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"The SafetyWorks! Safety Training Institute is the first of its kind in the nation. We believe it will be a very effective training tool and hope that the model can be replicated elsewhere."
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"The forklift training was phenomenal. I learned a lot, including what not to do and I have been able to train others in our company. I use what I learned all the time."
Peggy Smith, Manset Yacht
The SafetyWorks! Safety Training Institute is open to all Maine workers to learn about workplace safety.
The facility includes classroom space for SafetyWorks! safety and health courses and includes a large indoor facility where workers can get hands-on training on a variety of different topics, including:
- fall protection;
- confined spaces;
- forklift operation;
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- electrical hazards;
- ergonomics; and
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Directions to SafetyWorks! Safety Training Institute
The SafetyWorks! Safety Training Institute is located at 45 Commerce Drive, Augusta, ME 04330
From the South: From I-95 take Exit 112B in Augusta and bear right onto Route 27 toward Belgrade. Approximately 1.7 miles, you will see an MDOL sign directing you to turn left onto Commerce Drive. Once on Commerce Drive, take your second right and park in the parking lot with the large communication tower. Enter the Maine Department of Labor entrance and follow the SafetyWorks! Training Institute signs.
From North: Same, except take Exit 112.
The Maine Department of Labor provides equal opportunity employment and programs. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.


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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has reported a dramatic slump in quarterly profits. The company had its lowest earnings in eight years, but top execs told employees that a recovery is on the horizon.
Bloomberg's Tim Culpan reported, "HTC Corp., Asia's second-largest smartphone maker, posted operating income that was lower than analysts' estimates as a lack of new models prompted a loss of market share. Fourth-quarter operating income for the period was NT$600 million ($21 million), compared with the NT$1.11 billion average of 20 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Net income was NT$1 billion, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company said in a statement today. That's the lowest since 2004 and less than the NT$10.9 billion it posted a year earlier."
Sarah Mishkin with The Financial Times blogged, "Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC continues its struggle in an increasing competitive market. The company announced that income was down 91 per cent for the fourth quarter of last year. It's more bad news, after profits in the third quarter were down nearly 80 per cent. Investors seem to be getting used to it – shares on Monday were up slightly at 0.35 per cent, but have fallen hard over the past year."
The Verge's Aaron Souppouris noted, "The poor results came despite the Taiwanese manufacturer releasing the 5-inch 1080p Droid DNA Android smartphone and a pair of Windows Phone devices, the heavily-marketed flagship 8X and budget 8S. There could be light at the end of the tunnel, however, as all three of the aforementioned devices were released mid-quarter and so didn't have enough time to fully impact HTC's finances. CEO Peter Chou believes that 'the worst for HTC has probably passed,' adding that the company would raise its marketing budget considerably in an effort to better compete with market leader Samsung.
According to The Wall Street Journal's Lorraine Luk, "HTC Corp. is vowing to make a comeback in the smartphone market this year and Chief Executive Peter Chou and his management team are going all out to rally the troops.... 'Peter (Chou) told us that the worst is over. 2013 will be a better year and HTC wants to regain its global top 3 position this year,' said an employee, who declined to be named. 'He also led us to shout some slogans. But to be frank, most of us still don't know how HTC can make a comeback this year as the top managers didn't tell us any solid plan or direction.'"
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Simple tips to get instant relief from headache
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While the reason behind a headache is different in different people, different in different conditions, what all of us do most often is pop a pill to get instant relief. But this is not a healthy habit.
Headache is one of the most common health problems that affects every one of us some time or the other. While the reason behind a headache is different in different people, different in different conditions, what all of us do most often is pop a pill to get instant relief. But this is not a healthy habit. We must try to reduce the consumption of over the counter pills as much as possible, and instead go for natural remedies.
Whenever you have headache drink a glass of cold water. Most often headache is caused by dehydration, especially in summer months. Ideally, one should have at least eight glasses of water in day to keep the body amply hydrated.
Ice pack
Place an ice pack on the nape of your neck for instant relief. Cold compresses on the head and forehead also help.
This can be used in a variety of ways, as drink, powder, candy or paste. For preparing a drink, mix equal parts of ginger and lemon juice; or make a paste of dry ginger in water and apply it on the forehead, chew a ginger candy or boil ginger in water and inhale the vapour. Ginger reduces inflammation of blood vessels in the head providing relief.
Place mint tea compresses on the forehead or apply mint juice on forehead and temples. It contains both menthol and menthone which provide relief in headaches.
Put a few drops of peppermint oil in water and boil and inhale the steam. Or massage the head with a mixture of peppermint oil and almond oil. It contains menthol which help clear clogged blood vessels that cause headache.
Boil a few basil leaves in water, and drink this as tea. You may even chew some basil leaves or apply basil leaf oil on forehead. Basil acts as muscle relaxant, and has calming and analgesic effects.
Put a few drops of lavender oil on a tissue paper or handkerchief and inhale. This is helpful even in migraine cases.
Crush a few cloves and place these in a sachet. Inhale it from time to time. You can also massage forehead with clove oil.
Simply eat an apple with some salt. Apples can balance acid and alkaline levels in the body to provide relief.
Apple cider vinegar
Add two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar to a full glass of water and drink it.


