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Super Lig Wrap: Besiktas on top after 4-2 win
Besiktas moved top of the Super Lig on Monday as they came from behind to win 4-2 at Erciyesspor.
Slaven Bilic's side went behind after 11 minutes when Bjorn Vleminckx scored from the spot, but Manuel Fernandes drew the visitors team level 12 minutes later.
However, Besiktas were behind again when they went in at the break after Yasin Oztekin struck four minutes from the interval.
But the Istanbul club, who beat Trabzonspor 2-0 in their first game of the season, remain the only side in the league still with a 100 per cent record after two games thanks to three second-half goals.
Gokhan Tore got his second goal of the season before Julien Escude and Hugo Almeida wrapped up the points, while the hosts' misery was compunded when Randall Azofeifa was sent off in the 90th minute.
Elsewhere, Trabzonspor picked up their first points of the season with a 2-1 win over Rizespor at the Huseyin Avni Aker Stadium.
The home side took the lead after three minutes thanks to Adrian Mierzejewski's goal.
Tevfik Kose put Rizespor level five minutes before the break but Trabzonspor were soon ahead again four minutes into the second half as Florent Malouda got his first goal for the club and they held on for the victory.
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New for 2012, the Carve helmet is lightweight, highly ventilated, and offers super protection for mountain bikers. The MSB technology (a monocoque structural base at the base of the helmet that reinforces the perimeter for enhanced protection) along with a fully bonded back spread the shock of impacts, provides support, and enables the helmet to be lightweight. Highly inspired by the Exo-Nerv technology seen in earlier Louis Garneau helmets, the U=Bar technology is made with U-shaped plastic ribs that are folded 6 times. These ribs act like a complex ekoskeleton that reinforces the helmet's structure. The Patented Spiderlock Pro Retention, hailed as one of the best in the cycling industry, allows the user to adjust the helmet with only one hand to ensure safety while on the bike. The Carve comes with a removable visor that is specifically designed for the helmet. "Helmets have three criteria that need to be met: It needs to be safe, it needs to be ventilated, and it needs to be lightweight. Often these criteria go against each other, but by utilizing patented technology we are able to achieve all three and offer an amazing stylish mountain bike lid," comments Pierre Perron, International Marketing Director.
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FREE diver William Trubridge continues to hold his breath for the most sought-after world record in his sport after he blacked out during a recent attempt in the Bahamas.
Trubridge dived 126 metres in the constant weight category, and made his way back but blacked out five seconds after he surfaced and was disqualified.
He held his breath for three minutes and 42 seconds during the attempt at the 2012 Suunto Vertical Blue Freediving competition at Long Island last month.
Free diving rules state competitors must take their masks off, give a thumbs up and stay conscious for 15 seconds after surfacing to avoid disqualification.
But the New Zealander, 32, won the overall competition and broke a national record when he dived 121 metres under constant weight at Dean's Blue Hole, the deepest seawater blue hole known.
Freediving – diving without scuba gear or breathing devices – relies on divers' ability to hold their breath.
Sydney free diver Ant Williams, a friend of Trubridge, said the seasoned diver would continue to live on Long Island and train to break the world record.
"He's been living there for five years and he is very dedicated … he will definitely go for it again, he came so close," said Williams.
He said the sports' popularity was limited to about 70 divers in Australia because of a dearth of deep-water holes.
"The sport hasn't grown terribly well here and, because of the continental shelf, you have to travel a long way offshore to train."
The best spot for divers to train at was only 30 metres near the Spit Bridge in Sydney.
"But it is a spawning ground for bull sharks so none of us likes training there at all."
Williams said there were only about 50 competitive divers in New Zealand but it was the only country to have four people who had dived deeper than 100 metres.
He said training involved spending lots of time at depth to acclimatise the body to water pressure.
"You have to spend a lot of time doing yoga and stretching [because] it is a sport where you need a lot of flexibility in your diaphragm."
No one has ever died in a competition but Williams said sticking to the rules was a matter of life and death.
Trubridge is the world record holder in both free immersion and the constant no-fins category and was the first person to break the 100-metre barrier unassisted.
He is an Apnea Academy instructor and also operates a free diving school at Long Island.
A Russian free diver, Alexey Molchanov, holds the 126-metre record for the constant weight dive.
Athletes completed 252 individual performances during the nine-day world championship and 65 national and two world records were broken.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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- Education: B.S., Eastern University M.S., University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Dr. Unger began his work at Maryville College in fall 2012. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky where he studied the ecology of a recolonizing black bear (Ursus americanus) population. He received his Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where he investigated the reproductive ecology and homesite (den and rendezvous site) selection by grey wolves (Canis lupus nubilus). His general interests focus on the wonder and complexity of all living things including behavior, anatomy/physiology, adaptation/evolution, and ecology. His specific research interests are in carnivore ecology, predator/prey interactions, recovering/recolonizing predator populations, reproductive behavior, and the influence of predation on natural selection and diversity. His current research is on prey selection and food habits of a reintroduced American Marten (Martes americana) population in west-central Michigan.


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Blessed thistle has a long history of use in European herbal medicine. All parts of the above-ground plant are used medicinally. The herb was used primarily for digestive problems, including heartburn, gastritis, burping, constipation, and flatulence. Blessed thistle was also used for liver and gallbladder diseases. Blessed thistle is also a component of the famous herbal combination therapy Essiac, widely used (though without scientific support) as a treatment for ]]>cancer]]> .
What is Blessed Thistle Used for Today?
Blessed thistle has been approved by Germany's Commission E]]> as a treatment for loss of appetite and non-specific indigestion ( ]]>dyspepsia]]> ).
Blessed thistle contains the bitter constituent cnicin. Bitter substances are widely believed to promote appetite, though this has not been proven.
Cnicin does appear to have antimicrobial properties, killing bacteria and fungi in the test tube. ]]>1,2]]> These findings do not, however, indicate that blessed thistle can be used as an oral antibiotic. Antibiotics are substances that can be taken into the body at high enough doses to kill microbes throughout the system. In contrast, blessed thistle extracts, like those of many plants, appear to have antiseptic properties, meaning that they kill microbes on direct contact.
Safety Issues
Although comprehensive safety studies have not been performed, blessed thistle is believed to be safe. However, cross-reactions are possible among people allergic to plants in the daisy family.
Safety in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or people with severe liver or kidney disease has not been established.
1. Bruno M, Rosselli S, Maggio A, et al. Antibacterial evaluation of cnicin and some natural and semisynthetic analogues. Planta Med . 2003;69:277–81.
2. Barrero AF, Oltra JE, Alvarez M, et al. New sources and antifungal activity of sesquiterpene lactones. Fitoterapia . 2000;71:60–4.
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A page from David Horvitz's A Wikipedia Reader,2009
"Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work."
- Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic
Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how Wikipedia is slowly running out of admins to edit the site's content. A trend is emerging. Fewer people are applying, and the current editors are slowly leaving. The long-term future has a flicker of uncertainty. To spark some discussion, I surveyed four artists and writers about the decline. We can all speculate what effects a decline in editor participation will have on Wikipedia as a global knowledge-base, but what are the implications for artists who use it as a tool for research and making work?
Lori Emerson
A healthy creative practice in the 21st century demands a baseline level of unencumbered access not just to information but to a broad range of cultural practices in general. While some of the most successful artists of the digital age are, as Mark Amerika has put it, 'remixologists' of information and culture, such a practice isn't sustainable without grassroots archives to draw from such as Wikipedia. For my own work, Wikipedia has long been a crucial entryway to information on the history of computing and digital art - Wikipedia pages on these topics are remarkably detailed and informative in ways often unmatched by books or print-based articles. I fear that the potential decline of Wikipedia would not only severely impact creative-critical practices but it also indicates more broadly that while we have made tremendous strides in opening access to information, we do not yet have any strategies in place for a long-term curatorial practice of maintaining and preserving this access ...


