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In the maintenance of mass storage device used to store files into the smallest number of contiguous regions (fragments). It also attempts to create larger regions of free space using compaction to impede the return of fragmentation. Some defragmentation utilities try to keep smaller files within a single directory together, as they are often accessed in sequence.
Defragmentation is advantageous and relevant to file systems on electromechanical disk drives. The movement of the hard drive's read/write heads over different areas of the disk when accessing fragmented files is slower, compared to accessing the entire contents of a non-fragmented file sequentially without moving the read/write heads to seek other fragments.
Causes of fragmentation 1
- Example 1.1
Common countermeasures 2
- Partitioning 2.1
- Offline defragmentation 3
User and performance issues 4
- Flash memory vs conventional hard disks 4.1
- Windows System Restore points may be deleted during defragmenting/optimizing 4.2
- Defragmenting and optimizing 5
- Approach and defragmenters by file-system type 6
- See also 7
- References 8
- Sources 9
- External links 10
Causes of fragmentation
Fragmentation occurs when the file system cannot or will not allocate enough contiguous space to store a complete file as a unit, but instead puts parts of it in gaps between existing files (usually those gaps exist because they formerly held a file that the operating system has subsequently deleted or because the file system allocated excess space for the file in the first place). Larger files and greater numbers of files also contribute to fragmentation and consequent performance loss. Defragmentation attempts to alleviate these problems.
Consider the following scenario, as shown by the image on the right:
An otherwise blank disk has five files, A through E, each using 10 blocks of space (for this section, a block is an allocation unit of the filesystem; the block size is set when the disk is formatted and can be any size supported by the filesystem). On a blank disk, all of these files would be allocated one after the other (see example 1 in the image). If file B were to be deleted, there would be two options: mark the space for file B as empty to be used again later, or move all the files after B so that the empty space is at the end. Since moving the files could be time consuming if there were many files which need to be moved, usually the empty space is simply left there, marked in a table as available for new files (see example 2 in the image).[1] When a new file, F, is allocated requiring 6 blocks of space, it could be placed into the first 6 blocks of the space that formerly held file B, and the 4 blocks following it will remain available (see example 3 in the image). If another new file, G, is added and needs only 4 blocks, it could then occupy the space after F and before C (example 4 in the image). However, if file F needs to be expanded, there are three options, since the space immediately following it is no longer available:
- Move the file F to where it can be created as one contiguous file of the new, larger size. This would not be possible if the file is larger than the largest contiguous space available. The file could also be so large that the operation would take an undesirably long period of time.
- Move all the files after F until one opens enough space to make it contiguous again. Same problem as in the previous example, if there are a small number of files or not much data to move, it's not a big problem. If there are thousands, or tens of thousands, there isn't enough time to move all those files.
- Add a new block somewhere else, and indicate that F has a second extent (see example 5 in the image). Repeat this hundreds of times and the filesystem will have a number of small free segments scattered in many places, and some files will have multiple extents. When a file has many extents like this, access time for that file may become excessively long because of all the random seeking the disk will have to do when reading it.
Additionally, the concept of "fragmentation" is not only limited to individual files that have multiple extents on the disk. For instance, a group of files normally read in a particular sequence (like files accessed by a program when it is loading, which can include certain DLLs, various resource files, the audio/visual media files in a game) can be considered fragmented if they are not in sequential load-order on the disk, even if these individual files are not fragmented; the read/write heads will have to seek these (defragmented) files randomly to access them in sequence. Some groups of files may have been originally installed in the correct sequence, but drift apart with time as certain files within the group are deleted. Updates are a common cause of this, because in order to update a file, most updaters usually delete the old file first, and then write a new, updated one in its place. However, most filesystems do not write the new file in the same physical place on the disk. This allows unrelated files to fill in the empty spaces left behind. In Windows, a good defragmenter will read the Prefetch files to identify as many of these file groups as possible and place the files within them in access sequence. Another frequently good assumption is that files in any given folder are related to each other and might be accessed together.
To defragment a disk, defragmentation software (also known as a "defragmenter") can only move files around within the free space available. This is an intensive operation and cannot be performed on a filesystem with little or no free space. During defragmentation, system performance will be degraded, and it is best to leave the computer alone during the process so that the defragmenter does not get confused by unexpected changes to the filesystem. Depending on the algorithm used it may or may not be advantageous to perform multiple passes. The reorganization involved in defragmentation does not change logical location of the files (defined as their location within the directory structure).
Common countermeasures
A common strategy to optimize defragmentation and to reduce the impact of fragmentation is to partition the hard disk(s) in a way that separates partitions of the file system that experience many more reads than writes from the more volatile zones where files are created and deleted frequently. The directories that contain the users' profiles are modified constantly (especially with the Temp directory and web browser cache creating thousands of files that are deleted in a few days). If files from user profiles are held on a dedicated partition (as is commonly done on UNIX recommended files systems, where it is typically stored in the /var partition), the defragmenter runs better since it does not need to deal with all the static files from other directories. For partitions with relatively little write activity, defragmentation time greatly improves after the first defragmentation, since the defragmenter will need to defragment only a small number of new files in the future.
Offline defragmentation
The presence of immovable system files, especially a swap file, can impede defragmentation. These files can be safely moved when the operating system is not in use. For example, ntfsresize moves these files to resize an NTFS partition. The tool PageDefrag could defragment Windows system files such as the swap file and the files that store the Windows registry by running at boot time before the GUI is loaded. Since Windows Vista, the feature is not fully supported and has not been updated.
In NTFS, as files are added to the disk, the Master File Table (MFT) must grow to store the information for the new files. Every time the MFT cannot be extended due to some file being in the way, the MFT will gain a fragment. In early versions of Windows, it could not be safely defragmented while the partition was mounted, and so Microsoft wrote a hardblock in the defragmenting API. However, since Windows XP, an increasing number of defragmenters are now able to defragment the MFT, because the Windows defragmentation API has been improved and now supports that move operation.[2] Even with the improvements, the first four clusters of the MFT remain unmovable by the Windows defragmentation API, resulting in the fact that some defragmenters will store the MFT in two fragments: The first four clusters wherever they were placed when the disk was formatted, and then the rest of the MFT at the beginning of the disk (or wherever the defragmenter's strategy deems to be the best place).
User and performance issues
In a wide range of modern multi-user operating systems, an ordinary user cannot defragment the system disks since superuser (or "Administrator") access is required to move system files. Additionally, file systems such as NTFS are designed to decrease the likelihood of fragmentation.[3][4] Improvements in modern hard drives such as RAM cache, faster platter rotation speed, command queuing (SCSI/ATA TCQ or SATA NCQ), and greater data density reduce the negative impact of fragmentation on system performance to some degree, though increases in commonly used data quantities offset those benefits. However, modern systems profit enormously from the huge disk capacities currently available, since partially filled disks fragment much less than full disks,[5] and on a high-capacity HDD, the same partition occupies a smaller range of cylinders, resulting in faster seeks. However, the average access time can never be lower than a half rotation of the platters, and platter rotation (measured in rpm) is the speed characteristic of HDDs which has experienced the slowest growth over the decades (compared to data transfer rate and seek time), so minimizing the number of seeks remains beneficial in most storage-heavy applications. Defragmentation is just that: ensuring that there is at most one seek per file, counting only the seeks to non-adjacent tracks.
