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Dear Amy: I have been married for 40 years. A couple of years ago I found out my husband was cheating on me. I have learned that he has been unfaithful to me during almost all of our marriage.
He claims to love this other woman but says he loves me too, and he keeps going back and forth between us, swearing he will never see her again and that he doesn't love her anymore (lies).
Our two grown daughters will not associate with their father anymore. I have lost friends and faced scorn from family because I keep trying to save the marriage for the sake of the family.
My husband has left me several times to be with this other woman but keeps coming back for various reasons, and I keep taking him back because I believe him. He says he loves me, but I think he doesn't want to lose our friends, family and lifestyle.
There is no trust or intimacy or real affection between us anymore. I do not want to give up everything I've worked so hard for all my life, and if I divorce, the other woman will get half of that.
I don't know if I love him, but I want to stay with him. I have gone for counseling but that does no good. My friends and family think I should walk away from the marriage because a leopard does not change its spots, but I don't know how to end it after so many years. I keep clinging to the situation hoping it will improve. It won't get better, will it? What should I do?
— Betrayed
Dear Betrayed: If you truly want to stay with your husband, then you should figure out how to happily engage in an "open" marriage with him and this other woman.
You don't seem able to do this, however. I imagine it is confusing and heartbreaking to be yanked back and forth by your husband. His behavior and your acquiescence keeps you permanently off-kilter, and this is why you are so paralyzed right now. You know you should leave the relationship, but you have been conditioned to stay.
You are not in this marriage for the sake of your family. Your kids have already checked out and your family and friends are mystified. You need to imagine how painful your passivity and paralysis is for your children, friends and family to witness.
Clinging to a marriage because you are clinging to a lifestyle is a natural — but shallow — impulse. The minute you are able to let go of this idea, the more liberated you will feel.
Speak to a professional counselor (or your bravest friend). Start the conversation by saying, "I'm scared and I need help."
Dear Amy: I am a soon-to-be divorced middle-aged man.
My daughter has a boyfriend, and I have known his mother since we were both teenagers. She has been divorced for five years.
We've had this unspoken thing for each other for over 30 years. We met for drinks and hit it off, just talking about our kids. Is it wrong to take it to the next level?
— Wondering Dad
Dear Dad: If by "the next level" you mean waiting until your divorce is final and then pursuing a romantic relationship with this friend — then I say, go for it! Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.
Dear Amy: I could really relate to the letter from "Tired," who had the misfortune to work in a place where loud music destroyed his/her ability to concentrate.
I had a similar problem at work. I find that any music with lyrics is extremely distracting.
We solved this problem by everyone in my section agreeing to turn the overhead music off. Those that still wanted music were permitted to bring their own sources in and either play it at an extremely low volume or use earphones — as long as it didn't interfere with our work or our interaction with customers.
It was a peaceful solution.
— Earful
Dear Earful: The advent of ear buds has made our world a little quieter, and I am grateful.


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Take a break from Olympic recaps on CTV Tuesday night and tune your radio to 90.1 CJSF (in the Vancouver area) or listen online at CJSF Campus/Community Radio, based out of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, and Vancouver musician Adaline will be speaking with local artists who have been affected by homelessness as part of the International Homelessness Marathon / Canadian Homelessness Marathon. Those in the area can come to a live studio braodcast at the W2 Culture and Media House at 112 W Hastings from 8–10pm.
Running through the night, this 14-hour marathon is a collaboration of national community and campus radio programming featuring the voices and stories of homeless people in the United States and Canada.
The Homelessness Marathon was started in 1998 by Jeremy Weir Alderson, host of "The Nobody Show" which was then broadcast weekly on WEOS in Geneva, NY, as a result of the heartsickness he was feeling at the huge homelessness problem in New York City.
The Marathon took up force in Canada after being adopted by McGill University's CKUT radio in 2004.
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X. "Hot-Air Furnaces and Air-Tight Stoves," The Cultivator [Albany, NY] 5:2 (Feb. 1848): 51.
Editors Cultivator—I have noticed the remarks in the Cultivator during the past year, by Geo. Geddes and others, on the advantages of Hot-Air Furnaces. Having used one in my own house for the past seven or eight years, constructed in a manner precisely similar to those described, I can endorse with confidence all, or nearly all, that has been said in their favor. There are, however, some defects which should be known. These defects are not merely attached to poorly constructed ones, for mine was a good one with a large stove and eight drums, well put together so as not to smoke.
The advantages, as have been before stated, are chiefly, the facility with which large wood, four feet long, may be used without cutting or splitting; keeping up only one fire for several rooms; freedom from dirt and ashes, from stoves and fire-places; saving in room; freedom from cold currents through door-cracks, &c.; and uniform temperature day and night.
The disadvantages are, the furnace, unless in a very large cellar, so as to be entirely separated by partitions from the rest of the cellar, heats it too much, usually causing the speedy decay of apples, &c.; it occupies as much room below as it saves above stairs; the wood being heavy, but few women can lift it, and hence a man must be at hand; the fire being away, out of sight, is apt to be forgotten and neglected till too low; after standing and absorbing moisture during summer, the plaster and brick-work throw off an unpleasant and damp smell into the rooms for some days after the fire is first commenced in autumn; the cost, in no case, of a good furnace, can be much less than a hundred dollars. Not one of the least objections is the difficulty of regulating the heat properly in rapidly changing weather, as from cold to warm, from warm to cold, or from calm to windy. Large sticks six inches to a foot in diameter will be an hour or two in getting thoroughly on fire; and when once on fire, continue burning half a day or more. In the meantime there may be a considerable change in the weather, in which case the rooms may be greatly overheated, or become too cold to be comfortable. It often happens that a fire is built up for the night, while the weather is calm; a fresh wind springing up in the night will rapidly diminish the heat of the rooms; or, if the weather is windy when the fire is made, and the wind then subsides, the heat soon becomes oppressive. It is found to require twice as much wood in a high wind, at 25 degrees, as in a calm at zero. Wind also changes the course of the ascending hot air in the pipes, warming those rooms chiefly which lie in a direction from the wind, often sweeping the air from the windward rooms down the hot-air pipes, and out of the air chamber through the feeding pipe. This is a serious inconvenience. It may indeed be obviated by properly adjusting the registers, and by two or three cold-air feeding pipes on opposite sides of the furnace, to be closed or opened as the case requires; or a new fire may be built of small wood, if the weather suddenly becomes windy; or, on the other hand, if it suddenly becomes calm or warmer, the fire may be smothered with ashes, or lessened by shutting the fire draft. But all these require much attention; more than farmers generally are willing to give; and would be a grievous tax on a housekeeper where no man is at hand.
Every establishment, therefore, which cannot keep an attentive hired man always at hand, should not be encumbered with a furnace. But in a large house, where such care can be constantly given, and where there are as many as five or six rooms to be constantly heated, a good furnace will be found altogether the most convenient mode. It is also just the thing for large schools, where many apartments are in daily use, obviating the care and interruption of replenishing fires in the separate rooms; or for hotels, and large public buildings generally.
For small houses, nearly all the advantages of the hot-air furnace are secured by the use of the best airtight, self-regulating sheet iron stoves. The cost of two or three of these is much less than of a furnace; they are always at hand and easily fed; they consume less wood by nearly one-half, as I have amply proved by long experience with both; and they will maintain a fire as long during the night as a furnace. The very common objection to the furnace, that every part of the room is heated alike, and that every person whether thinly or warmly dressed, must endure the same heat; or those who have been all day riding in the cold can have no warmer fire than others, is wholly obviated by the air-tight stove. So rapidly may a room be heated with one of these, that five minutes are scarcely needed in any case; while the self-regulator, properly adjusted, will preserve an equable temperature for a long time. With an additional improvement — that of inserting a transparent plate of mica in the regulating valve, the light from the fire would be thrown into the room, and the advantage so much prized by many, of seeing the "cheerful blaze,"would be at least partially attained.
With one of the larger sized air-tight stoves, (Race's $14 ones,) I am enabled to heat a family room and three adjacent sleeping apartments, more comfortably than I could formerly with a furnace; for which one cord of good wood will last about one month of average winter weather; and my fruit and vegetables now keep well in the cellar.