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Ok well it seems that know one is interested in anything so I'm going to move most of the stuff to my bricklink store.
Admins please lock or delete this thread.
disclaimer: My house is smoke free but I do have 2 cats and a dog, who are not allowed near my lego,
but sometimes they do get in so there might be 1 or 2 stray hairs in your bricks.
So unless your deathly allergic to cats or dogs you should have nothing to worry about.
Yazneg: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?M=lor038 : 1
Green Plant Flower Stem : http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=3741: 20
Green Plant Leaves 4 x 3: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=2423 : 6
Dk Green Plant Leaves 6 x 5: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=2417 : 3
Bright Green Plant Leaves 6 x 5: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=2417 : 3
Series 8 CM, DJ: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?M=col124 : 1
Green Plant Brick, Round 1 x 1 with 3 Bamboo Leaves: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=30176 : 40
Reddish Brown Boat, 14 x 5 x 2 with Oarlocks: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=2551 : 1
Reddish Brown Stairs 7 x 4 x 6 Straight Open: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=30134 : 2
Dk bley 4x4 plates: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=3031 : 20
Notes: Bifur, Thorin and Yazneg will come with their accessories, which will give them a higher trade value and/or price.
I might be willing to trade a few olive green 4 x 3 leaves if you can give me a good enough offer. The DJ is opened, comes with all accessories, I can include the package and the little paper thing if you want. The boat is pretty old, but in fairly good condition.
Gray Warg with Dark Brown Nose, Complete Assembly: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic ... argpb01c01 : I only need 2
30212 Mirkwood Elf Guard polybag: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?S=30212-1 : I only need 3 or 4
Hunter Orc: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?M=lor039 : I only need 2
Any kind of tile in Blue, White, Reddish Brown, Dk Brown, Dk bley, Light bley, Black
Any kind of slope in Light bley, Dk bley, Reddish brown, Dk brown
3x3 dish in Dk bley and Black
Dk bley or Reddish brown saddles
Reddish brown or Black quivers
8x8 trans blue plate
alt bricks fall leaves
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Today, I'm going to embroider the main character in this underwater scene-Miss Fish.
I've worked the head and body of this fish with long and short stitch, using 2 strands of the 6-strand embroidery thread. Then, I made straight stitches on the mouth with 6-strand thread and 2 tiny stitches at the bottom for the fins (2 strands of pearl cotton no:8 thread). For the tail, I've decided to embroider pointed buttonhole-knot stitch. For each part of the tail, I've made 2 straight stitches, close to each other (2 strands for each stitch).
As you can see here, I've made buttonhole knots on the straight stitches (6 strands for the lips, 2 strands for the tail and 1 strand for the fins). Work buttonhole/blanket stitch for the fin on top. The scales are v-shaped fly stitches.
Work buttonhole knots on the fin with 2 strands (please refer frilled buttonhole stitch). The buttonhole knots on the scales were also done with 2 strands of thread. A googly eye completed the fish, and buttonhole wheels for the bubbles coming out of the fish's mouth.
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Composer Akira Yamaoka has given hope to those who loved the criminally ignored Shadows of the Damned, revealing that he's thinking about a potential sequel and Electronic Arts would be up for it.
"I'm thinking of a sequel, actually," he told Eurogamer. "I can't tell you here, but clearly I'd like to."
When asked whether EA would actually back a sequel, he tried to be vague before ostensibly confirming it would: "Probably ... Well, yes."
Shadows of the Damned had its flaws and could have done with some damn quality assurance, but it was nonetheless one of 2011's most shamelessly entertaining adventures. I'd love to see more of Garcia Hotspur and Johnson, and if EA's willing to take the risk again, I'll be totally up for it.
Grasshopper considering Shadows of the Damned sequel [Eurogamer]


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Odd Assortment of Sketches
"Pot heads." Also known as "stoners." Remember how goofy those terms were? The two on the left there are based on a couple I remember from my high school years. The dude had those reflective sunglasses with side covers (blinders?). He was pure heavy metal, man.
The title 'Sensitive Pony-Tail Man' came from SINGLES. Remember that movie? I just made up the guy.
Jus' playin' around.
Sometimes I like to draw from photos—and of course Flickr is the coolest place to draw from. The image of Jes C in the upper left can be found here. The one of my sweet daugher Ava on the right is here.
I was watching something on the 70's one night on TV and so the following day I drew this. Dig those wings, man. Dunno what I was trying to do with the 'Foxy' lettering. I gave up on it. (Mark, I'm pretty embarrassed by this attempt, so just look away.)
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those sunglasses are called "Glacier Glasses".ReplyDelete
why wouldn't i know that...
Thanks for the comment on my blog, Ward. It makes me miss working with you. I'm totally digging your sketches (as always). "Sensitive Pony-Tail Man" especially cracked me up! I swear I've met/seen him him before. Perfect.ReplyDelete
Hey Ward, did Steve Mank tell you that I got to hang out with him, Rick, and Doug briefly while they were up here in NY for the BDA Awards? It was nice to see familiar Atlanta faces again. I wish you had been visiting, too! Boy, you are SO good...you need to be up here working...or in LA.ReplyDelete
Dan, you are so metal—of course only you would know that! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.ReplyDelete
Justin, Steve did tell me that they got to see you in NYC. Sorry I couldn't be there. Apparently I'm not allowed out of the building after hours. Sorry.
And do I miss working with you??? Boy, howdy YES! Come back, Justin! Come back!
Great sketches, junior. Regarding Justin's "you need to be up here working...or in LA" comment, I think maybe THEY need to be down HERE working with YOU! Unintentional or not, comments like that always smack of "you're wasting your talent by not being in our hip, soulless concrete hell hole." Raising kids in N.Y. or L.A. Sounds like a "great" idea. *cough*ReplyDelete
Whoa, upon reading what Robert had to say, I just want to clarify that I definitely didn't mean to insult you in any way, or make you feel as if NY and LA are THE ONLY cool places to be working. Primal Screen is an amazing studio, doing top notch work, and I would still be there if it wasn't for my weakness for "hip, soulless, concrete hell holes"! Heh heh!ReplyDelete
Honestly, I only comment on here with the best intentions, and I was unaware of how my comment came across until now. So I'm sorry. If I had kids, do you think I'd be here? Heck no. And to tell you the truth, I miss having SPACE!
I just wanted to stay in touch. Hope you're well, too, Robert.
great drawings!ReplyDelete
Okay, okay, fellas. Am I going to have to separate you two? First of all, Justin, I understood your intent from your first (well, second really) comment about I "need to be up here,"— I knew that it was just a thing to say and that we've talked about it before, but it probably won't happen anytime soon. It is a dream of mine to some day live in NYC or LA or SF and animate for a large company (mainly to have that experience and work with people who have been in the biz for years and learn off them), but right now, I have to think about my family. I'm at a sweet position at Primal where I have benefits and a secure job. I'm happy where I'm at right here.ReplyDelete
You guys are silly. And thanks for the comments on my sketches!
Doin' fine, Justin; glad to hear you are as well. Sorry if I came on too cranky and/or strong (maybe the lack of sleep is finally getting to me...an 11 month old baby will do that-just ask Ward!)ReplyDelete
Anyhoo, NY is undisputably great; it's just that I have encountered an amazing number of folks over the years that were, for lack of better words, TALENTLESS SELF-AGGRANDIZING HACKS who were given enormous props for no other reason than having survived the NY experience. There are numerous individuals (many at Turner, I ain't namin' names) who treat regional talent with a second-class citizen attitude. Hey, I went and got all touchy again!
THese are awesome sketchbook pages!! More please ... :)ReplyDelete
Great sketches and characters, love 'sensitive pony-tail guy'ReplyDelete
personally, I think you nailed the 'foxy' lettering-- dead on. take it from someone who knows. and I think we should bring that word back, man! fox-eeeee. it just sounds cool.ReplyDelete


