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LifeTopix 7.0 and My.Agenda 2.0 Guided Tour
Team LightArrow is very excited about our new updates of LifeTopix and My.Agenda. Our new updates include several new features to maximize your productivity at home, at work, and while you're on the go. Keep reading to learn how you can take advantage of the latest features.
Shopping Improvements
We're super excited about the Shopping topic's complete redesign. I encourage you to explore this topic and experience the new features for yourself, and I'll touch on the highlights here.
The Shopping topic is now so feature rich, it's available as a stand-alone app for those who only wish to manage shopping and coupons. You can find the stand-alone app at the Apple App Store (My.Shopping).
You'll first notice the new view of the Shopping topic. It's redesigned to make it easier to add and view shopping items, shopping lists, things to sell, gifts for others, gifts received, coupons, products, and sellers. You'll see the shopping items, lists, etc. that are due or coming due in the What Matters Now "ribbon" and items you haven't purchased yet in the Open Shopping Items "ribbon." The plus sign makes it easy to add shopping items on the fly from this view. The following image shows the redesigned Shopping view.
LightArrow apps support multiple shopping lists for those who prefer to manage their shopping into separate lists. For example, you might want to create back-to-school lists, grocery lists, business list items, home improvement items, etc. A great feature included with the Shopping list view is the ability to view items by seller or category. The categories you create are completely configurable by you; therefore, you might create categories by grocery aisle, type of grocery item, price level, etc — whatever makes you more productive. You can also view your lists by open or bought items to ensure you're not returning to the grocery store, office supply store, or mall to pick up the items that you forgot to purchase.
Another great Shopping List feature is the ability to share lists via email with a friend, spouse, housemate or partner. They can open a list directly in their LifeTopix or My.Agenda app from their email. Also, if you've set up device-to-device sync and both users are sharing the same Dropbox folder for data, you can share and collaborate using the same shopping list. The following image shows the redesigned Shopping List view.
Another great addition is how coupons are managed. The coupon management is intended to save you time and money by helping you keep track of coupons and their expiration dates.
For stores that allow electronic versions of coupons, you can take photos of the coupons and access them directly from your app. You can take note of your coupons and add an expiration date. When you've added a date tag for coupons, you'll know immediately when they are going to expire because they will appear in the "What Matters Now" section of the Shopping view as well as the Agenda view. The following image shows the redesigned Coupon view.
Notes + Files Improvements
We're equally excited about the Notes + Files topic's complete redesign. I encourage you to explore this topic and experience the new features for yourself, and I'll touch on the highlights here.
Notes + Files is now so feature rich, it's available as a stand-alone app for those who only wish to manage notes, checklists/to-do lists, and online files and notes. You can find the stand-alone apps at the Apple App store (Pro.Notes and My.Notes).
You'll first notice the new view of the Notes + Files topic. It's redesigned to make it easier to add and view notes, files, checklists, and drawings. You'll see the notes and lists that are due or coming due in the What Matters Now "ribbon" and items you recently added or updated in the Recent Items "ribbon." The plus sign makes it easy to add note items on the fly from this view. The following image shows the redesigned Notes + Files view.
The drawing capabilities in LifeTopix and My.Agenda have spectacular improvements. The drawing tools have been combined into one control, and a landscape view is now available. Drawing tools include 24 beautiful colors with alpha options; linewidth choices; eraser; clear; undo; print; and email capabilities for drawings. Printing is also available for notes and drawings. Users can now share their drawings via Facebook and Twitter directly from the drawing view.
The following image shows the redesigned drawing view.
People + Services Improvements
If you're thrilled about the changes to the Shopping topic and the Notes + Files topic, then you'll also be excited to see the changes to the People + Services topic. People + Services can now be your central portal for finding information about and contacting your friends, family, colleagues, clients, and service providers.
You'll notice that we've also updated the view with a "ribbon" showing Recent Items and Groups. The following image shows the redesigned People + Services view.
Imagine the possibilities for keeping in touch with family, clients, friends, and other colleagues. From a central location, you can see their phone number, email address, birthday, anniversary, notes, association with LifeTopix items, and last Twitter and Facebook message for each of your contacts that you've set up in LifeTopix or My.Agenda. Instantly, you can send a text message, email, Tweet, or send a Facebook message. You can keep categories — allowing you to easily find your family members, clients, or friends by group. And, as always, the contacts work with your iOS calendar.
The following image shows the redesigned Person view.
Dynamic Schedules
When scheduling tasks, you can now select the option of Dynamic. If you choose this option, each task is only created after the previous task is cancelled or completed. The Pre-Create option creates all the tasks at once. The new option, Dynamic, is very useful for tasks that need to be completed in a pre-defined or designated order.
Custom Month Schedules
Custom repeat schedules are now available for tasks and appointments (events). After selecting the month option, you can select specified dates or days on which the appointment or task occurs. This is very useful for events or tasks that are repeated, but occur on varying days.
Repeat Schedule Preview
We added a preview for scheduling events, as shown in the image below. This ensures that you've properly set up a recurring appointment, class or meeting.
Copy a Project
Due to popular demand, you're now able to copy a project. The category, description, and starting and end dates are copied to the new project. The following image shows how to copy a project:
Searching has been improved, our apps now search the content of notes, allowing you to find important information that you've added to notes. Also, checklist item titles have been added to search.
Unified Login Management
LifeTopix and My.Agenda include integrations for Twitter™, Facebook™, Dropbox™, SkyDrive™, Evernote®, Toodledo®, and Asana™. To make it easier to enter your credentials for these apps and services, we've included a new view for managing your login name and password. To find the new view, go to Settings and tap Logins for Integrations. The following image shows an example of the new view.
Near Me / Maps Improvements
The Near Me feature includes significant improvements. You can now set locations for service providers, which allows you to better plan your errands to save time and gas. For example, you might add locations for your favorite dry cleaners, grocery stores, markets, or other providers — and refer to them in the Near Me view so you can make sure to locate the providers that are close to your current area while running errands. You will also notice when you're specifying locations for providers and other items, that the search has been improved.
Refer to the following image to see an example of search when I enter the term "grocery."
Photos, Audio, And Video Clips in My Calendar
You now have the option of viewing photos, audio, and video clips in My Calendar. To add or remove the view of these items in your calendar, tap the filter icon in the upper right of the calendar to view the screen shown in the following image. Check the boxes for the items that you wish to view.
Bonus Theme Colors
If you create an App Store rating from your LightArrow app, the app will provide you with bonus theme colors. The colors are a surprise; however, the following image shows where to start.
Paid Amount in Bills
When creating a bill payment, you can now enter the paid amount. This is useful to track when the paid amount is different than the amount due. The payment list screen displays the due amount along with the paid amount and the payment template displays the balance.