But airtight stoves have their difficulties. These are two in number, namely—the sudden puffs of smoke or explosions; and the inconvenience of pipes choked with soot, or dripping with pyroligneous acid. The first never takes place except when the stove is closely shut. Impure carburetted hydrogen from the burning wood mixes with the air in the stove, and then taking fire causes the explosion. This is usually only a puff of smoke, but sometimes it has been sufficiently strong to lift the small cast iron plate which covers the hole in the top of the stove. The explosions may be obviated by adjusting the regulator so that it shall not entirely close, till the wood is half consumed. The carburetted hydrogen will not collect while a slight current of air is sweeping through the stove, and rarely except when the wood is in its early stages of combustion. The dripping of pyroligneous acid is prevented by reversing the joints of the pipe, those above being inserted into the next ones below, rendering it impossible for the liquid to escape. To prevent the pipe becoming soon choked with soot, nearly all should be perpendicular or nearly so, so that by knocking on its sides, the adhering soot may fall. One of my stoves was at first fitted with seven feet of horizontal pipe; but in five weeks it was perfectly choked with soot. The stove was then moved, and the pipe made vertical. By knocking down the soot once a fortnight, no difficulty from this source is now experienced. Where the draft is considerable, the soot does not so rapidly accumulate; hence in using another stove, less perfectly made, no inconvenience was found either from dripping or soot, for some months.
A self-regulating stove, made of Russia sheet-iron, will last, it is believed, under ordinary circumstances, not less than fifteen years. X.


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1. Food
Everything you slide it has effects on or in your body. Also at dry skin. Briefly summarized eat vitamins and minerals until you drop, eat fiber (also good for bowel movement), drink, spoon or eat enough dairy, eat twice weekly red meat for the proteins and provide enough omega 3 (which is mainly in fatty fish). You're quite close to healthy skin from the inside out.
2. Smoking
How fine a cigarette can be, smoking is really a NO-GO for people with such troublesome skin. Smoking minimizes the fluid balance in your body and this is very detrimental for dry skin.
3. Back in the days
Dry skin, also seems a real ailment of "now", and the bath is causing this. Do you suffer from dry skin? Go up twice a week in the bath and use soap rather than oil-based soap. The more soap lather, the harder they degreased.
4. Soap? Rather not!
As we said above already, but soap is actually a great enemy of the dry skin. Because we are still fresh for the day to come: Use only pH neutral soap or soap-based oil. Lubricate after you with a nice thick body cream. No milk, because it dries the skin further.
5. Sleep tight
Say no to parties, and sleep from now on every day at 23:00 and then eight hours. During sleep restores the skin and because it has a dry skin badly. Put also a container of water in your heater, this increases the humidity in your room making your skin less moisture loss.
6. Excercise
Take a bike, walking the stair and go an extra round jogging. Because yes, also move your skin is better. Exercise promotes the circulation and shows good results for our skin. What are you doing to combat dry skin?


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Are you an experienced Mendix Web Developer who wants to deliver applications 6 times faster? Mendix-based development makes this possible. For us, a Rapid Web Developer is known as a Mendix Business Engineer.
A Mendix Business Engineer within Appronto fulfills a key role in defining and implementing solutions for our customers. You may work for established names such as ING, Arbo Unie and KNAB, but also for startups like Collin Crowdfund (the largest crowdfunding platform in the Netherlands) and Enqlare (the Uber of the cargo ship sector). In consultation with the customer, you determine the needs and translate them into a quality solution.
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- Fun events with the entire team
- A lot of job satisfaction and humor
Hiring procedure
- Preliminary phone call with Bas
- Technical / project content conversation with Mendix MVP Herbert
- Homework; building and presenting your Mendix App


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Sue -- whose name has been changed at her request -- was a disturbed 15- year-old when an astute counselor at an Orlando middle school recognized her suicidal tendencies. He called We Care, Central Florida's suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization.
''I was in bad shape,'' Sue, 19, recalled recently. ''I didn't fit in at school and I didn't fit in out of school.'' She was having severe problems with her family as well.


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So, it's that time of the year. It's vacation time. (Notice how I'm saying this as if I actually went on holiday once a month!)
After an early rise at six in the morning and arriving at the airport at 9:30, we learned that we couldn't actually check in before eleven so the first hour of our vacation was spent sipping stale diet coke and – due to a nervous stomach – visiting the surprisingly Mediterranean airport bathroom about a dozen times while telling my body that no, it wasn't getting any food it would be able to use as a weapon against me. Can you tell I don't deal well with traveling by plane?
After checking in, we immediately sat in a café in what I swear is the tiniest departure waiting area in the world. People were sitting in each other's laps (well, almost) until it was time to walk to the plane. Yes, I said walk. No nifty gates or shuffles. Walk. By foot.
I'll spare you the details of how I clawed at the armrest of my seat, temporarily turned Christian so I could confess my sins and hope for the best and generally drove everyone insane with my cries of "Oh my god, we're gonna die!!" So fast forward two hours and…
Tadaaaa! We're in Mallorca!
Everything seemed to go so fast from there. John Lennon welcomed us to the island while we were being driven to our hotel. When we looked at the clock once we'd arrived at our hotel, over two hours had passed since we'd touched ground in Palma. But it had seemed like no time at all. We'd been so worried about a million little things since we'd booked online and through an independent travel agency. But everything went so smoothly.
And the hotel! Oh my! It's a cute little place, none of these huge modern resorts but recently remodeled. The room is small but so gorgeous and we have the most stunning view of the sea and the lighthouse from our balcony.
When we arrived, it was close to dinner time and since we were absolutely famished, we only walked down to the port to look at the sea and then went back to have dinner. Which was also really good. Some reviews had said that the buffet didn't offer much variety. Which I can already say is crap. It's only our first night and we were already overwhelmed with food. And actual fresh food, too. Not the usual offerings of fries, noodles and some weird meat. Instead there were six or seven different kinds of salad, homemade pasta, fish and at least five different veggie dishes. And please don't get me started on the desserts! I didn't want to stop eating but after not eating all day, I didn't want to overwhelm my body.
And I'm sorry to say, this was our first day here. I would have loved to go on a nice walk after dinner but the tiny bit of energy I had left only allowed for a nice cold drink from the hotel bar and an early night in to type this on my phone and letting the background noise of crappy television lull me to sleep.
So…I'll leave you with a few impressions of Rodney and me and the sea and the moon.


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July 14, 2011
The one thing I was most curious and anxious about when I applied for the JET Program was my placement, a.k.a. my new home in Japan. Unlike the interview and acceptance notices, the placement notifications were unprecedentedly late (by a whole month). It was great news to know that I was accepted but then surreal to believe I'd actually moving to Japan in only three months when I hadn't heard from the consulate in so long.
The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami happened a month before I was informed that I had been accepted. At first, the fears of my loved ones had been completely unfounded seeing that I hadn't even been accepted yet. However, as that terrible situation continued to unfold, news of my acceptance brought about genuine concern and anxiety. On the application that I submitted in November, you are allowed to request up to three places (with no guarantee that you'll be placed in any of them). Not heeding the advice given to me about the likelihood of receiving a popular request, I put choices like Kyoto and Hirakata (near Osaka). These places are familiar to me since I had studied abroad at two universities in the area, but weakened my chances of actually getting a requested location.
As suspected, the delay was in fact due to the March 11th events. When the events happened, CLAIR, one of the JET Program branches, had to drop everything concerning getting the new applicants established with a contracting organizations (CO) and instead confirm the safety of their current JETs. This was, of course, completely understandable but it created a unique set of circumstances for this year's batch of new JETs. Being accepted into the program is not the end but more like being three quarters on your way to moving to Japan. The more time you have knowing where you're placed allows you to prepare more effectively, get in contact with your predecessor and schools, mail boxes over, and so on.
The days of June 13 / 15 / 28, 2011:
This odd assortment of dates represent when I finally knew the details of my placement. On June 13th, I was contacted via an unknown email that turned out to be my CO. They had a random question about my preferred living arrangement. This was a very perplexing way to find out my placement because 1) your CO should not be contacting you before your consulate does, 2) I had only been told the prefecture I was in, not the city, and 3) how do I tell them my preferred living arrangement without outright stating my exact preference of city? The last one I handled well. I volunteered that there was only one city I had been to in that prefecture and that I wouldn't mind going back to live in it. This strategy either went unnoticed or failed in the end. ::le sigh:: So which prefecture? Hyogo! But, but where in Hyogo?! Hyogo is ginormous! So that city I mentioned? A little place called Kobe. You might have heard of it as one of the most popular, well-known, cities in Japan. Kind of exciting right? I practiced restrained excitement, but already knew I'd be in Kansai, my area of preference and thus was hugely relieved.
