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2012 Kids' Choice Awards Show + Performance Pictures
Relive the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards with these pictures from the show, including the most memorable moments (Hellooooo! Justin Bieber getting slimed?!) as well as performance shots of artists like Katy Perry. The Kids' Choice Awards are always a fun-filled event, with practical jokes, funny skits, and a whole lot of screaming from fans, and the 25th edition (on March 31, 2012) of the show was no acception.
Both Katy Perry and British quintet One Direction took the stage to perform at the Galen Center in L.A. for the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards, and in theses pictures, you can check out Katy Perry gliding over the crowd in female gladiator gear as she belts out her latest hit 'Part of Me.' One Direction also hit the stage to perform their smash song 'What Makes You Beautiful,' and the dreamy teens had the girls practically swooning with their energetic show. Later on, Justin Bieber got slimed after he accepted the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist. It was a moment to revel in, since the Biebs' face was priceless as he was doused with gallons and slime along with host Will Smith.
Scroll through these show and performance pictures from the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards and let us know what you thought was the best moment from the broadcast in the comments below.


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A collaboration with StoryCorps Chicago
The Chicago Artists Resource has teamed up with StoryCorps Chicago to bring you "Conversations with CAR". Through this collaboration with StoryCorps, the Chicago Artists Resource interviews Chicago-based artists about their personal experiences and their impact on their creative practice.
This week's featured artist is Margaret Bobo-Dancy.
Reared in North Carolina, Margaret moved to Chicago to pursue an education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied video making and metal casting. Upon receiving her undergraduate degree she worked for a couple years in local foundries. Bobo-Dancy now leads steel fabrication and construction at a production studio in Pilsen. Margaret continues to work in video making and metal casting while currently exploring glass kiln casting. Bobo-Dancy is a recipient of the Chances Dances Critical Fierceness Grant and is very moved by the Chicago Queer community.
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Brian Payne, vice president of investments at Wells Fargo Advisors in Dallas, has had a close association with the Muslim community in the Dallas/Forth Worth area for about five years. His interest in the community, coupled with the realization that Muslims who want to invest per the guidelines of Islamic finance are not being served, have led him to become a specialist in Islamic finance.
Now, Islamic or Shariah-compliant investing has become a prime area of focus for Payne, and about 75% of his new business comes from the Muslim community.
"Any particular group that needs to adhere to specific investment guidelines can pose a challenge to a financial advisor," he says, "but in a positive way, because putting together a quality portfolio within the boundaries that a client needs to stick to is also extremely interesting and really defines the role of any financial advisor who can rise up to the challenge."
Payne believes that the Muslim community in the United States presents a great business opportunity for financial advisors. Muslims represent about 0.8% of the population, according to a study conducted earlier this year by the Pew Research Center, but that figure is slated to double over the next two decades to 1.7%.
"This community is well-educated and relatively affluent, but many Muslims in America do not know how to go about investing Islamically even if they want to," Payne says. "They do not know about how to set up a Shariah-compliant portfolio, even though they know they want to invest as per those guidelines, and they are not sure whom to turn to for advice."
For most Muslim Americans, financial planning and investing are relatively new domains, says Mohamad Nasir, general manager at Allied Asset Advisors in Oakbrook, Ill., whose Iman Fund is one of the few mutual funds in the United States with a strict Islamic investing mandate.
"There was a time when Muslims would prefer to keep their money in cash, but now, people want their money to grow," Nasir says. "While Muslims want to invest in Shariah-compliant finance, many don't even know that that's possible here in the [United States] and that there are investment vehicles that allow for it. Financial advisors can do a great deal in bringing the word out to people who, like everyone else, need to save for their children's education, their retirement and so on."
Although the United States is still some ways behind Europe in terms of providing the framework for Islamic finance and investments to become more mainstream (and of course, the interest level in promoting it ebbs and flows with the political climate in the country), the Muslim demographic is an important one, says Fawad Butt, managing partner at Zeus Capital Advisers in Chicago, a firm providing consultancy and advisory services in Islamic finance. Muslims in America—mainly South Asians and Arabs—are, on average, in their 30s, he says. They are for the most part highly educated and relatively affluent, and even though second- and third-generation Muslims in the United States may be as "American as the next person," tradition and religion are still important. The ability of this community to consume financial products suited to them in the coming decades is extremely high.
The Nuts and Bolts of Islamic Finance
Islamic finance as it stands today first came into being about three decades ago to cater to the needs of the global Islamic population for whom conventional financial products were not fully acceptable.
Based first and foremost upon the idea of the religious sanctity of financial products, Islamic investments have, through the years, shown themselves to be both sustainable and ethical, says Sunil Kumar, head of risk management for the Middle East at FRS Global in Dubai, and they've proven to be more resilient to market shocks than their conventional counterparts.
"Islamic finance is asset-based and this is the key to its resilience," Kumar says. "The limited interplay of Islamic financial products across major global markets proved to be an advantage during the financial crisis, and Islamic finance prohibits gambling and excessive speculation, which makes trades more rational and real. Credit derivative swaps and other similar products that have been blamed as being the major sources of the financial crisis were also absent from Islamic finance and helped protect it."
In a nutshell, halal investing, or investing according to the Shariah principles of Islamic finance—guidelines that are set by Shariah boards—requires avoiding investments in liquor, pornography, pork products, gambling, banks and insurance companies, and any business where interest, or "riba," is the primary driver of income. Bonds and other interest-bearing instruments are a no-no, as are derivatives, and defense is also a forbidden sector.
Today, worldwide Shariah assets total an estimated $900 billion to $1 trillion, according to a report released in September by consulting and research firm Cerulli Associates. That's three times the size of China's mutual fund asset base, and the market is projected to expand to between $4 trillion and $5 trillion by 2015, Cerulli says.
Most global financial markets offer specific indexes covering Islamic companies, and many large funds have some exposure to Islamic products. The Dow Jones Islamic Market Index family includes thousands of broad-market, blue-chip, fixed-income, and strategy and thematic indexes that have passed rules-based screens for Shariah compliance. The indexes are the most visible and widely used set of Shariah-compliant benchmarks in the world.
In the United States, there is a growing demand from the Muslim population for investment vehicles that can meet Shariah-compliant guidelines, but there's also a need for products like Islamically compliant mortgages and small business loans—products whose structuring and origination are also growing in certain parts of the country through community banks that specialize in them, says Butt.
"People tend to start with the basics, but the demand from the local consumer base here in the [United States] is certainly increasing, so we are seeing a greater interest in Shariah-compliant investment vehicles," he says.
But Islamic investing is also gaining greater traction and popularity among non-Muslims, Butt says, simply because it meets the risk appetite of many people who have been burned one too many times by the financial market collapses of the past few years. Above all, the complete absence of investments in financials has been and continues to be a huge plus point in favor of Islamic investing, he says, and it has encouraged more people to want to learn how this investment universe works.