Full Screen View of Notes Text
We understand that many of you would prefer to see a larger screen version of your notes; therefore, we've allowed you to do just that. The following image shows the expanded screen, and how to collapse the screen back to the previous view:
Smart Conversion
We've added the ability for you to convert your device reminders to tasks and shopping items. For example, you might ask Siri to create a reminder for picking up milk to create a device reminder, but this item is better suited as a shopping item. To convert it, tap the icon with the three green dots (or) tap and hold the item to proceed with the conversion. The following image shows an example of converting the item from the Agenda view.
Additional Alerts
There are now more options in Settings for reminders (alerts) on device calendar events. The following options were added:
- Remind 15 minutes before
- Remind 30 minutes before
- Remind 1 hour before
- Remind 2 hours before
- Remind 4 hours before
- Remind 12 hours before
The following image shows an example of the new settings.
User-defined Startup View
Now you can define the view that is launched at the time of starting your app. You will find this setting in the My Settings view.
Keep in mind that this setting only takes effect when the app is first started; therefore, you will need to close LifeTopix or My.Agenda and start it again.
Your options include:
- Home
- Hot List
- My Topics
- My Calendar
- Recent
- My Inboxes
- My Contexts
- Near Me
- My Apps
- Engage
- Settings
- Help Center
The following image shows how to specify the default view:
Reorder Apps in My Apps
The My Apps view allows you to launch other apps from your LifeTopix or My.Agenda app making it easier to launch your favorite apps from one location. You're now able to reorder these apps as you please by tapping the reorder icon in the upper left, and then dragging and dropping the app into your preferred order. The following image shows an example.
Miscellaneous Improvements
Defect fixes and speed improvements have also been applied to this release, as well as the additions below:
- Comment field added to shopping items.
- When viewing the calendar by week, the app autoscrolls to the first item.
- Checklists now include due dates.
We hope this helps you understand how to leverage the new features in LifeTopix 7.0 and My.Agenda 2.0. Enjoy!


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Beginner's Guide to Command Line: Part II
Understanding Users
Who you are as a user on the Linux system is important to understanding what you can do. Just like Windows, Linux is a multi-user operating system and all users do not possess the same rights. There are three basic types of users on the Linux system; the root user, normal user accounts and the service users.
The root user account is created by the operating system when it is installed. This user is the superuser who basically has complete control of the entire system. This means that great care should be taken to preserve the integrity of this account. One aspect of this care is to ensure that the root password is complex and changed on a regular basis. In addition, the root account should not be used to log into a server because if anyone gains access to the root account they have complete control of all services and information located on the server.
Service accounts such as apache, squid, cups, etc. are each created when the service is installed. Typically there is no need to change these accounts. These accounts often are accounts that cannot be used to log into the server. A number of service accounts cannot be used to log into the system. This is simply a security matter and should not be changed nor will it offer any problems.
Normal users are users that are created on Linux file system and have a home directory in /home. So if you had 4 users on the system called; fred, jane, mary and tom you would see these /home directories.
Normal Users
Normal users do not all have the same privileges. The fist user created on the system can use a special command called "sudo" to gain root privileges so that this account could be used to manage a server or desktop. Other users do not by default have these rights nor can they gain these rights unless the root user provides them with those special rights.
Typically users can do anything they want in their own home directories. They can create, copy or delete files and directories in their home. They also have the rights to read just about any file on the entire Linux system. That means that they can read any of the configuration files in the /etc directory or any of the program listings in the /usr directory. Normal users can move all around the file system. There are very few limitations, one of those is the /root directory. No user is allowed to view or move into the /root directory which is the home directory for the root user.
The implications of a normal user in the file system is that they can only save files or backups to their own home directory, they will not be able to save anywhere else.
When users are created they will also be created as a member of a group with the same name. So when the user tom is created, immediately the group tom is created with the user tom being the only member. Groups allow several users to share files if they needed to. Here are a few examples.
User Group
tom tom
jane jane
mary mary
fred fred, tom, mary
In the examples above, each user is created and the group with their name is also created. However, when you look at the group fred both tom and mary have been added to that group so that fred, tom and mary could share files that were owned by the group.
A user's login name must be unique and less than 32 characters. It may contain any characters except colons and new lines. Typically login names are lower case, some Linux distros require lower case. When you create login names a standard is important as these names also reflect what will be available for email addresses.
User passwords are encrypted and kept in a separate file which is not available to anyone but root. This file is /etc/shadow. Passwords must be encrypted which means they must be created with the passwd command or encrypted and copied to the account. However, editing accounts by hand is filled with possibilities of mistakes so should be avoided. Most Linux distributions use the MD5 encryption which allows for random lengths in passwords.
When users are create d they will get a login name for the users to recognize but the system will user a UID or User Identification number. These numbers will begin at either 500 or 1000 and be incremented by one for each new user. So if you create the user tom and tom is the first user to be created he will have a UID of 1001.
tom 1001
mary 1002
jane 1003
fred 1004
In addition to UIDs that are created, a GID or Group Identification number is also created for each user name. The GID is a private group with Ubuntu which means that no other users have read access to a user's files. If tom is the first created user and his UID is 1001 he will also have a GID of 1001. Again, the numbers that relate to the users is for the operating system. Here are some examples.
User UID GID
tom 1001 1001
mary 1002 1002
jane 1003 1003
fred 1004 1005
Note that the UID and the GID do not have to be the same. If you created a special group before you created fred then all the rest of the numbers will be out of sync which is not a problem but something you need to be aware of.
The root User
The root user is the superuser on the system. Root has access to all files and directories on the system and is able to configure all aspects of the system. The UID for root is 0, which you can see in /etc/passwd. There should only be one user with a UID of 0 on the system as this could lead to serious security abuse. Many activities on the system are limited to the root user only. Changes like creating device files, setting the hostname, configuring network interfaces, working with privileged network ports (below 1024) are examples of activities that can only be performed by root. This is a powerful and yet dangerous account as root can make, and will make mistakes that could take the system down.
root Login
Best security practices suggest that you never login as root. When you login as the administrator of the Linux system you need to recognize the dangers of allowing the server to run as root. Any access gained into the system as root user will give intruders complete control of the server. If you login as a normal user this means that you must become root using the "su root" command. This is simply to protect your system when online since if the system was cracked when you are logged in as a regular user there is much less damage done than if you were logged in as root, allowing full access. The issue is file and directory ownership and access. User Identification numbers (UID) and Group Identification numbers are mapped to each user and group and recorded in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. These UIDs and GIDs are used to determine ownership and access to files and directories. In addition, users run processes and the owner of a process can send process signals that can impact the process activity.
The root user is intended to run many commands that are not available to other users of the operating system. Here are several directories that are intended only for the root user:
/sbin – This directory contains commands for modifying disk partitions (fdisk), changing boot procedures (lilo), and changing system states (init).
/usr/sbin – This directory has commands for managing user accounts (adduser), configuring the mouse(mouseconfig) or keyboard (kbdconfig). Most daemon processes are also in this directory.
