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Strickler's Mennonite Church (Middletown, Pennsylvania, USA)
The Shope Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located a few miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, one mile east of the Lancaster Pike at Steelton, was first called the Mumma Mennonite congregation, since they worshiped in Frederick Mumma's home. By 1815 a church-schoolhouse, 20 x 30 ft., of log with comb roof was erected, and later weatherboarded. It was replaced in 1873 by a brick church. The cemetery was started in 1877 on the elevation. Bishop Nathaniel Shope was the first to be buried there. It was a part of the Strickler-Shope circuit of the Lancaster Conference, with communion at the Strickler church. The total membership in the circuit in 1957 was 87. Harry L. Longenecker was the minister at the Shope church. A separate Sunday school of 50 was maintained at that time.
In 1965, the joint congregation decided to conduct all Sunday services at Strickler's. The Shope's meetinghouse did not meet the standards of more rigid building codes for an increasingly suburban community, and the declining membership did not provide an incentive to renovate the building. It continued to be used occasionally, especially for prayer meetings during the summer months. In 1976 the congregation donated the building to the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions for the development of a new, community-oriented congregation named Garden Chapel. This congregation renovated and enlarged the building and occupied it for 15-20 years, after which they built a new and larger church a few miles away near Highspire just off Rosedale Avenue. After standing vacant for several years the former Shope meetinghouse became a residence.
In 2000 Strickler's Mennonite Church left the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. Issues of difference with the Conference included such issues as women in leadership, divorce and remarriage, and the prayer veiling. Strickler's remained unaffiliated until 2006, when they became a part of Biblical Mennonite Alliance. In 2015 the congregation had 37 members and an average attendance of 48.
Biblical Mennonite Alliance. "BMA Congregational Directory with Pastors." August 2015.
Zeager, Lloyd. "History of Strickler's Mennonite Church." Strickler's Mennonite Church. http://www.stricklersmennonitechurch.org/History.aspx (accessed 17 December 2009)
Additional Information
Address: 3256 Schoolhouse Road, Middletown, PA 17057
Phone: (717) 944-9631
Website: http://www.stricklersmennonitechurch.org/
Denominational Affiliation: Biblical Mennonite Alliance
Map:Strickler's Mennonite Church (Middletown, Pennsylvania, USA)
|Ira D. Landis
|Lloyd Zeager
|Date Published
|September 2010
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Landis, Ira D. and Lloyd Zeager. "Strickler's Mennonite Church (Middletown, Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. September 2010. Web. 23 Apr 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Strickler%27s_Mennonite_Church_(Middletown,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=135572.
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Landis, Ira D. and Lloyd Zeager. (September 2010). Strickler's Mennonite Church (Middletown, Pennsylvania, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 23 April 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Strickler%27s_Mennonite_Church_(Middletown,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=135572.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 516. All rights reserved.
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Red Raspberry Leaf Tea – Is It Allowed to Drink During Pregnancy
In some cases, herbal teas and drugs may serve as alternative medicines. And some of them are recommended for use during pregnancy. However, one should know which herbs are indicated for pregnancy and which ones have the contraindications.
For example, two cups of chamomile tea every day are safe. Chamomile can be used during pregnancy because it helps stop bloating, belching and flatulence. Other plants contain components that can pass through the placenta to the baby and even cause premature birth.
It is a common belief that any form of raspberries should be avoided during pregnancy. This is because of salicylic acid, which sometimes is called a natural aspirin. It's well known that the latter may negatively affect fetal development.
In addition, infusion or decoction of the raspberry leaves, as well as raspberry tea in large quantities can enhance uterine labor, which is fraught with miscarriage or premature birth. Therefore, during the first trimester, pregnant women in early pregnancy and/or with uterine tonus should avoid red raspberry leaf tea.
At the same time it is believed that drinking read raspberry leaf tea during the last months of pregnancy helps strengthen the uterus muscles and have a shorter labor. So many midwives recommend taking a daily dose of red raspberry leaf tea to induce labor during pregnancy.
Red Raspberry Leaf Benefits During Pregnancy
Thus, taking raspberry leaf tea during pregnancy has some special aspects.
- The content of magnesium, potassium, iron, and B vitamins helps reduce toxicosis, pain in the legs and insomnia.
- It's better to eat fresh berries rather than drink raspberry leaf teas or infusions, as the content of salicylic acid in the leaves is much higher than in the berries. However, a decoction or infusion of raspberry leaves during pregnancy can be used for mouth and throat rinsing in case of stomatitis and sore throat.
- Red raspberry contains alkaloid called fragrine, which can help tone the uterus and make cervix to fully dilate. Due to the content of herbal progesterone (a plant hormone) women spend less time pushing during labor. However, the level of this hormone is very low, so many midwives suggest that their patients take it throughout their pregnancies.
In most cases, especially if the woman has a history of miscarriage, it's recommended to take decoction of raspberry only during the last 8 weeks of pregnancy, so as not to provoke a premature birth, and only after consultation with a doctor.
Red Raspberry Leaf Tea and Fertility
Much is known about red raspberry leaf tea benefits to pregnancy, but very few people know that this drink can be a good 'helper' during family planning – both for women and men. Daily consumption of at least a cup of this fragrant drink helps with PMS and normalizes the menstrual cycle, treats cramping, vomiting, nausea and diarrhea.
For infertility treatment red raspberry leaf tea should be drunk in an amount of up to 5 cups a day. In this case, the therapeutic effect is better.
Raspberry leaf can be taken in any of the following forms: tea, capsules and as a seed oil. But today we will talk only about health benefits of red raspberry leaf tea recipe.
Making raspberry leaf tea from scratch is simple and easy. To get the full benefit of the plant, you should brew from loose dried leaves, however you may also use tea bags from a respectful brand. Check this for where to buy organic raspberry leaf tea for fertility.
Pour 8 ounces of boiling water onto 2 tablespoons of dried raspberry leaves. Let steep for 15-20minutes hours, then strain and enjoy the amazing and magical taste. You can add a spoonful of honey, but the tea is so sweet itself that you can do without it.
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First things first. Let me state right up front, for GetReligion readers who do not already know, that I have known Archbishop Charles Chaput ever since he was an urban pastor and college campus minister long ago in Denver. The young Franciscan I knew then is still the man who makes headlines from time to time today, especially now that he has moved from Denver to the historic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. I was a bit surprised to meet a friar who was so intensely interested in mass media -- film in particular -- and technology, especially the impact of modern media on college students and the young. He was much more interested in trends in media, family life, education and related topics than he was -- let's say -- in politics. However, we do live in an age in which it is impossible to discuss the moral theology of the Catholic faith in the public square without getting involved in political debates.
My point is that it is impossible to write about who Chaput actually is without discussing the topics that drive him as a priest and as a bishop. This is easy to do, since he talks about these issues all of the time. Alas, it is also possible to only pay attention to Chaput's statements that make headlines -- which tend to be about issues of moral theology. These statements are viewed as being political statements, pure and simple.
This is clearly what happened in the thin, shallow, all politics, all the time profile that ran recently in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Note, especially, that this is a lengthy news feature that includes one voice -- on the left or the right -- that is not completely predictable and partisan. Sure enough, the most interesting material in the story is drawn from that one voice who is not one of the "usual suspects" for a story of this kind. More on that in a minute.
I mean, this is the kind of story that features -- read to the end of this passage -- the following ID for one outspoken Catholic partisan:
Writing in last Sunday's Inquirer, he described as "dangerous and insulting" the Obama administration's mandate that religious-affiliated hospitals, schools, and charities provide employees with free contraception coverage. President Obama's plan was the most "aggressive attack on religious freedom in our country ... in recent memory," Chaput wrote, lambasting it as "the embodiment of a culture war."
Taking their cues from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, many other prelates condemned the policy. But Chaput's attack stood out, eliciting praise from conservative Catholic groups and dismay from church liberals.
"Incendiary and divisive," said a spokesman for Catholic Democrats, a liberal advocacy group for the poor.
