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Engineering Exam 2022: Engineering is the most significant carrier option in the country. Every eight candidates out of 10 choose engineering as the carrier. The number of engineering admission increases every year. Many different engineering exams are held across India to offer admission to UG, PG, and diploma courses. To apply for these exams, aspirants need to know every detail about these exams.
In this article, Applicants can find detailed information about top engineering exams held in India. To apply for the exam, candidates must have knowledge about the application form release and the last date to apply. After the date, they cannot apply for the exam. The below article contains all the essential information about these exams.
Engineering Exam 2022 List.
JEE Main 2022
JEE Main 2022 Online Registration will start in January 2022. NTA will release the JEE Main Application form on the official website jeemain.nta.nic.in. NTA will conduct the JEE Main 2022 Entrance Exam in multiple sessions February/March/April/May for admission in B.Tech, B.E., B.Arch, and B.Plan in NIT's, IIIT's, and CFTI's.
JEE Advanced 2022
The JEE Advanced 2022 Application form will tentatively be released in June 2022. IIT Bombay will release the application form on its official website. Candidates can apply online only. There is a way possible to release the form in offline mode. Candidates get admission in Bachelor's, Integrated Master's, or Dual Degree programs in Engineering, Pharmaceutics, Sciences, or Architecture IITs.
GATE 2022 Exam
The GATE Application form was released on 02 September 2021 and ended on 30 September 2021. GATE 2022 Application form was released by IIT Kharagpur on https://gate.iitkgp.ac.in/. An entrance exam will be held on 05,06,12 and 13 February 2022.
SRM University has released the entrance exam application form for Phase-1 and will end on 02 January 2022. The SRMJEEE 2022 application form will be available on the official website https://applications.srmist.edu.in/btech. Candidates have to pay Rs 1200/- as application fees for all categories. If candidates want to apply for multiple phases, they have to pay Rs 600/- for each phase.
VITEEE 2022 Exam
University has released the VITEEE 2022 Application Form on 02 December 2021. The last date to apply for the exam is yet to be released. VIT released the application form on its website https://viteee.vit.ac.in/. VITEEE Application fees are Rs. 1150/- for offline mode and Rs. 1250/- for online mode form. VIT Engineering Entrance Exam 2022 will be held in May 2022.
WBJEE 2022 Entrance Exam
WBJEE 2022 Application form was released on 24 December 2021 (Friday). The application form is released by WBJEEB on the official website. Candidates can apply for the exam till 10 January 2022. An entrance exam is going to be held on 23 April 2022. For the academic year 2022-23, WBJEEB will conduct the entrance exam in offline mode.
KLEEE 2022 Exam
University of Koneru Lakshmaiah (KL), Andhra Pradesh has released the KLEEE 2022 Application form on the university's official website. The last date for the phase-1 application form is 24 January 2022. Koneru Lakshmaiah Engineering Entrance Test Phase I will be held on 27, 28, and 29 January 2022. Candidates need to pay an amount of Rs. 1000/- as a KLUEEE 2022 Examination fee.
BITSAT 2022 Online Registration Process will start in February 2022. The application form will be available on the official website of BITS Pilani, the conducting authority. Through the BITSAT exam, applicants get admission in Integrated First Degree Programmes of BITS Pilani, Goa, and Hyderabad in B.E, B.Pharm, and M.Sc courses.
UPESEAT 2022 Application form will be available in the first week of January 2022 tentatively. The application form will be released in both modes online as well as offline modes. The UPESEAT entrance examination will be conducted in online mode. Candidates must ensure their eligibility before applying for the examination.
PES University has released the PESSAT 2022 Application form on 01 November 2021. University did not announce the last date to apply for the entrance examination. PESSAT 2022 entrance examination is expectedly held in May 2022. It is organized to offer admission into B. Tech, B.Arch, BBA/BBA-HEM (BBA – Hospitality & Event Management), BBA, LLB – 5 Year Integrated Law Program, B.Des, BCA, MBA, etc., courses.
Telangana State EAMCET 2022 Application Form will be available from March 2022. An application form will be released online by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH) on behalf of the Telangana State Council of Higher Education, Hyderabad. The entrance exam may be conducted in May 2022.
Candidates can check more details about the exams on Entrancezone.com


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June 30, 2013 National Broadband Map Datasets
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Note: The "Analyze Table" powers the Analyze section of the National Broadband Map (NBM). This table is a statistical compilation of data assembled from the 56 semi-annual state/territory submissions for the State Broadband Initiative. This table has been formatted to include one record for each unique geography (e.g. state, county, Congressional District) in the NBM, and columns for each statistic (e.g. Speed, Technology) presented in the Analyze function. It also includes demographic data. The Analyze table can be used to perform statistical analysis and yield broadband availability data within the range of any grantee's geographic region. This table is being provided as a download function, so users can investigate more complicated queries on the data than can be readily done in NBM.
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JLL names Thierry Delvaux CEO for Middle East & Africa
JLL names Thierry Delvaux CEO for Middle East & Africa
JLL (NYSE: JLL) has appointed Thierry Delvaux as CEO of its Middle East & Africa (MEA) business, effective March 4, 2018, succeeding Alan Robertson who is retiring after 30 years at JLL.
In this new role, Mr Delvaux will have overall leadership responsibility for JLL's strategic direction, brand positioning and continued business growth across the Middle East and continental Africa.
Delvaux has been at JLL for 20 years and has held a number of leadership roles during this time. Currently, he is based in Washington DC where he is Global Head of the International Desk and Chairman of the Global Tenant Representation Board. Previously, for almost a decade, he was based in Budapest as Country Manager for Hungary and with responsibility for JLL's broader business in South-East Europe. He joined JLL in 1998 and quickly became head of the office agency team in Belgium.
Though he will retire at the end of March 2018, Mr Robertson will continue to work with JLL until June 2018, serving as an adviser to the business during this period of leadership transition. During [his/Mr Robertson's] career at JLL [Mr Robertson/he] has held a number of leadership roles, including Country Manager for Scotland from 2005-2008, and for Turkey from 2008-2011, culminating in his appointment as CEO for Middle East & North Africa (MENA) in 2011.
Neil Murray, EMEA Board sponsor for the Middle East & Africa region, and CEO of JLL's EMEA Corporate Solutions business, said, "Under Alan's leadership, our MENA business has gone from strength to strength. Throughout his career with us, Alan has helped to establish, expand and cement internal and external relationships around the world, has been a trusted adviser to many clients, and a great ambassador for our brand. We thank him for his many contributions and wish him all the best for his retirement.
"Thierry has the benefit of already knowing our business and many of our clients. He is a 'citizen of the world' who brings with him broad and deep experience of working globally. He has consistently demonstrated over his 20-year career with JLL to date that he can build and motivate top teams to help our clients achieve their ambitions as well as ensure stability and sustained business growth in line with our strategic objectives. We're delighted to welcome him back to the EMEA region in his new role."
Thierry Delvaux said, "The diversity of opportunity in the Middle East and Africa were key factors that drew me to this role. I'm excited to be picking up the reins of such a successful business in a region that continues to evolve and present ever-more interesting and complex choices and opportunities for our clients. I look forward to working with our great people across MEA to continue to support both our domestic and international clients as they navigate the regional landscape."


