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Compare and book cheap flights from Gold Coast (OOL) to Pacific with Skiddoo. Use the Skiddoo flight explorer to find the cheapest time to fly to Pacific from Gold Coast on a range of leading airlines. Save with our exclusive Gold Coast to Pacific flight deals online today.
What to do in Oceania
Oceania is a vast expanse of countries connected by the Pacific Ocean. This part of the world is a dream destination for all travellers because it's chockfull of glistening white beaches, vibrant coral reefs, volcanic and mountainous islands, as well as world-class cities. From the most modern cities to the most remote areas in the world, you'll have the best trip of your life in Oceania.
Australia and New Zealand
Australia is a favourite destination among tourists, and since it's our home country, it should be yours too! Our nation is blessed with gorgeous coastlines, great outback, lush landscapes, and iconic cities. Pristine beaches like Whitehaven Beach, the stunning Blue Mountains National Park, Great Barrier Reef, and classic Australian symbols like the Sydney Opera House are just the tip of the iceberg of Australia's awesomeness.
Fly to New Zealand next and check out the home of our kiwi neighbours too. Visit Auckland and have a bird's eye view of the city from the Sky Tower. Enjoy the great outdoors in the Southern Alps. And create your own postcards from your travel photos of Fiordland National Park and Milford Sound.
Micronesia is an island region that charms travellers with warmth and beauty. A few of its countries are the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Palau, Kiribati, Guam, and Wake Island. Go to Guam and have a splashing good time in Gun Beach, the Cabras Island Channel, and the Fish Eye Marine Observatory. See the Nan Madol ruins in Pohnpei Island. And fall for Palau's waterfalls and world-famous dive spots.
Melanesia perfectly blends tropical islands with exotic history and culture. It should be high on your travel bucket list while you can still visit with fewer crowds. Fly to Fiji and have a fantastic beach holiday. Go hike the trails, like the famous Kokoda Track, in Papua New Guinea. Enjoy your very own private paradise in New Caledonia's Ouvea Island.
Polynesia is made up of fifteen beautiful island nations including American Samoa, Easter Islands, Hawaii, and Tonga. Channel your inner survivor and explore the outdoors of Samoa. Have a hula of a good time in Hawaii. And take a selfie with the massive moai statues when you fly to Easter Island.
Travelling to and around Oceania
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Tahiti is the largest island in the French Polynesia. It is part of the Society Islands. Tahiti is made up of two volcanic mountain ranges that form into a shape of a turtle. The larger part of the mountain range is Tahiti Nui while the peninsula part is Tahiti Iti. These two islands are joined by the cape of Taravao. People in Tahiti have the "aita pea pea" philosophy, which simply means "not to worry".
Discover amazing Saipan and Tinian, a modern day pacific holiday paradise, and the former site of an epic World War II battle between the American Navy and the Japanese occupation forces.
See first hand the devastation of this epic clash as you scuba dive among wrecks of downed planes and sunken ships and visit the caves and cliffs that marked this treacherous armed encounter. It's a stunning trip back into one of histories most iconic battles whilst appreciating the beautiful scenery, amazing beaches and modern resort facilities of this remote island chain the Pacific.
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You Forgot "Think Different," HP
Now that Hewlett-Packard's gotten its webOS printers out of the way, the company's moving on to the much more exciting business of mobile devices. Moments ago, the company distributed invitations to a Feb. 9 event in San Francisco promising "an exciting webOS announcement."
Presumably that means we'll be seeing the company's eagerly anticipated "PalmPad" webOS tablet, though the invitation leaves room for other devices as well. "Think big. Think small. Think beyond," it reads.
You forgot "Think different," guys. Or, better yet, "Think original."
Seem to have forgotten the Palm name as well …
Quips aside, it's going to be very interesting to see what Palm's been able to accomplish with HP's heft behind it. Certainly the company's decision to showcase its new webOS products at a big solo event in San Francisco, rather than at CES this week, suggests it's got some exciting new hardware to show off.

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Considering that Microsoft feels the need to enter the antivirus market and 12 of the top 35 anti-malware makers failed Virus Bulletin's August 2009 test, one could argue that antivirus products are not where they should be. Former Symantec executive Oliver Friedrichs thinks a different approach is necessary, so he built a new cloud-based, social antivirus product called Immunet Project.
Harnessing what Immunet calls "Collective Immunity," Immunet Project claims to be able instantly fortify all of its users' computers against new virus threats. "Immunet uses a global community to collect anonymous information on applications running across the Immunet population," Friedrichs told Ars Technica. "We extract specific attributes from Windows PE files that are then coalesced in the cloud and classified as good or bad." When Immunet finds a piece of malware on a user's computer, it notifies the rest of the user network, supposedly in real time. Because of this approach, Immunet keeps most of its client infrastructure on its servers; the actual client install takes up less than 5MB of space.
Immunet wears the "cloud" buzzword on its marketing shoulder, boasting the speed and social advantages of a massive networked detection system. Surprisingly, Friedrichs says Immunet will pursue a freemium business model, offering both a free version of Immunet Project and, eventually, some kind of paid premium version. Immunet Project also taps into existing social networks and contact systems, allowing you to easily invite your Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo contacts to plug in.
Strangely, Immunet Project's product page features a "Recommended Software" section, listing apps like McAfee 2009, AVG 8.5, and Norton 2008-10, though Symantec is missing from the list. "We will happily run alongside McAfee, AVG or Symantec in order to provide an additional layer of protection on top of those products," Friedrichs said. It is not required to double down on AV protection, however, and Friedrichs is confident in his new cloud-based product. In the coming weeks, Immunet plans to announce a licensing deal to further its cloud AV infrastructure and get Immunet Project integrated into more products.
Of course, we'll have to wait and see how Immunet Project performs in the coming months. The advantages of this approach are certainly intriguing, though they are also clearly dependent on Immunet building a critical mass of users to make its detection and protection systems effective.


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player is guaranteed to be a member of this year's Super Bowl winning team as
Lamar Divens of the San Francisco 49ers and Anthony Levine of the Baltimore Ravens will see their teams face off in two weeks in New Orleans.
Divens is currently on the 49ers practice squad while Levine is on injured reserve for the Ravens.
Divens was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He has also spent time with the Ravens, where he played five games from 2008 to 2010, as well as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tennessee Titans.
Levine was a part of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl winning team two years ago bringing TSU's count to 12 players who are members of a Super Bowl Championship team.
The safety and former standout at Tennessee State had spent the past two seasons on the Packers' practice squad before signing with Baltimore earlier this season. Levine saw game action twice this season in week 11 at Pittsburgh and recorded a tackle at San Diego during week 12
All-Ohio Valley Conference selection at the end of his senior year, Levine was
the 19th TSU Football alum on a roster of a Super Bowl team, while Divens is now number 20.
Super Bowl XLVII will kickoff at 5:30pm CST on Sunday, February 3, in New Orleans at the Superdome.
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I'm glad almost everyone I've heard from agrees it is time we agree to stop giving money to panhandlers
Only rarely does it happen that there is a lot of reaction to a column and almost all of it supports what I wrote.
If it happened all the time, I'd worry I had become prone to stating the obvious.
But I'm glad almost everyone I've heard from agrees it is time we agree to stop giving money to panhandlers holding begging signs next to the road. Or in the road.
A few people agreed in the wrong spirit, maybe. Some already were more tempted to kick a beggar in the shin than hand him a dime.
There is no need to be a hater. Some of those beggars might be despicable louts, but others probably just have more personal problems and dysfunctions than most of us can guess.
But either way, don't give street beggars money. That's the message. Unless you want to support habitual begging as a common career, and you hope it will continue to thrive and become a widespread custom and a growing industry, say no.
People beg because we make it profitable. It is up to us to make sure it isn't, unless we want begging to remain the most prominently visible local occupation.
Decent people want to help the needy, but they make a mistake when they give that unwisely. As I wrote, experts agree that handing money out of a car window contributes mostly to drug and booze purchases. Helping someone get back on track requires supporting organizations that have sensible policies for helping people help themselves.
But despite vast support for this "say no" message, a few readers did express qualms or disagreement. One thought I was being mean. Another implied Jesus would not agree with saying no to beggars.
The Bible strongly supports generosity toward the needy, that's for sure. And I'm all for it. But I'm sure it doesn't support enabling habitual drug abuse or alcoholism as a lifestyle, or urge that charitable donations be done in a destructive and useless way in which the only recipients are highly visible roadside hustlers.
I keep thinking about how, a few months back, readers kept sending links to a video showing an act of kindness toward a pitiful looking homeless man sitting on a cold New York City sidewalk.
A city cop brought him a pair of boots and was shown gently putting them on the man's bare feet.
That was memorable. The cop must be a rare human being. And a wise one, too. He knew not to hand the man the price of boots in cash.
Givers, whether joyfully generous or just guilt ridden, need to get over the mistaken idea that handing money to beggars in traffic is helpful. I hope all who get that will spread the word.