Flash memory vs conventional hard disks
When reading data from a conventional electromechanical hard disk drive, the disk controller must first position the head, relatively slowly, to the track where a given fragment resides, and then wait while the disk platter rotates until the fragment reaches the head. A solid-state drive (SSD) is based on flash memory with no moving parts, so random access of a file fragment on flash memory does not suffer this delay, making defragmentation to optimize access speed unnecessary. Furthermore, since flash memory can be written to only a limited number of times before it fails, defragmentation is actually detrimental (except in the mitigation of catastrophic failure).
Windows System Restore points may be deleted during defragmenting/optimizing
Running most defragmenters and optimizers can cause the Microsoft Shadow Copy service to delete some of the oldest restore points, even if the defragmenters/optimizers are built on Windows API. This is due to Shadow Copy keeping track of some movements of big files performed by the defragmenters/optimizers; when the total disk space used by shadow copies would exceed a specified threshold, older restore points are deleted until the limit is not exceeded.[6]
Defragmenting and optimizing
Besides defragmenting program files, the defragmenting tool can also reduce the time it takes to load programs and open files. For example, the Windows 9x defragmenter included the Intel Application Launch Accelerator which optimized programs on the disk by placing the defragmented program files and their dependencies next to each other, in the order of which the program loads them, to load these programs faster.[7] At the beginning of the hard drive, the outer tracks have a higher transfer rate than the inner tracks. Placing frequently accessed files onto the outer tracks increases performance.[8] Third party defragmenters, such as MyDefrag, will move frequently accessed files onto the outer tracks and defragment these files.[9]
Approach and defragmenters by file-system type
- FAT: MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 9x-systems come with a defragmentation utility called Defrag. The DOS version is a limited version of Norton SpeedDisk.[10] The version that came with Windows 9x was licensed from Symantec Corporation, and the version that came with Windows 2000 and XP is licensed from Condusiv Technologies.
- NTFS was introduced with Windows NT 3.1, but the NTFS filesystem driver did not include any defragmentation capabilities.[11] In Windows NT 4.0, defragmenting APIs were introduced that third-party tools could use to perform defragmentation tasks; however, no defragmentation software was included. In Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft included a defragmentation tool based on Diskeeper[12] that made use of the defragmentation APIs and was a snap-in for Computer Management. In Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, the tool has been greatly improved and was given a new interface with no visual diskmap and is no longer part of Computer Management.[13][14] There are also a number of free and commercial third-party defragmentation products available for Microsoft Windows.
- BSD UFS and particularly FreeBSD uses an internal reallocator that seeks to reduce fragmentation right in the moment when the information is written to disk.[15] This effectively controls system degradation after extended use.
- Linux ext2, ext3, and ext4: Much like UFS, these filesystems employ allocation techniques designed to keep fragmentation under control at all times.[16] As a result, defragmentation is not needed in the vast majority of cases.[17] ext2 uses an offline defragmenter called e2defrag, which does not work with its successor ext3. However, other programs, or filesystem-independent ones such as defragfs,[18] may be used to defragment an ext3 filesystem. ext4 is somewhat backward compatible with ext3, and thus has generally the same amount of support from defragmentation programs. Nowadays e4defrag can be used to defragment an ext4 filesystem.
- VxFS has the fsadm utility that includes defrag operations.
- JFS has the defragfs utility on IBM operating systems.[19]
- HFS Plus introduced in 1998 with Mac OS 8.1 has a number of optimizations to the allocation algorithms in an attempt to defragment files while they are being accessed without a separate defragmenter.[20]
- WAFL in NetApp's ONTAP 7.2 operating system has a command called reallocate that is designed to defragment large files.
- XFS provides an online defragmentation utility called xfs_fsr.
- SFS processes the defragmentation feature in almost completely stateless way (apart from the location it is working on), so defragmentation can be stopped and started instantly.[21]
- ADFS, the file system used by RISC OS and earlier Acorn Computers, keeps file fragmentation under control without requiring manual defragmentation.[22]
See also
- Comparison of defragmentation software
- Fragmentation (computing)
- File system fragmentation
- List of defragmentation software
- Virtual disk image
- Wear levelling, a similar technique for prolonging flash memory content
- ^ The practice of marking the now unused space of a deleted file in a table as available for later use (without erasing its contents), is why undelete programs are able to work; they recover files whose names have been deleted from the directory, but whose space has not yet been reused.
- ^ [2] msdn.microsoft.com: "The other big enhancement [in windows XP] is support for online defragmentation of the MFT and most directory and file metadata"
^ Serdar Yegulalp (18 September 2006). "Disk defragmentation: Performance-sapping bogeyman, or best practice?". SearchWindowsServer.com: Disk Defragmentation Fast Guide. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
One of the many improvements NTFS provided was a reduced propensity for fragmentation.
^ Darcy, Jeff (19 April 2002). "Filesystem Fragmentation". Canned Platypus.
UNIX filesystems tend to do a lot to prevent fragmentation and generally reduce head motion - preallocation, cylinder groups, blah blah blah - but it does still occur and most filesystems don't actually do all that much to undo it once it exists.
- ^ Serdar Yegulalp (20 September 2005). "New hard disk drives reduce need for disk defragmentation". SearchWindowsServer.com: Disk Defragmentation Fast Guide. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
- ^ Jeroen Kessels (21 May 2010). "FAQ Using - Why do I have more diskspace after running MyDefrag?". Retrieved 2010-10-11.
- ^ Cwdixon.com. Cwdixon.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-28.
- ^ The Ultimate Defragger - LaRud's Place. Larud.net (2012-01-19). Retrieved on 2013-07-28.
- ^ http://www.mydefrag.com/index.html On most harddisks the beginning of the harddisk is considerably faster than the end, sometimes by as much as 200 percent! You can measure this yourself with utilities such as HD Tune. MyDefrag is therefore geared towards moving all files to the beginning of the disk.
- ^ Norton, Peter (October 1994). Peter Norton's Complete Guide to DOS 6.22. Sams. p. 521.
- ^ M. Kozierok, Charles (2001-04-17). "NTFS Versions". PC Guide. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
- ^ Third-party disk defragmenter tools for Windows. Support.microsoft.com (2011-08-23). Retrieved on 2013-07-28.
- ^ "Disk Defragmentation – Background and Engineering the Windows 7 Improvements". Retrieved 2014-06-15.
- ^ "New Defrag options in Windows 8". Retrieved 2014-06-15.
- ^ "FreeBSD Man Pages". The FreeBSD Project. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ "HTG Explains: Why Linux Doesn't Need Defragmenting". How-To Geek. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
- ^ 5.10. Filesystems. Tldp.org (2002-11-09). Retrieved on 2013-06-22.
- ^ Erik Bärwaldt: Optimizing data organization on disk
- ^ "Journaling File System Support". eComStation. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
^ "Fragmentation in HFS Plus Volumes".
As we have seen, an HFS+ volume seems to resist fragmentation rather well on Mac OS X 10.3.x, and I don't envision fragmentation to be a problem bad enough to require proactive remedies (such as a defragmenting tool).
- ^ "Detecting a file fragmentation point for reconstructing fragmented files using sequential hypothesis testing". US8407192 B2. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ Reeves, Nick (26 October 1990). "E format design document". Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- Norton, Peter (1994) Peter Norton's Complete Guide to DOS 6.22, page 521 – Sams (ISBN 067230614X)
- Woody Leonhard, Justin Leonhard (2005) Windows XP Timesaving Techniques For Dummies, Second Edition page 456 – For Dummies (ISBN 0-764578-839).
- Jensen, Craig (1994). Fragmentation: The Condition, the Cause, the Cure. Executive Software International (ISBN 0-9640049-0-9).
- Dave Kleiman, Laura Hunter, Mahesh Satyanarayana, Kimon Andreou, Nancy G Altholz, Lawrence Abrams, Darren Windham, Tony Bradley and Brian Barber (2006) Winternals: Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide – Syngress (ISBN 1-597490-792)
- Robb, Drew (2003) Server Disk Management in a Windows Environment Chapter 7 – AUERBACH (ISBN 0849324327)
External links
- The Big Windows 7 Defragmenter Test Benchmarks of popular defrag utilities
- Microsoft Windows XP defragmentation - How to schedule a weekly defragmentation
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server defragmentation - How to schedule defragmentation
- SST Hard Disk Optimizer
- How Linux avoids making files fragmented
- How defragmentation was changed for Windows 7
- Complete list of Defragmentation Utilities for Windows
- Does Your SSD's File System Affect Performance?