Islamic Investing: Adherence to Principles and the Long-Term Value Play
For people who are looking for value, including non-Muslims, allocating a portion of their assets to vehicles like Saturna Capital's Amana Funds makes for a good bet.
"Some of the guidelines for Shariah-compliant investing have to do with the debt structure of companies, so for investors looking for the leanest, meanest companies that they can find, companies that have good cash flow and a low debt structure, Islamic funds like the Amana Funds are very attractive from a value perspective alone," Payne says.
According to Nicholas Kaiser, director and chairman of Saturna Capital, the Amana Funds' success has come primarily from advisors and clients who are not Muslim. While the three Amana mutual funds meet the guidelines for Shariah-compliant investing, "most people see us as core, stable funds that they can hold for long periods of time," Kaiser says.
Kaiser is the pioneer of the Islamic mutual fund in the United States. In 1984, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) approached him with the idea of creating investment products for the underserved Muslim community in North America, and in 1986, Saturna launched the Amana Income Fund. It was followed by the Amana Growth Fund in 1994 and the Amana Developing World Fund, which was launched in 2009.
While each of the funds invests according to Islamic principles and Kaiser and Monem Salam, deputy portfolio manager and head of Islamic investing, screen companies for compliance with these guidelines, their long-term goals are geared toward value and growth.
"We're looking for companies that we believe have potential in the long run," Kaiser says. "We are value managers who hold companies for between five and seven years, and this increases the efficiency of our funds as we don't have to time the market in terms of buying and selling. I believe this is attractive to many people."
In order to be successful in Islamic investing, it's important for a fund to compete in both the Islamic and conventional spaces, Salam says. Like all other investors, Muslim investors are also looking for good returns, he says, and the Amana Funds give them both the Islamic screen that they require, as well as the long-term value proposition.
While the Iman Fund—launched in 2000 by Allied Asset Advisors, a subsidiary of NAIT—seeks capital growth through adherence to Islamic principles (it doesn't invest in any of the prohibited sectors), the fund is actually stricter than the Dow Jones Islamic Index upon which it's based.
"We take a stricter interpretation of what's allowed only because there are people who demand that," Nasir says. "Our target market is really those people who care more about not earning money they're not supposed to earn, as opposed to performance."
As such, the Iman Fund is fully invested—it doesn't hold any cash and its managers are constantly monitoring the fund's holdings to make sure that they are still Shariah-compliant.
"If we buy a stock today that meets our debt ratio of 10% and the debt ratio goes up next month, we will get out of the stock," Nasir says. "We feel we need to monitor our holdings constantly and, within a reasonable time, get out of them if they don't meet our investment principles."
Nevertheless, the Iman Fund is invested in more than 100 Shariah-compliant companies in a range of industries. That variety alone, combined with the rigorous, active management, makes for an attractive investment opportunity even for non-Muslims, Nasir says.
For many people who have equity funds as their core holdings, Islamic funds offer a good diversification option because the criteria by which stocks are selected means that these names don't often overlap with holdings in other funds, says Jeff (Jaafer) Gareau, a financial advisor at No Interest Investments in Toronto.
"Based on the diversification option and their performance, these funds can be attractive to many people, not just Muslims," he says.
Advisors and Islamic Investing
While Payne has guided many of his Muslim clients to the Amana Funds, and he values the packaged option that they offer them, he also likes to screen stocks himself to round out his clients' portfolios with individually selected investments that meet the principles of Shariah investing.
"It isn't that hard, actually, to find investment opportunities, and the main point that needs to be made is just because something is Shariah-compliant doesn't mean that it's a good investment," he says. "It's an advisor's duty to make clients aware of that."
For Payne, everything revolves around the filtering process: "If you take the list of eligible investments that are out there and then you tailor them down to a client's risk appetite, there are thousands of stocks to choose from," he says.
But this may be easier said than done, cautions Gareau, and may not hold ground for very strict Muslims as it could unintentionally result in the selection of stocks that fall outside the guidelines of Shariah. A stock can be Islamic one day and then the next, no longer fit the bill, he says, because the company could sell a bond, causing its debt ratios to change.
Gareau gives the example of Nortel Networks in Canada, which was Shariah-compliant until its price fell to $12 and its debt ratios went out of the permitted range. Even a company like General Motors, which ticks off all the boxes for Shariah compliance, may not pass the grade for some because its financing arm, GMAC, derives a large portion of its income through interest.
"Names that become penny stocks are also prone to speculation and those are definitely not allowed," Gareau says. "This is why it's very difficult to do due diligence on your own if you're going to get Islamic investing right, and best to go with a mutual fund that is constantly monitoring its holdings."
However, there is just a sprinkling of Islamic mutual funds available in North America. While the interest level is growing both from the client base as well as from the provider side, it will take some time before the number increases, Butt says. Funds like Amana have been successful because they have branded themselves to attract Muslim Americans, but they have also made an effort to appeal to a broader audience through the value investing that is their focus, he says, and this is probably the most logical way for the industry to evolve.
According to Payne, many Muslims do not even know that there are funds like Amana and Iman in the U.S. marketplace, so a first step in moving the world of Islamic investing forward is for advisors to educate their clients on these options.
"Many advisors think that simply because someone is Muslim, they know how to build a Shariah-compliant portfolio. Even when I first started, I made the assumption that the client knew the boundaries and how to interpret the guidelines," he says. "That's not the case and, in addition, investing in the securities market is relatively new to many Muslims. They are comfortable with opening up new businesses, where success and failure is in their own hands, but turning over the reins to an investment manager is still a new concept. Our job as advisors is to educate people, to let them know that it's fine to finance a new business, but that investing additional funds into financial markets is not such a bad thing and provides a diversifier for overall investment."
The basis for that education, of course, is trust, and cultivating the trust of a Muslim client is paramount. Without that trust in place, then even the most knowledgeable financial advisor, one who knows all there is to know about Islamic finance and investing, cannot succeed, says Gareau.
"To be an advisor to this community, you need to educate yourself, walk the talk and be committed," he says, "because no one is interested in a flash-in-the-pan approach."


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Hi, friends. It's the weekend. Woo hoo! Finally some time to catch my breath. It's been a busy week. Let me catch you up in a hurry. Oh, and the photo at the top is a teaser. I'll tell you about it in a minute. Here's what I've been up to:
- I've just finished 10 days of level of one Jillian's notorious 30 day shred workouts. So far so good. I'm trying to shock my body a bit with some new tricks in my weekly routine, so I'm replacing 20 minutes of my usual cardio with 20 minutes of shredding. I'm still working out with my trainer, and I'm not shredding on those days. I haven't worked out without resting days in between in a long time, and I'm only planning to do it for a few weeks. I'm not out to create any overuse injuries, but I am trying to shake things up a bit. So far, I feel stronger and I have more energy. The workouts are tough, but I like a challenge. Have you shredded?? What did you think?
