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Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern hardware. It also provides computational libraries and zero-copy streaming messaging and interprocess communication. Languages currently supported include C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.
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In 2000, The Simpsons parodically decimated Cirque du Soleil. Much to Homer's chagrin, the Simpsons take in Cirque de Purée, the "hauntingly beautiful" "circus full of whimsy and wonder." "I cannot get the lid off my jar of rainbows," laments a clown, before contortionists, acrobats, and jugglers do their thing. When the show becomes threatened by a storm, Homer yells, "Oh, no, you don't! I paid full price for this freak show. Now, nourish the child within me."
Since 1984, the Montreal based circus has entertained millions with a unique blend of music, dance, and stunts. There's no arguing with the troupe's unabated success, though the shows are just as undeniably gaudy. In some ways, Cirque du Soleil is the inheritor of Ed Sullivan's postmodern vaudeville. Eschewing animals for humanitarian reasons, Cirque du Soleil gathers an astonishing array of novelty artistes to perform in a variety of disciplines: gymnastics, acrobatics, pantomime, trapeeze, juggling, balancing acts, rope-work, ballet, modern dance, contortionism, cycling, and androgyny.
The latter is the sort of thing for which people mock Cirque du Soleil. The acts are amazing, but often dumbstrikingly weird, and always accompanied by a house band that leans to musak-y cheese. If it adds up to an act that makes David Copperfield seem subtle, Cirque du Soleil is self-aware enough about its pretention to spoof itself even as its keepers laugh all the way to the bank.
The bottom line is that wherever you find Cirque du Soleil, you'll find the most jaw-droppping show in town. Now, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is bringing the excitement to living rooms with a DVD box set that—for the first time—gathers twelve discs spanning the troupe's career. Cirque du Soleil: Anniversary Collection—1984-2005 begins with 1986's La Magie Continue and ends with 2004's Midnight Sun (the bonus, twelfth disc). In between, you'll find the company's most famous touring shows (Saltimbanco, Alegría, Quidam, Dralion) and even the group's Ian McKellen-narrated foray into IMAX 3-D: Journey of Man.
The presentation here is excellent, and—not surprisingly—improves with age. The early discs have relatively weak videotape masters, but the later discs are mastered in high definition anamorphic widescreen. The shows gather up a head of showy steam, as well: the sets, staging, music, and lighting become more lavish and elaborate with the years. There's not a disc among the twelve that doesn't evince wonder, even though many of the shows ooze with pretension and stylistic excess.
Perhaps the stereotypical Cirque show, in this regard, is Quidam, the ambitious production that layered Fellini-esque surrealism over the troupe's usual roundup of acrobatics and clowning. Claptrap? Most definitely. Lacking in entertainment value? Hardly. Any excuse to showcase the performers' artistry will do.
The earlier shows have a charming simplicity about them in comparison, though they are no less impressive in their skill. Denis Lacombe's routine of a harried conductor flop-sweating his way through the "1812 Overture" for example, is a masterful pantomime (wait till he locks his feet into a trampoline for the big finish); historians will also enjoy the chance to compare the routine as performed in La Magie Continue and in its variation in the following year's Cirque Reinvente.
Featured in the set are La Magie Continue, Cirque Reinvente, Nouvelle Experience, Saltimbanco, A Baroque Odyssey (a ten-year retrospective), Alegría (with "Filming Alegría," "A Journey to Alegría: A Special," "A Different Perspective," "Meet the Artists" interviews, and a multi-angle option for some performances), Quidam, La Nouba, Dralion (with 23-minute "In the Heart of the Dralion" featurette), Journey of Man, Varekaï (with multi-angle option for some performances), and Midnight Sun (with "Encore," photo gallery, and "Then and Now: An Introduction to Cirque du Soleil"). The box also includes six commemorative postcards.
Priced by most retailers at around $100 and representing most of the company's output, Cirque du Soleil: Anniversary Collection—1984-2005 is a bargain for lovers of splashy, outré entertainment.
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Erin Andrews' creepy stalker will go to his California court dates without an orange jumpsuit.
An Illinois judge released Michael David Barrett on $4,500 bond. But Barrett will have to wear an ankle bracelet and abide by a curfew until his October 23 appearance in California federal court. He has also been barred from using a computer until his next court appearance.
Barrett struggled with reporters after walking out of jail in Chicago on Monday. Feds have also charged that Barrett made nude videos of other women, and posted those online as well.
Barrett, a 47-year-old insurance company employee who was arrested at O'Hare International Airport on Friday for allegedly making nude videos of the blonde bombshell sportscaster while she was on assignment, has been in jail all weekend.
Barrett is accused of posting online the peephole videos which show Andrews changing, and then trying to sell them to TMZ.com. He faces interstate stalking charges in Los Angeles, where TMZ is based. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
His neighbors in a Chicago suburb said Sunday they were surprised by his arrest. Barrett kept his yard manicured, played golf and enjoyed cooking on a gas grill on a patio behind his $300,000 suburban Chicago town house. The normalcy of his life was what made the accusations so upsetting to neighbors and acquaintances.
"I'm totally shocked," said David Wayne, 72, a retired corporate executive who lives several doors down from Barrett. "He looked absolutely normal — nothing distinguishing."
Investigators believe Barrett recorded Andrews by aiming a cell phone camera through an altered peephole in the door of her hotel room.
There didn't appear to be anyone home Sunday at Barrett's two-story, two-garage house in Westmont, a leafy, middle-class suburb about 20 miles west of Chicago lined with quaint, gas-lamp replica street lights.
An FBI affidavit said Barrett specifically asked for a room next to Andrews at a Tennessee hotel where seven videos were likely taken, apparently through an altered peephole. An eighth video may have been shot at a Milwaukee hotel.
Today, Andrews lawyer, Marshall Grossman of the Los Angeles-based firm Bingham McCutchen, is laying blame on the hotel, as well.
"I think (the case) has significance far beyond Ms. Andrews," said Marshall Grossman of the Los Angeles-based law firm Bingham McCutchen.
The 35-page criminal complaint contains a section from the hotel computer records of Barrett's reservation that show a notation, "GST RQST TO RM NXT TO (Andrews)."
Grossman said the hotel should be held accountable for issuing "rooms at the end of the hall, in an alcove, where anyone would be free to do just about whatever they wanted to do in complete privacy."
He said the incident would "likely serve as a casebook study on poor hotel management."


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Well, last night wasn't one of Jon Niese's better games, the offense sputtered again and Jose Reyes reinjured himself. Anybody out there surprised by that?
Of course not.
The August 31 waiver deal deadline is fast approaching and it will be interesting to see who, or if, the Mets will unload somebody. Since they don't want him, you know they'll be shopping Carlos Beltran. I like Beltran, but believe his better days are behind him.