/bin and /usr/bin contain commands that both root and users will use. For example: /bin/mount is a command that root will mount directories but users will use this command to list mounted directories.
The /usr/share/man/man8 directory lists many of the commands that are intended for use by the system administrator.

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Yesterday I selected a post by Elad Gil who talked about Pinterest changing the way we share and consume information on the web. Today I have selected another article by Don Reisinger for Cnet News - digital home, who says, "let's not jump to conclusions here and has more to say about this.
I do admit I'm participating on many betas because I feel the need to stay informed. I'm not usually drawn to every new thing that comes along but somehow, Pinterest has caught my eye.
Let's take a look at why Pinterest is becoming one of the most popular social networks, what's really happening here?
Here's what caught my attention:
**Pinterest so far has been the only company to distinguish itself. Late last month, Experian Hitwise, a company that monitors consumer behavior on the Web, reported that Pinterest had 11 million visits during the week ended December 17, jumping 4,000 percent compared with six months earlier.
**The massive bump catapulted Pinterest to the 10th spot in Experian's listing of the most popular social networks, just behind Yelp. Experian also discovered that Pinterest has found a loyal following in women.
**In the past three months, women have accounted for 58 percent of its userbase, and nearly 60 percent of those women are between the ages of 25 and 44.
**Opinions are mixed over why Pinterest has been able to attract such a large audience.
**Is it the service's solid design? Is it the attention it has received from media outlets shocked by its growth?
**Is it, perhaps, the fact that it recently raised $26 million from venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, giving it bundles of cash to play with? It could be all that.
**But Gil thinks it might also have something to do with its ease-of-use.
**"Pinterest was one of the first sites to take push button content generation (via bookmarklets and 're-pinning') and structure it into sets of curated content called 'boards
**This allowed users to collect content from across the Web, as well as from other users on the site.
Reisinger ends his article with a word of caution:
**"Pinterest has yet to offer its service publicly. And once it finally moves beyond its invite-only phase, the company will be truly tested."
Followed by the question:
**"will the mainstream Web user who typically joins the social game after early adopters pick up their invites, find value in it?"
** Chances are, we'll get the answers to those questions later this year.
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond"
Read full article here [http://cnet.co/xilVUk]
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- Signore named Rookie of the Week -
New York, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the Fall weekly report #2 on Monday, September 9, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics for men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, women's tennis and women's volleyball.
Men's Golf Update
The golf team finished in third place out of 10 teams at the Tim Brown Invitational hosted by Skidmore College at Airway Meadows Golf Course.
Senior Adam Larkin (Bellmore, N.Y.) earned a three stroke victory in the opening tournament of the season after rounds of 74 (+2) and 72 (E).
Women's Tennis Update (1-0, 0-0 Skyline) - Full Report
The women's tennis team earned a 9-0 shutout victory in a non-conference match versus John Jay.
Freshman Priscilla Signore (Staten Island, N.Y.) was named Skyline Conference Rookie of the Week. She registered a 6-1, 6-1 victory in the #2 singles position and teamed with Jessica Sickles (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) for an 8-0 win in first doubles.
This week the Rams travel to Staten Island on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. and then host Baurch on Friday at 4:30 p.m. and Sage on Saturday noon.
Women's Soccer Update (2-2, 0-0 Skyline) - Full Report
The Rams posted a 1-1 mark on the week after falling 1-0 to Eastern Connecticut on Friday and rebounding with a 4-0 victory at Manhattanville.
Sophomore forward Ashlee Thompson was named to the Player of the Week Honor Roll. Thompson scored a team-high two goals in the win at Manhattanville.
This week Farmingdale State will host Eastern Connecticut on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. and TCNJ on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
Men's Soccer Update (1-3, 0-0 Skyline) - Full Report
The men's soccer team fell in three non-conference matches (Baruch, Rowan, TCNJ) this past week. Senior goalkeeper Angelo Viteritti (Huntington, N.Y.) was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Kelly's Sports Ltd./Rowan Invitational.
The Rams next will host William Paterson in a non-conference match on Saturday at noon.
Cross Country Update - Full Report
Farmingdale State competed at the St. John's/Hofstra Fall Festival this past weekend. The men were led by sophomore Daniel Barrett (Wantagh, N.Y.) who finished in a team-best 18:25.30. For the women, senior Melissa Bonilla (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) was named to the Honor Roll after her 67th place finish in a time of 17:57.69.
The Rams next will compete at the LIU Post Invitational on Sunday, September 15th.
Women's Volleyball Update (0-5, 0-0 Skyline) - Full Report
The women's volleyball team fell in a pair of matches at the William Paterson Invite on Saturday. The Rams fell 3-0 against both Manhattanville and William Paterson.
Freshman middle blocker Maia Calde-Hinton (Huntington, N.Y.) was named to the Honor Roll after tallying 13 kills, four blocks and two service aces.
This week Farmingdale State will play six road non-conference matches: Tuesday - Baruch at 4:30 p.m., FDU-Florham at 6:30 p.m., Thursday - Montclair State at 7:00 p.m., Friday - Ramapo at 4:00 p.m., Saturday - Ramapo Roadrunner Invitational (game times - TBA).


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Alex McLeish is hoping the signing of striker Robbie Keane can act as an inspiration to the other Aston Villa players ahead of Saturday's home Barclays Premier League clash with Everton.
Keane is included in the Villa squad after signing on loan from Los Angeles Galaxy until the end of February.
Manager McLeish is refusing to reveal whether the Republic of Ireland international will start but has no doubt he will have a positive influence at Villa. He said: "In terms of the impact Robbie will have, he will have a great effect. His experience and knowledge in the dressing room should be worth its weight in gold."
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To gain an understanding of the City of Lakewood and to help plan for the City's future, it is important to consider the city's demographic and land-use trends and characteristics. This page includes a number of reports related to Lakewood statistics and demographics, including population, housing, neighborhood and land-use profiles. Data for these reports came from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the state of Colorado, the Denver Regional Council of Governments and the City of Lakewood. Updated demographic information will be provided as as new data is provided by the US Census Bureau.
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2017 Population Characteristics
2017 Housing Characteristics
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"In Memoriam" listings are expanded paid obituaries, phrased as the family requests, and may include enhanced information or photographs that might not fit within free death notices.
Laurel Gilbert
Laurel L. Gilbert was born Jan. 23, 1918, to J.C. and Alvah (Curtis) Pavey in Garrison, Iowa.
After graduating from high school in 1935, Laurel came to Kansas to visit her sister, Verona, who was living in Marquette at the time. She had wanted to be a nurse, so with the help of her sister and brother-in-law, she entered nursing school at Halstead, Kan. After receiving her degree in nursing, Laurel started working for the hospital in Marion. She then returned to Iowa, where she became the floor supervisor at the Waterloo hospital.