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NEW YORK — Caterpillar, the world's largest construction and mining equipment maker, moved aggressively to capitalize on demand for commodities in emerging markets Monday with a $7.6 billion buyout of Bucyrus International.
Bucyrus makes surface mining equipment used for mining coal, copper, iron ore, oil sands and other minerals. Demand for commodities has languished in traditional markets, pushing global companies like Caterpillar Inc. further into China, India and Brazil, which need such materials to feed surging economies.
The acquisition, and what Caterpillar called a robust outlook for commodities, is being driven by those places that are rapidly "improving infrastructure, rapidly developing urban areas and industrializing their economies.
Last month Caterpillar doubled its third-quarter profit, thanks in large part to growth in those markets.
To land Bucyrus International Inc., based in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Caterpillar will pay $92 per share, a 32 percent premium to Bucyrus' closing price on Friday. The deal, which is valued at $8.6 billion including debt, is expected to close in mid-2011.
Shares of Bucyrus jumped 30 percent in premarket trading to $90.26.
Caterpillar during the economic downturn made drastic cuts, vowing then that it would be in a better position when the economy rebounded. It cut 19,000 full-time and 18,000 contract and part time workers.
The company now appears ready to make good, making a strong big to grab market share anywhere that demand is strong.
"Our performance through the global economic turmoil of 2008-2009 allowed us to emerge with a strong balance sheet and the ability to make strategic investments in companies like Bucyrus," said Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman
The Peoria, Illinois, company said last month it expects the global economy to grow by about 3.5 percent next year, on par with economists' forecasts. But the company predicts developing regions will grow at about double that rate. And even in the emerging economies where growth is slower, Caterpillar said the replacement of worn out machinery will drive sales even before those economies markedly improve.
The deal requires, which got the go-ahead from both company boards, still requires approval by regulators and Bucyrus shareholders. The company expects to save about $400 million a year starting in 2015 from the acquisition.
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The Ottawa County Health Department on Tuesday, Nov. 18, confirmed to Hope College officials that the recent illness outbreak on campus was caused by a norovirus.
New tests of samples sent to the Michigan Department of Community Health confirmed the virus as norovirus, according to Dr. Paul Heidel, Ottawa County medical director.
Tests of samples first provided the state were deemed inconclusive although health officials identified the virus as "noro-like".
College officials have been using the protocols created for treating the norovirus since the first symptoms were identified on Thursday, Nov. 6. The campus was closed from mid-day on Friday, Nov. 7 until Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Health officials have confirmed 518 reported cases among students, faculty and staff, according to Dr. Heidel.
Dr. Heidel said state health officials have deemed this the largest single norovirus outbreak ever in Michigan


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Fire sprinklers can be open orifice or automatic. Automatic sprinklers are activated by heat that breaks the sensing device keeping the sprinkler closed. The water from the pipe comes through the sprinkler and hits the deflector and gives a water spray.
Fire sprinklers can be automatic or open orifice. Automatic fire sprinklers operate at a predetermined temperature, utilizing a fusible element, that either melts or breaks the glass bulb containing liquid, allowing the plug in the orifice to be pushed out by the water pressure. This results in a water flow from the orifice.
The water hits a deflector, which produces a specific spray pattern designed according to the sprinkler type. Most automatic fire sprinklers are activated individually by heat from a fire. Automatic fire sprinklers have glass bulbs, which comply to a standardized color coding indicating their activation temperature. Fire sprinklers are selected in accordance of the building hazard.
Design of the sprinklers are described by the fire standard authorities like NFPA and VdS etc.
Deluge fire sprinkler systems have open orifice sprinklers where all sprinklers operate at the same time. The open orifice sprinklers are similar to the automatic sprinklers but without the heat sensitive element.
A special sprinkler type for mainly residential occupancies, where a fast response is lifesaving, is the ESFR sprinkler – Early Suppression Fast Response. This sprinkler has a very fast response time and opens quickly compared to normal sprinklers.


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*Forces shaping Freedom's Directional Currents - *Choices to change the direction we are heading *Current Obstacles & Challenges: outdated energy & educational base, caused by a prehistoric ill defined corporate/economic model totally deficient and lacking Scientific Evolutionary Survival Parameters necessary for Life's evolution, sustainability, and survival.
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others. . .they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert F. Kennedy
21st Century's Priority One
1) Implementation of: The Promise of New Energy Systems & Beyond Oil ___________________________________________ #1 Disolves the Problem of the ill designed "Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization." through simple scientific common sense ___________________________________________ _________ Using grade school physics of both Newtonian and Nuclear models, does anyone foresee counter currents of sufficient size to minimize/change direction of the huge Tsunami roaring down on us, taking away not only our Freedom, but our Lives? Regardless if our salaries are dependant on us not knowing the inconvenient truths of reality (global warming, corporate rule, stagnant energy science) portrayed by the rare articles in the news media? I know only one - a free science, our window to Reality - that easily resolves the Foundational Problem of Quantum Physics and takes E=MC2 out of Kindergarten
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Islandia, NY February 8, 2013 – ZyDoc, an Islandia, NY-based medical informatics company, has been awarded Phase I SBIR grant funding by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health for a study involving ZyDoc's NLP-powered MediSapien™ knowledge management platform. James M. Maisel, M.D., Chairman of ZyDoc is the Principal Investigator (P.I.) for the project, entitled "Applying NLP to Free Text as an EHR Data Capture Method to Improve EHR Usability." The study compares the documentation quality, efficiency, and user satisfaction resulting from a method of EHR data capture involving MediSapien NLP (natural language processing) with results from standard methods. ZyDoc was among only 16% of NLM grant applicants to be awarded funding in 2011. The $150,000 project is funded entirely from the grant and is a potential precursor to Phase II funding.
ZyDoc has received IRB approval from a prominent New York-area teaching hospital for the research study, and additional test sites are now being sought. Researchers at Columbia University will be participating in the study, which also measures the accuracy of ICD-10 coding generated by MediSapien NLP. Facilities interested in participating in the study, including public or private hospitals and physician groups, are invited to contact James Maisel at firstname.lastname@example.com.
MediSapien was launched at the HIMSS Annual Conference in February 2012 expanding the ZyDoc family of documentation and knowledge management solutions featuring NLP-powered generation of structured codes from unstructured text. Those codes are formulated in industry standard HL7 CDA Level III R2 messages suitable for insertion in any ONC-certified EHR. MediSapien solutions are primarily marketed through its channel partner network, which includes EHRs, Billing and RCM providers, Analytics companies, and MTSOs. For EHR Channel Partners, MediSapien offers a value-added service to provide objective third-party usability evaluations. For clinician end-users, MediSapien can be utilized in conjunction with existing or planned EHR installations, and can facilitate compliance with Meaningful Use mandates.
"This is an exciting time for ZyDoc and MediSapien" explains Maisel. "While we prove out our solutions in the marketplace in 2013, the grant allows ZyDoc to scientifically measure the usability, efficiency and accuracy of MediSapien. In the study, doctors will complete typical medical encounters with dictation vs. EHR data entry with keyboard and mouse. The text will be inserted into the EHR along with the structured coded data extracted by MediSapien. The resultant EHR documentation will be analyzed by document experts and graded for accuracy and other parameters. The SBIR-funded study is a potential precursor to Phase II-funding."
A research collaborator on the study, David Kaufman, PhD, formerly a research scientist at Columbia University and now at the University of Arizona, offers this perspective, "Although EHRs are promising tools for improving healthcare, it is widely known that the user experience is frequently suboptimal resulting in dissatisfaction and low rates of adoption. This is partly due to the fact that clinicians spend many hours interacting with unwieldy systems documenting patient records. MediSapien is a promising instrument that may serve to reduce the cognitive burden on clinicians and enable EHRs to be instruments of clinical communication and tools that can greatly enhance patient care."
About ZyDoc and MediSapien
Based in Islandia, New York, ZyDoc is a national leading-edge medical knowledge management company founded in 1993 to develop medical informatics solutions. Under the leadership of James M. Maisel, M.D., Chairman, the company has developed award-winning documentation and knowledge management solutions. The e-transcription infrastructure and speech recognition solutions are now complemented by the disruptive enabling MediSapien NLP technology. The ZyDoc suite of tools can be assembled into seamless flexible solutions for documentation and knowledge management needs. Each award-winning, easy to use module offers the best-in-class performance and is designed to be seamless integrated in a scalable, interoperable, HIPAA secure customizable solution. Cloud based ZyDoc solutions are always accessible and robust and offer enhanced capabilities for medical knowledge workers.
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R43LM011165. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.


