voter registrations already approved, and I welcome each one of these voters, and we have a lot of work to do still to process the remaining registrations so valid, eligible voters can vote. The number of inquiries to the Social Security Administration database is not out of line with the number of registrations."
Secretary Rokita made his comments while on a 45+ county tour of Indiana in advance of the election where he is personally assessing and assuring a fair and accurate election process for Hoosiers. Today he met with the Carroll County Clerk and held an election readiness forum for election officials and poll workers in Lebanon.
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1. cache - noun
· a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
Hypernym(s): storage_space
2. cache - noun
· a secret store of valuables or money
Hypernym(s): store, stock, fund
3. cache - noun
· (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
Synonym(s): memory_cache
Hypernym(s): buffer, buffer_storage, buffer_store
4. cache - verb
· save up as for future use
Synonym(s): hoard, stash, lay_away, hive_up, squirrel_away
Hypernym(s): save, lay_aside, save_up
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Last month, we featured an article that analyzed the intertwined worlds of home theater and gaming, and since its publication, the two have only become more buddy-buddy. In fact, news recently came along that electronics manufacturer Velocity Micro – anxious to contribute to all of this togetherness – has released its Raptor MultiPlex hybrid HT/gaming system.
Aside from sporting a truly awesome appellation, the hybrid home theater and gaming system serves as a media streaming box, DVR, Blu-ray player, and gaming PC. Wow, that's a mouthful. If only it could cook your breakfast.
According to Randy Copeland, President and CEO of Velocity Micro. the company has always been focused on "… powerful enthusiast desktops and stunning home theater PCs." Given that fact, a convergence of the two seems a logical choice.
Digging down to the details, the aluminum-encased Raptor MultiPlex is available with an Asus P8Z77-V Pro Motherboard with Thunderbolt, Intel Core i5 and Core i7 Ivybridge processors, an NVIDIA GTX 600 series graphics card, solid state boot drives, three 2TB hard drives in RAID5 configuration, and TV tuners capable of recording up to four programs simultaneously. It certainly doesn't look like Velocity Micro skimped on the hardware.
If you're a big PC gamer and a home theater enthusiast, this seems like a pretty unique opportunity to conveniently merge your respective passions. Considering all you'll be getting, the $1850 starting price point doesn't even seem too daunting.
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by Terry Duffy
Recreational funding occupied portions of what was otherwise a low-key Town of Porter Board meeting, earlier this month at Town Hall. While certainly not on the level in the Town of Lewiston, which this week saw its referendum proposal for a multi-million recreation center go down to defeat, the funding discussions did create some waves.
One involved a routine request by Town Supervisor Mert Wiepert for the board to approve and have him sign a $750 contract with Town of Wilson Youth Baseball. Town residents represent roughly 34 percent of the participants in Wilson Youth Baseball, and the $750 would reflect the town's share of the operations cost. Approval appeared to be a given until Town Councilman Joe Fleckenstein spoke up.
"How much does Wilson fund the town rec department?" asked Fleckenstein, noting that a significant number of participants in the town's summer recreation program participants are from the Town of Wilson. When the answer came back, "Zero," Fleckenstein shot back, "We shouldn't be sending them anything. It should be a wash. It's not right. We accept their kids for nothing.
"Send some money to us, and we'll help them."
Town Recreation Director Kathy Zasucha commented that it would cost the town five times the amount Wilson was requesting if Porter operated its own youth baseball program. She also noted that Wilson baseball has done a variety of in-kind services, notably improvements to the baseball field at W.H. Stevenson Elementary School in Ransomville.
"And who owns that?" Fleckenstein asked. "The Wilson School District. I'd like to know their response."
Fleckenstein suggested the two towns get together to discuss the funding issue; board members concurred and tabled the request for the time being.
In other recreation-funding news, a request came from Highway Superintendent Scott Hillman for a new tractor at Porter on the Lake Park to handle mowing. Hillman offered two proposals from the vendor, Bentley Brothers in Albion, ranging from purchasing a new $30,000 tractor with $9,000 in trade-in allowances provided for the town's older equipment, lowering the cost to $21,585, to leasing a new tractor at a cost of $8,000 per year to the town, with an option to purchase after two years.
The purchase idea didn't go over well with town bookkeeper Norm Ault. On a question regarding budgeted funding for equipment from Fleckenstein, who noted a $30,000 available equipment balance for POTL, Ault replied, "The town has $42,000 in the Porter on the Lake accounts, to cover everything." He indicated the POTL funding for all park needs has been accumulating over the past two years, a total of $30,000 is available for equipment and when that is exhausted any future needs would need to come from park's fund balance account. He didn't appear enthused on the prospect of spending the budgeted equipment money on a single lawn tractor purchase, telling the board, "If the town spends this, its budget for Porter on the Lake would be exhausted."
