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CONCORD — Some Bay Area cities would like Daniel Meyers to be the new poster boy for copper thievery. In an era when copper thefts are soaring and thieves loot with near impunity, Meyers" arrest was surprisingly routine.
Police say that on May 21, Meyers cut and took $1,050 worth of copper wire from a rural area near Columbus Parkway in Vallejo, put the stolen goods in a Cadillac Escalade and drove to an apartment.
Thanks to tracking technology, police followed his every move. The 32-year-old was arrested a short time later. He has since pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial in April on charges of grand theft and receiving stolen property.
This electronic tracking technology is what Vallejo officials hope will put an end to the copper theft bonanza. Other cities also are eyeing the prospective solution to what has, in recent years, become a scourge that affects traffic lights, park lighting, building wiring and other public and private facilities that run on electricity.
Once a major component in making 1-cent coins, copper now is costing cities a pretty penny to replace. Thefts have soared along with the price of copper: The metal now goes for $4 a pound at salvage yards, nearly three times the price four years ago. But it"s costing cities much more to replace.
A 2012 report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows that since August 2009, metal thefts — especially of copper — have steadily increased across the nation, driven by rising prices for base metals.
The repair costs have hit taxpayers throughout the Bay Area. In San Jose: $160,000 to repair 500 lights. In Fremont: nearly $500,000 to replace copper wiring stolen from streetlights during late 2011 and early 2012. For BART: almost $100,000 in 2011 to replace copper wiring along its tracks. And on Bay Area highways from the South Bay to Concord, 59 metering lights have been vandalized over the past year; Caltrans has replaced 18 at a cost of $35,000 apiece.
"There"s no city that"s immune to copper theft," said Mike Schreiner, assistant maintenance superintendent for Vallejo. "It"s going to happen in Danville, and it"s going to happen in Oakland. Copper is copper."
Concord has spent more than $1 million since 2007 repairing and replacing copper wiring. Thieves have hit Concord City Hall, several city parks, and lighting and signals along Port Chicago Highway and Highway 242. Even Camp Concord, a city-operated camp in the Lake Tahoe area, has been plundered.
Authorities in Concord have worked with recycling centers to deter thefts, but a major obstacle remains: Even if copper wire is determined to be stolen, it is difficult to link that wire to a specific location, said Sgt. Jeff Krieger of the major crime unit.
"In a nutshell, it"s very hard to prosecute," said Concord police Lt. David Hughes.
A solution may be found in Vallejo, which two years ago invested in technology to curb its surging copper thefts.
City officials were hesitant to discuss the specific anti-theft technology they bought, lest aspiring thieves learn too much about it.
But Eric Hutchinson, CEO of Michigan-based The Copper Stopper, described some options that are on the market. One is to insert a microscopic tag in the wire that is invisible to the naked eye but can be identified by authorities. This is particularly useful at recycling centers, where thieves often bring stolen copper wiring.
Another method is to embed a tracking device on the wire. The company is alerted when the device is on the move and can follow its path, Hutchinson said.
"Even the slightest little movement will set off an alarm," said Concord Public Works Director Justin Ezell, whose city is considering similar technology.
San Jose has a homegrown form of defense: a new LED lighting system, which connects to a central management center. It allows the city to be notified almost immediately after a streetlight burns out, or when copper wiring is cut, said Hans Larsen, director of San Jose"s department of transportation. Quicker responses could result in more arrests, he said.
In Vallejo, which had spent about $400,000 to replace copper in recent years, copper thefts have plummeted since implementing the new technology, Schreiner said. Vallejo police made their first arrest three hours after installing the trackers, a source familiar with the technology said. Police have since made more than two dozen arrests, including Meyer"s.
"We don"t have any street wire missing in our city at this time … the first time in almost two years," Schreiner said.
Momentum against copper thieves may be building, but the anti-theft technology is still new and hasn"t been extensively tested in the field.
"The tragic part of it is it"s a crime against the whole community. It"s coming out of taxpayer dollars," said Greg Patterson, The Copper Stopper"s director of business development. "We want to be able to go in and help them solve the problem."
David DeBolt covers Concord and Clayton. Contact him at 925-943-8048. Follow him at Twitter.com/daviddebolt.


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Destiny was a science fiction fanzine by Jim Bradley and Malcolm Willits, with Earl Kemp, published in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
The first fanzine that Jim Bradley and Malcolm Willits published was called The Comic Collector's News, in 1947. It is regarded as the first fanzine devoted only to comics. However, after a couple of years they abandoned it in favor of a fanzine devoted to science fiction, which they called Destiny. The first issue appeared in 1950. Ten issues of this title were published, the last in Summer 1954. Later, Bradley left and Earl Kemp came in as co-editor.
Cover art was by D. Bruce Berry, Hannes Bok, Chesley Bonestell, Jim Bradley with Malcolm Willits, Robert Johnson, Max Keasler, Stanley R. Sommer.
Illustrations were by Richard Bergeron (Tyrann, Warhoon), D. Bruce Berry, Jim Bradley, Robert E. Briney, Miles Eaton, Charles Magana, Julian C. May, Naaman Peterson, Ralph Rayburn Philips, Rog, Paul Powlesland, Haskell Richardson, Nancy Share (Summer Torrents), Shelby Vick (Confusion), and Malcolm Willits.
Written contributions of fiction and poetry were by D. Bruce Berry, Robert E. Briney, Henry Chabot, Roberta Collins, Andrew Duane, Pat Eaton, Henry Ebel, P.H. Economou, Norman R. Jaffray, David H. Keller, Earl Kemp, Allen Kenney, Lilith Lorraine (Challenge), Carol McKinney, Frank Oriole, Paul Powlesland and Mari Wolf.
Articles were by Manly Banister (The Nekromantikon), Robert Bloch, Robert E. Briney, Vernel Coriell, Donald B. Day (The Fanscient), August Derluth, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Earl Kemp, Nancy Kemp, L. Stern Lawrence, Walter Lee, Jr., Sam Moskowitz (Helios), Darrell C. Richardson, Elliot Rockmore, George Wetzel, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, and Edward Wood.

