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Thames Court is a 30,000m2 new speculative building in the City of London. It sits between the noisy and unfriendly Upper Thames Street and the comparatively quiet and tranquil River Thames, next to Queenhithe Dock, just west of Southwark Bridge. The brief was to provide accommodation for both banking and a corporate headquarters. The plan of the site, approximately 45m x 100m, allows for a mixture of very deep floor plans suitable as dealer floors, and 18m-wide bands of corporate office accommodation around the atrium. There is a basement, a lower ground floor, and five storeys of superstructure. The plan arrangement of the top floor has to some extent been dictated by the strategic views of St. Paul's.
The building may be approached from either direction along Upper Thames Street. The architect, Kohn Pedersen Fox, has considered both the view from the car and the view presented to pedestrians in its design of the front facade. The face of the building is set up as a huge stone-clad portal, four storeys high and the full width of the building. This portal, or proscenium arch, almost frames the facade which has a gentle curve on plan. It consists of a series of steel columns from which is hung a glass wall, and behind which lies the entrance foyer. These columns form a sort of palisade which appears dense as one drives past the building, but which opens up as you approach, to reveal the space behind.
Creating spaces
This somewhat theatrical facade reveals a building that comprises an intriguing mix of private spaces, linked by a sequence of public routes that cut through the building horizontally and vertically. In section the building has been designed with a front atrium - the entrance foyer - and a stepped atrium which starts as the escalator lobby and is linked by the lift lobby to the main top atrium.
The deep-plan floors at the lower levels are approached from the front of the building via the lower entrance foyer. This area acts as a buffer zone between the noisy city environment and the quiet office spaces behind. Light is let in through the full-height glazed front wall, and through slots in the ground floor.
From the entrance foyer one is drawn through the security zone, which with its low ceiling and glass floor becomes the threshold. Then you are taken up through a three-storey-high hall on escalators, the walls clad in Purbeck Spangle, to the main lift lobby at the first floor level. The main atrium is in the middle of the building and starts at the second level. It connects with the rooflights over the lift lobby, giving a feeling of increasing openness and daylight as one passes up and through the building from north to south. In effect the atrium has been stepped to allow light to penetrate to the ground floor. The horizontal links across and around the lifts provide a sense of continuity between the separate spaces. These landings also use glass floors which let through some light and give a clear differentiation between the public spaces and the private areas - which all have different floor coverings, Purbeck Cap in the entrance and Swaledale in the escalator lobby.
Opening up views
Generally a 9m x 9m grid is used, except at the south end of the building, overlooking the river, where this is opened up to 9m x 12m. Storey- height steel trusses, spanning 27m, are placed on either side of the atrium at the roof level to allow the second and third floors to be hung so that a large column-free dealer space can be provided on the first floor.
At the south end, which faces the river, the two corners of the building are cantilevered out over the public walkway along the river wall, increasing the floor plate at the higher levels and providing great views.
Structural steelwork is used throughout the building as an expressive material, both for the main frame and for the facades, stairs, lifts, and landings. Although the building is below Section 20 height limits, it has been provided with full sprinkler protection. The fire period in the superstructure was 60 minutes for main elements, and 30 minutes elsewhere. This allowed the use of relatively thin intumescent coatings, which gave the architect considerable freedom for the expression of the structure.
For the main frame the building uses a conventional structural steel, and stability is provided by exposed cross-bracing behind the lift cores and staircases. The lift cores are clad in glass to reveal the structure. Concrete is used for the slabs and walls, and concrete-encased steelwork for the columns. This choice of structural material allowed a short construction time - the majority of the base building was completed within a year. As the site is rich in archaeology the weight of the building was a major factor. Minimising loads enabled the reuse of some of the existing basement structures and kept the pile sizes to a minimum.
Structural expression
The main structural expression is made with the two trusses that support the upper floors around the atrium. The booms and the diagonals are fabricated using I-sections. Circular hollow sections are used for the verticals, which reflect the circular sections of the exposed hangers below. The nodes are detailed in a robust, straightforward way reinforcing the nature of the loads being carried.
Steel hangers are used on the south end to support the cantilevered corners as diagonals, which are tied back to the main columns, and they are expressed as part of the facade. At the north end of the building the front edges of the floors are stepped back from the main grid to make a front atrium behind the glass wall that is half a bay wide at the ground level narrowing to just a slot at roof height. These edges are also supported by steel hangers from the beams at the fourth floor level.
The columns that form the front wall of the building are made of channels and plates welded together. They are set outside the glazing and are propped against the building at the roof of the front atrium. Wind loads on the facade are carried by the columns spanning the ground and the roof. The glazing is point-attached single glazing, the internally glazed office spaces are further protected by the buffer zone. The steel castings supporting the glass were developed by the glazing contractor, and use spherical bearings in the plane of the glass to allow for the eccentricity of the glass load without putting bending into the glass at that point. As with the main truss nodes, their design is clear and unfussy.
Another set of castings was developed for the project's glass landings. Long, rather bone-like, shapes are used as inclined struts under a fabricated steel frame that supports the glass to form a shallow vaulted filigree above each of the landings.
Air and light
The way sunlight and air enter the building has been treated in a variety of ways. The majority of the building is glazed to allow as much daylight as possible into the deep-plan offices. Along the south facade motorised blinds and deep, high level brise-soleil are used. Motorised rotating louvres are provided on the south-west to combat low sun. The windows open all along Queenhithe, except for the first 20 metres from Upper Thames Street, where the pollution level is high. Around the atrium spaces there are openable windows and the atrium also acts as an extract plenum for the office spaces.
The light levels in the main atrium are controlled by a fabric shading device. This specially designed system comprises a set of louvres - that can be rotated to either block or let through the direct sunlight - and a set of diagonal fabric shades that change automatically three times a day in reaction to differing daylight conditions. The steel beams that span the atrium support the shades and the glazing, casting interesting shadows on the fabric.
This building is largely about the use of steel, but a great deal of attention has been given to the use of other materials. Glass gives light and translucency to the building through use in the walls and doors. The architect also provided a contrast between the permanent private finishes, and the more flexible finishes that each tenant may want. A fossil-rich Jurassic limestone from Somerset was used for paving and wall cladding in the entrance areas, the size of stones increasing closer to the street. The limestone gives a gentle reminder of the archeological heritage of the site.
The impression is of comparative calm after the hectic and hostile main street. The building draws the visitor up and into its heart around the escalator and lift halls and then, inevitably, to the spectacular views of the river and Queenhithe dock in the foreground to the west. Different scales of robustly-expressed steelwork reinforce a sense of the history of the site and reflect times when the river was more intensively used.
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What is INFO-PASS?
INFO-PASS is a resource sharing program of the St. Louis Regional Library Network that began in 1979 with 35 libraries. It is open to any member who wishes to participate and currently has about 75 members. An INFO-PASS is a multi-copy form (like a one time library card) which will allow a patron of a member library to have access to materials from another participating library in the program by either using materials in the library or checking the materials out where permissible.
INFO-PASS forms will be issued to patrons by the library to which they belong (the parent library) to be used at a designated library (the host library) within the network on a one-time basis per INFO-PASS. For any additional use or renewal, another INFO-PASS is required.
An INFO-PASS will only be issued to patrons in good standing who have a special need for materials which the parent library cannot provide. If a patron looses materials the parent library must pay for these materials. Therefore the parent library should be notified when materials are overdue.
Each library which participates in the INFO-PASS program will designate a person(s) within its library who will determine whether or not a patron needs an INFO-PASS. This person(s) will also decide at which library the INFO-PASS will be used.
Please see the St. Louis Regional Library Network Membership List to find participating libraries.
INFO-PASS Costs
INFO-PASS forms are available at no charge to network members. They may be ordered from the Network Office. Questions about the program should be directed to: email@example.com
To order INFO-PASS Forms, contact:
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Eligibility of INFO-PASS User
The eligibility of an INFO-PASS user must be determined by the parent library. The needs of the individual user will be considered. While each parent library may establish its own criteria for issuing this form, it will verify that the individual receiving the INFO-PASS will:
- Have searched her/his library for the desired material and have exhausted any obvious resources.
- Through an initial screening interview have established her/his need for specific resources.
- Have a clean record at the parent library and have no outstanding fines or overdue materials.
- Be able to use the materials on her/his own.
Procedures for using INFO-PASS
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- Screen patron for eligibility and need for specific resources.
- Determine most appropriate host library. Avoid overuse of same host library.
- Explain to users the conditions of the INFO-PASS, such as time restrictions, presentation of proper identification at the host library, and information about the rules and regulations of the host library as specified in its policy.
- Fill out and issue INFO-PASS to user.