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T is for Tod's but also for Tradition, Talent and Timeless. Core Italian values embraced by skilled artisans define a clean-lined modernity and cosmopolitan energy. Artistry and virtuosity bond to create an understated luxury, hinged on leather, as always. Tie-dyed, pleated, woven, rubberized – exclusive treatments that make a statement while pony skin, sequins and zebra stripes infuse the collection with an eccentric touch. The accessories emphasize the art of saddlery craftsmanship while the iconic letter T, culled from the archives, adds character to the buckles of bags and loafers.Read More Read Less


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Recent history is full of console RTS ports falling over themselves in an effort to, at best, recreate something marginally evocative of the PC experience. But Vispi Bhopti, The Creative Assembly's Communications Manager, contends that Stormrise's control scheme -- which was designed from the get-go around a gamepad -- is an honest-to-goodness improvement over the mouse and keyboard. These are big words. I don't recall the developers of the voice-controlled EndWar's making those presumptions, and if anyone is entitled to, it would probably be them.
Stormrise will remind you of Full Spectrum Warrior. You view the battle from the perspective of the unit you have selected, which usually means "third-person," unless you've selected one that flies, in which case you get a bird's-eye-view. Unlike Full Spectrum Warrior, however, you control a force much larger than a handful of fireteams; in terms of numbers, Stormrise brings traditional RTS-sized armies to the field. The difficulties inherent to managing forces this large with a gamepad are where most console ports fall apart. And this is precisely what Bhopti says that Stormrise's "whip select" control scheme will remedy.
If nothing else, the "whip select" scheme definitely appears flexible. Every one of your units, regardless of how far away, is represented by an icon. In order to select it, you simply "whip" the control stick in its direction. In the case of two unit icons being too close to one another, Bhopti promises that the whip select's fine-tuning will typically result in your intended target being selected. (I didn't have a chance to play, but TeamXbox's Tom Price did, and he told me that his experience didn't quite bear this out.) Other kinds of supplemental functionality are built into the system. For instance, you can issue a movement command to a distant unit while you have another selected, which seems to work most effectively when you're looking down on the battlefield from a flying unit. And you can also assign multiple units into a single group, in order to keep the array of onscreen icons manageable.
When talking about Stormrise's maps, Bhopti brought up terms like "verticality" and "layer cake." The latter described what he feels is a crucial expression of the game's level design. Unlike most of the RTS games we're familiar with, Stormrise isn't built around a flat plane scattered with obstacles. Rather, many of its maps are layered; one map that Bhopti flew through had a multi-level parking garage, a subterranean tunnel system, and an army-sized warehouse built into it. The point he was trying to drill home during this portion of the demo was that, regardless of where you are (or what your current point of view is), it's almost impossible to get a full spatial picture of your surroundings. In the case of the army-sized warehouse, an enemy who decides to actually stash an army in it will easily foil you if you dismiss it as empty offhand.
When you consider what this notion of "verticality" could mean for navigating this world of "layer cakes," Bhopti's hyping of the "whip select" scheme starts to maybe seem a bit more credible. But chew on this: Stormrise's PC version will ship with a specially-designed mouse and keyboard scheme. According to Bhopti, the team (which includes quite a few recruited pro gamers) is currently wrestling with a few iterations of it. These days, it's common for PC ports to come with keyboard commands built-in, regardless of how absurd it would be to actually play the game that way (see: Devil May Cry 4). But it light of Bhopti's bold statements, shipping the PC version without mouse and keyboard controls would have spoken volumes.
Sega and the Creative Assembly are promising us another look at Stormrise not long after the new year. It'll be particularly interesting to see how the multiplayer component is shaping up.


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Surprisingly, I have a couple of nominations. I would ask for your vote and am delighted by every single vote I get.
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RAM Disk and CCleaner
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RAM Disk and CCleaner 20 February 2014, 06:48
When initiating the install of RAM Disk 3.4.5 I've had the application pop-up a notice warning of known issues when running RAM Disk together with CCleaner, when using image files or image-based RAM disks.
I intend to use RAM Disk with image (Persistent).
What is the true issue ? Is it more than having the TEMP folder on the RAMdisk ? If so, I never set the TEMP folder on a removable drive, moreover on a RAMdisk.
Thanks for your information because this could be problematic for me. The fact is I've just uninstalled RAM Disk 3.4.2 in order to install this latest 3.4.5, and the CCleaner issue warning was not in place with 3.4.2
This is slightly annoying. I need both CCleaner and SoftPerfect RAM Disk
Re: RAM Disk and CCleaner 20 February 2014, 08:25
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Occasionally a RAM Disk that has an associated image file, becomes corrupted. Further experiments show that the image itself becomes corrupted and it only seems to be happening when CCleaner is starting with Windows. This issue has been around for a while, but we didn't knot it was caused by CCleaner, that's why there was no warning in the earlier versions.
Re: RAM Disk and CCleaner 20 February 2014, 09:03
In fact, Andrew, you proposed on another post of mine here, to stick to 3.4.2 if all was ok. This is logical.
Well, the point is I have been having very surprisingly (I'm very cautious about the computer) a few crashes mainly when a driver was modified. For instance yesterday I installed latest NVIDIA GeForce Driver 334.89 and, when I later on rebooted I had a crash : Microsoft repair detected nothing at all, I closed the computer, then booted cold, and all was fine. Similar crashes occurred previously, always on reboot (hot boot), never on cold boot.
I scoped possible causes without ever thinking of an issue with RAM Disk + CCleaner pair. Especially that these crashes started late after RAM Disk install.
But also, I imagined that it could be related to RAM Disk in particular, specific circumstances. This is why I switched to 3.4.5 (in fact I aborted install at this time).
Discovering the warning (good point for popping it on install), I now take into consideration a RAM Disk related issue, even if :
1- No proof (impossible to reproduce a reboot crash) ;
2- If, would be related to the RAM Disk + CCleaner pair.
I've tried to find on the Web testimonies of this binomial issue, found one but related obviously to the fact of having the TEMP folder set in the RAM Disk. That's why I mentioned this point.
Now, if CCleaner is really a troublemaker when RAM Disk is installed, I really don't have the start of the beginning of an understanding. In what could both be related to ? They seem to operate in totally uncommon grounds ...
One of those mysteries. I'll have to make a choice or to choose a volatile RAM Disk, not handy in my perspective.
Thanks Andrew for your quick information.
Re: RAM Disk and CCleaner 26 February 2014, 01:47
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Re: RAM Disk and CCleaner 04 December 2014, 05:13
Re: RAM Disk and CCleaner 28 April 2015, 21:21
Has anybody at Softperfect tried talking to Piriform (Ccleaner) about this, as I think it would be helpful for both parties.
Re: RAM Disk and CCleaner 28 April 2015, 21:55
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As to contacting Piriform, yes we did that a while ago and they advised the following:
We have run an investigation into the effects which you have reported where CCleaner is having on your product and I have some results for you.
CCleaner does not specifically target the files relating to your product, however we believe it maybe being impacted by the fact that RAM disk is storing files in the Windows Temp location. This is a location which is identified as a prominent cleaning location as lots of programs use this for storing its temporary files.
Files that are present in this temp location and belong to the application are locked when application is running, so CCleaner's cleaning can be safety performed when application is running and RAM drives are mounted.
Your users can avoid this scenario by changing your temporary file location within the preferences of RAM Disk.
CCleaner does already have the functionality to help avoid this issue. Here are 2 methods to help protect users:
- Disabling the Temporary Files rules within CCleaner.
- Excluding the file location and file format from being cleaned by CCleaner using the Exclude list.
Re: RAM Disk and CCleaner 03 June 2017, 16:31
I installed my browser and it's cache folder inside the RAMdisk. I have not set TEMP variables into the RAMdisk since that's risky if the RAMdisk is not big enough.
I have disabled Ccleaner from autostart, and it's real time monitor. Unmount the virtual drive when I'm about to run Ccleaner. No corruption issues.
How long have I been testing this way: 24 days and counting.