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Alpha part of existential graphs: permissible operations. The Beta part. Difference between alpha-impossibility and beta-impossibility summarized [cf. MS. 457]. The Gamma part concerns what can logically be asserted of meanings. The distinction between regulative and constitutive (in Kant). The logical doctrine called "Pragmatism." CSP claims that he has been unjustly called a sceptic, a second Hume. The "joke" about opium's dormitive virtue. Possibility and necessity (Locke's confusion). Qualities as mere possibilities. Relations are qualities of sets of subjects. Dyadic and triadic relations. All triadic relations are, more or less, thoughts. Doctrine of signs icons, indices, and symbols.
Graphs existential, Index (see also Signs), Kant Immanuel and Kant studies (CSP's), Locke John, Logic (modal see Modality), Necessity, Opium dormitive virtue of, Lowell Lectures, Possibility, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism, dyadic Relation, triadic Relation, Sign(s), Symbol
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Although somewhat larger than most miniature portraits at 243mm x 165mm, this is a stunning miniature portrait by Frank Lucien Nicolet (1889->1944) of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) standing by his most famous sculpture. It shows Rodin around 1905.
The bronze sculpture of Rodin shown here is by the British sculptor John Tweed (1869-1933), who was a good friend of Rodin.
It has been dated to around 1902 and is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, see www.vam.ac.uk/.../rodin/
There is a miniature portrait of John Tweed in this collection which is painted by John Stewart Clark. Whenever Rodin visited London, he stayed with John Tweed.
An early painting of Rodin is this 1881 portrait by Francois Flemang (1856-1923).
No doubt there are other paintings of Rodin, but the miniature portrait, being nearly contemporary with Rodin, must be rare as a painted portrait.
There are many images of Rodin's sculptures available on the Internet, but not many photographs of Rodin himself.
Those available do seem to support the view that the miniature of Rodin represents him around 1905.
One example of a photograph is this 1905 portrait by Walter Henry Barnett which is helpful in dating the miniature, www.iatwm.com/200702/
The head of Rodin in the miniature portrait is about the same size as would appear in a normal sized miniature portrait.
No direct source for the miniature has been found, although a biography of Rodin includes several photographs which seem to have been taken around the same time, as he is wearing the same dust coat. Contact has been made with the biographer and also the Rodin Museum, but neither of them had seen the image previously.
As indicated below, it is even faintly possible that Nicolet painted the portrait from life, although Nicolet would have been only aged about 16 at the time the portrait relates to.
It is more likely that Nicolet painted the miniature of Rodin as an illustration for a magazine article, perhaps around the time of Rodin's death, but to date no such magazine article has been located.
He was in Canada at some stage as a kind visitor has advised that Nicolet used to go fishing with his father in Canada and in addition, painted a portrait of him.
While there he painted several images which were used for Victory Bond war posters. They included this one titled "Doing my bit- Four Years".
Other Canadian references to F L Nicolet are found in Canada as the painter of more World War I Victory Bonds posters such as "Be yours to hold it high" which is part of the Ontario Archives Collection at Canadian Posters from the First World War - Victory Bonds
Another poster by him is this 1918 poster of a soldier in poppy fields."If ye break faith, we shall not sleep".
Both the latter two posters were inspired by the words in the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McRae, which was first published anonymously in the 8 December 1915 edition of Punch Magazine, as per the copy here below, where the words used on the posters can be seen.
It is owned by The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, see Parks Canada - Teachers' Corner - The Price We Paid for Nationhood ...
This second poster was used as part of a campaign to raise $150 million, but it was so successful it raised $400 million. As a result Frank Nicolet was awarded a prize by the Canadian Government, see Amanda French SCMLA 2005 Poetic Propaganda and the Provincial ...
An example of the poster which is 61cm x 89 cm, was sold at auction on 19 April 2008 for a hammer price of $300.
There were a number of poems written in reply to Flanders Fields and some of them can be read at Reply-poems to In Flanders Fields
It has been difficult to find further many definite references to Nicolet the person, as opposed to the artist, but it seems likely that he is the Frank Nicolet listed in the 1930 USA census as lodging in White Plains, Westchester, NY. He described himself as an artist who had arrived in America in 1912, having been born in England in 1889 of French and English parents.
There is also a USA draft registration record of June 1917 completed by Frank L Nicolet born 21 October 1889 at Brighton, Sussex, England, who described himself an artist and at that time was living in New York. However, most references say he was born in Sussex England in 1887 and immigrated to Canada at an early age.
After the end of World War Nicolet continued to create posters, including this 1919 one about reconstruction which is part of the Elizabeth Coenan Collection, Provincial Museum of Alberta.
Although no record of him has been found in British census records, it may be that he was the son of Theophile Nicolet (1849-?) of St Etienne, France and Clara Clements (1860-?) his wife who was born on the Ganges, in India. They were married in JFM 1880 and are recorded in the 1891 census record, where Theophile Nicolet was a teacher of languages who lived in Brighton, Sussex, England with five children.
There are a couple of art records for watercolour paintings by a Theophile Nicolet dated 1913 and 1915, one titled "Venise" and the other "Bord de rivière" thus it seems possible that the Nicolet family were in France or Italy at some point after the 1891 British census.
Given this it is quite possible Frank Nicolet did meet Rodin in France.
There are references to Nicolet also making posters for World War II, see Liste alphabétique des titres : À nous de jouer : guide pratique ... 251


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Happy January! It is LeAnne Ballard from Everyday Celebrations and I am excited to be here today sharing a bright and cheery quilt. I've been wanting to make a postage stamp quilt for awhile and decided put a little twist on this classic to make one darling little quilt.
This quilt features four different postage stamp'esque' blocks. Also, this quilt uses strip piecing so don't fret over all those little squares. (The squares are 1.5″ finished.) If you like, you may add an initial for personalization. This quilt was made for my daughter's 1st birthday so personalization was a must. I also will share this cute little coordinating dolly quilt.
1 Layer Cake, Marmalade by Bonnie and Camille
1 1/8 yard neutral, Bella Solid in Bleached White 97
1 3/4 yard backing, Dot in Strawberry
1/2 yard binding, Sugar in Raspberry
1 fat quarter – for appliqued initial, Bella Solid in Tea Rose 9900 89
60″ x 50″ piece of batting
6″ square of iron on adhesive, such as Heat n' Bond Lite
2 fat quarters, for dolly quilt
crochet lace, for dolly quilt
- Seam allowances are 1/4″.
- RST = right sides together
- WOF = width of fabric
- blocks will measure 9.5″ square unfinished
- If you wish to personalize your quilt, you will need to print off an initial. To do this, just type your desired letter in a blank document in Microsoft Word or other program. You want your letter to measure no more than 5″ tall. (There are rulers on the side of the document in Microsoft Word.) When you print, make sure you select the 'mirror' or 'flipped' option so the letter is BACKWARDS. If you don't know how to do this, print normally and tape to a sunny window, with the back of the paper facing you. Then trace the letter onto iron-on adhesive.
This quilt is made up of four different blocks.
#1 – you will make {6}
#2 – you will make {3}
#3 – you will make {2}
#4 – you will make {1}
1. From the Layer Cake, reserve {4} squares. These will be used in blocks #2, #3, and #4.
2. From remaining Layer Cake squares cut {80} 2″ x 10″ strips. Reserve two strips for block #3.
3. Sashing from neutral cut:
{2} 3″ x WOF strips then subcut into {8} 9.5″ strips.
{3} 3″ x WOF strips
4. Borders from neutral cut:
{4} 5.5″ x WOF strips
Making Patchwork Strips
5. Sew {6} 2″ x 10″ strips together to make {1} 9.5″ x 10″ block. Make {13} total blocks. Press seams as desired.
6. Cut {5} 2″ x 9.5″ strips from each block for a total of {65} strips. These will be called "patchwork strips".
7. Sew {6} patchwork strips together to make {1} 9.5″ square block. Repeat for {6} blocks total.
Block #2
8. Cut one reserved Layer Cake square to 9.5″ x 10″. Then cut {1} 2.5″ x 9.5″ strip and {1} 6″ x 9.5″ strip.
9. Sew {1} patchwork strip to the 2.5″ x 9.5″ strip. Press as desired. Then sew the 6″x 9.5″ strip to the other side of the patchwork strip. Press as desired. Repeat for {3} blocks total. (Sorry for the change in fabrics in the photos.)
Block #3
10. Sew {1} patchwork strip to one of the reserved 2″ x 10″ strips. Press as desired. Then sew {4} patchwork strips together and sew to the other side of the 2″ x 10″ strip. Press as desired. Repeat for {2} blocks total.
Block #4
11. From the remaining reserved Layer Cake square cut {1} 6.5″ square.
12. From {2} patchwork strips and remove {2} squares using a seam ripper. (These strips will now have 4 squares.) Press shortened strips. Sew to the top and bottom of the 6.5″ square. Press as desired.
13. Sew {2} patchwork strips to the sides of the block to complete. Press as desired.
14. To make the initial, trace the letter on to the iron on adhesive following the package directions. Adhere to center of the block. Applique as desired, I used a machine blanket stitch.
Quilt Assembly:
15. Layout the blocks in desired fashion or use quilt diagram. Sew blocks together in 4 rows of 3, with one 3″ x 9.5″ neutral strip between each block.
16. Measure the length of one row and cut {1} 3″ x WOF strip the same length. Sew rows together with one 3″ strip between the rows. Repeat for remaining rows. Press.
17. Measure top and bottom of quilt and cut {2} 5.5″ strips the same length. (Save leftover for the sides.) Sew leftover 5.5″ strips to the two remaining 5.5″ x WOF strips. Measure sides and cut strips to same length. Pin and sew. Press quilt top.
18. Baste, quilt and bind. Cut {4} 2.5″ x WOF strips for binding.
Dolly Quilt:
I've learned that whenever I make a quilt I had better just make a little dolly quilt. Otherwise, my quilts end up as dolly quilts by my sweet girls. Which is fine, but just a little challenging for little hands. 🙂 So using the remaining patchwork strips we will make one cute dolly quilt.
1. Sew {11} patchwork strips together.
2. Measure the length of the patchwork unit and cut {2} 4.5″ x (that length)" strips from one fat quarter.
3. If you desire, sew crochet lace to the sides of the patchwork unit. Cut two lengths of lace just a touch longer than the length of the patchwork unit. Pin lace about 1/8″ in from the edge of the unit. (My lace was narrower so I did this so the lace didn't disappear in the seam allowance, if your lace is wider you could just line it up with the edge.) Baste lace in place close to the edge of the lace.
4. Sew 4.5″ strip to the side of the patch work unit using a scant 1/4″ seam allowance. (Again so I didn't loose the lace in the seam allowance.) Press. Repeat for the other side.
5. Baste, quilt, and bind if desired. (Use the remaining fat quarter for backing.)
6. However, I was on a time crunch for this project so I decided to forgo the binding. Instead I just sewed white ric rac all along the edge of the dolly quilt. To do this baste the ric rac along the edge of the quilt top. I didn't bother pinning, just line it up as you sew.
7. Then I cut my backing (from the remaining fat quarter) to the exact size as my dolly quilt top. I placed RST and pinned in place. Then sew together, leaving an opening along one of the fat quarter sides. (It is tricky when you leave the opening along the patchwork edge.) Turn and press. Top stitch close to the edge sewing the opening close as you topstitch. I also topstiched about 1/8″ in from the lace.
{1} 53″ x 42″ snugly quilt + {1} 15.5″ x 16.5″ dolly quilt
LeAnne Ballard