This Catholic Democrats group is a crucial voice in a story of this kind and represents the Catholic left very well -- the bookend on the left that, oh, Priests For Life would form on the right. However, as the name implies, it is a honest and openly partisan group. This makes it an "advocacy group for the poor"? This assumes that only doctrinally liberal Catholics care about the poor -- which would come as a great shock to, well, the Franciscans or the Missionaries of Charity.
Oh, and "many other prelates" oppose the new regulations from the Obama White House? At this point, it is very hard to find a Catholic bishop -- left, right or center -- who has not opposed them.
It would be very easy to pick away at the slanted and, at times, inaccurate language in much of this report. Most of the time, however, readers are dealing with sins of omission rather than commission. For example, on one highly controversial issue:
In 2006, Chaput drew national attention for his denunciation of legislation to expand the right of Colorado sex-abuse victims to sue their abusers, denouncing its advocates as "anti-Catholic."
"It was about as ugly a political fight as I've been involved with at the Capitol," one lobbyist said.
And why did the archbishop call this bill "anti-Catholic"?
Now, this is complex and controversial terrain, but it really would have helped for readers to know that -- at the center of the fight -- was debate about whether the legislation would, in effect, merely lengthen the statute of limitations for case involving THE CHURCH, as opposed to cases involving public institutions with unique legal advantages -- such as accusations against public-school districts (which were fiercely protected under Colorado law by immunity from truly damaging civil law suits).
And so forth and so on.
I also found it interesting that the Inky didn't follow up -- zip, zero, nada -- on this rather revealing quote from a previous Chaput interview. The archbishop declined to be interviewed by the Inquirer, which says quite a bit in and of itself.
Though a hero to many conservatives, Chaput has taken shots from all sides. "The left mail I get will use terrible words but be less vitriolic. They use the F-word and things like that," he told Catholic News Service in 2009. "The right is meaner, but they're not as foul."
That's interesting. On what issues has Chaput taken heat from the political and cultural right? I would assume his stances on immigration, the death penalty, health care for the poor, etc., etc. How would Inquirer readers know that? It appears that those details would have muddied the picture in this article.
Meanwhile, what about that one interesting, insightful and non-partisan voice? Remember this guy?
Stephen Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at Catholic University of America, took a more temperate view.
"He's distinctive among the American bishops in his ability to make certain kinds of arguments," said Schneck, who called Chaput "an extremely talented prelate."
"But there's a twist," Schneck said. Chaput "sometimes speaks so clearly and with such force that it's more a conversation-stopper than an invitation to discourse, and that might work against his ultimate effectiveness."
That's interesting. Might Schneck have an example or two to discuss and dissect? Apparently not.
Maybe some other time. The folks driving the bus on this story already knew where they were going.
VIDEO: A rather typical mini-sermon from the archbishop, drawn from the funeral Mass for Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua.


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The 2014 Subaru Forester is the first vehicle to ace every aspect of the Institute's challenging small overlap front crash test. The Forester, the only one of 13 small SUVs to earn an overall rating of good in the test, and the 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, which earns acceptable, are the latest vehicles to qualify for the Institute's recently inaugurated top honor, Top Safety Pick+. Each of the other 11 SUVs earns either a poor or marginal rating.
"With the redesigned Forester, Subaru's engineers set out to do well in our new test, and they succeeded," says Joe Nolan, the Institute's vice president for vehicle research. "This is exactly how we hoped manufacturers would respond to improve protection for people in these kinds of serious frontal crashes."
This isn't the first time that the Forester has stood out in a new IIHS crash test. When the Institute first rated small SUVs for side protection in 2003, the Subaru model performed the best and was one of only two to earn a good rating (see Status Report special issue: side impact crashworthiness, June 28, 2003). IIHS added the small overlap test to its lineup of vehicle evaluations last year. It replicates what happens when the front corner of a vehicle strikes another vehicle or an object like a tree or a utility pole. In the test, 25 percent of a vehicle's front end on the driver side strikes a 5-foot-tall rigid barrier at 40 mph. A 50th percentile male Hybrid III dummy is belted in the driver seat (see "Small overlap crashes: New consumer-test program aims for even safer vehicles," Aug. 14, 2012).
Most vehicles today are designed to do well in the government's full-width front crash test and in the IIHS moderate overlap front test, but that is no guarantee of good performance in a small overlap crash. In a 2009 IIHS study of vehicles with good ratings for frontal crash protection, small overlap crashes accounted for nearly a quarter of the frontal crashes involving serious or fatal injury to front seat occupants. In many vehicles the impact at a 25 percent overlap misses the primary structures designed to manage crash energy. That increases the risk of severe damage to or collapse of the occupant compartment structure. Also, vehicles tend to rotate and slide sideways during this type of collision, and that can move the driver's head outboard, away from the protection of the frontal airbag.
Those difficulties were apparent in the small SUV group. Two-thirds had poor ratings for structure, and about half were poor or marginal for restraints and kinematics, meaning the dummy's movements weren't well-controlled to prevent contact with hard surfaces.
Mitsubishi Outlander Sport: The Mitsubishi Outlander Sport earns an acceptable rating in the small overlap front test. With good ratings in all other tests, the 2013 model qualifies for TOP SAFETY PICK+.
Jeep Patriot: The Jeep Patriot earns a poor rating. The steering wheel moved way up and to the right, allowing the dummy's head to slip off the frontal airbag, and the side airbag didn't deploy.
Nissan Rogue and Subaru Forester: The Nissan Rogue (left) and the Subaru Forester (right) illustrate the difference between poor and good structure.
In one example of poor structure, the front pillar of the Nissan Rogue's door frame was pushed far inside the occupant compartment and after the crash was almost touching the driver seat. The Jeep Patriot was among the worst for restraints and kinematics. The dummy's head slid off the frontal airbag as the steering wheel moved 8 inches up and nearly 6 inches to the right. The side curtain airbag didn't deploy, and the belt allowed the dummy's head and torso to move too far forward.
In contrast, the Forester earned good ratings for structure, restraints and kinematics, plus all four injury measures on the dummy. The airbags worked as intended, and the space around the dummy was well-maintained. The Outlander Sport was acceptable for structure and restraints and kinematics and also had good injury measures.
The Forester and the Outlander Sport bring the number of Top Safety Pick+ winners to 20. The award is based on performance in the small overlap front test, as well as in the moderate overlap front, side, rollover and rear tests. To qualify, a vehicle must earn good ratings in 4 of the 5 tests and no less than acceptable in the fifth.
IIHS continues to award Top Safety Pick to vehicles with good ratings in the moderate overlap front, side, rollover and rear tests. Nine small SUVs earn Top Safety Pick, including the BMW X1 and Buick Encore, which are new to the U.S. market for 2013. The others are the Ford Escape; Honda CR-V; Hyundai Tucson and its twin, the Kia Sportage; Mazda CX-5; Volkswagen Tiguan and 2014 Patriot. The 2013 Patriot also qualifies when equipped with optional side torso airbags. The 2013 Toyota RAV4 earns Top Safety Pick but won't be put through the small overlap test until later this year. Toyota plans to make changes to improve the RAV4's performance in the test.
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Using standard tools, Kydex® thermoforming sheets can be drilled, vacuum formed, brake formed or punch pressed. Kydex® is a machinable thermoplastic that can be molded to form fit just about any shape imaginable without expensive tools and machinery. Kydex® can reduce the number of individual parts needed in many applications, thereby reducing assembly costs.
Kydex® applications range from aviation and transit interiors, medical equipment and building interiors to furniture and fixtures. A very popular use for Kydex® involves thermoforming gun holsters and knife sheaths, for which many customers have found various applications for at-home Kydex® vacuum forming solutions, described on this page below.
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Kydex® must not exceed 400F, and forms best between 330F and 350F for thicknesses 0.060" or smaller. Thicknesses up to 0.125" form better around 350F to 385F. The most frequent problem is trying to heat the sheet too quickly, particularly on the primary surface; heat should be applied slowly. Ideally the core sheet temperature should be within 10F of the surface temperature.
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Eighty-one Hope College seniors have been awarded monogrammed blankets for their participation in athletics at Hope.
The orange and blue "H" blankets are presented to seniors who earned at least three varsity letters while at Hope. One of the varsity letters must have been earned during the student's senior year.