- Agree to assume responsibility for any charges incurred by users, if they fail to meet their obligations to the host library.
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- Prepare a statement of policy to include any restrictions or limitations which would apply to this program. This policy will be printed and distributed to all participating libraries.
- Honor INFO-PASS forms issued by authorized individuals from parent libraries, and collect INFO-PASS forms when they are used.
- Handle any abuses through the grievance channel.
- Notify parent library immediately when books become overdue.
INFO-PASS Abuse
In the case of abuse or non-compliance with rules as they are set forth, an initial phone call should be made by the concerned library in an effort to solve the problem. Repeated problems with the same library should be brought to the attention of Network Council. Council will review the situation, work with the libraries, and attempt to rectify the problem. If there are continuous problems with a library, that library may be dropped from the INFO-PASS program upon review by the network council.
Types of Abuse
- Overuse of same host library, e.g. sending all patrons to same university library.
- Poor screening of a patron need for specific resources.
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Kids' Club
Welcome to Wild Rose Co-op's Kids' Club!
It is free to join, and once you become a member, you will receive your own membership card. This card entitles you to free treats such as cookies, balloons, stickers, suckers and more when you present it at the various departments within the grocery store.
Members of the Kids' Club are also invited to participate in many special events throughout the year such as Santa Claus Day or our now Annual Tradition - the Co-op Easter Egg Hunt.
Join today by dropping by the Wild Rose Co-op Camrose Food Store.


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Thanks to Transmission Films, SheBrisbane has 5 x double passes to attend an advanced preview screening of PARIS CAN WAIT which includes a drink on arrival at Palace Centro 6:30pm with the film to commence at 7pm on Thursday July 13.
PARIS CAN WAIT takes the audience on a charming and romantic road trip befitting of any "foodie" from the Cote d'Azur to Paris: a trip once experienced by it's writer and director, Eleanor Coppola (wife of film legend Francis Ford Coppola).The film has everything you might expect from a road trip across the French countryside: beautiful vistas, historic villages, food, wine, flirtation and romance.Diane Lane is wonderful as Anne, an American woman who embarks on this trip with a French business associate, (Arnaud Viard) of her Hollywood producer husband, played by Alec Baldwin.
In Australian cinemas nationally JULY 20, 2017
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I would usually go to Malolos Market then to get the best tripe and beef cuts available. Tripes are very saleable so I had to go to the market early in the morning before everything is gone. Near the meat stalls, you would find lots of small stores selling retail or wholesale the ingredients that you would need. There's a certain kind of peanut butter made especially for kare-kare dish. It's more pure and compact than the ordinary peanut butter in jar. I would usually get both. They would weigh the pure peanut butter and I would buy a quarter of a kilo and one medium size jar.
I am in a different country now where the Filipino store is about 8 hours away (we used to have one almost two hour drive, but it went bankrupt : ( ..) I have to use whatever stuff is available at the nearest supermarket.
1 K beef round or tail
1/2 tripe
1/4 tsp anato seeds (atchuete)
1 tsp salt
1/2 c peanut spread (chunky or smooth)
1/3 peanuts (toasted and ground)
1 tsbp garlic, minced
1 medium onion, diced
1 Mama Sita Kare Kare mix soup base
1 bundle of string beans (snake beans) or baguio beans
1 bundle of pechay (bokchoy or wombok)
1/2 cabbage (medium size)
1 small banana bud
2 eggplants '
salt to taste
shrimp paste (bagoong)
Soak anato seeds in warm water in a small bowl (about tbsp of warm water). Set aside.
Use a pressure cooker to tenderise the meat and tripe or boil them until tender. Set aside.
Sautee onions and garlic in a wok. Put in the meat and tripe.
Pour in 6 cups of water and boil.
Put in the annato water, salt, peanuts, peanut butter and soup base. Stir.
Add the veggies. Cook until veggies are half - cooked or just right to your liking.
Serve with rice and bagoong.
Note: If you do not have the soup base, toast 1/4 c of rice and then grind in a blender. Add 2 cups of peanut butter instead of 1/2. It's ok if you do not have all the veggies. Just use whatever you can get.
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High elevation, secluded mountain property that would make an beautiful mini farm. Just a short ride via horseback to Jefferson National Forest and multiple trails. Nice mountain stream flows on the left side of property. Excellent for horses or cattle. The property's open land is partially fenced. A single wide home and a small camper fronts the...11.50 Acres : $85,000
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It is the 1 of October today, the second month of autumn has began. And it is still summer here and I still can wear my dresses. This coral maxi dress (Jasper Conran) has been one of my favourites for several years. Bright colour, flower motif, light flowing fabric, perfect fit - what else one could wish for an ideal summer dress?
I'm wearing Siberian aventurine necklace here. The stones are of dark green colour and contain inclusions of small crystals that reflect light in a highly pleasing manner. Aventurine is known as the stone of chance and luck (if you gamble or play the lotto, keep this stone in your left pocket). Energetically, green aventurine is a stone that gives a sense of calm and balance and enhances happiness. On this close-up photo of my necklace you can see how the stones look under light.
When going out in the evening I took a light silk scarf with me to cover my shoulders in slightly cool breeze.


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Title: World After (Penryn and the End of Days #2)
Author: Susan Ee
Release Date: November 19th 2013
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Age Group: Young Adult
Source: Bought
In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.
When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.
Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.
Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?(Slight spoilers if you haven't read the first book.)
It took me four days to finish Angelfall, thanks to finals week and then Christmas coming up, so you can probably understand my reluctance to pick up this sequel when I wasn't sure I'd be able to give it my full attention. Thankfully, my family made the decision for me by choosing to stay home on Christmas Day, because World After is a book that should not be put down until it's been read till the end. If you're a slow reader like me, then you should pick this up when you have eight hours of free time ahead of you. Preferably an empty house, too, for the sudden laughing and squealing.
The story picks up right where Angelfall left off. Penryn, paralyzed by the angel scorpion hybrid's venom, is thought to be dead by everyone, even Raffe, who thinks he's doing her a final favor by delivering her to her family. Carted off to join the human resistance fighters, the Young family soon becomes the spectacle because of Penryn's mother's usual brand of crazy and her sister Paige's terrifying appearance and demeanor. When Paige finally loses it and runs off, Penryn is left no choice but to look for her again despite the danger.
World After is so much more than Angelfall in so many ways; everything was taken up a notch. The action never wavers, instead being omnipresent with numerous, sudden bursts that had me frantically turning the pages. We learn more of the angels' disturbing apocalyptic tactics and human-like politics, bringing the unpredictability factor to a level of "That did not just happen." What little hilarity, both actual and disturbing, that can be found in this bleak, morally-confusing world presents itself in the right moments - and very quietly, too, like a friend creeping up behind you. Yes, Pooky Bear, I'm referring to you.
The character development in this series is so subtle, one might mistake it for non-existence, but if you look hard enough, you'll see that it's there. Penryn is still her kickass self, but her fears and uncertainties have increased. She knows she can't save every helpless human she runs across, but that doesn't stop the moral obligation from gnawing on her. Her reaction to Paige's horrifying new reality adds a touch of reality to her already real-as-it-can-get character. Raffe, on the other hand, changed right before my eyes. We see deeper into him, and I loved the unique way it was accomplished.
I had little hope for the romance because Penryn and Raffe were apart for more than half of the book, but, man oh man, their reunion was worth the wait, and with the way things ended, my hopes are higher than ever. Although I somehow feel like little progress is made with regards to the plot of the entire series, World After still receives nothing but my undying praise, and now I join this series' entire legion of fans in impatiently waiting for the next book. (I really hope it comes out next year because one year is the longest I can wait without going crazy.)
MY FAVORITE PART was Penryn and Raffe retrieving Pooky Bear =))


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"100 Days of Death" chronicles one man's attempt at survival during a human 'rabies' epidemic. Ray Ellingsen's zombie novel has sparked a movie deal(estimated to film sometime this year).
Author Ellingsen, Actress Kim Poirer (Dawn of the Dead, Decoys, Mad Men), and renowned artist Tommy Castillo (Batman, King Kong) create a comic adaptation of the novel as well as a film.
Now the excitement really begins! Moving Pictures Media Group, a successful independent film production company based out of Hollywood, California, is in pre-production for the "100 Days of Death" Feature Film, which is slated to start filming early 2013. In addition, this franchise will be accompanied by the official video game, a phone app, and of course, the "100 Days of Death" Graphic Novel" by the Master of the Macabre, Tommy Castillo.
This is where we need your help and you get to be part of our Carnival of Death!