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Real Estate 360 Live With Louis Cammarosano 7/9/12
On Monday July 2, 2012, Louis Cammarosano, General Manager of HomeGain, was a guest on the Real Estate 360 Live radio show on The Big Talker 1580 WHFS AM, hosted by Ryan Sloper.
Listen to the show.
Part 1 (15:51)
Ryan reviews the unemployment numbers. Louis notes that people are looking to central planing and stimulus QE1 and QE2 to solve economic problems rather than the free market. Louis notes that printing money just adds to the money supply and causes inflation. Louis notes that because interest rates are lower people put their money in the stock market causing the stock market to go higher and making people believe that the economy is better. Companies also buy back their shares instead of investing their cash which also raises stock values. Louis notes that an economy grows from investing savings not from borrowing money to buy things. Ryan notes John Williams San Francisco Fed President's remarks that predict a stronger dollar low inflation and high unemployment. Louis notes that increasing taxes will harm the economy as it will not go towards deficit reduction but towards more spending. Louis notes that if government spending were cut, the private sector would get that capital and allocate it more efficiently than the government. Louis notes a recent survey where a majority of people said they would take reduced government for a reduction in taxes. Ryan and Louis discuss the recent government food stamp commercials. Louis and Ryan discuss the student debt issue and how it an high unemployment rates among young people will prevent them from buying homes.
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The moment I reinsert the SD card, Windows Phone 10 begins recreating the deleted WPSystem folder with all its contents. Making the "duplicates" again. Total size of the folder after a day: 1.86 GB - Basically Windows fills my whole SD card until there are no bytes left to steal...
Yes, I have a lot of pictures, mostly game development related, e.g.: about a thousand individual frames forming small, animated sprites.
The thumbnails are often bigger than the pictures themselves: An 8x8 sprite is about 100 bytes, which is small enough to be stored inside the partition's File table itself, directly after the filename. So their actual "size on disk" is zero, with no sectors wasted, just a file name entry in the MFT.* The respective thumbnail however, takes up 5 kilobytes, meaning it's about 50 times bigger than the picture itself. (5000%) This thumbnail actually wastes two sectors (8KB) provided the allocation unit size is left at the default 4096 bytes.
Larger, more complex (multi-frame) sprites are worse; they get blown up (fuzzy resampled instead of simply resized 1:1), meaning they don't even compress well. A 64x64 pixel unit portrait got exploded into a 4MB ugly blur, for example. Four megabytes! To store a mere unit icon!? I checked; The resulting picture was over 2000 pixels wide. And they call that a thumbnail? The original was only 60 pixels, now that's a true thumbnail. Why not simply use that?
Doesn't help that while the file extension is jpg, the actual file headers state the truth: ‰PNG... Which is usually 2x-8x as big as the jpg equivalent. And since the images become terribly blurry anyway from the resample process, having crisp, lossless png is pointless. Just an even bigger waste of storage space. (The original pixel art sprites are naturally stored in png. But that makes sense, since each pixel counts. At least the thumbnails aren't raw bmp...)
What I need is to write-protect that stupid folder, protecting it from windows itself. Or blank all the 1000 files individually and then prevent the phone from touching them again. Simply deleting the files does nothing in the long run.
*The master file table allocates a certain amount of space for each file record. [...] Small files and directories (typically 512 bytes or smaller) [...] can entirely be contained within the master file table record.
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OK. I really blew it by staying home for LinuxWorld Expo. Not only would I get to see people oohing and aahing over Nautilus, but I would get to meet tons of people face to face. People I've wanted to meet for a while.
And Bud said they would have wanted to use me for some press briefings, which would have been great.
I must not skip any further major trade shows. Especially ones where all the hackers show up in person. It's fun to just sit here at home and work, but I really need to meet these people and connect a little more, like I did in the old days at MacWorld.


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The Biggs Museum of American Art will kick off Saturday with a ceremony honoring some of the top artists throughout the state, followed by a lecture that highlights some of the best Currier & Ives prints.
The Biggs Museum of American Art will kick off Saturday with a ceremony honoring some of the top artists throughout the state, followed by a lecture that highlights some of the best Currier & Ives prints.
Award Winners XIII
Starting at 11 a.m., the Biggs will host its Award Winners XIII exhibition artist award presentation to celebrate the works of the 2013 Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Individual Artist fellows. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists, see their works and enjoy musical performances by emerging artist fellow Michele McCann and established artist fellow Augustine Mercante. There will also be a poetry reading by established artist fellow Linda Blaskey.
Currier & Ives lecture
Donald Cresswell, co-owner of The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd., will address the appreciation, connoisseurship and collecting of antique prints visitors in a lecture titled "The History of Collecting Currier & Ives-The Best 50" at 4 p.m.
In 1932, a panel of 12 Currier & Ives experts and collectors selected a group of what they considered to be the "best 50" Currier & Ives prints. For 50 days, these prints were illustrated and described in the New York Sun, creating an instant market for the selected prints chosen.
In 1988, a new "best 50" was selected by members of the American Historical Print Collectors Society.
"Currier & Ives: The New Best 50" was published in 1990 with all of the new best prints illustrated in color and with an analysis of the differences between the original and new lists.
Cresswell purchases, sells and appraises antique prints, and has lectured around the country on many related topics, including Currier & Ives. Cresswell also has appeared as an expert print appraiser on "Antiques Road-Show." Cresswell will discuss the process involved in evaluating works of art based on the style and technique in order to attribute authorship, validate authenticity and appraise quality. He'll also explore the differences between the original and new lists.
An exhibition of Currier and Ives prints from The Philadelphia Print Shop will be on view prior to the lecture starting at 1 p.m.
For more information on the lecture or Award Winners XIII, visit biggsmuseum.org.


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Happy to be attending an event, rather than planning one, Pippa Middleton enjoyed the Christmas Charity Sales Launch at St. James Church in London, England on Thursday (November 29).
The 29-year-old party planner looked stunning in a furry blue sweater, black skirt, black stockings, and black heels as she chatted with a friend.
Earlier on Thursday, the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge kicked off a special designer and vintage sale at the British Red Cross hop in Chelsea.
One of the volunteers said of the host, "It was such a pleasure to meet Pippa. She was so sweet, it is so amazing of here to come and do this for the Red Cross â" she said she often walks past and looks in and she wanted to do something for us.â
Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/pippa-middleton/pippa-middleton-shares-spirit-giving-christmas-charity-sale-768906
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What is Cell Phone Stories? Who is on the other end of the line? And why does LACMA want me to tune in?
Such are the questions that have been in the ether since we launched Cell Phone Stories, a project conceived of by artist Steve Fagin, in late May. Cell Phone Stories brings to my mind the title of a short essay by Jonathan Swift, "On the Difficulty of Talking with Objects." If El Lissitzky's Proun 3A (on view in the Ahmanson Building) sent you a message, what would it say? If the walls, even the escalator, could chat, what would they say? Such fantasies fuel the content of Cell Phone Stories.
It has been an interesting challenge to succinctly respond to "what is Cell Phone Stories?" Technically, the project takes place on and through a communications device, the cell phone, but conceptually the participants who have been invited to interpret and "speak for" the museum have chosen many ways to give voice to the museum's contents. Overall, this project has been an experiment led by artists, writers, and other cultural figures, to test the limits of how curatorial and education departments have utilized the notion of interactivity through technological interfaces. Not surprisingly, some of our participants have responded with a critique of interactivity.
Steve Fagin's ongoing chronicle Only For Dummies: Punctured Utopias of Another Century uses a ventriloquist proxy not only to give voice to historical objects and personas (and what better "voice" than a dummy's?) but to reflect on the utopian discourses that drove past art movements and how those "punctured" ideologies are still at work in conceptions of the museum in the twenty-first century. Fagin's other Smart Phone partners in crime, Barry Yourgrau, Kianga Ford, and Adrienne Ferrari, have also used the CPS weekly missives to send out fractured forms of institutional critique.
In the weeks to come Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the power sister team behind the Rodarte fashion label, will send out sketches for designs based on LACMA's permanent collection; actor Rainn Wilson will take over LACMA's Twitter account; Barry Yourgrau (in a maneuver that Jonathan Swift would love) will send out a story about the incredible shrinking LACMA; not to mention more surprises from our regular contributors Fagin, Ford and Ferrari!
Text "LACMA" to 67553 to receive weekly text messages that will direct you to the various components of this project, which will include text stories, links to videos, graphics, and audio experiences.
Rita Gonzalez, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art