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Guest commentary: Since Google+ launched in June of this year, two questions have been on everyone's mind in the digital community: 1) Can it become a huge success for Google? And 2) Can I use it to make huge success for me?
Much has been written about the first question; but very little about the second.
And so, because we're obsessive about knowing the social Web, my colleagues and I at Wetpaint have looked long and hard at the second (and unanswered) question.
After a good deal of analysis, I can report that the answer for us as a media company (so far, at least) is "no."
Here's what we've found:
The lights are on, but no one is home
Google has been quick to point out that 40 million users have "signed up" for Google+. That's because the product is deeply bolted onto every product inside the Google empire, including Gmail, and they did a nice job of making it easy to invite everyone you know.
People checked it out, but they haven't been back, and I'd bet their active user rates are in the single digits. Every time I log in, there's almost zero activity among my "circles." Even with 40 million, that pales in comparison to the reach of Facebook's worldwide audience of 800 million (200 million in the U.S.), who are far more active (500M per day!).
Users can manage one social network, and no more
Mainstream users have demonstrated that they reach saturation after managing one social network when it comes to their personal life. First, it was Friendster; then MySpace; now Facebook. People don't have the time and attention span to manage overlapping networks of friends and conversations.
It doesn't solve a consumer problem
There hasn't been a migration to Google+ because it doesn't solve a real consumer problem. Facebook has an entrenched audience with deeply embedded habits.
In order for a migration to take place, Google+ needs to do something massively new that addresses a consumer pain point (which it doesn't – at least not yet), or Facebook needs to make a massive blunder that drives people away (for example, around privacy, which I don't think most users really care about). Overcoming this is even harder for Google, largely because it's viewed by most as a utility, not a place to facilitate stronger online connections / community.
That said, there are a few things I'll be watching as Google+ moves ahead in the short term:
The people who are using Google+ now (the single digits mentioned above) are industry influencers / luminaries / connectors. They're using it as a less restricted version of Twitter, because Google+ can share longer, deeper messages than 140 characters will allow. I'll be curious to see if there's a migration of these folks from Twitter to Google+. I tend to doubt it, however.
Business pages:
Google has encouraged businesses and brands to sit on the sidelines until they release business pages as part of Google+ later this year. These are akin to "fan pages" on Facebook. If these solve a new consumer problem, then they could trigger some migration. But, again, I attach low odds to this possibility.
Search impact:
The most convincing argument for embracing Google+ is its potential impact on search. It's too early to say, but there is speculation that Google will tune its search algorithms to overweight those who "perform" well with Google+.
For example, if a brand gets lots of +1's (Google's version of the "like" button), then that brand's share of search volume could be dramatically increased to encourage broader adoption of content providers. This is something I'll be evaluating after business pages launch, which should take place before the end of the year.
There is no question that the crew at Google is brilliant. And they will clearly be looking to improve their service for consumers and make it relevant as a premier social operating system for the Web.
But what I will be watching is whether they can solve these core issues to make it a must-have for consumers. And, if they do, then it will become a must-have for publishers as well.
Ben Elowitz is co-founder and CEO of next-generation web publisher Wetpaint, and author of the Digital Quarters blog about the future of digital media. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile.
Previously on GeekWire: Ben Elowitz, Wetpaint CEO, on building a new type of media company