On June 15th, I was contacted via email by my Consulate with the kind of subject line I had originally anticipated - "JET Placement!" This was nothing but a huge tease since I was hoping to find out more concrete information. It turned out I am what is called a Prefectural JET and so my Consulate only knows my prefecture until my CO contacts me with more information. Considering I had been asked nearly everyday if I had heard my placement, I decided to let my family and friends know the prefecture even if I didn't know the city yet. They were so happy and relieved as well.
So without much else to go on, I finally started researching my prefecture!
Hyōgo Prefecture is know as 'The Heart of Japan' because it is geographically the center of the country. When I think about it, Japan has always been in my heart so I found it fitting that I'd be living in its figurative heart as well. As I mentioned earlier, prior to learning my placement, the only time I had been in Hyōgo was to visit the capital city, Kobe. I loved the ultra-modernness of Kobe even though I was only able to see the port area. I hadn't tried Kobe beef either so I was excited to go back and have some ridiculously expensive and delicious meat! Hyōgo is also known as 'Japan in miniature.' This is because the prefecture is rich in traditional and contemporary culture, full of natural beauty, and home to a highly modernized society and business market. Japan as a whole is often remarked upon for having these contrasting yet appealing aspects and considering this one prefecture possesses all of these traits, makes 'Japan in miniature' a fitting description.
I was very excited to live here after just reading a few things about this place. But like I said, Hyōgo is a large prefecture and my eyes couldn't help but roam towards eastern Hyōgo where I could be more closely located to my requested cities of Kyoto and Hirakata as well as other large cities like Kobe, Osaka, and Nara.
Finally, on June 28th while away in New York visiting my brother, I was watching a Project Runway marathon, having a conversation, and checking my email at the same time (ADD or great multi-tasker? you decide) when I noticed the email from my CO. Quite matter-of-factly, he wrote that I would be at Hikami Senior High and gave me a link to the school's website. My first shock was that I was at a high school. I had requested elementary but I later guessed the teaching experience listed on my application better suited me for high school. Next, I rushed to find out where in all of Hyogo Hikami was, only to find out that recently, Hikami had been merged with six other towns to form the city of Tamba - in eastern Hyōgo!! I must admit that this wasn't how I felt at first. I had foolishly hoped too much for Kobe and had also seen some other towns even closer to Kyoto and Osaka. In the end I realized I was being ridiculous though since I definitely could've been on the other side of the prefecture, way too far from my favorite places to go often at all. The town also seems a quite rural, something else I hadn't requested, but at least people have heard of it which was definitely a good sign.
Here's Tamba City in Eastern Hyogo!
As you can see, I am not that far from the major cities I requested (total city girl here). In fact, according to Google maps, I'm about 2 hours all these major cities, making them definite options for weekend trips!
There you have it! Though I'm excited and grateful for being placed in Hyōgo, at the moment I'm more focused on soaking up Miami and making sure I'm ready for the transition.
Here I come!


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Prior to Virtual Volumes, traditional VMFS implementations imposed a range of datastore-based management and performance challenges on VM admins responsible for delivering SLAs to mission-critical applications. No longer. Per-VM data services are here. Have a look.
At its core, VVols aligns application resource needs with storage services at the level of the individual VM. This per-VM granularity, combined with the advanced capabilities of FlashArray, assures per-VM SLAs, simplifies per-VM management, and delivers per-VM portability.
It's simple to set up, deploy, manage, and maintain your virtual environment with VVols on FlashArray. Register a highly-available and stateless VASA provider hosted on FlashArray's controllers, create a VVol datastore, and import policies. Then you're good to go.
VVols makes possible simple, straightforward management for your SQL Server and Oracle databases at the VM level. You get all the rich data services of FlashArray for your VMware environment. Check out the details on our blog.
While you can easily migrate VMFS datastores to VVols in minutes, Pure gives you the flexibility to run both datastore types on FlashArray. Go 100% VVols, or run a mixture, with mission-critical and compliance-dependent apps on VVols. It's entirely up to you.


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Chris Burch is one of those big names from America that have received special recognition for what they have been doing towards changing the economy of the country. He happens to be a hero in the sector and has been on the frontline working for progress and better governance. He happens to the chairman and the CEO of the famous Burch Creative Capital. He also happens to have been a great investor and an entrepreneur. He has been on the frontline establishing so many companies in the hospitality, fashion and even in the technology industries. They have been working closely with his wife for the betterment of their dreams and have worked tirelessly towards making the startups a reality. He co-founded a company known as Tory Burch alongside his loving wife known as Tory Burch who happened to have been an experienced fashion designer.
Chris Burch co-founded Tory Burch LLC in the year 2004 and has continued to be a large shareholder in the same company. Some other investments he has made include Trademark which happened to have been a clothing business which they launched together with his two daughters. He also happens to have been a proud owner of the famous Nihiwahtu Resort that is based in Indonesia and also the leading resort hotel in the world. It has been nominated as one of the best. Check this link on businessinsider.com to read more about the famous resort. He has also invested in the famous Aliph which happens to be the owner of the famous Jawbone who is the maker of Blue Tooth headsets, speakers and also fitness trackers. He is also a co-founder of Poppin, a company that sells all office supplies.
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Chris Burch was born and also raised in Pennsylvania and he always says how terrible he was as a student. He did not take his books seriously and saw nothing important by sacrificing his time to study. He has always the last in his elementary studies. His parents were always concerned and even could change their son to attend different schools. According to bjtonline.com, he later went to Ithaca College in the year 1976 and at school, he started selling preppy sweaters together with his sister at the campus. They had an initial investment of $2,000 and the company expanded at a very high rate. The company was called Eagle's Eye which they got from their father's nickname. Their business was able to open over 50 branches to so many places and they were able to sell the investment at a very good price. Read more news about the diversity of his business investment, head over to the website, hit on burchcreativecapital.com.
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Sony has finally announced the long awaited SLT-A77 Translucent Mirror digital camera. The A77 replaces the A700 which was announced four years ago. Many has referred to this camera has a game changer, after many of its specs has been leaked to the web through out 2011. Now that it's here, it's time to get a closer look at what seems to be one of the most interesting DSLR cameras to date.
Introduction to Sony A77
The Sony A77 (α77) is the latest and most advanced digital camera carrying Sony's Translucent Mirror Technology. For those who don't know, this technology takes advantage of a semi-transparent fixed mirror, which transmits thirty percent of the light to the AF sensor and seventy percent of the light to the 24-megapixel Exmor™ APS HD CMOS sensor.
By utilizing this Translucent Mirror technology, the a77 can continuously autofocus on moving subjects when shooting in a fast 12fps burst rate or while shooting movie clips. Indeed, other DSLR cameras do that as well, but there is a marginal difference. The A77 has a much faster and accurate continuous focus, and it utilizes a phase-detection sensor, compared to a contrast-detection sensor on DSLR cameras.
That leads to a much faster and more accurate continuous AF, and allows the camera to capture sequence images in a much faster frame-rate. The Sony SLT-A77 can capture sequenced images at an astonishing speed of 12 frames-per-second. Remember that we are talking about an enthusiast camera, not a professional DSLR, where you expect to see such performance. In fact, the a77 has the fastest continuous shooting speed in any ASP-C cameras on the market today.
This is just a glimpse of what you can expect to get when you put your money and invest in such a beautiful digital imaging masterpiece. In this article, I want to go over the key specs and features of this brand-new SLT Alpha digital camera from Sony, and help you decide whether this is the next camera that you should purchase for yourself this year (or next year).
Brand New 24.3 MP Sensor
One of the specs highlights of the a77 is a new Exmor™ APS HD CMOS sensor (23.5 X 15.6mm) populated with 24.3-megapixels (Effective). This is the highest resolution on any APS-C size sensor to-date.
At the time you are reading those lines, you probably asking yourself why Sony had decided to so many pixels, instead of being satisfied with 16MP or 18MP? – I personally don't have a scientific answer for that, but I can just assume that many enthusiast photographers wanted to have this in a high-end SLT camera.