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The lugubrious trials of a long and weird winter are coming to an end, but whether you're in Bozeman, Montana or Houston, Texas, chances are you could've used the Mattracks Powerboard stand-up snowmobile sometime this season.
Mattracks is far better known for their wicked-looking and highly functional rubber track conversion systems designed for wheeled-vehicles ranging in size from Humvees to ATV's. The Powerboard is an entirely different bird, though.It's a stand-up snowmobile of sorts which uses a proprietary design allowing the ground-side of the track to bend as the rider leans into a corner and thus provides steering.
The Powerboard is driven by a 6.5 HP Chinese-built Zhendong single-cylinder gas motor, with a centrifugal clutch hooked up to a chain drive. Pretty wimpy if you ask us, but the lawyers probably flipped at the rig's top speed of 18 MPH anyway. For the $2,495 it's not too terrible, considering the novelty, but a Kawasaki H1 Triple engine would certainly liven things up a bit in the performance department. [Mattracks]


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Just as a mechanic can replace the broken parts of a machine, doctors are constantly improving their ability to replace broken parts of the human body. ANSYS, in collaboration with several international research firms and universities, is helping to improve the process of modeling the human body to both create and prescribe life-bettering treatments.
ANSYS software offers the best solution for advanced multiphysics modeling by designing software that can import complex biological geometries, model complex physics interactions and perform automatic design exploration analysis, all within a single simulation environment.
The use of these models, combined with electromagnetic applications such as MRI and CT technology, allows healthcare professionals to create implants and devices to help heal and cure ailments of the spine, heart and bones.
The Virtual Physiological Human Project (VPHOP), a European consortium of biomedical companies on the cutting edge of treatments for osteoporosis and bone fracture, is one such example of what ANSYS software is working to achieve. The VPHOP is developing patient-specific models based on diagnostic imaging, incorporating that information into ANSYS simulation software, and consequently predicting the load various activities put on a skeleton. These models then allow clinicians to consider the risk and location of fracture for each patient.
As engineers and doctors work to meld modeling software with electromagnetic imaging, more of the body will be rendered in three dimensions. ANSYS software is closing in on success with a 3-D model that captures a location of interest for various systems (respiratory, cardiovascular, skeletal or nervous) while the sections of less interest are rendered in 1-D. The ultimate vision is to enable designers to create detailed 3-D models of any part of the body — especially those parts needed to understand a given phenomenon — while using reduced-order models (ROM) for the rest of the body, de facto combining solution efficiency and model accuracy. These models will enable healthcare professionals to test patient-specific implants (such as bones and joints) and medical devices (such as those for cardiac rhythm management), in an efficient and cost-effective time frame.


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Welcome to A Miniature Marvel
A Miniature Marvel is a dolls house accessories specialist web based business in Rochester in Kent. We stock a great range of dolls house accessories for both 1:12 and 1:24 scale (US half scale) dolls house projects and include many new and unusual items you won't have seen before.
We have divided our web site into easy to find categories along with project specific categories for producing a dolls house shop, dolls house pub, dolls house pharmacy, dolls house medical centre or even a dolls house office.
Why not drop by the Jewellery Findings Section to see what we have on offer. We know many of you enjoy making your own Miniatures; you will find plenty of good quality jewellery components available. All you need is a little imagination to create some wonderful bottle caps and stoppers, just add to some beads and you could create some wonderful miniatures like these.
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Eric Johansson is a Swedish photographer and his work is like old Björk songs made into photos. His portfolio includes many Escheresque traffic scenes like "Common sense crossing", above, which do the kind of things to one's head that massive pressure changes in the atmosphere do. His website has enough photos to fuel raging migraines for weeks and he's also given a TED talk.
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Since I am receiving illegal calls from crooked telemarketing evangelists I thought I would post this link for your entertainment.
I don't particularly care for this site, however, the section on false prophets is interesting
I received a call from Manasseh Jordan. His robo-caller said that God told him to call me. That never happened and no one better call me and interrupt my Margarita or Martini time. EVEN ON A SABBATH DAY!
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Steph, this was on my cellphone. Like you I don't have a landline.
Hmmm, "false prophets" ... is there any OTHER kind? Where and at what time has there ever been a genuine person possessed of future sight? NEVER, that I know of. Robert Heinlein had an interesting take on this issue:
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
I disagree with him on the fake fortunetellers, myself. Perhaps he found them mildly amusing, yet one more brand of grifter, playing the game. I'm not so tolerant.
Check out this link. It is hilarious. I filed a formal complaint of violating the DNC with the FTC, Texas AG and NY AG. I intend to sue this clown even though he called me one time.
I got another call from this so-called Prophet last week. I have called and cussed him out and reminded him that I am on the do not call list. I have filled out a form on his website demanding that he leave me alone. I have filed several complaints with the state/federal do not call list. I have filed a complaint with the NY AG and I have not received a response yet.
Any suggestions on how to deal with this a$$hole?
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Disguises, Surprises and Cross-Over Ideas – Lost Girl Panel at MCM London Comic Con
After running for three hugely successful series on Syfy, Canadian supernatural crime drama Lost Girl will be entering its fourth season next year. Three of the show's actors, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ksenia Solo and Rachel Skarsten (who play, respectively, Evony Fleurette Marquise, Kenzi and Tamsin), along with Executive Producer and developer Jay Firestone, came to MCM London Comic Con to talk about their work. To get things started, the panel...


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Category : Business Plan.
Topic : Lemont sports complex business plan. Author : Day Nessa.
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You can concentrate so much on essential financials and supply logistics, but overlook other issues like marketing or opening times. By showing the plan to someone you trust, they can have a look and see what might be missing or worth developing more. Getting that valuable second opinion on how robust your idea is will put you in a much better position to start and keep going successfully.