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Microsoft has decided to retire its MS Teams Free (classic) app.
Released in 2017, MS Teams is a communication platform where users chat and call each other over the internet. While the primary concept is nothing new, the innovation comes with bells and whistles included. It is geared towards being a collaboration platform.
The product is available in both paid and free versions. The company has recently announced it would be retiring the free version.
When Is the MS Teams Free (Classic) Version Retiring?
Microsoft is set to retire the MS Teams Free (classic) version on April 12, 2023. The app will no longer be available, and data will be erased. That means organizations using the program need a transition plan right now.
What Should You Do?
Organizations using MS Teams Free (classic) have several options to switch. The first and understandably most promoted option by Microsoft is upgrading your Teams plan.
There are two paid versions available:
- Teams Essentials
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic
Essentials is a straightforward option. It allows you to keep all your files, chats, teams, and meetings in one cloud storage. On top of that, you get 300 participants per meeting, 10 GB storage per user, and unlimited group meetings up to 30 hours long. Who meets for 30 hours straight? We do not want to be the ones to know. This upgrade costs $4 per user per month.
The retirement of MS Teams Free could be an opportunity for your organization to switch to the MS 365 Business Basic. It is a complete productivity suite built for small to medium-sized businesses. At $6 per user per month, you get access to everything mentioned above, plus the following:
- Recordings with transcript
- MS 365 productivity apps like Word and Excel
- Manage customer appointments
- 1 TB cloud storage per user
If your organization is not ready to invest in paid productivity platforms yet, you still have the option to download and use the new Microsoft Teams Free app. Yes, they will retain a free version, offering:
- Unlimited group meetings for up to an hour
- Up to a hundred participants
- 5 GB cloud storage per user
The caveat is that it will use a new account. That means whatever data you have saved on your classic Teams would not be transferred to the new one.
Whatever you choose, it is wise to start downloading and backing up all the data on your classic Teams after reading this part. If you are interested in alternatives to MS Teams, read on.
Microsoft Teams Alternatives
We would be remiss to discuss MS Teams alternatives without mentioning Zoom. It is a communication platform for chats and calls. Key features include meeting recording, instant messaging during video calls, and cloud phone solutions. It can link with your Google Calendar, too.
If you are interested in Google products, their Meet platform integrates with other systems like Gmail, Calendar, and more. It is a web-based platform, meaning you can use it on any modern browser.
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"Beware the wolves of Chiantishire," warned a recent Daily Mail headline. Tuscany's "idyllic landscape of rolling fields and poplar-lined hills", the article continued, which in the past "proved irresistible to the great, the good and the very rich", have in recent months become "home to a savage predator – packs of marauding wolves which are growing increasingly brazen". Politicians in Chianti-country, we are told, "have called on the government to take action. There are growing fears that the wolves could attack humans."
Even by the Daily Mail's usual standards of scaremongering, this scenario is pushing it. In spite of their mythically savage status, proven attacks on humans by wolves are very small in number: globally since 2000 there have only been around 20 confirmed attacks. By comparison, in an average year there are 26 deaths caused by domestic dogs in the United States alone. The risk to humans of an unprovoked attack by a wolf is minuscule in comparison, even taking into account the vastly greater number of dogs.
Exaggerated though this report is, there's a grain of truth: wolves are on the increase, a conservation success story of sorts in some parts of Europe at least. Reintroduced colonies have been fanning out, faster than anticipated. In Italy there have even been occasional wolf sightings within 50km of Rome. In France a growing wolf population (which spread naturally across the Italian border) is now established in 14 departments. The wolves in these countries owe their survival to the strong conservationist lobby establishing protection in the face of cultures deeply committed to hunting. Even in more populated areas, wolves have made occasional appearances, with packs establishing in Eastern Germany and occasional sightings in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The Daily Mail article also contains another grain of truth. While this expansion holds very little threat to humans, the threat to livestock is obviously very real. In Italy it is estimated that 1,000 livestock were killed last year; in France in 2011 alone, wolves are thought to have killed 5,000 sheep; and in Spain's Asturias region wolves killed 1% of the stock reared between 2000 and 2004.
In some front-line wolf territories there are considerable tensions in spite of huge efforts by conservationists to make protection work. In France a Wolf Plan, created in 2004, pays generous compensation for livestock killed by wolves and subsidises farmers to buy and train dogs (the Patou or Pyrenean mountain dog) that traditionally protected herds against wolves. But shepherds in the Alps are complaining that these dogs can attack tourists, causing more problems than they solve, and that wolves, losing their fear of humans, are becoming more menacing.
Environmentalists believe that wolves will not approach humans, and that livestock tended with properly trained dogs will not be attacked. They are sceptical too about how many livestock are actually killed by wolves and about the compensation claims. But views have become so polarised that in the French Alps the stand-off has been described as ferocious pastoral warfare.
We only have to look at the Daily Mail piece to see why these conflicts escalate so fast and why dialogue around wolves is so charged. The language is loaded with emotive terms describing wolves as 'savage', 'marauding' and 'brazen', and the expansion of their population as a campaign to expand their territory. These terms imply not just that wolves are natural predators but that they have a conscious, malign intent on humanity. This is the archaic symbolism of fairy tales, which emerged in earlier times and in wilder places where the harshness and savagery of Nature is as apparent as its blessings and where people exposed to this harshness (in which the wolves' arbitrary depredations of their stock would figure large) would have good reason to imagine the 'cruelty' of Nature embodied in certain creatures.
Even though societies (even remote ones) are much better protected, connected and resourced, this ancient symbolism is easily reactivated. Indeed it plays a huge part in the ongoing persecution of wolves. When George Monbiot recently wrote about the treatment of wolves in Norway – a country that, although blessed with many wild and remote areas, has nevertheless hunted wolves to the point of extinction – he met with a barrage of accusations. At the forefront was the charge that Monbiot was a sentimental urbanite who simply didn't understand the true malevolence of the wolf.
And wolves are not only laden with symbolism by their opponents: they are also heavily endowed with symbolic attributes by their supporters. This is not so obvious, but it is an important factor in why the stakes are so high on both sides. Of all species, wolves can, and do, scavenge, but they are primarily a hunting species needing to range far and wide in pursuit of both prey and mates. Wolves need space – vast, non-urbanised areas – and a healthy environment with ample big prey, as all top predators do. What's at stake for conservationists isn't just the survival of the species but the survival of wilderness, of unmanaged spaces big enough to sustain the wolf; in short, as close to an imagined natural state as it is possible to be. Recent research on their social structure, loyalty and sophisticated hunting communication has added hugely to the wolf's charms, but fundamentally their charisma lies in their embodiment of Nature without human interference.
I understand the pull of this symbolism. I often choose my holiday destinations because of the presence of wolves in an area. Last summer I went to Transylvania, attracted by an environment that still supports top predators such as wolves and bears. Their existence signals that this environment is relatively pristine or at least tended in traditional low-impact ways. I didn't see any wolves – indeed I didn't even come across recent scats like I had in Poland's Bialowieza Forest (another destination I chose for the presence of wolves). But in the remote Carpathians they never felt far away, their presence signalled by sheep tended in the tightest of tight groups by the traditional sheepdogs and always with a shepherd present who would warn off any tourist intent on approaching the dogs. These animals are not in the business of making friends. This is an environment where the wolf is present, a robust environment therefore, an environment where Nature is not dominated or controlled entirely by humans.
But if the wolf is valued because its presence implies Nature unsubdued, then suggestions of 'managing' wolf populations are inherently problematic. Management implies Nature on human terms. Of course, resistance to wolf management has some strong rational grounds because 'management' covers a multitude of sins. At its softest end, it can mean supporting traditional pastoral techniques like working with the dogs, and allowing farmers to fire warning shots, or even kill wolves that threaten their flocks. But at the other end, management can sometimes be used to justify wolf persecution. Monbiot has pointed out that this is not only the case in Norway but in Canada too, where the killing of wolves is explained as part of a management plan for caribou. In fact it appears the level of threat to caribou has been entirely exaggerated and is being used to support another agenda, namely the exploitation – and destruction – of the wolf's environment.
It's also hard not to feel repulsed by some of the language employed around 'managing' wolves. Some of the American states – even very enlightened ones like Minnesota – use the term 'harvest' for the sporadic culling of wolves. Sweden, which has just controversially given the go-ahead to the culling, repeatedly uses the expression 'managing at sustainable levels', even though the Swedish wolf population is already considerably reduced. In both cases these feel like euphemisms for – certainly in Sweden's case – unjustified killing.
Yet if the wolf population grows, 'management' will have to be addressed; the fears are too deep, and the losses too painful for some rural communities. But to be acceptable, a new, less loaded language may have to be found. There needs to be a way of talking about wolves without succumbing either to scaremongering and ethnocentric notions of human management on one hand, or impossible ideals of prehuman wilderness on the other.
There are signs this is happening. Jean-Marc Moriceau, a wolf expert and the author of Man Versus Wolf: A 2,000-year War, has advanced the idea of a 'wolf parliament', bringing together shepherds, ecologists and government. That would require a new unfamiliar language around beasts, a language of needs, rights and interests, mitigation of harm, and negotiated settlements.
Management by another name need not be disastrous. Take Romania, which, with 3,000 wolves, has the largest numbers in Europe. It is one of the few European countries that don't pay compensation for wolf kills. Nevertheless the wolf isn't particularly persecuted there and it's easy to see why. Flocks are never left untended. They move with shepherds and dogs in close and continuous attendance. Insofar as money comes in from wolves, it's not from compensation or bounties. It's from tourism drawn to the idea of remoteness.
Language describing what's happening there, namely "low-impact human activity in areas where wolves still have stronghold", may not have the emotional resonance of the old polarisations, but it might just have a much happier outcome.


