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Cassini plunge: Can you fly through a gas giant?(Artist's impression of Cassini near Saturn. Credit: Nasa)
On Wednesday, the Cassini space probe began its planned but fateful descent towards Saturn, a plunge at a speed of more than 110,000km/h (70,000mph) from which it will never return. But given that planet Saturn is just a giant ball of gas, what will happen to the truck-sized craft?
The intrepid craft – a joint project of Nasa, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency - will make a total of 22 dives through the 2,000 km gap between the gas giant and its ring system, before descending into its atmosphere in mid-September. Each of the manoeuvres will take the probe high above and far below Saturn. The first pass through the system was successful, and the hope is that Cassini will survive all other fly-bys near the rock and ice particles making up the rings, and beam back to Earth images of Saturn that are really up close and personal, and provide valuable science data.
"There is a very good probability that Cassini will survive its passage between Saturn and its rings," says Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. "Imaging data collected by Cassini and our best models, verified with Cassini's plasma instrument data, indicate that this region is very clear of icy particles."
The major risk of getting hit by dust and particles is when the spacecraft flies through the ring plane – the equatorial plane of Saturn where bigger particles could be," says Sean Hsu, planetary scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
On its way down, the craft will get to 'taste' some of the planet's atmosphere during the last few orbits before it goes too deep. The crafts' operators have made sure that Cassini will not go too deep until the end of the mission, and not too far away to touch Saturn's innermost D-ring, to prevent or minimise impacts – because even a single particle the size of a sand corn could fatally damage it.
(Credit: Nasa)To shield the craft, its controllers at Nasa opened Cassini's dish-shaped high-gain antenna, which measures 4m across in the direction of travel and used it as "the best – and probably the only – shield Cassini has," says Hsu. It's impossible to know whether the probe survives. "But this is the beauty of the planning – Cassini is running out of fuel, so it is time to do some rather risky moves – to explore the region that hasn't be visited before," he adds.
One of the aims during these final five months of the probe's life is to determine the mass of the rings, made out of nearly pure water-ice, from which researchers can determine their age. To do so, scientists will be studying how Cassini's speed changes as it flies through Saturn's gravity field.
But what actually happens to a spacecraft when it approaches a gas planet? Won't it just fall straight through?
Saturn is called a 'gas giant' because it is made mostly of hydrogen and helium, says Elizabeth Bailey, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "But the pressure and temperature deep in gas giant planets are immensely greater than what we encounter in everyday life on Earth."
On Saturn, just like on Earth, the atmosphere gets denser the lower the altitude. But given the size of the planet, it means that deep inside Saturn, hydrogen and helium are nothing like the light, airy gases we are familiar with. Instead, they take the form of "a dense fluid, and it's very hot," says Bailey.
Because of the huge speed difference between the spacecraft and Saturn – probably about 30 km/s - Cassini will heat up and eventually get ablated, "because of the friction between the spacecraft and the gas molecules in the atmosphere of Saturn, given that you go deep enough," says Hsu. Simply put, he adds, Cassini will end up "as a splendid meteor show and essentially become part of Saturn's atmosphere".
Even if Cassini doesn't break up into pieces and melt along the way due to friction and heating by the atmosphere (similar to a meteorite here on Earth), "it would soon encounter atmosphere thicker than mushy peas and the increasing pressure would eventually crush it," explains Edgington.
It feels like a sad end, says Bailey, but "it would be bad practice to let it age until it loses all function. For example, it would be unfortunate if it crashed into one of Saturn's pristine moons."
So what has the little spacecraft done for humanity? "The Cassini discoveries have significantly altered our view on the solar system bodies, and changed the direction of planetary science," says Hsu. Let's have a look.1. TITAN
(Credit: Nasa)When Cassini first arrived at the outskirts of Saturn on 25 December 2004, it had a passenger: Huygens lander. The two parted ways in January 2005, and Huygens landed on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons. Huygens' descent took two hours and 27 minutes, and the images it sent back revealed the moon to be very similar to Earth before life evolved. There is liquid on Titan, with lakes and clouds, but it's not water – the gas giant's companion is covered in hydrocarbons, like methane and ethane.
"Before this mission, nobody knew what would be found beneath the hazy atmosphere of Titan," says Bailey. "People were making bets about what the Huygens lander would find. And the result was as fascinating as could be."