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September saw the start of the pilot phase of a public gigabit Wi-Fi access point on the famous Fan Mile in Berlin, Germany. HUBER+SUHNER is providing Wi-Fi antennas and coaxial cables, thus playing its part in enabling users in the area to surf, chat and stream for free for 30 minutes.
During the Small Satellites conference, the discussion will be around the technical issues, development considerations, and new opportunities that result from an ever-growing trend toward missions using tens, hundreds, or even thousands of small satellites.
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SciCafe: Art/Sci Collision: Raising Ocean Conservation Awareness main content.
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National Geographic explorer Tierney Thys divides her time between research on the giant ocean sunfish and making science education films. In this podcast, join Ms. Thys in a discussion about how science and art can be used to promote the ocean conservation movement.
The SciCafe, "Art/Sci Collision: Raising Ocean Conservation Awareness," was introduced by Melanie Stiassny, Axelrod Research Curator in the Museum's Department of Ichthyology. The event took place at the Museum on January 2, 2013.


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Well, in the last 13 years I've learned that Hasbro is incredibly stubborn and will do stuff we both like and dislike. Even if the backlash is extremely negative (Saga Legends, etc.) Hasbro will still go through with their plans, so I figured the IJ line was safe. But when they stated in the Q&A that Marcus Brody was very unlikely to be made, I knew it was over. I figured Hasbro would at least still be able to keep a small section of stock in the toy aisles but this line is pretty much dead now that Hasbro seems to be losing support. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I think I'm going to order a case of TOD and Raiders 09 figures online, hell maybe even TLC since I won't ever see any more of them.
I talked to a TRU employee recently. He said the Indy stuff was selling really quickly for about a week and half. Now it just sits and sits. However, the star wars stuff still sells really well.
weren't they saying they had planned another ToD wave centered around Club Obi-Wan?
The lame battle packs aren't going to help matters either. If they had at least put some variants or re-paints in there, some of us might have been tempted to make a purchase, but as it stands now, there's no point to these things unless you have still YET to grab all of the figures in the set.
Well ia m very upset over the news that we are no longer getting the Ark ghost (confirmed with this weeks Q&A's). I think its another bad sign for the line.
Quote from: evenflow on August 16, 2008, 12:32 AMWell ia m very upset over the news that we are no longer getting the Ark ghost (confirmed with this weeks Q&A's). I think its another bad sign for the line. Damn! Got a link?
Hasbro: The Indiana Jones line is without question considered a success, given that Indiana Jones has never previously been a successfully merchandised toy line. However, for a line to be ongoing, we have to have an audience (both kids and collectors) who are interested in continuing to collect the line. We know that IJ does not have a collector base similar to some of the bigger brands (like Star Wars), which places more of a burden relatively on kids to shoulder the load. So far, kids' interest has been somewhat 1-dimensional, showing an appreciation for relatively few figures (Indy and Mutt primarily). We expect that there will be a huge up swell in kid interest in IJ figures during the TV and holiday times, but exactly how long afterward, and how deeply they support the lines are still to be decided.
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SKY REPORTER: May 2011
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Sunday May 1st the Sun is within boundaries of the constellation Aries. In New York City that morning civil twilight begins at 5:25 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, followed by sunrise at 5:55. The following evening sunset is at 7:52, and civil twilight concludes when the Sun is six degrees of arc beneath the horizon at 8:21 p.m.
On the last day of the month, civil twilight begins at 4:55 a.m. with Sunrise arriving at 5:27. The Sun sets that evening at 8:20, followed by the end of civil twilight at 8:52 p.m. The Sun's direction then is within boundaries of the constellation Taurus. During May times between sunrise and sunset each day increase by 56 minutes.
Primary lunar phases this month are: New Moon, Tuesday May 3rd at 2:51 a.m.; First Quarter, Tuesday the 10th at 4:33 p.m.; Full Moon, Tuesday May 17th at 7:09 a.m.; and Last Quarter, at 2:52 p.m. Tuesday May 24th.
This month average overnight temperatures recorded near lovely Belvedere Castle across Central Park West from the American Museum of Natural History, rise from 49 degrees Fahrenheit on the first of May to 59 degrees on the 31th.
During May the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are located near each other in the predawn sky, offering an alluring arrangement of lights. Venus and Jupiter present their usual bright aspects, but binoculars are needed to spot Mercury and Mars against the glow of morning twilight. A clear view towards the eastern horizon is needed to see this unusual planetary grouping. Such configurations are beautiful can be fine subjects for photography provided you use a tripod and have some control over exposure times.
On May 1st Venus rises at 4:53 a.m. and by 5:30 in brightening twilight, it reaches an altitude of 6 1/2 degrees of arc, about ten degrees to the right of a thin waning crescent moon. (Remember your fist, seen with an arm fully extended, has an angular length of about ten degrees of arc.) These mornings, along a slanting line downwards to the left of Venus are: Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter. At 5:30 a.m. May 1st, Jupiter is only about two and a half degrees of arc above the horizon and has a magnitude of minus two. Venus is at magnitude minus 3.9. Mars, with a magnitude of 1.25 is less than a moon diameter to the upper left of Jupiter, and Mercury's magnitude is 0.90. The visual magnitudes of both Venus and Jupiter exceed that of any star in the night sky, and the current brightness of Mercury and Mars are comparable to first magnitude stars such as Spica and Deneb. However, due to lack of contrast in brightening pre-dawn conditions, the planets are not nearly as vivid as they would be if viewed in a darker sky.
This early morning assembly of four planets continues in the eastern sky throughout May. A half hour before sunrise Tuesday May 31st a waning crescent moon will again be low in the eastern sky, with Venus about five degrees to its right, elusive Mercury just a degree and a half above the horizon and below the moon. Mars is four degrees to the upper right of Venus, and Jupiter 16 degrees to the upper right of Mars.
If the sky is clear on the evenings of May 3rd and May 5th, observers in the New York Metropolitan area should have fine opportunities to view the International Space Station pass nearly directly overhead.