Maybe he'll show enough in September to elicit a trade or at least give the Mets hope they'll have a viable player next season. Outside of that there are few reasons to watch anymore.
What are your feelings about September? Will you watch because the Mets are your team and you love them win or lose? Or, have you given up on them and counting the day until spring training?
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Safety training videos and DVD's are a great way to convey important safety-related information to workers in a fashion that will get, and keep, their attention. And when coupled with site-specific information about your company policies and procedures, as well as any hands-on demonstrations or training that may be needed, they can be an important part of helping you meet OSHA training requirements.
Affordably priced safety training videos and DVD's are available on many OSHA-required topics. Many of our training kits also come with reproducible handouts and certificates for training, too.


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A U.S. 6th Circuit Court ruling that would require a permitting system for all applications of pesticides over or near bodies of water is beginning to attract congressional attempts to override the ruling and restore FIFRA as the governing document for those applications.
On Thursday, Sept. 30, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson introduced legislation that would amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and the Clean Water Act to prohibit additional permits for pesticide applications when they are applied consistent with FIFRA.
"This legislation provides farmers and ranchers with the safe harbor they deserve in the application of pesticides," said Petterson, a Democrat from Minnesota. "The bill relieves producers from a potentially costly regulatory burden that does little if anything to protect the environment."
A total of 12 House members joined Peterson as co-sponsors of the bill, H.R. 6273.
In the decades since Congress enacted the CWA, the Environmental Protection Agency has never issued a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for the application of a pesticide, the House Ag Committee said in a press release.
Instead, EPA has regulated these types of applications through FIFRA, enacted by Congress to control all aspects of pesticide registration, sales and use. The FIFRA registration process includes stringent requirements for a wide range of environmental, health and safety studies to establish the circumstances under which pesticides can be legally used in the United States.
EPA rule overturned
The more recent history has been that in January 2009, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2006 EPA rule which specifically exempted permitting of certain pesticide applications from the CWA.
In National Cotton Council of America, et al., v. United States Environmental Protection Agency the court ruled EPA did not have the authority under the CWA to exempt application of pesticides. The Court's decision marks a pre-emption of FIFRA by the CWA for the first time in the history of either statute.
Chairman Peterson's bill would make clear that producers who are in compliance with the requirements of FIFRA are not subject to Clean Water Act permits, the committee press release said.
"The 6th Circuit decision overturned decades of policy and practice with regard to the sufficiency of FIFRA regulation," Peterson said. "This legislation will make clear that Congress never intended for farmers and ranchers to meet additional permit requirements for pesticide applications under FIFRA."
Crop protection industry officials say the 6th Circuit ruling could lead to performance, recordkeeping and reporting requirements for an estimated 1.5 million pesticide applications per year. EPA is under a court-ordered deadline of April 2011 to complete the implementation of a permitting system.
"This one decision overnight will nearly double the population of entities requiring permits under CWA and affects state agencies, local municipalities, recreation, utility rights-of-way, railroads, roads and highways, mosquito control districts, water districts, canals and other water conveyances, commercial applicators, farm, ranches, forestry, scientists, and many, many others," said Jay Vroom, president of CropLife America. (See EPA's NPDES permit plans too 'optimistic'.)
"This is an enormous burden — and we see no related benefit to protection of humans or the environment."
Business impact
Vroom told a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing that many of the businesses impacted by the permit are small businesses. "The permit will threaten their economic survival, either due to the cost of obtaining a permit or due to their vulnerability to citizen law suits under CWA," he said.
"New requirements for monitoring and surveillance, planning, recordkeeping, reporting and other tasks will create significant delays, costs, reporting burdens and legal risks from citizen suits for hundreds of thousands of newly-minted permit holders without enhancing the environmental protections already provided by FIFRA compliance."


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The Thin Blue Line "Yuletide Spirit" Christmas comes to Gasfoth and Goody intends to try again with Maggie Habib by giving her some sexy underwear for Christmas. He also buys Fowler a puncture repair kit. Unfortunately, he mixes up the packages.G
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HIV Is Not a Crime: Sign On to the Positive Justice Project's Consensus Statement by Feb. 6
February 1, 2013
HIV is not a crime. But according to our allies at the Positive Justice Project, most states continue to unfairly single out and target people living with HIV for criminal prosecution. This practice of HIV criminalization' is a relic of the fear-based public policy response of the early HIV epidemic.
We believe it is time for these laws to become a part of the history books. Do you agree?
Show that you oppose the continued criminalization of HIV: sign on to the Positive Justice Project's Consensus Statement by Wednesday February 6!
Why the deadline? Because on February 7, the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) will be considering a resolution urging the federal government to take concrete action steps to eliminate HIV criminalization. We need as many individuals and organizations as possible to sign on to the Consensus Statement to show PACHA that activists demand action to end HIV criminalization.
Read the Consensus Statement and sign-on here!
Jim Merrell
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Boil Water Advisory for Annsville
A precautionary boil water advisory is in effect for parts of Annsville.
A transmission main break resulted in a loss of pressure and water service for many parts of the town including Amos Trailer Park, Collins Trailer Park, Leisure Village (Martin Court), the Taberg Water District 75 (Matt and Sarah Drive) and the service area along the Lee Center Taberg Road.
The City of Oneida Water Department says that the boil water advisory is expected to remain in place until February 6, 2014.
During the time during which the advisory is in effect residents cannot drink the water without boiling it first. Water must first be brought to a boil) and kept boiling for one minute) and then cooled before it is suitable for drinking. Of course residents may also have the option of using bottled water.
The department says that boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes, and preparing food until further notice.
No contamination has been detected and the water department says this is only a precautionary measure.
Residents with questions may call the City of Oneida Water Department at: (315) 363.1490 or the Oneida County Health Department at: (315) 798.5064.


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In a world that spins faster and faster every day, there's no greater luxury than slowing down to a pleasurable pace. Especially during the celebratory seasons when everyone's hustling and bustling all over the place.
We do our best around here to slow things down a bit all in the honor of traditions.
Over the years we've come to know what we like best. What brings back the best memories, what makes us the most comfortable, and what makes us the most grateful. My children say that Christmases past are among some of the happiest times of their lives.
I am grateful.
These memories start to stir in September. Welcoming the change of weather I tuck away the lighter linens and bring on the layers. Come November, fresh candles, fresh greens, and baskets of pine cones ease us into the traditions of Thanksgiving. The evenings come earlier now. The aroma of comfort foods come from the kitchen and a big roaring fire change the pace and encourage lingering.
I am grateful.
December is a time to celebrate and a time to shine. Glossy holiday issues of my favorite magazines have arrived and I'm drawn in by the cornucopia of beautiful decorating, joyous entertaining, and thoughtful gifts! I have learned a great deal from the talented stylists, photographers & designers who every year, bring a fresh look to our treetops, tabletops, and time honored traditions. They inspire me to try new ideas, add my personal touch and make them my own.