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25% percent of people over 65 have pensions or annuities that make them "wealthy". Why should young struggling working families be required to subsidize wealthy older people who aren't working? We should means test Social Security and Medicare.
The U.S. government has over 30 welfare programs. Why do we need so many? We could save a lot of administrative costs by consolidating all of these programs into two programs -- one which provides cash subsidies to people who can't work because of physical or mental disabilities and one that provides cash subsidies to the working poor.
Bring the troops home. We borrow money from the rich Europeans to defend the rich Europeans. We borrow money from the rich Saudis to defend the rich Saudis. We borrow money from the rich Japanese to defend the rich Japanese. We borrow money from the Chinese to defend everyone else from the Chinese. Why are we doing this? Yes, we need to be involved in the world to protect our interests, but our current policies are insane because they don't reflect either current geopolitical realities or the reality of our current economic circumstances.
Why are we subsidizing NPR in an era when we have information at our fingertips? Why are we spending millions to study prostitutes in China or the relationship between a gay man's penis and his disposition to be a pitcher or a catcher? Why are we subsidizing ethanol when even Al Gore himself now says that this is a stupid idea? On and on...
I'll tell you why -- the U.S. government is the most hidebound, change resistant entity in the entire world. As Reagan said -- the closest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth is a government program.
We have a dynamic, technology-driven, ever changing economy. Sadly, it's being held back by obsolete, antiquated laws and regulations from decades ago.
That's the problem.
We need to simplify our 80,000 page convoluted tax system by eliminating economy distorting special interest deductions and lower rates. Even better, let's replace the personal income tax, corporate income tax, and payroll taxes with a sales tax.
I'd be willing to trade a $50Billion increase in the debt for elimination of the Education department, for example. If the states want that money, tell them to raise their own damn taxes. Ditto for Agriculture, DEA, HHS, etc. Fund these departments thru the end of the fiscal year and then they're toast.


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GVBD division one mid-season reviewBy Tyler Maher
Goulburn Valley Bowls Division weekend pennant is scheduled to return today across the region.
Soaring temperatures look certain to delay the start of 2019 action, but the end of the Christmas break still provides a perfect platform for a mid-season review of the division one table.
With six matches remaining in the regular season, including today's round as it will be rescheduled to February 23 if heat intervenes, there is still plenty of room for movement from all eight outfits competing in the top tier.
News sports reporter Tyler Maher has peered carefully into the crystal ball to assess just where each team might land by the time finals action rolls around.
Shepparton Golf
Record: first, 125 points, +212 shots difference
Key clashes remaining: As has been the case for a number of years, the Golfers seem to comfortably have the measure of most teams in the competition. It means the final-round duel against Kyabram looms as the most important clash before finals, with the winner to take plenty of momentum into a likely repeat fixture soon after.
Prediction: A 15-point buffer to second spot is already enough — lock the Golfers in for top spot and almost certainly another grand final berth.
Record: second, 110, +214.
Key clashes remaining: As well as the round 14 fixture against Shepparton Golf, the Power must make sure they knock off Shepparton Park in the preceding match to stay on top of its game. By that stage of the season Kyabram should have enough points in the bank to be certain of a double chance though.
Prediction: The Power will flex their collective muscle in the next two months and roar into finals with plenty of confidence and momentum from second spot on the table. Will it be enough to scupper Shepparton Golf's GVBD dynasty? Only time will tell.
Shepparton Park
Record: third, 79, +62.
Key clashes remaining: Round 12 against East Shepparton and a (likely to be) re-scheduled round nine against Hill Top (on February 23) will be matches which shape Shepparton Park's finals hopes. Win both and the Parkers will finish third.
Prediction: Preseason concerns about the Parkers after they lost a host of stars have so far proved unfounded. The outfit has excelled on the greens and the handy addition of Lenny Kean — who has been named as a third for his Shepparton Park debut — will hold it in great stead moving forward. Should slot into third spot and face a cutthroat elimination battle in the first week of finals.
Hill Top
Record: fourth, 76, +25.
Key clashes remaining: While today's fixture against Shepparton Park is likely to become Hill Top's last before finals, the side must focus on a round 10 game against Kyabram and round 11 battle with Shepparton Golf. Even snaring three rinks across those two fixtures could change the entire complexion of the ladder.
Prediction: The Hillbillies can steal rinks from the top sides, but they must dominate the likes of Seymour and Nagambie to make sure that hard work is not wasted. Fourth spot is theirs for the taking.
East Shepparton
Record: fifth, 71, +10.
Key clashes remaining: Every game is now crucial for East, but the round 12 clash against Shepparton Park is one which could swing the season back firmly into their favour. A win there will go a long way to sneaking into the top four.
Prediction: It is a tough back end of the year for East, especially after last round's loss to Hill Top, and the side must do everything it can to jump back into the four as quickly as possible. Have them in fifth when the dust settles.
Record: sixth, 55, -82.
Key clashes remaining: The biggest game for Stanhope for the rest of the season is the one directly in front of it. There is no point circling dates in the calendar — maximum points are needed in as many matches as possible for the outfit to stand a chance of finals action.
Prediction: There is still life in Stanhope's campaign after a huge, in terms of importance, win against Shepparton Park to close out 2018. That momentum needs to keep rolling though, and with a poor shots difference the side is likely to finish sixth.
Record: seventh, 32, -163.
Key clashes remaining: Seymour's season was meant to go on the line today against Nagambie, but now the battle for the wooden spoon — and relegation — will likely have to wait until February 23.
Prediction: If Seymour puts it all together on any given day it can secure an upset and hold onto a division one berth. But that day does not look likely to come quickly enough and the side is on a path to division two.
Record: eighth, 28, -278.
Key clashes remaining: Nagambie must beat Seymour to save itself from relegation — it is as simple as that.
Prediction: The Lakers have what it takes to stay in division one and that is exactly what they will achieve come the end of the season.