The thing is with ultra-high resolution sensors, is that you get more pixel density (considering the same sensor size), which means smaller pixels that each one is less sensitive to light. In general, this could lead to an increase of noise, especially when shooting photos in high ISO sensitivities.
According to Sony, the new Exmor™ APS HD CMOS represents a new generation of highly sensitive sensors. For you, the photographer, it means that not just that you get more image resolution, but the image quality won't be degraded compared to other models with fewer pixels. Even more than that, one of Sony's representative said on Sony's blog that the image quality was actually improved.
So what you can do with such a high resolution photo? – well, you can have more room for cropping your photos if that's what you like. You can order very large prints and get to capture very small details that sometimes cannot be seen on lower resolution sensors. So it's all about high quality and detailed image. I can just imagine how 1:1 macro images will look when captured with the A77 – should look pretty awesome.
The sensor sensitivity starts from ISO 100 and climbs up to ISO 16000. ISO50 is also available as expanded ISO range. The upgraded BIONZ™ image processor promises very low noise and updated algorithms that should reduce noise in High ISO and long-exposure shots. So it seems that with every new-generation digital camera, we get to raise the pixel limit but at the same time maintaining and even improving the image quality as well.
Camera Design
The design of the Sony SLT-A77 has changed considerable, although it still maintains some of the design characteristics of the A700 which this camera replaces. The camera has a much more curvy/rounded design and doesn't look like a brick as the A700 which it replaces.
This is a camera that Sony is very proud of. I personally think that the a77 is probably the most important camera that was announced by Sony since it entered the DSLR business in 2005. I actually admire Sony for keeping up and maintaining this line of cameras, that in comparison to Olympus, who has decided to focus on mirrorless cameras and ditch its efforts in the DSLR business.
At the top-right part of the a77 camera you can see an information LCD panel, a pop-up flash, stereo microphone, buttons and the mode-dial on the left side. At the rear, we get to see buttons that allow us quick access to popular functions and the buttons are spread nicely on the right side of the camera.
At the left side we have the 3.0" TFT Xtra Fine™ LCD (921,600 pixels) TruBlack™ technology LCD. This is a unique articulating screen, which tilt up 150 degrees and down 180 degrees, and it can rotate 180 degrees clockwise and 90 degrees counterclockwise. That gives the photographer a complete freedom for controlling the positioning of the LCD while composing images or shooting video clips.
This is a very high-quality display that complements this 2nd generation Translucent Mirror Camera design and the company's vision for coming up with one of the most exciting enthusiast cameras on the market.
The body of the camera was built to last. It's made with magnesium-alloy which is both very durable, but light weight at the same time. The body is weather-resistant, so does the official complementary vertical battery grip (VG-C77AM) that was designed exclusively for the a77.
The a77 is has well-defined ergonomic shape and has good depth for improved ergonomics for shooting hand-held. So as you can see, quite a lot of effort was invested into the design of the Sony A77, and the result looks very great, both in terms of ergonomics, usability, style and durability.
World's First OLED Viewfinder
Yes, you are reading the above title correctly. The Sony α77 is the first camera to use an OLED electronic viewfinder. This Tru-Finder™ OLED EVF features 2359k-dot (XGA) resolution and provides bright, high contrast and precise 100% frame coverage. From what I've read, many people won't even notice that they are viewing the scene via an electronic viewfinder and not through an optical one.
Having an EVF brings some new qualities and improves the composition facilities available for the advanced photographer. For example, you can preview white balance and exposure effect in real-time via the viewfinder, which wasn't available on DSLR cameras with optical viewfinder.
This is a great improvement over previous models where you could spot the pixels due to a lower-resolution LCD. This brand-new OLED viewfinder gives the photographer better control over the composition and being able to predict the final imaeg output. This is a very clear and bright viewfinder that will make shooting with the a77 a great joy.
12 fps Burst at Full Resolution
Sports photographers will love to hear that the Sony Alpha SLT-A77 can shoot 12 frames-per-second at Full 24.3MP resolution. That's an astonishing achievement, and we need to give the credit to the translucent mirror technology, which brings professional class leading burst rates to an enthusiast-level camera. Furthermore, you can shoot at 12fps and the camera will utilize the continuous AF even in continuous shooting mode. According to Sony (and I believe Sony), that this is the world's fastest shooting speed for an APS-C camera to-date.
So who will enjoy this blazing-fast burst rate? – Well, will start with sports photographers, who can take advantage of every single frame to stop the subject and capture gorgeous sports photos. You can use it to capture sequenced photos of surfing, basketball, football, Ski, baseball, racing cars or any other sports activity where the subjects moves fast across the frame.
So there you have it, a blazing fast continuous shooting at 12 frames-per-second that answers the needs of the most enthusiast sports photographer. You don't need to purchase a very expensive pro-grade DSLR to enjoy this speed. Another great achievement from Sony.
Want to know how 12 fps sounds like? – Go to 3:25 in the timeline and just listen to the marvelous sound of the A77 machine gun!
Amazing, isn't it?
Also worth mentioning that the camera can shoot at a maximum shutter speed of 1/8000 sec and the shutter was tested for up to 150,000 cycles – another great reason why sports photographers should look into this new camera.
Full HD Progressive 60p and 24p Movies
The video is another area where Sony wanted to improve upon with the release of the a77. With the a77 you can now record movie clips at Full HD 1920×1080 resolution in 60p (progressive), 60i (interlaces) or at 24p cinematic frame-rate. Previous models were only capable of shooting in 60i (interlaced). It means that the sensor recorded the video at 30p but the camera output the file in a 60i wrapper for better smooth looking video.
"Interlaced" means that only half of the image resolution lines is available for each frame, while in progressive mode, all the lines are there for each single frame in the video. That means that you get better IQ, while still maintaining the smooth viewing experience of 60 fps.
The SLT-A77 incorporates the latest AVCHD™ Progressive (Ver. 2.0) format for improved image quality and still maintain relatively smaller files so you can easily upload the videos to the web.
The a77 has a built-in stereo microphone for recording videos with high quality, crystal-clear stereo sound, Dolby Digital (AC-3) / MPEG-4 AAC-LC audio format.
SteadyShot INSIDE™
Sony's SteadyShot INSIDE refers to the in-camera image stabilization mechanism that incorporated into all Sony's DSLR cameras in the Alpha range. This mechanism combats camera shake and helps to minimize blurring in your images while shooting in low-shutter speeds. I doesn't matter which lens you use (ie. Macro , telephoto , old Konica-Minolta, wide-angle lenses, etc.), Sony SteadyShot INSIDE will stabilize the image while shooting hand-held.
This mechanism works in a way that it cancels camera shake by moving the sensor in the opposite direction of the camera movement. This unique mechanism is also referred to as Sensor-shift image stabilization, opposed to lens-shift, where the correction is made inside the lens, by moving the lens elements to compensate the camera movement in the opposite direction.
The SteadyShot INSIDE on the A77 is the latest generation of this system, that was improved to be more energy-efficient and more compact in size. Sony continues to improve this mechanism to allow better stop advantage and improving the overall performance and accuracy of this mechanism.
Here's a video that talks about this mechanism that was also incorporated in the Sony A55 and of course in all Sony's Alpha DSLR and SLT cameras.
The advantages of sensor-shift image stabilization and IS in general:
- Stabilize any lens that is mounted on the camera, including old Konica-Minolta lenses
- Saves you money, because you don't need to pay more to get a stabilized lens
- Combats camera shake, with is very useful when shooting with long telephoto-zoom lenses and when shooting with slow shutter speeds
Embedded GPS for Geo-Tagging Photos
Sony Alpha SLT-A77 features an in-camera GPS receiver. This GPS connects to satellites where the camera can receive location coordinates and use that data to automatically embed the location data for each photo taken with the a77. This is called geo-tagging, and it became a very demanded and popular function when software and online photo sharing services start using this GPS metadata for arranging, managing and displaying photos, whether online or offline.
For example, Flickr, an online photo sharing community website, allows photographers to upload photos and display them on a map. That can help you find specific photos that were shot at a specific location, by location them on a large map. This feature available to any Flickr member.