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Today's edition of our favourite things is even harder than our previous ones, as I told the DT they could only pick the ONE product they can't live without. Can you answer that question?
For me, it's got to be my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens. I use them on so many projects and they create an amazing range of looks. Use them for solid colour, like you would with Copics or Promarkers. Use them as watercolours. Blend them with each other for a fantastic ombre effect. Their fine tips get into the smallest corners with no mess! I really can't recommend them enough!
I've chosen the MFT Premium Dye ink cubes as my 'can't live without' product. I'm a fan of mini ink cubes as I have limited space for craft supplies. MFT recently started releasing their premium inks in mini cube sets of 4, and I think they are a perfect way to collect all the fabulous colours.
I love a good die-cut sentiment to be the focal point on my card, so Stick-It has to be my 'must-have'. It instantly takes the frustrating 'fiddly-bit' out of adhering intricate pieces in place. As if that wasn't already enough...it's pretty much invisible behind vellum! What more could you ask from a product?
Aside of the usual contenders for this spot I think alphabet stamps are a must have. When you need a sentiment that you can't find or it needs to fit in a certain space, alphabet stamps come to the rescue :) Quite a few of the stamp companies make alpha sets but I think my favourite has to be Mama Elephants Bella Letters... they're a perfect size for card making and easy to use too.
Ink has to be my 'must have'! My favourite go-to inks are Altenew Crisp Inks .... I just love them all but my favourite this year has to be the Sea Shore Collection.... swoon... I swear I have to tell myself not to use these on every project I make.
My choice is quite a practical one- my favourite colouring medium has always been copics, and despite several attempts over the years, I have never been any good at watercolour. However, since trying the quality waterbrushes from Kuretake, complete with valves to stop the water flooding your paper, I have managed to do a half decent attempt at it both when using zig color clean pens and gansai tambi paints, so my "can't live without" for this year is going to be my waterbrush!
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Is the worst over for Detroit?
Is the worst over for Detroit? No one person can say for sure but this article gives a glance into what the Detroit are has had to endure the past few years and what could be on the horizon!
From MSN.com:
At last, sales of American-made vehicles are rising — and with them hopes that Detroit and southeast Michigan can start to dig out of the deep economic hole that swallowed the region in 2008.
And what a hole it's been. For almost three years, Michigan has had the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Two of Detroit's Big Three automakers in 2009 needed billions in federal bailout money to stay in business and drastically downscaled their operations. Plants, dealerships and parts suppliers closed. The city of Detroit, feeling the loss of tax revenues from the auto industry, grappled with insolvency.
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1952 TOPPS Baseball Cards
Woodrow (Woody) Gelman
From the early 1950's to the late 1970's, Woody Gelman was the
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Topps Product Development Department.
Prior to teaming with Sy Berger and designing the 1952 Topps Baseball
Card set,
Gelman was involved in the design and development of such characters as Nutsy Squirrel
and Popsicle Pete.
He teamed with Wesley Morse to design and produce the Bazooka Joe
comics which made it's debut for Topps in 1953-54.
Gelman teamed with Len Brown, Wally Wood, Bob Powell and Norman Saunders
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The Proposed Budget for Louisiana : A fond Illusion or smart accounting?
Imagine, God forbid, that your boss just cut your salary by 25% because business is bad. Instead of reducing your spending or getting a second job, you elect to do the following: 1. Take a cash advance on your credit card to pay your car note. 2.
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Towns Not Adhering to State LawAHS Learns Where Stray Pets Go in Union City, North Bergen, West New York and Bayonne
NEW JERSEY STATE LAW mandates that all municipalities have a safe place to hold stray cats and dogs for seven days so that their owners may find them. However, four area towns have been less than upfront in disclosing where they keep those animals.
Associated Humane Societies has tried through proper channels the past two years to learn where stray animals from North Bergen, Union City, West New York and now Bayonne are held for 7 days in accordance with State law.
The AHS has ascertained that the stray dogs go in to the basement of Dr. Carlos Triana, Summit Animal Clinic in Union City. However, it appears that most people are unable to gain access to the basement of Dr. Triana's office to search for a lost pet.
It appears these towns are not only crushing the hopes of resident pet owners to find their beloved family pets, but they are also breaking the law, said AHS/Popcorn Park Executive Director Roseann Trezza. As an animal advocacy organization, we are working hard to see that this blatant disregard comes to a halt.
Under DHSS Title 8:23A.1.10, an impound facility must be licensed to accept strays and must be open for public access for at least two hours each day from Monday through Friday, and two hours on Saturday or Sunday. The facility must be licensed as an impound facility and establish a procedure for the viewing of confined animals during posted hours.
When AHS staff and pet owners spoke with the Health Officer and Police of Union City, North Bergen, West New York and Bayonne, no one had clear information as to where a pet owner could go to locate their beloved pet. Those who have tried to advance the conversation are given a phone number for an individual who will take a description of the missing dog or cat and will allegedly return a call if they believe that the animal was picked up.
During the past two years, efforts were made by the Associated Humane Societies to have this matter investigated by the State Dept. of Health and Senior Services but without success.
AHS urges residents who were unsuccessful in their efforts to gain access to view strays from your town, please contact us.
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Bennett Outlines Objections to Child-Care Bills
The child-care proposals now pending before the Congress, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett told lawmakers last week, "seem, however unintentionally, to put families to one side,'' and to "be more concerned with creating new structures than with supporting the very best structures possible for our children: our families.''
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About a month ago I decided that I wanted a total break from blogging, I changed my settings to private, turned down a couple of opportunities and switched off.
I wasn't sure if I would ever blog again, but something at the back of mind was niggling away at me, reminding me how much I love writing, how I've put almost two years into keeping a record of our family life something I wish I had done when my teenagers were little.
The past 18 months haven't been the best for us, both health wise and financially, it's hard for that not to come across in my blog but I started to feel uncomfortable sharing those facts, at the same time I didn't want to paint a perfect picture and only share the lovely bits.
I've missed blogging and I know that a career in writing and freelance is definitely something I want to pursue when the little ones are in school full time, so I'm going to persevere, even if that means I take little breaks every now and again.
Thanks for sticking with me, I will hopefully be back soon with some new posts to share with you.
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Home / Lucas County / 16-48 Birmingham - Ironville [25]
- 16-48 Entering Birmingham on Front St. at I-280
- 16-48 Tony Packo's made famous by Jamie Farr on the television show M.A.S.H.
- 16-48 Looking east down Consaul Street with Tony Packo's on the left, and St. Stephen's Church on the right.
- 16-48 Artwork in front of a fire station across Front St. near Tony Packo's
- 16-48 Consaul Street
- 16-48 St. Stephen's Church and School
- 16-48 in front of St. Stephen's Church
- 16-48 St. Stephen's Church
- 16-48 The Marker is at the far left of the photo. It is on the lawn of the Toledo-Lucas County Library, Birmingham Branch.
- 16-48 The Marker at the corner of Paine St. and Genesee St.
- 16-48 A painting in the library
- 16-48 What the painting in the library is trying to to tell the viewer.
- 16-48 Hungarian noodles are made here
- 16-48 The Hungarian Club on Paine St.
- 16-48 The Calvin United Church of Christ
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- The Birmingham and Ironville neighborhoods were so named because of their early iron industries located along Front Street and the Maumee River. This became Toledo's first area of heavy industrial development with iron manufacturing, coal shipping, oil refining, shipbuilding, and flour milling operations. In 1864 the Manhattan Iron Company built a charcoal blast furnace near the river's mouth, securing fuel from nearby forests.
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- The neighborhood adjoining the site became known as Ironville and is now part of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority site. In 1890 the National Malleable Casting Company sponsored nearly a hundred Hungarian families to move to East Toledo. These immigrants formed the core of the Birmingham neighborhood which continues to retain its strong ethnic heritage and cultural pride.
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Everyone has been saying it for the last few weeks, as we experienced day after day after day of temperatures far above seasonal averages.
"It'll cool down eventually. We'll get a cold snap in April."
And here it comes, although it's not clear exactly how cold it will get.
Canadian high pressure will take control of Charlotte-area weather Friday, and we'll notice the difference. Temperatures will struggle to get out of the 50s, unless enough sunshine breaks through the overcast Friday afternoon to allow a recovery into the low 60s.
Then we'll have morning lows in the upper 30s to near 40 degrees Saturday, and the low to mid 40s Easter Sunday. Afternoon temperatures won't be bad, with highs around 70 Saturday and in the mid 70s Sunday.
But there won't be a return to 80 degrees next week. Instead, another cold front is forecast to push across the area late Monday or Tuesday, holding afternoon highs to the 60s again for Tuesday and Wednesday.
National Weather Service meteorologists are closely watching for the possibility of frost on those chilly mornings. The unseasonably warm weather in March and early April caused strawberries to ripen early and fruit trees to blossom several weeks before they normally do. A freeze could be devastating to farmers.
The good news? At this point, it appears as if morning temperatures won't quite dip to freezing levels in areas where trees have blossomed.
Forecasters have predicted April will be warmer than average, overall, and that could happen, despite next week's cool down. Accu-Weather forecasts call for a return to the low 80s by late next weekend or early in the week of April 16.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Cool weather? We knew it was coming
Everyone has been saying it for the last few weeks, as we experienced day after day after day of temperatures far above seasonal averages.
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Yes, a freeze could be devastating to farmers, but there is no mention of that in the forecast so why even mention it? A light frost is inconsequential.
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San Lorenzo River: Levee Evaluation using Uncertainty Analysis
Nearing the completion of a 15-year planning effort and construction of the San Lorenzo River Flood Control Project Levee upgrades, the California coastal City of Santa Cruz faced changing standards for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) certification of the levee improvement project.
ESA worked with the City of Santa Cruz to evaluate the ability of San Lorenzo Flood Control Project levees to protect against a 100-year flood event under the USACE's draft modified certification standards, using a risk and uncertainty approach. Flood stage uncertainty in the San Lorenzo River is driven by sediment transport impacts to hydrology, hydraulics, and geometry changes. ESA analyzed selected aspects of sediment transport- roughness, discharge probability, starting or antecedent bed conditions, and tidal boundary conditions-without modifying the underlying sediment transport modeling assumptions used by the USACE in developing the design. Our uncertainty analysis found that current levees do not appear to meet certification criteria in at least one reach of the project, though most reaches appear sufficient.
ESA worked with the City of Santa Cruz to understand the implications of the USACE's changing certification standards for levee improvements and whether the current San Lorenzo Flood Control Project levees met the new standards.
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This report appeared in a special issue of the International Journal of Geographic Information Sciences, issue 4 of volume 13, in 1999.
GeoVRML techniques have the potential to provide functional and transparent communication between geographic information and 3D Web visualization tools. This report outlines recommended practices and modifications to the VRML 97 standard to consider pre-existing cartographic projections and georeferenced data. The concepts outlined for incorporating georeferenced coordinate systems in VRML worlds have generic applicability to 3D Web technologies like MPEG-4, Java3D and Chrome.
The interactive three dimensional (3D) representation of georeferenced data on the World Wide Web (Web) is achieved with tools like the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). VRML97 is the approved International Standard (ISO/IEC 14772) file format for describing interactive multimedia on the Internet. In general, a VRML file is also called a "world". Users explore these "worlds" with Web browsers that support the viewing of VRML files. More information on VRML can be found at the Web3D Consortium Web pages, see: (http://www.web3d.org).
The VRML97 standard was designed primarily by the computer graphics community. Typical computer graphics imagery focuses on locally bounded regions and small screen sizes where maximum pixel ranges are approximately 1600 by 1280 pixels. As a result, VRML97 relies on single-precision (32 bit) IEEE floating point data values. The coordinate system for VRML97 is based on the simple Cartesian local (X,Y,Z) coordinate system with the orgin being at (0,0,0) and Y representing up. This coordinate system is often sufficient for many computer graphics problems.
These two parameters of the VRML 97 standard provide limitations for the representation of geographic and cartographic data as well as georeferenced computational modeling simulations in VRML. For example, since the earth's diameter approximates 12 million meters, it is not possible to present geographic data resolutions greater than 10 to 100 meters with single-precision data values. This means that data obtained from global positioning systems (GPS) with absolute locations within 1 meter resolution cannot be accurately presented in VRML97. The heavy reliance on Cartesian coordinates also poses difficulties with data in Geodetic (GDC or lattitude/longitude), Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), Lambert Conformal Conic (LCC) or other pre-existing cartographic projections. In February 1998, the VRML Consortium approved the formation of the GeoVRML Working Group to discuss and develop tools, recommended practices and standards necessary to generate, display and exchange georeferenced data in VRML, (Iverson & GeoVRML, 1998). In December 1998, the VRML Consortium expanded its charter and renamed itself as the "Web 3D Consortium".
This report reviews the major recommended practices and modifications to the VRML standard under consideration and development by the GeoVRML Working Group. Additional emerging 3D Web technologies and their relation to geospatial data visualization will also be highlighted. GeoVRML techniques have the potential to provide functional and transparent communication between geographic information and 3D visualization tools, (Rhyne, 1997).
Figure #1: Example VRML world with a TIFF image of a USGS map drapped over the 3D surface is shown on the left. On the right is a similar image made with a visualization toolkit package. Notice how the map is inverted in the VRML browser. We hope to improve this situation with GeoVRML Coordinate systems. Images developed by Theresa-Marie Rhyne and Thomas Fowler of Lockheed Martin Technical Services at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Visualization Center. See: (http://www.epa.gov/gisvis).
Moving towards GeoVRML Coordinate Systems:
The geographic information systems, cartographic and military simulation communities have developed a number of standards for the representation of geospatial information and georeferencing of arbitrary data, (Rhyne, 1998). The Open GIS Consortium is presently moving forward with efforts to support the full integration of geospatial data into mainstream computing and the widespread usage of interoperable commercial geoprocessing software, see: (http://www.opengis.org/). There are also International Organization for Standardization (ISO) efforts in the Geographic information/Geomatics arenas, see: (http://www.iso.ch/meme/TC211.html).
In order to attempt to include a methodology for supporting georeferenced data in the upcoming (1999) revision to the VRML97 standard, the GeoVRML Working Group decided to base its efforts on a currently existing reference model and software package entitled the SEDRIS Geographic Reference Model (GRM). The Synthetic Environment Data Representation & Interchange Specification (SEDRIS) is a project funded by the United States' Defense Modeling and Simulation Office. The SEDRIS GRM supports twelve different coordinate systems and provides tools to automatically convert reference marks between them. The software source for GRM is publically available and is currently implemented in the C programming language. More information on the SEDRIS GRM can be found on the SEDRIS Web site at: (http://www.sedris.org/).
The GeoVRML Working Group is thus recommending a Level 1 practice whereby geographical coordinates based on the SEDRIS GRM are converted into a local Cartesian coordinate system for improved level of detail in GeoVRML visualizations. The GeoVRML Working Group is also exploring a Level 2 practice whereby geo-referenced data is transparently and seamlessly converted from a wider and multiple variety of sources, (Iverson & GeoVRML, 1998).
Researchers at the SRI International - Artificial Intelligence Center, have recently developed, for public release, the GeoTransform Java class file hierarchy based on the SEDRIS GRM. With the GeoTransform Java package, it is possible to perform efficient and accurate geographic coordinate transformations for the Geodetic Coordinate System (GDC), GeoCentric Coordinate System (GCC), and Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) System. GeoTransform allows for authoring VRML worlds that read coordinates in any of these systems and tranparently convert the geographic data into Cartesian Coordinates for display in a VRML browser. More information on the GeoTranform Java package can be found at: (http://www.ai.sri.com/~reddy/geovrml/geotransform/) .
Defining the GeoOrigin Node:
In order to build a georeferenced VRML world, a GeoOrigin node is defined in the VRML file. This GeoOrigin allows for converting coordinates from cartographic earth-based coordinate systems into the existing VRML97 Cartesian reference frame, (Iverson & GeoVRML, 1998). A single GeoOrigin node, representing a single georeferenced point, becomes the reference frame identified with the VRML world's zero-based (0,0,0) origin.
EXTERNPROTO GeoOrigin [ field MFString geoSystem ["GDC"] field SFString geoCoords "" ] "urn:geovrml:protos#GeoOrigin"
The geoSystem field selects a geographic reference system from the naming conventions based on the SEDRIS GRM. Some of these georeference coordinate systems require additional arguments to fully designate the coordinates. As an example, the Geodetic (GDC) system involves the selection of ellipsoid, geoid, and datum references. Additional strings in the geoSystem field support this requirement.
The geoCoords field is a sequence of 64-bit precision values seperated by spaces that define an absolute location using the coordinate system selected in the geoSystem field. Optional strings in the geoSystem field determine the interpretation of the geoCoords field. As an example, "DMS" can specify that the geoCoords string will include degree, minute and second fields for each latitute and longitude value in a GDC coordinate. Every geospatial location determined by a geoSystem and geoCoords pair defines an implicit orthogonal Cartesian reference frame indexed by x,y,z in meters with the designated geospatial location at the origin and with y being the up direction. This allows for conformance with the VRML97 standard.
A more detailed discussion about the GeoOrigin node can be found in the Request for Comment document on GeoVRML Coordinate Systems. This discussion is located at the GeoVRML Working Group's Web site at: (http://www.ai.sri.com/~leei/geovrml/).
During the past year, SRI International developed a series of VRML97 nodes for improved support of terrain visualization. These contributions were developed as part of the GeoVRML Working Group and are in the public domain. A comprehensive discussion of these efforts can be found in the SRI International - Artificial Intelligence Center Report No. 559, which is cited the the references below, (Reddy, et. al., 1998). These new GeoVRML nodes can be accessed on the Web at: (http://www.ai.sri.com/geovrml/protos) .
Integrating Spatial Data Repositories and GeoVRML Visualizations:
There are a number of efforts underway to examine the use of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) for the interactive exploration of geospatial data repositories (Rhyne & Fowler, 1996). In the United States, some of this work is being done in conjunction with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) 's National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (see: (http://fgdc.er.usgs.gov/)). In addition to the use of intelligent agents, data mining techniques are being employed to assist with the retrieval of spatial data. The development of GeoOrgin nodes in VRML will support the use of agent and data mining technology for rapid creation of interactive web-based visualizations. This will greatly facilitate visual information retrieval of geospatial data.
Reaching out to other Interactive 3D Web Technologies:
In addition to VRML, there are other 3D Web technologies under development. Three examples include (a) the development of the MPEG-4 standard; (b) Java 3D and (c) Chrome. In early 1998, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced that it will use Apple Computer's QuickTime file format as the basis for a unified digital media storage format for the MPEG-4 standard for graphics content on the Web. The VRML Consortium has established a Working Group to examine MPEG-4 and VRML integration. Java3D, from Sun Microsystems, supports the development of 3D computer graphics applications in the Java programming language. This includes the development of VRML browsers with Java 3D. Another emerging 3D Web technology is Chrome from Microsoft Corporation. Chrome is a Windows 98 add-on that uses the Extensible Markup Language (XML) to access Windows 98 multimedia capabilities for creating 3D content on the Web. The concepts outlined above for incorporating georeferenced coordinate systems in VRML worlds have generic applicability to 3D Web technologies like MPEG-4, Java3D and Chrome. Details about the QuickTime file format and its adoption by ISO as the starting point for MPEG-4 can be found at the Apple Computer web site, see: (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/). More information on Java and Java 3D can be found at the Javasoft Web site, see: (http://www.javasoft.com/products/java-media/3D/). Additional information on Chrome can be found by searching the Microsoft web site at: (http://www.microsoft.com).
Concluding Remarks:
The use of VRML for cartographic and geographic presentation is currently being examined by research groups participating in the International Cartographic Association's Commission on Visualization, (Fairburn and Parsley, 1997). Preliminary definitions of the needs for geofunctions in virtual reality and VRML were done at Leicester University in July 1997, (Moore, et. al.). The Commission has also explored other multimedia and web-based technologies for developing mapping products, (Cartwright, 1998) and (Andrienko & Andrienko, 1998). The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics (ACM - SIGGRAPH)'s collaboration with the ICA Commission on Visualization has attempted to examine how computer graphics technology can be effectively adapted to meet cartographic needs and requirements. This project, entitled the ACM SIGGRAPH Carto Project, is pleased that the VRML Consortium chose to create the GeoVRML Working Group to actualize effective exchange of georeferenced data in VRML. We anticipate GeoVRML techniques expanding to address many 3D Web Technologies as the VRML Consortium redefines itself as the Web 3D Consortium. The issues discussed here are important steps toward functional integration of geographic information and 3D visualization tools. We hope similar efforts will continue to emerge in the future.
We would like to acknowledge the efforts of Lee Iverson, founding Chair of the GeoVRML Working Group of the Web 3D Consortium, Don Brutzman, Vice President for Technology of the Web 3D Consortium, and Martin Reddy (who built many of the new GeoVRML nodes for VRML97). We are also appreciative to Judy Brown, Past Chair of Special Projects for ACM SIGGRAPH, for all the encouragement she provided during the first two years of the ACM SIGGRAPH Carto Project.
ACM SIGGRAPH Carto Project Web Site: (http://www.siggraph.org/~rhyne/carto/).
Andrienko & Andrienko. 1998, Descartes -Intelligent Mapping and Visual Data Exploration on the Internet, Proceedings of the 1998 Polish Spatial Information Association Conference, May 1998, Warsaw Poland, : 339 - 340.
Cartwright, W. 1997. New media and their application to the production of map products. Computers &; Geosciences, special issue on Exploratory Cartographic Visualization 23(4) : 447-456.
Fairbairn, D. and Parsley, S. 1997. The use of VRML for cartographic presentation. Computers &; Geosciences, special issue on Exploratory Cartographic Visualization 23(4): 475-482.
GeoVRML Working Group of the VRML Consortium Web Site: (http://www.ai.sri.com/geovrml/).
Iverson, Lee & the GeoVRML Working Group of the VRML Consortium. 1998, GeoVRML RFC1: Coordinate Systems, (http://www.ai.sri.com/geovrml/rfc1.html).
ICA Commission on Visualization Web Site: (http://www.geog.psu.edu/ica/ICAvis.html).
Moore, K., Dykes, J., Wood, J., Bastin, L., Fisher, P. 1997, VR Geofunctions, (http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/mek/VRGeoFunctions.html).
Reddy, M., Leclerc, Y. G., Iverson, L., Bletter, N., and Vidimce, K. 1998, Modeling the Digital Earth in VRML, AIC Technical Report No. 559. SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. November 1998.
Rhyne, T.-M. and Fowler, T. 1996, Examining Dynamically Linked Geographic Visualization, Proceedings of the 1996 Computing in Environmental Resource Management Speciality Conference sponsored by the Air & Waste Management Association, Dec. 1996, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (USA), : 571 - 573.
Rhyne, T.-M. 1997. Going virtual with geographic information and scientific visualization. Computers & Geosciences, special issue on Exploratory Cartographic Visualization 23(4): 489-492.
Rhyne, T.-M. 1998, Open Spatial Data Standards for the Information Highway (Examining Dynamically Linked Geographic Visualization), Proceedings of the 1998 Polish Spatial Information Association Conference, May 1998, Warsaw Poland, : 297 - 299.
Biography of the Author:
Theresa-Marie Rhyne is a Director at Large of the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee and is the Project Director of the ACM SIGGRAPH Carto Project. She is a lead scientific visualization researcher for Lockheed Martin Technical Services at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Visualization Center.