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Winn-Dixie CIO: Bankruptcy Has Its Advantages
But the chain's CIO said the secondary reaction was a remarkable focus on core business issues, including the strategic use of technology.
"There is nothing like that kind of threat. It's had a really remarkable impact on IT," CIO Charlie Weston said. "What body of work should IT be doing to really drive getting the business out of Chapter 11?"
Weston is a veteran of The Home Depot's IT operation, where he spearheaded EAI (enterprise application integration) deployments. He left The Home Depot in October 2004 to assume his current CIO post.
For the five months that he served as CIO of the 80,000-employee Winn-Dixie before it moved into Chapter 11, Weston said he found the 80-year-old company's people to be wonderful to work with, but that the culture was much slower and more genteel than what he was used to.
It struck Weston as "not political enough, not driven enough, not enough of a sense of urgency."
"Much of it was that old world sense of Southern culture. The South has much more of a veneer. 'I don't raise my voice. I'm respectful of the other person.' That can impede organizational change."
For example, in other corporations, frustrated managers might find themselves pounding on a desk to make a point, Weston said. Although ungracious, "it can get action and results."
But once the stock price plummeted and bankruptcy court action was taken, employee attitudes shifted quickly and dramatically, he said. "It has really brought a sense of urgency to the table, a sense of focus."
Weston has discoveredas have other CIOs and chief financial officers after they enter bankruptcy proceedingsthat a lot of the political turf battles that Fortune 500 companies tend to have quickly stop once the company's survival is threatened. Psychologically, this is similar to how communitiesor even countriesquickly and temporarily put aside partisan issues during disasters.
This can be especially helpful for executives such as CIOs, whose power comes from serving other departments and business units, who may have very different agendas. But the ultimate responsibility for the technology working rests on the CIO, even if those departments disregard the CIO's implementation instructions.
"One of the difficulties the CIO has is that you're sort of [given] accountability for anything IT, but many of the actual results are in the hands of the business unit owner," Weston said. "To that degree, Chapter 11 has helped tie more of the accountability to everyone."
Right after the Chapter 11 filing, Weston was called into his CEO's office and CEO Peter Lynch gave him new marching orders. He was to take the then-current caseload of IT projectsnumbering about 70and slash them down to about 16.
Lynch told the CIO to kill anything that didn't directly support a very small handful of new corporate objectives. "I got our senior team together, and we locked ourselves in a room," Weston said, and they reviewed all IT projects and proposals with an eye on "what would really drive sales, improve store operations or reduce expenses or improve compliance. Armed with that litmus test, we went through our giant list of projects."
"Those 16 go to the core of pricing, merchandising and inventory," he said.
Weston is slated to present that list to the CEO this week. "Chapter 11 has really turned everything around. I am getting absolute endorsements from other senior executives," he said.
In many instances, Weston said, the killed projects were ones that IT had been opposing anyway, usually because the technology was too immature.
"Of those 70 projects, a couple had some major dollars set aside for some very sophisticated analytic tools. The business unit was all set to go ahead, but IT was saying, 'No, you're not ready for that yet,'" Weston said. The killing of those projects was a huge help to the company. "That was huge because they would have been a major distraction for us and possibly prevented us from fixing the core" IT problems involving pricing and inventory.
Next Page: Focus now on the immediate and real.
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DETROIT, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Resveratrol, found in red grapes and red wine, may have the potential to protect against hearing and cognitive decline, U.S. researchers suggest.
Lead author Michael D. Seidman, director of the Division of Otologic/Neurotologic Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, said the study showed healthy rats were less likely to suffer the long-term effects of noise-induced hearing loss when given resveratrol before being exposed to loud noise for a long period.
"Our latest study focused on resveratrol and its effect on bioinflammation, the body's response to injury and something that is believed to be the cause of many health problems including Alzheimer's disease, cancer, aging and hearing loss," Seidman said in a statement. "Resveratrol was a very powerful chemical that seemed to protect against the body's inflammatory process as it related to aging, cognition and hearing loss."
The latest study was designed to identify the potential protective mechanism of resveratrol following noise exposure by measuring its effect on cyclooxygenase-2, or COX-2.
The study found resveratrol before a loud noise significantly reduced reactive oxygen species formation, inhibited COX-2 expression and reduced noise-induced hearing loss following noise exposure in rats.
"We've shown that by giving animals resveratrol, we can reduce the amount of hearing and cognitive decline," Seidman said.
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Abstract: Series consists primarily of "The Individual Manuscript Forms" identifying and describing manuscripts at the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Some of the files include notes and records inventories.
Provenance: The North Dakota State Archives acquired these records series through the auspices of the Professional and Service Division, Work Projects Administration, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota, ca.1942.
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Access: These records are available for public inspection under provision of the North Dakota Century Code, 55-02.1-08.
Citation: Researchers are requested to cite the record group, series name and number, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota in all footnote and bibliographic references.
The North Dakota Historical Records Survey began in 1936 and was sponsored by the Division of Women's and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The purpose of the survey was to "discover, preserve, and make accessible the basic materials on the history" of North Dakota. Records inventories were conducted for North Dakota counties, cities, townships, churches, social and fraternal organizations, newspapers, and the State of North Dakota. In addition the survey identified historical manuscripts, prepared transcripts of significant local government records, and assembled a listing of pre-1889 books, periodicals, and other printed materials available in North Dakota. Publications of the North Dakota Historical Records Survey include:
Inventory of the County Archives of Williams County, 1938
Abstract and Check List of Statutory Requirements for County Records, 1939
Bibliography of Theses Prepared at the University of North Dakota, 1940
Inventory of the County Archives of Golden Valley County, 1941
Inventory of the County Archives of Mercer County, 1941
Guise to Church Vital Statistics Records in North Dakota, 1942
Inventory of Federal Archives in the States No. 33, North Dakota, 1943
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Star Wars fans have been a cynical lot as of late, given the rather dubious changes to the films' Blu-ray release. But this video of YouTube user BashTheMonkey's four-year-old son reacting to Darth Vader's paternity reveal should brighten your Monday morning. Unless you're George Lucas, of course — you're already scheming to make Dengar Luke's poppa for the 3D re-release.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Yahoo is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson sweeps out jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered Internet company.
The cuts announced Wednesday represent 14 per cent of the 14,100 workers employed by Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif.
The housecleaning marks Yahoo's sixth mass layoff in the past four years under three different CEOs.
This one will inflict the deepest cuts yet, eclipsing a cost-cutting spree that laid off 1,500 workers in late 2008 as Yahoo tried to cope with the Great Recession.
Thompson is making his move three months after Yahoo lured him away from his previous job running eBay Inc.'s online payment service, PayPal.