When she fell and broke her tailbone, there was no question in her mind that she wanted to return to Marion, where Dr. Melton could treat her. So, with a pillow in hand to ease her pain, Laurel returned to Marion on the train. Laurel then went to work for the McPherson hospital. It was there that she worked with patients who had been quarantined to an iron lung.
During the time that she was splitting her nursing between the hospitals of McPherson and Salina, she met and fell in love with Karl Schroeder of Marion. On New Year's Eve in 1940, the two were united in marriage. Karl and Laurel made their home in Marion, where Laurel returned to working for the hospital.
One evening after a football game, Karl and Laurel ran into Dr. McCandless, who was currently working at the Marion County Health Department, and asked Laurel if she would like to come work with him. Laurel found that working for the Health Department was a lot more interesting than working at the hospital. She would travel to all of the county schools, where it was her job to examine each of the schoolchildren and administer their immunizations.
In December 1948, Karl and Laurel adopted Laurel's niece, Karen K. Fisher. Laurel's sister, Rhuella, was dying from cancer and asked Laurel to raise her daughter. Laurel was overjoyed with this and quit her job so she could devote all her attention to this beautiful little girl. Laurel loved being a mom and housewife. She found that she had a passion for moving the furniture around in the house. One night, as Karl went upstairs to tuck Karen into bed, Karen said, "Poppy, Poppy, I'm over here; Mommy's moved my bed again."
Laurel lost her husband, Karl, in 1964. In 1968, Laurel married Eugene "Enie" Gilbert of Florence. Laurel had met Eugene years before while she was with the Health Department. They enjoyed eating out and dancing. Laurel was a jitterbug kind of dancer, and her relentless energy always kept her on the move.
When she was not moving her furniture around, she could be found gardening or walking her dog. She also kept the books for her husband's plumbing business until his retirement. Laurel lost Eugene in 2006.
Laurel was legally blind for many years prior to her death, but this did not slow her down. She found ways to continue to do the things that she loved. She had many friends who made sure that she got to her doctor's appointments, hair appointments, church, and all her other needs that required driving.
Laurel was a member of the Eastern Star, where she was a past matron. She also belonged to the Ecker-Fulkerson-Slifer VFW Auxiliary and Marion Christian Church.
Laurel passed away June 30, 2013, at her home.
Laurel leaves behind her daughter, Karen (Morris) Lovell of Wymore, Neb.; her grandchildren, Brenda Russell, Tony (Lori) Lovell, Lorie (Steve) Robinson, and Melissa Lovell; nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren, along with many, many friends.
Service was 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 2, at Marion Christian Church.
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An introduction to the highly successful ZM fish foods.
Freshwater Paramecia Culture Guide
Freshwater Paramecia are single celled organisms that are smaller than rotifers and have been used as a early first feed for larval fish. Paramecia are surrounded by cilia to aid movement and have historically been used in fish breeding projects under the label of infusoria. For best fry rearing results we recommend ZM-000 fry food is fed alongside Paramecia.
Traditionally Paramecia have been reared on a bacterial soup generated from the breakdown of boiled wheatgrains or mungbean seeds. For a cleaner culture the liquid suspension food Roti-Rich from Florida Aqua Farms can be used. In the last year we have been using a suspension made from the ZM Dry Invert Feed to rear Paramecia. This rearing option not only means the culture is enriched with high levels of vitamins and HUFA content it provides a clean culture with potentially less bacteria being transferred to the fry tank. These strategies give the hatchery manager more options to avoid bottlenecks in fry survival.
See the 5x hatcher station in the section below that may also be used as a Paramecia culture station. We have seen Paramecia cultures run with aeration will be dispersed throughout the entire water column instead of simply towards the water surface.
Marine Rotifer Culture Guide
Rotifers are smaller than newly hatched brineshrimp and vital as a first feed for many small fish species especially if enriched with live phytoplankton or HUFA enrichment.
As a basic guide for culturing marine rotifers: aim for a salinity of 15-22+ppt (1.0107 - 1.0160 SG), light of 500-2000 lux, temperature of around 25 deg. C, and gently aeration.
DAY 0: setup a new culture with 1 part mature culture and 2 parts new water. Aerate very gently to avoid stripping the eggs off the females. Add 10ml phyto or 1 drop of Roti-rich or ZM Dry Invert Feed suspension per litre of culture per day.
DAY 1-3: continue to feed at 10 ml phyto or 1 drop of Roti-Rich per litre of culture per day.
DAY 4: harvest 2/3 of the mature culture for feeding and use a 53 micron strainer to concentrate the rotifers prior to feeding. Use the remaining mature culture to set up a new culture.
New for 2104 we have introduced the 5x hatcher station for culturing rotifers on a five day batch cycle. No need for multiple stands this single unit convenient keeps all the equipment in one place and looks clean and professional. Each vessel comes complete with lid and rigid plastic airtube. The station will come with an air gang valve and airline to supply each vessel.
An alternate culture technique requiring less effort is: 2 part rotifer culture and 3 parts phytoplankton and simply harvest once the phytoplankton has been consumed and water becomes clear.
Freshwater rotifers can be cultured in a similar manner, however we've never found the densities reach the same level as the marine species.
Brineshrimp Culture Guide
Newly hatched brineshrimp have been a basic first feed for juvenile fish and inverts for a long, long time. In their cyst form the shrimp are already partially developed and simply need to go through a rehydration stage and final incubation before hatching out.
As a basic guide for incubation brineshrimp cysts: aim for a salinity of 30-35ppt (approx 1.023 - 1.026SG), light of 500-2000 lux, temperature of around 25-28 deg. C, and strong aeration.
To set up a new brineshrimp culture add 35g marine salt per litre and aerate the water to dissolve the salt. The rigid air tube should reach the bottom of the vessel to keep the whole water column in motion. Add the heater and be sure that rubber suction feet are used to mount the heater away from the hatcher sides to avoid damage to the plastic.
Add 2.5 - 5.0g (half to one flat teaspoon) of brineshrimp cysts per litre and adjust the flow with the plastic air valve so that none of the cysts are resting on the base. Incubate for 24-36 hours before harvesting.
Switch off the heater at least 30 mins before you are ready to start harvesting. After this 30 mins stop the air supply and remove the lid and airtube to allow the egg cases and hatched shrimp to separate. After 8-10 minutes the egg cases will be at the surface and the hatched shrimp will have sunk to the base.
Now using the beaker provided collect the hatched shrimp and if possible rinse them with fresh water before feeding to your fish. The remaining hatcher volume can be discarded to waste before rinsing the hatcher out (without using a detergent) and leaving to dry.
Marine Copepod Culture Guide
Copepods can be larger than newly hatched brineshrimp and have been identified as being more nutritionally complete and hence a valuable live food especially for juvenile stages. At ZM we have been culturing a hardy species of marine harpacticoid copepod that when mature measure approximately 2mm. Breeding females can be identified with the naked eye carrying egg sacks and the males with large claspers.