The students will be honored Wednesday, April 27, during the first annual HOPEYS ceremony to be held at the DeVos Fieldhouse beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The recipients are:
Chris Ansel, Zeeland, golf
Sarah Anthony, Mt.Pleasant, cross country (captain)
Ross Bailey, Ogden Dunes, Ind., soccer
Traci Baker, Grandville, volleyball
Emily Baracy, Canton, soccer
Claire Bird, New Paltz, N.Y., cross country (captain)
Katie Blodgett, Traverse City, golf
Colton Bodrie, Fremont, baseball (captain)
Kelsey Bos, Holland, soccer (captain)
Will Bowser, Midland, basketball (captain)
Erika Bruinsma, Grand Rapids, basketball (captain)
Cassidy Bulthuis, Nunica, volleyball (captain)
Riley Byrnes, Michigan City, soccer
Drew Carmody, Grandville, baseball (captain)
Courtney Cook, Grand Rapids, soccer
Ryan Cotter, Zeeland, soccer
Miranda DeKuiper, Ludington, basketball (captain)
Sara DeWeerdt, Holland, volleyball (captain)
Kyle Dietrich, Gobles, football
Adam Diver, Deerfield, football
Timothy Dixon, Kalkaska, football
John Donkersloot, Zeeland, track (captain)
Josh Droppers, Kalamazoo, football (captain)
Jessica Early, Vestal, N.Y., cheerleading (captain)
Timothy Elzinga, Grand Rapids, football
Derek Fairchild, Saline, baseball (captain)
Christopher Feys, Grand Rapids, football (captain)
Emily Fischer, Naperville, Ill., cross country & track (captain)
Mallory Fox, Livonia, soccer
Dezmon Fulton, Robichaud, football
Katherine Garcia, Battle Creek, tennis (captain)
Lauren Geers, Scottville, basketball
Heidi Grooters, Jenison, track (captain)
Kevin Hagan, Okemos, cross country (captain)
Anna Heckenliable, Fort Collins, Colo., swimming
Chelsea Holicki, Coldwater, cross country & track
Jared Hudson, Fremont, football
Chris Jackson, Pontiac, football
Ashley Jasperse, Grand Rapids, swimming (captain)
Zach Jones, Three Rivers, football (captain)
Dan Karam, Grosse Pointe Woods, football
Aria Kieft, SpringLake, swimming
Andrew Klinkman, Dexter, baseball
Emily Kreichelt, Northville, track (captain)
Rachael Kutney, St. Clair Shores, basketball
Cameron Lampkin, Troy, track (captain)
Carrie Lehocky, ByronCenter, volleyball
Steve Lewis, Ada, baseball
Katie Lovinger, Hillsdale, soccer (captain)
Michelle Marra, Waldwick, N.J., softball
Kara Marsman, Holland, soccer
Brett May, Belmont, cross country
Andrea Miller, Algonquin, Ill., cross country
Jordan Morse, Sparta, football
Elizabeth Munoa, Holland, cross country
Andrew Nichols, Traverse City, soccer
Kori Nieuwsma, Lakeville, Minn., softball
Abigail Phillips, Wayland, softball (captain)
Andrea Reinecke, Eaton Rapids, softball (captain)
Jordan Richardson, Reading, cross country (captain)
Nicholas Rinck, Hudsonville, track
Benjamin Rosema, SpringLake, soccer
Susan Savasky, Berkley, cross country
Kathryn Schewe, Berkley, swimming
Carl Scholten, Petoskey, track
Kristen Schwenk, Midland, soccer
Carrie Snikkers, Jenison, basketball (captain)
Clayton Sommers, Zeeland, swimming
Suzie Stevenson, Granger, Ind., softball
Jeffrey Stusick, Stevensville, soccer
Ty Tanis, Holland, basketball
Alicia Tuuk, Lansing, Ill., swimming (captain)
Aaron Van Andel, Ada, soccer
Kara Vande Guchte, Hamilton, volleyball (captain)
Kyle Vanden Bosch, Grandville, basketball
Austin Veltman, Ada, swimming
Andrew Venema, Hudsonville, basketball
Jeffrey Vredenburg, Grand Rapids, tennis (captain)
Jessica Warner, Geneva, Ill., swimming
Mark Waterstone, Holland, swimming
Ryan Yonkman, McBain, football


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User:Hum/Surviving a GPRS connection
From Openmoko
Neo Freerunner supports GPRS, no EDGE, no UMTS.
Making a slow internet connection more comfortable
Fasterfox Lite is an addon for Firefox. Its intention is getting web pages faster on fast connections, but it also can be used for configuring Firefox easily. You can configure memory and disk cache, DNS Cache and how many connections are opened at once.
polipo is a small http proxy. In offline mode it serves cached content.
wwwoffle is a http/ftp proxy, that can be configured to violate the RFCs to cache websites even more aggressiv and several other helpful things.
To make sure that opkg upgrade does not break your system because of an unstable connection do:
opkg update opkg --cache cachedir --download-only upgrade opkg --cache cachedir upgrade
Add a line "option cache cachedir" to /etc/opkg/opkg.conf to avoid the --cache option on command line.
pdnsd is a caching DNS proxy
DNSmasq is a small caching DNS and DHCP daemon.
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WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Digital Crosspoint Switches and Buffers: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. The 2012 study has 541 pages, 166 tables and figures. Market growth is related to the explosion of digital information and video that needs to be transported over public and private networks.
Worldwide digital communication and data center communication markets include digital signals for video as well. Digital information may represent data or voice traffic. A large number of protocols particularly those specific to the data center are supported by digital crosspoint switches. Markets are poised to achieve significant growth as equipment manufacturers find ways to design crosspoint switches and buffers into products, giving significant new functionality.
Digital crosspoint switches are used in high rate data transfer situations to support integration of information in data centers and by carriers. Broadcast quality video transport of data on the Internet is evolving new applications including those at every level of the supply chain, creating demand at the high end for crosspoint switches.
High quality, high speed data and video transport is part of the evolution of broadband networks. Data within the data center is being moved to storage devices and through networks. Data is moving across regional and international locations at a more rapid pace.
According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the WinterGreen Research team that prepared the Digital Crosspoint Switches and Buffers market research study, "With breakthrough 10 Gbps port capacity, the next generation digital crosspoint switch devices enable a next generation level of performance and architectural options for higher density system designs. These 10 Gbps devices are used to implement the 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps port capacity. High speed data infrastructure for40 Gbps and 100 Gbps port capacity is being built almost exclusively from 10 Gbps crosspoint switches. The ability to achieve 40 Gbps data transport and routing devices by stringing together 4 10Gbps devices is less expensive than going to a 40 Gbps device."
Any technology has an adoption curve. Components that start at market prices are subject to economies of scale. They are priced accordingly. Customers have shipments in 1 gig. These devices are getting mature. The price is dropping substantially. The same is happening for 10 Gbps devices.
Companies seem to feel that there is a little life left in the 10 Gbps crosspoint devices due to the recent technology breakthroughs giving some market life to these devices before 25 Gbps and 28 Gbps devices roll into full product release. Full product release is sure to drive prices down for the new units, making it attractive to use smaller crosspoint switches linked together to gain capacity.
Communications semiconductors demand is increasing. Evolving technology for broadband access is increasing data rates. The increase in network traffic is in part because of the Internet and voice over IP. High speed video transport has become more feasible and is being used more.
A quantum increase in the quantity of data that is being transmitted has occurred. Broadband communications networks are supported in part by advanced digital crosspoint switch devices that permit interconnect functioning to be efficient. They are part of an overall market for network infrastructure equipment and communications semiconductors that offer attractive long-term growth prospects.
Networks are moving to embrace a universal Ethernet protocol. As network bandwidth requirements continue to accelerate, more systems require solutions for high-speed signal integrity problems. Crosspoint switch connectivity product lines sell into carrier and enterprise networking applications.
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Yesterday came word from producer Avi Lerner that his Millennium Films was officially moving ahead with a follow-up to last week's box-office topper "Texas Chainsaw 3D".