Geo-tagging becomes a problem when you don't have a GPS receiver in your camera that can automatically geo-tag your photos. If you don't have an internal GPS, you'll need to use an external receiver and then embed that data in your photos using an external computer program. In fact, you can use your iPhone or any mobile phone with a GPS to track your location and then synchronize the location data with your photos.
Again, this is a hard work, and I personally don't geo-tag my photos when I shoot with my Nikon D3100 (Although I want to). Having an embedded GPS antenna in your camera really simplifies things considerably. All you need to do is to continue doing what you enjoy doing, taking photos, and the camera will make sure that all your photos are geo-tagged – It's Simple and it works right out-of-the-box.
So there you go, another useful feature that we wanted to have, and now we have it on the SLT-A77. Enthusiast photographers will certainly appreciate this.
Should you Buy It?
The A77 is a really unique camera, not revolutionary but indeed evolutionary for the reasons I've stated above. I still haven't mentioned the 3D Sweep Panorama™ Mode, Sweep Panorama™ Mode, in-camera HDR, Dynamic Range Optimizer (DRO) and 6-image layering option to shoot six images for one clean multi-frame image. There are also a wide range of nice effects which you can apply to both stills and videos.
However, when you buy a camera like the Sony A77, you probably have some degree of experience as a photographer. You know your way around using the camera and your search for an advanced gear that will help you become more creative. The Sony SLT-A77 is exactly the camera that many enthusiast photographers will be looking for in 2011/2012.
I do believe that some Canon and Nikon photographers will make a switch and try experimenting with this new magnificent piece of equipment. We still need to stay alerted because Canon and Nikon still haven't introduced the replacement for their cameras, including the Nikon D300s (Nikon D400?), Canon 5D Mark II (5D MK III?) or Canon EOS 7D (7D MK II?). Some people might prefer to wait a bit to see what Canon and Nikon are planning. I think that waiting can take forever, and the Sony did an amazing job with the A77 with all the amazing features and come with it.
I have a good feeling that reviews will do justice with this camera, and the image quality will stand at the same level with the magnificent wide arsenal of features that the A77 offers. The A77 is certainly a camera that you should consider buying this year.
Let's not forget the excellent range of high optical quality lenses in the Alpha range, including Carl-Zeiss brand lenses. If you want to jump onto the Sony wagon, this is the best time to do so with the A77.
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This is a project that we did for MBCFI to visualize the ruined house that was in a Mangyan village in Mindoro to be the office of biologists, mountaineers and people who want to participate in the conservation of the environment. We did all the modeling, texturing and camera animation on this project. We also designed and modeled the Directional Signage and Directory that will be erected on the site which serves as guides for visiting mountaineers, biologists, environmentalists, and enthusiasts. This renovation project would also help Mangyan locals to have an extra source of income and livelihood with the supervision of environmental NGO's such a MBCFI. This is just the first step in a very big project to help conserve the environment of Mindoro.
This project is purely for visualization purposes only.
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Alibaba's sales grow 54 percent
The Chinese e-commerce giant added 29 million mobile users in the latest quarter. That's more than the population of Texas. Fred Katayama reports.
Alibaba's first report card as a public company showed it was a fast grower but not a standout straight A student. The Chinese e-commerce giant's quarterly profit rose and met expectations. But its profit margins fell as it boosted services and invested in more things like its mobile operating system. Revenue soared nearly 54 percent despite the slowdown in the Chinese economy, beating forecasts. Alibaba grew sales at its online marketplace, Taobao, by adding new categories like baby products and car accessories. But get this: Mobile grew wildly. Alibaba added 29 million mobile users in just the last three months. That's more than the population of Texas And its mobile revenue grew 1000 percent over the past year. Mobile makes up more than a fifth of revenue, and Alibaba is monetizing more of it. Morningstar's senior e-commerce analyst, R.J. Hottovy: (SOUNDBITE) R.J. HOTTOVY, SENIOR E-COMMERCE ANALYST, MORNINGSTAR (ENGLISH) SAYING: "The percentage of mobile transactions as a percentage of the overall ecosystem, relative to a lot of the global peers that are out there, whether be Amazon, or eBay, or even if you look at regional players like MercadoLibre and Rakuten, their mobile numbers are quite impressive. And I think a lot of it is just indicative of the marketplace you see in China but also the company's efforts to capitalize on those efforts. You don't really see the mobile penetration rates that Alibaba is putting up anywhere else in the global e-commerce landscape." Alibaba didn't issue a forecast. Alibaba's shares, which have risen 45 percent over its debut price, rose in early trading.


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by Amin Daya and Marco Rodriguez
The purpose of this article is to illustrate how you can use the Ericsson Service Development Studio (SDS) to develop and test IMS applications. The latest version of SDS (version 4.0) supports and has been verified and tested with BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.1 and therefore it can be easily used as an IMS core network simulator (P-CSCF, S-CSCF, HSS, and DNS) with availability of service enabler emulators and development of IMS client applications.
Ericsson Service Development Studio (SDS) is part of Ericsson's IMS system offering and provides a comprehensive and standards-oriented solution for the development and end-to-end testing of both the client and the server side of new IMS applications and services. SDS provides high-level APIs to hide device and network complexity for the designer and a multitude of templates and wizards to help the developer shorten project lead times.
SDS runs in a Microsoft Windows environment and supports the creation and end-to-end testing of both the client and the server side of IMS applications, using built-in IMS network, service enabler, user device, and SIP-server emulators.
SDS is based on the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with the following components:
SDS can also be configured as an IMS core network emulator and as a cost-effective SIP-server execution environment for live user or market IMS service trials. SDS is a part of Ericsson's IMS system offering and is verified and released in sync with each new Ericsson IMS System release. It has been used to realize multiple IMS applications with concluding customer trials and demos.
The IMS clients developed using SDS consist of two separate downloadable parts: The Ericsson IMS Client Platform (ICP), and the IMS Client application developed with SDS. The client creation part of SDS supports application creation for initially open OS Symbian mobile phones (SonyEricsson P990, M600, and so on) and PCs with Windows OS. Future plans are to support other open operating systems, such as Windows Mobile and Linux Mobile, and to provide a network proxy-based Client Utility API to IMS-enable JME feature phones currently without SIP/IMS capabilities.
The server application creation part combines support for key Telecom interfaces and protocols with standard Java and Internet-centric technologies. The Service Execution Environment (SEE) for the server side of the newly developed IMS Service application is emulated in the SDS. It is a JSR 116 (SSA 1.0) standards-compliant SIP Application Server, as defined by the 3GPP, and consists of SIP and WEB (HTTP) components. Future server-side plans are to include support for SIP-AS compliant to JSR 289 (SSA 1.1), Media control support to JSR 309, and JEE support.
SDS, running on a standard PC, can also be used as a trial execution environment with limited capacity and scalability by connecting it directly to the trial IMS core system via the IMS Service Control (ISC) interface. This trial IMS core system could be at the customer's premises, a real network, or an externally hosted solution. For hosted solutions you can use Ericsson's Remote IMS (RIMS) lab or IMS expert center.
Service Providers and Independent Software Vendors can use the SDS tool to explore the feasibility and end user acceptance aspects of new IMS service ideas. Applications developed and tested with SDS can be deployed to live commercial devices and servers. From build to deploying on a real network, a number of phases are required. The following sections outline these phases.
The developed device client will run on top of the IMS Client Platform (ICP). An emulated Symbian UIQ phone is shown on the PC screen. As mentioned earlier, JSR 116-compliant SIP Server is also emulated in the SDS. The SDS implementation of this 3GPP SIP Application Server is based on a standards-compliant Ericsson Application Server (EAS). As an alternative to the SDS development environment and SIP-AS emulator functionality, a BEA WebLogic SIP Server with applications developed in BEA Workshop can be brought into the SDS simulated e-2-e test loop with device client support.
In this phase the client is deployed to a live device connected to a live network. The SDS, running on a standard PC, can now be used as a (trial) Server Execution Environment (SEE). This is done by connecting SDS directly to a live IMS core system and the live phones and PCs via a mobile 3G and/or fixed broadband network. User trials with 50 to 100 users (depending on the type of application) can be supported.
The SDS can also be configured and used as an IMS Core emulator by connecting it directly to an external IP network. This allows you to have a PC-based IMS network and IMS server applications connected to a live network for application test and trial purposes where a live IMS Core is not available.