As a basic guide for culturing marine copepods: aim for a salinity of 22-30ppt (approx 1.015 - 1.023 SG), light of 500-2000 lux, temperature of around 20-25 deg. C, and gently aeration.
The copepods are reared in a mixed culture with rotifers as this technique has shown to be more successful. In the culture you will have both breeding adults and juveniles of various stages. The copepods are reared under similar conditions as specified for rotifers and we've found them to go longer without crashing. Some breeders have found a higher salinity of 30ppt can improve copepod productivity.
Apart from live phyto, Instant Phyto, and Roti-Rich another food we have successfully tried with copepods is the ZM Dry Invert Feed.
To separate adult copepods from juvenile stages harvest with a 250 micron strainer and retain the smaller copepods/rotifers for ongrowing.
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100% Mashed Potatoes??? NOT!Posted: February 13, 2011 Filed under: Food and it's Impact on Our Health, In The Kitchen with Millie- How To's, Non-Toxic Choices Leave a comment
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Who doesn't love mashed potatoes? The smooth and creamy texture of hot potatoes mixed with salt and some butter. Unfortunately, this side dish requires some preparation, and many people have resorted to industrial solutions.
Here is an example of a relatively new product from Betty Crocker, "Loaded Mashed" promising:
100% mashed potatoes. Seasoned with naturally flavored bacon, cheese, chives and sour cream.
Sounds nice, until we took a look at the ingredient list…What you need to know:
Here is the list of "Loaded Mashed"'s 55(!) ingredients:
Potatoes (Dried), Salt, Maltodextrin, Imitation Bacon Bit (Vital Wheat Gluten, Salt Maltodextrin, Rendered Bacon Fat Colored with Caramel Color and Red 40 Lake, Monosodium Glutamate, Sugar, Cooked Bacon [Cured with Water, Salt Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite, May Contain Smoke Flavors, Sugar, Dextrose, Brown Sugar, Sodium Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, Flavoring], Natural Flavor, Citric Acid, Sulfiting Agents), Sugar, Onion (Dried), Mono and Diglycerides, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Whey, Natural Flavor, Buttermilk, Cheddar Cheese (Dried) (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt Enzymes), Enzyme Modified Milk, Chives (Dried), Parmesan Cheese (Dried) (Milk Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Sour Cream (Dried) (Cream, Skim Milk, Cultures), Modified Corn Starch, Silicon Dioxide (Anticaking Agent), Rendered Bacon Fat, Bacon (Cured with Water, Salt Sugar, Sodium Nitrite, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Phosphate, Natural Smoke Flavor), Ricotta Cheese (Dried) (Whey, Milkfat, Lactic Acid, Salt), Lactic Acid.
So we've got a heavily processed product here, with some ingredients that we've highlighted:
Red 40 – a controversial artificial color that requires a warning label in the UK. It can cause hyperactivity in kids. MSG, Sodium Nitrite, and last but not least, trans-fat in the partially hydrogenated oils.
Why would anybody want to do this to themselves and their family?
Bottom line – "real" mashed potatoes are made from potatoes at home. They don't come in a box.
What to do at the supermarket:
Why not make the real thing? Buy potatoes, sour cream, butter, milk, bacon, and chives. Or buy potatoes, olive oil, yogurt, and chives. Look up an online recipe, and get in the kitchen. A little effort will take your meal to a whole other level.


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Northampton Saints are set to lose two of their premier props to the Top 14 at the end of the season, according to reports.
Soane Tonga'uiha has been heavily linked with a switch to Racing Metro - a deal that seems to be moving closer to completion - and The Times reports that Brian Mujati is set to follow in his footsteps. If both props do opt to move cross-Channel, then it will leave Saints boss Jim Mallinder with a massive hole to plug in his front-row.
The pair have been two of the Aviva Premiership's standout front-rowers over the past couple of seasons. Tonga'uiha joined the Saints back in 2006 and has since played 192 games for the Premiership side. He came close to leaving the Saints in the past when he agreed a switch to Saracens back in 2010, only to later have a change of heart.
Mujati linked up with the Saints in 2009 and has established a reputation as one of the Premiership's most fearsome tight-heads. Paul Doran-Jones, another option at tight-head for the Saints, is out of contract at the end of the season and has been linked with a switch to Wasps or Harlequins, but The Times claims that Mallinder will now step up attempts to keep the four-cap international at Franklin's Gardens.
And the newspaper also claims that Mallinder has lined up England prop Alex Corbisiero as a replacement for Tonga'uiha. Premiership clubs are only allowed to discuss moves for other top-flight players in January, so any move will have to wait until then.
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A Glendale man faces more than two dozen charges in a so-called sextortion case after allegedly hacking into social media and email accounts of 350 women and extorting them into showing their naked pictures.
Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, 27, who was arrested without incident Tuesday by agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is charged in a federal grand jury indictment with 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft, the U.S. attorney's office said Tuesday. He faces 105 years in federal prison if convicted on all counts.
The 30-count federal grand jury indictment alleges that the Glendale resident hacked into the victims' Facebook, Skype and email accounts, and changed the passwords, locking victims out of their own online accounts. He then allegedly searched emails or other files for naked or semi-naked pictures of the women, as well as other information, such as passwords and the names of their friends.
Kazaryan then posed online as those women and sent instant messages to their friends, coaxing them into removing their clothing so that he could view and take pictures of them, according to the indictment.
When those victims found out someone else had posed as their friend, Kazaryan used the "fraudulently obtained" photos to "again coerce the victims to remove their clothing on camera," according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Federal agents said Kazaryan repeatedly contacted his victims and demanded that they expose their breasts to him on Skype. Kazaryan also allegedly posted nude photos of some victims on their Facebook pages when they failed to comply with his demands.
In all, authorities recovered about 3,000 pictures of nude or semi-nude women including those allegedly taken by Kazaryan. Investigators estimate that Kazaryan victimized more than 350 women, but have not yet identified all of the women whose accounts were hacked.


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My Music Collection Used To Be Cool
I've been collecting music since I was 12 and bought my first album, CSNY's "So Far", soon followed by Led Zeppelin, Yes, etc. (I still have them all.) In college, it was cool to have albums, the more the better. I bought more and more. I bought a nice stereo to play them. In the 80's, I bought up lots of 12" disco singles. I had a pretty cool collection of rare disco. (Yes, I like disco. So sue me.)
Time went on, I bought more and more. My appetite was large enough I couldn't afford to buy new, so I'd buy used ones. CDs happened, and I started buying them up, too.
Then, computers advanced and hard disks declined in price to the point to where I could rip all the CDs to a hard disk and play them that way. That wasn't enough, and I learned how to record vinyl onto the computer, and eventually recorded, tracked, cataloged, and split all my records onto the computer, too. I still wanted more, and would buy bags of used records from ebay and garage sales and put them on. Boxes of records and CDs went into storage in the basement; once on the hard disk I lost interest in those artifacts.