It was suggested shooting would begin later this year in Louisiana. Now, producer Carl Mazzacone and executive producer Mark Burg have said that there's no progress and Lerner was flat out wrong.
Burg says: "Millennium simply sold the foreign rights and they will not tell us when a sequel is ready to be made. The script was developed by Carl, myself and writer/director John Luessenhop. Millennium and about ten producers came aboard only when we needed their check. Maybe they're looking for something to sell at Berlin, but they have no right to announce this sequel and if we make another it has to be as good or better than this one and that takes time."
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NORTON, Mass. - Senior southpaw Chris McDonough and junior righty Adam Gingras each tossed complete-game shutouts, their second of the season, in leading the Wheaton College baseball team to 6-0 and 3-0 victories over MIT in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action Sunday at Sidell Stadium.
Running the program's second-longest winning streak to 17 games, the American Baseball Coaches Association's (ABCA) 18th-ranked Lyons are off to their best start in the program's 11-year history at 19-4. Wheaton is also unbeaten in the NEWMAC, sitting in first place at 7-0. The Engineers slipped to 8-10 and 2-3.
McDonough tossed a gem in game one, chalking up a four-hitter with 10 strikeouts and zero walks while facing six batters over the minimum. Today's shutout marked the fourth of McDonough's career, which stands one shy of the program standard. He fanned at least one batter in six of the seven innings, including striking out three in the seventh frame and two each in the second and fourth. McDonough retired nine straight batters from the third through sixth innings. Improving to 4-1 on the season, he also collected his 20th career victory, which is tied for third in program annals.
Wheaton received all the offense it needed during a four-run fourth, as the Lyons capitalized on five singles and a run-scoring wild pitch. The Lyons tacked on two more runs in the fifth, this with senior Scott Guillerault and Robert Foote hitting consecutive run-scoring doubles.
Each of MIT's first four hitters delivered a hit, with junior Thomas Phillips smacking a double. Freshman Cameron Brown suffered his first loss on the mound, allowing four runs on seven hits with one strikeout and a walk through four innings of work.
Gingras fired a six-hit blanking in game two, fanning seven while issuing zero walks, as today's pitching staff combined for 17 strikeouts and no bases on balls. Gingras, who also earned his second shutout of the season to tie the program mark, faced six batters over the minimum and yielded six harmless singles. After the Lyons turned two double plays through the first three innings, Gingras retired 10 straight batters from the sixth through ninth frames. He raised his season mark to 3-0 while lowering his earned run average to 1.96.
MIT senior starter Jay Turner kept the Wheaton offense at bay through three hitless innings. Turner gave up just one base knock in the fourth but the Lyons still managed to push a run across, as Yagjian led off with a single, moved to second on a fielding error and advanced to third on Guillerault's sac bunt before scoring on Munley's groundout to short. Freshman Eric Laliberte's RBI single in the fifth scored Foote, who opened the inning with a double to deep center, and sophomore Jeff Lieneck singled home Guillerault in the eighth to account for all the scoring.
Guillerault and Munley were Wheaton's lone repeat hitters, while senior Kevin Wheeler accounted for half of MIT's six hits, going 3-for-4. Turner went the distance, surrendering two earned runs on eight hits with five strikeouts and one walk.


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Patrick2502 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Release Academy http://www.release-academy.nl/
We are a dance school, not like all the others which is specialized in a couple of different dancing styles. Those are mainly;
1) Stage dance
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We give regular lessons, workshops and support all kinds of events where ever great dancers have to entertain the crowed
We are looking for a new logo to refresh our current one. The one we have isn't so bad at all, still loving the font that is used but it is time for something new. Something fresh and more pro looking.
We have different kind of styles of dancing and we want to be the logo to visualizes this. So "Release Academy" is the company name.. But can the logo be completed with something extra so people can see where it is about.. So the "Release Academy" logo is big major first.. and some text added or maybe some illustration show people can see what it is about, Stage, Pole or Chair dance.
Our target audience are women between 16-35 that are interested in alternative and progressive ways of dancing. We have a lot of clients that are training to be a professional dancer and people that just here to have a good way to exercise and have some good fun as well. A part of a clients are just doing a single workshop. So the logo has to be attractive to wide group that have dancing I common.
The important thing is that we are a decent company, our dancing styles can be interpreted wrong by the nature and image.. But this is a serious dance school who have trained a lot of professional dancers.
Ok, I am not a graphical expert so I am not so sure about the requirements.. But here are some things I can say.
The logo has to look fresh so it will fit perfectly in a dot 2.0 web inteface. We also going to use it on other promotional stuff. So if the logo we chose is good, we also going to need some other advertisement stuff, like stationary, flyers ect.
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Fire Release (火遁, Katon, English TV: Fire Style) is one of the basic elemental nature transformations. It is performed by moulding superheated chakra inside the stomach before releasing it via the lungs and mouth. There are also variants to this in the form of some mediums such as the use of gun powder, ash, explosive tags and chakra flow into a weapon.[1][2][3][4]
Commonly affiliated with the Tiger hand seal, Fire Release consists of mid to long-ranged offensive techniques that cause combustive and explosive damage.[5] The art of having the flames obey the user's will is considered outrageously difficult.[6] The chakra nature is common among shinobi of Konohagakure in the Land of Fire, notably within the Sarutobi clan and Uchiha clan, the latter having been noted to hold a natural affinity for it.[7]
Blaze Release
Amaterasu, a power only acquired through wielding the Mangekyō Sharingan, is stated to be the highest level Fire Release ninjutsu.[8] This technique is composed of black flames (黒炎, Kokuen),[9] produced by a specialised form of Fire Release that Sasuke Uchiha refers to as Blaze Release (炎遁, Enton, English TV: Inferno Style), utilised by him and his brother, Itachi Uchiha. As shown by Sasuke, it is possible to add shape transformation to the black flames using Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi, fashioning them into various weapons and defences.[10] Aside from using Amaterasu, Sasuke can create these flames with his Susanoo as well as in his own palm.[11][12] C stated that Sasuke manipulates the flames with his right Mangekyō Sharingan whereas he casts Amaterasu with his left.[13] In the anime, Indra Ōtsutsuki can use Amaterasu with his left eye.[14]
Relationship with other Natures
- Fire is strong against wind because the air feeds the flames but weak against water because it cools and smothers them.
- Blaze Release is also strong against wind for the same reason, but is strong enough to overwhelm water by evaporating it. Some highly skilled Fire Release users can also create a Fire Release technique strong enough to overcome the Water Release of an average shinobi.
- Fire Release can be used in conjunction with Lightning Release to augment the latter by using the former to alter weather conditions with a sufficiently powerful technique.[15]
- Additionally, it can be used with Wind Release to increase the strength of a fire technique and even overcome the superior element of water.[16]
- In the anime, Fire Release was shown being used in conjunction with Earth Release.[17]
- Fire-natured chakra is a component of the following kekkei genkai: Boil Release, Lava Release and Scorch Release.
- It is also a component of the kekkei tōta Dust Release.
- Fire Release parallels the real-life ninja art "katon-no-jutsu". One example of real-life katon-no-jutsu is Hitsuke: the practice of distracting guards by starting a fire away from the ninja's planned point of entry.
See Also
- ↑ Naruto chapter 323, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 657, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 447, page 4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 527, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 5, page 8
- ↑ Second Databook, page 205
- ↑ Naruto chapter 223, page 9
- ↑ Third Databook, page 289
- ↑ Naruto chapter 464, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 415, page 7-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 553, pages 16-17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 698, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 464, page 7
- ↑ Naruto Shippūden episode 468
- ↑ Naruto chapter 391, pages 3-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 336, page 12
- ↑ Naruto episode 69


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It is well known that the set of functions $\left\{ e^{^{inx}}\right\}$, for integer $n$, is an othonormal basis for the space of square integrable real functions in the interval $[-\pi,\pi]$.
Now let $\left\{ k_{n}\right\}$ be a sequence of real numbers and consider the set of functions $\left\{ e^{ik_{n}x}\right\}$. For what sequences $\left\{ k_{n}\right\}$ do the functions $\left\{ e^{ik_{n}x}\right\}$ form a basis (not necessarily orthonormal) for the space of square integrable real functions in some interval (not necessarily $[-\pi,\pi]$)?