The final phase is to deploy the server-side application to a commercial-grade, standards-compliant SIP-AS, such as BEA WebLogic SIP Server or other JSR 116-compliant ASs. Many IMS applications will need to include Web applications, portals, and integration with enterprise application components. Additional tools for graphical user interface client development in PCs and mobiles will also be needed. Most of these tools are available as plug-ins to the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE), for example the BEA Workshop IDE, which simplifies and speeds up a complete application development project.
This is where SDS and WebLogic SIP Server can be used in combination to develop and test IMS applications. The latest version of SDS (4.0) supports and has been verified and tested with BEA-WLSS 3.1. Therefore, SDS can be easily used as an IMS core network simulator (P-CSCF, S-CSCF, HSS, and DNS) with availability of service enabler emulators (PGM, PTT, IMSM). You only need to interconnect a real WLSS with the SDS and a SIP terminal or a SIP device (Figure 1).
Let's now turn to SIP application deployment using SDS and WLSS. Create a Hello World Servlet. If you have successfully created the servlet, then you should be able to deploy a SIP application over WebLogic SIP Server (you will need your Hello World Servlet renamed as a .war file). Note that the tutorial refers to a hard-coded SIP URI (firstname.lastname@example.com) within the servlet code. So, make sure you change this to your own SIP URI. Here's how to subsequently deploy the application:
Assuming you have successfully installed SDS and you have a functional WebLogic SIP Server with your Hello World SIP application correctly deployed (as in the previous section of this article), you can just follow the next steps to configure your SDS testing environment.
On the Main SDS menu go to the Windows sub-menu and open the Preferences window: Here you have to make sure you have the correct settings like domain name, ports, IP-addresses, and so on (Figure 2). Once you have set the necessary fields, click the Apply and OK buttons to save and close the window. Please note: It is very important that your WebLogic SIP Server knows this domain too, since it will need to send responses to SDS. You can do that by adding the SDS hostname and IP address on the host file of your WebLogic SIP Server server. On a Windows machine, you can find your host file in the \WINDOWS_BASE_DIR\system32\drivers\etc directory.
Now go to the Provisioning perspective. Choose SDS\Server\Provisioning. On this perspective you have to provision all your IMS Core Network simulator data. In this example we will define a Filter Criteria named triggeringMyBEA that points to 192.168.123.1 port 5060, on which the helloWorldServlet.war has been deployed on my WLSS.
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Non-invasive zoonotic pathogen exposure and outcome biomarkers with follow-up in
Principal Investigator: Christopher D Heaney
Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a NIOSH Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) grant proposal intended to promote the career of Dr. Christopher D. Heaney, PhD, MS, a W.K. Kellogg Health Scholar-Community Track post- doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina, into an independent health scientist. I am a trained epidemiologist and microbiologist with a significant track record of research in community-based participatory research (CBPR) and environmental epidemiology. My goal is to integrate my existing experience with focused training in microbiology, immunology, and the molecular epidemiology of zoonotic pathogens, to become an independent scientist at the interface of basic science, occupational health practice, and population research. The topical area for the proposed career development is integration of bench science with methods for observational panel studies and CBPR. New disciplinary training will be integrated into my existing track record of CBPR with livestock workers and household members in NC to study the temporal nature of relationships between livestock exposure, zoonotic pathogen carriage, and symptoms of subclinical colonization versus infection. During this mentored award, I will expand my clinical microbiology and immunology training and epidemiologic research skills through mentorship from zoonotic infectious diseases physicians, clinical immunologists, microbiologists, and occupational health epidemiologists;engagement in formal didactics;attending multidisciplinary seminars, journal clubs, and scientific meetings;participation in study activities with my mentors;and by leadership of a project that integrates non-invasive zoonotic pathogen biomarkers into a community-based participatory panel study. These activities will be supervised by primary mentor Dr. David Weber MD, MPH, Director of the Occupational Health Services Clinic at UNC Hospitals and Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Infectious Diseases and co-mentor Dr. John Schmitz, PhD, Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology/Immunology and Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine. My mentor, co-mentor, collaborators, and advisory committee members will supplement my training with their complementary expertise, and together are fully committed to helping me reach my higher disciplinary research training and career development goals, and ensuring my successful transition from mentored to independent research scientist. During year 1, I will meet weekly with mentors Drs. Weber and Schmitz to develop, optimize and validate an ELISA for detection of hepatitis E virus (HEV) antibodies (anti-HEV) in saliva. For this purpose co-mentor Dr. Schmitz is making available laboratory facilities and equipment to run ELISAs and de- identified saliva and serum for anti-HEV optimization and spiking experiments. In year 1, I will also visit collaborator Lance Price, PhD, Director of the Center for Microbiomics and Human Health at TGen, North, to continue training in multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) and whole genome SNP analysis (WGSA) of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MDRSA) isolated from nasal swabs of livestock workers and household members in an ongoing cross-sectional CBPR pilot study I am leading. For this purpose collaborator Price is making available his laboratory during my visit for training. During years 1 and 2, I will expand a CBPR partnership I initiated with collaborator Devon Hall of the Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (REACH) - from a CBPR cross-sectional MDRSA prevalence study among livestock workers and household members to a community-based participatory panel study among livestock workers and household members in NC. The CBPR panel study will involve 200 livestock worker and household member participants with baseline and biweekly follow-ups for a period of 4 months. In years 2 and 3, I will meet weekly with Drs. Weber and Schmitz and collaborators to integrate the salivary anti-HEV ELISA and MDRSA genotyping methods (MLST and WGSA) into the CBPR panel study. Dr. Weber (primary mentor) and Stanley Lemon, MD (advisory committee member and Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at UNC) have agreed to assist with medical referral and follow-up of CBPR panel study participants who develop symptoms of MDRSA and/or HEV infection after notification of carriage status (see plan in Protection of Human Subjects). With the support of my mentor, co-mentor, and collaborators, I am uniquely positioned to complete the proposed activities which build upon a strong CBPR partnership with IRB-approved protocols from an already-funded CBPR cross-sectional MDRSA prevalence study in NC. This information base will build a foundation to collect CBPR panel study data to characterize the temporal variation of livestock exposure, pathogen carriage, and symptoms of sub-clinical colonization versus infection - which will greatly improve current estimates of the burden of zoonotic pathogen exposure in livestock workers and household members in a region with intensive livestock production - NC. The proposed research is both novel and innovative because of its potential to advance causal inference in observational epidemiologic research, identify key risk factors of zoonotic pathogen exposure and points of intervention to reduce exposures and infection risks, and further promote the integration of CBPR with epidemiologic research15 to inform policy-making. The short-term benefits from this study will be a contribution to the under-studied area of the temporal trends and burden of two emerging zoonotic pathogens in livestock workers and household members. The long-term benefits will be translation of basic science methods for non-invasive measurement of zoonotic pathogens in nasal and saliva swabs from the bench to community to inform occupational health policies related to food animal production. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Industrialized systems of food animal production are major sources of novel antimicrobial drug-resistant bacterial pathogens which along with zoonotic viruses are among the most globally prevalent and emerging infectious diseases. Establishing accurate estimates of the burden of emerging infectious diseases in food animal production workers and household members is essential to identifying key risk factors of pathogen exposure and optimal points of intervention to reduce exposures and infection risks. Results of this community- based participatory panel study will help characterize the temporal nature of relationships between livestock exposure, zoonotic pathogen carriage, and symptoms of subclinical colonization versus infection in livestock workers and their household members in a region with intensive livestock production - North Carolina.
Funding Period: 2012-07-01 - 2015-06-30
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Just a few sketches of Gambit and Rogue. Been watching the old 90's Xmen cartoon on youtube, youtube rocks.
Friday, September 28, 2007
4 comments:
- Roz@Aspen said...
One of my favorite noises EVER is the 'charge' noise of Gambit's cards from those 90's cartoons!
- September 28, 2007 at 7:11 PM
X-men back then was classic cartoons, the art then was good...nice artwork.
- September 28, 2007 at 10:19 PM
- To said...
I used to really like cyclops but now watching it again, Gambit is the coolest, and Jean's kind of annoying.
- September 28, 2007 at 11:28 PM
- cheryl said...
keep posting hehe i love your work =)
- September 30, 2007 at 4:38 AM
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This article is a dirge for the soul of the United States of America. It died on June 26, 2015 when the US Supreme Court, covertly and overtly, prompted by President Barack Obama, legalised same-sex marriage. The judges' slim 5-4 verdict severed the country from the hallowed grounds of the conjugal institution established by God, Creator of Heaven and Earth along with all their inhabitants.