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Friday, January 07, 2011
Happy New Year, y'all!
Hey, my peoples! Happy New Year to you all. I've finally shrugged off the cobwebs of a warm and fuzzy Christmas and and am ready to face 2011. And how the year has started...
Two murders; a sick Cabinet member; the front bench Gods shining on Kellman at last and giving him a pick; Mara Thompson taking up the mantle of her late husband David in St. John - and it's only January 7!
As for the by-election in St. John, I wish Mrs. Thompson the best of luck. She's the last person I figured would end up in the political foray, but life is funny that way. Anyway, the seat is hers to lose, as it's been a DLP stronghold for the past 50 odd years.
I see that Opposition Leader Owen Arthur has declared that there will be no special treatment for Mara Thompson. He will be well advised to focus his attacks on the DLP and not on the still grieving widow Mara, because he might end up turning off the entire populace....
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From the developers website:
Strategic Studies Group has been making computer games since 1983
Ian Trout - President
I'm a sometime bug-hunter turned chalky turned bookseller before stumbling into computer game design and publishing. Twenty years and twenty-odd games on, and nothwithstanding the industry's peculiar volatility, I'm still at it... older, greyer, fatter... but not much wiser. I love it.
Roger Keating - Senior Vice President
Roger Keating is one of the two original founders of SSG. In 1979 Roger wrote and produced his first computer game called 'Conflict' which was picked up by SSI and published as 'Computer Conflict'. During the next few years Roger produced seven games for SSI before joining Ian Trout and starting SSG by publishing the space game 'Reach for the Stars'.
Over the last twenty years Roger has been involved with the production of over 50 computer games and has watched SSG grow from a fledgling company to being one of the driving forces in Computer Strategy in the world today.
Gregor Whiley - Vice President
I joined SSG in 1986 by the simple expedient of asking for a job. Since then I have produced most of SSG's games, and overseen the growth and mutation of SSG as it has adapted to the rapid and continuous changes in the industry. As well as all the games we've done, I'm most proud of the fact that SSG remains a completely independent entity, producing the games that it wants to make.
Steve Ford - Creative Director
While working in television, radio and advertising I was always a keen wargamer. In 1989 I played 'Battlefront' for the first time and became hooked. Around 1993 I sent a few custom maps to SSG and landed a freelance gig doing armies for Warlords and ships for CAW. Pardon the well worn cliche' but the rest is history. It sure beats working for a living.
Alex Shaw - Programmer
Growing up around computers (and computer games), I have always appreciated a well made computer game. After going out, getting a biotech degree and working as a scientist for a brief stint, I moved in to scientific programming. I learnt many things working in the corporate world, many of which I hope to allow me to bring new technologies to SSG games.
I jumped at the chance of a job programming for SSG, and am looking forward to working with the guys who made some of my favorite games whilst growing up.
Strategic Studies Group website
User summary
From 1986 to 1996, SSG published 25 issues of a house magazine called Run5. Issues contain complete scenarios for SSG game systems, design info, games hints and tips, reviews and other useful info.
Note that Strategic Studies Group is often confused with Strategic Studies Games (a publisher of historical boardgames).