On Tuesday evening May 3rd the Space Station is expected to become visible to observers, in the New York area with a clear view of the sky, low in the northwest at 9:09 p.m. The craft will look like a single bright star moving slowly from northwest toward the zenith as it gradually brightens to magnitude minus 3.7 (nearly as bright as Venus!) Due to local obstructions, you may not have a sight line to the craft for a minute or two, until it is closer to the zenith. The craft will be at a point almost directly overhead at an altitude of 218 miles at 45 seconds past 9:11 p.m. Thereafter the space craft will gradually fade in brightness as it moves toward the southeast. At about 52 seconds past 9:12 p.m., the Space Station will suddenly disappear from view as it enters Earth's shadow at a location in the sky near Saturn and the first magnitude star Spica.
Accurate timing is critical. Even a phone's clock may be off by a minute of two. Obtain excellent timing accuracy by referring to the U.S. Naval Observatory's Master Clock.
Tuesday May 4th, a thin crescent moon may be seen as evening twilight fades. At about 8:30 p.m. the lunar crescent is located ten degrees above the western horizon about half way between the Pleiades open star cluster and first magnitude Aldebaran, brightest star in the constellation Taurus.
Another good opportunity to see the Space Station (and the Space Shuttle Endeavor if it is launched on Monday May 2nd) will be the evening of Thursday May 5th if the sky is clear. Moving from the northwest to a point nearly overhead, then toward the southeast, times for the crafts' visibility are: low in the northwest at 8:22 p.m., near zenith passage at 50 seconds past 8:24, then the Station will disappear low in the southeast at about 8:28 p.m.
Additional predictions and charts showing Space Station visibility from the New York area may be found on Heavens Above. Data for other locations are also available.
During the evening of Mother's Day Sunday May 8th the waxing crescent moon is about ten degrees south of Pollux, slightly brighter than its neighbor Castor. They mark the heads of Gemini, the celestial twins of Hellenic mythology.
May 10th and 11th, the moon is near Regulus, a first magnitude star that is the brightest in the constellation Leo.
The waxing gibbous moon is in the constellation Virgo Friday May 13th and Saturday May14th. It then forms a triangle with Saturn and the first magnitude star Spica.
The Full Moon of Tuesday May 17th at 7:09 a.m. is traditionally called the Full Flower Moon or Corn Planting Moon. That evening moonrise is at 8:48 p.m. in New York City. That night the moon is less than five degrees of arc from red giant Antares, brightest star in Scorpius. Although red is the most intense visual color produced by this star, the blend of all its emitted colors makes it appear beige to the eye. Therefore, when you see Antares, don't expect it to look "stop sign" red!
During the early morning hours of Sunday May 29th, the waning moon is less than five degrees of arc from bright Jupiter, currently near the border between the constellations Aries and Pisces.
At five a.m. Saturday May 30th, a narrow waning crescent moon is again near an interesting configuration of Venus, Jupiter, and Mars. Mercury is then lest than two degrees above the horizon and very difficult to see in the brightening sky.
At the start of May the brilliant star Arcturus is high in the east as twilight fades and this month it progresses towards the meridian, the sky's center stage. Among stars visible from the latitude of New York City, Arcturus is second only to Sirius in apparent brightness. From late spring through early autumn Arcturus, in the constellation Bootes, is the most brilliant stellar feature of the evening sky. The visual prominence of Arcturus allows it to be seen even from the center of town, as long as no artificial lights shine directly into our eyes. During evenings of May with the help of binoculars, or away from urban centers with unaided eyes, the second magnitude stars of the Big Dipper may be seen high in the northern sky. This, the most famous of star patterns, may then be used to visually link several features of the spring sky. As you trace the Dipper, note how its handle curves. That enables us to extend the handle's arc, indicating a line toward Arcturus. Continuing the imaginary curve further south leads eyes to first magnitude Spica, brightest star in Virgo.
Another use of the Big Dipper's shape is to imagine its bowl filled with water. If a hole were punched in the bottom of the bowl, the water would flow onto the back of Leo the Lion. However, during evenings of May the Big Dipper is seen apparently "upside down" in the northern sky. Therefore we need to use extra imagination to visualize water flowing from the bottom of its bowl toward the zenith, then "down" in the direction of the constellation Leo, in the southern sky.
The striking pattern of Big Dipper stars, the "Arc to Arcturus," and subsequent "Speeding to Spica" may be easier to trace if you can recline while observing stars around the zenith. If you are looking up from heavily illuminated parts of the city, remember that use of binoculars make it easier to locate many stars invisible to unaided eyes. With field glasses it is rather easy to outline stars of the Big Dipper, even from the center of Manhattan (As long as you don't include bright terrestrial lights in your binocular's field of view).
If you have exceptionally keen vision, you may notice a star located at the bend of the Big Dipper's handle has a very close faint neighbor. Binoculars will make this pair clearly visible. The brighter member is named Mizar and the fainter component is Alcor. If you have a telescope available you may notice Mizar itself is a double star. The components of this telescopic pair, Mizar A, a second magnitude star and Mizar B at magnitude 4, are 76 light years from Earth. They stars have a separation of 15 seconds of arc; equal to about 1/3 the apparent diameter of Jupiter as seen from Earth.
Constellations of spring evenings are in general not as spectacular as those of winter such as Orion and Taurus. This is because during evenings of spring the region of the Milky Way Galaxy's northern pole is near the center of our sky. It is a region with far fewer visible stars especially those that are bright and young. During winter we face a relatively nearby region of star formation, having many bright young stars, centered in and near Orion.
Along with its absence of many brilliant stars, spring evenings also lack an abundance of interstellar dust and gas clouds. Such nebulae and the bright stars they spawn are more typical of the Galaxy's disk, the section of the Milky Way most visible in the middle of our sky during winter and summer evenings. This dearth of interstellar dust around the Galactic Poles allows us a less obstructed view outward to beyond the Milky Way's confines, toward distant realms of intergalactic space. Therefore sky regions surrounding the north Galactic Pole are areas where distant systems of galaxies may be well observed. The pole of the Galaxy is within boundaries of the faint constellation Coma Berenices, west of Arcturus, about half way between the Big Dipper's Bowl and Spica.
As noted above, Arcturus is a star of considerable brightness, seemingly contrary to an absence of other bright spring stars. Arcturus is however not an actual member of the disk's stellar population. It is currently just passing through that disk and is moving contrary to the general orbital flow of the Sun and most other neighboring stars. It may be that Arcturus, currently 37 light years from the Sun, is a former member of a small galaxy that long ago, perhaps before the formation of our Solar System 4 1/2 billion years ago, was attracted to the Milky Way, then torn apart as its stars joined with those of the much larger Galaxy host.