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A new home for Kent Social Care Professionals Ltd
Kent Social Care Professionals Ltd (KentSCP), a leading provider of social care recruitment and domiciliary care services, has been acquired by City and County Healthcare Group Limited, in a transaction managed by international M&A advisor BCMS.
KentSCP, provides social care recruitment and domiciliary care services for the elderly and people with disabilities. KentSCPs domiciliary care services, including complex care, are provided from three locations in England, at Bexley, South East London, Redhill, Surrey, and Maidstone, Kent. KentSCP also operates as a specialist temporary and permanent recruitment services company, providing social care recruitment services from its Maidstone and Aberdeen branches. KentSCP is registered with the Care Quality Commission.
City and County Healthcare Group Limited, is a leading group of companies involved in the provision of quality home care services across the UK. Headquartered at Wembley, London, the group employs over 6,000 people and operates over 70 domiciliary care locations across Britain.
David Fennell, chairman of Kent Social Care Professionals Ltd, comments: "BCMS provided vital help in making introductions, easing tough moments in the negotiations, and providing reassurance at crucial times. Thanks to their service, I have achieved my personal objectives and handed my team on to another safe pair of hands."
International M&A advisor BCMS acted as lead advisor to the vendors. As part of its advisory work, BCMS discreetly approached 102 potential acquirers and received serious interest from nine companies. The shareholders met with three organisations for advanced stage discussions, before moving forward with final negotiations.


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Feather River Chapter, NSDAR
Oroville, California
The DAR is dedicated to educating America's youth and supports a variety of different programs, contests, and awards to help further this goal. Most California DAR chapters offer the following:
The American History Essay Contest was established to encourage young people to think creatively about our nation's great history and to learn about history in a new light.
This contest is open to students in public, private, and parochial schools, and registered home-study programs. Students in grades five through eight are encouraged to participate. Each year a topic is announced, and contest instructions are published online and sent to schools by participating DAR chapters. Essays are judged for historical accuracy, adherence to the topic, organization of materials, interest, originality, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and neatness. Students compete for awards and medals at the chapter, state, and national levels. The medal shown below is presented to winners at the chapter level.
Outstanding Work in American History or American History Essay Contest
Chapter winners may earn this 3/4" bronze medal with figure of the American eagle and "Excellence in History DAR Award" surrounding the central image.
DAR Good Citizens
The DAR Good Citizens Award and Scholarship Contest encourages and rewards the qualities of good citizenship. The program is open to all senior class students enrolled in accredited public or private secondary schools that are in good standing with their state boards of education. United States citizenship is not required.
The student selected as the school's DAR Good Citizen must have the following qualities:
The student will be awarded the DAR Good Citizens pin.
DAR Youth Citizenship Medal
DAR Youth Citizenship Medals are presented to students in grades 5 through 11 (one medal per grade per school) who exhibit the qualities of honor, service, courage, leadership, and patriotism. The medal may also be awarded to youth service and patriotic organizations, such as scouts and police cadets.
ROTC/JROTC Awards
Gold, silver, and bronze ROTC medals are presented to outstanding high school and college cadets. Recipients are selected by professors of military science, heads of Sea Cadet Units, principals of high schools, and ROTC instructors in colleges and universities.
Recipients of each award must meet the following criteria:
ROTC Bronze Medal
The NSDAR Bronze ROTC Medal is awarded to a student in a secondary school JROTC program (junior or senior) or a junior college graduating senior.
ROTC Silver Outstanding Cadet Medal
The Silver Outstanding Cadet Medal is awarded to a student for participation in a non-ROTC, military-affiliated cadet program funded by the school or privately, including but not limited to Naval Sea Cadet Corps, Civil Air Patrol Cadet Corps, National Defense Cadet Corps (NDCC), United States Army Cadet Corps, Young Marines, California Wing Cadet Corps, Navy League Cadet Corps, Army Cadets of America, and United States Army Cadet Corps (one medal per year per cadet unit.) Medals are worn in accordance with the cadet program protocol.
ROTC Gold Medal
The Gold ROTC Medal is awarded to a college or university graduate being commissioned in one of the U.S. Armed Services (one medal per ROTC unit per service). Medals are worn according to ROTC protocol.


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Man Falls From U of M Frat BalconyAn 18-year-old man is in the hospital after falling from a second floor balcony on the University of Minnesota's Frat Row. The Minneapolis Fire Department was called to Phi Kappa Psi around 12:45 a.m. Saturday morning. Authorities say the man didn't appear to have any broken bones and was alert when he was taken to the hospital. It is not known why he fell, or if drugs or alcohol were involved.


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Exterior styling
To give your car an even more personal and unique profile, Volvo has developed these Exterior Styling accessories that reinforce the dynamic elegance of your car.
Rear diffuser with dual tailpipes
Smoothly integrated with the rear bumper, this diffuser enhances the dynamic looks of your V40. The upper segment is either painted in the same colour as your V40 or in contrasting grey while the lower part is always charcoal. And the specially-designed double integrated tailpipes in chromed stainless steel add an exclusive sporty feel to your Volvo.
Roof spoiler
This unique spoiler has aircraft inspired fins and winglets which enhance the sporty and aerodynamic stance of your Volvo V40. It comes with an integrated brake light and is painted in the same colour as your V40.
Ailos alloy 7.5x18" rims
Premium white rims add a sleek, sporty edge to your V40.
Tech & Sound
Navigate with style and ease or use the parking assistance. And with our Tech & Sound accessories you can get the full experience of sound and vision, safety and fun.
Park assist pilot
Let your car park itself. At the press of a button, the system scans the parking lot using ultrasound and tells you if it's spacious enough. Once you've lined up your car, you only need to control speed and direction while Park assist pilot takes over the steering until you're perfectly parked.
Park assist camera, rear
Reversing into a tight parking space can be a stressful experience – wouldn't it be good to have "eyes in the back of your head"? Your Volvo can provide that kind of supernatural ability with a camera mounted in the tailgate, which dramatically increases your field of vision behind the car.
Sensus Navigation
Find your ways and connect with our cloudbased apps that will guide you to the closest points of interest or a free parking space. Select your destination with voice control or in advance by using your mobile phone. Map updates are included.
Nothing is more important than the safety of you and your passengers. And as you'd expect from us, our child seats are among the safest you'll find.
Infant seat (up to 13kg)
Infants up to one year of age travel safely in this rear-facing seat. Side wings help protect in a side impact, and you can easily adjust the padded headrest and five-point harness. There's a canopy to block the sun, too. This infant seat is also easy to carry and can be used as a carrycot.
Convertible child seat (9-25 kg)
This advanced, flexible rearward-facing child seat is suitable for children aged 9 months to six years. It's fitted using the car's safety belt and is easily adjusted to help optimise comfort and safety.
Booster seat (15-36 kg)
Volvo's booster seat helps position a child at the correct height for the safety belt and is designed to optimise side impact protection. The headrest and width adjust easily to enhance comfort, and the backrest can be reclined when your child wants to rest.
Our Innovations
Everything we do is designed around people, so every innovation we make is designed to simplify and improve your life. We're especially proud of our advances in efficient power, connectivity and safety. We call our thinking in these areas: Drive-E, Sensus and IntelliSafe.