Board members suggested the lease option would be best for the town's needs. That would see the town leasing the vehicle with a buyout option of $23,758 after two years versus an outright purchase of $21,585, which would put a significant dent in the POTL account, said Ault.
"Then we need to determine the best approach," said Fleckenstein of the lease option, a move that also won the support of Wiepert and Deputy Supervisor Tom Baia. Board members went on to approve the lease option soon after.
In still more recreation news, Zasucha informed the board that 385 children have registered for the town's summer rec programs. "We're averaging 208 kids per day in the programs," said Zasucha, adding the numbers are higher than anticipated and their largest number are middle school-age students. The summer rec program continues till mid-August.
Wrapping up:
•The board briefly reviewed preliminary specs with town engineer Dave Brittain for a new water tank under consideration for the existing tank site on Balmer Road. Brittain presented options for models and quotes for a new tank, which would have a capacity of 650,000 gallons. Prices ranged from $1.68 million for a Waterspheriod type tank (its shape likened to a golf ball mounted on tee); to $1.83 million for a composite tank (a traditional welded steel tank on a concrete platform) - with $200,000 budgeted for contingency issues. Britain said the cost of restoring the existing tank would be $850,000.
Board members took no action that evening and were expected to discuss the matter further with Brittain en route to next month's meeting.
•The board approved the bid of $54,200 plus contingency costs to Tuscarora Roofing for replacement of the Town Hall roof.
•The town forwarded a request to State Assemblywoman Jane Corwin and State Sen. George Maziarz, for the state to re-examine the gross gate receipts assessments for CWM Chemical Services. The request to increase the 6 percent gate receipts assessment, one which has been in place for roughly 40 years, was put forth by the town with CWM's application to the state Department of Environment Conservation for expansion of its Balmer Road facility now pending and a decision expected over the coming year or less.


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I did a search and couldn't find a topic like this, most were tied to a specific anime or drama. I decided to place it in general because it covers different types of media-but feel free to move it if there's a better place for it. Also, thought I did a search, feel free to lock if it's a duplicate and I simply overlooked it in the search,
Anyway, I don't often follow pairings, but I know others do in and out of the anime/drama fandoms and I'd love to hear them! Again, this goes for any medium-anime, TV shows, books, manga, anything you can think of! Can by cannon, non-cannon, yaoi, yuri, crack-whatever.
I'd like to know what your favorite parings are and WHY you like them together. It can be as simple as 'they look cute' or a more complex explanation about chemistry and whatnot. Pictures are not needed but recommended!
I'll start. I have only three pairings I truly follow/support:
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1. My OTP:, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, from well...Macbeth. (Image from the 1976 Polanski version-though I imagine them differently.)
I'm not exactly sure what brought this on. I simply liked the play and when you read into it, you can see that they really love each other and have for years. (This may also have something to do with my book.)
2. LuckShipping (Pike Queen Lucy and Brock) from Pokémon.
They are too cute for words! Lucy is one of the few girls who actually liked Brock back and for some reason, I can eaisly see them together. I think they would make a cute pair and have since I first saw the episode.
3. Nick Slade and Niamh Cranitch from BBC's Silk
Is it just me or are they ADORABLE together? (It helps that Niamh is played by my girl, Natalie Dormer (Who, BTW, is sexy in a buisness suit)) They just look so right for each other, and I can see them together. They're both in the same position at chambers (they're barristers) and the competition only seems to add to the heat. And, I know he likes her. He kissed her in episode 3, and though no explanation was given, I can create my own. (It was that kiss that struck up the support for this pairing.)
"I love all history because it's storytelling."-Natalie Dormer
Lisa Ann and Lex Steele
on other the note: As a troll....FAG BITCH
on the other OTHER note: @kenbustos
Lol Parining?
I used to favor Nick and Rochelle from Left 4 Dead 2 for a short while, but that grew very boring quickly to me since I'm about gaming, not pairing up fake characters.
I have none.
"I love all history because it's storytelling."-Natalie Dormer
Just pm any of the forum mods and ask to have it changed for you.
Batman and Joker.
Agent K and agent J.
I shall GB...Sorry not enough of it apparently. My word will be made better....
My mother x my father.
Kawaii desu.
*****Completely inactive, no other accounts*****
I'm a controlling bitch.
Honestly, I root for Brock every time he gets in a relationship. With anybody. He's the Dick Dastardly of relationships, the Trix Rabbit of courtship, this guy cannot catch a break.
Me and Myself. Classic.
me/my bed
ERZA SCARLET and JELLAL FERNANDES
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Donny and Marie...just kidding.