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After nearly two hours of impassioned debate, House lawmakers passed S.184 on a vote of 138-3. It was scheduled for a final vote Friday and then must pass the Senate.
Last Thursday on the floor of the House, state representatives debated what Rep. Willem Jewett, D-Ripton, would later call "one of the most important legislative issues this year" on an issue that has not received a lot of attention: bias-free policing.
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Denver, Colorado — Just hours from the first televised debate, the "spin room" is filling up fast at the University of Denver, as politicians and campaign pundits from both sides arrive to elbow their way on the air and offer their last bits of wisdom.
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Peach and Spinach Summer Salad Wrap Recipe
Temperatures are set to hit high numbers these days so to keep the house cool I've tried not to spend too much time behind the stove or use the oven too much. My go-to meal in this situation is fast, casual eating that requires minimal preparation and almost no cooking. My solution this weekend is to make summer salad wraps.
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Muhammara and Cucumber Bites (Healthy Appetizer Recipe)
I created these irresistible appetizers for the California Lavash team a while back. It was their idea to combine muhammara (walnuts, charred red bell pepper, fresh pomegranate seeds and mint flavored spread), cucumber, dill, mint and cilantro in their fabulous, healthful lavash flatbread.
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People who naturally control HIV long-term without antiretroviral drugs -- estimated at about one in 300 people infected with the virus -- have a distinct pattern of amino acid variations in genes encoding HLA proteins, which enable the immune system to recognize and respond to invading pathogens and virus-infected cells.
As reported in the November 4, 2010, advance online edition of Science, investigators with the International HIV Controllers Study performed a genome-wide association analysis that included nearly 1,000 HIV controllers and 2,600 people with normal progressive HIV disease. The researchers identified several specific amino acid substitutions in the HLA-B peptide binding groove that were associated with protection against disease progression.
These results, the researchers suggested, imply that the interaction between HLA and viral peptides is a key to durable control of HIV. "We found that, of the three billion nucleotides in the human genome, just a handful make the difference between those who can stay healthy in spite of HIV infection and those who, without treatment, will develop AIDS," said Bruce Walker from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard. "Understanding where this difference occurs allows us to sharpen the focus of our efforts to ultimately harness the immune system to defend against HIV."
"HIV is slowly revealing its secrets, and this is yet another," he continued. "Knowing how an effective immune response against HIV is generated is an important step toward replicating that response with a vaccine. We have a long way to go before translating this into a treatment for infected patients and a vaccine to prevent infection, but we are an important step closer."
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"Damage Control"? Fox Still Pushing Its Discredited Take On Obama And Small Business
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Fox News is characterizing President Obama's response to the Fox-manufactured "you didn't build that" controversy as "damage control." This comes after Fox promoted its deceptively edited clip for days -- and after independent fact-checkers have discredited attacks on Obama based on the deceptive editing.
Fox Claims Obama Campaign In "Damage Control" Mode
On-Screen Text: "Obama Campaign Steps Up Damage Control Over 'You Didn't Build That' Remark." During the July 26 edition of Fox News' America Live, host Megyn Kelly reported that President Obama's campaign released an ad responding to Mitt Romney's distortion of Obama's "you didn't build that" comments. On-screen text during the segment read: "Obama Campaign Steps Up Damage Control Over 'You Didn't Build That' Remark.'"
[Fox News, America Live, 7/26/12]
Fox's Kelly Suggests That "The Damage" From Obama's Comments "May Be Lasting." During her report on Obama's response to attacks over his "you didn't build that" remarks, Kelly suggested that "the damage" from Obama's comments "may be lasting," citing a poll showing Obama's approval rating among business owners. From America Live:
KELLY: It has been two weeks since the president made the now-infamous "you didn't build that" remarks, but the damage may be lasting. A new Gallup poll shows that nearly 60 percent of American business owners now disapprove of the president's job performance. Just 35 percent approve. To counter the new GOP war cry "we did build it," team Obama just released a new television ad featuring the president himself, in which he dismisses the attacks against him, accusing his opponent of slicing and dicing his comments. [Fox News, America Live, 7/26/12]
But Fox Has Pushed This False Narrative From The Beginning ...
- Fox & Friends Deceptively Edited Obama's Comments On Small Business. The morning show cut Obama's remarks in a way that made it seem like he was suggesting business owners didn't deserve credit for their success. In fact, Obama was noting that community support and public investment are important factors in business success. [Media Matters, 7/16/12]
- The Following Day, Mitt Romney Repeated Fox's Distortion. [Media Matters, 7/17/12]
- In The First Two Days Of Pushing The Story, Fox Spent More Than Two Hours Of Airtime Promoting The Falsehood. Coverage of the story ran on both Fox's "news" shows and its opinion programming. [Media Matters, 7/18/12]
- On Day 3, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch Endorsed The Falsehood On Twitter. In a tweet, Murdoch wrote "Yesterday Obama went off script, showed real self ie government omnipotent, individuals secondary. Must be big damage." [Media Matters, 7/19/12]
- As Part Of "The Fox Cycle," The Network Attacked Nonpartisan Journalists For Ignoring The Made-Up Story. [Media Matters, 7/19/12]
- After More Than A Week, Fox Tried To Keep The Story Alive By Suggesting Obama Was "Doubling Down" On His "Insulting" Remarks. Fox & Friends used Obama's comments that "we did not build this country on our own. We built it together" as a pretext to revive the "didn't build that" smear. [Media Matters, 7/25/12]
- On Fox News Radio, Fox's Martha MacCallum Said Obama's Comment "Shock[ed] Me" And That They Show "Some Level Of Resentment" Toward Small Business. [Media Matters, 7/25/12]
- Fox & Friends Tried To Rebut Charge That Video Was Deceptively Edited With New Deceptively Edited Video. In this video, rather than play a video clip of Obama that includes all context context, the show played an extended video that still omitted the crucial piece of context: Obama's references to teachers, "this unbelievable American system," as well as government research, roads, and bridges. [Media Matters, 7/26/12]
- Fox Hosted Karl Rove And His New Anti-Obama Attack Ad Repeating "Didn't Build That" Falsehood. Rove, cofounder of conservative super PAC American Crossroads, used a Fox appearance to promote the organization's new ad "Replay," which mimics Fox's misleading editing of Obama's remarks. [Media Matters, 7/25/12]
... Even As Independent Analyses Say The Criticism Is Bogus
Wash. Post's Kessler: "Focusing On One Ill-Phrased Sentence" Amounts To "Pretend[ing] That Obama Is Talking About Something Different." The Romney campaign released an ad that copied Fox's editing of Obama's remarks, and the candidate himself claimed Obama's remarks were akin to suggesting that "Steve Jobs didn't build Apple." The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler gave those comments three "Pinocchios." From The Washington Post:
Obama certainly could take from lessons from [Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth] Warren or [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt on how to frame this argument in a way that is less susceptible for quote-snipping. And Romney certainly could answer Obama's argument by engaging in a serious discussion about whether the wealthy should pay much more in taxes as a matter of social good and equity. That would be grounds for an elevated, interesting and important debate.
But instead, by focusing on one ill-phrased sentence, Romney and his campaign have decided to pretend that Obama is talking about something different -- and then further extrapolated it so that it becomes ridiculous. That's not very original at all. [The Washington Post, 7/23/12]
FactCheck.org: "Taking Snippets Of" Obama's Speech "Ignores The Larger Context Of The President's Meaning." A FactCheck.org analysis detailed Obama's remarks and some of the attacks coming from Republicans. From FactCheck.org:
There's no question Obama inartfully phrased those two sentences, but it's clear from the context what the president was talking about. He spoke of government -- including government-funded education, infrastructure and research -- assisting businesses to make what he called "this unbelievable American system that we have."
In summary, he said: "The point is ... that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
We don't know what the president had in mind when he uttered those words, and his intent is not clear. Regardless, our conclusion is the same: Taking snippets of his speech ignores the larger context of the president's meaning that a business owner does not become successful "on your own." [FactCheck.org, 7/23/12]
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Vergennes drug bust nets stolen Bixby artifact