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Jodee3 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Ruztech is an IT serviced based company. We are launching a new name and trying to "funk up" our image.
Our target market is small to medium sized business', we already have around 10-15 major clients but due to our work load and success we have decided to expand and hire staff with the view of eventually opening offices.
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Sad But True: We Can't Prove When Super Mario Bros. Came Out
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Super Mario Bros. is one of video game history's greatest treasures. Its massive world full of colorful characters and hidden secrets informed the design of just about every action-adventure game that came after it. It spawned numerous sequels, television shows, comic books, merchandising, and even a feature film.
And at over 40 million copies sold worldwide (not counting the various ports and reimaginings over the last couple decades), this is arguably the game that brought business back to an American home video game industry that had plummeted to next to nothing in the early '80s, the victim of an oversaturated market that left stores full of excess inventory that was practically given away.
And yet, we don't know exactly when the game came out. In fact, talk to enough people and you'll come to find out that we can't even agree on the year the game came out, at least in the United States (in Japan, we know exactly when it shipped: September 13, 1985).
This isn't Amelia Earhart or the Bermuda Triangle we're talking about here: this is one of the highest grossing consumer entertainment products in history, introduced less than 30 years ago, and we can't seem to get the date right.
I decided recently to try to set this right. I wanted to prove, once and for all, exactly when Super Mario Bros. invaded North America. I wanted to put this whole embarrassing mess behind us so that the history books of the future could be properly informed, and so that places like Wikipedia would have a definitive source to cite.
Did I find the answer? Well, sort of. Read on to see just how difficult this search turned out to be.
First, A History Lesson
Back in 1985, Nintendo of America was a pretty small venture, dealing primarily in arcade game distribution (if anyone in the U.S. knew the name, they associated it with Donkey Kong), the licensing of its properties to other companies, and its handheld Game & Watch LCD games. So when it showed off a prototype of what would become the Nintendo Entertainment System at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show that January, buyers scoffed.
The system was huge in its native Japan, where it was known as the Family Computer -- it pushed 2.5 million units in 1984 alone, along with 15 million game cartridges. But American retail buyers, still burned by the video game industry crash of 1983, didn't care. Video games were dead and buried; they were toy store poison. People were fired over bum video game deals that resulted in shelves being crammed with five dollar clearance titles, and no matter how great these new Nintendo games may have looked, no one was about to take that risk again.
Nintendo of America's strength was in recognizing that there was still a market to be claimed. It wasn't as if the crash caused kids to stop buying games -- in fact, 1983 was a record year for cartridge sales, and quarters were still piling up in arcade machines around the country, too. The problem was that the home games paled in comparison to those in the arcade.
The NES, meanwhile, actually offered something resembling the arcade experience at home, or at least a reasonable facsimile. In the case of many of Nintendo's own games, the hardware was literally the same as what was powering their arcade counterparts, meaning they were truly arcade-perfect. A common theme in talking to Nintendo employees of the time is that if players just got their hands on the system, they'd be sold.
"We had a pretty strong belief that if we could get the consumer to try the product or experience the product, they would believe it was a new form of entertainment that they wanted to participate in," Gail Tilden, who was in charge of the company's PR and marketing at the time, once told me.
So instead of waiting for buyers to warm up to the idea, Nintendo risked everything by offering stores an unbelievably sweet deal: rather than being stuck with unsold inventory, Nintendo would buy back any unsold merchandise. They would even come in and set up the displays and demonstrate the games. All a store would have to sacrifice would be shelf space.
This all culminated in a test market launch limited to the areas surrounding New York City lasting from October of 1985 through Christmas Eve. A sort of "SWAT team" of Nintendo employees worked out of a rundown rented warehouse in Hackensack, New Jersey, delivering inventory and decorations by hand, setting up and tearing down displays, and showing off the games to any shoppers who would listen. Even company president Minoru Arakawa himself could occasionally be seen running a TV set up a flight of stairs.
"He was just one of the guys," Howard Phillips, who worked for Nintendo at the time, told me. "He'd go out there and do a lot of this stuff with us. He wouldn't necessarily run all the TVs up, but he might run one up, just to see what it was like. He was that kind of guy."
The test market wasn't a complete sellout, but it was encouraging enough to eventually go national. At first the system was bundled with two titles, Duck Hunt and Gyromite, meant to show off its Zapper light gun and R.O.B. the Robot accessories (marketing the system as something more like a toy than a game console like Atari's products was probably an easier sell for shops).
By the end of 1986, with the system available nationwide, Nintendo started offering an optional system bundle that included Super Mario Bros. in the box. As the story goes, the move sparked a surge in sales that revived the home video game industry and put an NES in nearly one in five American homes. But was the game available before this?
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text: Surrealism endeavours to tease hidden fears and hopes out of the depths of the psyche. At one moment it uses abstract but nonetheless symbolic and richly allusive forms as in the case of Mirò and Max Ernst, at another supra-real elements in unreal relationships as in the works of Magritte: in the Kunsthaus outstanding examples from both ends of the spectrum can be found. In Salvador Dali's dream world astonishing transformations occur: around the waist and arm of a fashionable woman male hands are wrapped, and suddenly, her head blossoms into a bunch of roses, one leg is stiffened into that of a mannequin, the other flows into the drapery of her dress, whilst the furniture has become animate. The lonely petrified figure in the empty receding space and the cypress grove on the lion's head recall the romanticism of Böcklin and de Chirico.


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With The Avengers movie recently passing $1 billion in box office revenue, and the last decade of comic books that have been translated into successful movies, the comic book medium is probably enjoying more mainstream attention then perhaps at any time of its history. Yet, when you look at the various comic books over the years, there has never truly been a successful mainstream comic book based on professional wrestling.
When pro wrestling experienced an upswing during the early and late 1990s, several comic book companies decided to see if perhaps a comic book based on a particular wrestler or an entire wrestling stable of talent would garner attention and sales.
One of the more prominent comic book companies who decided to give it a try was Marvel Comics. In 1992, Marvel Comics launched a series called World Championship Wrestling, which spotlighted a different WCW wrestler each issue. The series ran for 12 issues and essentially was a comic book version of a typical WCW Saturday Night Wrestling episode at the time. The series tended to treat wrestling storylines as reality. The overall series storyline featured Sting's quest to become WCW champion with Lex Luger standing in his way. The wrestlers in the stories were distilled down to fairly simple heroes and villains and the comic books featured very basic plot lines.
The Warrior Productions comic book, simply titled Warrior, was based on the Ultimate Warrior and was featured very prominently on WWE programming at the time. The comic book itself placed the Ultimate Warrior in a kind of fantasy world where he would battle assorted enemies. Unfortunately, while sales were good for the first couple issues, they soon dropped off and by early 1997 the series was cancelled.
Chaos! Comics, however, launched not just one comic book, but an entire line based on WWE wrestlers from the Attitude Era. There was an Undertaker series, a Mankind special, a "Stone Cold" Steve Austin limited series, two Chyna specials, and a special about The Rock. Out of the various titles, the Undertaker series probably had the most elaborate plotline with the Undertaker as the ruler of a kind of hell's prison. The series also featured Paul Bearer and Kane. Yet, none of these series enjoyed anything other than very fleeting success and were soon cancelled or discontinued.
So why did they fail?
So how could a successful comic book be done based on professional wrestling? The movie The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke definitely points the way. The movie follows Rourke's character Randy "The Ram" Robinson as he tries to deal with being past his prime, reconnecting with his daughter, health issues, drugs, and the continuing lure of the wrestling ring. The movie was made for a $6 million budget, but went on to make $26 million at the box office and garnered several awards.