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Here's an astonishing fact: Half of America's mushrooms are grown in one tiny corner of southeastern Pennsylvania, near the town of Kennett Square.
But why? It's not as though this place has some special advantage of climate or soil, the kind of thing that led to strawberry fields in Watsonville, Calif., or peach orchards in Georgia. Mushrooms can grow indoors. They could come from anywhere.
No, what turned Kennett Square into the Mushroom Capital of the World was nothing more than historical accident, combined with the presence of some very industrious Quakers, Italians and Mexicans.
The story starts with the Quakers.
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Sometime around 1885, according to local lore, two Quaker flower growers from Kennett Square were bothered by wasted space under the carnation beds in their greenhouses, and they thought of growing mushrooms there. So they steamed off to Europe, where people were already farming mushrooms, and brought back some spores.
They were Kennett Square's original mushroom farmers. A few Quakers — or their descendants — are still in the business today.
They hired some Italians — laid-off workers from nearby stone quarries — to handle some of the hard physical labor. And then the Italians started their own farms. So did their sons and cousins. By the 1950s, there were hundreds of mushroom farmers in Chester County, and most were Italians.
Many are still there (although there are fewer, but we'll get to that).
Chris Alonzo, president of Pietro Industries, one of the bigger mushroom companies, takes me on a little driving tour of the area. As we go, he points to the mushroom-growing rooms: clusters of drab, windowless, cinder-block buildings, all exactly the same size, each one built into the side of a hill. "There's the D'Amico farm," he says. "And up here on the right is the Basciani farm. And on the left here is Kenny Davis' farm. So we have farm after farm after farm."
Like a big extended family, the mushroom farmers — including Alonzo's father and grandfather — would get together at the Kennett Square Inn or Sam's Sub Shop on State Street. "They'd check their mushroom houses at 4 in the morning, and at 5 they'd be up there having coffee, sharing ideas," says Alonzo.
That's part of the secret to this clan's success. They had to learn from each other, because there was almost nobody else doing this. Fungus farming is completely different from growing plants, like wheat or potatoes. There's something weird and magical about it.
It starts with the most basic thing: the compost that feeds the fungi.
It Takes A Lot Of Manure
Chris Alonzo takes me to a huge compost-making yard that supplies lots of nearby farms. It's 20 acres of steaming, reeking decomposition. There are mounds of cocoa shells from the Hershey chocolate factory, corn cobs, chicken manure, hay, horse manure.
Mushrooms are finicky. They don't like just any kind of manure. "We've tried others, pig and cow [manure], and that just does not seem to work," says Alonzo. "But with horses, it works very well."
Loads of this compost will refill long beds inside those climate-controlled cinder-block buildings across Chester County. Spores will get mixed in.
The spores will germinate, and silently, in the darkness, a thick web of white threads — mycelia — will spread through the compost and a layer of peat moss on top.
Finally, mushroom growers force the fungus to deliver its fruit. "We drop the carbon dioxide level, we drop the temperature, we start to add water," says Jim Angelucci, general manager of Phillips Mushroom Farms.
This apparently convinces the fungi that winter is coming. They panic and try to reproduce. They send up mushrooms, which in nature, would release spores.
Angelucci shows me the result, and it's spectacular. The beds are covered with a mass of pure white, like bubbling foam: thousands of white button mushrooms. These are the mushrooms — along with other strains of this same species, the brown and portobello mushrooms — that account for the vast majority of all mushrooms that Americans eat.
In this growing room, the harvest is under way. Angelucci says it has to happen quickly. "A mushroom doubles in size every 24 hours, so it's imperative that they be harvested at the proper time."
This is hand labor. For the past few decades, most of the workers in this growing room, and across the industry, have come from Mexico.
It's hard work, and many workers earn only a little more than minimum wage.
Putting Down Roots For Steady, Hard Work
But, says Noelia Scharon, it's still a step up from seasonal work in the fields. She's Puerto Rican and grew up in Chester County; she and her husband, who is Mexican, both used to work in the mushroom industry. "My opinion — more people came here for the mushrooms because they didn't have to be moving around. With strawberries and tomatoes, they had to be moving from state to state," she says. "The mushroom [harvest] is all year round."
Thousands of mushroom workers have remained in the area, even after they moved on from mushroom jobs. Scharon and three partners started an ice cream shop just up the street from Sam's Sub Shop.
"Their children are going to school, learning the language. They don't want to stay in the mushroom industry; they see how hard their parents worked," Scharon says.
There's change and uncertainty, in fact, on all sides of the Kennett Square mushroom industry.
Costs have been going up. Big farms are getting bigger, and smaller ones are folding. Only 60 farms survive in Chester County, but production continues to increase.
Chris Alonzo says it used to be really helpful to have so many mushroom growers so close together. It made them all more efficient.
But they're now so big, he says, that they're trucking in hay and horse bedding — for compost production — from farms and stables a hundred miles away. There's not nearly enough affordable housing for all the workers. It's making mushroom farming here more expensive. Maybe, he says, this mushroom capital of the world has actually become too big.
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To the extent that polls are still to be taken seriously, a new Pew poll has fascinating findings about the gender gap: it has vanished, despite the Obama campaign's relentless pitch of a so-called War on Women:
Currently, women are evenly divided (47% Obama, 47% Romney). Last month, Obama led Romney by 18 points (56% to 38%) among women likely voters.
A devastated Andrew Sullivan, who has been doing a lot of handwringing since the first presidential debate, calls the gender gap President Obama's "firewall" and admits that it has evaporated.
If the Pew poll is right, it means that women are weighing the real issues as opposed to being swayed by a campaign that includes a disgusting and condescending admonition to women to "vote your lady parts."
The idea that forcing the Jesuits to pay for Sandra Fluke's free contraception is less important than a decent job and an economy that provides opportunity seems to be an idea whose time is fast arriving.