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Taft: Carrizo Advisory Committee Plans January Meeting
January 8, 2010
The Bureau of Land Management's Carrizo Plain National Monument Advisory Committee will meet Jan. 23 at the Carrisa Elementary School to discuss management planning for the monument.
The school is located approximately two miles northwest of Soda Lake Road on Highway 58. The public meeting will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be a public comment period from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch will be available for $8 or you may bring a sack lunch.
"At this meeting, monument staff will present updated information on the progress on the Carrizo Plain National Monument Resource Management Plan and the Environmental Impact Statement," said Johna Hurl, BLM monument manager.
The BLM released its proposed RMP and final EIS on Nov. 13 and a 30-day protest period ran through Dec. 14.
The nine-member committee advises the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, on a variety of public land issues associated with the public land management in the Carrizo Plain National Monument in Central California. The public may present written or verbal comments. Depending on the number of persons wishing to comment and the time available, the time allotted for individual oral comments may be limited. Individuals who plan to attend and need special assistance such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations should contact BLM as indicated below.
Committee members are: Dale Kuhnle, Carrisa Plains; Neil Havlik, PhD (Chairman), San Luis Obispo; Ellen Cypher, PhD, Bakersfield; Michael Khus-Zarate, Fresno; Raymond Watson, Bakersfield; Jim Patterson, Atascadero; Carl Twisselman, McKittrick; Raymond Hatch, Taft; Robert Pavlik, San Luis Obispo.
For more information, contact Hurl at the BLM Bakersfield Field Office, 3801 Pegasus Drive, Bakersfield, Calif. 93308, telephone (661) 391-6093, e-mail HYPERLINK mailto: email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com or go to website HYPERLINK http://www.ca.blm.gov/news/rac.html http://www.ca.blm.gov/news/rac.html.
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Can be read for free here:On the Path: An Anthology on the Noble Eightfold Path drawn from the Pāli Canon, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. This book aims to provide a well-rounded picture of the noble eightfold path for people who are interested in taking guidance from the earliest extant records of the Buddha's teachings on how to reach the end of suffering and stress. The format is that of a discussion and analysis of each element of the path followed by pertinent sutta excerpts, similar to Wings to Awakening. The cross-references to the suttas are also hyperlinked to the new sutta pages on this site.
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Our first taste of Fusion came with the ASRock E350M1. Like the other two boards in this roundup, it's in the mini-ITX form factor, with the Zacate APU embedded on the board. ASRock has gone with two small heatsinks, one for the chipset and the other for the APU, with a cooling fan on the APU heatsink. The fan itself is relatively quiet and both heatsinks were cool to the touch. Our laser thermometer recorded a peak temperature of 33 degrees Celsius during benchmarking, which bodes well for the platform's prospects in both the netbook and nettop spaces.
There are two DIMM slots for up to two DDR3 memory modules, with both operating off a single channel memory controller. ASRock has also limited the memory frequency to a maximum of 1066MHz, compared to the 1333MHz supported on the chipset. You can install up to 16GB of memory on it.
The chipset provides for four SATA 6Gbps ports, with ASRock opting for an eSATA 6Gbps connector at the rear panel. It somewhat makes up for the lack of USB 3.0 support on this board. The ports are located right next to the ATX power connector, and while they are facing upwards, shouldn't interfere with your other board components. The PCIe 2.0 x16 slot completes the expansion options on this tiny board, though with only four PCIe lanes, it's not that suitable for any discrete graphics card beyond the mid-range level.
The board itself may seem packed, but its limited options also mean that there are no obvious layout issues; users may have to be careful routing some cables, especially with the onboard headers for the extra USB connectors lying in the middle rather than the edges of the board. ASRock has also opted for less costly non-solid capacitors in less crucial areas, reflecting the market segment that this board is targeted at.
We were a bit surprised to find ASRock's EFI BIOS on this low-cost board, but perhaps the vendor is shifting completely to this new BIOS for all its products. It comes with a pretty responsive user interface and there were even some voltage controls for those who wish to tweak. Overclocking however appears to be missing from the menu, in case you're wondering.
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PORTSMOUTH — The Seacoast Repertory Theatre proudly announces the start of its 25th Anniversary Season with A Chorus Line. This multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical is being directed and choreographed by Bryan Knowlton, a Portsmouth native who grew up on The Rep stage and went on to perform in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line. With that kind of talent The Rep's 2013 Mainstage season opener is sure to be the hottest ticket in town.
"I went onto college, toured the country in three first nationals (Broadway tours), got my equity card and landed a starring role on Broadway" says Knowlton. "But, it was here at The Rep, through my teachers, friends and mentors that I found the love for theater."
A Chorus Line is a realistic look at the life of dancers auditioning for a small chorus role on Broadway. But a small role can take a big toll when the director wants more than to see them dance and sing: he wants each person to tell their own life story. What should have been a run of the mill audition becomes a weaving of personal revelations and a whirlwind of emotions. The stories are taken from real-world theater experiences and each tale is a testament to the struggle that all performers face.
The cast of A Chorus Line is drawn largely from the New York City theater community along with local Seacoast favorites. This talented group of performers features Michelle Aravena who plays the role of Cassie. Aravena was also on Broadway with Knowlton in A Chorus Line, and has been with the show for many years. The rest of the cast includes: Alex Acevedo (Richie), Christina Carlucci (Val), Corrine Tork (Diana), Craig Faulkner (Zach), Emily Blake Anderson (Judy), Erik Magnus (Larry), James Lynch (Bobby), Joshua Paul Moore (Butch/Swing), Kelsey Walston (Bebe), Knate Higgins (Roy/Swing), Lenni Kmiek (Kristine), Mary Page Nance (Sheila), Michael Phillips (Paul), Michael D'Amico (Al), Sara Dulcos (Tricia/Swing), Will Meredith (Mark), and Yoav Levin (Mike).
A Chorus Line runs through March 24, Thursday-Sunday. Tickets are $20-$42. To purchase tickets please contact the box office at 125 Bow Street Portsmouth, NH 03801. By Phone at 603.433.4472, or online at www.seacoastrep.org. Please be advised that A Chorus Line contains adult subject matter and strong language. Parent discretion is advised.


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UK fans, 4pm this Wednesday afternoon on the MTVHD channel is showing a 1 hour live performance from the bands performance at the Exit festival in Serbia from 2010. I was lucky enough to be at the Rock in Rome gig that was shortly after this performance and the band were $hit hot so Sky plus it and save it, do not delete!
Any word on the cancelled Antwerp gig from December 3rd anybody?
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Guess Who's Going Home Tomorrow?!
Just look at this face. They're under strict orders to send lots of pictures, of course.
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Gabriel Metsu
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Depictions of a woman at her toilette were popular among collectors, and the topic allowed artists to describe the intimate confines of the Dutch home and its feminine space. The wistful outward gaze of the woman having her hair combed invites the viewer to contemplate her surroundings, perhaps to decipher her thoughts. A consummate painter of detail, Metsu uses light to enliven the interior of the room and the objects therein. It glows on the viola da gamba, sparkles across the ornate silver plate and suggests the diaphanous texture of the green drape that catches a puff of wind. The topic of a woman at her toilette has a long history in the visual arts that embraces both positive and negative connotations. The mirror, for instance, can suggest vanity or introspection. The playing of music, suggested by the sheet music and the stringed instrument, typically references love and, with the cast-off slipper nearby, perhaps longing. Such visual puzzles embedded in naturalistic scenes are characteristic of Dutch art in the 17th century.
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The trailer and poster for Nick Murphy's The Awakening have gone online. I caught the film last year at the Toronto Film Festival, and thought it was a damn fine piece of gothic horror. The story takes place in England shortly after World War I, and centers on a hoax-buster (Rebecca Hall) who is called in to investigate the recent death of a student at an all-boys boarding school. When she gets there, she discovers that there might be something truly supernatural going on around her. Part of what makes The Awakening great is the atmosphere and pacing, and the trailer foregoes that in favor of creepy photographs, hands on doorknobs, and other clichéd imagery that does Murphy's film a disservice. The trailer doesn't outright spoil anything in the movie, but it does take a lot of moments from the third act, so consider yourself warned.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer and poster. The film also stars Dominic West and Imelda Staunton. The Awakening opens August 17th.
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Here's the official synopsis for The Awakening:
Set in London in 1919, Florence Cathcart (REBECCA HALL), author of the popular book "Seeing Through Ghosts," has devoted her career to exposing claims of the supernatural as nothing but hoaxes. Haunted by the recent death of her fiance, she is approached by Robert Mallory (DOMINIC WEST) to investigate the recent death of a student at the all-boys boarding school where he teaches. When students at the school report sightings of the young boy's ghost, she decides to take on the case. Initially, the mystery surrounding the ghost appears nothing more than a schoolboy prank, but as Florence continues to investigate events at the school, she begins to believe that her reliance on science may not be enough to explain the strange phenomenon going on around her.