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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature fiction writer and memoirist Nahid Rachlin and poet Jay Hopler Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Rachlin is the award-winning author of four critically acclaimed novels, a story collection, and, most recently, a memoir entitled "Persian Girls," which was selected by Christopher Merrill as one of the four best books of 2006. "Persian Girls" tells the story of Rachlin's growing up in Iran, beginning at age nine, when she was taken away from the beloved aunt who had raised her. "Publishers Weekly" has called the book a "lyrical and disturbing memoir" that "gives American readers rare insight in Iranians' ambivalence toward the United States, the desire for American freedom clashing with resentment of American hegemony." Rachlin currently teaches at The New School University in New York City.
Hopler won the 2007 GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry for his first book, "Green Squall," which was earlier chosen by Louise Glück as winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In her forward to "Green Squall," Glück characterizes Hopler as a poet who "sounds like no one else" and notes that his poetry creates "excitement of the highest order." Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970 and currently lives in southwest Florida.
Live music by the Hope College Jazz Ensemble will precede the reading beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Additional information may be obtained online by visiting www.hope.edu/vws.
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Marie Cook leans against the kitchen counter in her straw bale house and smiles indulgently. Yes, she says, it's not the first time someone has asked if she's worried about the big, bad wolf blowing her house down. And no, it probably won't be the last.
"It's always funny," she chuckles, "mostly because there's no way it will blow down. There are 1,600 bales, each are 40 lbs. Then there's the inch-thick parging (a mixture of plaster, cement, lime and sand) on the outside and inside of the walls. And the foundation is 42 short tons (imperial tons) of concrete. This house isn't going anywhere."
Certainly, it doesn't look like it will, despite the non-traditional materials. Built in 2001 over six months with the help of builder Ben Polley and a team of overseers, volunteers and pargers to lay down the exterior and interior concrete skins, the four-bedroom, two-bathroom house is one of several local buildings featured on a provincewide Ontario Straw Bale Builders Coalition 2012 Fall Building Tour Sunday.
Set on a two-acre lot in rural Kanata, the 1,800-square-foot house was designed by Cook to fit into its rugged bush setting. Inside, the tidy white open-plan kitchen is off-set by a natural stone-toned, stamped-and-tinted concrete floor that mimics the Canadian Shield.
Compact as the house is, light radiates everywhere. The great room features nine-foot ceilings and a cathedral window, while each of the four bedrooms have two windows to create cross breezes. Natural textures also abound, in the worn wooden staircase, a hand-plastered alcove and simple but elegant white curtains.
"It's meant to look like an Ontario farm house, so it would be like my mother's, but different," she says, referring to the neat and trim 1870s log cabin that shares the same two-acre lot. "It's a traditional looking house, in that respect."
But that's where the similarities end. Built using techniques that go back 100 years, straw bale house construction has gained traction over the past decade, thanks in large part to the work of Ben Polley of Evolve Builders, a Guelph-based contracting operation that focuses on energy-efficient, ecologically sound buildings. Since Polley oversaw the building of Cook's home — his first straw bale house in the region — his company has gone on to construct 80 more, including an eco-hotel in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua.
What people look for in a straw bale house, he says, breaks down to three things: human-healthy designs, environmentally preferable materials and energy efficiency.
"The materials are all natural and inert, there are no off-gassing components," he says of straw bale homes, which start with a post-and-beam frame that is infilled with bales placed with the straws running vertically, then parged or plastered on the inside and outside before being painted and sealed.
"The plaster we use has an incredibly high hygroscopic capacity, making it a natural dehumidifier, so it feels like the house has air conditioning." Materials are often locally sourced, minimally processed and generally cheaper, as well, he adds.
Then there's the dollar savings from energy bills. According to a study by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., straw bale construction saves an average of 25 per cent on heating bills, depending on the quality of the construction and materials. For Cook, who uses a 60-gallon hot water heater as part of an in-floor heating system, the monthly hydro bill amounts to $250, including appliances. The thick walls also mean outside noise is cut by 75 per cent.
And that, says Cook, a private tutor, makes it worth the heartache and effort of using a construction method that exists outside of conventional building standards. Where a standard family home could easily pass muster with city building inspectors, a straw bale home must also have an engineer's stamp of approval, to prove it will be safe for human inhabitants.
In addition, plumbing to the two bathrooms and first-level kitchen had to be encapsulated in drywall, while the electrical wiring had to be armour-plated, in case a wayward mouse found its way into the walls.
"It's not rocket science," says Cook, who installed a decorative, hexagonal window in the wall on the stair landing to expose a patch of straw bale in the wall.
"But how difficult it can be to build depends on the municipality and how friendly they are to the idea. There are at least 10 homes in Ottawa and more than 200 across Ontario," she adds, "but you have to be determined to build one and really know your stuff."
2012 Fall Straw Bale Building Tour
What: A province-wide tour of several homes built with straw bales. Areas homes include ones in Kanata, Galetta, Gatineau, Spencerville, the Lanark Highlands and Maberly.
When: Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cost: $10. Tickets will be available Sunday at participating homes.
Information: For a full list of homes and map of the tour, visit osbbc.ca.


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The William & Mary Law Institute of Special Education Advocacy is presenting a five-day training program hosted by the William & Mary School of Law and co-sponsored by the PELE Special Education Advocacy Clinic, Wrightslaw, and The Oklahoma Disability Law Center.
The program will include 25 sessions on applicable laws, ethics, best practices in advocacy, strategies in working with parents and schools, and dispute resolution procedures, taught by national leaders in the field.
The Institute begins on Sunday evening, August 2, 2015, with the Orientation and Registration session and Welcome Reception.
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In general, educational and training expenses are tax deductible. Check with your accountant about deductible educational expenses that may include books, continuing education fees, and travel costs.
Attendance is limited to 55. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis bi-monthly until the class is full. Early applications are recommended.
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Law students can earn one graded credit for this course. Each law student enrolled for credit will be required to complete the pre-assigned work for ISEA, attend all ISEA sessions, and submit a paper no later than August 21st of no less than ten double-spaced pages to Professor Crystal Shin on a topic mutually agreed upon prior to August 7th.
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After a 104-degree day Friday at the state track and field trials it's supposed to cool off today. Predicted high of 94.
Couple interesting story lines I wasn't able to pursue in my story http://bit.ly/LT6ruN. Was talking with Stanford coach Edrick Floreal after his son, EJ, ran 21.24 in the 200 trials.
"Not bad for a basketball player," I said.
"He can do what he wants, play basketball as much as he wants," the elder Floreal answered with a laugh. "I don't tell him what to do. Genes, genes and more genes. He doesn't work on this at all. After the relay he wasn't happy, was ready to go home. He's happier now."
"The 200 is my event," EJ said.
It's an event that allows the 6-foot-4 basketball player's legs to get unwound. He'll duel Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks' Khalfani Muhammad (21.16) in today's final.
Piedmont Hills coach Chioke Robinson was beside himself, incredulous after freshman Bianca Bryant pulled up with an apparent leg injury in the final 50 meters of the girls 1,600 relay. Piedmont Hills came in with a best of 3:48.98, just a few clicks off the CCS record held by St. Francis. The Pirates were on their way to obliterating the record, running away from a strong field when Bryant pulled up.
"We would've shattered it," Robinson said. "Maybe God doesn't want us to right now."
Robinson put his two fastest runners, Timarya Baynard and Ellisa Bryant, on the first two legs and PH was at 1:50 halfway through and blowing away the field. Alexandra Diaz maintained the lead through the third leg and the younger Bryant looked great until that final stretch when she suddenly slowed her pace, allowing the anchor from St. Mary's Academy to pass her. PH still qualified for today's final at 3:50.30. but Robinson will have to see if Bianca Bryant can run. The team will be a lot slower without her. She tearfully described her injury as a throbbing pain in her hamstring.
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Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Dark Explorers (Japanese: ダークラッシュ Dark Rush) is the name given to the fifth main expansion of cards from the English Black & White Series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. The Japanese release is the fourth of the BW era.
What's out there in the darkness, waiting to be discovered? Play the Pokémon Trading Card Game: Black & White—Dark Explorers expansion and find them all! In addition to more Pokémon-EX like Tornadus-EX, Raikou-EX, and Groudon-EX, the shadows are filled with other exceptional surprises, like Darkrai-EX and a host of Trainer cards that will knock your opponent's lights out! When you play Black & White—Dark Explorers, you'll not only explore the darkness, you'll rule it!
Dark Explorers features Darkness-type Pokémon. Many of the Trainer cards benefit Darkness-type Pokémon. The set continues releasing Pokémon-EX cards with six included: Entei-EX, Kyogre-EX, Raikou-EX, Groudon-EX, Darkrai-EX, and Tornadus-EX. Groudon-EX and Kyogre-EX are, respectively, the final cards from the Japanese Hail Blizzard and Psycho Drive expansions to be released in English. Because the set contains many Stage 2 evolutionary families, it also contains a reprint of Rare Candy; the first release of the card to be printed with the errata issued at the beginning of the Black & White Series.
The English expansion contains all of the remaining cards from the Japanese Dark Rush expansion, as well as a few from the Reshiram-EX and Zekrom EX Battle Strength Decks, the Battle Gift Set: Thundurus vs Tornadus, the Psycho Drive and Hail Blizzard expansions, and the BW-P Promotional cards. Dark Explorers includes 111 different cards: 3 of which are Secret cards. The Secret cards are Shiny reprints of Gardevoir from Next Destinies (Hail Blizzard in Japan), Archeops from Noble Victories (Red Collection in Japan), and Pokémon Catcher from Emerging Powers (White Collection in Japan). Dark Rush, the Japanese equivalent to the set, contains 76 cards, making it the largest Japanese expansion released during the BW era.
Much like Psycho Drive and Hail Blizzard, the artwork in the set features locations around the Unova region. For example, Sableye and Jolteon can be found in Chargestone Cave and Plusle and Minun are depicted in Mistralton City.
The Japanese Dark Rush expansion contains two cards that were first released in English. Swoobat and Mandibuzz were pulled from this set and released in the English Emerging Powers expansion in August 2011 in order to complete their Pokémon families.
Vanillite and Vanillish, and Ducklett and Swanna are numbered incorrectly. As of the Black & White expansion, Pokémon have been numbered first by type, then by National Pokédex number within type. The official numbering misplaces Vanillite (number 582) and Vanillish (number 583) before Ducklett (number 580) and Swanna (number 581).
Dark Explorers is the first expansion whose Prerelease promo was a Black Star Promo, specifically the BW Black Star Promos, instead of a card actually in the set. The Prerelease promo is Volcarona.
Officially, the English release of the set contains 108 cards. Between alternate holofoils, promotional stamps, reverse holofoils, and Secret cards, the set contains 236 cards. A list of the non standard cards can be seen below.
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|This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.