- I just finished the second week of participation in a stair climbing contest at work. One of my favorite co-workers organized us into teams of five, and, each week, we compete to be the team to log the most flights (only ascending flights count). Prizes are awarded weekly. Last week, my team won the contest with nearly 700 flights!! This week, I wasn't a very useful team member since I was out for training on Thursday and Friday, but I'm sure my team rocked it again this week anyway! They are awesome. Getting a little exercise throughout the day has given me a real boost. It has also made me realize how easy it is to park in front of the computer for hours at a time without moving. Honestly, I've also realized that it's pretty easy to get up and move around too. I hope I can keep it up when the contest is over.
- Last Sunday, I went to the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show here in D.C. I attended Tyler's Ultimate Food and Wine pairing, and had some very tasty nibbles.
Ok. So, Tyler wasn't a nibble, but he is rather tasty. Yes? We were also treated to a visit by another Food Network favorite…
Tyler has started making wine, and he was giving Paula a little sample of his wares. 😉 I had a great time at the show, and I sampled a ton of stuff at the expo too. I'm definitely going to try to go again next year!
Now that I've given you the quick catch up, I want to talk a bit about the title of this post "Je-diet Mind Tricks." Over the past few years, I've looked for ways to make my food more enjoyable without piling on lots of extra calories. I've learned a number of tricks. For example, I'd always heard that serving your food on a smaller plate or in a smaller bowl would make you think you were having more. I'm sure I'd read that in magazines in the past and dismissed it with an "Oh please!! I'm way too smart for that" kind of attitude. The thing is, it does work. I have lots of small bowls, and I use them often. I like eating smaller meals off of smaller plates, and I tend to eat ice cream out of tiny little heart shaped bowls I picked up at Crate & Barrel.
One fourth of a cup of ice cream really does look like a lot more when it fills up my small bowl than it would if it were sitting in a little blob in the middle of one of my big oat bran bowls. These bowls are also great for little nibbles of granola, trail mix, almonds and that sort of thing. I'm a fan!
Another trick I've learned comes into play in my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cakelettes. I could just call them muffins, but they are much sweeter and more like cake. Truth in advertising, right? 🙂 Have you ever made a lightened up recipe involving chocolate chips? Often, these just seem to involve using a smaller portion of the chips you might use in a regular recipe. That's not a bad strategy, but it can lead to a treasure hunt type scenario for the three little chips that might have made their way into your muffin. There is an easy solution to this, and I think it makes a huge difference with regard to the satisfaction factor– mini-chips!
Look inside this muffin. See all those brown specks?
Those are the mini-chocolate chips. There are several bits of chocolate in each bite, and a great deal of satisfaction. Employing another je-diet mind trick, I also used turbinado sugar in the topping because the crystals are bigger and add a nice crunch. I've made this with granulated sugar in the topping, and it doesn't maintain its character nearly as well. It certainly seems like a bigger treat when I see the sweet little crystals and feel them crunch in my teeth. Tricky? You bet!!
I started with a recipe I've used for a long time, and I gave it some pretty significant tweaks. I love remaking an old favorite. The cinnamon and chocolate combo gives it a slightly Viennese twist, and the pumpkin just tastes like fall. Here's the recipe:
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cakelettes
Dry Team:
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup whole wheat flour and 1/4 cup teff flour (or 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour)
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
Wet Team:
1/2 cup egg beaters (or two eggs, beaten)
8 ounces (1 3/4 cups) of canned pumpkin
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 Tbsp. canola oil
Team Chocolate:
1/2 cup semi-sweet mini-morsels
1 Tbsp. turbinado sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and coat a 12 unit muffin tin with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, whisk together the ingredients in the "dry team." Make a well in the center.
In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the ingredients in the "wet team." Pour the wet mixture into the well in the center of the dry mixture, and mix until the dry ingredients are moistened. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Divide the mixture evenly among the 12 muffin cups.
Mix the turbinado sugar and cinnamon together to form the topping, and sprinkle the mixture evenly over the top of the muffins.
Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until the muffins spring back when pressed lightly in the center. Remove the muffins from the pan and allow them to cool on a wire rack.
Based on my calculations, these come out just below 150 calories a piece. Not bad for a sweet treat in my opinion!
You could bake the batter in a 9×9 inch baking pan for 20-25 minutes if you would prefer to serve it like a cake. I kind of like the built in portion control I get by using a muffin pan, but I've made this as a cake many times. I'm also positive that cream cheese icing would be great on top if you were feeling more decadent or serving these to a festive crowd.
Do you have a favorite pumpkin recipe? Do you love pumpkin as much as I do? 🙂
Now, it's time for me to take my first run at doing level two of Jillian's shred. Wish me luck! I may need it!! Ciao for now, y'all!


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The comparative study of mysticism began in the mid-19th century, with the development of the modern meaning of the word, which had begun to be used as a substantive, with the classification of "mystics" in the 17th century. This differed from the traditional Greek Christian use of the adjective mystikos, to qualify rituals, scriptures, sacraments, and theology as "mystical" contexts of the human encounter with the Divine. This modern shift highlighted the personal experience of ultimate Reality, rather than the sociocultural context. Certain individuals claimed to encounter the Divine or spiritual realities more directly, separate from traditional mediums of religious experience. The study of this phenomenon tended in the early 20th century to focus on the psychology and the phenomenology of the personal experience, generally described as an altered state of consciousness with specific characteristics, processes, stages, effects, and stimulants. This emphasis on common features influenced the development of perennialist and traditionalist theorists, who saw evidence of the same experiential origin, fundamental principles, or epistemology among major world religions. Some essentialist views of mysticism argued that a pure consciousness-experience of undifferentiated unity or non-duality is the core feature of all mysticism, in contrast to other religious experiences. Reaction to these positions led to contextualist or constructivist views of mysticism, which presume the sociocultural character of mysticism. In its most extreme form, the contextualist perspective suggests that all mystical experiences among traditions are different, given diverse socio-religious categories that overdetermine the experience. In turn, some critical scholarship has proposed qualifications to contextualism within the context of a general acceptance of many of its tenets, even among many theorists with essentialist tendencies.
Up to the late 20th century, much scholarship in the area tended to downplay the sociocultural features of mysticism, emphasizing the psychological dynamics and an individual, disembodied, and radically transcendent ideal. This brought into question the relationship of morality to mystical experience and raised concerns about the status of entheogens—the use of psychoactive drugs in religious contexts. Interest in the comparative study of mysticism has also extended into the area of neuroscience, where researchers explore electro-chemical brain states associated with mystical experience, in proposing evidence of a mystical neurological substrate. But the essentialist/contextualist debate also moved the comparative study of mysticism beyond issues of epistemology, consciousness-states, ontology, and cognitive neuroscience, broadening the field to include other aspects of religious experience. Some studies have brought feminist concerns to bear on the discussion, insofar as women's mysticism has been overshadowed and even repressed by men, and was seen to preclude legitimate experiential possibilities of a more embodied character. Related scholarship in history and depth psychology has focused creatively on the nature and significance of erotic elements of mysticism in comparative studies, with special attention to associated physical phenomena and their transformative dynamics. Similarly, more embodied features of comparative mysticism are the subject of transpersonal psychology, which draws on many humanistic disciplines and supports participatory approaches to the field. Transpersonal psychology remains open to claims that the ego can be transcended in movements into higher states of being that ideally involve personal/spiritual enhancement and integration. Also, some more recent proponents of new comparative theology advocate methods that engage the scholar in specific beliefs or practices of another tradition, and include subsequent clarification and elaboration of one's own perspective in light of such comparative study, in exploring phenomena related to comparative mystical experience.