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Chad Hill Hotel
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: 01983 403231
Ferry inclusive packages available, please contact us for more details.
Enjoy a holiday at this beautiful Victorian house in Sandown, an ideal base from which to tour the Island. We have all the facilities you need for a relaxing holiday, we are a short walk from the beach and town - a home from home! Plus plenty of free parking and WiFi.


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In the field of personal finance, a great deal of attention has been paid to asset accumulation, but much less to asset decumulation, the planned spending down of accumulated savings in retirement. The DCDBtm is designed to be a post-retirement investing benchmark. Because this benchmark is most likely to be applied to a defined-contribution (DC) savings plan, the name is DCDB, defined contribution decumulation benchmark. A well-engineered DC plan should be experienced by the participant in much the same way as a well-engineered, and funded, defined benefit (DB) plan. Hence, the acronym DCDB is intended to convey this aspiration.
The benchmark is intended to embody the lowest-risk strategy available for converting accumulated capital to post-retirement income while satisfying three essential conditions: (1) the strategy must protect the investor against longevity risk (the risk that one will outlive one's money), (2) to the extent possible, the income should be inflation protected, and (3) the strategy must be appealing enough that it is likely to be used by a broad cross-section of investors. Immediate life annuities achieve the first condition but not the second. The apparent reason that investors shy away from immediate life annuities is that the loss of liquidity from transferring one's capital irrevocably to an insurance company is too onerous. Thus, the benchmark strategy preserves most of the investor's liquidity while achieving the goals of longevity protection and minimal investment risk.
The strategy that forms the DCDBtm benchmark is to buy, with most of one's capital, a portfolio of laddered inflation-indexed bonds (TIPS) out to the latest TIPS effective maturity date, currently about 20 years. The remainder of the capital is used to buy a deferred annuity that begins its payout when the cash flows from the TIPS ladder end. The proportions invested in each asset class – TIPS and a deferred annuity – are set in such a way as to make the first deferred annuity payout equal to the last TIPS payout (plus an allowance for inflation).
The challenge is to determine (1) how to split the retirement portfolio between the portfolio allocation (TIPs, or possibly an active portfolio of choice) and the deferred annuity and (2) the income into which the portfolio can be converted at current market rate?
The resulting benchmark differs from ordinary benchmarks by consisting of a set of future cash flows produced by a given amount invested. (Ordinary benchmarks are lists of securities and security weights which, when summed, produce a market price or present value.)
Here is an example: As of September 30, 2010, a single 65-year-old male who invests $100,000 in the benchmark portfolio can expect to receive a first-year payment of $5,118, increasing at the CPI rate until year 20. Thereafter, the deferred life annuity pays $7,332 (in today's money) annually until the participant dies.
This schedule of expected cash flows can be compared with the expected cash flows from other post-retirement investment strategies to determine which one a given investor might prefer. Three alternatives to the benchmark strategy are evaluated: (1) an immediate, real (inflation-indexed), life annuity purchased from an insurance company; (2) a target-date portfolio of risky assets (equities and bonds); and (3) an immediate, nominal life annuity purchased from an insurance company.
The immediate real annuity pays $4,856 in the first year, almost exactly the same as the first year's payout in the DCDB. The cash flows from both strategies inflate at the CPI rate until the 21st year, when the DCDB stops inflating but the inflation-indexed annuity continues to inflate. Thus, over any life span, the inflation-indexed annuity either matches or dominates the DCDB if the investor does not care about liquidity or counterparty risk. However, most investors are strongly averse to these risks, particularly with regard to post-retirement assets.
The target-date portfolio produces cash flows that cannot be accurately forecast. Given today's low yields, however, these cash flows are likely to be lower than those from the benchmark in the initial years. Over time, however, the target-date portfolio can be expected to yield more than the benchmark due to growth in equities. The participant must thus decide which cash flow pattern he or she prefers, one that is front-loaded (the benchmark) or one that may be more uncertain and more back-loaded (the target-date fund).
Finally, the immediate nominal annuity pays $6,811 (nominal, not in today's money) every year. The participant needs to weigh this certainty – and high current income – against the likelihood that inflation will erode his or her purchasing power significantly in the later years.
The benchmark strategy is not only useful as a measuring stick for evaluating alternatives, but is also potentially an investment in itself, akin to indexing. Such an investment would have to be offered by an entity that can issue or sell deferred annuities as well as conventional investment portfolios.
The Allianz DCDBtm Index is the property of Allianz Global Investors Solutions, P-Solve Cassidy, and Hudson Pilot.