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The House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 28, passed the economic stimulus legislation – H.R.1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – with provisions intact allocating $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. All Republican House members, joined by 11 Democrats, voted against the measure.
TAKE ACTION: The Senate expects to vote on its version of the stimulus legislation the week of February 2. If you have not yet done so, please contact your senators urging their support to retain the $50 million allocation for the National Endowment for the Arts when the economic stimulus legislation takes final shape by including the provision passed by the House, with 40% of the NEA funds going to state arts agencies and the remainder distributed in direct grants to fund arts projects that preserve jobs in the nonprofit arts sector.
Reach your senators by phone through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, or by email at http://www3.capwiz.com/mygov/dbq/officials/
- Public funding for the arts is a sound investment in states and communities facing tough economic conditions.
- The arts generate jobs, tax revenues and consumer spending.
- NEA funds to state arts agencies will enable state support for the arts to continue where a depressed economy has resulted in revenue shortfalls.
In the days leading up to the House floor debate on the bill, the arts funding had been singled out by critics of the legislation as an example of needless spending. When the measure came to the House floor on Wednesday, Rep. David Obey (D-WI), chair of the Appropriations Committee and floor manager for the bill, asserted that such claims caused the debate to become "incredibly trivialized." In defense of the spending decisions made in the bill, he pointed out that the "arts funding in this bill is a tiny fraction of this entire bill . . . about 6 cents out of every $1,000 contained in this legislation."
He then aimed his remarks at the economic purposes of the legislation and the economic significance of the arts sector: "People ask, What does funding for the arts have to do with jobs? It is very simple. People in the arts field are losing their jobs just like anybody else. . . . You have local arts agencies, you have local orchestras, local symphonies and local arts groups of all kinds who are shutting down, laying people off, and in a number of instances going bankrupt. This is a small, tiny effort to keep some of those people employed over the next two years. I make no apology for it. We have an obligation to salvage as many jobs as we can regardless of the fields in which people work."
Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA), chair of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee and sponsor of the arts funding in the stimulus package, joined Obey in defending the NEA funds. He cited the arts community as a tremendous cultural resource that "also serves to create jobs in local communities all across our nation."
Dicks went on to say that the arts sector of the economy "has been inordinately impacted by the severe economic downturn we have been experiencing in this past year . . . and the result has been disastrous for many of our nation's arts agencies and programs. . . . The amount in this bill is intended to provide small grants to try to restore some of the jobs which have been lost in the arts communities over the past year. In addition to retaining jobs, these funds will support programs which provide entertainment and richness in the lives of our communities at a time when they are badly needed. In the context of this large economic stimulus legislation, I believe this is a prudent investment, and that it will contribute measurably to restoring the fiscal health of our nation."
Speaking in opposition to the bill, Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA) included the arts funding in a list of "special interest groups' pet projects" that "represent an increase in government spending, not job creation." Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), also speaking against the legislation, cited the NEA funding with others as "some of the most egregious examples of programs within the massive spending bill."
Democrats voting against the stimulus package were Reps. Allen Boyd (D-FL), Bobby Bright (D-AL), Jim Cooper (D-TN), Brad Ellsworth (D-IN), Parker Griffith (D-AL), Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), Frank Kratovil (D-MD), Walt Minnick (D-ID), Collin Peterson (D-MN), Heath Shuler (D-NC), and Gene Taylor (D-MS), including four freshman members of the House, three of whom replaced Republican officeholders.


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Is Google the Most Sexually Liberated Tech Company in The World?
We've talked plenty about Google's executive chairman, Eric "2 Hot 4 Instagram" Schmidt, and his love-making manse. Today, here's Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures, one of the most powerful tech investment firms in the world, in dayglo drag.
During the business week, Maris is just a chipper Silicon Valley suit, evangelizing our face-computer future, pumping money into startups, and appearing in the middle of photos like this one:
But at a recent party for Google founder Sergey Brin's wife, Anne Wojcicki, the man atop the company's investment arm was happy to appear as the exact opposite of Nerd Wearing Android Goggles:
After all, it was a Burning Man themed party (we're told), and people who don't adhere to themes at a theme party are the worst of the worst.
Google's reputation has been, for a long while and deservedly so, a buttoned-up, somewhat square privacy menace. It's the tech old guard now, an almost conservative entity, despite Schmidt's hypersexualism and the neon cross-dressing of Maris. Google isn't desperate to be cool, like Yahoo!, but still employs some of the only management figures you'd actually want at your party. Now just show me Eric Schmidt covered in fluorescent face paint, please—for all their talk of innovation, an interesting social life might be one of the few captivating things these people have going on.
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You might be a nerd. I'm a nerd! But just because you are one, that doesn't mean your significant other is. Your partner, whether they're male or female, might not like video games, anime, manga—or whatever.
That still doesn't mean you both can't explore geekdom together!
A recent issue of Japanese women's magazine Otome Sugoren did a piece on females who are keen to date Japanese otaku (geeks). These sorts of articles were popular in Japan between 2004 and 2006, when Train Man was all the rage, and it was cool to be square.
These types of articles, however, vanished in the wake of the tragic Akihabara Massacre, as the image of otaku and Akihabara took a hit.
Otome Sugoren listed a slew of date plans that should (could?) delight non-otaku. So where should you take your non-nerd date? One option given is going to see an anime feature film. The motion picture version is ideal, because watching an entire anime series requires a significant time investment. Movies are comparably shorter, and since they are directed at a wide audience, the stories are typically self-contained.
If anime movies aren't your date's thing, then you can always go to a manga cafe, which is like an internet cafe, but, well, for manga. Manga cafe are stacked with wall-to-wall comics, providing you and your squeeze an all-you-can-eat manga experience. "I want a comic crazy dude to recommend some manga to me!" said a teenage Otome Sugoren reader. Manga cafes are ideal date spots when the weather is crummy, because they provide a cozy environment for you both to read and talk.
Karaoke is a popular date option. If you want to give it a decidedly nerd twist, fire up a bunch of anime theme songs—but try to pick ones that are nostalgic and everybody should know. Anime songs for kiddy shows are probably your best bet. The less obscure, the better. "If we sing an anime song that we both know," said another teenage reader, "I really get into it."
The other long-standing default date option in Japan is a video game arcade. Like pretty much everyone else in the country, so much of my formidable dating years were spent in arcades, playing video games and posing for sticker pictures. It's important to realize that your non-gamer flame might not have an enjoyable evening watching you play King of Fighters. (Crazy, I know!) "I want to play music games or quiz games," said yet another teenager Otome Sugoren reader. "You know, games we can play together."
In the past few years, maid cafes, havens for lonely otaku, have become popular. These are typically male-only domains, and some Japanese women are apparently interested in checking them out, eating rice omelets with hearts written in ketchup, and playing paper, rock, scissors with maids. "I want to check out their cute costumes, and it's tough to go by yourself if you're female," said a 20-something Otome Sugoren reader. Though, if you do end up at a maid cafe, make sure you're giving your full undivided attention to your date and not the maids.
Maid cafes aren't the only place that women might feel awkward about entering. Idol concerts, with their legions of male fans, might be off-putting for women to go without a male companion. "I think I could have fun," said a 20-something year-old. "I've always admired cute idols." And since it's a concert, perhaps, both you and your date could have fun.
If you've got a car (or a train pass), getting out of the city is always good. According to Otome Sugoren, visiting nerd pilgrimage sites can be fun. These might be actual locations where games or anime are set—or visiting, like so many have, Nintendo's Kyoto headquarters. (Since you can't enter the Nintendo building, "visiting" is actually "standing outside and going, 'Woah.'") "I think it would be fun to get the lowdown while on the trip," said another 20-something year-old female reader. And if you can't venture far, visiting geek meccas like Akihabara are a viable option. "I want to go around Akihabara," said a 30-something year-old female. "It's like opening a whole new world."
As the magazine explains, the number of otaku are increasing. Which means, the number of people dating them are increasing. And if you think otaku or geeks have their own culture (they do!), then it's important that those in a relationship at least attempt to expose themselves to these interests. It's not necessary to overdo it, and everyone has their boundaries and things they simply are not interested in. That's fine. Though, it never hurts to attempt to share your interests. Just remember to reciprocate.
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The Central Connecticut football team will open Spring Practice on Saturday, March 16, at Arute Field in New Britain, CT. The Blue Devils will practice 15 times over the next few weeks with the annual Spring Game highlighting the schedule on April 19th.
The Blue Devils will open on Saturday morning and will practice three more times –Monday, Wednesday, Friday – next week before halting the schedule for the university's spring break.
After break, the Blue Devils will resume their practice schedule for two days before the Spring's first scrimmage on Saturday, April 6. Head coach Jeff McInerney's squad will scrimmage again the following Saturday, April 13.
A week later, on Friday, April 19, the Blue Devils will host the annual Spring Game at Arute Field. This year's installment will take place at 7 p.m.
Also, this Friday night, March 15, the Blue Devils will host the annual CCSU Football Wine Tasting fundraiser. You can find more information on the wine tasting here.
Here are some notes on the Blue Devils heading into the spring:
Quarterback Competition – Senior Andrew Clements, junior Nick SanGiacomo and junior Timothy Morovick (2013 Spring Enrollee) are all candidates for CCSU's quarterback position come the fall. Clements saw the bulk of the action in 2012, but SanGiacomo also earned significant playing time. Morovick transferred to the Blue Devils this semester after two seasons of junior college football in his home state of California.
Back Running – Sophomore Rob Hollomon was a huge part of the CCSU offense in 2012 and will be expected to continue that performance in 2013. In his first season with the Blue Devils, Hollomon rushed for 1,104 yards, the 12th 1,000-yard rushing season in program history. Hollomon was also explosive on returns and earned multiple weekly honors, both from the NEC and national organizations, for his all-purpose performances.
Returning Players – The Blue Devils will return 16 of 22 starters from the 2012 offensive and defensive units. Highlighting the offensive returners are Hollomon, tackle Taylor Fuller and receiver Denzell Jones. Fuller and Jones will be seniors next season and Hollomon a junior. On defense, middle linebacker Patrick Atkinson, cornerback Chris Linares and defensive end Josh Alaeze will be major contributors in 2013. Attkinson and Linares will be seniors and Alaeze a junior.
New Kicker – With the graduation of senior Juan Duque the Blue Devils will be looking for a new place kicker this spring. Duque was extremely consistent on field goals and extra points throughout his career.