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Names for new Pluto moons accepted
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- July 2, 2013
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- The International Astronomical Union has officially recognized the names Kerberos and Styx for the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto respectively (formerly known as P4 and P5). These names were backed by voters in a recently held popular contest, aimed at allowing the public to suggest names for the two recently discovered moons of the most famous dwarf planet in the Solar System.
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The IAU is pleased to announce that today it has officially recognised the names Kerberos and Styx for the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto respectively (formerly known as P4 and P5). These names were backed by voters in a recently held popular contest, aimed at allowing the public to suggest names for the two recently discovered moons of the most famous dwarf planet in the Solar System.
The new moons were discovered in 2011 and 2012, during observations of the Pluto system made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3, and increasing the number of known Pluto moons to five. Kerberos lies between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, two bigger moons discovered by Hubble in 2005, and Styx lies between Charon, the innermost and biggest moon, and Nix. Both have circular orbits assumed to be in the plane of the other satellites in the system. Kerberos has an estimated diameter of 13 to 34 kilometres, and Styx is thought to be irregular in shape and is 10 to 25 kilometres across.
The IAU acts as the arbiter of the naming process of celestial bodies, and is advised and supported by astronomers active in different fields. On discovery, astronomical objects receive unambiguous and official catalogue designations. When common names are assigned, the IAU rules ensure that the names work across different languages and cultures in order to support collaborative worldwide research and avoid confusion.
After the discovery, the leader of the research team, Mark Showalter (SETI Institute), decided to call for a public vote to suggest names for the two objects. To be consistent with the names of the other Pluto satellites, the names had to be picked from classical mythology, in particular with reference to the underworld -- the realm where the souls of the deceased go in the afterlife. The contest concluded with the proposed names Vulcan, Cerberus and Styx ranking first, second and third respectively. Showalter submitted Vulcan and Cerberus to the IAU where the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature and the Committee on Small Body Nomenclature discussed the names for approval.
However, the name Vulcan had already been used for a hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun. Although this planet was found not to exist, the term "vulcanoid" remains attached to any asteroid existing inside the orbit of Mercury, and the name Vulcan could not be accepted for one of Pluto's satellites (also, Vulcan does not fit into the underworld mythological scheme). Instead the third most popular name was chosen -- Styx, the name of the goddess who ruled over the underworld river, also called the Styx.
After a final deliberation, the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature and the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature, in charge of naming dwarf planets and their systems, agreed to change Cerberus to Kerberos -- the Greek spelling of the word, to avoid confusion with an asteroid called 1865 Cerberus. According to mythology, Cerberus -- or Kerberos in Greek -- was a many-headed dog that guarded the entrance to the underworld.
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text: by Steve Berry Book list At first, readers might wonder why Berry has introduced a new protagonist, disgraced investigative journalist Tom Sagan, for this story that involves a nasty villain and an ancient historical mystery. This seems like prime material for Cotton Malone, Berry's series hero, but we soon see that Malone wouldn't fit here. Sagan, who was stripped of his Pulitzer Prize after an accusation of plagiarism, is approached by a man who has abducted Sagan's daughter. Unless Tom helps him uncover the truth about Christopher Columbus and a lost treasure, Tom's daughter is in mortal danger. The book is full of twists and turns, and it's quite a bit grittier and darker than the Malone novels. We sense real danger here, not the faux danger that puts Malone in seeming jeopardy (although we know nothing bad will actually happen to him), and Zachariah Simon, the man who uses Tom's daughter's life as leverage, is a believable and formidable villain. It's something different for Cotton Malone fans something different and also something very good. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Berry's books have been translated into 40 languages and sold in 51 countries; don't be surprised if his latest sweeps still farther around the globe.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist From Booklist, Copyright © American Library Association. Used with permission. Library Journal In his first stand-alone thriller since 2005, Berry (The Jefferson Key) takes advantage of the enigma that was Christopher Columbus to create a fascinating blend of legends, fables, contested historical facts, and imaginative fiction. Tom Sagan, a disgraced journalist of Jewish descent, is about to commit suicide when he is coerced into a plot to decipher secrets hidden in the coffin of his father. Sagan's estranged daughter, Alle, has fallen into the hands of ruthless Zachariah Simon, a wealthy Orthodox Jew in search of a treasure supposedly hidden by Columbus somewhere in Jamaica. Simon has temporarily allied himself with Bene Rowe, a Jamaican Maroon, descendant of runaway slaves, who has his own reasons for finding the treasure. But does it exist and, if so, what exactly is it? Many will risk their lives to learn the truth. VERDICT Thriller readers-from fans of Dan Brown's ciphers to Clive Cussler's fantastic adventures-will savor this intoxicating amalgam of Taino (indigenous) myth, Maroon legend, the history of Jews in Jamaica, the peregrinations of Temple treasures following Titus's sacking of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., and Columbus's mysterious deeds in the West Indies. Sure to be another best seller. [See Prepub Alert, 11/7/11; library marketing.]-Ron Terpening, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Publishers Weekly This engrossing stand-alone thriller from bestseller Berry (The Third Secret) assumes the premise that Columbus was a Jew, Christoval Arnoldo de Ysassi, forced to convert to Christianity, and that aboard his ships were sacred artifacts rescued from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, including a golden menorah, which he hid on his last voyage to the New World. On the trail of those artifacts and a rumored gold mine are Bene Rowe, a wealthy and powerful Jamaican Maroon, and Zachariah Simon, a Jew intent on returning the artifacts to Jerusalem. The grave of Abiram Sagan, father of disgraced reporter Tom Sagan, may hold the key to finding the treasures. Simon succeeds in reawakening the reporter's dormant investigative skills, prompting a quest that wends through Vienna, Prague, and 500 years of history before culminating in the caves of Jamaica. Berry's imaginative mix of Judaic and Columbus lore as well as Tom's transformation from suicidal flop to heroic everyman should please his many fans. Author tour. Agent: Simon Lipskar, Writers House. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved |


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Aloha Bloggerinos,
Well, this is a bit of a funny post. Not funny haha, just funny garrrghhh ggaarrgghhh!
So yesterday, I was supposed to trundle along to the oh so swanky L'Oreal event with ZoeChummy (Zoella to you lovely Bloggerinos) where I would sip champagne and squish her gorgeous little face. But alas, it wasn't to be, something got in the way.
What? Ok, I'll tell you. AN EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's right Bloggeirnos, my boiler exploded!!!!!
Here is what happened:
It was about 3pm and I was in my hallway waiting for my friend Nicki to come and collect Baby Glitter so that I could go to London to meet Zoe. All day I had been thinking I could smell gas but thought it was just my nose playing tricks on me. I even said to CeriChummy on the phone that I could smell something.
So as I was standing in the hall I smelt the gas smell again and thought "Hmmm maybe it's coming from outside" and opened my front door to sniff out there. As I opened the front door, there was a huge BANG and a really scary woooooosssshhhing sound!!!
My first thought was 'Gas Leak' and envisioned huge fire balls and house exploding and totally freaked out. I grabbed Baby Glitter (quite roughly, poor little thing) and ran as fast as I could into the street- I didn't even put shoes on!! I ran into the road and just stood there holding Baby Glitter screaming "HELP! PLEASE! HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPP! SOMEBODY HELLPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!" until my neighbour, Pete, came out to see what all the commotion was about! I frantically told him there had been an explosion and he rang 999 for me whilst I gabbled hysterically and cried.
The neenaahhnengines (Fire Brigade) came and they all trooped into my house and I stood across the road on Pete's drive watching them open all the windows and such. Pete's wife Vicky came home and was so brilliant making everyone drinks (by this time Matt had come home from work after I hysterically called his school office and my Dad had come over too to help) and inviting us all into her house. Her 2 little girls played with Baby Glitter too which was really sweet.
So whilst all this was happening, I rang Zoe in a massive flap, crying down the phone, but because I was so shook up, I didn't quite explain very well and just said "Zoeeeeee I can't come! There's been an explosion in my house!!" and basically hung up! So poor Zoe was worried sick until I finally managed to call back and explain.
After about 45 minutes, all the neighbours were in the street, the fire brigade had done their stuff, the national grid had turned off the water and the red cross people had come to ensure we were ok. I have to say, the red cross people are so cool- they come in a red cross camper van type thing with stuff on board to help- like milk and nappies if you have a baby and can't get into you house (like me).
Eventually we were allowed back in to see the damage. What had happened was the boiler had exploded and caused rather a lot of water damage. The bathroom was flooded and then the water went through the ceiling into the kitchen. The wooshing noise I had heard was actually water, not gas. I think the gas I smelt was the boiler indicating that it was on it's last legs. Thank God it wasn't worse.
So here I am today, waiting in for people like the gas man, insurers and such. I'm looking on the bright side- nobody was hurt, the only things that are ruined are just 'things', nothing special like photos, wedding dresses (I have mine and my Mum's), Baby Glitters special momentos, the cat is fine (haha phwef!) and the only rooms with water damage are the kitchen and bathroom, neither of these have carpet so it's easy to sort. And, most thankfully, we have insurance!!
After all this drama, my Dad took the opportunity to lighten the mood and took this silly picture of Baby Glitter in her bouncer, wearing his spectacles- tehehe!
I'm really gutted that I missed the L'Oreal Event, I was so so so so looking forward to meeting up with everyone and seeing all the lovely beauty products. My invite was via Zoebumpkins so I don't even have any contact details for the L'Oreal people to say sorry I missed it. I tried to call them but I was just put through to a voicemail where I left a VERY garbled message. Does anyone know what I should do? I'm really quite blue about it :(
Well Bloggerinos, that's my explosively dramatic tale! Was your Monday as manic as mine?