 VERGENNES — Bixby Memorial Library officials held out little hope of recovering a valuable Native American spearhead when it was stolen from the organization's museum last October.

 But thanks to a vigilant public and some good police work, the spearhead has been located and is on target for return to the Bixby's museum within the next few weeks. And soon after it does, the spearhead and the rest of the museum's thousands of artifacts will be formally catalogued to give Bixby officials a more polished picture of the little-known treasure trove of historical artifacts that has reposed for generations in a non-descript, second-floor room in the historic library.

 "The Bixby Library is thrilled and impressed," library Director Jane Spencer said of the recovery of the Shoshoni ceremonial spearhead by Vergennes police. Police on July 17 cited Susan J. Curavoo, 46, of Vergennes, for possession of stolen property after executing a search warrant at her home. Vergennes police Chief George Merkel said the spearhead — around a foot long and colored black on one side, red on the other — was found safely ensconced in bubble rap. He said Curavoo is scheduled to answer to citations for possession of stolen property and possession of marijuana at the Addison County Courthouse on Aug. 27.

 It was last fall that someone unscrewed a hasp and removed a padlock to get into the glass display case that housed the spearhead. The culprit ignored other, potentially more valuable items in the same display case, Merkel noted. The spearhead is part of an expansive collection of Native American artifacts from throughout the country donated to the Bixby by the late Ernest Bilhuber, a former summer resident who was a friend of the late Lois Noonan, former longtime Bixby director.

 The thief made a clean getaway, in part due to a very trusting access policy for the museum. That policy has since been tightened, as library personnel must now supervise museum visits.

 "It is a shame that something that was open to the public… now has to be monitored because of the thoughtlessness and disrespect of someone," Merkel said.

 Months went by with no news on the spearhead. That changed earlier this month thanks to a tip, Merkel noted. That tip led to Vergennes police executing a search warrant at the Curavoo residence on July 17, Merkel said. Authorities uncovered the spearhead, along with some marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to Merkel.

 "There may be more charges pending as we continue this investigation," Merkel said.

 Bixby officials are thrilled to know the spearhead is going to be returned, and see the theft and its aftermath as an opportunity to take new stock in the entire museum collection.

 "The burglary pointed out how much we needed to do an inventory," Spencer said.

 Indeed, it is a collection oft-viewed but not well chronicled, Spencer acknowledged. Featured items include artifacts from the old Monkton Ironworks, powder horns, cannonballs, a Civil War canteen and a broken axe purportedly from the fleet of Capt. Thomas Macdonough, whose Navy forces defeated the British on Lake Champlain during the Battle of Plattsburgh, a defining U.S. victory during the War of 1812.

 There are also geological displays, including fossils, minerals and interesting rocks.

 But headlining the museum's collection is the vast array of Native American arrowheads, tomahawks, bowls, pots, moccasins, headdresses and other items from tribes who has settlements from the Northeast to Oregon.

 Spencer recently reached out to resident Aaron Robertson to appropriately enough "spearhead" an inventory of the Bixby's museum collection. While he currently works as a financial advisor with Edward Jones, Robertson is no stranger to artifacts. He was a professional archaeologist for 15 years, primarily in Alaska. Robertson also served as head of outreach for the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks.

 "I am an expert in 80 percent of their collection," Robertson said.

 Plans call for the training of several volunteers — to possibly include Vergennes Union High School students — to assist Robertson in the inventorying project. It is a process that will include measuring, weighing, photographing and briefly describing each item. This will lead to assigning a value to the museum items, some of which are suspected to be worth several thousands dollars.

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 "It is important to know what we have and to make sure to safeguard this property," Spencer said.

 Reporter John Flowers is at [email protected].


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SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. author and country-rock singer Kathi Kamen Goldmark died in San Francisco after a long battle with breast cancer, friends and family said. She was 63.
Goldmark, whom the Los Angeles Times book blog called "a beloved figure in the San Francisco literary scene," was surrounded by the likes of Maya Angelou, Amy Tan and Dave Barry during her final hours at UCSF Medical Center Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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You said that since you and Perry had not read the journal article to which I had referred in my first post on this thread, you and he had "made the assumption your were referring to skin structures which existed deeper in the epidermis."
Really? To what structures and in what stratum of the epidermis did you think I was referring. I would appreciate your answering with the technical name of the structure and stratum, please.
To assist you please refer back to my original post in which I referred to a "protein matrix that expands to absorb water and then—-unsurprisingly—–contracts to squeeze it out."
Now you acknowledge that this matrix is comprised within corneocytes within the stratum corneum. Consequently, you and Perry are making the claim that there exists at least one other protein matrix that performs this function in a lower stratum of the epidermis.
What is this structure called and where in the epidermis is it?
I reject your accusation that I am debating with you or Perry about anything and the implication that I am otherwise beating a dead horse. On the contrary, you and Perry alone are responsible for keeping this thread alive.
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I started this thread under "Temporal effectiveness of occlusive," on February 20th; Perry promptly responded the same day; I asked a few follow up questions the same day; and Perry responded again on February 21st. And that ended the thread; or so I thought.
Inexplicably, Perry resurrected this thread on February 28 under "Are you tampering with nature by moisturizing your skin? " But instead of posting our entire dialogue on February 20 and 21, he repeated only my original question and his original answer, including the assertion that "The protein matrix of which you speak is in the lower levels of the skin. " In response, I pointed out the protein matrix which controls skin hydration was comprised within corneocytes in stratum corneum.
Rather than just admitting that you and Perry were in error in asserting that the protein matrix was comprised in a lower layer of the epidermis, you claimed that you and he thought I was referring to another structure, which I regarded as implausible.
MK bottom line: I have admitted that all that I know about organic chemistry is how to spell "organic" and "chemistry." I also admitted in my February 20 rejoinder to Perry that he was the scientist and that I am zip. A responsible debate occurs between subject matter experts with the same degree of expertise. I would not dare to debate you and Perry. Still and all, I asked a few questions in good faith about the efficacy of moisturizers to two cosmetic chemists who had presumably formulated skin moisturizers and who would thereby out of necessity know something about skin hydration physiology, which clearly Perry and you know. But perhaps I presumed too much.
I am not pandering here but I do believe that you and Perry are providing an invaluable service; both of you hammer home incessantly the message that cosmetics of comparable efficacy can be purchased at 1/10th, 1/50th, if not less the cost of cosmetics with ingredients like botanicals and vitamins that essentially do little or nothing. My questions about the efficacy and possible harmful effects of occlusives were asked in line with that mission. Alas, I wonder if your message is falling on deaf ears. I should say more accurately that I SPECULATE that the vast majority of your readers have turned off the volume to that message because I have not found in their posts any evidence that your message----incessant and loud and clear----has resulted in any appreciable reduction in the amount your readers spend on cosmetics. (As soon as I found your wonderful site, I concluded that your target audience ought to be husbands and not their wives.) Like any good scientist or in my case a fan of science, all of my conclusions are tentative and provisional and subject to even radical change upon presentment of evidence---perhaps a poll?----that proves that by reading the label on cosmetics, your readers have changed their buying habits.
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In just two days, Amy Poehler will co-host the 71st annual Golden Globes. She's got an NBC show -- and a web show. A film set for Sundance. And she's executive producer of the upcoming Comedy Central bestie comedy "Broad City," which she was helping to promote Friday morning at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena.
Time-management? Pfft.
"Everybody's busy," Poehler said sincerely. Then a beat.
"I just have a series of doubles that attend various functions. I may or may not be Amy Poehler sitting here in front of you." An alternative answer to her calm-before-the-awards-storm question: "I'm heavily medicated."
Poehler's presence also inevitably led her mine her thoughts on the recent hires made by "SNL" -- Sasheer Zamata as a cast member, and Leslie Jones and LeKendra Tookes as writers -- to combat the deluge of diversity criticism the show has received.
It was a topic that Poehler seemed eager to embrace. In a U-turn from how she approached the matter during a recent Q&A, she said, without directly referring to "The Hollywood Reporter," that the Q&A had "misquoted me out of context" in seeking comment on the hire of Upright Citizens Brigade alum Zamata. With dozens of people in the room, here's hoping we all get it right:
"I've not gotten a chance to say congratulations," Poehler, an Upright Citizens Brigade founder, said Friday. "UCB is proud." She also congratulated the addition of Jones and Tookes. "It's awesome to see all those new faces on 'SNL'"
Of course, the session took time to focus on "Broad City," too. The comedy, based on the popular Web series of the same name from Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, centers on the two friends as they navigate their 20s in New York City. Go ahead, make the comparison to those other girls.
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The series, which premieres Jan. 22 at 10:30 p.m. following the network's popular "Workaholics," will boast some not-so-shabby comedy guest stars, including Fred Armisen, Janeane Garofalo, Amy Schumer, Amy Sedaris, as well as Poehler. But Poehler praised Comedy Central for being the hub of climbing talent -- Schumer, Chris Hardwick, Key & Peele, Nick Kroll, etc.