I play it on shuffle, meaning the player (a Turtlebeach Audiotron) just picks songs at random and plays them. A friend of mine accurately described it as essentially a personal radio station stuffed with just what I liked. I just call it a jukebox.
At last count I was up to around 13,000 tracks. I was very proud of it, and figured the expense of it and all the time it consumed in setting it up was worth it, because it would pay off for the rest of my life in pleasure. And so it did for many years.
Until today.
I'd heard of Pandora before, but I ignored it because it was a subscription service. Apparently, they went free a while back. I registered today out of curiosity. Uh-oh. The durn thing has just about everything on it, which I can play anytime, plus anything related to it. All I need is an internet connection. It even works on mobile devices. It's going into cars. I like baroque trumpet music, and (natch) had a few CDs of it, so tested Pandora with "trumpet concerto". It's been happily playing lots of pleasing baroque music I've never heard before for the last hour.
My music jukebox has become well nigh pointless and worthless. There's nothing cool about having something on your disk drive that anyone, anywhere, can get at the touch of a button for nothing.
Pandora has killed off my jukebox. Netflix has killed off my DVD collection with their watch instantly feature (I can't see any point in buying a DVD again). We won't even discuss the boxes filled with VHS tapes. My book library hasn't been killed off yet, but that's clearly coming. I suppose I should start selling them off quick before they all go to $.01 (a lot of them already have, sheesh, look on Amazon!).
I remember when calculators first came out, I bought a paperback book of trig tables "just in case" calculators disappeared. Calculators didn't disappear, but that book sure did. My jukebox might have some value if the internet disappears one day, but if a catastrophe on that scale did happen, there'd be a lot bigger things to concern me.
We live in interesting times, and I'm enjoying listening to baroque trumpets.


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LANSING — The Michigan Chamber of Commerce says it doesn't support a plan to turn solely to a ballot proposal to fix the state's billion-dollar road funding problem.
President and CEO Rich Studley said Friday that legislators should first act to put a plan in place before turning to voters. A proposal introduced in the Michigan Senate would amend the state constitution to raise the 6 percent sales tax to 8 percent and eliminate state fuel taxes.
Studley said the ballot proposal would delay action.
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Premier League: David Silva bagged a brace as Manchester City saw off Fulham
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City's Spanish playmaker opened the scoring with just 95 seconds on the clock at the Etihad Stadium, with an Edin Dzeko effort from the edge of the box parried into his path by Mark Schwarzer.
Silva's second of the afternoon arrived on 69 minutes, with a flowing move involving Gael Clichy and Carlos Tevez expertly finished off with a composed finish which glanced in off the post.
City looked to be in confident mood from the off and made a blistering start as Dzeko took up an early attack and was allowed to shoot from 25 yards. Schwarzer parried his fierce effort but Fulham had been caught short and Silva followed up to rifle in the rebound.
Fulham were unable to get anything going in response and Gareth Barry took command in midfield.
James Milner started to come into the game on the City right and linked well with Pablo Zabaleta before floating an inviting cross into the box but it dropped inches over Tevez's head.
The game went quiet as Fulham tried to take the pace out of City but the hosts still looked the most likely side and Tevez raced across the area before having a shot blocked by Brede Hangeland.
Fulham played a patient game and tried to build slowly but it yielded little until just after the half hour when Damien Duff found room on the right. Steve Sidwell got free at the back post and was picked out by a good cross from Duff but his glancing header struck the outside of the post.
Fulham made a positive start to the second half as they created a chance for Sidwell outside the area but he sliced well wide and City upped the tempo.
City saw Zabaleta, their only fit right-back, forced off shortly after the hour mark, but were able to cope without him for the rest of the afternoon and doubled their lead soon after his exit following some brilliant play by Tevez and Silva.
The Spaniard started the move, finding Clichy out wide and the left-back's pass inside was cleverly flicked back into Silva's path by Tevez. Silva then did the rest, running into the area and hitting a delicate left-foot lob over Schwarzer to score off the post.
The crowd were still celebrating the goal when Silva went close to claiming a hat-trick, running through in almost identical fashion but this time rolling a low shot inches wide of the far post.
Thereafter City were never in any danger and played plenty of possession football and almost carved out chances at will. Dzeko should have scored a third in injury time but somehow scooped over from six yards with the goal at his mercy.


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The Architect's Newspaper, a New York-based publication covering architecture and urbanism, revealed the winners of its Astrodome design competition today at the Texas Association of Architect's annual convention.
The submissions—23 in all—ranged from feasible interventions that imagined a variety of urban, public, or infrastructural uses for the structure, to wildly imaginative and utterly improbable schemes that nevertheless encapsulated the heady spirit that originally propelled this project to completion in the 1960s. The jury, in the end, selected 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place winners, each of which was chosen for the strength of its concept and the quality of its presentation.
The announcement coincided with the publication's launch of its southwest edition. It may seem like unfortunate timing to reveal the winners of an Astrodome design contest two days after Harris County voters rebuffed a proposal to restore the aging structure, but it may help advance a discussion on how to save the dome.
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. Although influential southern congressman whittled down the bill's initial scope, it still included a number of important provisions for the protection of voting rights. It established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, and empowered federal officials to prosecute individuals that conspired to deny or abridge another citizen's right to vote. Moreover, it also created a six-member U.S. Civil Rights Commission charged with investigating allegations of voter infringement. But, perhaps most importantly, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 signaled a growing federal commitment to the cause of civil rights.
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STOCKTON - It's taken six seasons, but the Franklin High football team is starting to rise from the ashes of a 2007 recruiting scandal that devastated the program.
STOCKTON - It's taken six seasons, but the Franklin High football team is starting to rise from the ashes of a 2007 recruiting scandal that devastated the program.
The Yellowjackets (3-1), who host Edison (3-0) at 7:15 p.m. today are 3-1. It's their best start since 1998. That doesn't count 2007 when they started 6-1 but had to forfeit all their wins in the wake of the scandal involving students recruited from American Samoa.
The fallout leveled the football program. Former head coach Tom Verner resigned, players transferred and the Yellowjackets struggled. In the five years since, they haven't won more than two games in a season, and they entered this season on the heels of three consecutive 1-9 campaigns.
"It's our job to bring glory back to this program and back to this community," second-year head coach Scott Behnam said. "The kids have bought into that and taken that initiative."
While Verner was a lightning rod for controversy in his tenure, the Yellowjackets were successful. Over the stretch of a decade from 1997 to 2006, Franklin had two losing seasons, averaged almost seven wins per season and played in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I semifinals in 1998 and 2004,
Senior receiver Raymond Jones said he and his teammates could feel things starting to turn last year.
"We knew we were a lot better football team," he said. "We just had to get out here and do it."
Tyler Franks, a two-way lineman, who leads the Yellowjackets with three tackles for a loss and is one of the team's top tacklers, praised Behnam and his staff.