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So often, games and DLC are released with small bugs and issues, which cause some games to crash and freeze. A lot of the time, this can be down to simple issues with your own console or its compatibility with the game. Sometimes, however, they are common issues and bugs which many other gamers are also experiencing. Whether your game is freezing up on you, crashing mid game, not loading properly, or game-play is lagging/disrupted – we are here to help.
This guide is simply designed to help fix common issues which arise with some games, we are happy to offer any help to those of you who might be experiencing issues. So, if any of the below issues relate to you, feel free to comment below and we shall see if others are experiencing the same problem and if anyone has a solution.
If during gameplay of 'Battlefield 1' the game crashes with the "Disc Unreadable" error message on your games console then there are a few things which you can do to fix the problem. This solution is only reliable for; XBox One, XBox 360, PS4, PS3, Wii U
Solution: Eject the disc and give it a clean, it is unlikely that a DVD or BLU-ray disc would scratch itself past destruction so the error could be with a dirty disc lens or simply dust on the disc itself. Get a dry soft cloth and move away any dust or debris which the 'Battlefield 1' disc may have. If there is a perfect circular scratch running all the way around the disc then this is a Laser Burn and is a common issue with DVD Discs.
Fixing a Laser Burn: A laser burn will cause your game to crash, freeze and not load the game at all. There is no easy solution to fixing a Laser Burn as the mark travels so deep through the disc it often causes permanent damage. You can try taking it to your local game store if they have a disc buffer which will hopefully buff the mark out. If this fails borrow a friends copy of 'Battlefield 1', Install the game, and then try your damaged disc to see if the game will load. If the game loads once it is installed it will not require the disc so much as you play.
GUIDE : Check out our complete guide on how to fix un-readable discs and laser burns.
If the game does not require a Disc and it runs off a pre installed file which is located on a hard drive (Example: The PS VITA) then the fault may lie with a corrupt installation file. To ensure that this is not the case be sure to try and re-install the game or re-download the game and try again. This will clear up any issues which are connected with a bad install.
If your 'Battlefield 1' game is freezing on the loading screen just after you load your previous safe then this may indicate that either there is a fault with your hard drive or with the save file itself. It is an annoyance but save files can become corrupt if you turn off your console while it is saving your progress. Once you begin to save or during the auto-save period DO NOT switch the console off. Doing so will result in your save file most likely becoming corrupt, un readable and un fixable.
GUIDE: How To Format Your XBox One Hard-Drive / How To Format Your PS4 Hard-Drive
Solution: There is no real way of fixing a corrupt save file. However some gamers have suggested that if you clear your system cache then it will allow you to load the save file. Also you can attempt to revert back to an earlier save file before your game was corrupted. If you believe that the save file is not the case and it may be your hard-drive. Attempt to transfer the save file by using a memory card to another hard-drive and try to 'Battlefield 1' save on another console.
GUIDE: Complete Guide on Preventing Corrupt Data and Save Files
Although 'Lag" seems to be the number one problem in today's online gaming it is not always the blame of the game. Just because your 'Battlefield 1' game is lagging does not mean that your game is faulty. When playing online Lag is the fault of a poor connection to the internet. There are various different factors which may cause you to experience lag while your gaming with your friends.
Solution: If you don't normally experience lag then there may be an issue with your service provider. You can contact your service provider and they will explain if they are experiencing any kind of faults on your line. Failing this if you are running a Wi-Fi connection you may want to try and use a wired connection using a high speed Ethernet cable. It is most likely that it is another member of your household which is downloading something or visually streaming content from websites such as YouTube and Facebook which will decrease your bandwidth and ultimately make your 'Battlefield 1' game lag.
GUIDE: How To Test Your Internet Connection / Recommended Internet Providers For Gaming
If you are faced with a connection issue with any games and you cannot connect to the online features of 'Battlefield 1' then the fault may lie with your connection. Even though you are online are you sure you are not behind a firewall? Or maybe your console or computer is restricting you access to the server due to a safety lock. Another possibility is that your current version of the game is not up to date and is causing an issue.
Solution: First things first, be sure to check that your running the correct version of the game. If you're game is out of date then it simply may need an update or patch to use again.To do this simply update the game through the games servers and attempt to connect to 'Battlefield 1' again. If this still does not work be sure to remove any firewall which may prevent you from connecting to the server. If you are not behind a firewall and be sure to check the support section of 'Battlefield 1' to see if they are having any issues with their server. If they are having problems and the server is down I suppose it's time to play the waiting game.
If you managed to pre order 'Battlefield 1' or bought the limited edition or collector's edition and the codes do not work then it may be a minor fault with the game itself or possibly the fault of the place of purchase.
Solution: If you purchased a retail copy of 'Battlefield 1' and the code was not valid there are a few things that you could do. If the game was sealed and the code is saying that it is not valid then be sure to double check that you have entered the correct code. If after checking it is still not working simply e-mail the customer support team for the game and they will be happy to help you. However you will need a picture of both the game and proof of purchase. If the code has already been redeemed and you are not able to get your extra content or online pass working then please be sure to check out our DLC Code Guides which will give you a variety of different solutions to fix the problem.
GUIDE : Soutions For DLC Codes That Do Not Work
Problems with sound are very rarely the fault of the game disc and can be fixed in numerous ways. If you are having any problems with sound when playing 'Battlefield 1' then there are a few steps you can take to ensure that the problem is not a user error and it maybe a fault with your game disc.
Solution: To fix sound issues with 'Battlefield 1' then be sure to check all of the connections between the TV and console. If the connections are okay then you can try and replace any wires which you may believe have become damaged. If you have replaced the wires and you are still unable to hear anything from the game then it may be a fault with the game disc. As long as it is still under warranty then the retailer will be happy to change the game for another copy.
If you have attemped all of the relevent fixes above and you're still having issues with your game then there is a chance that your console maybe faulty. Faulty consoles are a nightmare to deal with but once you have the right mindset and the correct knowledge then it isnt such a bother.
Solution: If you strongly believe your console is faulty then be sure to check to see if you're still covered. Most consoles come with a standard manufacturers warranty. This entitles you to a repair or exchange on the console from the place in which you purchased the console. Sometimes the developers can also help wtih a replacement console. As long as you are within your warranty time then feel free to contact the provider. If you purchased the console online then it is even easier to seek a replacement.
Guide: Console Warranty Explained / Gamers Guide To Online Refunds and Returns
It is the most frustrating thing – When you have worked soo hard on an achievment and they do not unlock. However there are a few quick and easy tips on how you can prevent this from happening.
Solution: If you ever encounter this fault with 'Battlefield 1' we recommend you restart the console and check for 'Battlefield 1' updates which may be available via online. If your game is currently up to date then be sure to check out the customer support and inform them of any faults like this. You may not be the only one to experience it.
GUIDE: XBox One Achievements Not Unlocking
If you are experiencing visual issues and graphic bugs then this could be a few reasons.
Solution: Be sure to make sure that your HDMI cable is inserted fully to ensure that is not the problem. Also be sure to monitor how hot your console is, if your console is overheating this might pave the way for unexpected console restarts and graphic glitches.
As stated above, if the Xbox One is running hot then it will warn the gamer and if it is unable to cool down will then be forced to power down to prevent future damage. A console shutting down can also be caused by your power plug. If you want to ensure that your console is healthy then try unplugging your console and jacking it in somewhere else. This will hopefully shed more light on what the issue is.
Solution: Make sure that your console is in a well ventilated area with a lots of room to breathe. Make sure that all of the exhaust fans are not clogged up with any dust or worse. Once your console has turned off, leave it off for roughly two hours before attempting to restart it. If you continue to run the console while it is overheating you risk causing permanent hardware damage which would not be covered by the warranty.
GUIDE: XBox One Overheating Solution and Cleaning Guide
If you're worried about your XBox One and are wondering if you're entitled to an exchange or repair then please return to the place of purchase with your receipt and comply with their store policies in order to get an exchange.
As cool as the Kinect 2.0 is on Xbox One, gamers have reported several issues which prevent games from loading, working effectively and worse. Before we continue please be sure to double check that 'Battlefield 1' is compatible with the Xbox One Kinect.
Solution: If you are still struggling with any faults with the Kinect then attempt to restart the console in order for the Kinect to reboot and sync correctly with 'Battlefield 1'. Be sure to update your Xbox One console so it has all of the necessary Kinect one updates. If this still fails you then you should contact a Microsoft representative who can help you. Perhaps they can send you out a new working unit.
The XBox One has an incredible ability which allows it to automatically update your latest games upon launch. This means that developers will release updates over time which will help with bugs and fixes, crashing errors, balance issues and also add additional content. Sometimes due to client in-compatibility you will not be able to play online and use some specific features.
Solution: Ensure that your XBox One is connected to the internet. This will allow for it to automatically download the latest update for 'Battlefield 1'. Sometimes insufficient space on your hard drive may be the issue so ensure there is enough on your XBox One. If the game has no automatic update feature available then more than likely you will find it in the game settings. If your XBox one will not update then please be sure to check your internet connection.
GUIDE : How To Get The Latest Updates and Patches
Sometimes Trophies may not unlock while completing that epic boss battle or racing for the fastest time. If you ever encounter this fault with 'Battlefield 1' we recommend you restart the console and check for any updates which may be available via online. Double check that your connection with Playstation Network is fluid and without fault. Some games require you to be online for certain trophies to unlock.
Solution: Sometimes trophies can be effected by a multitude of issues such as running the latest update of the game, connection issues with the internet or simply a sly bug still running within the game in which the developer has yet to fix.
GUIDE: How To Fix Playstation 4 Trophies Not Unlocking
Sometimes when a console crash or simply turns off it can be various issues. However the major culprit is overheating. Consoles run hot for lengths of time and without the correct treatment can cause crashes and sometimes permanant damage. If you experience this while playing 'Battlefield 1' on Playstation 4. We have a few tricks that might save the day.
Solution: Before anything be sure to connect to Playstation Network and download any current or new updates for both the PS4 and 'Battlefield 1'. Follow our overheating guide which will allow you to clean your console and remove any debris which may be causing the fault. If this fails to work it may be a damaged save file or hard drive information. Begin a brand new game on 'Battlefield 1' or alternatively you can do a complete system restart in order to fix any hard-drive issues.
GUIDE: Overheating Playstation 4 Cleaning Guide / How To Factory Reset A Playstation 4
It is important to run the latest update of the games available today. Developers will release updates over time which will help with bugs and fixes, crashing errors, balance issues and also add additional content. Sometimes due to client in-compatibility you will not be able to play online and use some specific features.
Solution: Ensure that your Playstation 4 is connected to the internet. This will allow for it to automatically download the latest update for 'Battlefield 1'. If the game has no automatic update feature available then more than likely you will find it in the game settings. If your Playstation 4 will not update then please be sure to check your internet connection.
GUIDE : How To Get The Latest Updates and Patches
It is important to run the latest update of the games available today. Developers will release updates over time which will help with bugs and fixes, crashing errors, balance issues and also add additional content. Sometimes due to client in-compatibility you will not be able to play online and use some specific features.
Solution: Ensure that your PC is connected to the internet. This will allow for it to automatically download the latest update for 'Battlefield 1'. If the game has no automatic update feature available then more than likely you will find it in the game settings. If your Steam Client will not update then please be sure to check your internet connection.
GUIDE : How To Get The Latest Updates and Patches
PC's are sometimes awkward to get right. Due to their large amount of changeable componants sometimes incompatibility between devices can sometimes effect your PC. Or possibly your Graphics Card is not quite as powerful as you would like it to be. Regardless of the issue if you're experiencing freezing, stuttering or crashing on 'Battlefield 1' then we can help.
Solution: First things first it is ideal to ensure that your STEAM and PC are compatible with 'Battlefield 1'. The best way of doing this is by running "Can You Run It" by 'System Requirement Labs'. It's a powerful tool which will tell you everything you need to know. It will also suggest specific upgrades which may make the game run faster. If your PC is compatible and you are still experiencing crashing or freezing then please besure to resort to your troubleshooting guide for your graphics card and motherboard.
GUIDE: Is My Computer Compatible For This Game?
"My copy of 'Battlefield 1' is crashing on the load screen."
"My copy of 'Battlefield 1' is freezing."
"My save game of 'Battlefield 1′ is corrupted and I can't find my data."
"I am experiencing glitches in 'Battlefield 1', how do I Patch it?"
If any of these problems seem familiar to you, then please comment below! We won't be able to release an update or patch, but the more people who make us aware of these issues, the easier it is for us to notify developers of common issues, or at least find ways to help you counteract them.
So if you are having trouble with 'Battlefield 1' regardless of platform (e.g Xbox One / Xbox360 / PS4 / PS3 / Wii / PC / 3DS / Vita) then post the issue below and tell us about the problem. Also if you have managed to fix certain issues then please be sure to post below with how you fixed the problem.