If you're a fan of zombies,comics, or just a fan of horror head over to the 100 Days of Death Kickstarter page. Donate and help get this project up and running, and you will get some awesome swag.
Visit the 100 Days Of Death Blog
Visit the 100 Days Of Death Facebook Page
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Science News
Ever Wonder How Two Pendulum Clocks Always Oscillate In Sync?
Two pendulum clocks, hung from the same wooden structure, will always oscillate in synchronicity. Called "Huygens synchronisation" after the renowned Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, the secret behind this 350-year-old phenomenon has now been solved.
Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology along with Mexican colleagues have presented the most accurate and detailed description of "Huygens synchronisation' to date.
The insights help us understand synchronisation in all kinds of oscillating systems such as the biological rhythms of the human body, they noted.
Lacking the requisite mathematics at the time, Huygens contended that the effect was being caused by tiny vibrations in the wooden structure on which the clocks were hanging.
Henk Nijmeijer, professor of dynamics and control at Eindhoven University, found that Huygens explanation was right.
In the journal Scientific Reports, the team described the most comprehensive study undertaken to date on the effect.
"An odd sympathy" was the way Huygens termed the unexpected discovery he made at home in The Hague in 1665.
The team performed a modern variant of Huygens' experiment whereby two pendulum clocks specially made for the purpose by the Mexican clock manufacturer Relojes Centenario were placed on a wooden undersurface.
In addition to taking extensive measurements, they analysed and simulated the effect using the most detailed mathematical model developed for this experiment.
This enabled them to dissect the mechanism behind the synchronisation correctly and in detail and consign to the bin the theory proposed two years ago that the synchronisation was attributable to acoustic pulses.
The team also discovered what variables determine whether the clocks swing in parallel with or counter to each other, something that Huygens did not observe.
"Another new discovery is that pendulum clocks are not only synchronous but also move more slowly over time and thus are not very reliable timekeepers," they noted.
The scientists believe many similar occurrences of synchronisation are present in engineering and in nature like imbalanced rotor motion or the human heartbeat.
There are also indications that certain epileptic attacks are caused by the synchronisation of neurons that takes place in the brain.
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Coming Soon, A Polymer Nanobrush That Repels Dirt And Dust
Scientists have developed a new way to make "polymer nanobrush" — bristly materials which prevent dust from accumulating on various surfaces.
Polymer brushes have been used to coat everything from eyeglass lenses, boats and medical devices — where they keep away smudges, damaging chemicals and germs — to artificial joints and mechanical components in vehicles where they act as a lubricant.
Developed by a team of engineers led by Christopher Li, professor at Drexel University's college of engineering in Philadelphia, it gives scientists a higher degree of control over the shape of the brush and bristles and is much more efficient.
"The past few decades witnessed exciting progresses in studies on polymer brushes, and they show great promises in various fields, including coating, biomedical, sensing, catalysis to name just a few," Li said.
His approach involves growing a functional two-dimensional sheet of polymer crystals — similar to a nanoscale piece of double-sided tape. When the sheet is stuck to an existing substrate, and the crystals are dissolved, the remaining polymer chains spring up, forming the bristles of the brush.
"We believe that our discovery of a new way to make polymer brushes is a significant advance in the field and will enable use of the brushes in exciting new ways," added Li in the study published in the journal Nature Communications.
The new brush is the most densely packed polymer brushes to date, with bristles less than a nanometre apart.
Polymer brush materials are especially useful in situations where pieces need to fit tightly together but need to be able to move without friction throwing a wrench in the works.
These are also effective for keeping important surfaces free of particles, chemicals, proteins and other fouling agents.
Science News
Now Don't Wash Clothes, Just Expose Them To Light
The day when you can look tidy even without washing your clothes does not seem too distant as researchers, including one of Indian origin, have developed a technology to make textiles clean themselves within less than six minutes when put them under a light bulb or out in the sun.
The researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a cheap and efficient new way to grow special nanostructures — which can degrade organic matter when exposed to light — directly onto textiles.
"There's more work to do to before we can start throwing out our washing machines, but this advance lays a strong foundation for the future development of fully self-cleaning textiles," said researcher Rajesh Ramanathan.
The research paper was published in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces.
The work paves the way towards nano-enhanced textiles that can spontaneously clean themselves of stains and grime simply by being put under light.
The process developed by the team had a variety of applications for catalysis-based industries such as agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and natural products, and could be easily scaled up to industrial levels, Ramanathan said.
"The advantage of textiles is they already have a 3D structure so they are great at absorbing light, which in turn speeds up the process of degrading organic matter," he explained.
The researchers worked with copper and silver-based nanostructures, which are known for their ability to absorb visible light.
When the nanostructures are exposed to light, they receive an energy boost that creates "hot electrons".
These "hot electrons" release a burst of energy that enables the nanostructures to degrade organic matter.
The challenge for researchers has been to bring the concept out of the lab by working out how to build these nanostructures on an industrial scale and permanently attach them to textiles.
The RMIT team's novel approach was to grow the nanostructures directly onto the textiles by dipping them into a few solutions, resulting in the development of stable nanostructures within 30 minutes.
When exposed to light, it took less than six minutes for some of the nano-enhanced textiles to spontaneously clean themselves.
"Our next step will be to test our nano-enhanced textiles with organic compounds that could be more relevant to consumers, to see how quickly they can handle common stains like tomato sauce or wine," Ramanathan said.
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Unprecedented Energy Source Found In Milky Way
A source of cosmic rays radiating energies 100 times greater than those achieved at the largest terrestrial particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) — has been found in the innermost region of our Milky Way galaxy.
The source was revealed after a detailed analysis of the data collected by the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia, which was published in the latest issue of the journal Nature.
H.E.S.S. observatory is being run by an international collaboration of 42 institutions in 12 countries and has been mapping the centre of our galaxy in very high energy gamma rays for over the past 10 years.
"Somewhere within the central 33 light years of the Milky Way there is an astrophysical source capable of accelerating protons to energies of about one petaelectronvolt, continuously for at least 1,000 years," said Emmanuel Moulin from the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France.
Cosmic rays with energies up to approximately 100 teraelectronvolts (TeV)1 are produced in our galaxy by objects such as supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae.
Theoretical arguments and direct measurements of cosmic rays reaching the Earth indicate, however, that the cosmic-ray factories in our galaxy should be able to provide particles up to one petaelectronvolt (PeV)2 at least.
While many multi-TeV accelerators have been discovered in recent years, the search for the sources of the highest energy Galactic cosmic rays has been unsuccessful.
The electrically-charged cosmic rays are strongly deflected by the interstellar magnetic fields that pervade our galaxy. Their path through the cosmos is randomised by these deflections, making it impossible to directly identify the astrophysical sources responsible for their production.
Thus, for more than a century, the origin of the cosmic rays has remained one of the most enduring mysteries of science.
In analogy to the "Tevatron" — the first human-built accelerator that reached energies of 1 TeV — this new class of cosmic accelerator has been dubbed a "Pevatron."
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Discussion in 'Apple TV and Home Theater' started by PassMeAGuinness, Dec 15, 2011.
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Thanks for the link that does not have any info on 4.4.4
strange, it did list 4.4.4 15 minutes ago when i looked at it.
all it listed was "general performance and stability improvements, including a fix for an issue that displayed an error when playing some video content."
yet another one of apple's "lets add something and then remove it again quickly" things that have been happening the past month or so.
it does now
Now it is a totally broken link
no it's not
The first time I clicked on it, it was dead. I clicked again not even 10 seconds later, and it came up.
I had a mini-panic at first, when I couldn't control the ATV via remote or the Remote app for a minute or so, but then it started working.
No obvious changes here, though I haven't had any network disconnects yet (I also upgraded to the latest iTunes on both my Macs, which might also have been a factor). Fingers crossed!
I don't know if this came as part of 4.4.4 or as an update on Netfix service, but I saw a new menu item in Netflix. "For Kids" or "Kid's Stuff" or something like that. That's the only change I have noticed.
OK, so this morning it IS working, but still does not say anything about 4.4.4. Oh well. Guess I will keep my JB for now.
are you blind or being purposely argumentative?
The Netflix update is nice. I like the just for kids section because my kids have an apple tv in their room, easier for them to find stuff.
Thanks for the replies.
Get out the wrong side of bed this morning? Give the guy a break, he may have had a cached version of the page and needed to refresh his browser. It happens. What is it about the internet that makes people so snippy?
Edit: Incidentally, the page is no longer showing the description to 4.4.4 again. For me at least.
still showing 4.4.4 here.


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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) passed its Public Access Policy on April 7, 2008 in order to advance science and improve human health. The Policy states that all peer-reviewed articles NIH contributes funds to must be made publicly available on PubMed Central.