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|The Queen
But she's much happier carrying on as she has always done. According to my calculations, Elizabeth will equal Queen Victoria's record of 63 yrs 7 months and 2 days on the throne on September 10th 2015. (I calculated it by number of days on the throne, including leap days.)
|Queen equals Victoria's Record
(Personally, I think having a monarch takes a lot of pressure off the Prime Minister to be that him or herself - which didn't stop Blair or Thatcher trying to be - and means they can get on with their job. I think the USA suffers from this problem, and could do with a monarch. That perhaps why, in our celebrity age, the last 3 Presidents have all had Leo Sun or Asc. Maybe they could try as king a washed-up member of the Kennedy family who would do as he was told?)
|David Cameron
Cameron has a wide stellium from Asc to Venus to the Sun. He became leader of the Conservative Party as Pluto squared his Asc, became Prime Minister as Pluto moved on to square his Venus, and next year (as well as in 2016) Pluto will exactly square his Sun. From then on his power is likely to wane, so I think he is likely to stand down 3 or so years into the next Parliament, in order to make way for an electable successor. A Pluto square Sun transit is pretty hefty, and it will be starting to conclude as the EU referendum of 2017, which he initiated, takes place.
|David Cameron
Pluto's simplest meaning is power, and Cameron will be faced with power issues of national importance from the start of the next Parliament: what powers to give to Scotland, and what powers to reclaim from the EU. These are likely to be his defining issues, at the conclusion of which it will be time for him to go.
I don't think of Cameron as a great man. He is, however, holding together not just his party but a coalition government, which is a difficult thing to do. And the country has climbed out of the worst recession in living memory (a recession which I think would also have occurred under a Tory government.) Cuts have been needed, though they have been applied in unfair ways at times. And I really don't like the concentration of ex-public school in the government, it amounts to a new ruling class in a way we haven't seen for a long time.
Of course, given the chance I would vote for a party that would change the whole course of the world so that we could live sustainably and stop destroying the environment and where countries would stop trying to dominate each other in a competition for resources and the fanatical backlash that creates...


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Petite League Are Back
After the success of their début record, Petite League are back to confirm the hype. But will the new album be as good? Well, there's only one way to find out. Petite League are back!
On Petite League's début record SLUGGER, the Syracuse based duo keep to the simple, fuzzy and fun promises which culminate in what is much more than just another DIY bedroom record. In fact. it's quite magical. So their new single called Hiccups from their upcoming record No Hitter should be no different! It's finally here and let's just say we're looking forward to hearing more! Listen to petite League's HICCUPS below...
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George Edmund Kristek, 88, of Salina, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. He was born March 27, 1929, to Joseph and Mary (Havlik) Kristek in Marion County. George married Pauline Bogner in 1957. They recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
He was active and supportive of the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Tampa, for over 20 years and was a 70-year member of the Knights of Columbus. George was a member of the Lions Club and American Legion (Korean War Veteran). He also served as a volunteer for the Tampa ambulance service and as volunteer Tampa Fire Chief. He owned Geo's market in Tampa and Kristek Liquor in Salina.
George is survived by: his wife, Pauline; son, Raymond Kristek of Kansas City; daughters, Karen Glotzbach (Joe) of Silver Lake, Shirley Mello (John) of DeSoto, Rosie Mitchell of Manhattan, JoAnn Pelter (Scott) of Topeka, and Anita Doubrava of Roland, Okla.; brother, Albert Kristek of Auburn, Wash.; sister, Florence Bezdek of Liberty, Mo.; 11 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his parents.
Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, with a vigil at 7 p.m. at Ryan Mortuary, Salina.
Mass of Christian Burial will be at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 11, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Salina. Burial will follow at 1:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Tampa.
Memorials may be made to: St. Mary's Catholic Grade School, Salina, Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Tampa, or Hospice of Salina, all in care of the mortuary.


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Uniformitarianism is a big word to describe the prevailing scientific philosophy of the world. It is the idea that everything in nature has proceeded in a regular and smooth fashion since the start of the Universe.
Of course, modern scientists do not accept a smooth uniformitarianism. They accept for example, a number of catastrophes and major events shaping the world we live in. But these are still considered to be part of the overall onward progress of unguided evolutionary change.
The apostle Peter refers to such people as "scoffers". This is because they refuse to believe that God created, and prefer to believe in gradual uniform progress – as we read in 2 Peter 3:4, they say that "all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation". Peter goes on to show that these scoffers are deliberately overlooking two facts. Peter says their actions are deliberate. It is not a mistake that they overlook these things. It is because, as another apostle, Paul, says "although they knew God, they did not honor him as God." So Peter tells us that the scoffers deliberately forget that God made the world and that God flooded the world. Once we take these two events, recorded in Genesis, into account, the rest of our understanding of how God has shaped the world becomes so much clearer.


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HOUGHTON -- The Carnegie Museum in Houghton will celebrate its 7th Annual Gingerbread Extravaganza Family Day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. TOMORROW, Saturday, Dec. 14.
Part of a previous Carnegie Museum Gingerbread display. (File photo courtesy Elise Nelson, Carnegie Museum director)
The Candy-Covered Playhouse is ready for young visitors, and Santa's elves will take photographs as children visit Santa Claus upstairs. Please bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to a local food pantry in exchange for your child's photograph. Hot Chocolate and festive snacks will be served.
As is the Carnegie's tradition, throughout the afternoon, Portage Lake District Librarian Chris Alquist will read to the children. New this year will be a Student String Quartet of local musicians, who will perform traditional music.
Awards and prizes will be announced for all new entries to the Gingerbread display, which has been set up at three locations -- the Carnegie Museum, the Portage Lake District Library, and the Houghton City Center.
1913 Singers to perform songs from 1913 Copper Miners' Strike at Carnegie Open House Dec. 19
The Carnegie Museum will hold an Open House from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. the 1913 Singers will perform songs from the 1913 Copper Miners' Strike.
The "1913 Singers" perform songs from the 1913-14 Copper Miners' Strike during the 2013 Writing Across the Peninsula Conference at Michigan Tech on Oct. 24, 2013. The group will perform again at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19, at the Carnegie Museum. (Photo by Keweenaw Now)
During the 1913-14 Copper Country Strike, locally written songs and poems about the strike were published in local newspapers. The "1913 Singers" formed in January 2013 to revive these songs of the copper strike for the centenary celebrations.
During their Oct. 24 performance at Michigan Tech, the "1913 Singers" projected translations of some of the songs from different ethnic groups involved in the 1913-14 Copper Miners' strike, such as this translation (from Finnish) of a "Copper Territory Strikers' March." (Photo by Keweenaw Now)
The strike had had at least three specially written anthems: one in English ("The Federation Call"), one in Finnish ("Kuparialueen lakkolaisten marssi" -- "The Copper Country Striker's March") and one in Italian ("Inno dei Scioperanti" -- "The Hymn of the Strikers"). The "1913 Singers" perform these anthems as well as some 1913-14 parodies of popular songs, which had been adapted to talk about the events of the strike and were published in the strike newspaper, the Miners' Bulletin. These include "The Pay of the Scab," "Where Do you Stand," "Michigan, my Michigan" and "The Workingman."
Although the songs were published in the newspaper without music, the vocal arrangements they use for all of the strike songs are based on sheet music of the period.
The majority of "1913 Singers" are involved in other local musical groups including the Michigan Tech Concert Choir, Keweenaw Symphony, and Copper Country Chorale.
Carnegie Exhibits continue
The following exhibits are currently continuing at the Carnegie Museum:*
Last Days of Italian Hall: Photographs of Calumet's Italian Hall 1981-1988 -- Twenty-one photographs, many never before exhibited, of Calument's Italian Hall by local photographer Eric Munch.
Family Ties: Memorials to those Lost in the 1913 Italian Hall Tragedy -- An exhibit by the Houghton Keweenaw County Genealogical Society.
Rural Reflections: Finnish American Buildings and Landscapes in Michigan's Copper Country -- Photographs by Ryan Holt with Historical Narrative by Arnold Alanen.
From the Old School: Memories from the Old Houghton High School 1923 - 1989 -- Oral histories about life in "the Old School."
The Carnegie Museum is on the corner of Huron and Montezuma in historic downtown Houghton. Free admission. Parking across Montezuma in City lot. Open Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.
For more information, call 482-7140 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
*See our Sept. 20, 2013, article on current Carnegie exhibits.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Carnegie Museum to host Gingerbread Extravaganza Family Day Dec. 14; Open House Dec. 19 with "1913 Singers"
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National DNA Bank-Carlos III
The National DNA Bank-Carlos III (BNADN) is an S&T platform promoted and supported by the Carlos III Health Institute(Instituto de Salud Carlos III) of the Ministry of Economy and competitiveness of Spain, whose main goal is to support genetic/genomic biomedical research.
Since its creation in 2004, the BNADN has been one of the pioneers in the field of biobanks in Spain and a reference biobank respecting the technical procedures employed and the compliance with ethical and legal requirements regarding the use of biological samples. The mission of the BNADN is to provide the scientific community with high quality biological samples (DNA, RNA, plasma, cells,…) and associated data from donors (healthy subjects and/ or patients) in order to promote biomedical research on genetic/genomic diversity associated with health, disease pathogenesis, therapy and human evolution, with special emphasis on the population living in Spain, and to facilitate the participation of Spanish researchers in major projects and international research consortia.
Likewise, the BNADN also offers DNA extraction and cell immortalization services, education and training courses on biobanking, external quality control service and advice on creation and management of biobanks. Regarding training and education, the BNADN and the University of Salamanca organize a Course of Expert/Master on Biobanks since the 2012-2013 academic year.
Since February 2006, their activities are certified with the Quality Certification UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2000.Currently, the BNADN consists of one Central Node hold at the University of Salamanca and is directed by Prof. Alberto Orfao. Within their current activities it actively participate in the Spanish National Biobank Network where coordinates the Working Program in Strategic Collections. Furthermore, the BNADN is collaborating with other national and international projects, such as 1000 genomes consortium, International Cancer Genome Consortium or Public Population Project in Genomics.