Keywords: mysticism and spirituality, comparative mysticism, numinous experience, nature mysticism, mystical essentialism, mystical contextualism, entheogens, morality and mysticism, mystical feminism, mysticism and the erotic
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Phenix Thermal Vacuum Chamber
What is it for?
Phenix is a newly-installed thermal vacuum test chamber which replaces the Test Centre's HBF-3 facility, now dismounted. It performs similar testing to the Large Space Simulator (LSS) but on a smaller scale and without a solar simulator lamp.
The purpose of Phenix is to expose payloads, mechanisms or complete small spacecraft to representative space conditions – a vacuum state combined with repeated cycling between high and low thermal extremes – in order to assess their likely flight performance.
Heat transfer occurs differently in vacuum because convection is no longer possible in the absence of air. Hot parts of a structure such as electronic boards will remain warmer, cold parts such as extremities facing deep space will keep cooler and the resulting thermal gradients will be steeper, potentially inducing thermal deformation and stress.
What kind of testing does it support?
The various elements of a satellite are designed to operate within set temperature parameters, governed by a thermal control subsystem, made of elements such as heat pipes, insulation blankets, heaters and radiators.
Thermal vacuum testing is the only way that a thermal control subsystem's performance and the consequent 'heat balance' of the satellite can be fully verified in advance of flight.
What are its features?
A system designed to enable synergistic testing based on the simultaneous combination of vacuum and thermal cycling, Phenix is made up of several different elements, all located within a class
Its vacuum chamber measures 11.8 m long and 4.5 m in diameter, with access gained through a 4.5 m diameter sliding door as well as a smaller 2.5 m side door for manned access.
The chamber's vacuum is achieved using multiple pumping systems: two oil-free pumps with a capacity of 400 cubic metres per hour are associated with two roots blowers with a capacity of 2500 cubic metres per hour. An additional magnetic bearing thermomechanical pump with a capability of 2300 litres per second for air and 2000 litres per second for helium is associated to a dry backing pump.
Additional cryopumps and cryopanels are then used to freeze any residual air out of the chamber – twin cryopumps with a pumping capability of
Test items are slid via a trolley system into a thermal tent within the vacuum chamber. Measuring 4.2 m long by 2.5 m wide and 3 m high, the thermal tent is made of copper plates with brazed copper pipes which use liquid and gaseous nitrogen to produce the range of temperatures desired, from +100ºC to less than –170ºC.
The thermal tent is controlled from a Thermal Control Unit (TCU) which is fed with gaseous and liquid nitrogen and electrical power. The tent can absorb a maximum 600 watts on each face, with each one being independently controlled to produce distinct temperature zones. If the thermal tent is filled with liquid nitrogen, it can absorb over 30 kilowatts.
Its slope rate – the rate of temperature change – can be as large as 15ºC per hour. The shroud's overall temperature uniformity is better than 10ºC in gaseous nitrogen mode and 5ºC in liquid nitrogen mode and has a long-term stability better than 0.5ºC. The system is controlled on a turn-key basis from a customised Human Machine Interface able to produce data archives and trend charts, linked in turn to a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) based on a Siemens S7-300 controller.
What benefits does it deliver?
With the Large Space Simulator optimised for thermal vacuum testing of the largest payloads, Phenix performs similar testing for smaller scale systems and complete satellites, broadening the variety of services that the ESTEC Test Centre is able to offer.
Thermal vacuum testing is crucially important for spacecraft because it represents the closest possible replication of space conditions capable of being reproduced on the terrestrial surface, with prolonged testing serving to identify otherwise unknown defects in materials, processes and designs.
For more information please contact
Gaetan Piret,
ESTEC Test Centre Manager:
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Dwight Howard's 18th technical was upheld yesterday, which means he won't have the pleasure of going 30/20 against the Bobcats on Sunday. (NOTE: Mostly because the Magic play the Bulls. I'm not a very smart man.) Honestly, as jovial as Howard is, you'd think he'd get away with more. He's forever grinning, right? He's happy? He's smiling. He's pissed? He's smiling while shaking his head. I got through three years of high school French smarting off and getting away with it because I was all go-lucky about everything. Oh, I'm just kidding about la bibliotheque. No offense. Please continue, guh-haw, guh-haw. Shucks. I'm not even sure one can be go-lucky without being happy, but I damn sure tried. And I damn sure had less at stake than Dwight does right now. Anyway, it looks like Ryan Anderson will take Howard's spot in the starting lineup, which could mean big things for a small percentage of fantasy owners who both own Anderson and are still in the hunt for more points. The
Bobcats Bulls are about as likely to stop an opponent as a moat is to stop a cannonball people who can't swim. Couple that confusing metaphor with the fact that Anderson (and Bass) are both going to see huge influxes in time, that game could be a huge boon for fantasy owners. Boon, baby! Boon!
Here's some more fantasy basketball news to take you into the final regular season weekend.
Quentin Richardson – Suspended two games for shoving Gerald Henderson's face. That's one game per hand, or one game per minute per game Q is averaging this season.
Jermaine O'Neal – Managed to stay in there for almost 17 minutes, and is averaging 16 mpg. That's better than I thought he'd be able to do. He's also averaging 5/2.5 in his last five. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and tehre you have … a disappointment.
Joakim Noah – 2/6/2 in 23 minutes. A bit off since returning from injury. Not as spry, not as energized. He's also officially an injury risk. I don't know how much of that August Adam will care about, but April Adam is, like, totally bummed about it.
Rodrigue Beaubois – Many moons ago, I said that right about now is when Rod Goodwood might start to heat up. It didn't happen on Wednesday with Jason Kidd on the bench. It might happen in these next four games as Carlisle plans to limit Jason Terry and Shawn Marion's minutes. I've cooled significantly on Hot Rod, but I can be re-heated.
Jose Calderon – Neither Joe Kettle nor Andrea Bargnani will play tonight, and while I think Bargninny plays one of Toronto's remaining three games, I'd be surprised if Calderon did. Jerryd Bayless, like Mary McCarthy junior year, totally has the green light to do whatever until the season is over, he's in his fourth year and too cool for all that third year nonsense.
Al Jefferson – Splashed his game with some weak sauce last night: 10 points, .400 from the floor.
Gordon Hayward – Foul trouble (4) begets fantasy line trouble (1-for-5, 10 pts, 36 mins). Begot it?
Devin Harris – Seven turnovers. As you were.