One of the lessons that can be learned from the movie is that first and foremost, for a comic book series it would be beneficial to base it on a fictional wrestler, rather than a real one. This would eliminate issues of an inconsistent portrayal and setting across different mediums. Also, what enthralled audiences and critics was how the movie showed what life was like for someone who was a professional wrestler, so any comic book series should try to focus on that aspect, rather than making up some fantasy one or trying to pass off wrestling storylines as reality. By doing so it would open up all sorts of storyline possibilities for a comic book series. You could start the series at the beginning of a wrestler's career and show how their life developed over time, the toll being a wrestler takes on families, friends, and relationships, the political elements involved in being a wrestler, reactions to storylines, and what it is to deal with the level of fame that they do. Since such an approach would ground the comic book series in the real world its odds of finding a readership who would continue to read it over time would be infinitely greater in comparison to several of the past comic books that have been tried.
Matthew Byer is a Senior Project Manager who lives in Victoria, BC. As he is coming up on his one year anniversary of writing articles for SLAM! Wrestling, he would like to take this opportunity to thank Greg Oliver for giving him the opportunity, and hopes to continue to do so for many years to come.


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How are Mama's and Papa's styles of storytelling different? Which of each of their stories did you find most memorable?
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I think I was most touched by Mama's stories, and among those the most memorable were: (1) Mama's late-in-the-novel revelation about the child's little anklet grabbed my heart. I will never forget that passage and then (2) Mama's story about her father's desertion of the family and her attempt to reunite with him after he became a monk
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Although I can't specifically remember any story, I know there were several mentioned by various family members. I enjoyed the stories. I came to believe it was part of the culture to pass on the stories. It was another thing that have them hope.
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Here's a sort of "live tweet coverage" of the Sabres/Canadiens game last night. Some of these are actual tweets I managed to send out, but most of it is random observations. While watching the game there just isn't time to tweet everything, but I wouldn't want to flood people's timelines with a brain dump like that anyway. What follows is a more vetted and edited list of thoughts.
Hope you enjoy the format, but let us know!
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There is no better professional at anthem singing than Doug Allen. We are so lucky to have great surrounding talent outside the team like him, RJ, etc. Well, I don't LOVE Harry Neale, but it could be much worse.
I hate people that hold up signs for the TV cameras rather than, y'know, WATCH THE GAME.
Neale called Nathan Gerbe, "Ger-bay", as has Rob Ray in the past. Is he of French Canadian descent or something? Because last I knew he was from Michigan and attended Boston College. (RJ pronounces it "Gerb-eee" so I'm sticking with that.)
Fun Gerbe fact #1: at 5'5″, he is the shortest player in the NHL.
Fun Gerbe fact #2: The dictionary describes a gerbe as "a kind of ornamental firework". Yes he is.
Horrible Commercial Watch
TV Commercial note: Healthy change #11, Blue Cross Blue Shield – I have a crush on the hot blonde that dances first. But the rest of it leaves me needing eye bleach.
Vanek/Ennis/Foligno line looking good early.
Horrible Commercial Watch
The Geico commercial where the guy karaoke's to promote himself to other singles made us chuckle. The bar has been set pretty low.
Vanek/Ennis/Foligno – a great shift around 5:00, Foligno looking good.
Horrible Commercial Watch
- The Tim Horton's commercial wasn't horrible and made me really want a coffee. Good advertising.
- VeinsVeinsVeins – call me old school, but all I think about is Motley Crue's Girls Girls Girls.
Thinking that the arena is really quiet right now.
Stafford just seems to be a liability – he touches the puck for a moment and loses it or gets off a weak shot.
Horrible Commercial Watch
- Loud commercials are loud. They're cranking the volume way up for some of these, especially the Verizon FIOS commercial.
- I hate MSG. I really, really hate watching NYC-based crap that I don't care about. Basketball and old Yankees players I've never heard of does nothing for me (I'm looking at you "Fran Healey", if that is your real name). I'm hoping that Terry Pegula is working on something like an Empire Sports Network.
- Ok the Sabres app commercial was really neat and creative! (Sabres logo thought bubbles above people's heads) Also, it's very subtle but the ballons pop up in a "Let's go Buffalo" cadence at the end.
Is there anyone who DOESN'T sing the Bad Boys song when Brad Boyes does something nifty?
Horrible Commercial Watch
That damn pig from the Geico commercials is truly annoying, but in a lovable way. How is that possible?
Awesome tweet: @mintyp69 twitpic'd this twitpic.com/8vk4i2 RJ jersey.
2nd PERIOD
Hard work by the Gerbe/Roy/Stafford line to draw a penalty early on. (Moreso the 9 and 42 of that line. Yes, I'm down on Stafford still.)
Top PP line not moving the puck well, looked awkward trying to just get onside. 2nd line of Boyes/Ennis/Stafford looked much better and got a great scoring chance with Myers in front of the net.
There are too many damn Canadiens jerseys in the stands. Sabres fans, WHY YOU SELL YOUR TICKETS? Oh yeah, you can make a boatload of cash. *sigh* I guess I might do the same if I had season tix.
Roy with an excellent chance. It seems like he should convert much more than he does. It feels like his shooting % is like 1.2%. [Post Game Update – it's 9.6%]
Isn't "Canadien" the feminine version of Canadian? Like Comedienne? Just sayin'.
15:50 Roy with another penalty. Surprising. </sarcasm>
This arena is quiet. Too quiet. I can hear Canadiens fans cheering though, so what does that say?
Someone please punch those Canadiens fans holding up TSN signs to the camera.
Getting really sick of the Refs not calling things consistently from night to night. Can you hook a guy or not? Can you hit a guy w/o the puck or not? I don't care if it's minor, there shouldn't be degrees of a penalty like holding in football. Call it or don't. #OldMantRantyMcGee
When Leino makes a nifty move that actually results in a goal, I will eat my hat. (Also, I'm not wearing a hat.)
That Ennis goal was a complete and utter thing of beauty. Very un-Leino-like.
A very fast, fun pace to the end of the 2nd.
Leino with a halfassed scoring chance. I know he was on the ice for a long time, but still, the great players dig deep.
I like how the Sabres are finishing their checks all over the ice.
Horrible Commercial Watch
- Paul William Beltz – y'know, not really a bad commercial, just too many damn lawyer commercials.
- Mike Rowe is all over my TV. He's slowly hypnotizing me with his voice to buy a Ford.
RJ "Another sell out crowd. I'm saying that because I know it to be true." No idea why he said it like that, but I loved it.
Intermission Horrible Commercial Watch
GAHHHH! Cellino & Barnes! If I'm ever in a car accident their theme song will start playing in my head. At least I'll know who to call.
Ok, Leino is kind of a bull on the puck lately, but I have yet to see him do much creative with it. When he touches the puck it rarely leads to a scoring chance.
Ennis' 2nd goal: some hard work and some luck, but it's nice to see the breaks go his way finally. Great pass across the crease that got redirected by the D-man's skate.
Pretty good pressure in the offensive zone and nice movement by the Sabres D-men to maintain puck possession. They're playing well and with a 2-1 lead I feel confident. (Not cocky … *confident*)
Immigrant Song playing in the arena: the most-played hockey song. (I have no stats to back this up, but I hear it all the time.)
Horrible Commercial Watch
Independent Health – it's all health commercials and lawyers. That's where the money is. #TheSystemIsBroken
"It's amazing how much better looking Nick is than Larry" – Neale talking about another Foligno brother. Ummm yeah.
Is it me or does Harry Neale just say the most obvious things? He doesn't seem to add a whole lot of insightful color commentary. My vote is for Danny Gare.
With all of Pegula's money, there has to be a way to makes clones with a mixture of Gerbe & Ennis' DNA with some gene sequences of Meyers' height.
2 on 1 chance by Montreal but Regher took the passing lane and Miller shut down the shooter. #textbook
Miller cool as a cucumber and making his saves look easy. (Does anyone still say "cool as a cucumber"? I guess I do.)
Gander Mountain is a sponsor of the Sabres? Huh. I will recommend it to all my friends over Bass Pro Shops.
RJ on the Canadiens penalty that negated their powerplay: "I'm sorry guys, I didn't think it was a penalty" One of the many reasons we love him.
Ennis clearly ate his spinach/wheaties today. He's quicker than anyone on the ice.
Horrible Commercial Watch
Chevy Truck Month – pounding "truck month" into our heads by playing it over and over will never work and it's an annoying commercial. Hmm… I really need a truck…but now I don't know whether to go Ford or Chevy!