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On Jan. 14, Diakaridia Doumbia locked his door, climbed to the second floor and peered down from his mud-brick home at a swarm of cocaine-drugged Islamist rebels who'd captured the town of Diabaly earlier that day.
The towering retired soldier, now graying, placed a call to a friend in the Malian military.
"They are outside my house. They look like they are packing their cars to keep driving," he reported. Soon after, French jets swooped down and struck, obliterating several of the cars and incinerating their inhabitants.
Later, Doumbia received a call. This time, the man on the other line wasn't Malian.
"It was the French commander. He called often, and we talked. I told him where the rebels were and what they were doing," said Doumbia, who served in the Malian military from 1974 until 2007.
The French beat back the sudden Islamist advance south into Diabaly with heavy air power, but it turns out they had some help: Doumbia and a spontaneous network of residents who responded to the capture of their farming community by risking their lives to channel intelligence out of the town.
"Everyone was calling," said the mayor, Oumar Diakite, who was out of town when Diabaly was attacked and then was summoned by the governor. Diakite compiled the reports in real time – working next to detailed computer grids of the area that had been saved from U.S. development projects in the area's complex canal system – and reported the coordinates to the military, which relayed them to the French command.
The townspeople's response will pose a serious problem for the rebels if it's replicated elsewhere. Fighting an insurgency against a more powerful force is hard, but it's even harder without local complicity.
Part of the town's disgust stemmed from the intruders' behavior, and one trait in particular: Many of the outsiders, some of whom belonged to the regional al Qaida group and quickly banned cigarettes in the town, apparently were druggies.
Doumbia and one other Diabaly resident reported watching the rebels regularly taking cocaine. A third resident reported seeing emptied, white-coated bags lying around and said everyone knew what was inside them.
"We saw them sniffing it, smoking it. Some were injecting it," Doumbia said.
A bag of white powder was flung outside the gate of a friend's house after one bombing raid, the contents equal to half a kilogram of sugar. Doumbia sent a child to fetch it and confirm its contents, he said, but it was already gone.
Experts say the Sahara desert in West Africa, with its loose borders and weak governments, is rapidly becoming one of the prime cocaine-trafficking routes in the world. Its lucrative windfall is thought to help finance the Islamist rebels, and a legion of fighters dependent on the drug might make finally squelching the insurgency even more difficult.
A U.S. official said the cocaine trade was definitely a driver of the conflict but that the inflow of foreign fighters and imposition of Shariah law suggested that ideology was the primary motivation for the insurgency.
"My view is that the drug thing is a factor, but it's not the root cause of their actions," said the official, who was cleared to speak only on the condition of anonymity.
The communication lines the townspeople of Diabaly opened after their occupation worked both ways. On the first night the rebels were in town, the mayor – prompted by the French – spread the word that airstrikes were coming and told the population to gather in a far area of town.
The rebels soon figured out what was happening. From then on, when they saw civilians moving en masse, they began following and mingling among them. Then they cut the mobile-phone network lines and sent patrols to do the same in two surrounding villages.
Still, some spots got faint reception. Alou Zerbo, 43, found such a location outside town, where he called an official. Ten minutes later, a French officer called back.
"Are the rebels still there? What is their position?" he was asked across the phone. He described how the rebels were hiding in civilian homes and advised that it therefore would be hard to hit them without hitting civilians.
"He replied, 'OK, we are going to find a way,' " Zerbo recounted.
No civilians were killed during the air raids, which were at times so precise that charred truck shells sat just feet away from undamaged houses.
The rebels made it clear that government collaborators were considered infidels and would be killed. The rebels had set up checkpoints to try to keep civilians from leaving, but Zerbo and others began smuggling out residents with information on motorcycles through back roads.
But the information was no longer as fresh or regular. The bombings slowed.
Then Doumbia acted. "I realized that I should not just sit with my arms crossed and do nothing," he said.
Sneaking out of town on a motorcycle, he returned later that evening, Jan. 16, with a satellite phone. From his house, he maintained regular contact with France's command post in Markala, nearly 90 miles south.
That night and the following morning, the bombing was more intense.
The rebels then began bickering among themselves. Shots were fired in the air, angrily. That evening, their trucks began speeding north, lights off, into the night.
Diakite, the mayor, said Doumbia's satellite phone reports were key for the air operation.
The rebels had numbered roughly 250 to 300, and they came with nearly 60 vehicles. According to Diakite, 33 of those vehicles were destroyed: nine in Diabaly and the rest as they sped from the town that had refused to welcome them.
Through his window, Doumbia said, he'd heard a rebel speaking on a satellite phone before the final bombardment. "We've lost many men, 47," he thought he heard the rebel say in the language of the ethnic Tuareg, which Doumbia understands.
"They tried to be nice to be people. They said they are just here to preach Islam," Zerbo said.