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NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500® leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services for a diverse range of businesses, announced that its Harry Pepper & Associates, Inc. subsidiary has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for $42 million to replace two culverts that control water flow for Lake Okeechobee, part of the Herbert Hoover Dike Rehabilitation Project, located in Martin and Palm Beach Counties, Florida.
Harry Pepper & Associates (HPA) is responsible for the removal of two existing culverts (11 and 16) and replacing them with new water control structures, providing flood protection and irrigation to the surrounding community, as part of the Herbert Hoover Dike. HPA's scope of work for the approximately three-year-long project will include demolition of two existing culverts, placing lengths of cutoff wall to close the existing gaps in the existing cutoff wall at the culvert locations, placement of new cast-in-place concrete culvert structures with gates and control systems at the same locations, and restoring the embankment. Scope of work will also include construction of cofferdams, de-watering, re-watering upon completion of the new culvert structures, removal of the cofferdams, and installation of new rip-rap at the culvert locations.
"We're honored to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in our region," stated David Pepper, President and CEO, Harry Pepper & Associates. "Our substantial and diverse experience working in the Everglades enables us to bring the unique and required skills to this very important project. We value our role in the preservation and restoration of the ecosystem in this part of Florida."
About EMCOR Group, Inc.
A Fortune 500 company with estimated 2011 revenues of ~$5.5B, EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME) is a global leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure, and facilities services. A leading provider of critical infrastructure systems, EMCOR gives life to new structures and sustains life in existing ones by its planning, installing, operating, maintaining, and protecting the sophisticated and dynamic systems that create facility environments---such as electrical, mechanical, lighting, air conditioning, heating, security, fire protection, and power generation systems---in virtually every sector of the economy and for a diverse range of businesses, organizations and government. EMCOR represents a rare combination of broad reach with local execution, combining the strength of an industry leader with the knowledge and care of 170 locations. The ~26,000 skilled employees of EMCOR have made the company, in the eyes of leading business publications, amongst the "World's Most Admired" and "Best Managed". EMCOR's diversity---in terms of the services it provides, the industries it serves and the geography it spans---has enabled it to create a stable platform for sustained results. The Company's strong financial position has enabled it to attract and retain among the best local and regional talent, to undertake and complete the most ambitious projects, and to redefine and shape the future of the construction and facilities services industry. Additional information on EMCOR can be found at www.EMCORGroup.com.
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Any such comments are based upon information available to EMCOR management and its perception thereof, as of this date, and EMCOR assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may include statements regarding market opportunities, market share growth, gross profit, backlog mix, projects with varying profit margins, and selling, general and administrative expenses. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Accordingly these statements are no guarantee of future performance. Such risk and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, adverse effects of general economic conditions, changes in the political environment, changes in the specific markets for EMCOR's services, adverse business conditions, availability of adequate levels of surety bonding, increased competition, unfavorable labor productivity and mix of business and that the USM business will not be integrated successfully and that the cost savings from the USM transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected or that disruption from the transaction may make it more difficult to maintain relationships with customers, employees or suppliers. Certain of the risks and factors associated with EMCOR's business are also discussed in the Company's 2010 Form 10-K, its Form 10-Q for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011 and in other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All these risks and factors should be taken into account in evaluating any forward-looking statements.


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My family eats lots of bread, but not the ends. (Good luck with this trick to get rid of them. Let me know whether your kids are fooled.)
So we always have annoying frozen bread end collections. Here's how to use them up and enjoy it!
1. We're Bakin' Brownies!
- 2/3 cup nondairy milk
- 2 Tbsp nondairy margarine (opt)
- 1 tsp vanilla (opt)
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 6 cups medium-fine soft bread crumbs (made in food processor, mine were quite chunky)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 3/4 cups brown sugar, packed (or 1 cup + 2Tbsp molasses + 1/8 tsp stevia)
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts or desiccated coconut (opt)
- 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips (opt)
- 1 mashed ripe banana (opt)
- 1 tsp cinnamon (opt)
- 2 egg (replacer equivalent)
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- Preheat oven to 350 F (175 C) and (if not nonstick) spray a 8-inch square baking pan or similar (I used a round cake pan).
- Melt nondairy milk and margarine and add sifted cocoa powder and vanilla - stir
- In large mixing bowl, combine bread crumbs, baking powder, sugar and nuts/optional extras.
- Stir in cocoa mixture and brown sugar; beat until combined.
- In separate bowl, prepare egg replacer.
- Combine with bread mixture until all ingredients are moistened. Add more nondairy milk or water if not moist enough to make smooth sticky batter (bread crumbs are hard to measure exactly).
- Spread evenly in prepared pan. Bake 30 minutes or until done. Cool completely on wire rack.
2. Dipping Toasties
These are much quicker than croutons and make soup night a bit more special.
- Preheat oven to 350 F (175 C)
- Cut at least 2 bread ends in half for each person eating
- Spread with your choice of:
- Marmite or other yeast spread
- Vegan margarine or olive oil
- Refried beans
- Salsa
- Vegan cheese
- Hummus
- Herb/seasoned salt sprinkle
Serve with soup, spread with more goodies like guacomole....yum!
3. Vegan Fruit Pudding
This frugal pudding can be made with practically whatever you've got.
4. Vegan Stuffing
This savoury stuffing is great for the festive season or anytime it's chilly.


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Now, we're authenticating with OAuth with Google or the like, and the smart stuff you write knows whether you're authenticated or not, but that kinda happens at the client level, and your server doesn't know whether it's authenticated or not.
So, is the solution to have the images in a non-web-shared directory and have code determine whether it's OK to send the image or not? I've done that, too, but it seems like you stop the server from doing what it's good at. As efficient as you can make a program that takes in a user identifier, determines if it's acceptable, reads in a file and sends either a good image or a "that's not okay" image, that's always going to be slower than letting your server just send that image.
So, do I own that slowness? Is there another way that I just don't know yet? I'd put this on Stack Overflow if I even knew how to pose the question. Any thoughts?


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Welcome to MugShot Monday(on Tuesday this week!): a caffeine inspired journey to uncover University Ave's Cafe's
Okay, Okay, I know…only two weeks into the weekly series and I'm already behind schedule. I can explain!!! But first, let me introduce you to Fat Ducks Deli and Bakery located on the north end of University Ave.
You will more-often-than-not be greeted by owner Jaclyn Roth who not only makes a good Americano, but will also offer you a pillow if you've by chance just recently thrown your back out and are noticeably gimping around the cafe.
I stopped in on Monday, but I failed to note the closure dates(hence my posts' tardiness) Roth was on a trip in New York to, among some other things, purchase the amazing pastrami that she imports regularly from Brooklyn.
Roth comes from an east coast family that ran a deli bakery, and that is where she honed in her amazing baking skills. From rugelach to her creatively named cookies and sweets, Roth is baking away what must be all the hours in a day!
But since you need to eat a meal before dessert, her menu includes a vast assortment of sandwiches, soups, bagels (from Blazing Bagels) and more. This is the part where you take a bite into the Lucky Duck ($8.95), where you will taste that delicious pastrami, or if you're a traditionalist like myself, you'll order the Lox Duck($7.50) which is the classic bagel with lox, capers, etc. Whatever you order, give Jaclyn a little time to make it perfect. Good things come to those who wait! Trust me, it will hit the spot!
With free wi-fi, a nice seating area in the back, some outdoor seating, Fat Ducks is a great spot to 'waddle' to for a coffee and a treat, lunch or an afternoon snack.
For more information, or to find out about her catering options, check out the Fat Ducks website.