5:00 left and it's the first time I really noticed the crowd (other than Montreal fans).
It's funny how we used to think Stafford could be a power forward.
After Montreal flipped a puck into the Sabres bench, Neale quipped: "I think Enroth made the save on it" Ok, well played, Neale, I liked that one!
Under 1:00 – Empty net excitement and Miller with a nice glove save.
Ugh. Montreal scored with 3 seconds left. That really hurts to give up a goal that late.
Gotta admire Montreal fans though – they're last in the East and they still show up in force in another teams arena. Good on ya. But couldn't you allow us the two points in regulation!?
Errrgh, my Gamecenter feed crapped out for OT! Twitter informed me that Myers scored the game winner – woot! It's the one disadvantage of watching online, every once in a while you'll miss something – but you can always rewatch it later.
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The age-old battle of Microsoft vs Apple has been given a new lease of life, this time in the form of tablet PCs. The Microsoft Surface RT and Apple iPad are two of the most sought after tablets on the market, so naturally we wanted to see which one is best. Here is our very own Microsoft Surface RT vs iPad 4 comparison review.
The bottom price of each tablet is exactly the same, it is worth pointing out that the £399 price of the surface does not include a Touch Cover, which is an accessory that is pretty integral to the slick use of the Windows tablet. If you want the Touch Cover - and you really should - then you have to factor in another £80 as the price jumps up to £479. Coincidentally that is the exactly same price as a 32GB Pad 4.
On the face of it, there's not a huge amount of difference between the iPad 4 and the Microsoft Surface. The Surface RT just pips the iPad 4 in terms of which is thinner, measuring in at 9.3mm compared to 9.4mm.
Oddly the table's turn when it comes to weight, with the iPad 4 weighing 662g compared to the barely heftier 678g of the Surface. As we said earlier, these measurements are both too close to really separate the two.
The difference between the two tablets become more apparent when you look at the two screen sizes. With Microsoft's Surface coming in nearly an inch bigger (diagonally) at 10.6in and the iPad 4 measuring 9.7in.
While the screen size of the surface is bigger than the iPad 4, the screen resolution is significantly lower. The two tablets' resolutions and pixels per inch (ppi) tell a different story - a story where the iPad 4 convincingly whips the Surface. The Surface's 148ppi ClearType HD display looks pretty good at normal viewing distances and in general is pretty good for your everyday tablet needs, but the iPad 4's Retina Display with 264ppi really is in a league of its own.
Comparing the processors is a bit of a tricky one, as our usual benchmarking tool doesn't work on the Surface.
That said it is worth mentioning that the iPad 4 features an upgraded A6X chip that set a new tablet record of 1769 using Geekbench 2, to put that into perspective the iPad 3 had a score around the region of 750. In laymen's terms that means the iPad 4 has a very powerful processor.
The only real way we can compare the two is in terms of what each was like to use on a day-to-day basis. From this we would have to conclude that the iPad 4's processor seemed to be the better of the two as the overall experience what slicker. That's not to say that the Surface was a jumpy slow coach, far from it, we were actually impressed with the Surface's performance; animations are smooth and the more demanding tasks like pinch zooming in Internet Explorer and Bing Maps are extremely responsive. However, we did notice a delay here and there, especially when opening some apps. Something that we did not find with the iPad 4.
Apple iPad storage options are pretty much set in stone now - £399 for 16GB Wi-Fi only ranging all the way up to £659 for 64GB with Wi-Fi and 3G/4G cellular data. As usual the iPad 4 features no microSD card slot for expandable storage.
The Microsoft Surface RT really hammers the iPad 4, when it comes to storage options, offering twice as much storage - 32GB instead of 16GB - for £399. Like the iPad 4, the Surface is also available to buy with 64GB of internal storage. The real kicker is that the Surface also features a microSD card slot, which lets you add up to another 64GB of storage, which in theory means the Surface can have up to 128GB of space.


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THE BBC last night apologised "unreservedly" for a Newsnight report that falsely implicated former Conservative Party treasurer Lord McAlpine in allegations of sex abuse at children's homes in Wales.
Director-general George Entwistle took the extraordinary step of ordering an immediate halt to all Newsnight investigations to "assess editorial robustness and supervision", as the BBC faced one of the greatest crises in its history.
A statement was issued by the corporation hours after a former children's home resident offered his own "sincere and humble apologies" for making false allegations against Lord McAlpine.
Steve Messham's admission came after the peer broke cover to vehemently deny claims that had been circulating on the internet since the victim appeared on Newsnight last Friday.
Lord McAlpine, a member of the Scottish engineering dynasty, issued a lengthy statement addressing the "wholly false and seriously defamatory" claims against him. The peer, also a former Tory deputy chairman, was not identified by name in the programme, in which Mr Messham claimed he had been abused by a senior Conservative from the Thatcher era.
However, the airing of the Newsnight special sparked a flurry of public speculation that prompted Lord McAlpine to defend his reputation yesterday.
A full apology was aired on last night's Newsnight, as one of five edicts from Mr Entwistle. Last night's BBC statement said: "Mr Messham has tonight made a statement that makes clear he wrongly identified his abuser and has apologised. We also apologise unreservedly for having broadcast this report."
Mr Messham had earlier said in a statement quoted by the BBC: "After seeing a picture in the past hour of the individual concerned, this [is] not the person I identified by photograph presented to me by the police in the early 1990s, who told me the man in the photograph was Lord McAlpine.
"I want to offer my sincere and humble apologies to him and his family."
Lord McAlpine has launched legal action against media organisations that he said had defamed his reputation.
Andrew Reid, his lawyer, said: "We have to look at Newsnight and how they behaved".
The BBC is already in the spotlight over its failure to broadcast a programme on Jimmy Savile's abusive behaviour.
Steve Hewlett, presenter of the Media Show on BBC Radio 4,
said: "For the BBC, this is a disaster. I am pretty sure this man's [Mr Messham's] story had been investigated by the BBC at least twice and dropped because it did not stand up. How on earth did it get on air?"
Lord McAlpine rejected any suggestion he had abused Mr Messham or any other resident of the Bryn Estyn children's home in Wrexham, North Wales. He said he had visited Wrexham "only once", and that had been in the company of an agent from Conservative Central Office. They visited a relative of Lord McAlpine and did not stay overnight, he said.
"I have never been to the children's home in Wrexham, nor have I ever visited any children's home, reform school or any other institution of a similar
nature," he said. "I have never stayed in a hotel in or near Wrexham, I did not own a Rolls Royce, have never had a 'Gold card' or 'Harrods card' and never wear aftershave, all of which have been alleged."
Lord McAlpine said he had been defamed by "ill- or uninformed commentators" on the internet and "by innuendo" in the written and broadcast media.
"There is a media frenzy and I have to expect that an editor will soon come under pressure to risk naming me," he said. "My name and the allegations are for all practical purposes linked and in the public domain and I
cannot rewind the clock. I therefore have decided that in order to mitigate, if only to some small extent, the damage to my reputation, I must publicly tackle these slurs and set the record straight."
His intervention came as a newspaper became the first to name him in connection with the allegations, in a story suggesting he had been the victim of mistaken identity. It quoted Wrexham councillor Keith Gregory, himself a victim of abuse at the Bryn Estyn home, saying he did not believe Lord McAlpine was involved in the scandal.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who has warned that the fevered speculation about the identities of those responsible risked becoming a "witch-hunt", said the issue highlighted his concerns over how paedophilia accusations were reported.
He said: "We must get to the bottom of the allegations that have been made. In doing so, all organisations, all politicians, have to be very careful they do not bandy about allegations and names without thinking about the consequences."
The UK government has instigated two more abuse-related reviews since Newsnight broadcast Mr Messham's allegations about failings in the original Waterhouse Inquiry into the care homes scandal – one into the inquiry itself and another into the police's handling of the claims.
Downing Street yesterday defended the decision to launch fresh inquiries into the abuse scandal, saying: "Serious allegations have been made about the conduct of the police inquiry and the subsequent public inquiry, and it's right we look into those – and that's what we are doing."