"We had players," he said. "Coach brought in an entirely new staff, and everybody really knows what they're doing. When you put that together with players, that's when you start winning."
It also helps having an outstanding starting quarterback returning in Anthony Shuemake, who's thrown for 575 yards with six touchdowns and no interceptions. Last year, he was a Record All-Area honorable mention selection as a junior.
It's important to point out Franklin hasn't been beating the area's top teams. One win was a forfeit over Merced-Stone Ridge Christian, and the other two were against Weston Ranch and West, who are a combined 2-5. But the Yellowjackets are learning how to win, and that's the first step.
"We don't know if we're for real or not," Behnam said. "There's a possibility we're still pretenders. The next two weeks is when we're going to know."
Though Franklin went 1-9 last year, Behnam - who wasn't hired to replace former coach Carlos Franco until late last June - could see the blowout losses turning into close losses. The Yellowjackets were competitive most weeks.
A full offseason has helped immensely this season.
"I got the job so late, you need that time for the kids to understand the system, to figure out what's going on," Behnam said. "We didn't have spring football. You need that time to bond, and we didn't have that. When I got here, it was time to go. There was no time to mesh, no real understanding of the system."
Jones agrees.
"This year's team is a lot closer," he said. "We're in it. Last year we were in games, but something always happened. This year we can help each other, give each other criticism. We couldn't do that last year."
Contact reporter Stephen Roberson at (209) 546-8272 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Arias lawyers wanted to withdraw after verdict but were denied
PHOENIX – Attorneys for Jodi Arias asked to step down from the case after their client was convicted of first-degree murder, but a judge denied the request.
Arias returns to court Thursday for the final phase of her trial as the same jury that convicted her last week now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death.
Her attorneys must convince jurors she shouldn't be executed. But just Tuesday, Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Willmott asked a judge for permission to withdraw from the case. The detail was contained in court minutes and provides no information about why the two defense lawyers asked to withdraw.
Legal experts have said that Arias complicated efforts for her defense when she gave an interview to Fox affiliate KSAZ minutes after her conviction Wednesday, saying that she preferred death over life in prison.
"I believe death is the ultimate freedom, and I'd rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it," Arias said.
However, Arias cannot choose the death penalty. It's up to the jury to recommend a sentence.
On Wednesday, the panel took less than three hours to determine that Arias should be eligible for the death penalty in the killing of her one-time lover after prosecutors proved the murder was especially cruel and heinous.
Arias, 32, acknowledged killing Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008, at his suburban Phoenix home after a day of sex. She initially denied any involvement then later blamed the attack on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she settled on self-defense.
On Thursday, the penalty phase of her trial begins during which prosecutors will call Alexander's family and other witnesses in an effort to convince the panel Arias should face the ultimate punishment. Arias' defense lawyers will have her family members testify, and likely others who have known her over the years, in an attempt to gain sympathy from jurors to save her life. It's not yet known if Arias will testify.
Arias showed no emotion Wednesday after the jury returned a decision that was widely expected given the violent nature of the killing. She slashed Alexander's throat, stabbed him in the heart and shot him in the forehead. The victim suffered a total of nearly 30 knife wounds in what prosecutors described as an attack fueled by jealous rage after Alexander wanted to end his affair with Arias and prepared to take a trip to Mexico with another woman.
The jury simply had to determine the killing was committed in an especially cruel and heinous manner to complete the "aggravation phase" of the trial and move on to the penalty portion.
Alexander's family members sobbed in the front row as prosecutor Juan Martinez took the jury through the killing one more time earlier in the day. He described how blood gushed from Alexander's chest, hands and neck as the 30-year-old motivational speaker and businessman stood at the sink in his master bathroom and looked into the mirror with Arias behind him, a knife in her hand.
"The last thing he saw before he lapsed into unconsciousness ... was that blade coming to his throat," Martinez said. "And the last thing he felt before he left this earth was pain."
Wednesday's proceedings played out quickly, with only one prosecution witness and none for the defense.
The most dramatic moments occurred when Martinez displayed photos of Alexander's corpse and the bloody crime scene for the jury, then paused in silence for two minutes to describe how long he said it took for Alexander to die at Arias' hands.
Arias, wearing a silky, cream-colored blouse, appeared to fight back tears most of the morning, but didn't seem fazed by the verdict. Afterward she chatted with her attorneys. Arias spent the weekend on suicide watch before being transferred back to an all-female jail where she will remain until sentencing.
Arias' attorneys didn't put on much of a case during the aggravation phase, offering no witnesses and giving brief opening statements and closing arguments. They said Alexander would have had so much adrenaline rushing through his body that he might not have felt much pain.
The only witness was the medical examiner who performed the autopsy and explained to jurors how Alexander did not die calmly and fought for his life as evidenced by the numerous defensive wounds on his body.


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A letter in the Nov. 25 Tomahawk Leader:
To The Leader:
On behalf of Tomahawk Fishing Unlimited Club, a big thanks to the Tomahawk area that supported the Fall Banquet Nov. 15. Some people were unhappy about the dinner not being wild game. We were not able to obtain the required game.
The wild game feed has been the long-standing tradition of the club; we all look forward to the dinner as well. We ask for your help to donate wild game so we can make it a wild game feed again. We cannot pull this off without your help. It's difficult for us as a club to go out and buy a variety of wild game. That is why we are asking for your assistance. We apologize for any disappointed supporters. Please help us have a wild game feed in 2009, and thank you again.
Contact president Mark Dochnahl, 715-966-6185, if you wish to donate wild game.
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No mention of water as a leveling device, which I file under "possibly even 'cosmological' significance."
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/1 ... -moat.html
Aug. 12, 2009 -- Over 2,000 years ago, residents of at least one royal palace enjoyed convenient indoor toilets, with the contents regularly transported to the stately mansion's surrounding moat, according to a recent excavation. The dig also found that the inhabitants struggled, and likely failed, to keep the waste flowing away from the palace.
Yet another recent excavation at an estate in Scotland indicates moat water held spiritual and possibly even "cosmological" significance. ..........


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In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholdersreleased this morning, Warren Buffett says more "major" acquisitions are needed to maintain growth in the company's non-insurance businesses at a "decent rate."
Buffett writes: "We will need both good performance from our current businesses and more major acquisitions. We're prepared. Our elephant gun has been reloaded, and my trigger finger is itchy."
At the end of 2010, Berkshire had a lot of ammunition for that elephant gun: $38 billion in cash.
In the letter, Buffett also updates the derivatives contracts written by Berkshire that have caused concern among some investors.
He compares them to selling insurance, as Berkshire gets "premiums for assuming risk that others wish to shed" with no counterparty risk.
One category involves mostly 5-year contracts written between 2004 and 2008 that guaranteed against bond defaults by companies "included in certain high-yield indicies." Premiums totaled $3.4 billion for that 'insurance,' while the financial crisis required Berkshire to pay out $2.5 billion. That gave Berkshire "the use of an interest free float that averaged $2 billion over the life of the contracts." Buffett also reports that "our exposure is largely behind us because most of our higher-risk contracts have expired."