I am grateful.
Like a good mother it's my duty to decorate for the holidays and to graciously pass these traditions along, even if it kills me!
Despite the best of intentions I somehow manage to get caught up in that hustle & bustle that I spoke of earlier and preparations run amok.
The Drummer is way to loud. The Piper has a sore throat. The Lady is still out dancing. The Maid has quit and the Geese are quite frankly just not in the mood. Thank goodness the Lord leaps in and reminds me that there's always next year.
These are our traditions and yes, I am grateful.
I hope the start of the holiday season finds you hustling & bustling at a pleasurable pace!
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I am just a poor mulatto–sell me.
Saint Martin de Porres, upon learning of the financial hardships facing his Dominican priory.
Today, November 3, is the feast day of St. Martin de Porres. Born in Lima Peru, in 1579, he died on this date in 1639. He was canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962. He is recognized as the first black canonized saint in the Western Hemisphere. He was a mulatto Dominican brother. He is among other things, the
patron saint of barbers, and the patron saint of the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi. Known also as St. Martin of Charity because of his work among the poor, and "the Saint of the broom" because of his devotion to work. His mother, a free woman of color when he was born, had been a slave; his father was a Spanish merchant.
At the age of ten, when his mother could not support him, Martin was apprenticed to a surgeon-barber. It was during this time that he learned to care for the sick and others. He greatly enjoyed the work.
Later, he became a servant at Lima's Dominican priory. He chose at a young age to live a life of poverty, piety, and austerity while serving others. He spent hours at night in prayer. It is said that one night as Martin prayed before the Blessed Sacrament, the step of the altar on which he was kneeling caught fire. He remained where he was, seemingly oblivious to the conflagration.
Martin felt the call to the Dominican order; however, the order at the time had a rule that "no black person may be received to the holy habit or profession of our order." Martin continued to work at the priory, displaying patience and compassion with the sick.
Soon miracles were being attributed to Martin. It was said that he could cure the seriously ill with just a cup of water.
He is said to have passed through locked doors to care for the ill. Though he never left Lima, he was seen elsewhere, in Mexico, Africa, China, and Japan.
In Lima, Martin de Porres built an orphanage and school. A vegetarian, he also cared for animals and founded a shelter for dogs and cats.
Impressed by Martin's piety and the miracles, the Dominicans dropped their racial restrictions and welcomed him fully into the order.
During his lifetime, Martin was a close friend of both St John Macias and St Rose of Lima.
Martin de Porres died in Lima, Peru, on November 3, 1639. He was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. In addition to being the patron saint of barbers, he is the patron saint of mixed-race people and all those seeking interracial harmony.
Martin de Porres is widely revered throughout the world, but has been especially embraced by the African-American Catholic community. In 1936, the Southern Dominican Province of the USA built the St Martin de Porres Shrine in South Carolina, along with a school and a church to serve the African-American community. Now known as the St Martin de Porres Shrine and Institute, the establishment was relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, in 2001.


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Get ready for the future of kitesurfing! For those who want a fast turning, fast flying, flat water jumping, wave riding fun kite without the killer price this is the kite for you! One ride on this thing will completely and utterly spoil you forever. Other kites will feel doughy, sluggish and slow in comparison. Iím not a shop owner or selling kites underground whatsoever like others and no affiliation with anybody. I just got to demo the most amazing new kite out there! This thing is incredible, with so many new advances it is for sure the only kite you will want in your quiver! From this day forward, safety and performance are no longer mutually exclusive. Safety is now a standard component of the way this kite operates, as opposed to an add-on feature.
On first appearance it looks very strong and rigid. No thread ends showing through the surface of the kite and loose stitches and the weight of the kite is only 6lbs! It jumps higher, flys faster and more stable than anything out there on the market to date. It has an incredible turning speed yet will sit so stable in the sky it wonít move until you want it too. Amazing for kite loops it has almost no pull during high speed turns but you can turn the power back on by just pulling the bar in. It flys with super light bar pressure but you can feel exactly what the kite is doing. Its performance is unrivaled with amazing power when you need it but it backs off when you donít. Once you get to demo this kite for yourself you will never fly anything else again! Youíll be heading up wind faster and jumping more often and longer than anyone else out on the water! This is a guarantee!
What is this amazing new kite??? Canít you tell from the description?? Itís quite simple you see its every new kite out this year combined into one! But funny how this description appears to fit all of these news kites. Well it actually does, I wrote the above by taking little pieces of description from Naish, Windwing, Best and Cabrinha. See my point is simple. Any review I ever seem to read weather itís in a magazine, website, or message board, from the manufacturers, pros or so called ìnon-affiliated independent reviewersî they all sound the same! Everyone constantly spews the same BS over and over again. Are we that gullible that the entire kite marketing machine from the companies right down to the store owners and reps think we believe that BS? Well they must because they all keep doing it and we keep soaking it up.
Look at right here in this forum. I like to read what I think are honest reviews of the latest and greatest gear on this forum but people are so ridiculously brand loyal they start slamming stuff they havenít even tried! Worst of all are those comments made by people trying to be so overtly non-bias and independent and yet if you read what they say carefully enough itís full of little dirty remarks here and there and some of these guys even admit they have never even tried the kite! The best example of this is what weíve all read in the past few weeks about the Hellfish. So many people were slamming it who have never even seen the damn thing! And I bet you the same will happen when the Crossfire comes out this fall! And whatever new kite comes out after that. Letís be totally honest here, I am willing to bet that whatever it is you bought this year, weather it was a Torch, Rapture, Hellfish etc. they will all fly well, get you out on the water and having a good time. None of these kites are leaps and bounds better then the others or thatís the only thing that would be selling! So letís try to keep the reviews realistic and down to earth and avoid all the hype and trash talking. Youíre just making it harder than hell to filter out the honest opinions from the BS thatís piling up in the world of kiting.
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DIR/CHSWC Young Workers' Program: California Partnership for Young Worker Health and Safety
May - Safe Jobs for Youth Month
The California Partnership for Young Worker Health and Safety is a statewide task force that brings together government agencies and statewide organizations representing educators, employers, parents, job trainers and others. The partnership develops and promotes strategies to protect youth at work and serves as an advisory group.
Partnership agencies and organizations include: California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) - Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation (CHSWC), Cal/OSHA, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, and Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC); California Association of Work Experience Educators; California Center of Childhood Injury Prevention; California Center for Civic Participation; California Department of Education; California Department of Public Health; California Federation of Teachers; California Parent Teachers Association; California Rural Legal Association (CRLA); California Teachers Association; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program (LOSH), UCLA; New Ways to Work; Unified Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW); State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF); U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour; and Watsonville Law Center.
