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WISE is a NASA mission surveying the whole sky in infrared. This project is looking at stars to find dusty debris disks, similar to our asteroid field. These disks suggest that these stars are in the early stages of forming planetary systems. Learning more about these stars can tell us how our Solar System formed.
Computers often confuse debris disks around stars with other astronomical objects. We need your help to sort out what stars actually have these disks from Galaxies and Nebulae.
You can learn more about the project on the About and Science pages. Or you can get to classifying.
An example of a good candidate--it looks round-ish at all wavelengths and stays close to the plus sign.
Another example of a good candidate. It is round at all wavelengths, but a has a cross pattern caused by the telescope.
The object is extended beyond the red circle in the WISE images. It's probably a Nebula.
This is an example of a candidate that is not round in the DSS and 2MASS images. It's probably a Galaxy.
This object moves substantially between images. It is on the crosshairs in the DSS2 and 2MASS images, but off the crosshairs in the WISE 4 image.
This example has multiple objects in the DSS and 2MASS images.
This candidate has multiple problems--it is not round in the DSS and 2MASS image, and it extends beyond the circle in the WISE images. It also has multiple sources within the circle.
Planets form and grow in rotating disks of gas, dust, and chunks of rock around young stars. Sometimes disks of rock and dust persist in a planetary system throughout the life of the star. Finding these disks, birthplaces and homes of planets, has been a major quest of astronomers for the last three decades. In Disk Detective, you can join us on this quest.
A star surrounded by a disk can be tricky to spot, but an important clue is that the radiation coming from the star is augmented by radiation from the dust in the disk. A NASA satellite mission called WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) has just finished making maps of the entire sky in mid-infrared wavelengths--the most powerful survey for dusty disks ever made. These maps likely contain images of thousands of new disks, ready to be discovered amongst the thousands of galaxies, nebulae, and other objects
The disks we aim to find fall into roughly two categories: debris disks and Young Stellar Object (YSO) disks. Both YSO disks and debris disks contain large amounts of dust, so they both shine brightly in infrared wavelengths. We hope you join us in the hunt!
"YSO" stands for "Young Stellar Object". These young stars, generally less than five million years old and often encircled by disks, are mostly found in clusters. Their disks are mostly made of gas--the gas out of which giant planets like Jupiter form. They also contain some planetesimals and some dust, which radiates the infrared light we see.
Here is a close-up shot of a YSO disk named "HH 30" made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The disk is oriented edge-on, so what we see is a dark band of dust between two cones of light from the curved disk surfaces. A jet of gas, colored bright green here, flows out of the disk plane.
The WISE images you will look at won't have this much detail; the disks you will see will be contained in a single point of light. But the disk candidates that you help find will eventually provide targets for Hubble and for other telescopes, like NASA's James Webb Space Telescope which can make more spectacular images like the HH 30 image.
Debris Disks resemble the asteroid belt or the Kuiper belt in our solar system, though they can be much more massive. They take the form of belts of rocky and icy planetesimals, mixed in with dust produced when the planetesimals collide, but they contains little or no gas. They are found around older stars, 5 million years old and older. Some of the brightest stars in the sky, like Vega and Fomalhaut, host debris disks.
The Hubble Space Telescope has also captured spectacular images of debris disks. like the one around Fomalhaut shown here. Fomalhaut is much closer to the Earth than HH 30, so this image reveals even more details than the HH 30 image; it shows that the debris forms a narrow eccentric ring. The shape of this ring has led astronomers to believe that there are hidden planets in the system sculpting the ring. Again, you won't see images like this in Disk Detective. But your work will help us take more pictures like this of disks with future telescopes.
Disks are not the only kind of celestial object that glows bright in the infrared. Galaxies, asteroids, active galactic nuclei, and interstellar clouds of dust all emit at these wavelengths. Computer algorithms designed to automatically search for disks are easily thrown off by these sources of confusion, so we need to examine all these disk candidates by eye to make sure they really are stars with disks, and not some other kind of interloper. Also, computer programs can only detect what we tell them to measure. But you can do much more than that. With a large all-sky data set and your curiosity, the possibilities for unexpected discoveries are vast.
NASA's WISE mission surveyed the whole sky in four different infrared wavelengths. The targets you will look at in Disk Detective have all been pre-selected to be extra bright in infrared light. In particular, the objects you will look at are anomalously bright at WISE's "W4" band, which corresponds to light with a wavelength of 22 microns, about the width of very fine piece of human hair.
You will see mid-infrared images from WISE, and also images of the same sources take at near-infrared and optical wavelengths. The optical images, and some of the near-infrared images come from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), a collection of digital images from the Palomar Observatory and the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The rest of the near-infrared images come from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) which used two automated 1.3 meter telescopes one at Mt. Hopkins, AZ, and one at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Chile.
Looking at each of these images is important because they help us see what kinds of other objects are potentially contaminating our search. But another interesting way to examine the same data is to plot how bright these sources as a function of wavelength. A plot like this, a crude kind of spectrum, is called a "Spectral Energy Distribution" or "SED" for short.When you click on the SED button, you will see the SED for the source you just looked at. The quantity plotted, "lambda f lambda", tells you the relative amount of power coming from the object at each wavelength, from about 1 to 22 microns.
We will try to directly image extrasolar planets around the closest and brightest disks you find using large telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. For example, the image below shows the HR 8799 planetary system, imaged with the Gemini North telescope by Christian Marois et al. Before these planets were discovered, HR 8799 was considered to be a prime hunting ground for planets because of its debris disk.
For other disks, we will make images like the ones above that teach us about the environment where planets form. Why are these disks asymmetric? What causes planets to migrate around inside disks? Those are some of the questions images like these can help answer. To see more images of disks up close, go to cirumstellardisks.org.
Other candidates will be part of a census of stars that we will follow-up with smaller telescopes to understand the distribution of disks in the Galaxy and as a function of stellar age and stellar mass. An important reason for such a census is the possibility of identifying disks in unusual places. For example, most YSO disks are found in or near clusters of young stars; our own solar system probably formed in such an environment. But in Disk Detective, you may be able to identify some YSOs outside of these typical locations. Likewise, most known debris disks orbit stars that are similar to our sun, in terms of the stage of the stellar life cycle they are in. But you may find debris disks in the WISE data set around much stars much more evolved than our own sun, helping astronomers understand the prospects for life around these stars and distant future of our own solar system.
Finding planets around other stars is hard. But there's an important trick we can use to study extrasolar planets that also teaches us about where the planets come from.
Planets form from vast clouds of gas, dust, and chunks of rock---clouds that take the shape of disks with stars in the center. We can find out where planets are forming and where planets probably remain today by searching for stars that are surrounded by these disks. Finding these disks, called "debris disks" or "YSO disks" depending on their age and gas content, has been a major quest of astronomers for the last three decades.
NASA's WISE mission probably made images of thousands of debris disks and YSO disks. Alas, these disks are buried among images of millions of other kinds of astronomical objects like galaxies and nebulae, and mixed in with images that contain artifacts created by the telescope itself. In Disk Detective, you will help astronomers find these disks, homes for extrasolar planets.
Disk Detective is the first NASA led and funded Zooniverse project. It is also the first NASA led and funded crowdsourcing project whose main goal is to produce publishable scientific results. It was built using seed money from NASA's Science Innovation Fund. See the White House's second Open Government National Action Planfor more information on the U.S. federal government's commitment to crowdsourcing and open data.
This material is based upon work supported by NASA under grant number NNX13AG53G. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
This project makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), the Digitized Sky Syrvey (DSS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and NEOWISE, which is a project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology. WISE and NEOWISE are funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The Two Micron All Sky Survey is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
The Digitized Sky Survey was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope. The plates were processed into the present compressed digital form with the permission of these institutions.
Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.
This research has made use of the NASA/ IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Marc Kuchner (PI), an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, loves to look at pictures of planetary systems and make models explaining what they look like. Kuchner earned his PhD from Caltech in 2001 and went on to study at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Princeton. He's known for introducing the world to Water Worlds and Carbon Planets, and for inventing optics for planet finding that will be part of the James Webb Space Telescope.
John Debes is an ESA/AURA Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He works on the COS/STIS Instrument team and studies dust around stars both young and very old in the quest for understanding the nature of rocky planets around other stars.
Michael McElwain is a research astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. His research focuses on directly imaging exoplanets and their circumstellar disks to improve our understanding of planet formation. Michael is also designing new science cameras for a next generation space mission to find life on Earth-like planets.
Deborah Padgett is a NASA Research Astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. She is a science team member for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Her primary science interests are the evolution of dusty disks around young stars and how they become the diversity of worlds we are starting to detect around other stars.
Luisa Rebull is a Associate Research Astronomer at the Spitzer Science Center (SSC), Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), California Institute of Technology. She does a lot of different things at IPAC, including working with the Spitzer and WISE archives, and running the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Project (NITARP), which partners small groups of educators with a research astronomer for a year-long research project.
Kevin Schawinski is an Assistant Professor at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He works on galaxies, black holes and has been with the Zooniverse since the beginning.
Thayne Currie is currently a McLean Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronoto. His research primarily focuses on directly imaging and characterizing young extrasolar planets around nearby stars, many of which are surrounded by debris disks like those we seek to identify from Disk Detective.
Alissa Bans received her PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Chicago, and is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Adler Planetarium. Her research focuses on how solar systems form and evolve, particularly she focuses on the role of large-scale magnetic fields and also matching theory with observations. In addition to astronomy research, part of her role at the Adler Planetarium is engaging the public through education and outreach, including working with Zooniverse citizen science projects.
Steven Silverberg is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Bachelors of Science in astrophysics from Rice University in 2013, where he studied the magnetic fields of flaring M-dwarfs. His research still focuses on these low-mass, cool stars, studying their circumstellar material and their flare behavior over time.
John Wisniewski is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma. He is an observational astronomer who studies a wide variety of circumstellar disk systems, including protoplanetary disks, debris disks, and classical Be disk systems.
Edward Paget joined Adler's Zooniverse Team as a software developer in August 2012. He previously worked as a freelance programmer and photographer. Ed graduated from Northwestern University with a major in Radio/TV/Film.
Heath van Singel is the UX/UI Designer for projects at the Zooniverse where he works to craft thoughtful and engaging user experiences. Apart from design Heath also enjoys illustration, a good sci-fi or fantasy novel, and trips back to Michigan.


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By Rick Eymer
Palo Alto Online Sports
Coby Fleener, Zach Ertz and Levine Toilolo comprise, perhaps, the best collection of tight ends on one college football team in the nation.
The trio has combined for .631 of the receiving touchdowns and .458 of the receiving yardage, while catching just .321 of all completions.
That kind of dominance has led to a nickname, something that Fleener came up with: "Tree's company."
It has a certain ring to it and shows Fleener has a wickedly good sense of satire. Kind of like the wickedly good sense of balance and speed that has led to a team-leading six touchdown receptions for him this season.
Fleener also is a candidate for the Mackey Award as the nation's top tight end. He caught four passes for 128 yards and one touchdown in last week's 44-14 victory at Washington State. For that effort, he was named the Mackey Tight End of the Week.
Fleener, who has 16 receptions for 383 yards, averages 23.9 yards per catch and a 63.8 average yards per game. He's making a run at Stanford's single-season record for receiving yards per catch, held by Miles Moore at 21.5 yards per catch in 1971. He is also on pace to break the NCAA single-season record for receiving yards per catch by tight ends, set in 1984 by Jay Novacek of Wyoming.
Meanwhile, Ertz ranks second (with Griff Whalen) with 20 receptions and Toilolo averages 21.9 yards a catch.
"Talent is great but production wins football games," Stanford coach David Shaw said. "They have a chance to be one of the best groups of tight ends in the country."
"Tree's company" will get to perform on national TV this weekend when the seventh-ranked Cardinal (6-0, 4-0) hosts No. 22 Washington (5-1, 3-0) on Saturday at 5 p.m. in a sold out Stanford Stadium. It's the team's third sellout in four home games this season.
The Huskies represent the first nationally ranked opponent of the season for Stanford and opens a stretch in the regular-season schedule in which the Cardinal will face four teams with winning records, three of which have a single loss entering play this weekend. The combined record of the final six opponents stands at 23-13, with Oregon State and California a combined 4-8.
Washington and No. 9 Oregon are the only teams currently ranked, although both Notre Dame and USC (which play each other Saturday in South Bend) are receiving votes.
The numbers support an efficient, effective group of tight ends and that does not take into consideration their significant blocking skills and what that adds to the Cardinal running game, which is impressive in its own right.
"The tight end is the best of both wide receivers and offensive lineman," Ertz said. "We do focus on blocking. We go through a wide range of work at practice every day."
All three were considered top tight end prospects out of high school, although a lot of teams speculated on whether to turn the 6-foot-8 Toilolo into an offensive lineman, and many saw the fleet Fleener as a wide receiver.
"Through the process we have been fortunate," Shaw said. "Coby Fleener was a tweener and once he started packing on the weight, it came naturally. When you look at Toilolo, you see a slim waist and there's no way he's going to put on enough weight to be an offensive lineman."
Toilolo, whose stretching abilities led to a touchdown during Stanford's victory over Washington State, said he made his decision to attend Stanford in part because of the chance to play tight end.
"I wanted to play tight end or defensive end," he said. "I felt I was athletic enough to do it and I didn't see myself as getting to 300 pounds."
Toilolo's touchdown, when he was tackled on four-yard line and still managed to reach out and get the ball over the goal line before crashing to the ground, became an instant classic on the highlight reel.
"We started joking that you can tackle him at the seven and he'll still score," Ertz said. "It shows you he's an unbelievable athlete."
Toilolo has thought about testing out the theory during a practice.
"I'd like to see how far I could reach just falling down," he said. "It's also good being able to stretch for touchdowns or first downs."
Toilolo won the tight end job last year as a redshirt freshman. His season lasted two plays.
He caught one pass for 27 yards against Sacramento State and was injured on the play.
"It was definitely tough to see the whole season go like that," Toilolo said. "I never got to get comfortable. But we had Coby, Konrad (Reuland) and Zach and it felt like any one of them could have been the starter."
Ertz may have made the biggest jump. He stepped in against the Hornets and caught his first career touchdown pass and then just progressively got better every week.
"Levine was the best tight end we had last year," Ertz said. "When he went down, I was still behind guys. Having to step up, I wanted that challenge. It's a unique bond, being supportive of each other after competing for jobs during training camp."
Shaw and the offensive staff have been creative in giving all three the opportunity to shine, and has found ways to get all three in at the same time. It's helped turned a weakness into strength.
Chris Owusu, who sustained a mild concussion after a brutal hit against the Cougars, was Stanford's top returning receiver and he's been struggling. Tight end play has been a pleasant
"We hoped he would have more of an impact by now but I think he'll get going," Shaw said. "He should be ready to go. He's a tough kid. If he's ready to play on Saturday, he will play."
Whalen, who has one of the non-tight end touchdown receptions, thinks the development of the tight ends has made his job easier, too.
"You can't concentrate on one guy," Whalen said. "It's obvious how big a threat those guys are."


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Morning MarketBeat: Stocks Hit First Pothole of Year
Pre-Market Brief:
MARKET SNAP: At 5:24 a.m. ET, S&P 500 futures up 0.2%. Treasury yields higher. Nymex up at $93.34; gold at $1,583.18, up 1.8%. In Europe, FTSE 100 up 0.7%, DAX up 0.5% and CAC 40 up 1.2%. In Asia, Nikkei 225 up 0.7% and Hang Seng down 0.5% .
Overnight action: Euro-zone economy to shrink in 2013; Payroll tax whacks spending; Air France-KLM net loss widens.
Watch for: President Obama meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Federal Reserve Gov. Jerome Powell and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren are among speakers at University of Chicago Booth School's Monetary Policy Forum in New York. Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo speaks on financial regulation.
Earnings: Abercrombie & Fitch, Charter Communications, Interpublic and Washington Post, among others.
For more MarketBeat and other streaming markets coverage from The Wall Street Journal, point your mobile browser to wsj.com/marketspulse.
The Breakfast Briefing
The stock market's big rally to kick off the year is looking wobbly all of a sudden.
The Dow's back-to-back decline—its biggest since December—has some investors wondering if stocks are poised for their first significant pullback of the year. An uninspiring round of economic data this week, combined with renewed worries that the Fed could pull back on stimulus sooner than expected, have left investors in a "precarious position," says Barry Knapp, chief U.S. equity strategist at Barclays.
"If growth slows, Fed concerns will ease, but earnings growth will not accelerate as expected," Knapp says. "If growth proves resilient and inflation risks increase, then pressure will rise on the Fed to taper purchases."
The Dow has dropped 155 points over the last two days, has fallen in four of the last six trading sessions and has nearly erased all of its February gains. The last two trading days have also witnessed above average trading volumes, with yesterday's session being the most heavily traded day of the year, according to WSJ Market Data Group, suggesting there has been some conviction behind the recent decline.
What's more, rising taxes and stalled budget talks in Washington are taking their toll on investors. The 2% increase in payroll taxes, which went into effect last month, and the delay in tax refunds are crimping consumers' spending power. The so-called sequestration is set to kick in eight days from now.
Rising gas prices also aren't helping matters. The national average price for regular gasoline hit $3.78 a gallon on Thursday, up 15 cents in the past week and 47 cents in the past month, according to auto club AAA.
That hasn't gone unnoticed.
"Rising stock prices are positive for business confidence, but increasing gasoline prices, which have tended to move in relative lockstep with equities, are bad for consumer confidence," Knapp says. "This contrast can probably linger a bit longer, but in the post-crisis world, these periods have tended to lose steam in the second quarter, due to either weak growth, concerns about monetary policy tightening or both."
That's what happened in 2011 and 2012, when stock rallies that started those years petered out during the spring and summer months.
The worry is the market could be poised to follow the same pattern yet again in 2013.
Morning MarketBeat Daily Factoid: On this day in 1980, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union at Lake Placid, NY by a final score of 4-3, in what is often referred to as the "Miracle on Ice." The US hockey team went on to win a gold medal that year.
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Stocks to Watch
Washington Post is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings on Friday. The media company plans to sell several of its publications, including The Herald, a daily headquartered in Everett, Wash., to Black Press Ltd. The deal is expected to close in early March.
Apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is expected to report fourth-quarter earning of $1.96 a share, according to a consensus survey by FactSet.
"Sentiment has dramatically improved into the print given sell-side EPS revisions and signs of improved inventory management. We estimate management can satisfy investor expectations with initial fiscal year 2013 EPS outlook given improving fundamentals in the business and the Street's fairly conservative [earnings before interest and taxes] margin expectations," said John Kernan, an analyst at Cowen, about Abercrombie.
Barnes Group is projected to post fourth-quarter earnings of 51 cents a share. The aerospace manufacturing company's board declared a quarterly dividend of 10 cents a share on Feb. 13.
Must Reads
Einhorn Presses Case Against Apple: "Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn detailed his plan for Apple to return more cash to shareholders, in an attempt to rally support."
Citi to Drop Profit-Sharing Plan: "Citigroup is shelving an unusual executive profit-sharing plan that raised hackles with investors."
CFTC Sues CME Group, Alleging Trade-Data Leaks: "U.S. regulators charged a division of CME Group and two former employees of the futures-market operator with revealing private information about trading activity to an outside party."
Heinz Trader Tied To SEC Probe Was Goldman 'Private Wealth Client': "A trader who conducted allegedly suspicious transactions ahead of the sale of Heinz was a "private wealth client" of Goldman Sachs, the SEC said in court documents."
Small Businesses Puzzle Over Tax Strategy: "Small-business owners can't change the tax code, but many of them say they might change the way their businesses are structured to pay less tax."
Heard on the Street: Investors Climb Wal-Mart of Worry: "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. What happens at Wal-Mart often reflects what's happening with overall consumer spending."


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Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o is recovering from a stinger in his right shoulder and will not bench press at the Scouting Combine, NFL Network reports.
Te'o, who had what may have been the most-watched press conference in the history of the Scouting Combine as he answered questions about his bizarre "dead girlfriend" hoax, will also be closely watched in his on-field workouts. As we noted in December, before Te'o's personal life became a circus, there are questions about whether Te'o has the speed NFL teams need from a linebacker.
If Te'o runs well at the Combine, it could go a long way toward putting those concerns about his speed to rest. So for Te'o, running will be much more important than lifting.


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The National Screening Service was established by the Minister for Health and Children in January 2007. The establishment followed the launch of a Strategy for Cancer Control in Ireland 2006 (pdf file), which advocates a comprehensive cancer control policy programme in Ireland.
The Strategy examined prevention, screening, detection, treatment and management of cancer in Ireland in coming years and recommended the former Board of the National Screening Service.
The National Screening Service (NSS) encompasses BreastCheck - The National Breast Screening Programme, CervicalCheck - The National Cervical Screening Programme, BowelScreen – The National Bowel Screening Programme and Diabetic RetinaScreen – The National Diabetic Retinal Screening Programme.
The former Board of the NSS also had a mandate that included a policy development and advisory role to the Minister for Health and Children relating to other potential cancer screening programmes.
At the request of the Minister for Health and Children the former Board of the NSS undertook a review of the Human Papolloma Virus (HPV) vaccines and reviews of the rationale for the introduction of national population based bladder, prostate and lung cancer screening programmes.
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It's that time of year again. For me at least. I'm on Yahoo!(!) Supposed to get like 24" tonight. http://beta.local.yahoo.com/news-massive-winter-storm-headed-towards-denver Why am I here Who am I
I love talking weather since my brother is a meteorologist and I get some real nerdy weather reports about snow and thunderstorms, but this year in Minnesnowta we have had about 17 inches for the whole year, which is really low. The storm was supposed to hit IOWA where my brother lives but it seems as if the storm is going more south. The fifth member of ANCO, METEOROLOGIST
THAT photo just made my day. Omg but yes you are from Denver too!!! I have no school so guess who will be up painting until 5am? Um do you want to go sledding It could totally happen since my plans of going to First Friday were ruined : ( I am kind of serious....
at least someones getting the snow ! in Michigan we can only get 2in max to stay on the ground then by the next day its all melted away. damn you global warming I plan on visiting Denver at the beginning of July. lucky.. you reside in that beautiful place
If I was closer to the city, I would love to go sledding! But I can't get out of my driveway An inch a minute, are you serious?!?!
Which part do you live in? I'm in Aurora. And omg I know. I just woke up. It's terrifying.
And you should totally come! Denver really is great.
Your picture MoonDog summed up exactly what I was thinking of!
DENVER: THE LAST DINOSAUR! he's my friend and a whole LOT more! and he shows me a world i never saw.... BEFORE!
I live near Castle Rock Kinda
Snowbody knows! the trouble... i've seen!
I appreciated that joke!! And wait Castle Rock or Littleton?!
Littleton. I have no idea why I said Castle Rock. Hmmm I've shoveled my driveway like 7 times today. Strange. It's beautiful outside right now. Say, did you still live in Denver in '03?
Yeah it's crazy!! And yes it was a good day today. And no I've only lived here a year. Why?
Oh I was just wondering. We had a similar storm in March, but it snowed like this for literally three straight days. We had 5 and a half feet in our backyard. School got cancelled for the whole week. Awesome memories. We snowboarded off of the roof!
weow that sounds like funs! Guhh it should be colder here, I want it to snow lots so we can construct an igloo like last year! the weather is so off here this winter I don't know whats happening
no snow! no cold! i'm just dandy with it! hehe! BEST (NON)WINTER EVER!
I hate England and snow for that matter, it snows and everyone panicks then everyone starts crying because two inches of snow has fallen, then everyone just adopts the feoutal position and doesn't move until the snow melts away the next morning !!!! Bleugh soooo frustrating ! It has snowed here and I hate it ! One of my biggest hates is cold feet but I don't listen to what my mind says and I still go out and get my toes frozen, because we don't have it often my most practical shoes are converse so my feet just turn into blocks of ice and my feet hate me !!! We had three inches...
It snowed yesterday. Just a week before that, it was springtime practically. Before that, stagnant cold (but no snow). The weather is schizo!
It's springtime now for me, and we just had some intense snow a week ago. It's the pattern here; a foot of snow, rain that melts it all, a few days of spring weather, and then another foot of snow - somewhere in there is also ten degree weather. I wish it was just snow, I want to go snowshoeing.
Where do you live? (I'm in eastern / western PA, currently western)
I live in Maine!
We had more snow last night.....I FUCKING HATE SNOW !!!
Here in Minnesota there is almost zero snow on the ground which is just amazing since how much we got last year.
We had more snow this week too. Not much, just a few inches. What I like about Colorado is that we'll have snow and then 60 degree weather the rest of the week. Or sometimes, we'll get snow and on the same day it'll melt. CRAZY
Here it's just fucking cold, but no snow
Same, penny.
I hate the wind almost more than the cold, because the wind just goes right through a jacket, and it litteraly burns my face off with coldness.
OH BOY I just woke up and its snowing here, somewhat less now that I peep out my window! I just want to erect an igloo really, and sit inside of it and take the edge off! The weather here is kind of similar Moondogs, its snowing today but 2 ago it was sunny and at least in the 50s. The weather lost its mind.
massive snowstorm here, now.
It's been snowing all.day.long. I'm ready to go sledding with an inner tube !
that picture a few clips up made my day as well
I'm in Southern California where rain freaks people out and takes over the news stations. I'm sure people would keel over and die if they saw a few flakes of snow drifting down. I'd like it, though.
Snow is magical. I thought we were going to get some great storm here today but what disappointment! It was only a light drift that didn't even manage to cover the tips of the blades of grass.
That last bit tigers sounded almost poetic, good job !
snow is drying again. mother nature is schizo
We had a snow/ice storm in Minnesota last night, and every school in the Minneaplois/St. Paul metro area had school canceled completely, however my school only had a two hour late start. My school never cancels school, and I mean never (Gotta keep this thread alive so the picture at the top will live on)!
lol I guess we're supposed to get a snow storm soon. I don't really watch the weather stuff though. It's more fun that way.
out of nowhere leap year day snow stormy! it was weird HEAVY snow and a crapload of trees are all busted up / branches broken down! it's crazy! what the hell! we truly are in the END TIMES weather wise! SOMETHING is going on! you must admit!
Peace I know how you feel, my school is always open.. Even tho I can always make it there since I live in a little neighborhood across the street - but who wouldn't want a snow day yaknow ?
The snow storm I the beginning of the 2012 appocolypse !
today i hate snow
snow joke!
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Lampard up for the cups
Frank Lampard hopes to finish what could be his final season at Chelsea with some silverware.
The Blues face an important week in their hunt for a trophy this term, with Thursday's first leg of the Europa League last 32 at Sparta Prague followed by a fourth-round replay with Brentford in the FA Cup on Sunday. Realistically those are the only trophies last year's European champions can win this season.
"At the minute the season hasn't been successful," Lampard told Chelsea TV. "We should be challenging for titles rather than third or fourth, but we're not. And we've not won some cups, we've been knocked out. We have to grab the fact that there's a lot of games to play and we have to try to win something."
There have been contradictory reports over whether Blues owner Roman Abramovich is prepared to offer Lampard a new contract to extend his 12-year stay beyond the end of the season.
Whether he stays or goes, Lampard has continued to perform, with a goal in each of his last four games to move within four of the club's goalscoring record.
Lampard is happy to continue playing twice a week, because it means Chelsea are in contention for silverware, and he believes regular action has resulted in his rich vein of form.
"It's not rocket science: the more you play you get sharper and you get match fit," Lampard added.
"You have to have an eye on the squad - it is a long season - so I'm not expecting, or asking, to play every single game.
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The only stipulation is that I cannot use any sort of scale or pressure system to determine the change.
Thanks for the ideas. I'm really looking for something that fairly inexpensive, pretty accurate and not too challenging. As I mentioned I need to track the height of the book stack as it changes in a confined space - a box. With that said, it sounds like the two IR stips (transmitter and receiver) might be the way the go as posted by astrofrostbyte. Can some recommend a manufacturer or perhaps provide a link for the stips? Would they work with an Arduino board? If at all possible can someone also suggest a link where I might find some sample code associated with using the IR stips? I really appreciate everyone's input and advice.
Quote from: tdirodis on Mar 05, 2013, 05:58 amThe only stipulation is that I cannot use any sort of scale or pressure system to determine the change. I believe this is why, Peter.
Idea was to use a 1->8 or 1->16 Digital Mux for your led's , and 8->1 or 16->1 analogMux for photodiodes depending how many led's(books-levels) you need/have. I think this can fit on a Arduino nano/mini, but still unclear what your Userinterface is.


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Chukchi Campus
In 1971 the University of Alaska established a "rural education center" in Kotzebue. By 1978, the University of Alaska, Board of Regents had established Chukchi Community College, which operated until 1987, when the newly named Chukchi Campus became a branch of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).
UAF Chukchi Campus Advisory Council
The UAF Chukchi Advisory Council has 13 members. It is composed of leaders or representatives from:
- Maniilaq Association
- City of Kotzebue
- NANA Corporation
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Northwest Arctic Borough School District
- Northwest Iñupiat Housing Authority
- Kikiktagruk Iñupiat Corporation
- Native Village of Kotzebue
- Alaska Technical Center
- National Park Service
- Regional Village Representative
- UAF Adult Student Representative
- UAF High School Student Representative
UAF Chukchi students have two options to choose from for taking classes:
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Ship to Gaza Activists Brutalized
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On October 22, GazaArk.org headlined "Release: Estelle crew beaten during (Israel's) attack. (Participants) were beaten during the attack and by interrogators." Former Canadian legislator "Jim Manly still in detention."
Israeli policy includes repeated crimes of war and against humanity. Occupied Palestinians suffer most. Humanitarian activists are brutalized for trying to help.
Participants in about a dozen missions were lawlessly interdicted in international waters. They were brutalized, imprisoned and deported. In May 2010, nine Mavi Marmara activists were murdered in cold blood.
A previous article headlined "Brave Israeli Commandos Slaughter Aid Activists at Sea."
Even media scoundrels couldn't duck a crime this grave, but don't think they didn't try.
The UK-based Stop the War Coalition called it "Yet another act of Israeli barbarism." In response, an "emergency demonstration" was held near Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street residence.
Thousands of Gazans protested. So did many supporters in Amman, Cairo, Damascus, Tehran, Ankara, Istanbul, Beirut, and other regional cities.
Israel's propaganda machine went into overdrive. Millions knew what happened and expressed outrage. In September 2010, the Human Rights Commission (HRC) issued damning findings.
They "concluded that a series of violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, were committed by the Israeli forces during the interception of the flotilla and during the detention of passengers in Israel prior to deportation."
Israel acted lawlessly "since there was no legal basis for the Israeli forces to conduct an assault and interception in international waters."
The same holds for all Israeli high-seas interdictions. International law is violated every time. Blockading and isolating Gaza is illegal. Doing so constitutes acts of war. They're variously defined as:
- surrounding a nation or objective with hostile forces;
- measures to isolate an enemy;
- encirclement and besieging;
- preventing the passage in or out of supplies, military forces, or aid in time of or as an act of war; and
- an act of naval warfare to block access to an enemy's coastline and deny entry to all vessels and aircraft.
belligerent measures taken by a nation (to) prevent passage of vessels or aircraft to and from another country.
Customary international law recognizes blockades as an act of war because of the belligerent use of force even against third party nations in enforcing the blockade.
Blockades as acts of war have been recognized as such in the Declaration of Paris of 1856 and the Declaration of London of 1909 that delineate the international rules of warfare."America approved these declarations. They're binding US law. They're also "part of the general international law and customary international law."
Past US presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Jack Kennedy called blockades acts of war. Do did the US Supreme Court. Palestine poses no threat. Blockading Gaza has no legitimacy. Even Israel admits it.
In June 2010, McClatchy Newspapers headlined "Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security," saying:
McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as 'economic warfare' against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory.In response to a Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement lawsuit, documents obtained said Israel called blockading Gaza "economic warfare." According to a government statement:
A country has the right to decide that it chooses not to engage in economic relations or to give economic assistance to the other party to the conflict, or that it wishes to operate using 'economic warfare.'Nations may indeed decide whether or not to have economic or any relations with other states. It may not interfere in the lawful right of nations (including Palestine) to engage politically, economically or other legal ways with countries it chooses.
Blockading Gaza is illegal. Doing so is an act of war. It's also a crime against humanity. So is brutality in any form as well as high-seas piracy.
On October 23, Electronic Intifada co-founder Ali Abunimah headlined "Mavi Marmara lawyers file case against Israel for seizure of Gaza-bound Estelle," saying:
Lawyers in Turkey have filed a complaint with the Istanbul Public Prosecutor against Israeli leaders for seizing the Estelle with Nordic parliamentarian, activists and other civilians on board in international waters.Named were "Israeli President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli army Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and head of the Navy Ram Rothenberg."
They're accused of "arbitrary arrest, confiscating maritime or railway transportation vehicles, intentionally causing damage to property, preventing communication (and) possible crimes against humanity."
The Turkish-based IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation explained. Its press release states:
On the 20th of October, at approximately around 10:15 (CET) hours, Israeli Naval Forces boarded Estelle, took it over and routed it to Port Ashdod.
At this moment, the vessel was approximately 30 nautical miles from the nearest shore. According to Article 3 of the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, the territorial waters of a State are maximum 12 nautical miles.
This means Estelle was sailing in international waters. In international waters all states enjoy freedom of navigation and the flag state regime applies.
No State may exercise any kind of jurisdiction over foreign vessels as long as there is no suspicion of slave trading, weapons or drug smuggling, piracy or unauthorized broadcasting. Since none of these exceptions existed, Israel had no right to stop and seize Estelle.
Imposing a naval blockade is only possible in an International Armed Conflict which requires at least two conflicting States. Since Israel does not recognize the State of Palestine, the conditions for an International Armed Conflict are not fulfilled.
Therefore, there is also no legal ground to impose a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip.Israeli crimes violate fundamental international law. The well-established universal jurisdiction principle (UJ) applies. It holds that certain crimes are too grave to ignore. They include genocide, crimes of war and against humanity.
Under UJ, nations may investigate and prosecute foreign nationals when their country of residence or origin won't, can't, or hasn't for any reason. Israel used it to convict and execute Adolph Eichmann.
A US court sentenced Chuckie Taylor, son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, to 97 years in prison for torture. The Hague convicted and sentenced his father to 50 years imprisonment for war crimes and other offenses.
Though never held accountable for murdering Chileans and other human rights abuses, Britain used a Spanish court provisional warrant to apprehend Augusto Pinochet.
He was held under house arrest for 18 months. It set a precedent. It let other heads of state and top officials know they're vulnerable.
Under Article 7 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:
The official position of defendants, whether as Head of State or responsible officials in Government departments, shall not be considered as freeing them from responsibility or mitigating punishment.No one deserves immunity for high crimes demanding accountability. It's long past time guilty US and Israeli officials faced justice.
Those most culpable are considered hostis humani generis - enemies of mankind. War crimes are against the jus gentium - the law of nations. International law was established to address them.
The Nuremberg Charter, Tribunal and Principles determined that crimes of war and against humanity are "international crimes" too grave to ignore.
Tribunal Principles hold that "(a)ny person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment...."
"(C)rimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit (them) can the provisions of international law be enforced."
The Rome Statute's Article 25 of the International Criminal Court codified the principle. It affirmed that persons culpable of crimes and war and against humanity be prosecuted.
Nuremberg established that immunity is null and void. Top officials, including heads of state, should be held accountable. Western and Israeli ones so far escaped judgment even though fundamental international law affirms no one is above the law.
The latest communique from Ship to Gaza Sweden (Estelle) headlines "Israeli activists give their version," saying:
I am now on my way home, but I keep thinking of my shipmates, my fellow activists from abroad who are still imprisoned under harsh conditions and undergo interrogation by the Shabak Security Service, among them Parliament Members from several countries.Israeli Elik Elhanan was on board Estelle. "Today," he said, "the court ordered his release and that of two other detained Israelis, Yonatan Shapira and Reut Mor."
At first they tried to charge us with all kinds of very serious felonies, such as 'aiding the enemy'. The court rejected this out of hand. Today they tried an article on the law books called 'Attempted infiltration into a part of the Land of Israel which is not part of the State of Israel (sic).' But the court threw out this charge, too.GazaArk.org's October 22 press release said:
Jim Manly, former Canadian MP (1980-88) and retired United Church Minister, continues to be detained in Israel with many of the other crew members of the Estelle, without any news about when (they'll) be released.
This despite freeing the Greek, Italian and Spanish citizens who were on the Estelle and the release of Israeli activists after being detained and charged.Those still held refused to sign confessions saying they entered Israel illegally. They were kidnapped and forcibly brought to Ashdod. Other foreign nationals released signed and were deported.
Elhanan and others said Israel used excessive force. Taser "electro-torture" was used. Israeli Yonatan Shapira said they were tasered repeatedly on their arms and legs. It was "horrible," he explained.
Elhanan's father said he saw burn marks on his son's hands. He and others were brutalized.
GazaArk added:
A Greek MP on board "was beaten by Shabak Security Service interrogators." Elhanan accused Israel of using "completely disproportional force against us."
When the Navy arrived to take us over, Yonatan Shapira counted no less than fifteen vessels surrounding us on all sides. Large and small ships and boats, a ship carrying a helicopter, as well as the Zodiacs of the Naval Commandos.
Fifteen armed naval vessels against one small civilian boat carrying games for the children of Gaza. We must have disturbed very much the Navy and those who give orders to the Navy.Jim Manley's wife Eva said:
These testimonies increase our concern for Jim and continue to raise the question why aren't the Canadian government and the opposition NDP doing more to secure his release?A Final Comment
On October 23, the Jerusalem Post headlined "Israeli activists from ship to Gaza released on bail," saying:
Yonatan Shapira, Elazar Elhanan, and Reut Mor were released on 50,000 NIS (New Israeli shekels). About four shekels equals one dollar.
Beersheba District Court Judge Yael Raz-Levi ordered their release and banned them from approaching within 500 meters of Gaza."Her order superseded the Ashkelon Magistrate's Court ruling Sunday." It remanded Estelle activists to police custody for 72 hours. It left open possibly holding them longer.
Judge Raz-Levi said releasing the three Israelis wouldn't obstruct investigative procedures. Israeli prosecutors admitted the same thing.
Police argued that releasing the men endangered public order. They said anyone participating in Gaza missions try to breach Israel's blockade.
Contrary to documents Gisha obtained and McClatchy Newspapers reported, they claimed besieging Gaza is essential to Israel's security. Of course, it has nothing whatever to do with it. Most important is that it violates fundamental international law.
Raz-Levi dismissed police arguments. Elhanan didn't regret sailing on Estelle. He "knew what (he) was getting into." He and others were well briefed and trained for their mission.
He stressed that Israeli commandos used excessive force. On board they recognized Elhanan and threatened him, saying:
'Elhanan, you will pay for your leftism.' They proved it by tasering him repeatedly. He's not dissuaded. He said 'if they think they could deter me, and those who sailed with me, they are mistaken ... The siege of Gaza is an ongoing crime, and it must be ended. We will continue the struggle.Other global activists feel the same way.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/


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Motorola Launches New Moto X Phone in NYC
Motorola held a press event to launch to new Moto X phone, its first device under the ownership of Google. WSJ's Ryan Knutson reports via #WorldStream.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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One of Christopher Columbus's ships, the Santa Maria, was his flagship. The Santa Maria was a "nao" or cargo ship. She ran aground on the island of Haiti on Christmas eve, Dec. 24, 1492. Columbus named the settlement la Navidad (Spanish for Christmas). Leaving 40 men, Columbus then departed and promised to return the next year.
Columbus wrote this to Spain's monarchs: "In all the world there can be no better or gentler people. Your Highnesses should feel great joy, because presently they will be Christians, and instructed in the good manners of your realms."


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NEWPORT County AFC failed to build on Saturday's victory at Torquay United as they were held to a 0-0 stalemate at home by lowly Bury.
The Exiles' own relegation worries were eased by a much-needed three points at Plainmoor but in football parlance the Shakers are 'fighting for their lives' at the foot of League Two.
This was never going to be an easy night for Justin Edinburgh's men then but the lacklustre display and disappointing result felt like a missed opportunity to reignite their play-off hopes, especially with free-falling Portsmouth the visitors to Rodney Parade this weekend.
Edinburgh named an unchanged side after the 1-0 win at basement boys Torquay.
But the Exiles didn't resemble a side with renewed hope and confidence in the early stages. And certainly not a group who believe that a top-seven finish is still a realistic aim.
Sloppy defending allowed visiting skipper Craig Jones two glorious opportunities inside the County box in the opening 15 minutes.
The first came after new centre-back Kevin Feely, on his home debut alongside Darcy Blake, missed a cross but Jones screwed his shot wide of Ian McLoughlin's far post.
The second saw Jones completely unmarked no more than three yards out but he failed to control Danny Mayor's centre and knocked the ball out with his knee for a goal kick.
Shortly afterwards Mayor's curling effort from the edge of the box was saved superbly by McLoughlin, diving low to his left to tip it round his post.
Saturday's match-winner Chris Zebroski had County's first shot on goal after 25 minutes, well saved by former Premier League goalkeeper Brian Jensen.
But the Shakers continued to dominate and striker Clive Platt really should have opened the scoring just over ten minutes before the break.
Chris Hussey swung in a perfect cross; giving the journeyman striker a free header six yards out but he somehow missed the target by a good 15 yards.
At the other end Robbie Willmott forced Jensen into a smart save with a fierce drive from just inside the box and captain Mike Flynn tried his luck from 30 yards out but Edinburgh won't have been pleased with his side's first half showing.
The Exiles boss resisted the urge to change too much at the break but did give young striker Aaron Holloway a chance to impress in place of the ineffective Danny Crow.
Flynn picked up where he'd left off with another volley that Jensen dived low to his right to palm away.
And County improved a little but with two big men up front in Zebroski and Holloway they tended to hit the ball long and the Bury defence rarely looked unduly troubled.
The frustrated home fans called for a penalty on the hour when Zebroski went down in the box but Jensen clearly scooped the ball away from County's top scorer and referee Chris Sarginson showed no interest in pointing to the spot.
Encouraged by the fans, County did raise their game a little in the latter stages with Flynn forcing another good save from Jensen and Lee Minshull grazing the outside of a post with a header from Willmott's corner.
At the other end Feely did well to block Jones' goalbound effort and McLoughlin got down well to deny Chris Sedgwick at his near post.
But neither side did enough to win a low quality game and Edinburgh's introduction of Max Porter for Minshull suggested that he was happy to settle for a point in the end.
County: McLoughlin, Hughes, Feely, Blake, Naylor, Minshull (Porter, 79), Flynn, Chapman, Zebroski, Crow (Holloway, 46), Willmott
Subs not used: Sandell, Jeffers, Worley, Jolley, Howe
Booked: Minshull, Holloway, Chapman
Bury: Jensen, McNulty, Jones, Hussey, Sedgwick, Mayor, Tutte (Proctor, 64), Nardiello, Platt (Akpa-Akpro, 70), Veseli, Mills
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The Kansas City Royals are excited to announce the Inaugural Career Fair taking place inside the Diamond Club at Kauffman Stadium on Friday, April 29, 2011 from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Looking for a job, internship, or a career change? Join the Kansas City Royals and other business leaders for a unique networking opportunity to connect with representatives from a variety of corporate businesses and organizations. Fees and Game Information: $13.00 Career Fair Registration. Cost includes admittance to the Career Fair and a ticket to the Royals vs. Twins Game at 7:10 p.m. on April 29, 2011. For more information on the Royals Career Fair please contact Laurie Ambroson at (816) 504-4390 or email email@example.com.
The Big 12 Conference announced today the 2010-11 Big 12 Swimming and Diving postseason awards, and two Tigers were selected to receive postseason honors. Jamie Sweeney received the honor of Big 12 Women's Diving Coach of the Year for the first time, while freshman Loren Figueroa also nabbed her first Women's Diver of the Year honor for the conference.
With one event left in the heptathlon at the 2011 Indoor NCAA Championships, senior Lars Rise (Trodheim, Norway) found himself in fourth place. Rise was sitting in the middle of a logjam - 62 points separated the second place and seventh place competitors. Rise ran a huge five-second personal-best of 2:40.92 for 863 points in the 1,000m run to jump over two competitors and finish the event as the national runner-up.
3rd Annual Tiger Trot 5K Run/Walk Benefitting True North 9:00 A.M., Sunday April 17, 2011 at Memorial Stadium $25 per person or pledge a dollar amount per mile* (Donations also Accepted) A portion of the proceeds will benefit True North in Columbia, Mo. T-Shirts and Prizes for participants. Please contact Shaunna Daugherty @ firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions and for registration details and visit WeAreMizzouSoccer.com for further detail.
Six Missouri Gymnasts have been honored by the Big 12 conference for their academic achievement over the past year. Five Tigers have been named to the 2011 Academic All-Big 12 first team and one to the second team. Juniors Mary Burke and Allie Heizelman earned first team honors along with sophomore teammates Sandra Ostad, Lauren Swankoski and Tori Howard. Senior Alex Gold was named to the All-Big 12 second team as well.
Dominique Bouchard posts lifetime best finish in first event of the competition, and qualifies for World Games in the 200 back. Bouchard qualified for the World University Games with her bronze medal finish in the 200 back Saturday. She finished the event in 2:10.30, just ahead of fellow Missouri swimmer Lauren Lavigna, who finished fourth in 2:10.80. Bouchard will represent Canada at the Games held in August. Lavigna also led off a relay with her club team, earning a gold medal and setting a new Canadian record.
Jace Long (Dixon, Mo.) led Missouri Golf to its third consecutive victory of the spring season as he shot a second-round 67 and an even-par 72 to win the 2011 Arkansas-Little Rock First Tee Classic on Tuesday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. The 2011 First Tee Classic was played at the par-72, 7,326-yard Chenal Country Club. The victory was Long's second straight for Head Coach Mark Leroux's club. Long won the Jackrabbit Invitational on March 15 in Las Vegas.
Junior Dom Bradley picked up two wins to secure third place while senior Todd Schavrien finished in sixth as the Tiger wrestling team wrapped up the 2011 NCAA Championships. Bradley is the second heavyweight All-American in program history, joining two-time honoree and National Champion Mark Ellis. Bradley finished the year with a 30-4 record. Schavrien finished 30-9 in his senior season, and wrapped up his career with an 86-44 record while earning his first ever All-America honors along the way.


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Table linen can really brighten and add a something a little extra to your event so why not hire some of the Rosetone linen with your tables! We offer table linen and napkins to match. Rosetone offers primary linen, brocade, jacquard, satin, tartan, animal prints, lycra, velvet lame fabrics in a vast array of colours. Our most popular is our standard white linen that comes in different sizes also depending on the length of drop you wish to have over your table. For more information or if you wish to see a certain colour of fabric, please do not hesitate to contact a member of staff who will be happy to talk to you regarding our linen and can send you some photos.
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I should know since I was just there in Dec, but I don't
Are gas canisters compatible with MSR, Primus, etc available in Amecameca/
by mtnjim » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:16 pm
by splattski » Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:41 pm
by mtnjim » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:46 pm
by Cloud Ocean » Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:52 pm
mtnjim wrote:Thanks, splattski. Still available at the ferreteria 3 blocks off the square.
by mtnjim » Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:19 pm
by Cloud Ocean » Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:55 am
mtnjim wrote:They're MSR and Primus and everything else screw compatible butane cartridges. I have an MSR Superfly. This time (week before last) they were tall, yellow butane cartridges. Last year at the same place, they were tall black cans. Just take the stove with you so you can be sure that they'll screw on ok. These are NOT the official isobutane stove stuff, just something that's locally available and will work.
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Michael Mann's 'Heat': Betsy Sharkey's film pick of the week
"Heat," one of Michael Mann's most stylish cuts at crime, will be at Santa Monica's Aero Theatre on Friday night. It's worth noting because total darkness and a big screen are really requisites for experiencing the full effect of Mann's meticulous visual artistry.
This 1995 drama, which he also wrote, is an early look at his fascination with the mood-setting possibilities of noir ("Collateral" would follow in 2004). "Heat" also marked the first time Al Pacino and Robert De Niro shared the screen, and their intensity fairly crackles in this tale of obsessions.
For Pacino's LAPD detective, it was catching bad guys; for De Niro's high-end thief, it was a heist gone wrong; for Mann, it was the director's unwillingness to give up on an idea he believed in. He spent roughly 10 years trying to get "Heat" made — the payoff was a critical and box office hit.
"Heat" was worth the wait, and worth a second look now, to appreciate what it took to create this masterful mix of dark shadows, close-ups, mood music and syncopated action — classic Mann.
'King Kong,' the 1933 original: Betsy Sharkey's film pick
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Photo: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Michael Mann's "Heat." Credit: Warner Bros.


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Comedy of Errors
Off The Ground Theatre
"Comedy of Errors"
by William Shakespeare
"We came into the world like brother and brother,
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another."
Shakespeare's joyful comedy of mistaken identity follows the fortunes of two sets of identical twins, accidentally separated at birth, then miraculously thrown together again. In a town the size of Ephesus, events like these can only lead to confusion.
This most farcical of comedies is a carnival of clowning and a laugh out loud treat for the whole family to enjoy. So bring a picnic, your friends and maybe even a bottle or two of wine and revel in the antics in Ephesus.
"Another triumph for Off the Ground – the company never fails to unearth new, young talent." ***** The Public Reviews, Peter Pan (2012)


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The -i option to the imqobjmgr command allows you to specify the name of a command file that uses Java property file syntax to represent all or part of the subcommand clause. This feature is especially useful for specifying object store attributes, which typically require a lot of typing and are likely to be the same across multiple invocations of imqobjmgr. Using a command file can also allow you to avoid exceeding the maximum number of characters allowed for the command line.
Example 11–9 shows the general syntax for an Object Manager command file. Note that the version property is not a command line option: it refers to the version of the command file itself (not that of the Message Queue product) and must be set to the value 2.0.
As an example, consider the Object Manager command shown earlier in Example 11–1, which adds a queue connection factory to an LDAP object store. This command can be encapsulated in a command file as shown in Example 11–10. If the command file is named MyCmdFile, you can then execute the command with the command line
imqobjmgr -i MyCmdFile
A command file can also be used to specify only part of the imqobjmgr subcommand clause, with the remainder supplied directly on the command line. For example, the command file shown in Example 11–11 specifies only the attribute values for an LDAP object store.
You could then use this command file to specify the object store in an imqobjmgr command while supplying the remaining options explicitly, as shown in Example 11–12.
Additional examples of command files can be found at the following locations, depending on your platform:


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Homestay offers you a comfortable stay in a rural Indian setting. Hometay is located in the Kamaraj Valley in the spurs of the Palani Hills. An altitude of 300m above sea level provides you a relatively cool pleasant tropical climate for most of the year.
The property has two buildings, each with two/three guest rooms, a common room and a veranda. The five spacious rooms have an attached bathroom and two beds. The three-room-building is situated nearer to the more jungle-style center of property. The two-room-building is somewhat out of the center and set in a more organized British-style statue garden. No matter where you stay, there is always a nice spot to sit quietly and enjoy the view.
Dinner is usually served on the rooftop. We offer Indian vegetarian and non-vegetarian fare but also European, Indonesian, Southeast Asian and Mexican dishes. The menus are set, but we try to find out in advance what the guests prefer. Because we are very small we can give our guests our full attention.
There is also a small library with a variety of English and Dutch books.
We offer an in-house beauty-parlor/masseuse (ladies only) and masseur (gents only).
There are many nice places to walk to in the area, for example: around the lake, to the nearby cave temple, the waterfall and water holes, or along the rice fields, the peanut gardens and the palm groves. These walks start at half an hour and can take up to one day.
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Exceeding Expectations is the situation when results are above and beyond in the customer journey.
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