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The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies.
Genevieve Belleveau on the hood of the mobile monastery, St. Vincent DePaul Cemetery, New Orleans, 2014. Photo: Miss Megan Trosclair.
I've always found your practice really interesting and sort of futuristic in how it seems to concern itself with the faith science of "connection" as and where we find it. With your internet broadcasted reality show-performance-rituals, it was like you were tying together the rituals of spirituality with the exalted new [visual] language of technology. In this way I always felt like you were kind of an ecstatic, but now it looks like you're becoming an ascetic…?
My foray into asceticism was sparked by peak ecstatic experiences: I've always tended to vacillate between extremes of solitude and sociability in my life/art, and one inevitably informs the other. I've now re-emerged from that deeply ascetic period during which I lived in my Mobile Monastery RV under a bridge in New Orleans. At that time I was curious about a personal ecstasy that I felt existed beyond the compulsive internet use and rave/club kid culture I had become entrenched in back in NYC. I was reading Thomas Merton and wanted to know more about his ideas of solitude and silence, so I logged off Facebook and Instagram and took a pause to reflect on how that felt for me. I was primarily alone for two months, sitting still in a cold, powerless RV all day, but I let myself use Twitter as a platform to share through language alone. I've always been a comfortably hermetic person by nature, only recently learning how to function in a social sphere in a way that feels truly authentic to me. This period of silence was really important as I was able to remember and reflect upon deeply personal experiences that I had never given myself the space and time to carefully examine. It was a bit like a crowd funded arts residency or sabbatical: an interesting alternative model for artists seeking to clear a sacred space for creation.


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Women's History Month Marches into March
Every year we discover new history and new historic references surrounding Women's History Month. This time I dug into the heroines of the 2nd World War, particularly that image of the strong, iconic bicep-flexing Westinghouse poster image of "Rosie the Riveter"! You thought Norman Rockwell created her, but he didn't . . . and we've got lots more about that era in a very special video presentation to celebrate this year :: our 19th Annual Women's History Month edition! Please enjoy! March 1, 2014


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The FCC's Michael O'Rielly, one of two Republican commissioners since being sworn into office last November, today warned against the commission using what he called "newly invented authority to regulate the Internet."
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has declined to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service, which would open Internet Service providers up to the same type of common carriage rules that apply to the country's phone system. But he's continuing to use Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which requires the FCC to accelerate broadband deployment, as justification for a new set of net neutrality rules—despite a federal appeals court striking down anti-blocking and anti-discrimination rules previously implemented using that authority.
Net neutrality advocates have argued that Section 706 doesn't provide strong enough authority to prevent ISPs from abusing their market power. O'Rielly agrees in a sense, though unlike net neutrality supporters, he isn't pushing the FCC to use its common carriage powers, either. In an op-ed for The Hill today, O'Rielly wrote:
For years, edge providers—Pandora, Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp, to name just a few—have flourished from the government's hands-off approach to the Internet. Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the "application layer" of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart from occasional Federal Trade Commission activity. That is now subject to change.
A very real threat is that edge providers could fall within the reach of the FCC's newly invented authority to regulate the Internet under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Congress never intended to give the FCC that authority. I know because I was in the room, as a congressional staffer, when that deal was made. For years, the FCC held the same conclusion. But in 2010, when the FCC's attempt to use other statutory provisions to regulate broadband providers failed, it re-interpreted Section 706 as a new legal basis to impose net neutrality restrictions. Although the D.C. Circuit vacated most of those restrictions in January, the decision explicitly sanctioned Section 706 as an independent grant of regulatory authority.
As a result, we now live in a world where the FCC can arguably adopt almost any rule that conceivably promotes broadband deployment. As Judge Laurence Silberman summarized in his dissent: "Presto, we have a new statute granting the FCC virtually unlimited power to regulate the Internet."
Before being nominated by President Obama to fill a Republican opening on the FCC, O'Rielly worked in Congress for two decades, most recently as policy advisor for Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX).
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At its May 15 meeting, the five-member commission will consider Wheeler's proposal to use Section 706 authority to impose a new anti-blocking rule while allowing ISPs to charge edge providers "commercially reasonable" rates for a faster path to consumers.
"His focus may be on broadband providers, but edge providers shouldn't be lulled into complacency," O'Rielly wrote. "The notion of preserving an 'open Internet' is so vague that any rules meant to accomplish that goal could unintentionally impact edge providers' business models."
O'Rielly warned that the FCC could use Section 706 to intervene in programming disputes like the one between CBS and Time Warner Cable last year, which led to customers losing access to channels and online programming.
"The controversy was eventually resolved, but not before it prompted some calls for the commission to investigate supposed net neutrality 'violations,'" O'Rielly wrote. "This pattern will likely recur as online streaming becomes even more popular. What happens under a net neutrality regime if Netflix, YouTube, or Hulu flex their muscles in the marketplace? Should the FCC similarly scrutinize their business decisions? The only intellectually honest conclusion for net neutrality supporters is to extend the burden to everyone: broadband providers and edge providers.""Beyond the issue of net neutrality, the FCC is already using Section 706 as legal justification for other actions," he continued. "In January, for example, the FCC moved to establish IP trials to examine issues related to the migration to all-IP networks, and that item cited Section 706 as a source of authority. It begs the question, what else could the FCC do under Section 706 in the name of advancing broadband deployment? The possibilities are endless—and could easily reach edge providers."
Netflix doesn't seem to share O'Rielly's concern, as the video provider has called for more extensive net neutrality regulations.
O'Rielly also speculated that the FCC could "claim authority to regulate cybersecurity." All this regulation, he wrote, "will chill the needed investment and flexibility that is fueling innovation and job growth."
On the other side of the aisle, consumer advocacy groups have argued that Section 706 won't give the FCC enough power to prevent ISPs from discriminating against Web services that can't afford to pay for preferential treatment. Yesterday, the Mozilla Foundation joined many other groups in asking the FCC to regulate broadband with common carrier rules.