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|From: Gopal Gupta (gupta at utdallas.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 28 10:57:27 EDT 2006
[ Apologies for multiple messages. Abstract submission deadline: Aug 30th Paper submission deadline: Sep 3rd (strict) ] ====================================================================== LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Ninth International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages 2007 (PADL '07) http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/padl07 Nice, France January 14-15, 2007 Co-located with ACM POPL'07 ====================================================================== Declarative languages build on sound theoretical foundations to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to a wide array of different real-world situations, including database management, active networks, software engineering, web applications, decision support systems, or music composition. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, the application of declarative languages to novel problems raises numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications often drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a forum for researchers and practioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include: * innovative applications of declarative languages; * declarative domain-specific languages and applications; * practical applications of theoretical results; * new language developments and their impact on applications; * evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications; * novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom; and * practical experiences PADL 07 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages, and is not limited to the scope of the past eight PADL symposia. PADL 07 will be co-located with the ACM POPL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Abstract Submission: August 30, 2006 Paper Submission: September 3, 2006 (strict) Notification: October 2, 2006 Final Manuscript: October 22, 2006 Symposium: January 14-15, 2007 All submissions must be original work written in English. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper (written in English) in Postscript (Level 2) or PDF via the web page of PADL 07. Papers must be no longer than 15 pages, written in 11-point font and with single spacing. Since the final proceedings will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer Verlag, submissions should adhere to the LNCS paper formatting guidelines. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email and postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, abstract, and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program chair for information on how to submit hard copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MOST PRACTICAL PAPER AWARD The Most Practical Paper award will be given to the submission that is judged by the programm committee to be the best in terms of practicality, originality, and clarity of presentation. The program committee may choose not to make an award; or may make multiple awards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Matthias Blume (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA) Manuel Chakravarty (University of New South Wales, Australia) Marc Feeley (University of Montreal, Canada) Hai-Feng Guo (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) Gopal Gupta (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Michael Hanus (University of Kiel, Germany, Chair) Michael Leuschel (University of Duesseldorf, Germany) Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University, USA) German Puebla (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Michel Rueher (University of Nice, France) Christian Schulte (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Zoltan Somogyi (University of Melbourne, Australia) Peter Stuckey (University of Melbourne, Australia) Doaitse Swierstra (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Simon Thompson (University of Kent, UK) Pascal Van Hentenryck (Brown University, USA) German Vidal (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACTS: For information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chair: Michael Hanus PC Chair - PADL 2007 Institut fuer Informatik University of Kiel D-24098 Kiel, Germany Email: mh at informatik.uni-kiel.de For other information about the conference, please contact: Gopal Gupta Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas Dallas, TX, U.S.A. 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The mission of our program is to provide comprehensive education and guidance from our multi-disciplinary care team. Our goal is to make sure your child with diabetes, and your family achieve optimal physical and psychosocial health for optimal long-term successful diabetes management.
- Diabetes Networking Nights: This family-oriented support event is hosted by the Division of Endocrinology, and provides educational opportunities, entertainment, activities, support, and camaraderie for patients and families.
- New Onset Diabetes Education: Geared toward families with a newly diagnosed child with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. The 4-hour session (taught by a registered dietitian and nurses) provides comprehensive information on daily diabetes management.
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- Medical Nutrition Therapy: This session is run by our registered dietitians and is available to both you and your child. Follow-up sessions are available at any time, but recommended at least once a year.
- Insulin Pump Education: When children with diabetes and their families meet certain criteria for pump therapy, required classes are held to initiate pump therapy.
- CGM Devices: Patients and families can choose to be placed on a 3-day blood glucose monitoring device or purchase their own I-Pro for home use. This technology provides blood sugar checks every few minutes and can provide vital information on blood sugar control and areas needing adjustment.
- GetWellNetwork: Children with diabetes who are admitted to the hospital, can watch and learn — along with their parents — about what to expect from their condition through interactive, patient care videos created by Nemours' KidsHealth.org and GetWellNetwork.
- Diabetes Camps in the Tri-State Area (PDF): See a list of camps for children with diabetes.
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Because an emergency can happen anywhere, being prepared is important. Depending on your child's insulin regimen — injections or insulin pump therapy — the following items should be provided to your child's school nurse and carried by you and your child in your child's "Every Day Pack" at all times:
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- glucagon emergency kit
- blood sugar meter, lancets, and test strips
- insulin pen or syringes
- vial of short-acting insulin (Humalog, Novolog or Apidra)
- alcohol wipes
- ketone strips (urine or blood)
- fast-acting carbohydrate sources: 3-4 glucose tablets or gel, small juice box, small box of raisins, or 5 Gummy savers
- portable snack, like cheese crackers or granola bar and bottled water
- current list of all insulin: carbohydrate ratios, correction factor
- extra batteries for your meter
- emergency phone numbers
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As a parent, we know it's not easy for you to hear your child has Type 1 (previously known as juvenile diabetes) or Type 2 diabetes. And, although it's natural to be worried and concerned about what lies ahead, the pediatric diabetes experts at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., are prepared to help you and your child learn to live with the disease.
While both juvenile diabetes and Type 2 diabetes requires daily maintenance, both are manageable. Our team of board-certified pediatric endocrinologists, nurses, certified diabetes educators, registered dietitians, counselors and licensed clinical social workers, will help your child and your family, learn to make diabetes a natural part of their life — focusing on what they can do rather than what they can't.
Caring for Children with Juvenile Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
At Nemours, we believe you're your child's best advocate for helping your child feel comfortable with the diabetes routine. That's why we value your input. You can count on our ongoing care and support for as long as needed.
In addition to education provided during your inpatient stay, you and your child will meet with our diabetes educators and registered dietitians to learn about:
- how to check and track blood sugar levels
- insulin management and how to make adjustments
- preventing and treating hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia
- how nutrition plays a role and the importance of carbohydrate counting
- how to manage blood sugars with exercise
- with your permission, we will work with your child's school nurse to help manage blood sugars during the school day
Latest Therapies for Children With Diabetes
At duPont Hospital for Children, we offer children with both juvenile diabetes and type 2 diabetes the latest treatment options such as:
Insulin Pump Therapy
A microcomputer designed to provide a constant supply of insulin, mimicking the job of the pancreas. It's convenient, flexible, and accurate, but requires extensive training to learn how to use it properly and to prevent complications.
There is certain criteria that must be met in order to be a pump candidate. Talk to your endocrinologist or nurse practitioner about your readiness for insulin pumping.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring and I-Pro Devices
Similar in size to the Insulin Pump, these devices require a small, thin needle inserted in the skin which measures blood sugars nearly continuously.
They provide:
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- alarms when blood sugar is approaching dangerously high or low levels
- information about blood glucose trends
You will need to talk to your endocrine provider and check with your insurance provider before considering or beginning these treatment options.
National Awards and Recognitions for Our Diabetes Program
The Diabetes Education Program at duPont Hospital Children is accredited by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). To promote quality education for people with diabetes, the ADA endorses the National Standards of Diabetes Self-Management Education for accreditation. This special recognition means that our certified diabetes educators are providing high-quality information and care to children with diabetes and their families.
Center of Excellence for Our Pediatric Diabetes Care
At duPont Hospital for Children, we're one of only 70 diabetes centers out of thousands nationwide to be recognized as a Center of Excellence for Medtronic Diabetes care. This is an exclusive recognition for diabetes programs that advocate proper use and education for insulin pump therapy and glucose monitoring. Also, the Center of Excellence designation recognizes our healthcare providers for their efficient management and administrative services of our pediatric diabetes program.