His inviolable decree on marriage says it must be between two consenting opposite sexes, not among like gender. His law has worked for His plan for the perpetuation of the human race. In other words, the marital relationship involving the male and his opposite number gives life, supports life, sustains life and satisfies life. Its breach on the other hand, brings death, breeds destruction and begets disaster and sexual bedlam. How would same-sex reproduce life, if its promoters, votaries and practitioners were to have their way? It is death for those taking that road.
Their way threatens mankind with extinction since the reach isn't for procreation but for bestial and unproductive pleasure. Obama and the US are proving to be successors of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, luring millions to their graves with effete gay music. The American leader joined several others in rhapsodic celebration to hail the Court's ruling. He topped it by interrupting a live TV programme as he phoned a gay fellow who was on set, felicitating with him on the occasion of the judicial decision.
Coupled with how he has always heckled African nations to embrace the ideology of the LGBT throng or be deprived the US aid, this macabre dance of Obama has made some discerning observers to wonder if the American leader and his ilk are not closet gay persons.
Tragically, the US government seems to be taking most of the citizens along this broad path of perdition. The American media reported that some 60 per cent of the public newspapers interviewed moments after the ruling applauded the verdict. And then days after, Obama's approval rating hit a two-year high. According to a joint poll involving the Cable News Network, "50 per cent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling his presidency-which is up five points over the most recent survey and his highest approval rating since May 2013." One of the issues the respondents took note of was the Supreme Court judgment that "affirmed" that Obama had been right all along in his fight for gay marriage recognition. The worry now is that emboldened by this victory, Washington and its allies are not going to limit their revolt against God and His marriage covenant to the shores of the US. They are poised for the mother and father of all wars to coerce the rest of the sane world to follow them the same way the evil Pied Piper did it centuries ago to destroy scores of innocent children in 13th century Germany. The stick and carrot strategy used in such struggles abound in the armoury of the Americans.
A commentator has added a sardonic concern: Homosexuality in the US decades ago was illegal. Now, it is legal. What stops the US authorities from making it compulsory? Given the finality that underscored the pronouncement of Justice Anthony Kennedy who wrote the ruling, that apprehension isn't outlandish or misplaced. The decision outlaws same-sex restrictions all over the US, including the 13 states opposed to gay marriage. In effect, the Supreme Court is urging a negation of conventional marriage to make way for a gay community.
Alaska Supreme Court judge Roy Moore says the "decision is against the laws of nature." He adds: "Welcome to the new world. It's just changed for you Christians… you are going to be persecuted." Texas Attorney-General Ken Paxton says what the justices handed down is "lawless ruling." It has triggered a faith crisis in some citizens. A Christian woman in a Texas government office was thrown into a quandary on the day of the ruling. She first refused to issue licences when some gay chaps came to her. But her heroism wilted later. She said:"Personally, same-sex marriage is in contradiction to my faith and belief that marriage is between one man and one woman. However, first and foremost, I took an oath on my family's Bible to uphold the law and as an elected public official; my personal belief cannot prevent me from issuing the licences as required. Moreover, my faith in Christ ensures I have compassion and respect for those who feel differently." I have been upset by the repeated use of the word marriage by the American judges and the circle of gay adherents. It is not their coinage; nor is it their invention. It was instituted by God the Creator. I don't accept that you can appropriate what isn't yours and maul it as the gay people and their sponsors are doing. Let them not refer to a so-termed union between male and male and female and female as marriage. Matrimony as decreed from creation is an exclusively holy idea from a Holy God which some puny, happy-go-lucky, hedonistic bunch of people can't arrogantly claim for perverse use. You can't subtract from it. You can't rearrange it to feed your rapacious lust.
When the mighty US dollar proclaims In God We Trust as its message to the world, does it sync with the notion of faith in the One Whose institution you are thrashing, Whose pact with man on the matter of procreation you are rejecting, Whose idea of sex as a noble and regenerative activity you are rebelling against? Would that God so contemned, so condemned, so cancelled out of your life accept that He is the One being trusted? What do you trust Him for? You would trust Him to supply you with enormous resources that have transformed you into the sole superpower of the age… But alas you spend the mammoth strength, energy and prosperity to satisfy destructive lust!
It isn't farfetched then to give this ruling: The United States of America trusts in lust!
.Ojewale, a writer and journalist, wrote in from Ota, Ogun State
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Transient Seepage Flow toward Two Parallel Drainsby Imre Gyuk, Asst. Prof.; Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,
Gabor M. Karadi, Prof. of Civ. Engrg.; Dept. of Mech., Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,
Serial Information: Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, 1972, Vol. 98, Issue 1, Pg. 211-226
Document Type: Journal Paper
The method of conformal mapping is applied to the analysis of transient seepage flow toward two parallel drains in a semi-infinite aquifer taking into consideration the nonlinear boundary condition on the free surface. The mapping function is expressed as the power function of time and the seepage domain is mapped onto a domain of an auxillary complex variable in such a manner that the free surface will always remain the real axis. The solution is first obtained to a single drain by neglecting the terms of the fourth on higher order. Then the solution is extended to two parallel drains by using the method of images. Calculations are carried out for different ratios of drain depth to drain spacing using various drain diameter to drain depth ratios.
Subject Headings: Transient flow | Mapping | Seepage | Drainage | Free surfaces | Free flow | Aquifers | Nonlinear analysis
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This month fashion and drinks brands both got ready for the forthcoming holiday season with lots of billboards to help you look good for all those festive parties, or gift ideas like footwear and fragrances, or even a bottle of something to make someone merry.
Fashion billboardsAldo Shoe billboards from 2012's Fall Winter season.
UGG slippers and boots billboards have appeared in this run up to Christmas, like this animal print example.
And whilst AX is preparing for snow, British fashion house Burberry knows a lot more about keeping dry in rainy season.
limited-edition Mad Men Collection, Banana Republic was advertising it's luxurious Anna Karenina inspired capsule collection to tie-in with the release of the new Keira Knightley movie this month.
Be sure to also check out actual movie costumes worn in Anna Karenina on display.
Fragrance billboards
Drinks billboards
Sobieski Vodka's witty new ad campaign.
Sprite special installation basketball hoop from New York's Times Square.
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Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford has been recalled from his loan spell at Championship side Preston.
Black Cats boss Sam Allardyce has spent several weeks considering whether to bring keeper Pickford back to the Stadium of Light after the 21-year-old has been starring for Championship Preston.
Pickford has kept 13 clean sheets in 27 appearances for Preston, while establishing himself as first-choice England Under-21 keeper.
Sunderland have now activated the recall clause in Pickford's season-long loan deal with Preston and he has returned to the Stadium of Light.
Pickford will now compete with Costel Pantilimon and Vito Mannone for the Sunderland number one spot, although he will not be available for Saturday's visit of Aston Villa.
Preston boss Simon Grayson said: "Jordan has gone back. We had an agreement in the summer that he would be for the year but obviously Sunderland had an option that they could recall him in January if they needed to.
"Given how well he has played, it is not a surprise they have called him back.
"Sam Allardyce wantes to have a look at him and Jordan goes back with our thanks, we are grateful for what he has done for us.
"The lad has been fantastic to work with, he has contributed massively.
"He is going to be a top goalkeeper, whether that is at Sunderland or further down the line somewhere else."


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Got word of a new Charity Album by Bronies for good in the works, and you can help with this one even if you don't make music! Copy pasta of the email I recieved from CaptainFluffatun and a sample from the album after the break!
– When the clinic is fully funded, the next donations will be used to build a Green Village in Burundi, where street children who lost their parents to the civil war can find a home and learn to earn their subsistence without having to resort to crime.
The policy of our partner, Your Siblings, is to cover all travel and personal costs as well as money transfer fees privately and independently from donations, so that 100% of what you give will be spent exclusively on said projects. They are currently setting up a better donation platform for this event, and every donor will instantly receive the album, without any specific instructions to follow."


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I feel like crying out loud cos I never thought that the world could be as scary as a ghost, as scary as an injection, as scary as a cockroach and any other things that Ive been feared since I was born!
I am so scared to face the future me!