"We told them we are Muslims already, so if it is just about Islam, please leave and let us be," he said.


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Iodine is an essential element for synthesising thyroid hormones. A team of researchers from the Childhood and Environment Project (INMA) has studied the consequences of pregnant women consuming it in their diet and in supplements. The results suggest the need to evaluate their iodine nutritional status before systematically recommending taking it during pregnancy.
"Good iodine nutritional status at the start of and during pregnancy is essential for maintaining proper thyroid function in the mother and encouraging healthy brain development in the foetus and psycho-motor development in the child", Marisa Rebagliato, lead author of the study and a researcher at the INMA Project, a research network of Spanish groups studying the effects of environmental contaminants during pregnancy and the start of life, tells SINC.
"When women begin pregnancy with sufficient levels of iodine through having previously taken iodine in their diet and iodised salt, the iodine reserves in their thyroid glands are sufficient to ensure proper synthesis of thyroid hormones, and pharmacological supplements are not recommended", says the scientist.
The research, published recently in the journal Epidemiology, evaluated the consumption of iodine in foodstuffs, iodised salt and vitamin supplements, as well as ioduria (iodine content in urine) of 1,844 pregnant women in the Spanish provinces of Guipúzcoa, Valencia, and the city of Sabadell, between 2004 and 2008. The objective was to study the relationship between their iodine nutritional status and thyroid function during the first half of pregnancy.
Contrary to what the authors had expected, pregnant women who consumed 200 μg or more in iodine supplements each day "were at greater risk of having high levels of thyroid stimulating hormones (TSH), indicators of possible thyroid dysfunction".
Out of all the pregnant women, 44% ate iodised salt and 49% took multivitamins containing iodine or specific iodine supplements containing at least 100 μg of iodine. The overall results show that the 'median ioduria, an indicator used to assess iodine nutritional status, was 137 μg/litre, and was within the correct limits for the population at large, although "slightly" below the levels recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for pregnancy (150-249μg/l).
Various studies on the general population have shown a link between high iodine consumption and hypothyroidism. "However, data for pregnant woman are scarce and inconclusive. There is consensus, though, that the risks stemming from iodine deficiency, for the health of both mother and child, are greater than those from risks due to excessive iodine consumption", points out the researcher.
The team stresses a basic message. "Epidemiological monitoring of nutritional iodine status should be carried out on this population before making any automatic recommendations about taking iodine supplements during pregnancy. And above all, people should be encouraged to take iodised salt to ensure they have sufficient iodine levels long before pregnancy".
Rebagliato M., Murcia M., Espada M., Álvarez-Pedrerol M., Bolúmar F., Vioque J., Basterrechea M., Blarduni E., Ramón R., Guxens M., Foradada C. M., Ballester F., Ibarluzea J., y Sunyer J. "Iodine intake and supplementation and its effect on maternal thyroid function during pregnancy". Epidemiology 2010;21: 62.
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New research at Wayne State will lead to more accurate multi-component system reliability and failure predictions in the auto industry and beyond
DETROIT — A team of researchers from Wayne State University recently received a $350,000 award from the National Science Foundation for the project, "Failure Prediction and Reliability Analysis of Ultra-High Strength Steel Autobody Manufacturing Systems by Utilizing Material Microstructure Properties."
The research is the first attempt to incorporate material microstructure and micro-damage information into a reliability study that fundamentally improves the accuracy of failure and reliability prediction. The automotive industry has been facing challenges in failure prediction and reliability analysis of manufacturing tool systems, so this methodology is a potential answer as it can be applied to the auto body manufacturing system of ultra-high strength steels.
"Our research team will develop statistical methods to analyze and extract the microstructure statistical characteristics and features of workpiece – a piece of metal or other material that is in the process of being worked on or has actually been cut or shaped by a tool or machine – and tool materials that determine the strength of different kinds of micro particles and tool damage process," said Qingyu Yang, Ph.D., assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering in Wayne State's College of Engineering. "In addition, we will develop a physical-statistical model with the incorporation of the extracted microstructural features to describe the tool degradation process. Based on the developed degradation process of each component, a reliability model of the repairable multi-component manufacturing tool system will be further developed."
Yang's research may lead to solutions for the auto industry in manufacturing energy saving auto structures. With improved reliability and failure prediction of the manufacturing tooling systems, manufacturers will be able to perform optimal maintenance planning and reduce tool failures, resulting in improved product quality in products and reduced manufacturing costs. The methodology is applicable for a wide range of industries such as aerospace/aircraft, machinery/machine tools, electronics and bio-devices.
The award number for this National Science Foundation award is NSF CMMI-1404276.
Wayne State University is one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world. For more information about research at Wayne State University, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu.


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