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Friday Freebie: Get Quick Feedback from Your Students!
Head over to Naiku's Quick Question (http://a.naiku.net) and create a free account. The, you can create a Quick Question session and ask Yes/No questions, True/False, Multiple Choice. Open Text, or Exit Tag responses. There's no need to enter the questions ahead of time, you can simply ask them verbally and get immediate feedback!
The great thing is students can easily respond using any internet capable device - laptop, iPad, iPhone, Android, etc. All they do is go to the student site (http://q.naiku.net) and enter the code that you'll be given for your Quick Question session.
You can start and stop questions easily and choose whether to display results or not. If you want, you can click the correct response to get further analysis. It's so simple!
Now, when I first created my account, the only thing I had access to was the Quick Question. When I logged in this morning to create this blog entry, I found I now have the ability to create classes, enter students, and create full assessments ahead of time. I'll tinker with these features and write more later!


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Dienstag, 24. November 2015
Beauty Advent Calendar
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I don't get an advent calendar this year because I'm travelling D: This one looks awesome!AntwortenLöschen
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I think it's such a nice tradition to make one for someone else!AntwortenLöschen
I had no idea that beauty advent calendars existed! I've actually never ever had one before (not even the childhood ones filled with chocolates) so I might have to get on this! Can't wait to see what's in there! I did a quick google search and there's totally a Tarte Cosmetics one with little mascaras, blushes and foundations.. OooOoo!AntwortenLöschen
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I am a bit jealous haha!
I haven't seen the Kiehls one before but it looks divine. I would be interested to see you open it day by day or any other way you would like to share it. I have treated myself to a mini hamper in December, I couldn't decide which calendar to go for in the end!! :-) xxAntwortenLöschen
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i can't get enough of STELLA MARIA BAERs instagram feed.
an artist – photographer and painter – exploring "the mythology of the desert and the cosmology of space" with watercolours & photographs of ethereal seeming land and planet scapes. calm + evocative. there's something about the sense of space in this artists paintings and images, the vastness of the desert, of the earth, that i find grounding. almost magical? reminding me that the world is wise.
i think her work is beautiful. definitely one of my favourite happen-upons of 2015.
the laid back earth mother that I'm sure is in me wants to fill our home with all of them.
i'm sure i don't need to say this but THOSE COLOURS.
follow stella maria baer on instagram. it's a beautiful place to scroll.
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Posts Tagged 'blog comments'
Building Links through Blog Comments
Relevance and Link Popularity are two main things we take into account when building links to our website. This means that we are looking for web pages that are relevant to the theme of our site and have high link popularity. Where is the best place to find those pages? Social Networks.
How to Build Backlinks to Your Site with Fast Blog Finder
How to Build Backlinks to Your Site with Fast Blog Finder
Before you watch this video tutorial and start submitting your blog comments, read these quick tips:
- When you submit a comment on other people's blog, you are usually asked to provide your name, email address, URL and comment text itself. You can use your keyword anchor text as your name. When your comment is posted, your URL becomes attached to your keywords.
- Don't post 2 word crap like "great post", rather try to contribute to what the initial post was about. Post a comment only if you have something of value to add to the discussion and not just to get links. Your comment will be pending for approval and blog owners are much more likely to approve your comment if it is relevant. Remember, the only cost of your new backlink is a comment. So, take a few moments to write a meaningful comment.
- After the comment is submitted, add a short user note for the blog something like "Posted" or "Awaiting moderation". And some time later use the "Check My Comments" option to check whether your comment was approved or not.
- If you liked the blog you commented on, do not forget to submit it to social media sites using Share It button. This will give more exposure to the blog posts that you have commented on and increase traffic to them. Some of the traffic will trickle down to you, making your comment more impactful.
- Watch the video (opens in a new window)
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How to Get the Most Relevant Blogs with Fast Blog Finder
How to Get the Most Relevant Blogs with Fast Blog Finder
Links don't just improve your position in the search engines. They also provide another way for people visiting other sites to find you, thus increasing referring traffic.
It's better to have one good link than a hundred bad links. A good link is a link that brings you traffic. These links are from relevant pages that are related to your website with links coming back to your website and are some of the strongest links you can obtain.
Link relevancy is certainly a factor to bear in mind. If you obtain links with the correct anchor text from relevant sites within your industry, the link will provide a great deal of benefit in helping you increase your own rankings which means more traffic to your website, more visitors, and more sales.
Here are 3 quick tips you can follow to get the most relevant blogs to your keywords in Fast Blog Finder:
- Set 5 pages to fetch from search engines in Fast Blog Finder Settings.
- Put your search phrase in quotes.
- Select the "Top 10, 20 or 50 Results" from the Start menu.
Blog Commenting Ideas: Think Outside of the Box
You know a good link building is sometimes just a good marketing. Success of a link building campaign often depends on your creativity, quick wit, ability to think outside the box and search for new link building ideas.
Blog commenting is a great link building method and can give you a lot of links and targeted human traffic if your comments are valuable and informative. One of the ways to build links by leaving good comments is helping people who are seeking for a solution.
Fast Blog Finder
"The Quickest…Easiest… and Most Precious Way
to Get Massive Direct Traffic and Do-Follow Back Links
to ANY Site of Your Choice – 100% Guaranteed!"
Introducing G-Lock Blog Finder – it's the most complete software solution guaranteed to locate the blogs you want, in any niche, fast. It helps SEO firms and individuals compile a list of blogs you can leave comments on and build a ton of backlinks instantly!
You cannot create a wonderful site and pray that visitors (and earnings) flow like water. How will people know about your site? The answer is quite simple:
You need links from themed [aka niche-related] websites!
A related link is worth more weight than links coming from a non-related site. There are several ways to create backlinks to your website: social bookmarking, pay per click, adding the website URL to web directories, submitting articles to article directories.
Another FREE way to get backlinks is commenting on blogs and including the URL of your site. All you need to do is to leave a comment on related blogs and include some anchored text linking back to your site. The other advantage is that some of the pages that you comment on have high PageRank!
With that said, we've come up with G-Lock Blog Finder, amazing piece of software which enables you to search and identify the blogs according to the keyword you enter with just a few mouse clicks.
Here is what this 7-year SEO consultant says about our software…
I've been working as a self-employed online marketing and SEO consultant in Vienna for more than seven years. During this time, I've tried a lot of SEO software, but no other program delivers such enormous value for money as Blog Finder does: during the last couple of months, it saved me tons of time and what's even more important: this is only SEO software I know which works great if you have to promote pages in different languages.
— Ritchie Pettauer
Read what other users say about Fast Blog Finder here
There's no better way to find themed blogs and submit comments to them with our little tool. G-Lock Blog Finder returns blogs on WordPress, Drupal, Nucleus, and B2evolution platforms.
When you start using G-Lock Blog Finder, you'll get high ranking websites linking back to your websites quicker and easier than before – without spending a single dime on advertising or promotion!
Watch this video to learn about the new features added in the latest version of G-Lock Blog Finder and how you can use them to your advantage.
Here are just a few of the cool things you can do with our backlink building software once you put your hands on it:
- get the most relevant blogs for your keywords by limiting the program to the top 10, 20 or 50 results from the search engine — this means you can dramatically increase search engines and targeted human traffic to your web site after your comment is approved
- post comments on the blogs directly from the program — big time saver!
- determine the blog type [DoFollow, NoFollow, MIXED] — you get more link juice by posting comments on DoFollow blogs. We found through extensive research and testing that none of our competitors offer the same accuracy on determining DoFollow blogs as G-Lock Blog Find does. G-Lock Blog Finder determines DoFollow blogs with 99% accuracy because it analyzes links in the comment area to determine the blog type unlike other similar tools which checks all the links on the page.
- determine the domain PageRank and page PageRank of found blogs — you can post comments on blogs with a higher PR to get more precious links and boost your natural search engine rankings
- auto-fill the comment form using the desired user profile — no need to manually type your name, website URL and email! Just select the profile from the menu to pre-fill the form.
- get tips from Article Builder and use them as the basis for your comments — you save your time for comment writing!
- check blogs for approved comments — within seconds you will know whether your comment is approved or not!
- skip duplicate posts between search queries — you avoid posting the comment for the same post twice or more times which means you don't act as a blog spammer in the eyes of the blog owner and have more chances to get your comment approved
- skip duplicate domains — you get only unique results during one search.
- skip posts where you must login or register to submit a comment — great time-saver if you don't want to create an account on the blog
- load your own lists of blogs — if you obtained blogs somewhere outside of the program, you can load them into G-Lock Blog Finder, determine their types and comment on best blogs.