The Young Worker Resource Centers in California provide training, educational materials, technical assistance and information and referrals to help educate youth, employers and the broader community on occupational health and safety and rights and responsibilities, and to protect young workers.
Youngworkers.org is a website with state and national scope with information for teens, parents, teachers, job educators, employers, parents and others.
Supporters, stakeholders and agencies in California include:
Department of Industrial Relations (DIR)
The Commission of Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation (CHSWC)
Cal/OSHA Consultation Services
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE)
Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) and its Young Worker activities at the Young Workers page
Labor and Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) and its Young Worker activities at the Young Workers page
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Of course, I heard about the weekend. Two up, one down, with that one again being Oliver Perez. Should the Mets give Coin Flip start this weekend against Philadelphia?
Before shipping him off the bullpen or the minor leagues, I say they should for two reasons:
1) The strength of the Phillies' line-up are left-handed hitters Chase Utley and Ryan Howard, and he's had success against Philadelphia. If Perez is going to turn it around, one would think it would be against a team he's had some good fortune facing.
2) He's due for a good game.
OK, what if he spits the bit again? If that happens, then the Mets need to seriously think about taking him out of the rotation to fix him. He can reject a minor league assignment – which I see him doing – so they probably have no choice but to stick him in the pen.
I'd rather have him correct his problems on this level because I can envision him in the minor leagues overpowering Triple A hitters and returning to the same problems. Let's face it, the Mets have this guy for three years and the best thing is to make him better. We know he has the ability because he's done it before.
Actually, of all the Mets' starters who are having problems the one I'm most concerned with is John Maine because he's coming off surgery and everybody's body reacts differently and at different paces. It's just an oversimplification to say, "Oh, he'll be fine," because we really don't know.
Livan Hernandez? C'mon, he's at the end of his career. For him to get hit around is expected. He was good in his first start but has been getting hit since. It should all even out to mediocrity in the end.
Perez? Well, he's living up to his history so this can't be too surprising. Just aggravating.


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Where to put the mail?
DAIMI has decided to rename itself to CS, and as part of that process my current address of firstname.lastname@example.com will change to email@example.com. Okay, I can live with that, except that they apparently want to disable the old address at some point next year! That is stupid if you ask me — there are many, many papers out there that reference a @daimi.au.dk address, and I have been using it for all my software development in the last couple of years.
So instead of just going with firstname.lastname@example.com as my new address I want a new address, probably email@example.com, which is a not-so-well-known address I've had for a while. Please let me know what do you think of that address.
Three days ago I got a mail from the DAIMI, ehmm…, CS staff that informed me that they will be changing their mail system next Saturday. I'm affected by this since I've already hacked their system by upgrading it to Dovecot instead of whatever old and slow IMAP server they were using. So I have until Saturday to either migrate my mail back to their slow server or to move to somewhere else.
The mgsys.dk domain is hosted at DreamHost, and they provide all the space I could ever want. Except that they only allow 2000 mails in the INBOX folder! I have 3207 mails at the moment for the year 2008, so this will be sort of annoying for me. Also, their SPAM filter seems a bit crude: it will only allow me to see the messages in the quarantine folder by logging into their webmail system. And I hate such systems.
Another option is to move everything to Gmail — and access it through IMAP. A number of people seem to use Gnus with Gmail, so I guess it will work okay. There is even a Gmail Lab thingy that will let you make Gmail behave more like a normal IMAP server. I don't know how good Gmail's SPAM filter is, but I assume it is good? Though, after hearing from Claudio that it has flagged two of my mails to viff-devel as SPAM for no apparent reason I am not really sure.
Right now CS does some graylisting for me and run the mails through SpamAssassin. I run them through SA a second time with my own settings. During the last week I caught about 200 SPAMs by this second filter. By moving to Gmail I would have a much harder time doing such custom filtering (at least if it should be done asynchronously and before the mail hits my folders). Moving to DreamHost would allow me to setup any wacky scheme I want for now, but they too want to consolidate their mail on special servers with no support for
.forward files.
Hmm… It sounds like Gmail would be the simplest solution. There is of course the issue about privacy, but I guess Google knows what I'm doing anyway… :-)


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Zeppelin Bend TyingForm a bight in both ropes and overlap them. Pass each end around across itself - going over for the top bight and under for the bottom bight. Thread both ends past each other through the middle. Tighten to form the Zeppelin Bend. Back view.
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Uses: The Zeppelin Bend is one of the bends employing interlocking overhand knots. It is a reliable bend that can be untied even after being heavily loaded but not, however, while still under load. It is an excellent alternative to the more widely used Double Fisherman's because it eliminates the risk of jamming.
Zeppelin Stories: Although highly improbable, the Zeppelin Bend has been described as being used to secure Airships. Indeed, vice Admiral Charles Rosendahl, Commanding Officer of the American Zeppelin (Los Angeles/ZR3), was even supposed to have insisted that the knot be used to moor his airship. These stories now seem highly unlikely:
Similar Knots: The Zeppelin Bend is remarkably similar to several other bends including the Ashley, Hunter's, and the Alpine Butterfly Bend. Essentially all these knots employ interlocking overhand knots with the ends threaded through or across the middle. David M. Delaney tested these bends and the Carrick Bend for their tendency to jam. He heavily loaded the knots tied in 1/16 inch braided nylon. The Ashley and the Hunter's consistently jammed tight and would have had to be cut to release them. The Alpine Butterfly Bend, the Zeppelin, and the Carrick could all be untied easily using fingers and fingernails. Amongst the family of bends based on linked overhand knots, it would seem prudent to avoid the Ashley and the Hunter's.
Tying it: The arrangement of the interlocking loops and the path of the ends through the center are critical. Although the Zeppelin is secure and can be untied easily, its similarity to other bends employing interlocking overhand knots risks confusion - and mistakes. For this reason we also recommend the Alpine Butterfly Bend tied using the same technique employed for the Alpine Butterfly Loop. Technique is critical because Roo emphasizes the risk of creating an Evil Impostor when tied incorrectly.
Advantages: The Zeppelin Bend is reliable with very little tendency to slip or bind. Testing by Roo found the knot to be exceptionally secure and shake-resistant in all materials. In this respect he regards it as superior to the Alpine Butterfly Bend.
Disadvantages: Attention to tying it correctly is critical. After it is tied, it can be hard to distinguish it from the less satisfactory Hunter's Bend.
Disclaimer: Any activity that involves ropes is potentially hazardous. Lives may be at risk - possibly your own. Considerable attention and effort have been made to ensure that these descriptions are accurate. However, many critical factors cannot be controlled, including: the choice of materials; the age, size, and condition of ropes; and the accuracy with which these descriptions have been followed. No responsibility is accepted for incidents arising from the use of this material.