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The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863, Scott Mingus, Louisiana State University Press, 352 pages,8 maps, bibliography, index, $34.95.
Previous works on Confederate brigadier general Harry T. Hays's First Louisiana Brigade--better known as the "Louisiana Tigers"--have tended to focus on just one day of the Tigers' service--their role in attacking East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863--and have touched only lightly on the brigade's role at the Second Battle of Winchester, an important prelude to Gettysburg. In this commanding study, Scott L. Mingus, Sr., offers the first significant detailed exploration of the Louisiana Tigers during the entirety of the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign.
Mingus begins by providing a sweeping history of the Louisiana Tigers; their predecessors, Wheat's Tigers; the organizational structure and leadership of the brigade in 1863; and the personnel that made up its ranks. Covering the Tigers' movements and battle actions in depth, he then turns to the brigade's march into the Shenandoah Valley and the Tigers' key role in defeating the Federal army at the Second Battle of Winchester.
Combining soldiers' reminiscences with contemporary civilian accounts, Mingus breaks new ground by detailing the Tigers' march into Pennsylvania, their first trip to Gettysburg in the week before the battle, their two-day occupation of York, Pennsylvania--the largest northern town to fall to the Confederate army--and their march back to Gettysburg. He offers the first full-scale discussion of the Tigers' interaction with the local population during their invasion of Pennsylvania and includes detailed accounts of the citizens' reactions to the Tigers--many not published since appearing in local newspapers over a century ago.
Mingus explores the Tigers' actions on the first two days of the Battle of Gettysburg and meticulously recounts their famed assault on East Cemetery Hill, one of the pivotal moments of the battle. He closes with the Tigers' withdrawal from Gettysburg and their retreat into Virginia. Appendices include an order of battle for East Cemetery Hill, a recap of the weather during the entire Gettysburg Campaign, a day-by-day chronology of the Tigers' movements and campsites, and the text of the official reports from General Hays for Second Winchester and Gettysburg. Comprehensive and engaging, Mingus's exhaustive work constitutes the definitive account of General Hays's remarkable brigade during the critical summer of 1863.
Scott L. Mingus, Sr., has written numerous books on the Civil War, including the two volume Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign, its companion volume Gettysburg Glimpses: True Stories from the Battlefield; and Flames beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863. He lives in York, Pennsylvania. (Text from publisher)
CWL: Mingus' work is most likely the first that dwells exclusively on the Pennsylvania Campaign. Previous books on the Louisiana Tigers include Wheat's Tigers: The 1st Louisiana Special Battalion in the Civil War by Gary Schreckengost, Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat by Charles L. Dufour, and Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia by Terry L. Jones.
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Those not familiar with the show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives need to realize one thing about this Food Network staple: You're missing out.
There, I said it and I'm not taking it back. If you have a mad love for greasy spoon restaurants and funky down home style cooking then I think this American style food show is a great place to start.
There was a stretch of time when it seemed that late at night, when nothing was on TV and we weren't quite ready for bed, the always fun Guy Fieri with his spiky, bleached blond hair and trademark sunglasses perched backwards on his head greeted us from the comfort of his convertible. We knew there was going to be some footage of good home style eating on its way.
It's because of Triple D's recommendation that we stopped to eat at Joe's Farm Grill just outside of Phoenix, Arizona and let me tell you, the place was...