The "media frenzy" referred to by Lord McAlpine has also been stoked by the Jimmy Savile scandal, which has enveloped the BBC and several hospitals.
The peer, who lives in Italy and is in poor health, said he was "entirely willing" to meet senior police officers in London as soon as possible "so they can eliminate me from their inquiries and so that any unwarranted suspicion can be removed from me".
Stuart Newman, the Conservative Central Office agent who Lord McAlpine said accompanied him on his sole visit to Wrexham, is now dead. However, the peer's solicitors are trying to contact a senior secretary from Central Office at the time "to see if she can remember the precise date I visited".
Lord McAlpine said he had "every sympathy" with Mr Messham over what had happened and hoped those responsible who had not yet been caught would soon be brought to justice.
Meanwhile, the scandal was threatening last night to engulf Newsnight.
A senior news executive was sent in to supervise the programme, while regular Radio 4 presenter Eddie Mair was chosen to host the edition ahead of the core team.
All BBC co-productions with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have been suspended under other orders issued yesterday.
Ken MacQuarrie, director of BBC Scotland, has also been told to write an urgent report for Mr Entwistle on what happened over the Newsnight investigation.
During last night's special programme, Mair at one point said: "We wanted to talk to someone from the BBC, but no-one was available."
His sign-off only added to the growing doubts over the programme's future. He told viewers: "That's all we have for tonight. Newsnight will be back on Monday. Probably."


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Stephanie Seymour: St. Bart's with Brant Boys!
Model Stephanie Seymour shows off her bikini body while hitting the beach with art collector husband Peter Brant and daughter Lily, 7, on Wednesday (December 21) in St. Bart's.
The proud parents are also on holiday with their fashion-addicted sons Peter Brant II and Harry Brant.
Pictured here is Harry soaking in the sun with his mom on December 23 and Peter shopping with his mom at a Louis Vuitton boutique on December 21.
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15+ pictures inside of Stephanie Seymour and the Brant boys in St. Bart's…


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text: > Going trough a crossbar cost about 100-150ns these days. I would expect > the cost of one hop to be roughly the same in a torus. Now, the > interesting number is the number of hops for a given number of nodes. > With a 32-ports crossbar, you have one hop for 32 nodes. For 1280 nodes, > you can build a Clos topology of diameter 5, thus 5 hops. With a 3D > Torus, you route on a hypercube, so you have one hop for 8 nodes. I let > the pleasure to compute the number of hops for a 1280 nodes 3D torus to > a volunteer :-) The latency is more like 30-50 ns per hop on a torus (smaller switch is lower latency) and could be even lower. On Red Storm, a 1280 node system would be 14 cabinets (13.3, actually), so let's say 16 cabinets (each cabinet is 1x4x24 for X, Y, Z). Assuming a bi-directional torus in all dimensions (8x8x24), your worst case hop count is 4+4+12 or 1000 ns for 1536 nodes vs. 750 ns with your 1280 nodes. The dirty secret of most Fat tree style topologies (that nobody likes to talk about) is the ugly step functions (that I think someone mentioned). With a torus, if you want an extra cabinet, you buy an extra cabinet and cable it in. With a Clos topology, you can do the same thing --- until you hit the limit of the number of nodes that can be supported by the switch configuration. Then you get to buy a whole extra layer of switch (at high cost) and engage in a re-cabling nightmare. Nonetheless, for certain classes of bisection bandwidth limited problems, Clos/Fat tree topologies can provide a better solution as long as the link speeds are high enough and the system is large enough that comparable bisection bandwidth couldn't be found in a torus. i.e. an 8x8x8 torus with 3 GB/s links would have higher bisection bandwidth than a Clos network of the same number of nodes and 500 MB/s links (if I did my math right ;-) Keith


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Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions - Preface
General Editor's Preface
The publication of this volume marks an important milestone in making key classical Tibetan texts available in contemporary languages. This volume, Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions: Core Teachings of the Kagyü Schools, which is volume 5 of The Library of Tibetan Classics, brings into the world's literary heritage a collection of a very special genre of spiritual writings of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Compiled by the Most Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoché, a senior master of the Kagyü school, the texts featured in this anthology present the heart of the meditative tradition of the Kagyü school. Distilled in these translations are the insights and instructions of the Tibetan spiritual lineage of such great luminaries as Marpa Lotsāwa, Milarepa, and Gampopa, a school that is acclaimed for its profound and rich meditative practices. It is with both joy and honor that the Institute of Tibetan Classics offers the translation of these precious Tibetan texts to the contemporary reader, especially to those who seek to engage deeply with the Tibetan tradition and its wisdom.
Two primary objectives have driven the creation and development of The Library of Tibetan Classics. The first aim is to help revitalize the appreciation and the study of the Tibetan classical heritage within Tibetan-speaking communities worldwide. The younger generation in particular struggle with the tension between traditional Tibetan culture and the realities of modern consumerism. To this end, efforts have been made to develop a comprehensive yet manageable body of texts, one that features the works of Tibet's best-known authors and covers the gamut of classical Tibetan knowledge. The second objective of The Library of Tibetan Classics is to help make these texts part of global literary and intellectual heritage. In this regard, we have tried to make the English translation reader-friendly and, as much as possible, keep the body of the text free of unnecessary scholarly apparatus, which can intimidate general readers. For specialists who wish to compare the translation with the Tibetan original, page references of the critical edition of the Tibetan text are provided in brackets.
The texts in this thirty-two-volume series span more than a millennium— from the development of the Tibetan script in the seventh century to the first part of the twentieth century, when Tibetan society and culture first encountered industrial modernity. The volumes are thematically organized and cover many of the categories of classical Tibetan knowledge—from the teachings specific to each Tibetan school to the classical works on philosophy, psychology, and phenomenology. The first category includes teachings of the Kadam, Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyü, Geluk, and Jonang schools, of miscellaneous Buddhist lineages, and of the Bön school. Texts in these volumes have been largely selected by senior lineage holders of the individual schools. Texts in the other categories have been selected primarily in recognition of the historical reality of the individual disciplines. For example, in the field of epistemology, works from the Sakya and Geluk schools have been selected, while the volume on buddha nature features the writings of Butön Rinchen Drup and various Kagyü masters. Where fields are of more common interest, such as the three codes or the bodhisattva ideal, efforts have been made to represent the perspectives of all four major Tibetan Buddhist schools. The Library of Tibetan Classics can function as a comprehensive library of the Tibetan literary heritage for libraries, educational and cultural institutions, and interested individuals.
It has been a profound honor for me to be part of this important translation project. I wish first of all to express my deep personal gratitude to H. H. the Dalai Lama for always being such a profound source of inspiration. I would also like to offer my sincere thanks to Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoché for his being such an exemplary representative of the Kagyü tradition, for his selection of the texts featured in this volume, and for providing a special foreword to this translation as well as contributing an introductory essay to the original Tibetan edition of the volume. I thank Peter Alan Roberts for his masterful translation of these precious Tibetan texts into English with such care, respect, and scholarly refinement. To the following individuals and organizations, I owe my sincere thanks: to David Kittelstrom at Wisdom for his incisive editing; to Gene Smith at the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center for providing assistance with obtaining crucial Tibetan texts needed for the editing of the Tibetan texts; to the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, for proving full access to its library to the Tibetan editors working on the critical editing of these texts; and to my wife Sophie Boyer-Langri for taking on the numerous administrative chores that are part of a collaborative project such as this.
Finally, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Tsadra Foundation, who most generously provided the entire funding for this translation project. Without this support, no amount of dedication on the part of the Institute or the depth of talent and skill on the part of the translator would have resulted in such successful conclusion of the project. In particular, I would like to express my personal admiration of Eric Colombel for the profound vision and the deep dedication to the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition that underlie the mission of Tsadra Foundation. I would also like to thank the Hershey Family Foundation for its longstanding support of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, without which the task of creating The Library of Tibetan Classics simply would not have gotten off the ground. It is my sincere hope that the translations offered in this volume will be of benefit to many people. Through the efforts of all those who have been involved in this noble venture, may all beings enjoy peace and happiness.
Thupten Jinpa
Montreal, 2010
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