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Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is one of the nation's largest and most respected health care management companies, operating through its subsidiaries acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers nationwide. Founded in 1978, UHS subsidiaries now have more than 65,000 employees. The UHS business strategy is to build or purchase health care properties in rapidly growing markets and create a strong franchise based on exceptional service and effective cost control. Our success comes from a responsive management style and a service philosophy based on integrity, competence and compassion.
If you are a nurse with experience/interest in mental health care, you may be the talented team player we've been looking for.
Roxbury is a unique inpatient facility offering acute psychiatric, detoxification, and rehab services for adults. Our inpatient psychiatric program for adolescents is designed to treat youth ages 13-17 in a caring and nurturing environment. Our medical team is composed of board eligible/certified psychiatrists, PAs/CRNPs, and nurses that provide close medical monitoring and the highest quality of care to our patients.
Roxbury is recruiting nurses to work on our acute psychiatric units. We currently have full-time, part-time , and per diem positions available. Shifts are 12 hours with every other weekend rotation for full- and part-time. Roxbury offers competitive pay and a great benefit package, with shift incentive programs, employee referral programs, and educational assistance. Our current shift differential program is excellent. Looking to grow in your field? We often offer opportunities for staff to work in other capacities like assisting the Infection Control Nurse, Staff Development, Scheduling Coordinator, overseeing audit/quality/compliance programs, etc. Contact us today to find out about these exciting opportunities.
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Swag Off Road Tubing Bender Hydraulic Conversion KitPosted in How To on February 1, 2012
Face it: you're kidding yourself if you think there's no advantage with a hydraulically-powered tubing bender. Trying to get the bend to just the right degree while pulling on a four-foot actuating bar makes using a manually-powered bender an exercise in frustration, not to mention wasted tubing.
Why do so many of us keep struggling with manual benders? Cost. Until now, converting to hydraulic operation easily carried a price tag upwards of $500 by the time you purchased the air/hydraulic ram, the ram mounting brackets, and the foot-operated pump.
No more. Swag Off Road has found an affordably-priced air/hydraulic ram sold by Harbor Freight Tools and created a bender mounting system for it. If you go the Swag route and purchase the Swag Off Road tubing bender air/hydraulic ram mount and the Harbor Freight air/hydraulic ram, you could be out the door for less than half of what a power conversion used to cost. The Swag system is an empowering product.
Swag's bender conversion kit is a stroke of victory for those who bend on a budget. Cost is low, yet quality is high. Brackets are made from laser-cut 1/4-inch-thick steel that's been precision CNC bent. The kit can be ordered fully welded for ultimate convenience, or you can save even more cash by ordering the unwelded version and welding it yourself. Either kit ships as bare steel; paint it your favorite color before using. The Swag bender conversion kit works with the following manual tubing benders: JD2 Model 3, JD2 Model 32, Pro Tools 105, Pro Tools 105HD, and JMR. The JD2 Model 32 kit costs a little more because it requires additional brackets and fasteners. Shown is the kit for the JD2 Model 3. This is a bite-sized welding project that will save some cash and provide some welding practice, so the un-welded version got the nod.
The Swag brackets work with Harbor Freight part number (at press time) 94562. This is an air/hydraulic ram with eight tons of force: much better than your puny arms and a 4-foot cheater bar. The air/hydraulic ram is not sold by Swag Off Road; you'll have to purchase it from Harbor Freight Tools. Swag Off Road's website includes a link directly to the Harbor Freight product page. If you don't have an air compressor yet, you can actuate the ram using the included jack handle.


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This Mod is dedicated to giving the player the ability to customize items in the game of Oblivion. These items include weapons, armor, clothing, and much more. This mod adds gameplay options that lets the player be creative and really individualize themselves. Also, this mod doesn't require "Oblivion Script Extender" (OBSE) and is not dependent on any other mods.
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BOMB PROOF® Plyo Ramp - This is one awesome plyometric ramp by BOMB PROOF®. Develop explosive power and strengthen your lower body performing plyometrics. Our unigue ramp allows users to also jump backwards.
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Lock collars are used to secure pads allowing an excellent grip and pad replacement when needed.
Only zinc coated bolts with "nylock" nuts are used. These nuts have a nylon core that grip extra tight.
Frames are 2" x 3" and 2" x 2" 11-gauge A-36 carbon steel tubing and .035 MIG welded and powder-coated.
3/8" hardened pop pins and threaded secure locks are used to ensure that the unit is safe and stable.
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(Reuters) - Bum Phillips, the colorful head coach of the National Football League's Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints in the 1970s and 1980s, died on Friday, his son said. He was 90.
Phillips took over a losing football team in 1975 and turned it around, pushing Houston to appearances in conference championship playoff games twice, but losing both times to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
After he was fired by Houston in 1980, Phillips was hired to coach the New Orleans Saints. He led that team from 1981 to 1985, but never left his permanent home in Texas.
"Bum is gone to Heaven - loved and will be missed by all -great Dad, Coach, and Christian," son Wade Phillips tweeted on Friday night. "Thank you all for your kindness and support for my family at this time."
His family asked that instead of flowers people consider a donation to Bum Phillips Charities, an organization he formed in 2010 with his wife Debbie at their home in Goliad, Texas.
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text: In case there was any doubt that the full Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe roster revealed earlier today was in error, case those doubts aside. Midway has confirmed that Shao Kahn, Darkseid, Baraka and Lex Luthor will be rounding out the 22-character strong cast of the fighter, probably ahead of the publisher's planned schedule. With just two months to go before MK vs. DCU is released, will they find another way to respark our interest in the game? Surely they've got one or two hidden characters squirreled away in all that code.


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Current research on nanoelectronics is extremely diverse. Exiting technology of optical lithography used for the fabrication of electronics components,devices and systms already reached to their extreme limits. The devises with minimum feature dimensions less than 50nm and below this are almost impossible with existing microelectronics techniques,problems like carrier confinement and quantum tunneling avoids the consstruction of electronic devics at sub nanoscale. Thus, new techniques are needed to manufacture electronics at nanoscale.Electronics at nano scale would have incredible advantages like small size, less consumption of power, higher reliability,and many more. This presentation is the gentle introduction to electronics at molecular scale and its potential applications.
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Elluminati needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Hispanic Commonweal (hispanic family values)
I am the president of a non-profit organization called the Hispanic Commonweal. We promote Traditional Hispanic Values.
Both Hispanics and Non Hispanics. It will be an information/blog type website
Open to slogan suggestions, but I have a free clip art logo at this time, feel free to make use of it (not exactly, just similar) but It does not have to be similar. Please look at the website for Ideas. http://www.hispanicfamilyvalues.com. I want it to go across most of the top of the page.