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The vision of our Haptic HMI Demonstrator is to "Simplify your HMI" and create a holistic user experience that enhances safety and comfort. The implemented screen is controlled via touchpad which responds with vibrations. The impression of being able to "touch" every single screen element is created. The screen elements follow the rule of consistency. Known behavior of touch interfaces is implemented and optimized, and natural usability is given.
Capacitive Touch
Benefits & Features
- Haptic feedback technology and simplified operation reduce driver distraction (blind detection)
- Natural, intuitive and ergonomically – optimized interaction
- Trim panel, combination of design and functionality (vanishing buttons)
Technical Information
- 12.3" display (HD resolution) – real glass cover with optical bonding
- Trim panel in alu optic (IMD foil, black panel effect) with capacitive sensing enabling functional bookmarks and active haptic feedback
- Touchpad with active haptic feedback, surface (112 mm x 70 mm) mirrors the 12.3" display in exact aspect ratio
Central Input Devices
Our input devices embody intuitive operating concepts so that the interface between human and technology is designed optimally. These devices must be laid out so that they fulfill demands for convenience without distracting the driver from traffic. They increase vehicle safety and comfort, and haptic interfaces, buttons, controllers and touch-sensitive surfaces are important components of the driving experience.
Benefits & Features
- Diverse possibilities for realizing OEMs' control philosophy: technology range from traditional mechanical solutions with best-in-class button and knob design up to touch-sensitive surfaces
- Input devices which are combining new technologies like sensitive multi-touch surfaces, character recognition
- Active tactile feedback is reducing driver distraction


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Evernote has discovered what most of the industry has discovered – that subscription models can make you rich. They have always had a subscription premium option, but I am a light user and so have never needed to pay for premium.
And they no doubt realized that this was limiting their income because the free product was simply too good.
Now, the usual response would be to beef up the premium offering and price it just right. But Evernote came up with the unique idea of an intermediate plus price point at just a little too high a price and then stole one of the most useful features from the free version to make that version saleable.
Here is what happens now when you send a copy of an email to your Evernote inbox:
That is just harsh …
p.s. Note that it suggests that I have reached my daily limit. That's bollucks, since it is the first email I have sent to Evernote today. The 5 emails limit is now a lifetime limit until you upgrade. There was never a limit before.


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Use $15 off coupon code SALE and get free shipping.
Safeguard your dazzling love with this stunning key pendant! A rainbow of natural topaz in shimmering honey, pink, paraiba, rainforest, white and poppy hold a total weight of 3/4 ct are is set sterling silver. Piece measures 1 1/4 by 1/2 inches. Comes with a sterling silver 18-inch box chain with a 2-inch extender.
This deal is expected to expire at 2:00am on Wednesday November 18th, 2015.


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July was a super busy month and i made so many cards i didn't have time to feature on my blog! Exciting news my cousin Lloyd popped the question to his girlfriend Katie and she of course said YES! So i made this engagement card to send to them:
On a 'Very Vanilla' base i layered up a strip of 'Cherry Cobbler' card and then a piece of 'DSP' from the 'Holly Berry Bouquet' collection, whih i embellished with some 'Basic Pearls'. I then cut a square of 'Cherry Cobbler' card and glued that onto the 'DSP'. I punched a 'Heart' from some 'Very Vanilla' card, which i ran through the 'Big Shot' using the 'Adorning Accents Embossing Folders' to create the cute heart texture!! and then glued it into place using some 'Dimensionals' to craete a 3D effect. Finally i stamped the congrats sentiment from the 'Tagtastic' stampset onto some 'Very Vanilla' card using 'Cherry Cobbler' ink, mounted it onto a slightly larger piece of 'Cherry Cobbler' card and then finally embellished the sentiment with some of the teeny 'Basic Pearls'.
Wishing Lloyd and Katie all the best for the future! Congratulations guys! xxxxxx
(And don't forget if you would like to order any of the products used to create this card drop me an email: firstname.lastname@example.com - you can view the catty online via the link on the righthand side of this blog!)
Amy Tidd - Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator. Operating in the Surrey/ Hampshire area.
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Engagement Wishes for Lloyd and Katie!
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Justin Rudd and CAT Invite You To Enter "Say Cheese Long Beach!" 24-hour Photo Contest This Weekend
2013-09-10 · By Editor
CAT invites you to enter the Long Beach-themed 24-hour photo contest this weekend with $1,000 in prize money.
Entry is free. There is no pre-registration. Entering the contest is simple. Participants will upload their best snapshots on the contest website, and the entries received will be juried. Winning photos will be selected on criteria such as theme, photographic excellence, visual impact and artistic quality. Amateur and professional photographers of all ages will use all kinds of digital cameras, from cell phones to high-end cameras.
The "Say Cheese Long Beach!" 24-hr. digital photo contest's mission is to capture images of Long Beach that celebrate this vast, vivid, vibrant city. This is your chance to explore your creative, humorous or serious side to create a blended expression of our community. The contest aims to capture moments during our lives and the life of our community — taking us from dawn to dusk. We expect that this Long Beach family album of sorts will inspire, amuse, and on occasion, disturb. Sample photos, full rules and details: www.JustinRudd.com/photocontest.html
The project was created in 2008 and is presented by Belmont Shore resident Justin Rudd and his nonprofit 501c3 Community Action Team (C.A.T.).
Photos must be taken within the city limits of Long Beach from noon on Sat., Sept. 14, 2013, til noon on Sun., Sept. 15, 2013. You can upload your photos only between noon and 8 p.m. on Sun., Sept. 15, 2013, at www.BradAndBrad.com/saycheese.
So, picture this: amateur and seasoned photographers of all ages, taking Long Beach photographs that define aspects of their lives during the same period. Anyone can enter — just start snapping digital photos during the dates/times of whatever and whomever you like during the day and/or night. Photos might include, but are not limited to home life, work, religious events, secular happenings, nature/landscape, indoor life, outdoor decorations, pets, humor, drama, action, friends, family, city life, beach life or a historical place.
Thurs., Sept. 19, 5-9 p.m. next to Chase Bank, 5200 E. 2nd St. during the Stroll & Savor event. This is an outdoors exhibit. Awards at 7 p.m. Winning photographers will get $50 bills.
BONUS: Those who attend the 20-minute informational/kick-off meeting for the contest (Sat., Sept. 14, 11:30 a.m.,sharp), in front of Chase Bank on 2nd St. will be allowed to submit 5 additional images for the contest.
8. NEW/UPDATED RULE: Enter/upload your photos in the contest as a JPEG, 2048 x 1536 pixels to 4000 x 3000 pixels. You can shoot in raw, high dynamic range (HDR) or shoot bigger files, but submit as JPEG within size ranges listed here.
9. NEW: MINIMAL, basic processing, manipulation and/or enhancement and high dynamic range (HDR) is allowed. NOTE: the contest is about the photo and not one's ability to operate iPhoto, Photoshop or Lightroom or some other photo manipulation software. EXAMPLES: you are allowed to use red-eye removal; you are NOT allowed to add or remove objects from a photo. BOTTOM LINE: make the photo look good in camera. We want to see your photo looking as good as the way you saw it when you took it.
10. NEW: No composites. We do not allow the merging of photographs (compositing). BOTTOM LINE: make the photo look good in camera.
Sample photos, full rules and details: www.JustinRudd.com/photocontest.html. Contact email@example.com


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I finished 1 of my projects.
Crafty Traveler Tote.
It is really massive inside.
|3 pockets on the outside.
So those 2 items saw me sewing until Wednesday, but I did stop and pet fabric on Monday.
I was little bummed because I thought I wasn't going to be able to participate in the Pantone Challenge, but then my lovely bloggy friend Amanda said to me in an e-mail "I think they have a category for just quilt tops? No pressure ;)" and it was like a DUH moment for me, of course I could do something other than what I had originally planned, since my original piece of fabric and interfacing got lost in the mail, I got lost also in the not being able to do what I had originally wanted to do mindset.
But I have all of these awesome purple charm squares and my other totally awesome bloggy buddy Shirley sent me a magazine with a great quilt in it that uses charms.
Friday: first row of sewing and ironing
Saturday (this morning): Second round of sewing, I will iron later.
This is total selfish sewing I love the colors I am using and it just makes me happy, I should have this quilt top done by Tuesday (it is super easy) I won't quilt it though because I don't have any big pieces of fabric for the back. But I also put in an order for some interfacing at a UK store so maybe I will even be able to do 1 of my other planned projects, once again not the original cause the Acacia fabric is missing, yes that is the fabric that went missing, sigh.
Thanks everyone for your help, BIG HUGS!
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Whanganui River Dories
Whanganui River Dories offer fully inclusive guided 4 to 6 day trips in wooden river dories on the Whanganui River, starting from either Taumarunui, Ohinepani or Whakahoro, and finishing at Pipiriki. Trips are available from October to April.
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- $1,430.00 - $1,815.00
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Why a wooden dory?
River Dories provide a level of comfort, charm and elegance that you simply do not get with other boats. The boats are dry for passengers, quick on the water and have ample space to carry quality camping equipment. This enables you to camp in style.
You can fully enjoy the sights of the Whanganui River without the labour of paddling a canoe. You can fully immerse yourself in the experience without the worry of falling out and getting valuable equipment wet or damaged. An added bonus is that being a guided trip you will gain insights that you may not have otherwise.
We offer 4 to 6 day all inclusive (camping equipment, great food) guided trips.
Whanganui River Dories, 266 Mangahoata Road, Pukeokahu, Taihape, Manawatu, New Zealand.
- Geschäftszeiten:
- Reservations - 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Geschäftsmonate:
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, Dec
Anlagen und Einrichtungen
- Nähe zum Flughafen:
- Palmerston North or Whanganui are the closest airports
- Nähe zur Stadt:
- During the trip you will be distant from any towns
Preise und Bedingungen
|$1,430.00 - $1,815.00
- Altersbegrenzung
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UEFA Europa League: Juventus 1 Fiorentina 1
Mario Gomez's first goal since returning from injury salvaged a 1-1 draw for Fiorentina against Juventus in the UEFA Europa League last 16.
Juve enjoyed a narrow 1-0 win over Fiorentina in Serie A on Sunday to maintain their title charge and it looked as though it would be a case of deja vu for Vincenzo Montella and his men on Thursday after Arturo Vidal's early opener in the first leg.
Hosts Juve, unbeaten at home in all competitions since April 10, made the ideal start when Vidal scored for a second successive Europa League game after just three minutes.
Both sides had plenty of goalscoring opportunities after that, but it looked as though Juve's defence would keep a clean sheet for a sixth straight game in all competitions.
However, substitute Gomez, who returned to action in mid-February after suffering a long-term knee injury in September, chose the ideal time to get on the scoresheet again with 11 minutes remaining as he gained Fiorentina a potentially vital away goal heading into next week's second leg.
In what was a strong start, Juve needed less than three minutes to open the scoring, Vidal firing home from close range after Sebastian Giovinco had done well to chest Claudio Marchisio's powerful cross into his path.
Vidal was in the thick of it again soon after when he flashed an effort wide from distance as Antonio Conte's men made all of the early running.
Stefan Savic was forced to clear Kwadwo Asamoah's pacy delivery from a dangerous position before Alessandro Matri had Fiorentina's first chance - diverting Alberto Aquilani's effort wide of Gianluigi Buffon's right-hand post.
That sparked a short spell of pressure from Montella's men - Matias Fernandez forcing Buffon into a smart save with Asamoah required to acrobatically clear the rebound before the onrushing Borja Valero could follow up.
Vidal threatened twice more late in the half - both with headed efforts - seeing the first saved by Neto before the crossbar denied him seven minutes from the interval.
Juve were given a scare early on after the restart when Valero dispossessed Angelo Ogbonna in possession and found himself through on goal, before referee Bjorn Kuipers brought play back for a foul on the defender.
With Juve keen to avoid conceding an away goal and Fiorentina eager not to fall further behind in the tie, the tempo dropped somewhat and chances became scarce.
However, Gomez needed only one sight of goal when, after being involved for just 12 minutes, he trapped a long ball well and slipped the equaliser past the onrushing Buffon.