As a result, "It appears almost certain that we will earn an underwriting profit as we originally intended."
Berkshire has also written contracts protecting the buyers from long-term losses in several global equity indexes. Buffett says that late last year, at the request of the buyer, eight contracts were unwound, with a net gain for Berkshire of $222 million.
That left 39 equity put options remaining at the end of 2010, for which Berkshire received $4.2 billion in premiums, another source of money to help fuel acquisitions.
Buffett says the "highlight" of 2010 was Berkshire's acquisition of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, "a purchase that's working out even better than I expected."
He's expecting that owning the railroad will increase Berkshire's "normal" earnings power by almost 40 percent pre-tax and "well over" 30 percent after-tax. He also writes that Berkshire "quickly replenished" the $22 billion in cash used to buy BNSF, so "the economics of this transaction have turned out very well."
For the year, however, Berkshire's corporate performance lagged behind the S&P 500, as measured by per-share book value, a metric that Buffett calls an "understated proxy" for intrinsic value, which is hard to pin down.
Berkshire's per-share book value increased by 13.0 percent last year, 2.1 percent points behind the S&P's 15.1 percent gain, including dividends.
Berkshire's compounded annual gain from 1965 through 2010 of 20.2 percent is more than double the S&P's 9.4 percent advance. (Buffett started running things at Berkshire in 1965.)


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The American College of Sports Medicine has released new recommendations about how much and what types of exercise adults should get based on current scientific evidence.
People should engage in 150 minutes of moderate intensity cardiorespiratory exercise per week, either by working out five days a week at a moderate level of intensity or engaging in less frequent, more intense workouts, according to the recommendations made in the position stand "Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults: Guidance for Prescribing Exercise." The position stand's purpose is to offer health-and-fitness professionals scientific, evidence-based recommendations that help them customize exercise prescriptions for healthy adults.
Each major muscle group should be trained two or three days per week. During resistance training, doing a lower number of repetitions, between eight and 15, improves strength and power, whereas doing 15 to 20 repetitions improves muscular endurance, the guidelines say.
The ACSM recommends stretching several times each week to improve range of motion as well as doing 20 to 30 minutes of neuromotor exercises, which should include balancing and coordination exercises in addition to multifaceted activities, such as tai chi and yoga, two or three days per week.
The position stand also dispels a few myths about working out. Pedometers do not accurately measure physical activity and should not be used as your only measure of physical activity, it says, and although exercising does help prevent heart disease, it is still possible for active adults to have heart problems. The guidelines also warn of the dangers of sedentary behavior, saying that even if people meet the exercise recommendations, they could still be at risk for health problems if they sit for long periods of time.
"It is no longer enough to consider whether an individual engages in adequate amounts of weekly exercise," says Carol Ewing Garber, chair of the writing committee. "We also need to determine how much time a person spends in sedentary pursuits, like watching television or working on a computer. Health-and-fitness professionals must be concerned with these activities as well."


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Below are a few screenshots to demonstrate the AI. The small red and yellow cubes are just for visualization purposes and won't be visible in the final game.
Let's spend the day with Alerick, a nice NPC living in this house in Tririon City.
Looks like he is still sleeping.
Ah, now he's awake. Let's see where he's going...
As mentioned above, the red dots are just for visualization of the path. The path is computed and updated on the fly while the NPC is walking. Obstacles like street lights are avoided.
Seems like Alerick is chilling in the park.
Now he's going to the armor shop...
Looks like he wants to go to the market next.
Where is he going?
Ah, to the item shop. :)
Looks like Alerick wants to hang out in the park again...
He just entered this inn.
His NPC friends are here, too.
Seems like he has enough of them. :) He's choosing a different seat.
Maybe he wants to tell me something in confidence. :)
Ok, time to get out of here.
He's going to the weapon shop.
Maybe I should buy some new weapons, too.
Later, in the evening...
It's time to go home.
Looks like Alerick is tired. His wife is already sleeping.
Good night!
In the next morning...
Let me show you the monster AI.
This plant creature is following me everywhere.
It can even climb up here.
Let's go to that castle.
As a rogue I can become stealthy. It works best in the shadow. The darker it is the faster I can become stealthy. When the stealth bar is full, enemies can't see me. Also my spirit increases so I can open the fight with a special attack.
Dungeon enemies are standing together in groups. If one of them sees me, the whole group will attack me.
There are also patrols like this Ogre. He is stronger than normal enemies.
He is patrolling from corner to corner.
It's better to eliminate the groups without the patrol...
... which is the specialty of an assassin. :)
Sometimes it's useful to pull groups around corners, e.g. when some of them are attacking from range.
That's all I have to show for now. I'm currently working on quests and the homepage. Maybe I'm gonna make a new video when the new quests are working.


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Jolt Awards 2014: The Best Utilities, August 05, 2014 The best programming utilities of the year
Jolt Award: Vagrant 1.6.3
Virtualization utilities such as VirtualBox and VMWare allow you to create isolated virtual development environments. However, as the number of virtual machines and the software required in each of them increase, you have to dedicate increasingly more time to managing all the virtual environments. The main problem is that virtualization utilities aren't generally designed with developers in mind. So, before you you're driven crazy with all the necessary configurations for your existing and new development environments, have a look at Vagrant, this year's Jolt Award winner for the Utilities category.
Vagrant is an easy-to-learn multiplatform utility that simplifies a common problem for developer teams: creating and configuring lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. Somebody in the development team has to spend a few minutes to create the portable "Vagrantfile" that describes the type of machine required for a project and how to configure and provision the machine. As you might guess, a Vagrantfile is a simple text file, and therefore, you can include it in your favorite version control system and track its changes. The file uses a Ruby syntax that is easy to understand and simplifies the configuration of the values for all the variables that define how things should work for an environment. The Vagrantfile includes several networking options to simplify typical network configurations required to work in virtual environments, such as forwarding ports, creating a private network, or connecting to a public network.
Once you have a Vagrantfile, a single
vagrant up command in the Vagrant command-line interface starts the virtual development environment with the specified provider, such as VirtualBox or VMWare. You can easily SSH into a running virtual environment to have access to a shell.
If you need to start up right away, you can explore the existing public catalog of Vagrant instances to find a ready-made package that provides the software configuration you need. Vagrant includes support for multi-machine environments, which are particularly useful when you need to test different scenarios that run on different clients or servers. Vagrant simplifies these configurations and makes it easy to create a private network between them and the host.
The versatile command-line interface and the simplicity brought to the most common tasks make Vagrant an extremely useful utility that will reduce the overall work required to work with development and test environments. And in doing so, removes one of the most problematic and least enjoyable aspects of modern software development and test. For this reason, Vagrant 1.6.3 receives the 2014 Jolt Award for the best utility.
Gastón Hillar