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About The Rice IndustryThere are three main players in the Australian rice industry:
- Rice Marketing Board for the State of NSW
- Ricegrowers' Limited (SunRice)
- Ricegrowers' Association of Australia (RGA)
A Rice Industry Co-ordination Committee co-ordinates industry policy when required.
The graphic below outlines the roles each organisation plays in managing, maintaining and promoting the industry.
The Australian rice industry has the capacity to produce more than 1 million tonnes of rice per year. Our growers play an important role in food security as rice sustains two-thirds of the world's population.
Australian rice is milled, packed and branded in the Riverina by SunRice, which is the sole exporter of Australian rice products produced in New South Wales to world markets. It supplies more than 60 major international destinations.
Australia's climate makes it ideal for the production of high quality medium grain rice and Australian growers produce more rice per hectare than anywhere else in the world. The Australian rice industry leads the world in water use efficiency. From paddock to plate, Australian grown rice uses 50% less water than the global average. Water use per hectare continues to decline because of the industry's commitment to developing high yielding rice varieties that use less water, and the use of world's best management practices.
History of rice in Australia
Rice seeds were brought to Australia by Chinese gold prospectors around 1850.
The first record of rice cultivation in South Eastern Australia was in 1906, when the Victorian Government allocated 200 acres of land on the Murray River to former Japanese Parliamentarian – Isaburo Takasuka. Despite floods and droughts, he managed to produce a crop for commercial sale in 1914.
The first commercial crops were grown in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in 1924 – 1925.
During World War II, rice was declared an essential commodity. In mid-1942, all Australian rice supplies were placed at the disposal of the Commonwealth Government. Practically no rice was available for Australian consumption. Even so, a huge shortfall in supplies to the Services and Allies was expected. With Asian rice producing areas paralysed by war, the Commonwealth urgently appealed to the NSW rice industry to produce 100,000 tonnes of rice. But the Burrinjuck Dam was still only half full and water did not exist to meet the Commonwealth's request.
The RGA acknowledged that the MIA alone could not hope to meet Commonwealth requests and cooperated with the Government in forming a Rice Production Committee. This is when rice growing began in the Murray Valley.
The rice industry posted impressive growth through the 1950s. At the beginning of the decade there were some 368 rice growers in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. By 1955 there were 591 in the MIA and 310 in the Murray Valley. The industry contributed significantly to the local economy. By 1952/53 rice was contributing about one-third of total MIA production.
Today, there are around 1,500 farm businesses growing rice in the Murrumbidgee Valley of NSW and the Murray Valley of NSW and Victoria.
Dr Gary Lewis has published this e-book, The Growers' Paddy - Land, Water and Co-operation in the Australian Rice Industry to the 1990s.
Growing rice in Australia
Not just any farmer can grow rice
To grow rice, a farmer needs to gain approval from their irrigation infrastructure operator who is responsible for complying with a licence issued by the State Government and must follow the rice water use policies of the various irrigation corporations (Murrumbidgee Irrigation Limited, Murray Irrigation Limited and Coleambally Irrigation Cooperative Limited).
These policies seek to provide an even distribution of water over the landscape and balance hydraulic pressure on the water table which means rice is only able to be grown on approved soils and growers can only plant rice on around one-third of each farm.
Rice can only be grown on approved heavy, clay soil that minimises
seepage into water tables. Soil tests must show more than three metres of
heavy, continuous clay to allow for unrestricted rice growing.
Farm planning
Once a farm has been approved for rice production, many farmers opt to design a whole farm plan to assist in the management of natural resources and determine suitable crop rotations.
Laser levelling technology is often used to prepare the rice ground, ensuring water is distributed evenly and can be easily applied and removed. Rice is grown in bays which are surrounded by soil banks, creating a large, flat 'bathtub' effect.
Growing season
Rice is a summer cereal crop in the Riverina, with planting in October. Farmers can use various methods to dry sow rice, with water applied after sowing, or crops can be aerial sown using pre-germinated seed into bays already containing water.
Crops are grown in 5 – 25cm of water, depending on the plant's growth stage, which provides moisture for the plant and protects it from fluctuations in temperature. Using water to insulate the plant from cold overnight temperatures during January is particularly important for yield. High temperatures and the addition of nitrogen and phosphate fertilisers will improve growth.
As the grain begins to mature, the farmers 'lock up' the water on the bays. This means no water leaves the paddock; it is fully utilised by the rice plant. The soil then dries out in time for harvest to commence.
Large grain harvesters mechanically harvest rice from March to May. Once harvested, the rice is commonly named paddy rice. This is the name given to unmilled rice with its protective husk in place.
More crop per drop
Once Australian rice growers harvest their rice, they use the
subsoil moisture remaining in the soil to plant another crop; either a wheat
crop or pasture for animals. This form of rotation is the most efficient in
natural resource and agricultural terms.
Temperate varieties suit our climate
Our climate and heavy soils are uniquely suited to growing medium grain rice - a niche variety produced by only a handful of countries. Medium grain rice is not suited to tropical climates, but the Riverina's dry hot summer provides ideal growing conditions.
Storage & Milling
Once rice has been harvested it's transported by truck to a paddy storage facility where the grain is sorted according to variety. Rice storage bins fitted with computer-linked sensors monitor grain storage conditions and keep the rice at a suitable temperature and moisture level. The warm dry conditions in the region allow the use of ambient air for natural moisture reduction.
After the storage manager receives orders and transport instructions, the rice is trucked to one of the industry mills throughout the Riverina, where processing begins.
- Step 1: Removal of hard protective husk
The rice husk is the protective layer surrounding the grain. Once removed, the rice grain may be packaged as brown rice. Brown rice still contains the rice germ and outer bran layers – important for healthy body functions.
- Step 2: Removal of the germ and brown layers
Gentle milling removes the germ and bran layers from the grain to expose a white starch centre. The polished white starch centre is what we know as white rice.
Marketing & Export
Rice Marketing
The majority of rice grown in Australia is sold to Ricegrowers Limited and is successfully marketed under the SunRice brand. SunRice has been marketing rice to Australians for over 50 years and is one of Australia's largest exporters of branded food products and one of the world's largest rice food companies.
The rice industry typically generates around $800 million in revenue per year. It employs and supports thousands of people across regional Australia and plays an important role in the economic health of the irrigation regions of southern New South Wales.
Rice Export
SunRice supplies 60 major international destinations, including countries in the Middle East, North America and Asia. In a non-drought year, up to 80% of Australian rice is exported. That represents about 2 per cent of world trade, and 25% of medium grain trade.
The Australian rice industry operates without any production or export subsidies – unlike most of its major competitors. Australian rice competes on international markets against subsidised product and is prohibited from free entry into many countries because of trade barriers.