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McDaniel, whose alma mater Wichita State is playing in the Final Four this weekend, had some interesting comments in this great interview with Jerry Brewer:
Lenny Wilkens and the Sonics drafted him No. 4 overall in 1985, and the X-Man averaged 20 points and seven rebounds per game in five-plus seasons as Seattle's highly skilled enforcer.
"Trust me when I tell you that there are only three cities in my mind: my hometown — Columbia, S.C. — Wichita and Seattle," McDaniel said. "Man, I love Seattle. I played in other cities during my NBA career, but I'm all Seattle SuperSonics.
"I don't care. I would never, ever, ever go to Oklahoma City (where the Sonics relocated five years ago). I don't care how many times they invite me. I'll hold my word to that until the day I die."
Like nearly everyone who loves the Sonics, McDaniel has been watching the fight between Seattle and Sacramento over the Kings franchise. He wants a franchise back in Seattle desperately, but he hates the idea that Sacramento might have to be robbed for that to happen. McDaniel still hopes for expansion, even though NBA commissioner David Stern says expansion isn't an option right now.Read the whole interview here.


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Mobile Gadgets: How do the top contenders stack up?
As broadband at home becomes a staple part of our tech diets, more and more of us are wanting to take that experience out of the home and onto our commutes, our holidays and our general downtime on the move. But with so many options now, which is the best for you?
The Swiss army smartphone
The simplest way to get online on the move is via a smartphone. And best of all, it?s also the best way to get cheap internet deals too. Smartphones do tend to dumb down the internet experience a little, reducing the quality of images and using more basic versions of websites, but with the small screens this is a blessing, not a curse.
Also, it drastically cuts down on the amount of kit you have to lug around. A smartphone will take your calls, texts and emails, as well as check weather, be a sat nav and give you access to YouTube, Twitter and the rest. If you can handle the small screen and fiddly size, you?re onto a real winner in terms of convenience and cash savings.
The new hotness: tablet PCs
If you?re happy to pay an extra charge on top of your mobile phone bill, but don?t want to hulk around a big laptop, tablet PCs are now a great option. With touchscreens of seven to 10 inches they should still slip into most bags, but the extra screen size makes for a much better internet experience.
They also have the wow factor, perfect for business meetings, while having the simple app-driven interfaces you?ll already be used to from a smartphone. Plus, as their popularity grows, more and more tablet-specific apps are coming along to help differentiate the experience from the simple smartphone apps that have been most common until now.
Good old laptops
For many though, the laptop is still the best option. Bigger and bulkier yes, but the benefit of having your full home PC/Mac experience with you on the move is invaluable to many. With many great broadband deals out there you should find data isn?t really an issue either, while many of us simply can?t live without that full QWERTY keyboard.
You?ll also have much more onboard memory for storage and a better processor, meaning tougher tasks beyond a smartphone or tablet are made simple. And with up to a 20-inch screen, there?s no better way to watch video. Plus, if you need to do some serious computing, the laptop is still the best option.
The future, now: hybrids
Of course, hybrids are hitting the market and making life even more confusing! There are both smartphones and tablet PCs available now that have full QWERTY keyboard accessories, as well as ways to plug into a TV for that big screen experience.
You need to think hard about exactly what you want to do online on the move, consider your budget, then narrow down your search. But look on the bright side ? with so much choice, you?re bound to find the right combination that meets your needs in your price range.
About the author: Chris Marling writes on behalf of www.broadbandgenie.co.uk, the online price comparison site for broadband, mobile broadband, smartphones and tablets.


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Today is St Andrews Day in Scotland. I have Scottish grandparents and red hair so I think of myself as a honorary Scot, or at least I do on St Andrews Day and Burns Night so I can justify eating vast quantities of Haggis and Shortbread.
Yesterday at work we had a little celebration at lunch time, we ate haggis pies (pictured above) and everyone brought something Scottish in to share. Someone had already chosen to bring Shortbread so I decided to try something new and make Tablet.
I scoured the internet for a recipe and found one that looked relatively easy, although after I began cooking I realised there were glaring holes in the recipe which left me wondering if what I was doing was at all right, I ended up goggling furiously towards the end looking for pictures of what my tablet should look like.
I shouldn't have worried as it all turned out fine in the end.
This recipe made about 100-130 small squares, I used a 39cm x 27cm x 2.5cm baking tray and it only filled half of it, but the consistency of the tablet meant I could mould it into one end of the tin quite easily.
- 150ml Semi-skimmed Milk
- 500g Granulated Sugar
- 397g tin Condensed Milk
- 2 teaspoons Whiskey or Bourbon (could sub for vanilla or other flavouring)
- Greaseproof Paper (Enough to line a shallow 25mm tin)
I scheduled this post for this morning, then woke up to the awful news of the helicopter crash in Glasgow. I just wanted to add that my thoughts are with those involved xx