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When President Barack Obama recognized the groundswell of support being received by the Common Core standards for K-12 public schools, he decided to add a carrot for even more involvement. The Race to the Top program would reward states working to foster innovation as they created better learners and teachers.
The backlash on what many saw as bribes to force some sort of socialist takeover of local schools by the federal government resulted in repeated attempts to dismantle Common Core. Most of those attempts were foiled, but the battle is ongoing. We would expect further attempts in Topeka during the next legislative session, even though Kansas educators and administrators have had significant roles shaping the standards and already are in the process of implementation.
We also would expect the same lawmakers fighting Common Core will embrace Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's "Reading Roadmap" initiative unveiled last week. The governor intends to make good on one of his campaign pledges, to improve fourth-grade reading scores, by offering millions of dollars to select districts willing to follow the direction of literacy organizations Brownback selected.
"We know that there is no one-size-fits-all program for Kansas students when it comes to learning how to read," Brownback said in a press release announcing the effort. "By effectively targeting our resources to help at-risk youth with a variety of support and services, we will move Kansas students to the top of the list of proficient readers in the U.S. and break the cycle of child poverty."
Thus far, we have heard nobody call the Reading Roadmap funding some sort of bribe or the program itself some sort of state takeover of local classrooms. Most rational minds wouldn't make such a linkage. It would be as ridiculous to suggest Brownback was orchestrating something of that nature as it was to suggest Obama was.
Yet there are some aspects of the Reading Roadmap we find more than a bit curious. And troubling.
The first is the funding source. What the governor calls a path to help break the cycle of poverty will be paid for primarily with federal welfare dollars. While $6 million of the two-year, $24 million project does not have a funding source identified, the $18 million balance is being shifted away from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. TANF dollars traditionally go to low-income residents to help pay for food, shelter and utilities.
Shannon Cotsoradis, chief executive of the advocacy group Kansas Action for Children, said literacy work was important, "but it doesn't make sense to shift dollars away from meeting the basic needs of families to a focus on literacy later in a child's life."
Phyllis Gilmore, secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families, said because teenage girls who can read are less likely to become unwed mothers, it fits one of the goals of TANF.
Gilmore also said the $18 million will be drawn out of a $48 million reserve, so current benefits will not be affected. Given the Brownback administration's move to reduce current benefits -- already set to decrease 11 percent next year because of policy changes -- having a reserve might be less and less important moving forward. Poverty continues to increase, but punitive restrictions are having a direct effect on dollars being spent.
Having the Department for Children and Families in charge of an educational program in the schools also is troubling for us. State Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker said she doesn't have a problem with it, but we would anticipate an accountability issue at some point. Districts that accept the funding will be bound to requirements imposed by the private agencies involved: Rural School and Community Trust, Families and Schools Together, and Save the Children. Fort Scott Superintendent Diane Gross expressed concern the program likely would require districts to hire additional teachers.
Which truly would be ironic as tax dollars for classroom instruction have gone down during Brownback's tenure.
At best, the Reading Roadmap initiative makes more sense than Brownback's first attempt to improve fourth-grade reading scores by flunking every third-grader who wasn't performing at grade level. At worst, however, it could further degrade poverty-stricken families by diverting the TANF dollars. Hungry children are more difficult to teach any subject, even if it is a successful reading program.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry


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ATV Johannes Kepler cargo section arrives in Bremen
The Integrated Cargo Carrier for Europe's second Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV Johannes Kepler, has been delivered to the premises of EADS Astrium in Bremen, Germany.
Scheduled for launch in November 2010, ATV Johannes Kepler is Europe's second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), an unmanned cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS). ATV-2, named after the German astronomer and mathematician, is currently being assembled in Bremen by the European industrial consortium lead by EADS Astrium.
The Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC), the section of the ATV that holds both the dry and fluid cargo, was built in Turin by Thales Alenia Space Italy.
The ICC was transported using a Beluga aircraft that left from Turin's Caselle airport on the morning of 9 September. After a short flight, the Beluga landed at Bremen airport. From there the ICC was transferred to the Integration Hall at EADS Astrium.
Later this year, the ICC will be functionally integrated with the other two main ATV modules, the Equipped Propulsion Bay (EPB) and the Equipped Avionics Bay (EAB), for final subsystem testing.
The avionics bay for ATV-2 is currently undergoing thermal vacuum testing in the Large Space Simulator at ESA's test centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
"The challenge of ATV Johannes Kepler is to make it even better than the very successful ATV Jules Verne," said Nico Dettmann, ESA's ATV Programme Manager. "We are about to implement a number of design changes and lessons learned derived from the Jules Verne post-flight analysis, but we also have to close some non-generic qualification issues. Space project history teaches us that often it is not the first but a subsequent recurring spacecraft that shows major flaws, and this is why we have to be even more thorough for Johannes Kepler than we were for Jules Verne."
Last year's flawless mission of the first ATV, named after French science fiction writer Jules Verne, demonstrated the spacecraft's key role in ISS logistics and operations.
"The successful premier of the first ATV Jules Verne has impressively demonstrated the strength of Europe's human spaceflight programme and the industry supporting it," said Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA's Director of Human Spaceflight. "ATV Johannes Kepler will follow in Jules Verne's footsteps. It will be an essential European contribution to the logistics of the ISS programme. Based on the success of the ATV programme, we are currently working on the next important step of human spaceflight in Europe – the development of a European cargo transportation system called the Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV), which will reinforce Europe's positioning among the international partners in human spaceflight and exploration."
ATV Jules Verne delivered 4.5 tonnes of cargo to the ISS, including food, clothing, propellants, water and oxygen. It also contributed to ISS operations by performing regular reboosts and a debris avoidance manoeuvre of the orbital complex and by removing 2.5 tonnes of waste at the end of its six-month mission.


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Wei Yang Ph.D.'85 Sc.D.'12 hon., an internationally celebrated engineer and materials science researcher, educator, and administrator, has been named president of China's National Natural Sciences Foundation, the nation's top science agency. He takes the helm of an organization that last year allocated $2.8 billion to fund scientific activity. In a recent interview with Science magazine, Yang said he hopes to increase the agency's funding substantially.
"China has to transition from an economic powerhouse to a technological powerhouse and then to a scientific and cultural powerhouse," he said. "To achieve this goal, we will need many scientists, and we need to convince the government that it should provide more funding to the NSFC."
Before the NSFC, Yang was president of Zhejiang University and head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Technological Science Division. He was the youngest person ever to achieve the rank of full professor of engineering at Tsinghua University, which he did just four years after his graduation from Brown. Born in Beijing, Yang was educated in the United States and China (B.S., Northwestern Polytechnic University, 1976; M.S., Tsinghua University, 1981; Ph.D., Brown University, 1985).
In addition to continuing an active and very productive career as a research engineer in fracture mechanics, mechatronic reliability, and micro/nanomechanics (11 books and 211 technical papers in internationally refereed journals), Yang has served in a number of national and international positions as an educator and administrator. He became director of the Failure Mechanics Laboratory of the Chinese Ministry of Education in 1993. For seven years (1997–2004), he headed the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua, also serving for a time as executive dean of the Aerospace School. From 2004 to 2006, he served as director-general of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council of China and also headed the Directorate of Graduate Education. He began as president of Zhejiang University, one of China's largest and oldest universities, in 2006.
As head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Technological Science Division, Yang has had extensive international scientific experience. He has served as regional editor for several journals in the field of composite materials and has been on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Fracture, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, and the Archive of Applied Mechanics, among several others.
Early in 2009, Yang became widely known for a stern and dedicated fight against scientific misconduct, dealing strictly with researchers found to have engaged in misconduct and proactively developing training programs to support scientific integrity. Organizations and journals,Nature among them, praised his zero tolerance policies.
Yang has supported and worked for collaborations with universities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore and elsewhere. His own postgraduate students — more than 40 of them — have extended his international reach. More than 10 of them hold engineering faculty positions in the United States and Europe. He has been honored extensively for his efforts, including the 2009 Brown University Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM).


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YouTube added support for playing videos that are bigger than 1080p. "Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4096p. To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet; IMAX movies are projected through two 2k resolution projectors," explains YouTube.
There aren't many 4K videos uploaded to YouTube, but you can find some examples in this playlist. To switch to 4K, select "original" from the list of versions that are available. YouTube says that you need an "ultra-fast high-speed broadband connection" and it's probably a good idea to play the videos in fullscreen on a big-screen TV.
For now, the support for 4K videos doesn't mean too much, but it's nice to see YouTube pushing technological boundaries.