Rice Products
Rice is more than just a staple food – it's a versatile ingredient used in many dishes and cultures across the world.
Rice is rich in energy-giving carbohydrates, very low in fat, contains no cholesterol, and is salt free, sugar free and gluten free.
In Australia, we grow many varieties of rice to suit the culinary expectations of our consumers. The different varieties each have their own texture, cooking ability and taste.
Visit the SunRice website for more information about the range of products produced from Australian rice.
Rice Community
Rice was one of the founding industries for many irrigation towns in southern New South Wales and Northern Victoria.Since its establishment, the industry has employed thousands of people across regional Australia; predominately...
Rice and the Environment
The rice industry is one of the most proactive agricultural industries in the area of environmental management.Our industry was the first to initiate a project to return water to the environment through the Living Murray initiative, de...
Frequently Asked Questions
Below is a list of questions often asked of the RGA and corresponding answers. If you have a question that you want answered and it is not below please don't hesitate to Contact Us directly and we will forwar...
Research & Development
The rice industry
invests heavily in research and development into innovative ways of producing
rice, using less water per tonne.


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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Ecstatic Birth
Posted by Maria Iorillo at 6:06 PM
Labels: birth, homebirth, midwifery, natural childbirth
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If you didn't show your boobie I think this picture would be so beautiful. Don't get me wrong, it isn't ugly, it's just... for your husband's eyes only!
- September 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- Robert said...
There is nothing more motherly than a baby and breasts; no reason to hide that!
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Summer Sun Safety
Nothing beats a day of fun in the sun, but when you're out with your baby or toddler, it's essential to stay safe. Here's how to deal with baby sunburn, plus other potential heat-related problems to watch for.
If your baby gets a sunburn, bring her in out of the sun immediately. Give her a cool bath or apply cool compresses, advises Children's Hospital of Boston. "Apply a thick moisturizer or fragrance-free cream," suggests Robin Gehris, MD, chief of pediatric dermatology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. If the skin is blistering, take your child to the doctor, says Gehris, adding that your doctor may prescribe an antibiotic or a topical steroid to calm the skin's inflammation.
See more: Water Safety for Babies
Heat exhaustion
If your child looks pale and is sweating profusely, feels faint or dizzy, has muscle cramps and a rapid pulse, she may be suffering from heat exhaustion. Bring her into a cool or air-conditioned space immediately, give her water or a sports drink, and call your doctor, says the AAP.
A severe medical emergency, heatstroke can be life-threatening. If your child's skin is hot, red and dry, or she is hyperventilating, has a rapid pulse or is vomiting or is unconscious, call 911 and get her to a cool, shady area immediately. Remove her clothing and try to cool her down with a washcloth rinsed in cold water until help arrives.
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How to Build A Healthier Savory Snack
When an irresistible force like the craving for a snack meets an immovable object -- say, the need to eat more healthfully -- something's got to give. That something could be the look and feel of traditional savory snacks.
The savory snack industry is expected to grow by $10 billion by 2012, according to Business Insights. At the same time, consumers are seeking more natural and organic ingredients, spices and exotic ethnic touches while clamoring for fewer additives such as MSG, hydrolyzed proteins and hydrogenated oils. Oh, and make them healthier, too.
All of those factors are good news, showing America's continuing love affair with savory snacks -- as long as snack manufacturers can meet those needs without sacrificing crunch and flavor.
What could say savory snacks better than chips? But not necessarily potato chips. Several manufacturers are putting a new face on what surely is the definitive snack staple. One new face is appropriately named Sensible Portions, the premier brand of World Gourmet Products Inc. (www.sensibleportions.com), Wayne, N.J.
The Sensible Portions line presents a wide array of "better-for-you" snacks, including "all-natural" choices such as multigrain crisps, pita crackers and pita chips. In addition to featuring convenient packaging that provides built-in portion control, the processor includes functional ingredients such as whole grains, soy protein, vitamins, iron and fiber. Not invited are trans fats, saturated fats and cholesterol. Sensible Portions provides a healthier feel to snacking that also is highly marketable.
Another bold, new face in chips comes via a focus on alternatives to wheat and corn flour, specifically beans. Doug and Dave Foreman, owners and founders of Bean Brand Foods Inc. (www.beanitos.com), Austin, Texas, were early adopters of this approach. They mix pinto beans or black beans with whole grain rice and flax seed to create bean dough that they cut into a round shapes, bake and flash fry in pure vegetable oil.
The result is a unique, fiber-rich chip — Beanitos — that has high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. "It's hard work to make a bean-based chip that also tastes great," says Doug Foreman. "It took us two years to get the Beanitos formula just right."
Corazonas Foods Inc.'s motto is "heart-healthy snacks." The Los Angeles company debuted a reduced-fat potato chip with plant sterols (CardioAid from ADM) in early 2008. The phytosterols have been clinically proven "to inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine by up to 50 percent, which in turn can lower LDL blood cholesterol by up to 15 percent," the company claims.
The flavors are novel as well: Italiano Four Cheese, Spicy Rio Habanero, Mediterranean Garlic & Herb, Pacific Rim Barbecue, as well as Slightly Salted. Later came a line of tortilla chips, also with phytosterols, and this year saw the debut of oatmeal squares (cereal bars) with phytosterols.
Ever since George Crum created the ultra thin, crispy, fried potato to spite a critical customer in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1853, these chips have been going back to the kitchen for improvement. Michael Season's potato chips are reduced in fat and spiked with Mediterranean flavors with no preservatives, trans fats or saturated fats.
"Our customer base is expanding; they are looking for better-for-you snacks," says Michael Seasons, president of Natural Snacks LLC (www.seasonssnacks.com), Addison, Ill. "People still want to indulge, but they also want to take the guilt out of snacking. More and more, people are becoming aware of the importance of nutrition and starting with good eating habits. With recent focus on what schools are serving to our children, and our nation's issue with obesity, I believe it [healthy eating] will be the norm."
Keeping it natural
Getting a healthy savory snack to taste "just right" is an R&D project that takes many variables into account. "The trend overall is to insert as much efficacy as possible into the snack food item without impacting, taste, color or longevity," says George Pontiakos president and CEO of BI Nutraceuticals (www.botanicals.com), Long Beach, Calif. "To follow that trend effectively entails meeting numerous technical challenges. For example, probiotics are becoming more popular, so the challenge is maintaining the active component because probiotics tend to be fragile."
Companies such as Balchem Corp., Danisco and Ganeden Bioetch have developed microencapsulated probiotics that can survive the harsh environments of processing, allowing for their effective use in finished snack products.
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LighthouseBay needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 18 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
This website is geared towards helping students find schools & programs they are interested in. They will be able to search for schools, programs and more by either their zip code or by clicking on different categories.
The winning design will be innovative. This contest is being relisted due to no all previous entries being logos.
The goal is to look friendly,inviting, as well as innovative and new. I want a site that looks'cool'. You have the freedom to arrange items & categorizationaccording to what you would like.
Think of a mix between the following websites:
http://www.collegesurfing.com/index.php (the topics and categories should reflect this site)
The winner will be hired to do 2 more subpages, for a total prize of $500 ($300 main page, $100 each for two extra pages)
- New, fun & innovative design
- Clear organization that makes sense, focusing on strongest actions (searching, browsing)
- Left hand navigation for important topics
- Friendly images, space to breath
- Topics/categories from http://www.collegesurfing.com (although doesn't have to be as detailed, and shouldn't look cluttered)
- Unorganized, cluttered design
- Things too spaced apart
- Uninspiring design


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Boys' shorts with Icon Tape
Scuderia Ferrari Store Exclusive
For the youngest Scuderia Ferrari fans, these cotton fleece shorts with drawstring waist are rendered unique by the unmistakable Icon Tape on the side.
The understated, bold design of these 100% cotton fleece shorts expresses the essence of passion for sport. The shorts feature Icon Tape, the new jacquard knit tape that endlessly repeats the Scuderia Ferrari logo. They also have an elasticated waistband with contrasting drawstring and a practical patch pocket sewn on the back. Lightweight and soft to the touch, the fleece used to make these shorts is extremely comfortable and hard-wearing.
- Contrasting colour drawstring waist
- Side Icon Tape
- Rear pocket
- Composition: 100% Cotton
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We also provide free pick up for your returns: you have 15 days from delivery to follow our quick and easy return procedure.


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MO7221MB Avanti Black Microwave With 700 Watt Motor
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Please Note: This unit features an instant rebate that cannot be combined with any other offers or discount codes.
The Avanti MO7221MB black microwave features 700 watts of cooking power and is compact at 0.7 cu. ft. This microwave includes a 35 minute cooking timer, a defrost function, and easy to use rotary dial knobs. The sleek black design of this microwave is great for any decor and the perfect size for any kitchen.
5 Power Levels
With 5 power levels, cook your meal to the specified heating requirement for a tasty meal cooked to perfection.
Quickly defrost frozen food for cooking on a stove top or barbeque. This Avanti microwave will thaw your frozen foods efficiently for expedited cooking.
0.7 Cu. Ft.
The Avanti MO7221MB black microwave is compact allowing you to save space on any kitchen table or counter.
Rotary Dial Knobs
Featuring rotary dial knobs, this microwave is easy to control and adjust according to your cooking specifications.
Guaranteed Satisfaction.
- Up To 30 days to return your purchase
- Money back guaranteed
- Free return shipping
- No restocking fees
- Model: MO7221MB
- Product Type: Black Microwave
- Product Dimensions: L: 12.50" x W: 17.50" x H: 10.75"
- Product Weight: 21.00 lbs.
- Product Color: Black
- Application: Compact 700 watt design makes this microwave ideal for even the smallest of kitchens and features 5 power levels
- Voltage: 115 volts
- Watts: 7000 watts
- Frequency: 60 Hz
- Type: Countertop Microwave
- Cubic Feet: .7
- Finish: Black
- Number of Pre-Set Cooking Modes: 0
- Pre-Set Cooking Modes: Defrost
- Timer: Yes
- Turntable: No
- Removable Turntable: No
- Number of Power Levels: 5
- Childproof Safety Lock: No
- Sensor Cooking: No
- Defrost Setting: Yes
- Door Swing Direction: Left
- Control Type: Manual
- Digital Clock: No
- 35 minute timer for longer cooking
- Compact in any kitchen and saves space
- Convenient, easy to use knob controls
- Defrost function for expedited defrosting
- Glass window allows observation of cooking
- Push button door for easy opening


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adaptiveoptics.org provides news and information for the world-wide adaptive optics community.
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|Cambridge, Massachusetts – April 30, 2008: Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, today announced a new high
speed, high precision controller for its Kilo-DM.
This new controller will provide major enhancements to the
1020 actuator deformable mirror system
used for high performance wavefront control.
This high speed Kilo-DM Controller is ten times faster and eight times more compact than the preceding version, said Paul Bierden, president and CEO of Boston Micromachines. In addition, its improved resolution provides sub-nanometer control over surfaces to create high precision shapes for imaging. These technical advancements will enable innovation that will have far-reaching impact within the laser communication and astronomy fields.
The Kilo-DM Controller addresses a major challenge faced by astronomers and defense organizations that need to correct for highly turbulent atmospheric aberrations. The new controller moves the Kilo-DMs actuators at a high speed with high precision
providing the necessary wavefront control
to correct for the atmospheric aberrations and compensate for the turbulence.
In telescopes, astronomers use the Kilo-DM to correct aberrations in the atmosphere to achieve better images of stars and distant galaxies. We recently purchased the Kilo-DM to help us build a high performance adaptive optics coronagraph to image planets around other stars with the Subaru Telescope, said Dr. Olivier Guyon, Astronomer, Subaru Telescope. The systems is a perfect match to our requirements, most importantly high speed, and being able to purchase a full DM with drive electronics is extremely valuable."
Long range laser communication systems used by defense organizations are limited in their speed and fidelity by interference effects caused by turbulence in the air between the sending and receiving nodes. In laser communication, scientists use the Kilo-DM to correct wavefront aberration through a turbulent-air medium to improve point-to-point communication.
The Kilo-DM Controller is an enabling component for rapid, high precision wavefront control, with its speed of 10kHz and resolution greater than 14 bits translating to a step-resolution of less than one nanometer.
Previous News:
Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Introduce Adaptive Optics Toolkit, Jan 2008.
Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Partner to Further Deploy Deformable Mirrors to the Photonics Industry, Sept 2007.
Full Press Release
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The Legacy Stones are twin gems of ultimate power. Whoever unlocks the power of the stones by saying " Mighty stone legend old, power unto me unfold." will become all powerful and unstoppable.He-Man and Skeletor both activated one of the stones and gained a super-powerful form, but after they battled for a while He-Man realized they were too evenly matched for one to ever defeat the other. He instead shifted down from his Legacy Stone-enabled form to lure Skeletor into attacking him, during which he stole Skeletor's stone too, and then destroyed them both.
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Product Description 2011 Nomad 44" Wakeskate:
The Nomad Series starts with a blended 3-stage rocker line to generate more speed into the wake. Butch built a wider overall profile for increased surface area to give the team extra wake-to-wake pop. To ensure the ride was not too loose, however, the crew designed dual base channels for tighter edge hold into the wake. Finished off with more pronounced concaves and a hybrid EVA / grip tape top, the Nomad is built for todays skaters riding both wake and rails.
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