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Can we get back to the equalizing, 'share-the-wealth' policies of the post-war era? Of course we can — the obstacles are political, not economic, writes Robert Kuttner.
The latest study of deepening inequality by three of the most careful scholars of the subject, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saens, and Gabriel Zucman, has prompted another round of shrugs from economists that inequality is just in the nature of the advanced economy.
Supposedly, these inexorable trends reflect technology, globalization, and increasing rewards to more advanced skills. The poor are paid in correct proportion to their contribution to the national product, which, alas, isn't much.
A close look at political history suggests that this widespread inference is convenient nonsense — convenient to economic elites. In fact, the distribution of income and wealth has bounced around a lot in the past century and a half. It was extreme in the first Gilded Age of the late 19th century, a little less so in the Progressive Era, extreme again in the 1920s, and remarkably egalitarian in the period between the New Deal and the early 1970s — and now extreme again.
Does anyone seriously argue that these shifts reflected changes in technology or skills? No, they reflected changes in the political power to set the ground rules of capitalism. And that's what should command our attention today.
The remarkable income equality of the postwar boom was built on a political transformation, which in turn allowed a suite of equalizing policies. It had little to do with shifts in the technical structure of the economy.
Most fundamentally, the power of finance was "repressed," in the phrase of Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, both economically and politically. That in turn weakened both the ability of financial elites to capture such a large share of the total product and to influence the rules of the game. Commercial banks and investment banks were tightly regulated, hedge funds and private equity were minuscule, and there were no complex synthetic financial products to enrich insiders, frustrate ordinary borrowers, or crash the system.
Trade unions were empowered, both by the Wagner Act of 1935, and more importantly by Roosevelt's policies during the war, which made unions recognized partners in war production, and, by extension, partners in a broader social compact. Before corporations took the gloves off again, there was a brief era in which unions had broad legitimacy.
Unions, in turn, influenced wages, not just of their own members, who were about one-third of the workforce in labor's heyday during the '40s and '50s, but the structure of earnings and the terms of employment generally. Minimum wages were far higher in real terms.
In that era, the terms of globalization, created at the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944, deliberately created rules that allowed trade to expand, but not to destroy national social compacts. Bretton Woods was biased in favor of full-employment economies and against the austerity that is newly fashionable and as perverse as ever. All of this helps explain why the postwar era was a far more equal one than we have today. But what about skills? Well, the typical worker barely had a high school diploma — many did not — but one income was enough to support home ownership and a middle-class standard of living. Despite low skills, the social compact of that era insisted on greater equality.
But can we ever get that back? Of course we can — the obstacles are political, not economic.
We could have much higher minimum wages. We could stop the union-bashing. We could restore a brand of globalization that promotes rather than undermines national social standards. We could invest massively in a green transition, modeled on the World War II mobilization that reduced unemployment from 14 percent to 2 percent in two years and produced tens of millions of good jobs.
As technology replaces human work, we could also give everyone a share of that new production, the way the Alaska Permanent Fund gives all Alaskans a share of that state's oil revenues. Any advances created with the help of government — from subsidy of biomedical research to free-riding on the Internet — could be subject to a share-the-wealth levy. Author Peter Barnes is the inspiration for this idea.
Is this broad vision crazy? It is far less crazy than the folly of supply-side economics that is back in fashion, which will only make America more needlessly unequal. Instead of accepting the counsels of despair, we should be reinventing the levers of the more equal economy and society that America once proudly displayed to the world.
Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect and a professor at Brandeis University's Heller School.
Original source: The Boston Globe
Photo credit: glennshootspeople, flickr creative commons


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Whiskers provide a mouse with essential information to negotiate a burrow or detect movement that could signal a predator's presence. These stiff hairs relay sensory input to the brain, which shapes neuronal activity.
In a first, studies of this system by Carnegie Mellon scientists show just how well a mouse brain can compensate when limited to sensing the world through one whisker. Published April 4 in the Journal of Neuroscience, the results should help shape future studies of sensory deprivation that results from stroke or traumatic brain injury, say the authors.
"Our findings are the first to show this degree of brain adaptability in a setting with significantly limited sensory input," said Alison Barth, assistant professor of biological sciences and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC). "This finding tells us that brain function is plastic, or reparable, when a sense like touch has been profoundly diminished. Plasticity is an important indicator that the brain is reorganizing to compensate for an injury or deficit."
For a decade, neuroscientists have known that the brain can increase its plasticity, or adapt, in response to injury that limits bodily motion. This latest study is the first to show such an impressive enhancement of brain activity in an animal with sensory loss. Losing sight, hearing, taste, smell or touch are common disabling side effects of traumatic brain injury and stroke.
In her study, Barth recorded brain activity in mice with various degrees of whisker removal. As a first step in her research, Barth removed all but one whisker and recorded neural activity in a brain region located on the opposite side of the animal. (Flicking a whisker on one side of a mouse stimulates a part of the brain on the animal's opposite side). Over the course of a week, Barth found that one whisker could not only stimulate a predicted cluster of neurons inside the brain; it could also activate nearby neurons. While some degree of plasticity would be expected, the growth of brain activity seen in the experiments was striking, Barth says.
"What this tells us is that the parts of the brain processing sensory information are extremely adaptive and can strengthen in the presence of limited sensory input," Barth said.
In another experiment, Barth found something more surprising ? a single-whiskered mouse was more likely to generate new brain activity than a mouse with a whisker on one side of its head and a full complement of whiskers on the other side.
"These findings show us that a fully functioning set of whiskers on one side of the body dramatically inhibits the ability of a single whisker to remodel the brain," said Barth. "This finding suggests that we could boost the brain's plasticity if we 'turn off' sensory input from the opposite side of the body."
Hypothetically, in a clinical setting, doctors could temporarily remove a patient's ability to see, hear, smell or touch on one side of the body to force the same sense on the other side of the body to expand its activity within the brain, thereby remodeling it to perceive a limited sensation much better.
This kind of "forced use" therapy is already applied in the clinic for patients with motor deficits. For example, a patient who suffers a brain injury is made to use a poorly performing arm with the expectation that the brain may be plastic enough to assist that arm in recovering motion.
"We think that our well-designed model is extremely good for future in-depth studies of brain plasticity in response to changes in how an animal senses its environment. Ultimately, we want to understand at the molecular level the dynamic between sensory use and neural plasticity," Barth said.


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Despite what I've been feeling and what I've been telling people, I got up the courage to submit something and it got included in this week's GR. Not only did I get in GR, I even made it into the Top 8 list. Yay me!
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8. What do you do with a non-compliant patient? Go to their Doctor Anonymous.
Thanks DC for hosting and thanks for including my post in GR this week. Next week, GR will be hosted by Chronic Babe and she has a theme, "It's All About The Ladies." Hmmm... I don't know if I'll be able to get into that party. We'll see....


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The first one I would like to show is Ayla. She started out as an electricity character called Glint. Ronimo artist Olivier made these awesome concept sketches for him:
Glint's power is that he can move through enemies and damage them while doing so. That is basically exactly what Ayla's Rage mode does, and thus Glint slowly evolved into the Ayla we know today.
Glint's other skill didn't make it into Ayla, as often happens: elements from ideas are combined and morphed until they work, have synergy and are fun. This scrapped second skill is Static Discharge: a fixed amount of damage is spread over all enemies in the vicinity. For example, if the base damage is 100, then if there is only one enemy near, he gets 100 damage. If there are 5 enemies near, they each get 20 damage. So this skill is area of effect, but does not stack damage like normal area of effect skills do. Interesting idea, but so far it hasn't made it into an Awesomenauts character.
Glint is an example of a character that immediately started out with a name and a visual idea. More often however it begins with a pure gameplay concept. An example of this is the character that was internally called the "Bird". He was called this way because he could press jump while in the air to stay up there, just like a bird would flap his wings. From this Awesomenauts players can probably deduce who the Bird became: Vinnie & Spike.
When the core gameplay of the Bird was starting to look good, our art team picked him and started sketching. The first design they wanted to go with is this awesomely crazy alien, drawn by Martijn:
In the end they ditched this idea as well and the Bird transformed into... a flying pufferfish. WUT?! Yes, our artists sure can think outside the box!
Some other examples of characters that evolved a lot during their development can be found in two of my earlier blogposts: Sheriff Lonestar and Genji
Since characters often start out as pure gameplay concepts, there is no proper name for them. Instead something descriptive is chosen by our game designers as their internal name. These working titles are kept internally, so if ones looks up the names of the characters in our settings files now, most go by a completely different name than what they ended up with. These names give a nice indication of what our designers might have first had in mind.
To wrap up this blogpost, here is a fun game for avid Awesomenauts players: can you deduce who each of these characters are?
- Heavy
- Hunter
- Chameleon
- Brute
- Butterfly
- Cowboy
- Captain
- Bird
- Blazer
- Dasher
- Jetter
- Summoner
- Tank
- Maw
- Vampire


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