- use your custom footprints for search — you don't limit yourself to blogs only! Using your custom footprints you can find ANY sites on ANY platform and use any backlinking opportunity you can think of.
- submit the pages with your comments to social media sites — for extra traffic!
- add domains to the blacklist — you automatically filter junk blogs and exclude them from search results
Follow these simple steps to build backlinks with G-Lock Blog Finder, quicker and easier than before:
- type the keywords or a keyword phrase that you want to find blogs for and click "Start".
- when the search is complete, click on an URL. The page opens directly in G-Lock Blog Finder preview panel.
- read the post, write your comment and click "Submit".
- open the next blog and submit the next comment, etc.
To save your time, you can open multiple pages in different tabs. Hold down CTRL on the keyboard and click on the URLs. When you finished writing the comment on the first post, the next one is already loaded and waiting for you.
Use this tool without "tricking" the blog owners!
G-Lock Blog Finder is 100% Spam-free, search engine friendly blog commenting software. It does not make automated comments on blogs and we believe such tools should be never sold or promoted.
Because most blog owners moderate the comments to prevent SPAM we suggest you avoid personal or affiliate links in your blog commenting activities. Your comment will end up being deleted. Leave a meaningful comment only after reading the blog post.
What does "nofollow" tag mean and why should you care?
Likewise email spam, blog spamming became a serious problem. To protect from blog spamming, many webmasters implement a "nofollow" link tag. It is supposed to provide webmasters with the opportunity to add a link to their website without leaking PageRank to the page they are linking to. So, even though you can enter your website URL when you leave comments, it won't be considered as a backlink.
But it doesn't mean at all that you should not post a comment on a blog with a "nofollow" tag. Although such a blog page doesn't leak you PR, you can still benefit from gaining a lot more traffic. A "nofollow" tag doesn't prevent search engine spiders from visiting your link and the blog readers can also follow your link if they find your comment useful.
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Link Value: Are All Incoming Links Equal? Part I
The key factor in achieving top positions in search engines is link popularity. The more sites are pointing to your website, the better. Any link you obtain has some impact on your search engine rankings.
Not all the links you build are equal. In this article I talked about the types of links you should avoid in order not to spoil your search engine rankings.
Now I'd like to speak about quality links to help you clearly understand what you should focus your efforts on.
Double Your Search Traffic
If your website is already ranking in the top Google results for your profitable keywords, you can double your website listing and traffic by creating and ranking another similar web page. So, instead of just one listing in the search results Google will return two listings for your website.
The Art of Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is becoming more and more popular nowadays. It's the best way to tell your opinion about the blog post you read, add something that was not covered in the post, and discuss the post with other readers. In addition, by sharing your thoughts, you get backlinks and traffic to your website because you provide your name and URL. However, blog commenting is not only used for getting traffic but also for various other reasons. So, let me show you top 5 reasons why you should comment on blogs:
Difference between Free and Gold Editions
Fast Blog Finder Gold Edition Beats Free Version
by a Whopping 500% Increase in Do-Follow Back-Links!
See the amazing results of our TEST below…
I sometimes hear people saying on the forums how easy it is to find DoFollow blogs manually by using Google blog search. But what they don't know yet is how many hours, programs like Fast Blog Finder can save them, and more importantly – enable them to get direct traffic and do-follow back links to ANY site of your choice. How much time is one spending on average to find, let's say, a hundred of DoFollow blogs?
Stop the guess work! I did a recent test to demonstrate how Fast Blog Finder can make your life easier, save you countless hours of time, effort and energy so you can decide for yourself if this is the right "weapon" in your marketing arsenal, or not.
The keyword phrase I used for my comparative test is "make money online".
How many blogs does the Free version discover for you?
Although the Free version of Fast Blog Finder is very limited in features, it is worth giving a try; just experience its power before you decide for the GOLD version which unlocks the full benefits of blog commenting and back-link generation.
Because we want ONLY our best and most responsive clients use this tool we limited the Free version as following:
– Returns only 50 blogs for each search (mostly NoFollow);
– "Load Blog List" option disabled;
– Domain blacklist disabled;
– "Skip duplicate posts between different search queries" option disabled;
– "Skip duplicate domains" option disabled.
However, per our test, I got these results for the "make money online" key term:
DoFollow – 13
NoFollow – 24
Unknown – 6
HTTP error – 1
Click here to upgrade to the Gold edition now
So, in the Free version there are 13 DoFollow blogs to leave comments on in the first place. And I can sort 24 NoFollow blogs by the Domain PR and Page PR and comment on the blogs with higher domain and page PR hoping to get a little more human traffic to my website.
Hint: To sort the blogs by more than one column, hold down Shift on the keyboard and click on the column heading.
In addition, I have 6 blogs of the MIXED type. There is a mix of DoFollow and NoFollow links in comments on the blog. You can find the very best blogs for commenting among MIXED blogs. Some blogs of the MIXED type are set so that the commentator gets a DoFollow link after minimum 5 or 10 approved comments. So, only a few get the DoFollow link what makes those links extra valuable.
Hint: Did you notice the drop down menu in the Start button that allows you choose Top 10 Results, Top 20 Results or Top 50 Results? Using this menu you can limit the program to process only 10, 20 or 50 links from each search request in order to get the most relevant blogs for your keywords. Fast Blog Finder sends several requests to search engines for one keyword set and by default scans 100 links per page returned by the search engine. So, if you want to speed up the search process and get the most relevant results, choose Top 10, 20 or 50 results. For example, if you select Top 10 Results and run a search, you'll get approximately 50-60 blogs for your keywords.
How many blogs does the Gold version retrieve for you?
Are you ready to see what the Gold edition can do for us? This version is guaranteed to save you countless hours of your time, effort and energy. Forget about manual blog research. Let our tool do its magic in the background while you work on your business, or spend time with your family.
It is like an instant jump in the pros league!
The Gold edition of Fast Blog Finder has no limitations on the quantity of blogs it returns. It will show you all the blogs that the search engine returns for your keywords.
Plus, you can indicate yourself the quantity of pages to fetch from the search engine. I used the default parameter – 3 pages.
Well, for my test keywords "make money online" keyword test the Gold version returned 2440 blogs where:
DoFollow – 674
NoFollow – 1375
Unknown – 98
HTTP error – 18
Here is the visual proof.
Click here to upgrade to the Gold edition now
Can you see the difference now? I have 674 DoFollow blogs in the Gold edition against 13 DoFollow blogs in the Free version. It is like I'm getting 50x times more blogs, in an instant!
Plus, I have 1375 NoFollow blogs in the Gold edition. Those which have higher PR are worth to comment on too. Imagine the possibilities!
And 275 MIXED blogs in the Gold edition against 6 MIXED blogs returned by the Free edition is a marked difference.
As to Unknown blogs, if the blog doesn't have any comments on the latest 10 posts, Fast Blog Finder classifies it as Unknown. In most cases these are abandoned, not supported anymore or simply crappy blogs. But sometimes you'll get lucky and find a few gems among Unknown blogs. So, you'll see whether the blog is DoFollow or NoFollow only after your comment is posted on the blog.
But that's not all! Here comes the best part:
Fast Blog Finder Gold edition provides you with a couple of additional features that are disabled in the Free version…when you upgrade to GOLD you'll be instantly able to…
- Exclude duplicate posts between different searches. If you run multiples searches for similar keywords and do not want the same posts to show in multiple lists, just go to the program settings and check the "Skip duplicate posts between different search queries" option. This way you'll get unique results for each search query, without manual work!
- Add domains to the blacklist to exclude them from the search results. If you found any crappy blogs, you can add the domains to the blacklist and Fast Blog Finder will not show those blogs anymore. The domains are saved to a text file. You can open the text file (blacklist) and edit/delete the domains. It is a fun way to "manipulate" Google results!
- And what's even more important is that you can import your own list of blogs using Fast Blog Finder Gold edition, determine the blog type and post comments on those blogs.
We found through extensive research and testing that none of our competitors offer the same highly sought-after benefits and features as Fast Blog Find GOLD version does!
Still not convinced? Read the users' comments below the post. Or, jump in the pros league instantly:
Click here to upgrade to the Gold edition now
7 Little Known Ways to Get Your Comments Read
In the previous article on blog commenting I wrote that you should comment on a blog only if you had something valuable to add to the discussion and that only valuable comments would be of benefit to you. If you provide a useful comment, not only will it be approved and posted but there are more chances that it will be noticed by the blog author and other people who can follow your URL and bring more traffic to your site.
But what is a valuable comment? And are good comments always noticed and read? This is what I'd like to talk about in this article.