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from a blue post on the european forums, discussing patch 5.2:
"the developers are planning to let you have a chance to earn lesser charms of good fortune through pet battles. basically, if you win, you'll have a chance of receiving charms based on your pet level.
and if a player is below level 90, they'll get experience equal to defeating a yellow creature."
I'm not raiding these days, or even doing lfr, so more charms is not relevant to me. but getting xp? my army of alts would be all over that like stink on kodo droppings.


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gman, i don't think that ended up being a FF after all, it didn't look like it anyways..
Due to D/K sighting in Shau Kei Wan, I think that the Kung Fu detour is located there, maybe near the Shau Kei Wan Government School mentioned by another poster months ago. It looks like this is the background where you can see Kandice climb up the building, but I don't know the exact location of this place yet.
I'll include some Chinese signs later, but here's two I can decipher : Swindon Book Co. is at 13 Lock road, not far from the Star ferry; and "Kiss My Kids" (frame is flipped for some reason) is an educational toy store that, according to this blog, is on Nathan road. The HK yellow pages lists the address as "Shun Lee Disciplined Serv Qtrs Coml Shopping Arc, Kwun Tong," whatever that means.
I don't think there would be a NEL before a TBC because the penalty would be so drawn out then...so it's probably going to beTBCNEL ELIM
annielhy! We are glad you are here!I take it you are in Hong Kong too? You guys are doing great!Have a look around this thread --we have a lot of the street addresses posted. Is Milan station a subway stop?I'm working on a list of what we still need to figure out--so we can for sure use your help! Stick around!
FLIGHTS TO HONG KONG Teams arrived at the Kuala Lumpur pitstop between about 2pm and 5pm on Dec. 10. I assume that they will be released 12 hours later and have the chioce of the earliest flights from KL to HK:CI654 departs KUL 0750 arrives HKG 1155MH72 departs KUL 0915 arrives HKG 1300CX720 departs KUL 0935 arrives HKG 1330There is also a CX flight at 1755 and a MH flight at 1845 if it happens to be a 24 hour extended pitstop. Each takes about 3 3/4 hours.
Also, they HAVE to go to one of the following places to go to Macau1. Sheung Wan (Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Pier, by TurboJET or helicopter)2. Tsim Sha Tsui (Hong Kong China Ferry Terminal, by Ferry)
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Gordon G. Chang
7 February 2012
"The Arab Spring is coming to China," John McCain told Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun at the just-concluded Munich Security Conference, sometimes called the "Davos of Defense."
Zhang, according to People's Daily, shot back that the senator's comment was "no more than fantasy." The Chinese government has support of more than 70 percent of the people, the Beijing diplomat noted, citing a survey conducted by a Western organization he did not identify.
People's Daily, the Communist Party's flagship newspaper, said in its Chinese-language edition that the confrontation was "full of gunpowder smell." Chinese leaders have traditionally used gunpowder references as code for insidious foreign attempts to undermine China's socialist system.
Why should Beijing care so much about the Arizona senator? China's one-party system looks increasingly fragile, as protests grow in number and become more violent. So when People's Daily went after McCain for mirroring America's "anxiety and lack of confidence," the counterattack betrayed Beijing's own fears. As Hong Kong's South China Morning Post noted, the party newspaper rarely reports specific criticisms by foreigners in public settings.
Yet the response to McCain, most revealingly, extended far beyond issues of social stability to matters the Arizona Republican could not be held responsible for. In an English-language article about his Arab Spring comment, People's Daily rhetorically asked why China was not "freaking out" when faced with the new American "reset" policy of the Obama administration, the so-called "pivot" of American strategic focus to East Asia. "The answer is simple: China understands the danger of confronting the current global order, it should cautiously and rationally deal with various challenges to pave the way for development," the paper noted. "China, as the implicit target of the strategy, is responding with reserve."
If Beijing has reacted with restraint to the White House's renewed focus on China, it is only because it has yet to figure out what to do. It could take months more for Chinese officials to craft their response, yet in the broad-based attack on John McCain we can see that, in their mind, they are developing the notion that unrelated events are in fact linking to create a web—a global conspiracy—to entrap them and destroy their system. In fact, one of the many Chinese-language commentaries in People's Daily said that McCain was actually hoping for turmoil in China.
McCain is not a co-conspirator plotting the next Chinese revolution. Moreover, he has nothing to do with Obama's much-discussed "pivot." The fact that Beijing can't stop talking about it suggests the White House has, with its new policy, struck a nerve.
And so has Senator McCain.