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It's true that much of the news from the continent of Africa is negative. In a previous experiment, I challenged a class of geography students to find good news stories coming from that great continent. There were many, but not on the scale that come form other continents.
In her TED talk, Chimamanda Adichie tells of the danger involved in only having one view of a place and its people.
This year I challenged a new group of students to find good news stories from Africa. This is what they found….
Story 1 found by A-SM
Obama presents plan to help disarm LRA in Uganda
Friday, 26 November 2010
This story is good because it shows that the problems are being combatted. It also shows that developed countries feel that it is important to help African communities so that they can later make economic and political links.
Story 2 found by TB
Uganda: First Major Malaria Vaccine works In Trial
The company GlaxoSmithKline have invented the first major vaccine for malaria, in a clinic the vaccine reduced the chance of catching the disease by 50% and looks to be the first way to stop the chance of the disease.
Data was released showing results that "researchers who analysed data from the first 6,000 children found that after 12 months of follow-up, three doses of RTS,S reduced the risk of children experiencing clinical malaria and severe malaria by 56% and 47%, respectively".
Article: http://allafrica.com/stories/201110270713.html#
Story 3 found by HS
A dependable two-way relationship?
In the past, the Maasai people and the local population of lions of Kenya have been bitter enemies, but recently, figures have shown lion population figures falling from 120,000 twenty years ago to 25,000 today. But interestingly, there has been a rise in numbers in South Kenya in the Chuylu Hills as the local Maasai tribesmen have created a symbiotic relationship. It is Maasai tradition for a young man who wants to pass into manhood to go out into the bush and kill a lion. This tradition had led to the decline in numbers but this was not the only reason for the hunting and killing of lions. Ever since the Maasai people have shared their territory with prides of lions, there has always existed a threat of the lions attacking the tribesmens' precious cattle herds. Nowadays, the locals have realised the diminishing numbers and have acted, setting up a Trust to compensate Maasai herders who have lost cattle to lions. This prevents the unnecessary killing of the predators, effectively stopping the decline of the population in the area. This heart-warming story of new-found friendship surely is good news to come out of Africa.
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President Barack Obama vowed Thursday during a trip to Mexico to continue pushing for new, tighter gun control rules in the United States, saying his proposals' recent defeat in Congress was "just the first round."
Speaking following a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose country has been ravaged by gang violence supported in part by gun trafficking into Mexico, Obama vowed to return to the issue of gun control in the United States.
Henry Romero / Henry Romero / Reuters
President Barack Obama and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto speak during a news conference after attending a bilateral meeting at the National Palace in Mexico City May 2, 2013.
"The last time we had major gun legislation, it took 6, 7, 8 tries to get passed," Obama said at a press conference following his meeting with the Mexican president. "Things happen somewhat slowly in Washington, but this is just the first round."
Democratic leaders in the Senate were forced to shelve a bipartisan proposal expanding background checks for firearms sold online and at gun shows when it failed to receive the requisite 60 votes to survive a filibuster threat. The measure's Democratic proposal, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, has vowed to fight to bring that proposal back up for another vote.
And in an article published Wednesday, the proposal's Republican author, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, suggested that politics were afoot in many GOP senators' decision to oppose the package.
"There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it," Toomey told local newspaper editors.
Top Talkers: Is the public willing to give up some of their civil liberties to curb terrorism in the U.S.? And which civil liberties? A new CNN/ORC poll takes a look at the issue, and the Morning Joe panel discusses. Meanwhile, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., discusses how his push to expand gun background checks was voted down in the Senate.
Congress is away from Washington this week for a scheduled recess, but the issue of guns has followed members back to their states and their districts. Gun control advocates have aired ads targeting key senators for their votes in their respective states, and Democratic groups have trailed New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte throughout her state this week to put public pressure on the first-term senator for her vote during public town hall meetings.
The president and his allies are relying on the fact that public opinion is largely on their side when it comes to the specific gun proposals being floated by the administration.
"When you've got 90 percent of the American people supporting the initiatives that we put forward … I believe that eventually we're going to get that done, and I'm going to keep on trying," he said.
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PARIS – Snow-choked European cities are struggling to get planes, trains and roads moving again after a surprisingly intense, late-season storm.
A few flights were cancelled Wednesday and many were facing long delays at Paris' Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports and the Frankfurt Airport.
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Eurostar train service under the English Channel resumed Wednesday after being suspended most of Tuesday, but trains were running much more slowly than usual because of the icy tracks, causing delays.
Thousands of cars were stuck or moving slowly on roads around northern France Wednesday morning as authorities — and the army — tried to clear snow. Tens of thousands of homes in northern France remain without electricity, with temperatures below freezing across the region.
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The September edition of Dodgers Magazine features a cover photo of new Dodgers Hanley Ramirez and Shane Victorino. Fans can enjoy features on Ramirez and Victorino, as well as other new Dodgers Joe Blanton, Randy Choate and Brandon League. A behind-the-scenes look at the first day in the Dodger organization for the newest acquisitions Gonzalez, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto is also included. Fans can purchase Dodgers Magazine at merchandise stands throughout Dodger Stadium or they can order subscriptions at www.dodgers.com/magazine.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
September 2012 Dodgers Magazine - Hanley Ramirez & Shane Victorino
1 comment:
- Koufax Kid said...
I thought I liked Shane Victorino, but the more I hear about him he seems like a not nice guy. Way to share the aloha!
- August 29, 2012 at 4:08 PM
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