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Women in Road Movies
Road Movies represent the myth of mobility and freedom. These values are more likely to be associated with masculinity than feminine. This is probably the reason why most of the heroes in Road Movies are men.
Women however play certain roles in the genre of Road Movies which are more important than they seem if you take a closer look.
The women
are essentially along for the ride, and are not part of
Williams, M.: Road Movies: The complete Guide to Cinema on Wheels. New York/London: Proteus, 1982, p. 8.
The importance of women in Road Movies is comparable to that in the Western.
the structure of the main plot.
Woods, F: Hot
Guns and Cold Women. In: Films and Filming. Vol. 5, No. 6,
Generally you can say that
the appearance of women in a typical Road Movie is passive rather than active. They are
the objects while men are the subjects;
Defence of her honour and rights
became as important in themselves
Fenin, G. K./Everson, W. K.: The Western: From Silents to the Seventies.
New York/
We can often find gender-specific characters in Road Movies in which women play the weak parts and men have to protect them.
Examples for this frequent stereotype would be:
The hero of Coast to Coast (1980) fights for the
rights of a woman.
The female characters of The Gauntlet (1977) and Fast
Charlie the Moonbeam Rider (1979) symbolize the weak passivity that has to be
defended by a man.
Another example is Badlands (1973) where Holly
influences the plot passively. Kits
love for Holly is the reason for their escape and
is therefore the main force in the story.
Although women dont play the central roles in typical Road Movies, their characters often are very distinct. Still - their importance for the plot is defined by their relationship to the male protagonist.
There is a strong polarization in the way the personalities of women are represented. They may be the whore, the brave innocent girl, or sometimes even a virgin. The influence of the man changes this radical characteristic. On the one hand, the whore learns to live a civic life and to love only one man. On the other hand, the prudish girl learns to have fun and looses her virginity.
The stereotyped woman of the Road Movie can be compared to the typical woman of the Western.
The image of the
western woman, as rendered by Hollywood,
stands confused, between the sentimental
and mythological
conception of the pure but weak and
defenceless female, without
any personality of her own, essentially
dependent on the hero, and
the titillatingly sexual
and aggressive heroine.
Fenin, G.
K./Everson, W. K.: The Western: From Silents to the Seventies. New York/
Though the situation of women in society changed at the time Road
Movies rising popularity, many Road Movies still used the image of the western
A very frequently found combination of good and bad is characteristic of all the female models in the following movies:
The female probation officer in Cannonball (1976)
evolves from a brave and boring person to an active woman full of adventurous spirit.
· The wife
of the male protagonist in Pursuit (1981) wishes to have an average life at the
beginning but starts joining her husband for his adventures and even likes danger at the
end of the movie.
In Lost
in America (1985) the scared wife of the hero turns into a wicked gambler.
However, there
are also examples of women who turn from bad into good.
is the provocative girl in High Ballin (1978), but at the end she has to be rescued
by the male hero, Rane.
The female
protagonist in Roadhouse 66 (1985) is the owner of a shop for car replacement parts
and is introduced as a very strong and masculine woman. After a while her love for the
male hero changes her behaviour radically and she starts acting like a weak woman who has
to be protected by a man.
We can
also find this concept in The Gauntlet (1977). A prostitute is influenced by a man
and starts a good life with him.
There is a third way women are represented in Road Movies the armed woman. Usually, she is a strong and masculine woman who plays a role which a man normally would.
In Convoy
(1978) there is a woman called Widow Woman who participates in a fight between
There are
armed women in Made in USA (1986) and in Return to Macon County (1974) who
are stronger and more courageous than all the men.
in The Getaway (1972)
acts as masculine as her partner, especially when she uses arms.
At the
ending of Zabriskie Point (1969), its a woman, Daria, who releases the
The female
protagonists in Cannonball (1976) and The Cannonball Run (1980) even use sex
as their weapon to win races.
Still there are some Road Movies where we can find female heroes. Like in all Road Movies, the women have certain reasons for their trips and these reasons can be different. However, its often because those women are running away from a man. Examples for Road Movies with female heroes are:
on the Side
Whoopi Goldberg, Marie-Louise Parker, and Drew Barrymore have 3,000 miles of bonding
experiences while driving across the country.
to Coast (1980): Dyan Cannon is a nutty woman who travels cross country with Robert
Blake, who plays a trucker who isnt exactly normal either.
Cowgirls get the Blues (1994):
is about a young woman who has a big thumb and, therefore, becomes a hitchhiker.
The Great Dynamite Chase (1977): Female bank robbers hit the road.
· The Sugarland Express (1974): Stephen Spielberg´s first theatrical release follows a fugitive couple fleeing to Sugarland, Texas. Goldie Hawn stars.
Truck Stop Women (1974): This movie is all about the lives of
truck-stop women.
and Louise
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis hit the highway but take the wrong turn.
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Bloomsburg, PA 17815
New 2018 Heartland Trail Runner 33IKBSON CLEARANCE
If you have been looking for a rear bunkhouse for the kids and guests, a kitchen island for the cook in the family, triple slides for more floor space for everyone, and a front bedroom then take a step inside this Heartland Trail Runner.
As you enter model 33IKBS travel trailer you will see the kitchen and living combined area. On your left you can cook on the three burner range, prepare meals on the counter, and store your cold food in the refrigerator. All these are within the first slide out. There is a pantry adjacent, and a kitchen island with a double sink for easy clean up. On the opposite wall there is a slide out booth dinette and sofa. The entertainment center is along the outer wall of the bathroom including a handy closet next to the entry door.
The side aisle bathroom features a neo-angled shower, toilet, and sink with medicine cabinet. There is also a second entry door into the bath from the bedroom.
The front bedroom includes a queen bed with storage on both sides as well as above the bed.
The kids and guests are sure to love their own space in the rear private bunkhouse. You will find a dinette under a bunk bed within a road side slide out. A set of bunks is on the opposite side. There is storage along the rear wall to keep things tidy, plus more!
There are overhead cabinets throughout the inside, and exterior storage compartments for your outdoor gear.
Stock# 34536
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Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC, Elkhart, Ind., was founded in 2003 by a quintet of RV veterans. Their philosophy is lower numbers mean a better market and better dealers. That was one of the reasons why all of them left their previous companies to bring Heartland RV to the public.
The first product created by Heartland was a high-end fifth wheel. The LANDMARK which was aimed at extended-stay RVers who spend a lot of time in their coaches at one location was picked to create first on purpose because it was going to be the hardest to build and they wanted to prove that they could do it and do it right.
In 2006, Heartland broke ground on a new 110,000 sq. ft. production facility with a new corporate office structure attached. By the spring of 2006, Heartland had moved into the Top Ten 5th wheel manufacturers, and by the end of the year were solidly #8 with their eyes toward the #5 spot. Heartland was again poised for growth and launched the BIG COUNTRY 5th wheel and RAZOR toy hauler.


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The Frisco
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The beautiful, bewitching, otherworldly Golden Gate Bridge turns 75 years old this weekend. So as a happy birthday to the bridge, and an excuse to teach you how to make a really delicious whisky-drink that has a horrendous name, I hereby present to you... The Frisco.
I know! Worst name in the world, right? No one from San Francisco would ever use that word -- but the drink is delicious, so here you go:
2 ounces of Rye
½ ounce of lemon juice (from real, actual lemons)
½ ounce of Benedictine and some ice cubes By rights, you're supposed to shake a Frisco (you're supposed to shake anything with fruit juice in it), but I prefer to stir it. Sue me.
Pour it into a cocktail glass... ...and think happy, foggy, 75-year-old, international-orange-colored thoughts.


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Just got home from my very first stitching retreat. It. Was. Awesome.
It truly felt like Christmas - I stayed up late the first night talking, laughing, and stitching, then got up early the next day, stayed in my jammies, and went running out to the main room to stitch again. It was better than Christmas because it didn't end after one day!! Big shout out to my partners in crime - Caroline and Tracey!!
So much progress - oh my gooses!
The first night I worked like a madwoman and completed page 4 of Drama Queen. That's 6 pages completed now or 32, 582 stitches or 42.2%.
I stitched every day from 8am till 2am - barely stopping for meals. It was a blast! I will admit that my attention wavered a bit, so I changed projects frequently. Luckily I brought quite a few with me. The only one that didn't get any love while I was at the retreat was Elizabeth by Mirabilia. She'll come out to play once I have a few other WIPs finished.
Definitely made some progress on Cirque des Carreaux. I think I've finished about 2.5 pages of the 6.
I finally put a few more stitches into Rules For Life by Kincavel Krosses. I love this piece. I'm hoping to finish it sooner rather than later.