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Online Results necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 102 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
We need a clean looking logo for a hot Web 2.0 advertising company. The logo will be used for our website, business cards, advertising materials, etc. We're open to suggestions for look and feel!
Thanks everyone for all of your submissions so far!!! Here is what our star rating system means:
1 star - wrong direction
2 stars - has some elements we like, but needs something more to get us fired up about it
3 stars - might be a finalist, but needs revisions or a different take on the design
4 stars - we like the design a lot, and it is being considered for a finalist
5 stars - a finalist for sure!
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We manage online advertising campaigns for other companies, and we need a clean, crisp logo. The logo should reflect professionalism, trustworthiness, and cutting edge technology. Our target audience is senior managers and business professionals.
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- Bold colors (not pastels)
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- Don't want name in all capital letters
- Don't just use text and nothing else
- Nothing that looks like an existing large company's logo
- Nothing juvenile or cheesy, but not too stuffy either
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4:00 am
Sesame Street "Counting Booth" Uh-Oh! The Count has to leave his Counting Booth and has no one to watch it while he is gone. Luckily, Elmo and Abby agree to become the official Counting Booth Counters while he is away. They immediately have their first visitors, the Three Little Pigs. D
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Daniel Is Jealous/Jealousy at the Treehouse" Daniel is Jealous: Daniel and Katerina are playing "airplane" with Grandpere. Daniel thinks Katerina is getting too much attention from Grandpere and starts to feel jealous. Daniel explains his feelings and is reassured that he is Grandpere's one and only Daniel. D
5:30 am
Martha Speaks "Dogs In Space/Dogs from Space" Dogs in Space - Mrs. Clusky asks the class to present projects on the solar system, but TD finds himself distracted by comic books. Can he save the Planet of the Dogs from evil space cats and still get his homework in on time? Vocabulary: (E) planet, star, solar system, constellation, orbit (I) sun, moon, earth, space, spaceship. Dogs from Space - Inspired by TD's comic about the Planet of the Dogs, Martha has a dream about what life would be like as an alien space dog. D
6:00 am
NOVA "Mystery of Easter Island" Rapa Nui, the bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, known as Easter Island, has been a place of mystery since Europeans first arrived in 1722. How did ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant statues weighing up to 86 tons each. A NOVA team uses a 15-ton replica statue to test out controversial recent claims on how the statues might have been moved.G
7:00 am
Rick Steves' Europe "Prague and the Czech Republic" Rick visits newly energized Prague with side trips to Kutna Hora to descend into a medieval mine.G
7:30 am
Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "French Riviera" Rudy drops in on the hot spots along the Mediterranean's Cote d'Azur. From Nice, he leads the way to local beaches and modern art museums. A short hop up the winding Grande Corniche is wealthy Monaco.G
8:00 am
The Desert Speaks "Utah's Slick Rock Country" Host David Yetman and his brother, Geologist Dick Yetman, take a geological road trip to Southeastern Utah's Colorado Plateau. After hiking through an ever-changing slot canyon named Canyon X and the aptly named Kodachrome Basin State Park, they take an eerie trek through Goblin Valley State Park where the mysterious entrada rock sculptures known as "goblins" surround you from all angles. D
8:30 am
Kevin Dundon's Modern Irish Food "Birds, Bass and Berries" Kevin prepares a woodpigeon salad; whole roasted sea bass in a sea salt crust; crushed baby potatoes; and a sea vegetable salad. Finally, a fresh and tasty elderflower and gooseberry fool. D
9:00 am
Taste of History "Dolley & James Madison - Entertaining at Montpelier, Part 1" Dolley Madison was the toast of Washington, hosting her famous "squeeze" parties at the White House first for Thomas Jefferson, and then for her husband, James. When the Madisons left Washington, they continued these traditions at Montpelier, their lavish home in Virginia. Chef Walter throws a party, Dolley-style, making ice cream with Dolley and cooking up a feast, which includes Artichokes, Veal Kidney Dijonnaise, Hoppin' John and Cornmeal Fried Catfish for their guests. D
9:30 am
Simply Ming "Vancover - Tojo" In this episode of Simply Ming, while on the Road in Vancouver, Ming shops for fresh seafood with one of Vancouver's most famous chefs, Hidekazu Tojo, the inventor of the California Roll. Tojo takes Ming to his favorite fish store in Vancouver's Chinatown, then on to buy some fresh Vancouver crab fresh off the boat near the famous Fisherman's Wharf. Together they cook up a seafood feast!. D
10:00 am
The Jazzy Vegetarian "Cauliflower Gets Respect" Host Laura Theodore prepares creative and tasty ways to serve cauliflower. The cruciferous wonder stands front and center in satisfying "Cauliflower Steaks with Sweet Pepper Sauce," then plays the part of cream in "Creamy Cauliflower Soup." Slow baking in the oven brings out sweet flavors in "Paprika Roasted Cauliflower," the perfect side dish for any meal. D
10:30 am
Chef's Life "A Road Trip for Rice" Vivian travels to Columbia, South Carolina, to meet with Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills and learns about Carolina heirloom rice growing in fields on the Savannah River. Glenn explains Anson Mills' efforts to save heirloom grains and discusses the importance of ingredient biodiversity. Glenn's passion inspires Vivian to host a "rice dinner" at Chef & the Farmer, where each course centers around this grain. D
11:00 am
Austin City Limits "Arcade Fire" The alternative rock superstars perform hits and tunes from their Grammy Award-winning album The Suburbs.G
12:00 pm
Sesame Street "The Wedding Planner" Elmo helps Zoe problem solve and pull together the final details of Rocco's wedding. Educational Objective: Self-Regulation (EF). D
1:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "An Apatosaurus Adventure/Nature Art" The Pteranodon kids visit the Jurassic Time Period to meet Apollo Apatosaurus, a huge, long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur who likes adventure. Apollo loves to whip his long tail, and does so as he leads the kids on a pretend adventure to find a hard-to-reach tree with yummy, delicious leaves! Mrs. Pteranodon cleans out the clutter from the family nest and the kids are amazed at the pile of stuff - leaves, flower petals, pieces of wood, and shells. Tiny stops Mom from throwing out all the stuff, determined that she and Buddy, Tiny, and Don will find a use for it all. D
1:30 pm
Peg + Cat "The Tree Problem/Another Tree Problem" The Tree Problem - Peg's Neighborhood. When Cat is stuck in a tree, Peg needs to figure out how to get him down using three giant gifts. Primary Content: Spatial sense, solving a puzzle; Secondary Content: Direction, position. D
2:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Big Cats/Fantastic Flour" Big Cats - When Sally and Nick have difficulty sneaking up on Nick's Mom to surprise her, The Cat brings them to meet some great sneaker-uppers - cats! Three big cats in particular. The kids learn to be patient from a snow leopard, speedy from a cheetah and the trick of distraction from a lion. Back in Nick's yard they sneak up on his mom and surprise her! Then Nick and Sally are surprised when the best sneaker-upper sneaks up on them - The Cat! Fantastic Flour - Nick and Sally are making their "Best Ever Yummy For Your Tummy" muffins when they realize they don't have enough flour. D
2:30 pm
WordGirl "High-Five Sandwich/The Robot Problem" HIGH-FIVE SANDWICH - Chuck has won the prestigious "Sandwich of the Year" competition, but when his story in the Big City Times is overshadowed by the new High Five Sandwich trend that Becky, Scoops and Violet came up with, he goes out in to the city to seek revenge. He won't stop until he figures out who is responsible for this new and trendy "sandwich". Vocabulary Words: Trendy(y), Eager. D
3:00 pm
Science Trek "Weather" Host Joan Cartan-Hansen discusses weather and climate with meteorologists Vin Crosby and Robyn Heffernan. She also takes students inside the National Weather Service office to see how meteorologists collect the data they need to predict the weather.G
3:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Naples and Pompeii" Rick finds Naples is Italy in the extreme. He prowls backstreet fish markets, dodges fast-moving Vespas, and dines on pizza where it was invented. He climbs to the top of nearby Mount Vesuvius, then wanders through the ruins of Pompeii.G
4:00 pm
Song of the Mountains Elkville String Band; VW Boys. D
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6:00 pm
My Hero "The Older Man" The lease is up on George's earthly body and he is starting to look his true age of 327 years quickly.G
6:30 pm
Last of the Summer Wine "The Mysterious C. W. Northrop" Smiler falls in love with Ivy and attempts to send her a note signed by a stranger to pique her attention.G
7:00 pm
As Time Goes By "A Trip to Los Angeles" Jean and Lionel travel to Los Angeles to discuss turning their story into a film. Jean becomes concerned about the executive who will decide their fate.G
7:30 pm
Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "Onslow's Birthday" Onslow's birthday celebrations may only come around once a year, but that is far too often for Hyacinth.G
8:00 pm
The Red Green Show "Gladiator" The Town of Possum Lake is staging a live version of the movie Gladiator with Dalton Humphrey taking the lead role. Then, Red demonstrates how to change a flat tire without stopping.G
8:30 pm
Hebburn "She Doesn't Just Give It Away" Jack is back on the Hebburn Advertiser, and he has plans to transform it into a paper that makes a difference. When Joe's doctor tells him he has to relax to help with his heart problems, Pauline makes it her mission to de-stress him. Sarah's hippy sister Marial is in town with essential oils and hands-on healing practices.G
9:01 pm
May to December "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans" Jamie is falling in love with Zoe, but hides it from Alec by pretending to fall instead for Hillary. When Alec informs Jamie that Zoe is expecting a baby, Jamie comes down to earth with a bump.G
9:31 pm
My Family "It's Training Men" Ben insults a patient, who storms out. Roger tells Ben their employer is using an undercover patient to evaluate customer service skills and he must attend a weekend of retraining where clips of the incident are used in class.G
10:01 pm
My Hero "The Older Man" The lease is up on George's earthly body and he is starting to look his true age of 327 years quickly.G
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Did anyone really think Metal Gear Solid 4 would be the last of Kojima's epic series? It might have concluded the story of Solid Snake, but its seems there's countless untold stories within the universe – just two of which will be told in the PSP game Peace Walker and the multi-format Rising. It's not the only thing keeping him busy; he's at work on the Castlevania revival Lords of Shadow, as well as a number of unannounced titles he spoke to IGN about at this year's Gamescom.
IGN: After Metal Gear Solid 4 you said you were done with the series yet you're back with Peace Walker – why are you finding it so hard to let go?
963391.html" class="autolink" >Hideo Kojima: I always said that it would be the last Metal Gear in which I would be deeply involved, however when we started the PSP version there was a lot of confusion within the team and it didn't proceed as I wanted it to. Therefore I thought that I needed to jump in and do Peace Walker.
To give you a little more detail, what's happening in the team is that the next Metal Gear - or the next new series that Kojima Productions is going to create – we wanted to go one step ahead, therefore we need to actually restructure the engines, the tools and things like that. This process is taking one to two years; however, within that timeframe we could do something, and we thought that because of this preparation period we just can't wait and do the preparation – we thought that within that timeframe we could do a PSP version.
IGN: What games is this engine being prepared for?
Hideo Kojima: First of all I can name Metal Gear Solid Rising – that's going to be on the preparation list. Also there's a new title that we haven't announced that I've wanted to make for a long time – that's on the list as well. And also a couple of other new titles we're preparing now.
IGN: Are these new titles related to anything that's gone before, or is it an all-new game?
Hideo Kojima: The one that I said that I've been wanting to make – this is a new franchise and a new title. For the other couple of titles, it could be something that you always wanted to have. It could be, or it could be something else. It's a matter of the timing of when we can get it out.
IGN: What's your favourite in the Castlevania series?
Hideo Kojima: I probably would say the very first one – the reason is that when I joined the company, the division that was next door to me was creating that game at that time. Also the fact that when I was very young I had the concept of creating an action horror game that was never released, unfortunately. Capcom released Ghouls n' Goblins – I saw that released from Capcom, so I thought there was nothing to explore in the genre anymore so I gave up on it. Those two combined mean that the original is my most remembered title.
If Castlevania wasn't created next to me, and Capcom didn't release Ghouls n' Goblins, then maybe there wouldn't be any Metal Gear, and I would have created a horror action game, because I really like that genre.
IGN: Story and cinematics play a large part in your games – is that going to be the case in Castlevania as well?
Hideo Kojima: Believe it or not, I haven't really specified to do this or that with the demos [cutscenes] -. The team is quite similar to our usual style by coincidence. What the team is trying to do I agree with. The music is great, the demo sequences are quite emotional and the graphics are very good as well. It has quite a European flavour, so I didn't say to do this way and that way for the cinematics – but the team is naturally doing that for Castlevania.
IGN: Going back to Peace Walker – it's obviously not the first time Metal Gear Solid has come to the PSP, but how similar will it be to Portable Ops, and what lessons have been learned from that game?
Hideo Kojima: Actually, I don't look back on Portable Ops, almost deliberately because the staff that worked on that game, some of them are working on Peace Walker as well. However, we have a different thinking – we're thinking of a whole new start, almost continuous of Metal Gear Solid 4 - how can we make a continuous version of Metal Gear Solid 4 on the PSP? So I deliberately don't look back to the resemblance or the mistakes made on Portable Ops, it's more the mindset is totally different; we create a new Metal Gear series, just on the PSP. It's a whole new approach.
My aim is, game-wise, story-wise and the whole world of Peace Walker is probably very easily ported to PS3 or 360 or the next-gen – and that's one of our goals that we're trying to achieve with Peace Walker.
Watch the new and extended trailers for both Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker at ign.com.