Weekend Rest – It should be a pretty damn big weekend for rest. Back in November, rest was logging in just a few minutes a game. Now, rest is taking over your entire fantasy roster. This weekend, look for Weekend Rest to overtake Stephen Jackson, Dwyane Wade, Josh Smith, Andrei Kirilenko, Jason Collins, Lou Williams, Kevin Love, Jason Terry, Shawn Marion and most of the starters for the Pacers and Raptors. It's doubtful Weekend Rest will sap everyone's minutes, but a huge decrease from those listed is likely as Weekend Rest has really heated up lately.


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Instead of giving into my urges to stay inside bundled up on the couch watching movies (it was a cold, damp day yesterday) I drove over to Green Hills to check out the much anticipated West Elm Nashville + Etsy: We Love Handmade Art event, which was curated and co-hosted by my friend Elise Yetton of Pennyweight. Elise has impeccable taste and it certainly showed through the work of the hand selected Tennessee Etsy sellers. I took a few photos of the items that caught my eye but check out all their shops for a little Sunday splurge.


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July 23rd, 1918
Dear sister Madaline:
At last I've found the opportunity to write you as military engagements have kept me busy continually not only days but sometimes nights. I surely did feel bad to think as each day would go bye that I did not write you. It is raining and our small tent is leaking and this kinder brings on more sorrow and discontent. Well dear sister we are still going through with our daily drill and other interesting work. The other interesting work is doing a few days in the trenches many miles away from the front line. Nevertheless the noise of the shells bursting far and near could be heard. Sleep was really out of the question. I have quite a few letters to write as I have received quite a few letters from folks and friends. I am going to write the daily star today which I think the censor will pass on.
Have you heard anything about the advancement the allies have made recently. Their are quite a few American troops around this section and you can't realize how happy I am to be an American. Our troops are the pride of the Allies and we are treated very well by both the Belgium and French people. I am now in Belgium their language is quite different from the French. They speak a very well English and think very well of us boys.
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Is it just me, but why does it seem that all the useful information about breast cancer never gets attention? I remember when I was first diagnosed reading an article in "Time" magazine that stated that somewhere between 60 to 80 percent of all newly diagnosed breast cancer is found in the upper outer quadrant of the breast. It seems like I'm always falling in the "average" group. I hate to be typical, but when I was diagnosed I once again fell in the middle of the average because my cancer was located in the upper outer quadrant.
When I took a breast exam class with my mother and grandmother several years ago, it would have been helpful if they told me to focus on that area. It would seem to me that if most breast cancers are in that area, then wouldn't it save lives, time, etc. if we took extra care there?
I feel extremely lucky because I happened to find my own lump. But even when I found it, I wasn't certain that it was worrisome and I didn't know about the probability of having cancer in that area.
There is one other funny statistic that I wanted to share: More people are diagnosed with breast cancer in spring than any other time of year. I wonder why? Do cancers grow more quickly in winter? Do people start to wear less clothing and so they notice changes in their breasts more frequently? Do women make doctors' appointments after the first of the year because they are busier at the end of the year? Do the tumors grow more quickly in spring like hair and nails? True to the norm, I was diagnosed April 9th.
I am not suggesting that we do breast exams and ignore the other three quarters of our breasts, but it might not hurt to pay a little extra attention to the "upper outer quadrant." And, if something feels suspicious, it would be extremely prudent to double check anything located in that area.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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The derailment last night of a high-speed Moscow-to-St. Petersburg train that killed more than 25 people apparently was a terrorist attack, Russian authorities say:
Russian officials opened a terrorism investigation Saturday, saying that a homemade bomb planted on the tracks of the high-speed Moscow-to-St. Petersburg route caused a derailment that killed at least 26 people and injured dozens more.
The head of Russia's Federal Security Service, Alexander Borotnikov, was quoted by the Interfax and RIA Novosti news as saying that an improvised explosive device equivalent to 15 pounds (7 kilograms) of TNT had detonated when the train passed over it Friday night. Remains of the device were found at the site of the crash, Borotnikov said.
Anything said by the Russian government should be taken with a grain of salt, but in this case the claim appears plausible, based on witness statements and what is known of the evidence at the scene:
The most obvious suspects are Chechan Muslims, but so far no claim of responsibility has been reported.


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Address normalization and invoice printing
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- US address normalization is free
- Invoice printing is $1/invoice -- includes printing, envelope, postage and mailing, perforated coupon and return envelope
Secure passwords
- Secure password restrictions have been re-tuned to provide useful security without being overly restrictive. If you have previously disabled secure passwords because they were too oo restrictive, please give them a try again.
- Generate and show tower/sector coverage maps (using Splat)
- Show usage from wireless broadband services in self-service
- Bandwidth.com integration
- Sipwise integration
- PortaOne integration
- Evarsite integration
- Update VSS integration for new CDR format
- Option to section invoices by account code
Fiber service
- Added fields for circuit ID and OLT site
- New fields for confidence percentage and expected close date
Installer scheduling
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- Indicator on the top bar for new activity on tickets
- Invoice details can be added when ordering a package
- Additional flexibility for automatic un-suspension
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- New condition to prevent events from running on weekends
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- Improved performance of "List Customers"
- Add advertising source to customer fields selection
- ISPConfig integration
- Use HTTPS to connect to the US Census site (fixes connection problems)
- Fix upgrades when passwords have history


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text: daveceaser 0 Posted June 5, 2011 Hey there. I just started playing the game with Dark Sun, and I loved it. I'd like to buy up the models of another organization (I'm used to GW, so only paying 100 - 150 for a full faction of incredibly nice models is still mind boggling). However, I noticed that a LOT of the models seem out of stock (at least 2 or 3 in each faction). I just want to make sure that these models will be in stock in the near future so that I can buy up any models I miss this time around. On a separate note, are there plans to release some of the other factions in the Anima setting? Such as Tol Rokko or the like? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Poor U.S. Hospitals Likeliest to Pay Readmission Fine
SAUSALITO, CA (ASRN.ORG) -- Large teaching hospitals and hospitals that primarily provide care to poor and uninsured patients are most likely to lose federal money under the U.S. government's plan to improve quality by tying payments to readmissions, according to new research.
"The concern has been raised that when these penalties did come out, they would unfairly target the hospitals that treat the poorest and most complex patients," said Dr. Karen Joynt, the study's lead author from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
As directed by 2010's Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - which oversees the federal health insurance programs for the elderly and poor - began tying hospital payments to the number of patients who returned for care within 30 days of their first discharge in October 2012.
If a hospital's readmission rate is higher than CMS's prediction, the agency is allowed to cut the hospital's payments by up to 1 percent of their total Medicare reimbursement. That will increase to 3 percent by 2015.
For 2013, CMS estimates hospitals will lose - on average - 0.3 percent of their funding, about $270 million overall.
The concern, according to Joynt, is that these penalties may have serious implications for poorer hospitals that may not be able to absorb the funding loss.
"Penalizing the ones that can't has the potential to do some real harm," she said.
For the new study, Joynt and her colleague used hospital readmission data from 2008 to 2011 and a survey of about half of the hospitals in the U.S. to compare differences between those that are expected to get the steepest penalties to those that may get the lowest or no penalties.
Overall, 2,189 of the 3,282 hospitals the researchers had data on will be penalized under the new program.
The researchers found that 44 percent of the 270 major teaching hospitals, which typically see patients with more complex medical problems, will see the largest penalties, compared to 33 percent of the 3,012 smaller or non-teaching hospitals.
They also found 44 percent of the 769 safety-net hospitals that mostly serve poor and uninsured patients will get a high penalty, compared to 30 percent of the 2,513 non-safety-net hospitals that serve wealthier and better insured patients.
The researchers write in The Journal of the American Medical Association that they can't say for certain why specific types of hospitals have higher readmission rates when they're compared to others.
But past research suggests higher readmissions may be tied to taking care of poorer patients and patients with more complex medical problems, they write.
"We want to create incentives but be aware some of these high rates are occurring in resource poor areas," said Dr. Harlan Krumholz, director of the Yale School of Medicine's Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation in New Haven, Connecticut.
Krumholz, who was not involved with the new study but whose team developed CMS's quality measures, said he'd prefer a system where no hospitals are penalized if they all improve their readmission rates.
Some, including Joynt, have also questioned whether readmission rates are a good measure of a hospital's quality.
Previous research found factors outside of a hospital's control, such as poverty and living situation, may be tied to a person's risk of being readmitted to a hospital.
"I'm not saying we shouldn't be working to improve those things, but I don't think it even passes the reasonability test that a hospital can possibly fill in all those holes," said Joynt.
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The modern view of representing a quantum observable as a semispectral measure as opposed to the traditional approach of using only spectral measures has added a great deal to our understanding of the mathematical structures and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. The old questions of 1) how to determine a quantum observable from its classical counter-part (if any), 2) how much statistical information is needed to determine an observable, 3) which observables can be measured together, and 4) are there noiseless measurements, all appear in a new perspective, calling for a study of problems such as: 1) how to obtain a semispectral measure by a quantization map, 2) do the moment operators of a semispectral measure determine the operator measure, 3) are coexistent observables jointly measurable, and 4) does minimal variance occur only in the case of a spectral measure? In my talk I will survey some of the recent developments concerning these questions and problems.


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Tough afternoon for Herd in heat
Michael Fisher extended his hit streak to 16 games, tying the season best for all Bisons, but the Herd dropped an afternoon affair at the Durham Bulls, 9-3, Wednesday.
Fisher tied Kirk Nieuwenhuis' 16-game streak with a single in the seventh. The mark also leads all active streaks in the International League.
After Fernando Martinez and Valentino Pascucci worked first-inning walks against Dirk Hayhurst, Botts gave the Herd an early lead with a single for his third RBI in two games.
Durham tied the game with a Jose Lobaton solo home run in the second, but in the next inning Valentino Pascucci reclaimed the lead with his own solo shot over the "Blue Monster" in left field. Pascucci leads all Bisons with 46 RBI on the season.
Bisons starter Mark Cohoon ran into more trouble in the third, when Brandon Guyer doubled with Desmond Jennings on third to tie the game and later scored on a Russ Canzler single.
Hayhurst exited the start after four innings, his shortest start of the season, allowing two runs on four hits with three walks, a hit batter and three strikeouts.
Cohoon left his start trailing 4-2 with two outs and two runners on base in the fifth. Mike O'Connor finished the fifth as part of two scoreless innings in relief. In total Cohoon allowed four runs (three earned) on 10 hits with two strikeouts and no walks.
Nick Evans backed up his four-hit game Tuesday with a 2-for-4 Wednesday including a double. Since returning to the Bisons June 16, Evans is 14-for-27.
Reigning IL MVP Dan Johnson provided some insurance for Durham with a three-run home run against Dale Thayer as part of a five-run ninth inning.
Game Notes: Martinez returned to the lineup as the designated hitter after sitting out since June 16, the first day of the road trip… Shortstop Luis Figueroa left the game with an injury in the fifth. Luis Hernandez moved from second base to short, Fisher from third to second and Zach Lutz entered the game at third… The Bisons look for a split of the series and the eight-game road trip Thursday night.


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I'll be making two appearances for Free Comic Book Day on May 7. First up is the Comic Depot in the Wilton Mall on Route 50 in Saratoga Springs, NY. I'll be signing from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Also on hand will be sculptor and artist Paul Harding, illustrator Richard Kane Ferguson and Strong Arm Labs. More info on Comic Depot here:
In the afternoon, I'll be signing from 2 to 4 p.m. at Excellent Adventures, 110 Milton Ave., Ballston Spa, NY. Paul Harding will be along as well, and so will artist Christian St. Pierre. More info on Excellent Adventures here:
Both stores will have a limited number of copies of the FCBD offering I wrote this year, which is Silver Scorpion from Liquid Comics. The concept for Silver Scorpion was jointly created by handicapped school children from the United States and Syria, as part of a project sponsored by the Open Hands Initiative. I wrote the script, and the incredible Mukesh Singh provided the art. I have to admit, it's pretty cool to have written a comic with a quote on the back by President Bill Clinton. A preview of Silver Scorpion can be seen here:
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Alamo letter doesn't begin to spell out the whole story of Travis
In Texas history, the Alamo commander is depicted as a sword-waving adventurer whose courage helped secure independence from Mexico.
But the full story of Lt. Col. William Barret Travis reveals a human, if not flawed, young officer who initially resisted command of the mission before leading an outnumbered force.
This week's return of Travis' famed "victory or death" letter for the first time since he wrote it in 1836 is historic on its own terms. It will be placed in the Alamo chapel Friday, for display Saturday through March 7.
The letter's 26-year-old author, whose stirring prose aided the war for Texas independence, was a puzzling study in contrast. Detractors have called Travis a slave owner, womanizer and untested officer who failed to adequately prepare for an attack led by Mexican Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Filmmaker Gary Foreman, under contract with the Texas General Land Office to shoot a documentary on the exhibit, said his biggest challenge is that Travis' legacy has been eclipsed by two older Alamo defenders: knife fighter and land speculator Jim Bowie, 39, and 49-year-old frontiersman and former Congressman Davy Crockett.
There's even obscurity about Travis' death on March 6, 1836.
In "Sacrificed at the Alamo" (2004), historian Bruce Winders wrote that Travis, awakened from his sleep, ran to the north wall and fired, "but reeled back mortally wounded when a musket ball struck him in the forehead."
Phillip Thomas Tucker's more controversial 2010 account, "Exodus from the Alamo," cited early reports that Travis, possibly wounded and not wanting to be tortured as a propaganda tool for Santa Anna, may have shot himself.
"Capture, torture and death were now all but inevitable for Travis, and he knew it, if taken alive," wrote Tucker, whose book is sold at the Alamo gift shop.
"Needed to grow up"
What is certain is that the letter Travis wrote to "the people of Texas and all Americans in the world" contains his most enduring legacy. In its 164 words, the former newspaperman declared, "I shall never surrender or retreat."
"Then, I call on you in the name of liberty, of patriotism and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch."
The letter was delivered to East Texas, and reprinted.
"If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due his own honor and that of his country," he wrote, closing with "Victory or Death" underlined three times.
William Groneman III, who has written eight books on the Alamo, said Travis' words remain powerful and authentic.
"I think he was a sincere, dedicated soldier. He may have been in a little bit over his head with all of this responsibility," Groneman said.
Less than a month before he penned the letter, Travis lamented being sent to the Alamo "with so little means, so few men, and with them badly equipped," as he wrote in an appeal to Henry Smith, provisional governor. He arrived in San Antonio on Feb. 3, 1836, and took command Feb. 11.
But Alamo volunteers who made up most of the garrison elected Bowie as their leader. Bowie and Travis agreed to share the command before Bowie fell ill Feb. 24 — the day Travis wrote his "victory or death" letter.
In "Three Roads to the Alamo" (1998), author William C. Davis detailed the lives of Travis, Bowie and Crockett. Travis, a South Carolina native, relished fine clothes and gambling, but did not make enough as a lawyer and newspaper editor in Alabama to support a family and several slaves.
At 21, he was called into court and humiliated by a debt judgment against him. Seeking a fresh start in Texas, he promised to return to his family or send for them once he had cleared his debts.
"Travis needed to grow up. That being the case, what lay ahead was just what he most needed" Davis recounted.
About 5 feet 9 inches and 175 pounds, with blue eyes and light brown hair, Travis found another love in Texas and may have visited prostitutes, according to an 1833-34 diary he kept in Spanish. Davis concluded that translated diary excerpts suggesting Travis might have had a venereal disease were too vague to accept as fact. His book described Travis as irascible at times, but often charitable, and kind to children.
Groneman has seen photo images of the diary, and he questions its authenticity.
"When you get to the pages with the off-color statements, the handwriting changes," he said.
Last moments alive
Travis, one of many newcomers seeking land and fortune in Texas, became a member of the war party, even as some wanted to remain a part of Mexico.
Santa Anna opposed slavery, which some Texians saw as a crucial source of labor. The Texas rebels also cited interference with their right to bear arms, religious oppression and unjust imprisonment of citizens, among grievances against the regime.
According to legend, Travis, upon learning reinforcements were not coming to the Alamo from Goliad, drew a line on the ground with his saber, asking his men to cross if they intended to stay and fight.
Some historians now question that story, which was based largely on a third-hand account that emerged more than 35 years later.
"My opinion is that it never happened. It was a myth," Groneman said.
At least 189 Texans, including several Tejanos, died in the March 6 assault or were executed. Some 300 to 500 Mexican troops are said to have been killed or wounded. About 20 noncombatant women, children and slaves at the Alamo survived.
The attack on the Alamo and mass execution three weeks later of at least 342 Texans in Goliad angered Americans. The Travis letter fueled support for the Texans, who won independence the next month.
Foreman, standing in Alamo Plaza, often retraces the last moments of Travis' life, from the minute he awoke and emerged from his quarters, about where Ripley's Haunted Adventure now operates, then ran to the north wall, where the Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building stands. That's where Travis is said to have been hit by a musket ball.
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Aside from design, what separates pocket minicamcorders like the Flip from camcorders like the Samsung SMX-F34 is not video quality, but optical zoom and storage capacity. The F34 features 16GB of internal memory as well as an SDHC card slot for storage expansion. It also has a 34x zoom lens and a feature set that includes manual shooting controls, which you definitely won't find on ultracompact YouTube camcorders. Unfortunately, the video quality really isn't any different; the F34 delivers pretty standard, standard-definition video.
|Key specs
|Samsung SMX-F34
|Price (MSRP)
|Dimensions (WHD)
|2.4 x 2.4 x 4.9 inches
|Weight (with battery and media)
|11.2 ounces
|Storage capacity, type
|16GB; flash
|Resolution, sensor size, type
|680K pixels (460K effective), 1/6-inch CCD
|LCD size, resolution
|2.7-inch LCD, 112K dots
|Lens (zoom, aperture, focal length)
|34x, f1.6-4.3, 2.3-96.6mm
|Minimum illumination
|3 lux
|File format (video, audio)
|H.264 (.MP4) /AAC (stereo)
|Resolution (video/photo)
|720x480/ 800x600
|Recording time at highest quality
|380 minutes
|Image stabilization type
|Battery type, rated life
|Lithium ion rechargeable, 180 minutes (continuous)
The soda-can shape of the F34 is very comfortable to use, and since the hand strap is mounted across the middle, there's little body roll should you release your grip. Plus, it has Samsung's swivel-grip feature allowing you to quickly change from underhand to overhand shooting without removing your hand from the strap. The body, which is available in black, silver, blue, and red versions, is almost entirely plastic, but doesn't feel cheap.
Controls on top include an ultrasensitive zoom rocker, followed behind by a shutter release for capturing stills (though not while movies are being recorded), and a Mode button; Movies, Photos, and Playback are the options. Following the curve down the body's back is a door concealing a 3.5mm AV jack, a miniUSB port, and a DC input for power. To the right of the jack cover is a large record button and below it a spring-loaded power button. The camcorder's battery compartment and SDHC card slot are behind a sliding door on the bottom.
Flipping open the LCD reveals three more buttons in the screen cavity: iCheck, LCD Enhancer, and Easy Q. With the power off, the iCheck button gives you an onscreen readout of remaining battery life and storage; with the power on it toggles on and off information on the display. The LCD Enhancer improves contrast and brightness of the display for better visibility. Lastly, pressing the Easy Q puts you into a fully automatic, you'll-get-no-settings-and-like-it mode. Holding it for about 3 seconds, however, brings up a list of scene modes.
The LCD itself is fairly low resolution, but is fine for the capabilities of the F34. To the left of the screen is a Menu button, a four-way directional pad and a select button, and a record button. Since the zoom can be controlled with the pad, it and the record button give you a second set of controls. The pad is small and flat, so bigger fingers may have trouble accurately pressing different directions.
The Menu system is straightforward enough, so learning to control everything takes no time at all. Selections are, for the most part, in a horizontal scroll bar letting you easily turn features on and off; only the system settings menu has an extended vertical set of options.
|Samsung SMX-F34
|None/miniUSB, composite
|White balance
|Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Tungsten, Custom
|Scene modes
|Auto, Easy Q, Sports, Portrait, Spotlight, Beach, Snow, High Speed, Food, Waterfall, Manual
|Auto, Manual, Face Detection
|Color effects
|Standard, Black & White, Sepia, Negative, Art, Emboss, Mosaic, Mirror, Pastel, Cosmetic, Stepprinting
|Lens cover (auto or manual)
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Search History: Google and Germany, Part 1
Jul 12, 2011 5:00 AM PT
From the clothing ads that dance around in epileptic flashes to the constant requests for your credit card number, email service from the German website GMX.net has some shortcomings. You can get 1 GB of memory, but you'll need a credit card for anything more -- a 5 GB allowance runs about US$4.50 per month, and for 10 GB, you pay about $7.50 per month.
That may seem steep, but it'd be even pricier if not for the enormous dating-site banners seducing clicks between visits to the in-box. In its defense, GMX.net does have a customer service line. And it only costs about $2.60 per minute.
If this doesn't sounds appealing, then there is always Google's email service, Gmail. It is entirely free and offers more than 7 GB of memory. That number is ever-swelling; you can track its perpetual ascension at Gmail.com as it ticks up and up toward infinity -- think U.S. national debt clock for email storage. And if more memory is a must, 20 GB can be had for $5.00 -- a year.
Gmail can make dirt-cheap telephone calls (calls to the U.S. and Canada are free), and video chats are an option as well. You can send instant messages to multiple people; you can save and edit documents in Google Docs; you can embed YouTube videos within emails. Oh, and the eDarling dating ads that litter GMX are mercifully blocked from Gmail.
Basically, Google's email trumps GMX's email in just about every conceivable way -- storage, design, price, features. You name it, and GMX looks perfectly 1998. It hasn't caught up -- at least not with Google.
And that may be exactly why Dominik Pflaume is a devout GMX.net user.
Frankly Paranoid
Pflaume isn't deluded -- he knows Gmail is the superior product. To wit, Pflaume, from the German city of Borken, recently opened a Gmail account for a school assignment (he's getting a master's degree in journalism).
He realized that collaborating with peers, editing drafts and keeping information in order would be easier with Gmail, so he caved in the name of grades: The most important assignment of the year, he figured, deserved something better than GMX.net.
Still, dust started collecting on his Gmail address the moment the assignment was done. And that's the way Pflaume wants it.
"You never know what Google is going to do with your information -- you don't have any influence on that," Pflaume, 24, told TechNewsWorld. "They could easily change the contract you agree to by using their services. And the state that regulates it always has to react to whatever the companies do. You have no protection against the use and misuse of your data."
Pflaume admitted that he sounded paranoid (his word). But reticence about Google isn't particular to him. It's part of German culture, a manifestation of the contentious, litigious relationship Google, one of the world's most advanced companies, has with Germany, one of the world's most advanced nations.
The innovations that Google rolls out at a dizzying clip -- Street View, Google Analytics, Gmail, Google Maps, and so on -- have for years run into layer upon layer of resistance and skepticism in Germany. Indeed, Germany and Google have a long way to go. Why else would people still be using GMX.net?
Census Riots
In the 1980s, before East Germany and West Germany reunified, West Germany conducted a nationwide census, the Bundeszensus. The questions on the census were innocent enough -- what kind of energy do you use, how big is your apartment, where do you live, and so on. But people didn't take kindly to the idea of data collection, even of the mundane variety, according to Uwe Hasebrink, a professor of communication studies at the University of Hamburg.
"The number of people who rejected the census -- and it was compulsory at the time, everyone got the questionnaire -- the number of people who said, 'No, I'm not ready to answer this,' who got fined, was incredible," Hasebrink told TechNewsWorld. "And you might think, 'What the hell is so important about filling out a questionnaire?' But there were major demonstrations and a major degree of civil unrest."
This may seem a little paranoid, to borrow from Pflaume. But there were reasons for the country's sensitivity to the census. The wounds of World War II were still wide open in the 1980s; not long before, countless Germans had been both the victims and perpetrators of sinister data-collecting activities.
Along with those whose lives were marred by the snooping of the Third Reich's Gestapo, there were many a family with Gestapo connections of their own, connections that people would just as soon leave buried in the past.
In addition, West Germany went through its own version of McCarthyism: Generated by fear of the rise of communist East Germany, paranoia-fueled background checks pervaded the public sector.
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In lieu of a "Best of" we've decided to pull together projects, events and developments within the field of art and technology that we felt were noteworthy. Like all year-end reviews, it would be impossible for this list to be entirely exhaustive, however we do hope that it is, at the very least, indicative of some of the most compelling directions and ideas in circulation over the past 12 months. Rhizome staff John Michael Boling and Ceci Moss assembled this list, with input from Caitlin Jones.
I (Ceci) viewed this screening at Deitch, but the same program was also organized at the Mattress Factory as part of the exhibition PREDRIVE: After Technology. While curated by Murata independently of the PREDRIVE show, the program serendipitously hits on some of the same themes. It featured new work by Yoshi Sodeoka, Ben Jones, Devin Flynn, Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker, Eric Fensler, Ara Peterson and Dave Fischer, Melissa Brown and Siebren Versteeg, Billy Grant and Takeshi Murata. The videos were followed by live performances by Nate Boyce and Robert Beatty. Murata also screened a number of films on 16mm by experimental animator Adam Beckett, whose work has had little public exposure.
See "From Bell Labs to Best Buy: Takeshi Murata and Jacob Ciocci in Conversation with PREDRIVE: After Technology Curator Melissa Ragona" on Rhizome
Morales brings together a diverse selection of bootleg art videos, vintage commercials, and other video oddities all culled from his extensive VHS and Laserdisc collection. After watching his uploaded videos, be sure to check out his YouTube favorites on each account.
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MANHATTAN — Spring Street senior James Woods usually wakes up near dawn six days a week to swim 40 laps at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center on Clarkson Street.
But since Hurricane Sandy struck, his 7 a.m. routine and those of hundreds of other rec center members has been disrupted.
The city Parks Department-run fitness center at 1 Clarkson St. has been closed because of water damage since the monster storm hit on Oct. 29, and five weeks later there's still no expected reopening date.
Flooding damaged the boiler at the center, cutting off the heat and hot water, a Parks Department spokesman said Wednesday.
"We are working on the repairs but do not have a timeframe yet as to when the center will reopen," he said in a statement.
Woods, a 66-year-old computer technician, said Thursday that the closure of Dapolito — which has indoor and outdoor pools, exercise machines and ping-pong tables — has limited his exercise schedule to two or three times per week. In the meantime, he has been walking from his SoHo home to the Chelsea Recreation Center on West 25th Street between Ninth and 10th avenues.
The gym closure has affected the fitness regimens of lots of older Dapolito members, he said.
"A lot of seniors, this is what they do," he said. "This kind of shuts us down."
The Parks Department is reminding members at Dapolito and the Asser Levy Recreation Center in Kips Bay, which was also damaged by the storm, that they can use any facility in the five boroughs. The center's low membership fees run anywhere from $150 per year for access to all the centers, to just $25 per year for seniors.
To accommodate members whose local centers are closed, the Parks Department has added Sunday hours at the Chelsea center and Recreation Center 54, located on East 54th Street in Sutton Place, through December. Those locations are now open Sunday from 9:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Workers at the Chelsea location said Thursday they have seen an uptick in foot traffic since the storm, but that there have been enough pool lanes and ping-pong tables to go around.


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