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American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Association is seeking an attorney. AFPM represents virtually the entire U.S. refining and petrochemical manufacturing capacity. The legal department is responsible for AFPM's litigation docket, providing support to its advocacy and communications initiatives, and ensuring compliance. The successful candidate will draft and provide substantive input on legal briefs, review contracts that support AFPM's advocacy, meetings, and communications, ensure compliance with antitrust laws, federal and state election laws, and copyright compliance. The successful candidate also will have expertise or an interest in developing expertise in environmental, energy, and health and safety regulations. This position reports to the General Counsel. AFPM provides an attractive compensation and benefits program.
JD with 2-5 years' experience.
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Amber18 (Amber18 + AmberTools18) is now available.
Prof. Ross Walker gives the Official numbers of Amber 18 running on RTX-2080Ti.
NOW CONFIRMED: 1ms/day
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" I personally verify all LinuxVixion machines "
Prof. Ross Walker
GPU Accelerated for Faster Amber Simulation
Amber18 and AmberTools18 were released on 17 April 2018 !!
AMBER is a key application in molecular dynamics used to simulate biocatalysis and the interaction between drug candidates and protein receptors. An exemplary feature of AMBER is the ability to use NVIDIA GPUs to massively accelerate complex molecular simulations. This massively enhances sampling efficiency, improves research accuracy, enables more advanced science, and speeds up the research process.
AMBER Certified GPU Systems
The main driving force behind the AMBER GPU development has been to bring supercomputer power and performance to individual desktops with an economical price, high power efficiency and designed to benefit the widest range of researchers. LinuxVixion, S.L. has teamed up with the AMBER development team to design a series of AMBER GPU computing solutions that provide the optimum price performance for AMBER users.
These machines provide a turnkey solution for AMBER simulation, come preinstalled with the latest version and updates, are ready to run out of the box and provide guaranteed performance. This provides a solution for scientists to purchase optimal workstations and clusters for running GPU AMBER (and regular CPU AMBER simulations as well.)
AMBER Certified MD System Highlights
As the sole provider of AMBER Certified MD Systems, LinuxVixion, S.L. develops turnkey solutions in collaboration with key AMBER developers to provide value-add systems for GPU accelerated Molecular Dynamics simulations.
• Designed to meet the requirements for atomistic molecular dynamics simulations
• Guaranteed to be optimized to meet or exceed the published performance numbers
• Preinstalled AMBER GPU computing solutions, designed in collaboration and genuinely certified by AMBER Developers
• Includes example job submission scripts, benchmarks, fully validated test suite and latest software patches for quick implementation
• Save time installing, optimizing, benchmarking and validating and instead do more science
• Fully customizable to meet your budget
"Working closely with LinuxVixion, S.L. to develop certified AMBER GPU systems has been a pleasure. Their flexibility and responsiveness has allowed us to jointly optimize these computing platforms that, I believe, deliver transformative increases in performance for molecular dynamics simulation to every lab without the complexities of needing to validate the GPU computing hardware."
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I even accepted an invitation from Chef Claudio Russo to step inside the kitchen whenever I wished. An invitation I accepted instantly since I noticed that the lighting was better for my snapshots.
I entered just was the kitchen brigade as plating up one of my primi.
|Chef Claudio Russo
A first course pasta dish of Paccheri pasta with Coccio aka Sea Robin, Tub gurnard, Tubfish, Yellow or Grey gurnard .
Pacchero pasta. I have a love hate relationship with that particular format. I, personally, have yet to cook it just right at home, so I decided to watch closely as Russo and close friend Danilo Mertino prepared a first to remember.
They cooked the pasta for 17, yes, 17 minutes in boiling salted water before adding it into a saucepan laced with a delicious sauce.
In the meantime, a colorful blue plating dish, reminiscent of the nearby sea, was ready and waiting with a thin layer of raw sea robin.
Then, the pasta was placed carefully, one by one, on the plate...
sauce drizzled on top...
|Russo and Mertino
confit tomatoes and sauteed sea robin complete the dish.


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2012. When I look back on the past year it amazes me how much has happened. I graduated from college, I started my first job in the workforce, I took on financial responsibility that I never really thought was possible, I've been asked by my wonderful and amazing soon-to-be sister-in-law to be her Maid of Honor, I marked year numero tres in a wonderful relationship with a man I love, and I've grown more as an individual than ever before.
This past year has been one for the books without question. Its been full of so many emotions and blessings, not to say there hasn't been bumps in the road along the way. I don't think it would have been a memorable year without everything that has occurred. It's all about what you learn these experiences though, right? Some things I learned over the past year:
+ pay the bill as soon as you get it, don't delay the inevitable
+ don't be fooled— dogs are great, vet bills are not
+ family is most important— more of a reassurance seeing as I already knew this
+ best friends are rare, but keep them close when you find them
+ also, no matter the distance between best friends, the good ones will always be there
+ champagne gives the worst hangovers
+ don't be afraid to over-indulge
+ pay day is always the best day
+ it's not always about want, instead, focus on need
+ work hard & play hard — balance is key
+ the right song can fix any problem, for a few minutes anyways
+ it's okay to simply trust your instincts
+ wearing heels from 8am-6pm will never end well
+ anything is possible
Yes, I know — that is just scratching the surface but there was a lot to be learned this year! From graduating to starting a new life in a new city there are many things that I have picked up along the way. 2012 was good to me, to my family, and to my friends. I am blessed to have such amazing people in my life and I am looking forward to everything that 2013 has in store for me. I hope everyone had a wonderful night celebrating the countdown to a new year!
Have an amazing day and cheers to 2013!!
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Depending on you, the time of the year and according to what you would enjoy at best, there are many things to do. For example: Do you like swimming in crystal-blue water? Have a look at some of the countless beaches you can reach! Your choice is almost endless, between beaches either with amenities, or isolated and far from the madding crowd!
According to the time of the year, there are a lot of happenings around. Since Gonia is such a centrally located village, you have access to music concerts, theater performances and many traditional festivals and events, like...
Mass at the summit of Psiloritis
Cheesemaker's festival
Celebrating shepherds
The shepards of the neighboring Amari valley are inviting everybody to their annual fest on the west slope of Psiloritis, always at a beautiful spot on a high altitude.
St Yacinth
The longest and most beautiful gorge of Crete
Do you propably enjoy hiking through gorges, but you find Samaria too long?


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Kilkenny Youth Theatre-Get the Capri Sun Blues!
Posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 by Eleanor in Announcements, News, Theatre
For all of ye who have been living under rocks, Kilkenny Youth Theatre is THE thing for fun, fearless and fantastic theatre for young people. From the success of our last play Burying Your Brother in the Pavement, we're back with a bang from Tuesday 15th September at 5.30-7.30!
So, why go? Well, it beats homework. And there's the lovely people, the great skills you learn, the fantastic buzz you get, the free cups of tea…FREE CUPPA TEA!!! Why not go?!
And it isn't just acting either, there's script-writing, lighting and sound, costume, set design, directing… and some acting. But seriously, this thing is AWESOME!! IT'S SO DAMN COOL!!!
You can get all the information from www.barnstorm.ie. Hope to see you all there soon!
Oh, and this is from the Potter Puppet Pals. Enjoy! This is one of the best!