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2-ingredient chocolate chip cookie dough bread – YES. Just buy your favorite ice cream and mix with flour and you have a bread, and it's good!
This chocolate chip cookie dough bread takes only two ingredients.
Two. Ingredients.
Yes, you heard it right.
If there is a genius recipe award, I'd give this to my friend Javan at The Dining Table (Singapore Food Guide).
This recipe is made of two ingredients: your favorite ice cream (not low fat) and self raising flour.
Two ingredients, 5 minutes of mixing time, and 45 minutes of baking time, and you have a loaf of sweet, tasty, and aromatic bread that tastes like you had a very complicated recipe and spent the whole afternoon baking.
And the best of it all, you can make just about any flavor of this bread using your favorite ice cream. Dark chocolate chip bread?
Sure. Peanut butter S'mores bread, not a problem. Salted caramel truffle bread?
You can make just about any bread you like, using your favorite brand of ice cream.
It's magic!
Fresh off the oven, this Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bread tastes so delicious.
It's got all the flavors and perfect sweetness. You don't even need any jam.
You can just eat it as is, or if you like, with a spread of butter.
This recipe is also toddlers and kids friendly.
Who doesn't like their favorite ice cream in the form of a bread?
Try the recipe today and I am sure you will love this effortless and easy baking recipe.
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Star Trek Beams to Consoles April 23rd
Namco Bandai's upcoming Star Trek The Video Game finally has a release date, as well as some nifty pre-order bonuses.
Fans waiting for new adventures of the Starship Enterprise have two new ways to enjoy more of Kirk and Spock in 2013. The new film, Star Trek: Into Darkness, is set to hit theaters May 17th, and now Namco Bandai has announced Star Trek The Video Game will arrive just ahead of that on April 23rd in the U.S. (or the 26th in Europe).
Star Trek features an all-new story developed by The Darkness 2's Digital Extremes, and allows players to step into the shoes of both Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock. Anyone who pre-orders the game at select retailers will receive a special Elite Officers pack, which includes new costumes and weapons to use in the game. Included therein is the Stealth Pack (Kirk and Spock stealth uniforms, plus Starfleet Type IV Stealth Sniper Rifle and extra ammo), Brawler Pack (Kirk leather jacket costume and Spock Vulcan Science Academy costume), Kelvin Pack (Kirk and Spock U.S.S. Kelvin uniforms, plus U.S.S. Kelvin Hand Phaser), Academy Pack (Kirk Academy Uniform, Spock Officer Dress Uniform, plus Academy Phaser), and the Kobayashi Maru Pack ( Kirk and Spock Kobayashi Maru uniforms).
Star Trek The Video Game will be available on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.


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By Shawn Langlois
Happy, uh, Valentine's … Day.
If there were such a thing as the dog days of winter, markets would be trudging through them right now.
With a little push in these last two sessions, stocks might extend their win streak to seven straight weeks, but traders would be forgiven for nodding off at their terminals. In reality, this is about as dead as the market gets. That's not just one man's opinion, either.
Just look at the numbers. Over the past 13 trading days, according to Bespoke Investment Group, the intraday high/low range for the Dow industrials has been just 1.35%. That's the tightest spread over that length of time the blue chips have seen in more than 25 years. So now might be a good time to take a break and check out something more thrilling. Like test cricket perhaps?
Of course, do that and you may miss out on a screaming pair-trade opportunity (more on that below) or your chance at making billions by betting on a weaker yen.
Key market gauges: The S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025 SPX is hovering right above where it ended last week, so keeping the streak alive is still a possibility, but the futures are pointing to a tough start for both the S&P /quotes/zigman/8751039 ESH3 and the Dow /quotes/zigman/9049316 YMH3 . Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150 XX:SXXP isn't helping at all, with its markets getting hit by weak GDP data. Asia /quotes/zigman/6959860 XX:ADOW , led by the Hang Seng /quotes/zigman/2622475 HK:HSI and the Nikkei /quotes/zigman/5986735 JP:100000018 , was a bright spot. Read Indications.
The economy: The number of Americans who applied for new jobless benefits fell sharply, sinking 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 341,000 in the week ended Feb. 9, the Labor Department. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a much smaller drop to 360,000 from a revised 368,000 in the prior week. How much of that decline had to do with the big snowstorm in the Northeast is unclear.
Earnings: General Motors /quotes/zigman/1466682 /quotes/nls/gm GM posted an improved fourth-quarter profit, thanks to a boost from North America, and also said it will issue profit-sharing checks of up to $6,750 to its 49,000 hourly workers. The stock is off just a touch premarket.
Not quite the economic bellwether it once was, GM is still a pillar of our proud but hurting manufacturing base. And, yes, taxpayers still own a significant chunk. On a broader note, President Obama loves to talk about bringing American jobs back home, but are we really on the verge of a manufacturing renaissance? Perhaps. Read more from MarketWatch's Jeffrey Bartash and the Capitol Report.
David Kudla, chief investment strategist of Mainstay Capital Management, seems to believe "the great American turnaround story" will continue. He said, "given the strong tailwinds and improving economic environment," that the Wall Street targets for General Motors in 2013 could prove conservative.
Among the other notables on the earnings sked, Charles Schwab /quotes/zigman/240465 /quotes/nls/schw SCHW , PepsiCo /quotes/zigman/238082 /quotes/nls/pep PEP , Orbitz /quotes/zigman/466401 /quotes/nls/oww OWW and Agilent /quotes/zigman/216117 /quotes/nls/a A all report results.
The buzz: Elon Musk lays the smackdown on The New York Times in rebuttal to the claims made by journalist John Broder. The Tesla founder lumps him in with reporters who "believe the facts shouldn't get in the way of a salacious story."
Heinz /quotes/zigman/229153 /quotes/nls/hnz HNZ shares are exploding with a 21% premarket gain after the ketchup maker said it agreed to be bought by Berkshire Hathaway /quotes/zigman/219651 /quotes/nls/brk.a BRK.A and 3G Capital. Business Insider sums up the lure of the deal in four slides.
Cisco Systems /quotes/zigman/20039 /quotes/nls/csco CSCO isn't drifting into the background just yet. The company posted improved numbers yesterday but clearly didn't do enough in the quarterly report to keep its recent stock momentum going. Shares are off about 2% premarket.
Rio Tinto's /quotes/zigman/159336 /quotes/nls/rt RT quarterly report is the top business story early on Google. The world's second-biggest iron-ore producer swung to a big loss on a nasty drop in commodity prices. Welcome aboard, Sam Walsh.
Other top-trending tickers include Whole Foods /quotes/zigman/80039 /quotes/nls/wfm WFM , with its stock tanking after the haughty grocer's disappointing results, and electronics retailer Best Buy /quotes/zigman/219712 /quotes/nls/bby BBY , whose founder may scrap his buyout bid.
The chart of the day: Home prices, inflation-adjusted, are back where they were in 1894, as this chart shows. "Even Bob Shiller prefers the potential for 4% gains in stocks over housing risk in the medium-term," Zero Hedge writes. We gave Shiller a shout out in this blog last week for his suggestion that it might be smarter to rent.
Read about how "underwater homes remain a dark spot in the recovery."
The call of the day: Sell Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL and buy Amazon /quotes/zigman/63011 /quotes/nls/amzn AMZN . That's the takeaway from the latest post on the CrackedMarket blog.
"AMZN is AAPL's mirror twin," the author, Jani Ziedins, pointed out in the evening update. "Everyone who likes AAPL already owns it, meaning there are few new buyers left. If someone isn't interested at an obscene valuation, they probably won't be impressed with a doubly-obscene valuation either." Then, on the flip side, "everyone hates AMZN" and the stock "isn't done humiliating the bears" just yet.
Random reads: Go ahead and drop your friends on Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609 /quotes/nls/fb FB , avoid Twitter and quit LinkedIn /quotes/zigman/5131883 /quotes/nls/lnkd LNKD . Doesn't matter, you'll still be mapped out in the global social network and, according to Felix Salmon, "people are going to make money from your social connections whether you like it or not."
Are guns making South Africa safer? Sadly, not for this Olympian's girlfriend. Check out this infographic from Wired.com, which makes the case: "If you want to stop gun violence, start with the bullets." Does this tweet qualify as too soon?
Can you drive a Bronco with blade legs?
— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) February 14, 2013
"Have you ever noticed how Jason goes after young couples making out?" If you're single, might be a good night to catch a slasher flick. Or one of these other 11 things, just don't wear pink. If you're not single, make sure you don't buy your lady "the bastardized American version of chocolate" or "super-market grade flowers."
Oh, and if you're an Icelander who typically gets his (or her) Valentine's jollies via cyberspace, enjoy it while you can. Because if radical new proposals go through, your country could become the first Western democracy to block all internet porn.
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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Downing to assess options in January
Liverpool winger Stewart Downing admits he will consider his options when the transfer window re-opens next month after claiming manager Brendan Rodgers has told him he can leave.
The England international has struggled to find a place in the first team all season and has found himself filling in at left-back on occasions.
Downing has been involved more in recent weeks, starting five of the last six matches in all competitions, but is not happy to play a bit-part role in the future.
"The manager has said I can leave if I want to," the 28-year-old said in a frank interview with Liverpool's matchday programme ahead of Saturday's visit of former club Aston Villa.
"But then all of a sudden I've come back into the team, it's a strange situation.
"I've played for a long time and there are spells when you can be in and out of the side.
"At the minute I'm trying to play as many games as possible.
"If that doesn't happen I'm at an age where I can't be sat around. I need to play and the manager understands that.
"That's how the situation is and we'll have to see what happens in January or the summer."