I just want the february to stop as my practical basically would start on March!
To be honest, I have not guts at all to face the company, the people, the department, and everything!
Such a drama queen but who cares because that is exactly things that are currently running through my head! Sick! >.<
Positive vibes I need some dose of positive vibes!!!!!!
Chill la leha. Chill la >.<


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In 1990, under section 203(b) (5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. § 1153(b) (5), the United States Congress created the fifth employment-based preference (EB-5) immigrant visa category. To encourage immigration through the EB-5 program, Congress created a Regional Center Investment Program in 1993. The program specifically sets aside 10,000 visas annually for foreign investors who apply through a United States Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) designated Regional Center. To qualify for the provisional program foreign investors must:
1. Demonstrate that a "qualified investment" is being made in a new commercial enterprise located within an approved Regional Center. The qualified investment must be:
• At least $1,000,000, or
• At least $500,000 within a designated Targeted Employment Area (TEA).
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• Show, using reasonable methodologies, that 10 or more jobs are created either directly or indirectly by the new commercial enterprise through revenues generated from increased exports, improved regional productivity, job creation, or increased domestic capital investment.
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The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Greetings as we approach the end of July 2008. The lazy-hazy days of summer are now upon us and oh, where has the summer gone to, thus far.
By now, in years of old, we surely had our second cutting of hay up and was strong on bean walking as well as some of the corn that needed it.
We sure enough did not have corn all tasseled out at this part of the year, in those days.
Walking crops to harass and destroy weeds fulfilled our need for exercise and it don't seem like we had as many overweight farmers as we do now-a-days.
Some of the folk I know these days "look like two tomcats fightin' inna' gunny sack" (a bulging and a moving all over).
July and August was and is always the time for family reunions, in our clan.
Actually, we have three family reunions each year. The first one begins late June, the weekend nearest Great Grandfathers birthday on my Grandmother's side.
Next in July comes the reunion on my mother's side-last weekend of the month. And finally in August we finish up with father's side of the family. This one has gone on continuously since the 1920's.
The food in days of old at these reunions was home cooked, plentiful and ever so good. Now a days some bring food what was prepared at a deli or Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Times change and where the food comes from makes no never mind. What matters is that we continue to gather, fellowship, and strengthen our bonds as a family.
Much visiting goes on as we gather and women folk prepare the plates of food. When it is proper time, we gather holding hands, in a large circle to begin the event with prayer.
After proper prayer has been said, giving thanks for the food and asking God's blessing on our strength in his service, and on our family, we finish the meal.
Most generally we eat too much, but enjoy ever bit of it. Some bring "fox-huntin' coffee" (good and strong) and others bring mild to sip on and help keep us awake, inspite of our full bellies, for what always comes next.
After proper care is put to food and utensils, we "circle the wagons".
An elder relative will call out "Its time to circle the wagons". This is after everyone has had sufficient time to jaw and visit on matters of casual importance such as: how the crops are doing, politics, the economy, how the latest babies are doing, etc, etc.
Circling the wagons involves everyone gather in a circle, seated on lawn chairs or resting on the ground. Young and old alike, listening intently and learning of family connections. Starting with the oldest first we tell of family history. Sometimes we intentionally pick out a specific time period such as during the war years or the Depression or maybe when we were first married. The young learn first hand of their heritage directly from the lips of the older generation. Sometimes one brother tells a story on another, which brings back memories for an even better long forgotten story. Nobody dares stretch their story as there are plenty of witnesses there to set them straight.
For me, I feel a personal relationship, thru these stories by circling the wagons, with family that were long dead before I was ever born. Now its my job to pass the stories along accurately to the next generation as well. Minutes are kept of the stories and they can be reviewed back a long ways.
Ifn' you are not have'n family reunions maybe it's time to start or restart the tradition and preserve some of your family heritage. You'll never start it any younger and it beats watch'n the grass grow or being glued to the tube!
Catch ya later
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Monday, 29 October 2012
The Gallery: Frances Stark
Hello folks. Just thought I'd stop by to say good Monday to you and I hope you had a great weekend. We had our cocktail party on Saturday, which is why I've been a bit quiet around here these past few days. I've been busy preparing, enjoying and recovering from it all - we had a great time though (I'll share more soon). In the meantime take a look at these beautiful art works from Frances Stark. You can see more of her work by clicking on the link here.
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LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Will Power masterfully protected the inside line and blocked Josef Newgarden from ever making the decisive pass over the final 10 laps Sunday at Pocono Raceway.
Power pumped his fist and celebrated another win that moved him up in the IndyCar record book. His focus soon shifted from the way he held off Newgarden to catching him: Power thrust himself into the IndyCar championship picture and stuck his aim on the series points leader, Newgarden.
"I'm going for it," Power said.
Power and Newgarden gave Penske Racing a 1-2 podium finish at Pocono. It could serve as a preview for the final standings.
Power's third win of the season — and second at Pocono in two years — inched him within 42 points of Newgarden for the lead with three races left.
Power won the 2014 championship and wasted his bid at a second title last year with disastrous finishes in the final two races. Newgarden has been positioned as IndyCar's next big thing and had won two straight races, at Toronto and Mid-Ohio, to stake his claim as a legitimate championship contender.
"When one car wins, we kind of all win. That's the way we view it," Newgarden said.
Let's see what he says after the finale at Sonoma.
The 26-year-old Newgarden has some of IndyCar's top veteran drivers nipping at his No. 2 Chevrolet headed into the series' return to the Midwest.
Newgarden has an 18-point lead over Scott Dixon and a 22-point advantage over Penske teammate Helio Castroneves. Defending series champion and Penke driver Simon Pagenaud is 26 points out of the lead.
Power believes he can be the driver who wins it all.
He looked every bit a championship driver at Pocono. The Australian rallied from a lap down, forced to pit early in the race to repair a broken wing.
Power also won on the road course at Indianapolis and the Texas Motor Speedway oval this season. He has 32 career victories to move into ninth place on IndyCar's list. Power zipped past Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy on the list and is two wins shy from catching Al Unser Jr.
"It was a seriously dramatic day," Power said.
Power refused to budge when Newgarden tried to dart his way toward the lead. Power knew if Newgarden could maneuver his way inside, the race was over.
"Just had to be smart, be in the game at the end, and that was the result," Power said.
Power was familiar with big moves down the stretch at Pocono; he held Mikhail Aleshin at bay after a final restart to win at the track last year. He became the first IndyCar repeat race winner at the track.
Newgarden knew he had little room to seriously test Power.
"From a points standpoint, you don't want to wreck your teammate and you don't want to give up where I'm at," Newgarden said. "It's a Team Penske victory. I'm disappointed for not winning but I can't be disappointed from a points standpoint. We had everything we needed."
Newgarden's first season driving for Roger Penske has already been a massive success. The Tennessee native has tried to promote IndyCar in every avenue and is one of the few 20-something stars the sport can bank on to lead it into the future.
Stamping himself a champion would be the ultimate reward.
"This championship is going to be very difficult to win because there's not a lot of guys messing up," Newgarden said. "Pagenaud is consistently in the top 5, so he doesn't make mistakes. Will is very strong, Helio, Scott. It's not going to be easy. I think it'll come down to Sonoma regardless of whatever happens the next few races.
Alexander Rossi, the 2016 Indianapolis 500 champion, was third.
Other items of note at Pocono:
Ryan Hunter-Reay was cleared to drive following a violent accident during qualifying that sent him to the hospital. Hunter-Reay lost control of his Honda on Saturday and slammed into the wall. He hurt his hip and knees in the wreck and needed a CT scan and MRI.
Hunter-Reay, the 2014 Indianapolis 500 winner, was treated and released from the hospital Saturday night. He was evaluated Sunday morning and cleared to drive by the IndyCar medical director.
"It's like a relationship; you've got to build your trust back up with the car," Hunter-Reay said.
His last win came at Pocono in 2015. He led the race around the halfway point and finished eighth on Sunday.
"The fact that I could race today was unreal," he said.
There were a whopping 43 lead changes at Pocono.
IndyCar hits the St. Louis area for its return race at Gateway Motorsports Park. The open-wheel CART series ran races there from 1997-2000 and IndyCar (Indy Racing League) was there from 2001-2003. The defending winner? Helio Castroneves. Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon also competed in the Aug. 10, 2003 race.