I had a few new starts as well.
I started Ice Blossom by Just Nan and it was a bit of a disaster. Not only was I stitching white on white which is challenging, but I was converting the recommended threads to HDF silk and DMC perles. I did quite a bit of frogging, and I still have more to frog because I stitched one part without the sparkly metallic it needs. *sigh* It looks okay though. I like the textural differences I've added.
I also started Sunflower Bee by HAED for my Dad (he doesn't know about this though). I gridded the first page and put in 100 stitches. It's 88,900 stitches in total, so bigger than Drama Queen, but I'm stitching it on 28 ct white lugana so it should be roughly the same size. No idea when I'll actually get this one done, but the chart is full of big blocks of colour for the first few pages. It should be an easy stitch for now.
I also managed another start/finish!! I worked on the February design in the SotW hardanger SAL from Mabel Figworthy's Fancies. I didn't follow the directions for colours and I changed the beads to French knots (I can just see the beads being ripped off by my nieces within hours of getting it), but I think it looks pretty good. I forgot how time consuming woven bars are to do! It felt neverending. I also found the bead edging stitch to be fairly difficult and quite annoying. I referred to it often as the "stupid stitch." It turned out all right in the end.
Overall, the retreat was amazing. I am dead tired, and yet I feel refreshed, re-energized, and more like a real person than I have in a long time. It was good to take a few days for me without any guilt and with little thought for school and my responsibilities there. I didn't even check email!! (I dread going to check it now though.)
I've already put in my deposit for the October retreat!!
Sunday, February 17, 2013
My First Retreat
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Sounds and looks like you had a great stitchy retreat. Wish I could go to one.ReplyDelete
Sounds like a great weekend with plenty of stitching:)ReplyDelete
Sounds like you really had a lovely time! You certainly made some really good progress :)ReplyDelete
Wow! That sounds awesome! Stitch all day and night. Your SotW hardanger is lovely! What a pro you are at the French knots! Drama Queen looks fantastic!ReplyDelete
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To those who are saying that the House would just have to pass the Senate bill as it stands so that they wouldn't need 60 votes in the Senate again, I say it's that kind of thinking that took Single Payer off the table even before dinner was cooking!
Let's face it, we were sold out by the same Democrats who promised us change. Instead of change, we got more of the same government for the big corporations who
The fact that the Democratic Party is faced with the loss of the Senate seat that Ted Kennedy held for 46 years should be a massive wake-up call to the party of Hope & Change! WE VOTED FOR CHANGE! We voted for REAL health care reform, not a massive corporate giveaway to the for-profit health insurance
If Martha Coakley loses tomorrow, it's time for the Dems to make a deal. Not with Ben Nelson or Joe Lieberman or Mary Landrieu or Blanche Lincoln. But FOR us, the American people who voted them into office. Because if Martha Coakley loses tomorrow, it'll be because of the deals the White House and the ConservaDems and the Blue Dogs made with the devil for which they sold us out!
This deal should be for the people, pure and simple. The House will agree to pass the Senate bill as it is, on the condition that immediately, a companion bill is introduced through budget reconciliation - that would only require 51 votes to pass - that would give us a robust and meaningful public option, a medicare buy-in for people aged 55-64, re-importation of prescription drugs, and the end of the insurance industry anti-trust exemption.
And what if Martha Coakley wins tomorrow? They should do the same exact thing!
Democratic Leadership, LISTEN UP: Learn from your mistakes, and realize that the people are turning against you because we believe that you've turned against us. Show us that you're fighting for us, and we'll remember that feeling we had last January 20, when we really believed things were going to get better. If you don't learn from this experience, get ready for the Scott Browns to crawl out of their rat holes all over the country and wipe the floor with the Martha Coakley's because most of us won't believe a single thing you say, and will have no desire to vote for you at all.
Tonight, I'll be joined on my Air America radio show by Brent Budowsky, who's written a couple of pieces for The Hill on this topic ("If Massachusetts goes Republican, all hell breaks loose with healthcare!" and "Win One For The Ted," and Brad Friedman of BradBlog who has a warning about tomorrow's special election in Massachusetts because of the Diebold optical-scan machines in use there.
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Food Analysis Laboratory Guidelines
University of Kentucky, Department of Animal & Food Sciences, FSC 535
Laboratory Guidelines
Experiments will be done working in pairs, unless told otherwise. You are expected to have read the laboratory procedures for each experiment before coming to lab, and should be prepared to do the experiment. You should be prepared to follow the procedure given in the lab handout, and your notebook ready to record data.
All belongings except lab notebooks should be placed on the coat rack, or on the floor below the coat rack.
Wear lab coats while doing your experiments. You are required to wear glasses or safety goggles in the laboratory. Lab coats and safety glasses can be labeled with your name and left in boxes that will be returned to lab each week.
Report if any equipment breaks or is not working properly.
When finished with your experiment, clean up your workspace. Place all glassware on a cart for dirty glassware. All tape on dirty glassware should be removed. Glass pipettes should be placed in the pipette washer with the tips up. Return equipment to where you got it. Turn off balances after using, and clean up any mess that was made. Turn off spectrophotometers and pH meters when finished. Push in the chairs at your lab bench when you leave.
Laboratory Notebook
- Laboratory results must be placed in a laboratory book as described below.
- The notebook should have a table of contents designating the title of each experiment and page upon which it starts.
- Your notebook may be a three-ring notebook (i.e. loose-leaf notebook) into which you can insert all lab preparation materials, data calculations, lab procedure handouts, and returned lab reports. Keep all materials for each experiment together. If your notebook is bound and it has holes, your lab procedure handouts and returned lab reports can be inserted and attached in the notebook. Pages in the notebook should be numbered.
- All data, comments, calculations, timetable plans, etc. pertaining to the work done during an experiment should be entered directly into the notebook and not onto any other paper or book. THINK IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!
- The form of each notebook entry should be a) title of experiment & date initiated, b) brief objective statement, c) methods, referring to the laboratory procedure handout (note any changes in standard procedures), d) results including all raw data and calculations used to get final, reportable data along with pertinent comments. (i.e. enter data as you go; don't recopy neatly).
- NOTE: Occasionally firms or universities are involved in patent-litigation or for other reasons must be able to substantiate the validity and time of their laboratory work. Clarity and completeness of records contained in laboratory notebooks are vitally important in these cases. The notebooks in these cases must be bound books and all entries must be made in ink. The methods may be handouts taped into the book, or reference to published procedures is acceptable. Because the laboratory system for this class is not very conducive to the use of bound notebooks, loose-leaf notebooks are acceptable.
Laboratory Reports
Laboratory partners will alternate reports so that every other laboratory reports will be done entirely by one member of a group and the other member will do the other half of the reports. Typed reports should be turned in during the laboratory sessions and are due by 5 p.m., 1 week after completion of the experiment unless otherwise specified. Five (5) points will be deducted for each day a lab report is late. If a lab report is more than one week late, a grade of zero will be given. All lab reports should be turned in as hard copies (do not submit lab reports by e-mail). Any one lab report for a given student can be corrected and resubmitted for a change of grade within 2 weeks after the original is returned to the student (attach original with the resubmission).
The lab reports should be typed (except for figures and tables) and include the following:
- Your Name
- Experiment Title
- Introduction/Background/Underlying Principles of the Methods Used
- Results: calculations, tables and graphs
- Discussion of results and conclusions
- Answers to questions
- References if applicable (use the Journal of Food Science format)
Experimental data will be requested in tabular or graphical form. When calculations are involved, show one example of each type of calculation for each question (except simply calculating the mean of multiple trials), including the equations used, below the table or figure. Provide the appropriate statistical analysis of your data.
- Number each table in sequence
- Each table must have a clear & descriptive title so that the table can be understood without referring to the text.
- Show units of measure in the headings
- Use appropriate footnotes
- Number each figure in sequence
- Each figure must have an explicit & descriptive title
- Label each axis and give unit of measure
(x-axis = independent variable)
(y-axis = dependent variable)
nclude in lab report answers to questions asked in laboratory handout. Read the questions carefully. Answer all parts of the questions completely and concisely.
Reminders Concerning Common Problems with Lab Reports
When asked to give your data, give a complete listing of data, not just a summary or part of the data.
Include appropriate information in footnotes to tables.
Show equations used and give sample calculation for each type of calculation, using your data. Make sure it is clear where the numbers come from in your calculations. Label each value used in the equation with the appropriate units (i.e., grams per milliliter) and give the units of the final value.
When you analyze unknown samples, give the # of sample analyzed in your lab report. When you analyze a specific type of sample (when given a choice of many types of samples), state the type of sample analyzed in your lab report.