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An experiment in going from a bad mood to a better one.
The bottom left was the original image, what came through when I started drawing. I decided to deliberately turn the image "upward," up and out of depression and self-absorption. Although I've had problems with the facial topography, so to speak, it's interesting how the face wound up evolving over time, with occasional changes made over the course of about a year. (I think going from mouse to graphics tablet helped, too, but never mind that....) I don't think the evolution is finished yet, either: God is infinite, and hence so is potential.
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==Kirchhoff's Current Law==
Electrical components are connected together by nodes in the total [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network network] of elements. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff's_circuit_laws Kirchhoff's Current Law] states that the sum of the currents entering a node must equal the sum of the currents leaving a node. This law is a consequence of the conservation of charge in electrical networks.
Electrical components are connected together by nodesin the total [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network network] of elements. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff's_circuit_laws Kirchhoff's Current Law] states that the sum of the currents entering a node must equal the sum of the currents leaving a node. This law is a consequence of the conservation of charge in electrical networks.
==Button LED Example==
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Electrical Network
An interconnection of electrical elements that contains a closed loop is an electrical circuit. The closed loop allows electrons to flow through the electrical elements. We now explain how to analyze simple electrical circuits in terms of voltage, current, and resistance.
Current, Voltage, Resistance
Current describes the quantity of electrons passing through a point in a circuit at a given instant in time. Current is measured in Amperes (Amps, A).
Voltage describes the potential difference in electrical charge between two points in an electrical circuit. Voltage (also known as electric potential) is measured in Volts (V).
Resistance (a special case of Impedance) describes the capacity of a circuit element to resist or impede the flow of electrons in the circuit. Resistance in measured in Ohms.
A common analogy may be used to relate these three quantities to water flow in pipes in place of electrons in wires. Imagine you have two water tanks connected from the bottoms by a pipe (such as the drain of a double sink). If one tank is full of water and the other one nearly empty we know intuitively that the water in the full tank will flow through the pipe into the nearly empty tank.
The water in the full tank near the drain pipe is under pressure caused by gravity acting on the water above it in the tank. The difference in pressure between the water at the bottom of the full tank and the bottom of the only slightly full tank is analogous to the voltage V between poles of a battery. Recall that voltage is always measured with respect to two distinct point in a circuit. In the case of a battery there is an excess of electrons present at the negative pole which are attracted to the electron holes at the positive pole with a potential or voltage determined by the chemical and physical properties of the battery.
Current I is analogous to the quantity of water flowing through a pipe at a given moment in time. Actually for the analogy to hold rigorously, the pipe needs to be filled with some sort of material like cotton or batting that resists the flow of water.
Q: Would the voltage be different if we made the full tank taller and skinnier?
Q: Would the voltage change if we increased the amount of water in the full tank?
Q: What happens if we open the pipe between the two tanks and let water flow?
So what governs the flow rate I right after the pipe is opened? The diameter of the pipe. The larger the pipe the less resistance there is to the water flow (or current I). Placing a resistor in an electric circuit has the same effect as reducing the water pipe's cross-sectional area. The amount of flow I is not fixed, but given the same water pressure V (or Voltage), the smaller the constriction the less flow occurs. Increasing the water pressure can counteract the reduction in flow. You can think of a battery as a pair of tanks, one full extra electrons and one empty to which extra electrons are attracted. (does adding constrictions hold in water as for electricity?) .... Ohm's Law ...
Ohm's Law
V = IR Ohm's Law states that Voltage = Current x Resistance or V = IR. The equation can be rearranged to find any one of the three quantities given the other two.
Consider the following circuit:
The voltage in the circuit is given (10V from the battery) and the resistance is also given as the 100 ohm resistor is the only resistive element in the circuit. So we can compute the current in the circuit as: I = V/R = 10V / 100 Ohms = 0.1 Amps or 100 milli-Amps.
Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
In order to be able to analyze more complicated circuits, we need to introduce two more circuit concepts. The first is known as Kirchhoff's Voltage Law. It is usually stated as, "The sum of the voltages around any closed circuit must be zero." An important consequence is that the voltage across each branch in a circuit is the same. This explains why the voltages across the battery and across the resistor in the above circuit are the same.
Kirchhoff's Current Law
Electrical components are connected together by nodes in the total network of elements. Kirchhoff's Current Law states that the sum of the currents entering a node must equal the sum of the currents leaving a node. This law is a consequence of the conservation of charge (electrons) in electrical networks.
Button LED Example
The following circuit diagram show the most basic LED (Light Emitting Diode) circuit:
Diodes are from the family of semiconductors. Unlike a resistors, diodes always have a fixed voltage drop in a circuit. A diode passes current in only one direction, a very useful property for protecting circuits from incorrect current flow. The arrow in the diode symbol points in the direction that current flows, so normally you would place a diode in your circuit with the arrow pointing to a ground. Therefore once we know the current passing through the resistor in this circuit we also know the current passing through the LED. The brightness of an LED is proportional to the amount of current passing through it. How would you make the LED shine brighter? less brightly?
Now consider the following circuit which adds a button:
The button simply interrupts or re-connects the flow of current through the circuit lighting or extinguishing the LED in the process.


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UPDATE: Apple Insider points out this could also refer to an AT&T network upgrade to 3.5G HSPDA+ type cell speeds. Or maybe both?
New iPhone hardware rumors are coming our way fast and furiously now, what with new device numbers, OLED screens, and... faster Internet speeds?
That's what Silicone Alley Insider is saying:
our source has heard rumors that the next iPhone will have a significantly faster Internet connection.
What does that mean exactly? Our bet is on those new 802.11n mobile chipsets we heard about a while back. Pretty much everything else in Apple's arsenal is now 802.11n fast, and even given those fancy new Airport Extreme and Time Capsules, faster would be better...
So again, how's that picture of the next generation iPhone shaping up for you?


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AndyDufresne should have wrote:
The Final Forge period has concluded for the Fight for Alexander III's Empire map. All objections have had their time. The Foundry and I hereby brand this map with the Foundry Brand. Let it be known that this map is now ready for live play (barring any Lack vetoes).
Conquer Club, enjoy!
Test results:
Warning: Country Aegean Sea does not appear in any continent
Warning: Country Mediterranean Sea does not appear in any continent
Warning: Country Caspian Sea does not appear in any continent
Summary: 3 warnings and 0 errors detected
darkmagus wrote:Marvaddin wrote:I wouldnt mention it, I thought someone would do it, but...
Well, Bizantium is written Byzanitium in the map, both small and large.
should of course be Byzantion..
anything but Greek is an anachronism
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2011: Saw action in 5 matches as a freshman.
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