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Attempt to vote for Obama selects Romney instead
Paul Joseph Watson
November 6, 2012
A video currently going viral on You Tube appears to show an electronic voting machine erroneously selecting Mitt Romney when an individual attempts to vote for Barack Obama.
The clip, uploaded today, shows the voter repeatedly attempting to select Obama's name on the touch screen but the machine keeps defaulting to tick the box next to Romney.
"I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney," writes the You Tube user who uploaded the video.
"Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine."
The voter attempted to draw attention to the glitch but was told by a volunteer, "It's nothing to worry about, everything will be OK."
Judging by the name of the uploader, the incident occurred in Pennsylvania.
Some have alleged that the video is a fake because some of it appears to be jumpy, a claim addressed directly by the uploader, but this is by no means the first example of vote flipping.
In numerous states across the country, from Nevada, to Texas, North Carolina and Ohio, voters have been reporting vote flipping.
A woman in Marion County, Ohio had to select Mitt Romney's name several times because the machine kept flipping to Barack Obama.
Voters in Guilford County, North Carolina experienced the exact same problem.
After members of the Republican National Committee in Nevada attempted to highlight vote-flipping problems, they were labeled "reprehensible" and Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller dismissed the issue.
Perhaps Democrats will show more concern for vote flipping now that it is also impacting their candidate.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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And if you think that you'll be able to siphon gas from your car, try it out first to make sure you can; I wasn't able to get past the anti-siphon devices on my cars so that backup fuel storage plan failed me. I'm still trying different ideas to see if I can get that to work.
I'm glad everything worked out pretty much ok for you guys. How big of an area did your buddy heater have to contend with? Im thinking about getting one but was concerned with how effective it would be. Any issues with CO? Did you crack a window or anything?
Out of curiosity, how long did your oil filled radiators retain their heat after the generator was turned off for the night? Thanks.
Hopefully I will be picking up a honda eu2000 soon
Regarding washing clothes without power: Back in my mother's day, there wasn't always an automatic washer available, so her family used a washboard and a tub with their homemade lye soap to clean their clothes. Today's detergents are much more efficient, so you might consider this method while wearing rubber gloves.
A few years ago we were seriously snowed in and getting low on gas for the generator. As noted, siphoning gas isn't easy like in the movies. I ended up getting under the cars and finding the feed on the top of the gas tank. For our two old vehicles(1977 and 1988) it was then pretty easy. Our Jeep cherokee(1999) unfortunately has a skid plate that made getting to the gas tank impossible. So, look around under your cars or ask a mechanic who knows you.
Wondering if a bunch of candles would have been beneficial? They would provide light and heat in your situation.


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When we got into the car to head out for the final leg of Christmas shopping we were a bit hurried. We were running later than we wanted to and so in a rush we swooshed out the door, fastened car seats X3 and then my husband sits down in the drivers side seat and says "I have a surprise." And fires up THIS on the CD deck.
It might seem silly to you. But I completely burst into tears. Gene Autry singing Christmas songs = my mom making apple cake, my Grandma Brandon and her fake homemade noodles (they were actually REAMES noodles), the Christmas I got Barry Manilow LIVE in my stocking from Santa, getting out the green glass goblets for my parents to drink wine out of if we are at home, the winter my Mom taught me how to make REAL homemade noodles and how disappointed I was that they weren't like Grandma's (thus, I learned the secret of the REAMES noodles). It means making desserts in our kitching on King Street that was freezing cold because that stupid old victorian wasn't properly insulated, but the stove would heat it right up. It meant my childhood Christmases, every good memory rolled into one album - and I know I had that album because my mom is a not so secret devotee of the singing cowboy.
He says he had been looking for it all Christmas season and was at the WalMart looking at those albums, and couldn't find it, was about to walk away when he asked the guy next to him if he had seen that album. The guy said he had, but couldn't remember where. Right then, he touched a CD which fell down to the floor - and the Gene Autry CDs were right behind it.
Mean to be, eh?
The other reason I cried was that I received an envelope from my friend Michele in Lexington containing these.
One is a car decal and one is obviously an awareness bracelet, although more fittingly a comemorative bracelet. They made me sad, and they made me happy to be remembered - that this had been shared with me. The bracelet says "In loving Memory - Flight 5191." The car decal has everyone's name on it and the same sentiment.
So I take a moment to think about their families, and to think about mine.
And to remember, that this is not a dress rehearsal.
So if I haven't told you lately. I love you.
Merry Christmas
Sunday, December 24, 2006
I Cried Twice Yesterday
Posted by Gidge Uriza at 1:32 PM
Labels: Family, Holidays, The Husband
1 comments:
- Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah said...
I love you too.
- Sun Dec 24, 07:55:00 PM


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An Upbeat Q2 for AOL
Here's why Tim Armstrong felt confident enough to hang out at Michael's last week: AOL just posted a not-shabby Q2.
The company just posted earnings of $10.17 per share and revenue of $531 million. Wall Street was looking for 10 cents and $519 million. The earnings number is inflated by AOL's giant patent sale, but when you strip that out, you end up with 23 cents per share — a big ol' beat.
But AOL's underlying numbers look okay, too. Its crucial domestic ad display sales were flat, which is not good compared to Web peers like Google and Yahoo, but an improvement from last quarter's declines. And it's also better than AOL had predicted three months ago.
Another good sign for Armstrong is that AOL's traffic is getting better — which by AOL's standards means it is shrinking less. Visitors to the sites AOL owns were down 1 percent over the last year, but that's a smaller decrease than previous quarters. Good thing, given that Armstrong spent a pile of money on sites like TechCrunch and the Huffington Post.
We'll get more color after Armstrong's conference call this morning; I'll check back in after that.
Update: Not much to report in the way of additional data points from the call. Armstrong talked up Patch, his much-maligned local bet, and reiterated previous predictions that the unit would hit revenue of $40 million to $50 million this year. One subjective observation, though: Armstrong has often sounded defensive on these calls — most distressingly, he's complained about negative press coverage more than once on these things — but not today. Quite relaxed, and happy to stick around and chat up analysts, even after the call stretched past the one-hour mark.