Give results in the units requested.
Round off your final values to the appropriate number of significant figures.
Do not average duplicate or triplicate values (e.g. absorbency or titration values) until at the end of your calculations. (i.e. Do calculations with each of the duplicate or triplicate values, before calculating the average.) When question asks for concentration, e.g. sugar content of soft drink, do calculation for each trial, then give the average as the concentration.
When an analysis involves dilution, be sure to use the appropriate dilution factors in your calculation.
When working with standard curves, calculate the equation of the line (e.g., using a Microsoft Excel program), then use that equation to obtain the values for your samples. Do not get the value directly from the line on the graph. However, you should use that as a check of the value you get from the equation of the line. Also, to obtain the slope of the standard curve, use points from the best fit line; not actual data points used to get the line.


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Dear Colleagues
On behalf of the organizing committee I welcome you to the 52nd Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons combined meeting with the Australian and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the New Zealand Society of Paediatric Surgeons.
This is going to be a sensational meeting, both for its scientific content and for its social opportunities. We invite you to enjoy our kiwi hospitality. We want you to have fun. And we want you to have a memorable holiday in one of the most spectacularly beautiful parts of the world.
The conference is to be held at the Christchurch Town Hall, at the heart of a city with a rich and vibrant history. This world class venue has recently been re built following the 2011 earthquakes and is now a world-class and modern meeting facility with stunning architecture. It is conveniently located in the central city on the banks of the Avon River, and is within easy walking distance of most of the key attractions of the city.
Christchurch itself is renowned for the timeless beauty of its parks and gardens, with the attractive and clear Avon River meandering through them. Christchurch is a city clearly focused on the future: it is still being repaired and rebuilt following the devastating 2010-2011 earthquakes, but already has a reputation for being vibrant and optimistic. It is enjoying its modern and unique architecture, an array of quality restaurants, and brand-new state-of-the-art facilities. It is keen to showcase these at this international meeting.
The appeal of this conference extends well beyond the city: Christchurch is located at the centre of New Zealand's scenic South Island with easy access to the numerous nearby mountains, lakes, rivers, hot pools, harbours and beaches - these provide a myriad of recreational opportunities including skiing, golf, bungy jumping, white water rafting, mountain biking, hiking and mountaineering, hot-air ballooning, gliding, wind surfing, whale watching and the opportunity to visit world class wineries and gardens. Make the most of them while you are here.
Our expectation is that this meeting will be one of the largest paediatric surgical meetings ever held in the Southern Hemisphere. Its content will encompass the full scope of paediatric surgery, and there will be something for everyone. We are configuring the scientific meeting in a way to maximize its value to conference delegates, and to allow more attendees to present their research and insights. There will also be a neonatal thoracoscopic workshop.
In short, this is not a meeting to be missed. The organising committee is determined to ensure you enjoy every minute of it, and that you will bring home a lot of knowledge and wisdom to use in your own surgical practice.
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.The Gentle Art. A martial art that traces its
roots over millennia. Throughout the vast lands of Asia, from monks
to Samurai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has a noble and important lineage.
Fast forward to the early 20th Century when Mitsuyo Maeda travelled to
Brazil and taught this ancient art to the Gracie Family – Father
Gastão and sons Carlos, Helio, George, Gastão and Oswaldo. As the
brothers put forth the famous 'Gracie Challenge' willing participants
came from far and wide to test themselves against these young men.
Carlos had been the original student of Mr Maeda and the teacher to
all of his brothers. The 'Gracie Challenge' met with great success.
The challengers came and were submitted. Not girth, nor strength, nor
size could defend the submissions by the Gracie brothers. No other
art or sport or technique could match the depth of Brazilian Jiu-
Jitsu. Nothing rivalled the effectiveness and speed of the Gracie
brothers' skill in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
This truth was to be tested once again in a fledging event called the
UFC. Royce Gracie was the one chosen by the family to fight in this
new event. With no rules, no time limits and no pre conceptions, this
was a true test of which art form would reign superior. As
illustrated in the earliest UFC events, the Gracie style of Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu trumped all other arts. It was truly a watershed moment.
Now to today. Fighting organizations have sprung up everywhere. The
UFC is a powerhouse. And Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu remains the go to art
form for MMA fighters. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is the ultimate foundation
for today's Mixed Martial Arts fighter. In no other art or sport or
technique does one find the depth and wealth of knowledge and
possibilities as exists in BJJ. With a standing component featuring
several take downs and submissions, with a ground game that has no
equal, BJJ is the only complete art for MMA.
As today's MMA fighter knows, the rules have changed drastically from
the earliest no holds barred events. In these earliest events, BJJ
was unmatched. Up kicks from the guard were allowed. The fight could
be started immediately on the ground. While fighting on the ground,
the fight was never stopped and forced to stand up. Perhaps these
drastic rules changes were in direct response to the superiority of
BJJ? Today's MMA fight is expected to be a battle standing. Today's
MMA fighter is expected to trade blows. While another art would've
withered and died in the face of these changes, BJJ has evolved and
come back stronger. This stand up game has only heightened the
importance of having your base in BJJ. As a practitioner of BJJ, you
have infinite possibilities to not only defend strikes, but to thwart
these attacks and submit your opponent. Removing yourself from these
blows, the BJJ fighter often emerges from the bout unscathed and
To further emphasize the incomparable validity of BJJ, think back to
the fight between Chael Sonnen and Anderson Silva. Sonnen, an MMA
fighter with a foundation in wrestling. Silva, an MMA fighter with a
foundation in Muay Thai. This bout was hard fought to say the least.
Silva was taking many blows from Sonnen and at one point it looked as
if Sonnen would be the victor. With only seconds left in the fight,
Silva went to the triangular choke. Finishing his opponent and
winning the fight. Only with BJJ could you pull out a victory in this
In another well known fight, Minotauro Nogueira submitted behemoth Bob
Sapp by arm bar after a true war. Sapp dwarfed Minotauro in size.
The match up was skill versus girth. Sapp dominated the fight with
his size and strength, throwing Minotauro around the ring like a rag
doll. Exhausted and losing the fight, Minotauro saw his opportunity.
He swept Sapp and got a beautiful arm bar from side control. No other
Martial Art could produce this result against an opponent with such
incredible size and strength.
My cousin and mentor, Renzo Gracie, denies no challengers. He will
fight any and all comers. This philosophy is at the root of Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu. He defends our family's art with a warrior's spirit.
Fighting against larger opponents, Renzo proves the effectiveness of
BJJ time and time again. UFC 6 Champion Oleg Taktarov was chosen as
Renzo's opponent in MARS (Martial Arts Reality Superfight) in the mid
90's. Taktarov was a Russian Sambo fighter and had a 70 pound weight
advantage. During the fight, Renzo attempted a takedown that was
stopped by Taktarov. Immediately pulling guard, Renzo was in his
element on the mat. Taktarov approached to ground and pound. Not
missing a beat, Renzo up kicked his opponent, thwarting the strikes
from the ground and pound. This allowed Renzo to throw the deciding
KO and end the fight. Another example, is his fight against Maurice
Smith which was won by arm bar in the first minutes of the fight. His
bout against Wataru Sakata was also a victory for him by arm bar.
Both of these fights were in Rings – King of Kings in Japan. Both
opponents have a minimum of a 60 pound weight advantage. Neither
could defend the technique of BJJ. In his fight against Pat
Miletich, Renzo won by guillotine. The fight began standing and ended
standing, with Renzo jumping onto Miletich and capturing him in a
guillotine. His record goes on to show many other victories by
submission. He is a true BJJ and MMA pioneer and legend.
As the sport of MMA evolves from it's earliest beginnings, so too does
BJJ. This Martial Art is like no other. In no other art do you find
such a flexible base. BJJ is for all sizes, styles, body types and
abilities. As is the basis of our philosophy, we welcome all. If
this is not the best base for MMA, then I don't know what is.
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Natal teeth are teeth that are present when a baby is born. The teeth are often not fully developed and may have a weak root.
Natal teeth are not common. They are not the same as neonatal teeth that erupt in the child's mouth during the first month of life.
Natal teeth may sometimes look like normal teeth. But they are often:
Treatment will depend on your child's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Your child's dentist or healthcare provider may decide no treatment is needed. In other cases, natal teeth may be loose because the root is not fully developed. The teeth may then be removed. This done to lower the risk of your child inhaling the tooth into his or her airways. Or the teeth may be removed if they are damaging your baby's tongue. Another choice may be to smooth the top edges of the teeth. This prevents damage to your child's tongue.
Complications that may happen as a result of natal teeth are:
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your child's healthcare provider: