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Chemistry panels are groups of tests that are routinely ordered to determine a person's general health status. They help evaluate, for example, the body's electrolyte balance and/or the status of several major body organs. The tests are performed on a blood sample, usually drawn from a vein in the arm.
Some of the number and type of tests contained in specific panels, and the names of the panels, have been standardized nationally. Examples of common chemistry panels include:
- Basic Metabolic Panel (BMP) – usually contains 8 tests, all of which are found in the CMP (below); provides information about the current status of a person's kidneys and respiratory system as well as electrolyte and acid/base balance and level of blood glucose
- Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP) – usually includes 14 tests; provides the same information as the BMP with the addition of the status of a person's liver and important blood proteins
- Electrolyte Panel – helpful for detecting a problem with the body's fluid and electrolyte balance
- Lipid Profile – used to assess a person's risk of developing cardiovascular disease
- Liver Panel (also called Hepatic Function Panel) – used to screen for, detect, evaluate, and monitor actue and chronic liver inflammation (hepatitis), liver disease and/or damage
- Renal Panel (also called Kidney Function Panel) – contains tests such as albumin, creatinine, BUN, eGFR to evaluate kidney function
- Thyroid Function Panel – to help evaluate thyroid gland function and to help diagnose thyroid disorders
While most laboratories offer the same set of CMP and BMP tests, some of these other panels may be tailored to meet the needs of the health practitioner ordering the tests. (If a laboratory changes the tests in a CMP or BMP, it will usually also change the name of the panel to avoid confusion.) For a list of the tests included in each of these panels and more information, such as when they may be ordered, click on the name of the panel above to go to its full article.

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For all the folks participating in what has turned into a sideshow in Indianapolis this week, it's striking that the most mature person in the process is also the youngest.
While Colts owner Jim Irsay couldn't help poking a bee's nest this week with his comments about the return of Peyton Manning, and Manning went the passive-aggressive clam-up route, and former Colts General Manager Bill Polian told everyone to get off his lawn, and even Broncos coach John Fox stepped out of character to get his shots in, there was someone being exceedingly regular.
"I never viewed it as replacing Peyton," Colts quarterback Andrew Luck said, via Stephen Holder of the Indianapolis Star. "I just viewed it as an opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL, and it just so happened that one of the greatest of all time was here before me."
The 24-year-old Luck might as well have been wearing a Boy Scout uniform and drinking milk and talking into his flip-phone as he said it. While he's been yanked into a huge storyline this week, the second-year quarterback has been as calm in front of the media as he's been in the fourth quarters of games.
"We all know that Andrew is mature beyond his years," Colts coach Chuck Pagano said. "He doesn't play like a second-year quarterback. I don't feel like it's necessary for me or for anybody else to even go there. Certainly [we] talk about all the noise surrounding this, all the distractions, all the clutter, everything that's out there. But at the end of the day, it's the Colts versus the Broncos. The game is going to be played between the white lines. That's where his focus will be."
Luck acknowledged that Manning set a high bar for him in Indianapolis, and called Manning "a great role model," and just was as normal as he could possibly be.
"People in the Midwest have been incredibly kind," Luck said of the reception he's gotten after replacing a future Hall of Famer. "It makes it easier, the transition. I never worried about what the fans were going to think of me.
"I figured if you can take of your business, if you can hopefully win some football games then it becomes easier on that end."
That lack of bombast might also speak to why he's so good on Sundays, and will be for some time to come.


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At a Singapore recruiting event last month, students had the opportunity to meet with Goldman Sachs people, learn about our company—and join with us as we helped the local community.
Fifteen university students teamed up with professionals from across our firm to volunteer with MINDS—the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore. They joined dozens of the organization's members and staff for the event, which was held at the Singapore Flyer—the tallest Ferris wheel in the world.
The lunch outing was part of our firm's Community TeamWorks initiative, which gives our professionals time out of the office to volunteer with local nonprofit groups. Last year, over 26,500 people participated in the program globally, donating over 150,000 hours to organizations in their communities.
For both the students and our employees, the Singapore event was a great opportunity to work together.
"We got to meet some excellent candidates, and I think we were able to show them how important teamwork and community outreach is to our firm," said one of our employee volunteers. It was equally rewarding for one student volunteer, who said, "I had a really enjoyable time helping out and taking care of the people from MINDS while interacting with the staff of Goldman Sachs. It was a truly memorable experience and highlights the importance of giving back."


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While traveling south towards Houston I read from a book by Luca Turin, called The Secret of Scent. Mr. Turin inspires me, especially after scanning virtually anonymous blogger comments, angrily blasting on about how unfair life is. A walk in the park or a produce section might help.
How can one stay riled when walking into the flower section of a supermarket and smell a dozen roses? Or at least, what does it matter?
If you are in the least bit attracted to aroma, Turin's book is important. Great scents are timeless, and the ability to capture those scents in your mind takes practice. Like learning the play the piano or speak another language, coming into an understanding of what smell means requires opening up that part of your mentality which sequesters all the primordial receptors for this ancient part of us.
You say you cannot travel in time back to Athens or Tulum? Nonsense. Walk around the amphitheatre at Segesta and pick on the little plants that grow low to the ground. Will you not smell what the Ancients smelled? Stroll by the Colosseum, in Rome or Verona. Scratch your fingernail along the stone or the tufa and bring it up to where you can take in the smell of something very familiar to scores of generations of Romans or Veronese. Where on the internet can you buy that, eBay? Le-Vin.com? Good luck.
You can do this with any wine. It is advisable with a wine that has some character, preferably not one that has been produced in an industrial setting. I'd start with an Italian wine. Seeing as we have been traveling with Stefano Illuminati from Abruzzo and I am real familiar with his wines, let's use them for the example.
I have in front of me a wine. Or do I? Well, to be perfectly honest, I don't. But I don't need to. The memory of the last few days is tattooed on my primitive mind.
This is bilocation and time travel all wrapped up in one's nose, which hopefully is hooked up to the mother board in the brain.
I close my eyes and am walking up the path in Controguerra to the winery. Along the roadside there is beginning to grow little green plants that will produce a yellow flower in about a month or so. When they do there will be this brown butter and lemongrass perfume that will emerge. As I walk onto the grounds of the winery, to the left is a fir tree, next to the spring. The tree drops these needles that remind me of cinnamon and nutmeg and dust. They mix with the slate-like minerality of the water, which is cool and hard and attracts all manner of flying insects in the warmer months. Along the path toward the older building there is a row of vines, now dormant, but at the edge there are artichokes, with a slightly musty, almost truffled scent, when you run your hands along the stalks. Next to it there is the skeleton of a fig tree. On the ground there are shriveled up fig leaves from the last year's growth. Pick one of two of them up and run them in your hands until they crumble and disintegrate.
At this point you will start to feel hungry as the scent and the visceral interaction will stimulate something that you inherited from life forms millions of years before.
We're almost finished. Walk further on past the rows of vines until you come to the pens for the rabbits and the chickens. There, their dregs meld with the earth. This might seem repulsive, but there is always a little of this in many great wines. It is the taste of the earth that has been augmented by natural cycles. Here is where you are entering the perfumist's Valhalla.
As we enter the back of the winery, there are barrels, recently washed and drying in the sun. They offer a scent of cedar and that slightly acrid yet sweet smell of the forest as it has been refashioned by the hand of man.
What do you say? What does this have to do with the wine? When will you get inside and talk about the Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Riserva? Pop that bottle and get to work, Alfonso.
I have a confession to make – we never left the inside of the glass of that Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Riserva. That was what it smelled of, to me.
And that is what makes this broken wine business so wonderful and lovely.
Images from The Secret of Scent by Luca Turin. Written by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On the Wine Trail in Italy


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Dozens of volunteers gathered at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, 8855 Germantown Ave., to create a memorial for 331 people killed by guns in Philadelphia in 2012.
The memorial was the work of Heeding God's Call, a Northwest Philadelphia faith-based organization dedicated to reducing gun violence through a number of actions, including regular protests at area gun shops.
The Rev. W. Jarrett Kerbel of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, who organized the work, said the project was the idea of church youth groups – many of the youth group members from both churches were working to build the memorial. Heeding God's Call sponsored the work.
"People are already stopping and asking, 'What is this?'" Kerbel said in remarks to the volunteers. "It's already having the effect we envisioned."
Bryan Miller, executive director of Heeding God's Call, said that the faith community would have to act and get even more involved to curb rampant gun violence in the United States.
"One of the points that [President Barack Obama] made very forcefully is the only way we're going to change things about guns in this country is if people who aren't the usual suspects get involved and make things happen," Miller said. "And the faith community has not unfortunately been a usual suspect. It's my view that the faith community absolutely has to lead for anything to change in this country about guns.
"Whatever happens in the next three months … I think we are going to achieve some good stuff. No matter how much we achieve it's not enough. We will save many people, but we'll still lose thousands of people and that's insane."
In addition to the work by local church youth groups, several people whose children had been killeed by gun violence helped write names on the shirts and erect the small crosses on which the shirts were propped.
Movita Johnson-Harrell's son Charles Johnson was killed by two men in early 2011. Johnson was waiting in his car for his sister, and the two rushed up and shot him. Johnson said her son was a victim of mistaken identity and was not the intended target of his killers.
"We need to do something about gun control," Johnson-Harrell said. "But what we really need is to get illegal guns off the streets. We need to pressure gun dealers."
Johnson-Harrell started a foundation called the Charles Foundation that works to find good jobs for young people in Philadelphia.


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DIXON – Riverfront Chairman Larry Reed wants to meet with the City Council to revisit a contract agreement with Executive Manager Kay Miller.
Two city commissioners, however, say a vote won't come until both sides can talk about the direction of the Riverfront.
Discussions between the two could come soon, but no meetings have been set.
Meanwhile, Miller is working without a contract and receiving no pay, after the City Council voted 4-1 in November not to raise her salary from $200 to $800 a month. At a meeting earlier this month, it was reported Miller was paid for November, but Reed clarified the pay actually was for October – the last month of her contract.
Reed wrote a letter to Mayor Jim Burke asking to discuss the matter with city commissioners. The letter included information on Miller's job duties, her performance and the Riverfront's budget.
Miller has been paid $200 a month for the past year, but until late last year, she was paid $1,000 a month. Reed said the Riverfront is not looking at the salary proposal as an increase, but a decrease from the $1,000 Miller used to receive.
"The recommendation did not come to the City Council as just a nice thing to do," Reed wrote. "There were hours of background study, performance evaluation with a written rating, and a mid-year budget review and a year's end budget report."
Commissioner Jeff Kuhn said nothing Reed has said or presented will change his mind until some of his questions are answered.
"It's going to come down to us sitting down and having a discussion with them," Kuhn said. "We keep hearing stories of all these problems going on and so forth, I would like to have them addressed. Maybe it's sour grapes, maybe it's people who can't get along. We need to know what it is before I'm willing to vote on anything."
Commissioner Dennis Considine, who attends Riverfront meetings regularly, said his "no" vote goes deeper than information Reed presented to the City Council.
"I think we need to look at reorganizing fundraising going forward," Considine said. "I think they need to a look at a change of how they raise funds. They are limited to events on the Riverfront, and they only made money on one event."
Burke, on the other hand, said he is confident in the Riverfront's recommendation to renew Miller's contract.
Reed has been confused as to what the City Council wants. He is concerned the public misinterpreted Riverfront talks about creating more revenue streams, and some members suggesting city funding – meaning the Riverfront – was in bad shape financially. It's maintenance fund is projected to keep a $25,000 balance after 2013.
We're very concerned about the future of the management of the Heritage Crossing," Reed said. "The action taken by the City Council tells us that we need to rethink this whole issue."
Two people have expressed interest in doing the executive manager job on a volunteer basis, while a former volunteer told Sauk Valley Media the position can be handled by a volunteer.
Riverfront officials have expressed no interest in that at this time.
To learn more
Go to www.saukvalley.com to read the packet of information Riverfront Chairman Larry Reed gave to Mayor Jim Burke and the city commissioners.


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They used the same sign up board, place to hide clue, same mode of transportation, same rice throwing ceremony, 1 of the 2 detour options was the same, same theme of counting money in a briefcase, same mode of transportation to pit stop and worst of all same pit stop. It just upset me. I would think that they wouldn't have to copy exact routes. I hope the rest of the season doesn't follow along this pattern.
What I would like to see is TAR Asia or TAR Aust go through the USA. At least they can spend more time on it than they do in the US version (apart from the Family version of course!)
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The Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 started shipping in June 2012. It is a fairly powerful machine, but it has its own compatibility issues. Hopefully this will help someone who wants to set it up with Arch Linux (it may also work with other distros).
As of 09/01/2012, Arch Linux does not have an installer anymore. The official way to install the system is to download the latest image: 2012.08.04, the use the Arch install scripts. I have yet to try those, but you can always use this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_Existing_Linux to install everything manually. In theory this can be done from any distro, but it is much easier to do it from the Arch live cd since in this case you do not need to manually install Pacman.
If you cannot get wireless working, you can use an ethernet connection with the help of the driver alx. This driver is not yet part of the Linux kernel, and that is why your ethernet card is not recognized at first. You need to download the driver from the Linux Foundation's website:
wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6/2012/03/compat-wireless-2012-03-12-p.tar.bz2
Copy the tarball to a flash drive, boot the live cd, mount the flash drive, cd to the directory with the tarball and use:
tar -xjvf compat* cd compat* ./scripts/driver-select alx make sudo make install
After this, load the module (modprobe alx) and you should be able to get ethernet working easily.
My model has a 32GB SSD drive and a 1TB 5400 rpm drive. It comes with Windows 7 and some Lenovo partitions that may be important if you need to recover the Windows install. Since I was positive about only using Linux, I just deleted everything so that I could use the SSD drive to install Arch (and get a faster boot). But you may want to think twice before doing this, or at least backup the partition's contents before erasing them.
Also, this laptop can use UEFI. If you want to use it, you need to a GPT partition (see below).
UPDATE: Grub 1 is not officially supported anymore, so if you do a fresh install now, you will get Grub 2 automatically. Thus you should not completely trust the instructions below. They probably still work, but you may have to change one or two things.
At this point, I am not sure whether UEFI is actually necessary, but it seems to be the future, so I do suggest that you set it up. First read these pages: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2.
Among other things, you need a gpt partition and grub2. You can do these things when you are installing the system, but I suggest that you get a base system working with grub first, and then install grub2. To install Arch on the SSD drive, you need at least two partitions: one small (100 MB) boot partition, and another partition for /. To partition the drives, you can use cgdisk, which you can get by installing the package gpttools.
I suggest that you partition both drives using gpt, but it is even possible to convert a MBR partition table to gpt, which is what I ended up doing. You should also create a third partition (with about 1GB) for EFI. This partition needs to be of EFI system type (code ef00 on gdisk) and it should be formatted as FAT32. If the partition is /dev/sda2, use:
mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda3
After you have your base system up and running, install the grub 2 firmware:
pacman -S grub2-efi-x86_64
Mount the system partition at /boot/efi:
mkdir /boot/efi mount -t vfat /dev/sda3 /boot/efi
Install grub2 efi app (grubx64.efi) to /boot/efi/EFI/arch_grub, and its modules to /boot/efi/EFI/grub/x86_64-efi:
grub-install --directory=/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --boot-directory=/boot/efi/EFI --recheck --debug mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI/grub/locale cp /usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/efi/EFI/grub/locale/en.mo
The grub2 wiki page says to copy the app to other places. This is probably not necessary, but you may want to use:
mkdir /boot/efi/EFI/tools cp /boot/efi/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/shellx64.efi cp /boot/efi/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/shellx64.efi cp /boot/efi/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/tools/shellx64.efi
Now comes the part where the grub2 page is not very clear. You need to add the system to the UEFI menu (the menu that shows up when you press F12 at boot). To do this, you need an UEFI shell. The Y580 does not come with a shell built in, but you can put one in a flash drive and boot from it. To do this, get a bootable flash drive, create a partition (1GB is enough) and format it as FAT32. Assuming that the partition is /dev/sdc1, type the following:
mount /dev/sdc1 /media mkdir -p /media/efi/boot cd /media/efi/boot wget https://edk2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/edk2/trunk/edk2/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/X64/Shell.efi mv Shell.efi bootx64.efi cd / umount /media
The code creates a directory /efi/boot in the flash drive, downloads the shell, copies it to /efi/boot and renames it as bootx64.efi. The shell is downloaded from the link given here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#UEFI_Shell. Note that you need a 2.0 shell, otherwise you will not be able to add an entry to the menu.
Note that it is also possible to simply place the UEFI shell in your UEFI system partition if you do not have a flash drive at hand:
wget https://edk2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/edk2/trunk/edk2/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/X64/Shell.efi mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI/boot mv Shell.efi /boot/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
This will cause the ideapad UEFI firmware to automatically add a new boot option named "EFI HDD Device" which will by default come first.
Now reboot, go to the BIOS (press F2), enable UEFI and exit, then press F12 and the flash drive should show up in the menu (you want to choose the UEFI entry). Now you should be in the UEFI shell. There is quite a lot that you can do, but be careful because a mistake can seriously compromise the machine. This guide may be worth looking at: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/uefi-shell/
For now, you just need the command bcfg. To add Arch to the first entry of the menu, use:
bcfg boot add 0 fs1:\EFI\arch_grub\grubx64.efi "Arch Linux"
The command assumes that the system partition is installed on the first drive. This partition has the loader (grubx64.efi) and this little program is what loads grub2. If you add Arch to the first entry, you can boot to it without pressing F12.
To see the menu entries, use:
bcfg boot dump -v
To delete, say the 3rd entry:
bcfg boot rm 3
Once you are happy with the menu entries, reboot and you should be able to boot into Arch.
Dual-Boot With Windows 8
To avoid problems with the Arch install, put Windows on the second drive (this means that the second drive should also have a GUID partition table, since Windows 8 only works with one).
Windows 8 uses UEFI, so you can press F12 to choose between Arch and Windows, or just adjust this at the BIOS. Another option is to use the Windows program EasyBCD and add Arch to the Windows boot loader. However, I decided to add Windows to grub2.
To do this, from Arch, mount the Windows system partition and find its UUID:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt grub-probe --target=fs_uuid /media/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Take note of the output (something like 1ce5-7f28). Now copy the output of:
grub-probe --target=hints_string /media/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Then, add something like this to /etc/grub.d/0_custom:
menuentry "Microsoft Windows 8 x86_64 UEFI-GPT" { insmod part_gpt insmod fat insmod search_fs_uuid insmod chain search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt1 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt1 1ce5-7f28 chainloader /efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi }
Finally generate the grub2 configuration file (grub.cfg):
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/grub/grub.cfg
Now you should be able to see an entry for Windows 8 on grub2.
The Y580 has a huge 1TB second drive, making it easy to install other OS. With grub2, you can install other distros, and then run grub-mkconfig to add the new entry. To make this easier, install os-prober so that grub2 can find other OS automatically (it does not work for Windows 8):
pacman -S os-prober
NVIDIA Card
The Y580 uses NVIDIA's Optimus technology, which is not officially supported on Linux. A possible solution is to install Bumblebee (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee) and to access the card with optirun. As far as I know, this currently does not work with the Y580. However, you can still use CUDA, which is good if you use apps like Blender or if, like me, you develop CUDA C programs.
Lenovo machines (Y470, Y570, Y580) require a hack: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/tree/hack-lenovo created by https://github.com/Lekensteyn (thanks to him for helping me to figure this out). Without this, the system cannot even see your card. To compile the acpi-handle-hack module and install it, use:
git clone git://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch.git -b hack-lenovo cd bbswitch mkdir /usr/src/acpi-handle-hack-0.0.1 cp Makefile acpi-handle-hack.c /usr/src/acpi-handle-hack-0.0.1 cp dkms/acpi-handle-hack.conf /usr/src/acpi-handle-hack-0.0.1/dkms.conf dkms add acpi-handle-hack/0.0.1 dkms build acpi-handle-hack/0.0.1 dkms install acpi-handle-hack/0.0.1
Alternatively, you can use my AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60990
Change your settings so that the module acpi-handle-hack is loaded automatically at boot. With the standard init system, add the module to your /etc/rc.conf file. If you are using systemd, add a file to your /etc/modules-load.d directory. The following command will do it:
echo "acpi-handle-hack" > /etc/modules-load.d/nvidia.conf
Any file with extension .conf will work (something like hack.conf, for example).
To compile and run CUDA programs, you need a NVIDIA driver and the cuda-toolkit. Any driver with version 295.59 or higher will work, with the only exception being the 302.17 that never worked for me (and that unfortunately was the default one on Linux distros when I first wrote this guide).
As of 10/24/2012, the newest driver is 304.60. To install it, you need a modified version of the package nvidia-utils from extra. The easiest way to do this is to install my package nvidia-utils-custom from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60991.
Alternatively, you can use ABS and patch the package yourself. If you are not familiar with the process, read the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System. The exact way to rebuild a package depends on your own preferences, but I usually download the source code (in this case, the driver, obtained here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/304.60/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.60-no-compat32.run), copy it to the build directory, edit the PKGBUILD, and then run makepkg.
Edit the PKGBUILD of nvidia-utils. You may need to change the pkgver, the source item, and the md5sum. The most important thing is that nvidia-utils conflicts with libgl, but if you uninstall libgl, Gnome only starts in fallback mode (not sure about other DE). Because of this, you need to modify the PKGBUILD, so that it either does not install certain libraries (libglx.so, libGL.so) or that it installs them in another location. With the PKGBUILD below, those libraries are not installed (note the commented lines for the GLX extension module, and the empty 'conflicts' line).
nvidia-utils PKGBUILD
# $Id$ # Maintainer: Thomas Baechler <firstname.lastname@example.com> # Contributor: James Rayner <firstname.lastname@example.com> pkgbase=nvidia-utils pkgname=('nvidia-utils' 'opencl-nvidia') pkgver=304.60 pkgrel=1 arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.nvidia.com/" license=('custom') options=('!strip') if [ "$CARCH" = "i686" ]; then _arch='x86' _pkg="NVIDIA-Linux-${_arch}-${pkgver}" source=("ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-${_arch}/${pkgver}/${_pkg}.run") md5sums=('42b9887076b2ebcf1af5ee13bc332ccb') elif [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then _arch='x86_64' _pkg="NVIDIA-Linux-${_arch}-${pkgver}-no-compat32" source=("ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-${_arch}/${pkgver}/${_pkg}.run") md5sums=('7248399a125808e3bbc9c66da99a098d') fi create_links() { # create soname links while read -d '' _lib; do _soname="$(dirname "${_lib}")/$(readelf -d "${_lib}" | sed -nr 's/.*Library soname: \[(.*)\].*/\1/p')" [[ -e "${_soname}" ]] || ln -s "$(basename "${_lib}")" "${_soname}" [[ -e "${_soname/.[0-9]*/}" ]] || ln -s "$(basename "${_soname}")" "${_soname/.[0-9]*/}" done < <(find "${pkgdir}" -type f -name '*.so*' -print0) } build() { cd "${srcdir}" sh "${_pkg}.run" --extract-only } package_opencl-nvidia() { pkgdesc="OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA" depends=('libcl' 'zlib') optdepends=('opencl-headers: headers necessary for OpenCL development') cd "${srcdir}/${_pkg}" # OpenCL install -D -m644 nvidia.icd "${pkgdir}/etc/OpenCL/vendors/nvidia.icd" install -D -m755 "libnvidia-compiler.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvidia-compiler.so.${pkgver}" install -D -m755 "libnvidia-opencl.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvidia-opencl.so.${pkgver}" create_links } package_nvidia-utils() { pkgdesc="NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries." depends=('xorg-server' 'libxvmc') optdepends=('gtk2: nvidia-settings' 'pkg-config: nvidia-xconfig' 'opencl-nvidia: OpenCL support') conflicts=('') provides=('libgl') cd "${srcdir}/${_pkg}" # X driver install -D -m755 nvidia_drv.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so" # GLX extension module for X #install -D -m755 "libglx.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.${pkgver}" #ln -s "libglx.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" # X doesn't find glx otherwise # OpenGL library #install -D -m755 "libGL.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libGL.so.${pkgver}" # OpenGL core library install -D -m755 "libnvidia-glcore.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvidia-glcore.so.${pkgver}" # XvMC install -D -m644 libXvMCNVIDIA.a "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.a" install -D -m755 "libXvMCNVIDIA.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.${pkgver}" # VDPAU install -D -m755 "libvdpau_nvidia.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.${pkgver}" # nvidia-tls library install -D -m755 "tls/libnvidia-tls.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.${pkgver}" install -D -m755 "libnvidia-cfg.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.${pkgver}" install -D -m755 "libnvidia-ml.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvidia-ml.so.${pkgver}" # CUDA install -D -m755 "libcuda.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libcuda.so.${pkgver}" install -D -m755 "libnvcuvid.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvcuvid.so.${pkgver}" # nvidia-xconfig install -D -m755 nvidia-xconfig "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig" install -D -m644 nvidia-xconfig.1.gz "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-xconfig.1.gz" # nvidia-settings install -D -m755 nvidia-settings "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nvidia-settings" install -D -m644 nvidia-settings.1.gz "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-settings.1.gz" install -D -m644 nvidia-settings.desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop" install -D -m644 nvidia-settings.png "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/nvidia-settings.png" sed -e 's:__UTILS_PATH__:/usr/bin:' -e 's:__PIXMAP_PATH__:/usr/share/pixmaps:' -i "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop" # nvidia-bug-report install -D -m755 nvidia-bug-report.sh "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh" # nvidia-smi install -D -m755 nvidia-smi "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nvidia-smi" install -D -m644 nvidia-smi.1.gz "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-smi.1.gz" install -D -m644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/nvidia/LICENSE" ln -s nvidia "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/nvidia-utils" install -D -m644 README.txt "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/nvidia/README" install -D -m644 NVIDIA_Changelog "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/nvidia/NVIDIA_Changelog" ln -s nvidia "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/nvidia-utils" create_links }
It is not necessary to patch other packages. If you want, you can also install nvidia-custom (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60981) and opencl-nvidia-custom (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61443) from the AUR, but they are not much different from the official ones (nvidia and opencl-nvidia from extra).
CUDA Toolkit
Install the package from community (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/cuda-toolkit/).
You need to load the acpi-handle-hack module first, then the nvidia module. Depending on your system, this may be enough, but it may be necessary to create devices for CUDA. One way to accomplish this is to add the following to your /etc/rc.local:
/sbin/modprobe acpi-handle-hack /sbin/modprobe nvidia if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then # Count the number of NVIDIA controllers found. N3D=`lspci | grep -i NVIDIA | grep "3D controller" | wc -l` NVGA=`lspci | grep -i NVIDIA | grep "VGA compatible controller" | wc -l` N=`expr $N3D + $NVGA - 1` for i in `seq 0 $N`; do mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia$i c 195 $i done mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 else exit 1
If you are using systemd, you can get the /etc/rc.local loaded at boot by adding a new service. Create the following file:
#/etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service [Unit] Description=/etc/rc.local Compatibility [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/etc/rc.local TimeoutSec=0 StandardInput=tty RemainAfterExit=yes [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then make this service load at boot with:
systemctl enable rc-local.service
Testing it
This is not necessary, but you may want to install the community package cuda-sdk:
pacman -S cuda-sdk
The package is installed to /opt/cuda-sdk. To compile the CUDA C samples, use:
cd /opt/cuda-sdk/C make
Now reboot and CUDA should be working. To test it, run deviceQuery from the sdk:
Alternatively, you can compile your own code and run it. To compile, say hello.cu, use:
nvcc hello.cu
Now you can run the executable:
If this works without errors, you are all set!
Other Distributions
The above setup does not work only with Arch, and it may be even easier with other distros. For example, with Ubuntu 12.04 or Linux Mint 13, install the acpi-handle-hack module and then get the official nvidia-current (no need to patch it) package:
apt-get install nvidia-current


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Tie Not Water Balloon Filler
Safe, super-fast, and easy!
- Fill and tie a water balloon in under 30 seconds
- Need more ammo mid-battle? No problem!
- Four simple steps, easy enough for kids to learn
Summer is all about water balloon fights. If you have bad aim or didn't stockpile an adequate arsenal, soon you find yourself crouched by the hose, desperately trying to fill more balloons. That's when you realize that trying to fill a water balloon with a hose and then tie it up takes forever, especially if you're not coordinated or being fired upon by people who haven't run out of ammo. Curses!
The Water Balloon Filler is here to make your battles more wet and wild. Fill and tie a water balloon in under 30 seconds. Once you get the hang of the easy, four-step method, you can fill and tie balloons at ten times the pace it would have taken you the old fashioned way. Faster ammunition creation is half the battle. (The other half, obviously, is knowing. Knowing what? We don't need to tell you.)
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This post is the second in my series of posts about how the world of motorsport works behind the scenes. The idea of this series of blog posts is to give you a bit of an insight in to the motorsport world away from the track, cameras and (occasional) glory.
For this post I went to see GT3 driver Julien Draper. Julien's racing career started in Caterhams before moving to the G50 Cup and then on to GT racing in the G4 class and GT3. 2012 has seen Julien make the move to the Blancpain Endurance Series in one of the new McLaren MP4-12C GT3 cars prepared by Von Ryan Racing. Continue reading


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Di Matteo demands better standards
Roberto Di Matteo admitted Chelsea's players had to work harder to repair the club's battered reputation in the wake of the latest scandal to engulf Stamford Bridge.
The John Terry and Ashley Cole sagas have arguably tainted the Blues like never before, with the former found guilty by the Football Association of racist abuse and the latter launching a foul-mouthed Twitter tirade against the English game's governing body.
Di Matteo has already announced disciplinary action against Cole, something which could also be taken against Terry if he elects not to appeal against the decision of an independent FA panel, and the Blues boss said: "The image of the club is very important to us of course. We strive to have high standards and hopefully, going forward, we can be better at showing those."
He added: "We have rules, and anybody who breaks the rules faces disciplinary action against them."
Former Chelsea and Italy midfielder Di Matteo, who was born in Switzerland, added: "I come from Switzerland so I like rules, and rules are there to be respected.
"I wouldn't say I'm a disciplinarian but, when you live and work in a group environment, you need rules to be able to live together and work together."
If Chelsea's image off the field has never been lower, the same can not be said of their reputation on it.
Their scintillating football in Saturday's 4-1 Barclays Premier League thrashing of Norwich was exactly the face of the club both owner Roman Abramovich and the wider public like to see.
Asked if that could help restore Chelsea's standing overall, Di Matteo said: "As a club, we try to our give a good account of ourselves."


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Nothing in life — literally nothing — is more satisfying than watching assholes get what they deserve.
That goes double when vehicles are involved. It's just excellent and affirming to watch some idiot get what was coming to him (or her!) after driving like a total asshole.
That's our question of the day: What's the greatest road rage fail ever?
I'm still a fan of that video with the redneck truck driver whose aggressive sent him into a ditch a few months back. Sure, the lady behind the camera wasn't entirely blameless for the incident, but the other guy was a dick. Wasn't it great to see that instant karma?
Your turn, what's the most excellent case of the universe sorting out idiots on the road?


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January 6 2015
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Here comes another "January Freeze", wow, two years in a row we've had a deep, hard freeze heading our way the first week of January. Temperatures are projected to be below freezing for several hours, along with projected wind chills in the single digits. If you have any concerns about pipes freezing or keeping your home warm and comfortable, hopefully these tips will help.
To prevent your pipes from freezing - LET THE WATER RUN. Follow these examples, and hopefully you will have no issues.
Disconnect all garden hoses from the hose bibs, let the hose bibs drip, about the size of a #2 pencil lead.
If you have plumbing adjacent to exterior walls, open up the cabinets. This will allow warm air to circulate in the cabinet area. Turn on the faucet and let it drip, again about the size of a #2 pencil lead.
Open up a tub/shower valve and let it drip.
The idea here is to keep the water flowing throughout your system. If a faucet or hose bib should still "freeze", leave the valve open until it thaws.
If you have vacant property, turn the water off at the meter, open up all faucets and hose bibs, and turn off water heater. If the water heater is gas, make sure to turn off the gas cock. If the property has a working heat source, make sure it's operational. Set the thermostat around 65 and you should be fine.
To keep your home warm during the next few days try this. Turn up your thermostat a degree or two higher than normal. Do this starting this evening so that your home can build up some additional warmth. Try to keep doors and windows shut as much as possible. The goal here is to keep the "heat" contained within the living space. Its going to be cold and windy, and your home may not feel as warm as it does normally. Keep blankets handy, layer your clothing and stay inside as much as possible. Your HVAC system will be working hard the next few days, and in extreme weather conditions, factoring in all conditions, your unit may not satisfy the thermostat the same way it does during normal weather.
Hope these tips help.


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Blaze destroys Kadina home
Temporary Wateroo ready for Christmas
A TEMPORARY version of Wateroo will be ready for summer.
Gulf St Vincent netting ban plan opposed
BANNING net fishing in Gulf St Vincent could have detrimental impacts on other fishing areas in the state, according to Port Broughton fishermen.
Fire threatens house, destroys crop
ABOUT $300,000 worth of crop was destroyed by a blaze which also burned to the back fence of a house south of Maitland last week.
Police News... AACTA award, bicycle stolen
AN Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts award and a bicycle were stolen during a break-in at Moonta Bay on Thursday, December 14.
Jacob not dreading head shave
JACOB Harrison hasn't cut his hair for about 18 months, but is losing his dreadlocks to help find a cure for cancer this Friday, December 22.
Council chambers at Bute overflow
TOO many people in the Bute council chamber forced District Council of Barunga West staff members to sit out on December 12.
Donation creates safe sleeping for homeless
KADINA Memorial School's senior student council members have helped give locals in need a place to sleep.


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Pconcept brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 131 Designs von 28 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are looking for inspiring & distinctive contemporary design to unveil new brand identity for BIZKADO, a logo that will stand out and present the right image internationally. BIZKADO the international gateway and facilitator for business, we are the one-stop-shop for any foreign company willing to develop and expand in Asia-Pacific. BIZKADO name is made-up word to describe "BIZ"=Business and "KADO" meaning gateway, gate, door of the imperial palace in Japanese, similar to Sublime Porte. The word Kado is also synonym for Gift in Africa and Europe. It is easy to pronounce, resemble english words and at the same time is unique, so we perfectly marry the science of marketing and the magic of creative. Now, let your imagination run free for the Font, Lettering, Graphic, Format, Colors, etc... just integrate "BIZKADO" into the logo. Beside the official logo, it will be great to have a recognition sign (unique, simple, easy to print).
BIZKADO is a new company specialised in the business management and consultancy services, we have established a gateway to facilitate international collaboration among investors, entrepreneurs, and key partners. We have the expertise and connections to bridge the continents, with special focus on the Asia-Pacific region. BIZKADO is established in Thailand and Singapore, both offices enjoy a strategic location at the heart of Asia – home to what is regarded today as the largest growing economic market. Phuket is chosen as hub office as it is central to major markets such as Singapore, Hong-Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Ho-Chi-Minh, Bangalore, Dubai, etc… Phuket is known as tourism paradise, equipped with excellent infrastructure, high speed Internet, flight connection to around the world, also offering solid skills with good network of people that have proven track records of success. Future plans include turning Phuket into the best Ecosystem of imagination and innovation of the world.
BIZKADO will help develop the entrepreneurial environment glocally and encourage entrepreneurs through connections to investors and business partners as well as through organization of networking session, tradeshow events, conference, seminar, webinar etc…
BIZKADO has much to offer passionate, entrepreneurial self-starters in terms of growth, learning and personal development. We believe our people are our single most important resource. We only recruit people who share our business values: Authentic, Active, Creative and Responsible. Our team will actively focus at Food & Beverage, Technology, Retailing, Manufacturing, and Tourism industries. They will participate in building relationships with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and service providers in the region, to help our clients grow their business in Asiapac markets.
Abstract contemporary artwork, something straight & square rather than curvy, the logo must offer a great lisibility of "BIZKADO". Going along with the strategies of "BIZKADO", our new logo must be sophisticated, trendy, splendid, visionary, imaginative and futurist at the same time, must be a premier symbol of trust, integrity and quality; Looking for an elegant logo design to enhance company's image and match our business values: Authentic, Active, Creative and Responsible.. Giving the logo an athletic style, a sporty silhouhette. The colors are eco-friendly. Logo must be very very eyecatching & unique...
I don't want "deja vu", no design stolen, definitely avoid similitude with other brands, especially in Consulting industry. Don't want funny & fantasist design, too childish & too colorful like cartoon logo pictures, don't want to see any sort of conservative, old fashioned design, either.
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Fathers for Change for Men With Co-occurring Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01385553
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 30, 2011
Last Update Posted : February 19, 2014
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Social service systems rarely acknowledge the status of men as fathers in the conceptualization and delivery of treatment for substance abuse or domestic violence. Although there has been extensive focus on the treatment of mothers who abuse substances, are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) (defined as physical aggression and/or psychological abuse and control at the hands of an intimate partner), or maltreat their children there has been little consideration of the need for interventions for fathers with histories of co-morbid IPV and substance abuse. It is estimated that between 10 and 17.8 million children are witness to violence in their homes each year. National and regional samples indicate 50-70% of families impacted by IPV and the typically co-occurring substance abuse have children under the age of seven. Large percentages of these men continue to live with or have consistent contact with their young children despite aggression and substance use.
Court mandated treatments for perpetrators of domestic violence have become the norm, however the efficacy of these treatments is questionable and most do not speak to the broader needs of batterers and their families. How batterer's treatments might impact parenting and father-child relationships and the psychosocial functioning of children is vastly understudied and not currently understood. Since batterer treatments are court mandated and require tremendous financial and community resources, the efficacy of these interventions in stopping the cycle of domestic violence and improving the health and well-being of the batterer, his partner and children is crucial. There are currently NO evidence-based treatments that address co-morbid substance abuse and domestic violence perpetration with emphasis on paternal parenting and the father-child relationship. Consequently, the proposed psychotherapy development project will develop and evaluate the potential efficacy of a novel, relational parent intervention for fathers with co-morbid substance abuse and IPV who have young children. The goals of this intervention are to decrease aggression and substance abuse by increasing focus on fathering and an improved father-child relationship.
|Condition or disease
|Domestic Violence Substance Abuse Parenting
|Behavioral: Fathers for Change Behavioral: Individual Drug Counseling
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|20 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Randomized Trial of Fathers for Change: An Intervention for Fathers With Co-Occuring Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
|Study Start Date :
|June 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2013
|Active Comparator: Individual Drug Counseling
Behavioral: Individual Drug Counseling
Individual drug counseling focuses on the symptoms of drug addiction and related areas of impaired functioning and the content and structure of the patient's ongoing recovery program. This model of counseling is time limited and emphasizes behavioral change. It gives the patient coping strategies and tools for recovery and promotes 12-step ideology and participation. The primary goal of addiction counseling is to assist the addict in achieving and maintaining abstinence from addictive chemicals and behaviors. The secondary goal is to help the addict recover from the damage the addiction has caused in his or her life.
Other Name: IDC
|Experimental: Fathers for Change
Behavioral: Fathers for Change
FATHERS FOR CHANGE comprises 16, 60 minute sessions of treatment utilizing components of three evidence based practices: SADV-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Behavioral Couple Therapy and Child-Parent Psychotherapy. The goals of the intervention are: 1) decreased substance abuse and IPV by teaching coping and anger management skills, 2) improved communication and increased problem solving around shared parenting 3) parenting education including child development and the impact of violence on children, 4) discussion of discipline practices and development of behavior modification or positive reinforcement plans, and 5) attachment focused parent-child play sessions to coach fathers in play with their children and process traumatic experiences.
Other Name: Integrated Father Treatment for Domestic Violence
- Decrease in Verbal and Physical Aggression [ Time Frame: Baseline (Start of Tx), 4 month follow-up, 7 month follow-up ]Conflict Tactics Scale and the TimeLine Follow-back calendar interview
- Decrease in Substance Abuse [ Time Frame: weekly for months 1-4, 7 month followup ]urinalysis results and self report
- Decrease in Negative Parenting Behavior [ Time Frame: baseline, 4 month, 7 month follow-up ]IOWA, Adult child relationship questionnaire, Parental Acceptance Rejection Questionnaire
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- meet current DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse and who have used a substance within the 60 days prior to screening;
- have a police reported incident of IPV (pushing, slapping, kicking) within 6 months of referral;
- have at least one biological child under the age of 7 with whom they reside or have at least weekly visitation.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Have histories of severe physical violence (e.g. choking, causing hospitalization);
- Men who have an active NO CONTACT protective order pertaining to their partner or child;
- Men whose female partners indicate that they do not want the child to participate;
- If the female partner indicates that she believes her child is afraid of his/her father and will NOT want to participate;
- Men who are currently in withdrawal from substances and in need of detoxification;
- Have cognitive impairment or a lifetime history of any psychotic or bipolar disorder; or
- Are currently suicidal or homicidal.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01385553
|United States, Connecticut
|Yale University
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510
|Principal Investigator:
|Carla S Stover, Ph.D.
|Yale University
|Responsible Party:
|Carla Stover, Assistant Professor, Yale University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01385553 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1K23DA023334-01A2 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|June 30, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 19, 2014
|Last Verified:
|February 2014
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Substance-Related Disorders
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders


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Jay-Z, Rita Ora 'Party & Bulls—': Rapper Introduces Singer on New York Radio
Jay-Z knows talent and his Roc Nation signee Rita Ora is a prime example of his understanding. The rapper, who's been well aware of the U.K. native's vocal talents since bringing her to his label in 2009, shared her abilities stateside when he visited radio station Z100 in New York City Thursday (Feb. 23).
"This was all very spontaneous," Jay-Z said of the visit to Z100. "We just came to see some great friends over here at Z100 in my neighborhood and we knew they would like what they heard cause Rita is amazing. This is what radio is all about -- feeling, emotion and discovering new music and artists and sharing it with a huge audience."
Apparently, Hov showed up with the songstress with no entourage or security in tow. As he and Ora were interviewed, they debuted her new track, 'Party & Bulls---,' a flirty pop number perfect for an all-around good time.
The blonde vixen currently has a No. 1 song in the U.K. -- her DJ Fresh collaboration 'Hot Right Now' has climbed to the top of the charts.
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Gluten-Free Olive Herb Focaccia Flatbread Recipe
I don't know about you, but every time I see a bakery stand at the Farmer's Market, or the bakery section of a gourmet grocery store, and see some beautiful herb-encrusted flatbread, I can't help but get a little jealous. Bread can seem a little boring when it's just plain, unflavored bread- oh, still yummy, but it doesn't necessarily have the flavor kick to stand on its own as a meal. (I do love me a good vegetarian sandwich, though… with hummus, fresh basil, tomatoes and sprouts, maybe some cheese if I'm doing dairy- oh so good.) So that's why I was inspired to create this olive herb flatbread for a recent gluten-free support group get-together. We have members with multiple allergies, so I made the recipe as allergen-friendly as possible, with no soy, dairy, eggs, bean flour, or nuts involved. I was inspired jointly by a Bette Hagman recipe in her "Gluten Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy" and a recipe for olive herb flatbread in my The Best 50 Olive Recipes (Best 50) cookbook. Basically, the balance of flour to liquid is the only thing similar to the Bette Hagman recipe, but it was helpful and I'm sure the original recipe (with rice and tapioca starch and seasoned with fennel and onion) would be good as well. However, for my creation I wanted a more healthful flour blend with some help from one of my favorite whole-grain gluten-free flours, teff. According to one online source, teff "contains 11% protein, 80% complex carbohydrate and 3% fat. It is an excellent source of essential amino acids, especially lysine, the amino acid that is most often deficient in grain foods. Teff contains more lysine than barley, millet, and wheat and slightly less than rice or oats. Teff is also an excellent source of fiber and iron, and has many times the amount of calcium, potassium and other essential minerals found in an equal amount of other grains." These researchers were not well versed on the gluten-free diet, but uncontaminated, gluten-free teff flour can be found through Bob's Red Mill or The Teff Company. I like teff for the whole-grain nutty brown flour flavor it imparts to baked goods, as well as its high fiber and protein, but I think it works best combined with other flours as it is in this recipe. So, why not give this fancy flatbread recipe a try, and see how you like it. Or, better yet, come up with your own fancy flavor combination, test it out, and tell me all about it in the comments? :)
Want more whole grain bread recipes?
Try Adeena's Gluten-Free Rosemary Teff Dinner Roll Recipe
or my South American Socca Recipe
or this Apple Onion Fetta Socca Recipe
Or my Allergen-free Buckwheat Crepe Recipe
BytheBay also has a lovely recipe for Gluten-Free Kalamata Olive Rosemary Artisan Bread that looks very promising.
Got any other favorites? Share in the comments!
*Note- I was making other pizzas in the oven at the same time and the oven door was something of a revolving door, so the bread sank a little. However, it tasted great and the texture was very good, so I think it should be fine as long as you don't overproof it and don't open the oven while it's baking!*
Soy-Free Dairy-Free Egg-Free Nut-Free Vegan Gluten Free Olive Herbed Focaccia Recipe
2 tsp sugar
1 cup lukewarm water
2 1/4 tsp dry yeast
1/2 cup white rice flour
1/4 cup brown rice flour
1/4 cup teff flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 tsp salt
1 ener-g foods egg replacer egg or 1 real egg if desired
1 tbsp. high quality olive oil
scant 3/4 cup chopped kalamata olives (use 1/2 cup in the dough, the rest for garnishing to taste)
1 tbsp. fresh oregano
1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme
kosher salt or black salt
Prepare a jelly roll pan by spraying it with non stick cooking spray or oiling it with olive oil and using parchment paper.
Combine sugar with water, add yeast. Combine dry ingredients (up to salt) in a medium bowl. In the bowl of your kitchenaid mixer, combine the "egg" with the olive oil. Add your proofed yeast water. Mix and then add your dry ingredients to your mixer, including 1/2 cup of your olives if you haven't added them already. beating on high for two minutes. Pour into the prepared pan, spread it with a frosting knife, and add any additional fresh herb sprigs, chopped olives, and salt to the top. Baste with a little more olive oil.
Cover and let rise for 40 minutes or so, while you preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Bake for 20-25 minutes and tear off pieces to enjoy with high quality olive oil, or on their own.
This flatbread was very good. It did deflate a little after rising, perhaps due to the egg replacer egg. Still- Yummy! I've always wanted to make an olive flatbread like this.
The olive seasonings idea came from a little book called "The Best 50 Olive Recipes."
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text: Sure hes been here for 6 years and taken us to 2 superbowl, but those were cowers teams. I have actually seen a decline in his coaching ability. I'm not suggesting we fire him now, we had a bad year (8-8) is bad for the steelers. I believe we went 8-8 in the 09 season, last time we missed the play offs. Going 12-4 the last couple years has been nice but getting a beatdown by tebow in OT last season? Tomlin is starting to look worse and worse. Obviously right now we keep him but what if we go 7-9 or WORSE and miss the playoffs again next season. I think at that point I WOULD be calling for tomlins head.


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Strange Brew
Date & Time: 23/04/2018 18:00 - 20:00
The Strange Brew Show with Suzanne Copley...
Strange brew. A pan full of classic rock, a cup of 60's music, a cup of the 70's, a spoonful of classic blues, a spoonful of modern blues, a pinch of the 80' and every leap year we add a little current music - mix together and serve every Monday evening from 6-8pm. Put in the fridge and serve again on Sundays at the same time. Mmmmm


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Today we welcome back our July Blue Fern Fan of the Month, Tracy Funk.
She has a super sweet layout to share with you today.
I'm so pleased to be back with my second layout as the Blue Fern Studios "Fan of the Month" for July. It's called "Waiting for the Bus" and features a photo of my sister Lori in 1960.
I used papers from Blue Fern Studios' Garden Life and Happy Accident collections.
I used papers from Blue Fern Studios' Garden Life and Happy Accident collections.
On the Wallflowers paper that I used for the background I did some stencilling around the edges with molding paste. While the paste was still wet, I sprinkled it with Baby Pink Imagine Ink embossing powder and heat set it.
I painted the Spirit of Heartland chipboard piece blue then applied watery white paint overtop with a sponge stippler. I used an embossing marker to ink the flower parts and heat embossed them with the Baby Pink Imagine Ink embossing powder. I also inked around the edge in black.
I also used a piece of Blue Fern Studios printed chipboard (one of the corner pieces).
I used the Garden Blooms flowers.
Products used:
Garden Life paper - Wallflowers
Garden Life paper - Merriment
Happy Accident paper - Lucky
Baby Pink Embossing Powder
Garden Blooms
Garden Life - Printed Chipboard
Spirit of Heartland chipboard


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Garnet Rings & Jewelry
Garnet occurs naturally in nearly every color of the rainbow and is the traditional birthstone of January. Garnet has a mohs hardness of 6.5-7.5, making the harder varieties durable and suitable for everyday wear. Common red garnet varieties are almandine, pyrope and the red-purple rhodolite garnet. Spessartine or spessartite is a vivid orange color while tsavorite and demantoid are valuable green garnet species. Garnets are naturally beautiful and require no treatments.


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Ellis Island Events, Coupons, Reviews!
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The last time we visited Darien Lake Theme Park was six years ago during our Summer Babe's birthday. I know it has been a very long time since then. She is now turned into two digit. Since my husband is working over time lately, he missed the family time. It is my very first time to drive by myself to visit this amazing theme park in Western New York.
Driving took me at least 30 minutes. I missed some turns but we made it alright to the theme park. You have to pay $9 for parking. The parking lot has enough space for every vehicles. You can plate numbers not only from Western New York but out of State as well.
There are many lines where you can enter smoothly at the theme park. Since I have my tickets already, we do not need to buy our tickets. Adult tickets for one day pass is $38.99, Senior citizens ages 55 and over is $29.99 and kids under 48" tall is $29.99. You can also buy the season pass or even groups through online to save you money.
We got there two hours after the theme park is open. It was cloudy that day but it rained few hours before we visited the theme park. My kids are very excited to explore Darien Lake Theme Park. We always visit the Hooks' Lagoon where there is pool, captain's boat and everything in between. There are lifeguards all over. Parents or guardian always need to keep an eye on their kids for more safety.
We then visited the new water slide this year. it is called Rip Curl Rider. This water slide is so much fun. My kids love this ride. The advantage of being early, you do not need to fall in-line.
There are many rides wet or dry for everybody. There are rides that only for little kids and other rides for bigger kids. There are so many fun rides from simple to crazy rides where wild kids can ride. My kids did not ride the crazy roller coaster though my Summer Babe really wanted to ride the roller coaster bu her big brother is afraid so we escape it.
The theme park is so clean. There are garbage cans all over. There are many restaurants to buy food. I ordered hotdog and chicken combos. My daughter has pizza. Every food combo comes with french fries. There are souvenir stores to shop. I bought some glasses for my son. I bought post cards for myself. There are also ATM where you can get money. There are many lockers where you can rent to keep your valuables safety.
My favorite wet ride is the wave pool. It reminds me of my home town. My kids also love the wave pool where you can feel the waves and have fun with the pool. My daughter likes the Moto Coaster where you ride a motorcycle in the roller coaster. It is a short ride but she had a blast.
There are many things to do at Darien Lake Theme Park. There is hotel and campground if you want to stay overnight. You have to plan your visit so you and your family will have the best time in summer.
We cannot wait to visit Darien Lake Theme Park next summer. I hope this time my husband can go with us. Our Summer Babe and her Daddy will ride the crazy roller coaster where people who has guts and not afraid to have a blast can ride it. We highly recommend Darien Lake Theme Park to everybody .
Please do not forget to check out their Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and Instagram for updates of their coolest ride and promotions. You do not want to miss any deals for you and your family next summer.
I received complimentary tickets from Darien Lake Theme Park as being a member of US Family Guide in exchange of my honest review.
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Get ready for a change of perspective when you read to Vlatko Vedral's cover story, "Living in a Quantum World." "According to standard physics textbooks, quantum mechanics is the theory of the microscopic world," Vedral writes. And classical physics, in textbooks, "handles the largest of scales."
Not so, proclaims Vedral, who calls this idea "a myth." Quantum effects are harder to observe in the macroworld because of decoherence. But in the past decade experimentalists have seen quantum behaviors persisting on a macroscopic scale—and these effects turn out to be as pervasive as they are profound. Entanglement, a quantum property once seemingly confined only to small sets of particles, has been demonstrated in far larger systems—and even within living organisms.
Scientific American has, of course, covered many such profound discoveries in how the world works with the help of its scientist authors. More than 140 Nobel laureates have written for the magazine, often years before they won the honor. As laureates gather in Lindau, Germany, this month to share wisdom with a new generation of scientists, we mark the occasion with a special section, "A Nobel Celebration." We present a selection of some our favorite articles in the fields of medicine and physiology from the past 60 years, including George Wald writing about the origin of life, Francis Crick about DNA, and Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn about telomeres. Enjoy the sweep of science from then through today.
Citizen Science
Gretchen LeBuhn had a problem. The San Francisco State University researcher wanted to study flower visits by bees, given the effects of climate shifts and the destructive illness called colony collapse disorder. But such ecosystem studies are very challenging and expensive because of the large areas involved.
She sent a note to 15 gardening groups asking if they might grow packets of a certain type of sunflower. Once the flowers bloomed, the idea went, the gardeners would spend a few minutes at certain times making observations about bee visits and inputting the data about what they saw into a form on a Web site LeBuhn set up. She hoped she might get at least some help. But now she had a new problem: more than 75,000 volunteers.
LeBuhn told me about the Great Sunflower Project at SciFoo—an annual "unconference" run by Google, O'Reilly Media and Scientific American's parent Nature Publishing Group. I realized that Scientific American just had to help connect those citizen scientists and researchers such as LeBuhn. There are many kinds of citizen science, among them: making field observations as in the sunflower project, analyzing images and video such as the terrific Zooniverse.org projects, data crunching with spare computing power, and more.
At www.ScientificAmerican.com, we have launched Citizen Science, which lists the most compelling activities. Soon we'll add our own. I hope you'll help make science happen.


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Captain's Report
New and improved from stem to stern...
So let's start at the stem then, or more to the point, the bow. High points to Yamaha for making one of the most, innovative bows that I've seen. It's easily changed among five different configurations to suit your desires of the moment.
- Starting with...
- The basic seating on both sides. The seats are long enough to extend your legs out without feeling cramped. Nothing new here but it's included in the series so we mention it. Now let's move on to...
- Filler cushion sunpad. Again, so far nothing new here. Practically every bowrider on the market allows for a filler cushion that turns the entire bow area into a sunpad. And not surprising, so does Yamaha. Next...
- Rumble seating. Lift the forward cushions and pull up a separate cushion. This makes a small seatback for facing forward. Remove the forwardmost cushion and your feet are on the deck while facing forward. The kids will love this, as you'll really get a feel for the speed from this seat. It's duplicated on both sides.
- Padding under the legs. Re-insert the forward cushion and you have a very comfortable support under your knees, and your legs are still extended forward. It has a sort of chaise lounge feel to it. You also now have four seats with everyone facing each other and an arm rest between the two people on each side. Very cool.
- Three across seating. The filler cushions that make the sun pad also make another forward facing seat in the center. Now more people can be facing forward while sitting up at the bow. This is ingenious and Yamaha is the first I've seen do this, but I doubt they'll be the last. Close off the walk-through windshield and both it and the center seat back, will block the wind on those chilly days.
The Cockpit...
The gauges all have visors over them to block the glare, and you have full instrumentation for the twin 1.8 L engines. A little flat area lies aft of the gauges for putting "stuff" and it's got a non-skid pad. The bucket seat swivels and slides, but does not adjust up and down. Throttles are mounted on a slight angle to starboard. And as if Yamaha has read every one of my boat reviews, they put the stereo at the helm. A remote is at the transom. Now, because the controls are fly-by-wire, Yamaha has the ability to pull a few cool tricks, starting with Cruise mode. Get above 3000 rpm and hit the single rocker switch and now you're in cruise mode. You can incrementally increase or decrease your speed eight increments either way for sixteen settings from the speed you first pressed the switch at. In no wake mode, you hit the same switch and you have three increments up or down while still keeping the speed down and not having to worry about fiddling with the throttles. On previous boats, Yamaha had this feature with dual switches, one for each engine, but virtually everyone used them together so they're finally combined into one switch.Both engines and boat conditions are monitored with a GPS-based information control center: Digital displays can provide latitude, longitude, compass heading, elevation, water depth, water temperature, trip odometer, clock, engine hours, engine speed, vessel voltage, vessel speed, highest speed, fuel level, and fuel used.The port side seat is a back to back. And where I expected it to lie down, Yamaha did it a little differently. This one goes flat in the center and what was the seat then becomes a back for sitting while facing aft. Just lift under the front of the seat and bring it forward and up and presto... an aft facing seat for watching the end of the towline. Glove box is to port, but it's a little clumsy to open with its twisting knob. I'd rather see a latch to pull and lift. Just forward is a roomy storage compartment. You're welcome to put a Porta-Potti there but Yamaha doesn't include one, and since they're rarely used anyway, it's better left to storage. There's no floor drain so keep it dry in there. Aft seating is wrap-around and grab handles and drink holders are everywhere. Lift up the cushions in the center and you have a walkthrough to the transom, easily the most popular spot on the boat when at anchor. There's a rather large step in the middle of the walkthrough. And to bring home the watersports features there's a curved forward facing wakeboard tower with integrated LED lighting and speakers. Undo a few mounting bolts and it collapses for easily storing the boat in your garage.
The Handsome Transom...
Without an engine box to work around, Yamaha designers created transom seating that no one else has been able to copy. It's always been the envy of the competition, and now it's even better. There are two very comfortable aft facing seats, drink holders, the previously mentioned stereo remote, a removable pedestal table, and padding behind your legs that doubles as a separate padded seatback when you're sitting on the swim platform. The platform is mere inches above the water making the re-boarding ladder a bit redundant. It's an attractive and comfortable package, and Yamaha has really hit one out of the park with it.
Performance and Handling...
Well here's the bad news, and it's certainly not Yamaha's fault. I went down to their plant in Georgia to test their boats just when the entire state was getting record flooding from more than a week of continual rain. Most highways were closed and underwater, damage from runoffs was mounting, the test lake was overflowing and all access was underwater. So no testing on this visit, I'm sad to say, but that means I'll have to go back again and wring this boat out another time. I know...everybody thinks it's easy being a test captain but it's work, I tell ya!
Yamaha has installed their largest jets yet in their flagship, twin 1.8L high output fuel injected Yamaha marine engines. We doubt anyone will be crying about the 242 Limited's performance, but we'll see at another time just how she performs. Her L.O.A. is 23'6" (7.2 m), beam is 8'6" (2.6 m), and draft is 16" (.4 m). Her dry weight is 3,298 lbs (1,496 kg), and she carries 50.2 gal (190 L) of fuel.The out-the-door price for the Yamaha 242 Limited S is $56,799. Notice I didn't say "base price." Yamaha sells their boats as a complete package, no options. You get everything. So that's the price. And since it's the lowest price in its class, there's little complaining about getting everything you want for your dollar. And that suits Yamaha just fine.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Yamaha 242 Limited S (2013-) is 51.4 mph (82.7 kph), burning 23.2 gallons per hour (gph) or 87.81 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Yamaha 242 Limited S (2013-) is 37.4 mph (60.2 kph), and the boat gets 3.26 miles per gallon (mpg) or 1.39 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 147 miles (236.57 kilometers).
- Tested power is 2 x 1812cc High Output Yamaha Marine Engines.
Standard and Optional Features
|CD Stereo
|Shore Power
Exterior Features
|Carpet: Cockpit
|Swim Ladder
|Swim Platform
|Tower: Watersports
|Transom Shower
|Bimini Top
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