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Blocks and Files At the HP analyst day this week, enterprise group executive vice-president Dave Donatelli laid it on the line for subsidiary 3PAR and the StoreOnce team: you gotta help get us out of this place.
This place being the rut HP's growth figures are stuck in, and CEO Meg Whitman has bet on 3PAR and StoreOnce in her turnaround plan for the tech titan.
Donatelli [his slides are here as a PDF] was one of the HP execs on parade to emphasise how his division will do its bit to get dozy old HP back to being a killer IT supplier. He's got servers, networking and storage under his belt - the latter being my focus here - and the 3PAR arrays and StoreOnce dedupe boxes got all the attention; the other products are more HP snorage than storage.
The bigwig said the three main trends affecting his business are converged infrastructure, the cloud, and the virtualised data centre, with software defining what goes on. Storage has to play nice in converged infrastructure systems. The StoreVirtual iSCSI array controller software running in a virtual machine was wheeled out as an example of this, as was collaborative caching between 3PAR arrays and ProLiant servers and the integration of Autonomy and StoreOnce deduplication.
This is catch-up stuff. Donatelli showed a slide with a Gartner Magic Quadrant diagram for mid-range and high-end modular arrays: HP is in the leaders' box clustered with EMC, NetApp, IBM and Dell, but with no clear leader. He said HP had a new vision for the storage industry, but it's EMC that's leading the pack with flash and deduping backup arrays, and Amazon and others are well ahead with cloud storage.
Gartner's map of companies for modular arrays
The storage array business is under attack from hot-data-juggling flash chips in servers, and from cloud computing vendors bent on taking online storage of cold data. This leaves storage arrays as nearline data tubs in enterprise data centres. What is HP doing about that?
Where is HP's commitment that the 3PAR arrays will play nice in a software-defined data centre? Where is the vision of flash caches in servers, and where are the shared flash arrays that match EMC gear? Can HP meet the numerous all-flash array startups with a strong and resonant product strategy? We know that 3PAR arrays can include flash chips, and that server caching of 3PAR array-held data is part of HP's strategy, but what about all-flash arrays located close to servers?
Where is the vision of hybrid flash and disk servers that meets those of Nimble Storage, Tintri, Tegile and other hybrid array start-ups? Or the use of flash as a cache and not a storage tier that matches NetApp? Or the use of flash as storage memory that matches Fusion-io's vision? Or the idea of running compute in the storage array?
HP 3PAR is viewed as HP's one modern storage architecture, providing common technology from the mid-range to the high-end. That leaves us asking where the P4000 iSCSI and Hitachi-sourced P9000 high-end arrays sit long-term. We know the legacy mid-range EVA line is ageing and 3PAR products are the destination end-game for the EVA customer base.
According to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers, the 3PAR business has grown 80 per cent over the past year with 850 new customers. Rakers said: "HP has gained an estimated 2.6 percentage points of market share within the high-end external disk storage market since 2010 fourth quarter. HP will have a new 3PAR platform announcement by the end of calendar 2012 – a likely focus on bringing the 3PAR platform further down market going forward."
HP's StoreOnce is its single data protection architecture, with its legacy tape business in decline. It's boasts of backup and restore speed advantages over industry leader Data Domain's products. The thing is, deduping arrays are mature: the technology is well-understood and it's a stable box-shifting business. HP can make money here by repelling Data Domain from its customer base, but expelling an incumbent is a hard and slow slog unless you have a radically better product.
Is StoreOnce radically better than Data Domain? The B6200 with StoreOnce Catalyst has a claimed three-times backup speed advantage over Data Domain's DD990 with DD's Boost, and a five-times advantage in restore speed. Is this enough to make customers switch? It probably is if their backup windows are getting pushed out.
It is interesting that Donatelli did not mention Big Data as a main focus, although Vertica, with its search querying across various forms of digital content, was mentioned as a key product. Nor was there an up-front mention of file storage.
In general HP said it needs to focus on a smaller set of products in the future. Our view is that this is a sound suggestion, generally speaking - but HP's current storage product set needs to have flash, file, object, big data and cloud storage components that match the strength and vitality of its 3PAR and StoreOnce products. HP snorage has to wake up and smell the coffee.
It's waking up, 3PAR and StoreOnce show that, but has it smelt the flash, file, object, big data and cloud storage lattes at full strength yet? Competitors have, and HP must too before it decides whether it wants to play on as a full-breadth storage provider or focus on its modular array heartland with 3PAR and StoreOnce as its growth engines. ®


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Every day we see a new story on child abuse, elderly abuse, neglect, endangerment and many times much worse. Many families are forced with the decision of choosing someone to watch their children or elderly parents at some point of their lives.
Unfortunately, many people just choose without doing their due diligence. There are certain simple guidelines that we would recommend to make a more intelligent decision when choosing someone to come into your home to care for your loved ones.
To start, go online and research the company, the service or person. Look for reviews, news articles and information pertaining to your selection. Next, interview the person or business that you intend on utilizing. Ask questions about their background, experience and any information that you may have found online.
Request copies of any credentials that they claim to have and always get a copy of their identification. A background check is always recommended, however, prior authorization is needed with a signed consent form by the applicant. Any private investigation company can do this.
Regarding home aides, contact the company and ask about its screening and hiring process. You may be surprised.
Next, do unannounced visits back to the residence to see what they are doing when they are not expecting you, but also to give them the feeling that you may stop in at any time.
Finally, in this modern world consider using a hidden camera. Set it up in a place that blends in with the location and review it as soon as possible. Often times you can set up a hidden camera on your own, but we recommend using a professional service. Why would you not want to see how your loved ones are being treated?
Furthermore, the video may reveal something else that you might be unaware of. So take these simple steps and follow them to ensure that your loved ones are being cared for and that you took some due diligence in ensuring their safety.
If you do not look out for the best interest of your children or elderly relative who will? You are the parent, the family member and loved one. You are responsible. If a caregiver can't understand why you want to ensure the safety of your loved one, then they are not the right person for the job.
John Rafferty is a retired NYPD lieutenant. He formed Watch Guard 24/7, a private investigation and security company, in 2009.


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The NCAA has given the thumbs up to blueseventy's neroTX swimskin, ensuring that swimmers can wear the suits at forthcoming Conference meets and the NCAA Championships.
Furthermore, swimmers with a banned swimskin can trade it in for a 50% discount on a new NeroTX suit.
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Patience required. Risotto requires tending and stirring, but the results are always delicious and worth it. This one's from 365 Ways to Cook from Firefly Books.
1 pound (500 g) asparagus spears
4 cups (1 L) vegetable stock, at simmer
1/4 cup (60 mL) butter
1 onion, chopped
1 1/4 cups (300 mL) arborio or Carnaroli rice
2/3 cup (150 mL) dry white wine
3/4 cup (175 mL) peas
4 tablespoons (60 mL) freshly grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra to serve
1 handful fresh mint leaves, roughly chopped
Cut asparagus in half, at angle, separating tips from the thicker stalks. Reserve the tips. Put the stalks in a saucepan with the stock and bring to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes, then reduce to simmer. Remove the asparagus with slotted spoon and process in food processor until pureed.
Melt half the butter in heavy-bottomed saucepan over low heat. Add the onion and cook for 10 minutes until softened. Add the rice and cook, stirring continuously for 1 minute. Add the wine and cook, stirring continuously, until absorbed. Stir in the pureed asparagus.
Add 2 ladlefuls of simmering stock. Slowly simmer, stirring constantly, until stock has been absorbed and rice parts when a wooden spoon is run through it. Add another ladleful of stock and continue to cook, stirring, adding stock in ladlefuls, reserving 2 ladlefuls, for 16 to 18 minutes until rice is creamy and almost tender to the bite. Add the peas and reserved asparagus tips and stock and continue cooking until stock is almost absorbed. Remove from heat. Stir in Parmesan, mint and remaining butter. Stir vigorously for 15 seconds. Cover with tight-fitting lid and let stand for 2 minutes. Serve immediately with extra Parmesan.
Makes 4 servings.


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Cimetidine is used to reduce the pain of ulcer and heartburn or to assist in the healing of ulcers and damage caused by gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Cimetidine is also used to prevent ulcers in certain circumstances and to treat certain conditions that are associated with oversecretion of acid by the stomach (i.e., Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome, systemic mastocytosis, and multiple endocrine adenomas). The medication works by reducing the amount of acid secreted by the stomach.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to take this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
This medication is available as 200 mg, 300 mg, 400 mg, and 600 mg tablets.
The usual recommended adult dose of cimetidine ranges from 200 mg twice a day to 600 mg 4 times a day (usually with meals and at bedtime), depending on the condition being treated. The maximum recommended dose of cimetidine is 2,400 mg.
Children's doses are based on the weight of the child, usually 20 mg to 40 mg per kilogram of body weight daily, divided into 4 doses.
Many things can affect the dose of a medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are taking the medication without consulting your doctor.
Cimetidine can be taken with or without food.
It is important to take this medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, take it as soon as possible and continue with your regular schedule. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
Cimetidine should not be taken by anyone who:
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
Although most of these side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Kidney function: People with kidney disease are at risk for increased side effects. People with kidney disease or reduced kidney function should discuss with their doctor how this medication may affect their medical condition, how their medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Liver function: People with liver disease or reduced liver function should discuss with their doctor how this medication may affect their medical condition, how their medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Pregnancy: The safety of this medication for use during pregnancy has not been established. This medication should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefits outweigh the risks. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
Breast-feeding: This medication passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking cimetidine, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
There may be an interaction between cimetidine and any of the following:
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
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