Over the years, Cassini visited Titan a few more times. Thanks to its fly-bys, researchers could determine the wild mix of molecules in the moon's complex atmosphere. Close to the surface, methane, ethane, and other organics condense and rain down – and, say researchers, it's possible that other prebiotic chemistry can take place at the surface as well. Cassini also spotted the presence of a subsurface ocean on the moon, probably as salty as our Dead Sea.2. UNPRECEDENTED CLOSE-UPS OF JUPITER
During its multiple fly-bys of Jupiter (before travelling on to Saturn), Cassini took spectacular pictures of the gas giant – the most detailed colour photos of it ever recorded.
"Everything visible on the planet is a cloud," Nasa writes in a blog post. "The parallel reddish-brown and white bands, the white ovals, and the large Great Red Spot persist over many years despite the intense turbulence visible in the atmosphere. These clouds grow and disappear over a few days and generate lightning. Streaks form as clouds are sheared apart by Jupiter's intense jet streams that run parallel to the colored bands. The prominent dark band in the northern half of the planet is the location of Jupiter's fastest jet stream, with eastward winds of 480 kilometers (300 miles) per hour. Jupiter's diameter is eleven times that of Earth, so the smallest storms on this mosaic are comparable in size to the largest hurricanes on Earth.
Unlike Earth, where only water condenses to form clouds, Jupiter's clouds are made of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and water. The updrafts and downdrafts bring different mixtures of these substances up from below, leading to clouds at different heights. The brown and orange colors may be due to trace chemicals dredged up from deeper levels of the atmosphere, or they may be byproducts of chemical reactions driven by ultraviolet light from the Sun. Bluish areas, such as the small features just north and south of the equator, are areas of reduced cloud cover, where one can see deeper."3. SATURN'S HURRICANE
In 2010, Cassini witnessed a violent storm on Saturn. It usually occurs every 30 years, but this time it started a decade early, which gave Cassini unexpectedly a premier seat. The storm lasted several months and engulfed the whole planet, before finally subsiding when its head collided with its tail. During the storm, Cassini recorded Saturn's temperatures soaring to values never before measured on any planet, and detected totally new molecules in the gas giant's upper atmosphere.4. ENCELADUS AND LIFE
(Credit: Nasa)When flying by Saturn's moon Enceladus, Cassini discovered tidally driven plumes of water erupting through the icy surface of its oceans. In other words, this moon could potentially harbour life. "We still don't understand how a tiny object like Enceladus can still be active," says Hsu. "Small bodies should lose their initial heat from the accretion phase and the radiogenic output is way lower than the energy required for the observed activities."
More recently, Cassini also found that Enceladus might have a water ocean beneath its icy outer shell and conditions favourable for microbes, making this little moon an ever more exciting place to visit in the future. "I consider Cassini's discovery of Enceladus' global liquid water ocean with both hydrothermal activity and basic life providing molecules as one of Cassini's most important discoveries," says Edgington. "The discovery of Titan's global ocean and atmosphere teeming with prebiotic molecules is a very close second."5. YING-YANG OF IAPETUS
Yet another one of Saturn's many companions, Iapetus, is the planet's third-largest moon. It's different from others though: it two-faced surface puzzled researchers for over 300 years. Cassini found that the effect is due to the reddish dust in the moon's orbital path that falls on Iapetus' face. The dust makes some areas darker – and they then absorb energy and become warmer, while those without the dust stay cooler.6. SATURN'S RINGS
Cassini took images of Saturn's rings – A LOT of images. Over the years, the pictures have helped scientists monitor changes in the gas planet's dynamic ring system. The probe spotted propeller-like formations and saw what could have been the possible birth of a new moon.
Once every 15 or so years, the edge of Saturn's ring plane gets illuminated by sunlight, while northern and southern sides of the rings get very little of it. When it happened, the probe measured the long shadows that were produced, and scientists were able to calculate the heights of structures within the rings.7. SATURN'S UNKNOWN MOONS
(Credit: Nasa)We knew Saturn had many moons – but we didn't know that there were THAT many of them. Cassini found seven previously unknown satellites, including Methone, Pallene, Polydeuces, Daphnis, Anthe and Aegaeon. The seventh moon, discovered in 2009, is currently named S/2009 S 1 and is only 984 feet in diameter. Around 150 moons and moonlets have been detected in total. Only 62 have confirmed orbits though, and only 53 have been given official names.
There's much more, of course. As JPL puts it on their website, "Cassini is, in a sense, a time machine. It has given us a portal to see the physical processes that likely shaped the development of our solar system, as well as planetary systems around other stars".


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I'm saying Yes to Carrots, Tomatoes & Cucumbers!
If you weren't big on saying "yes" to veggies as a kid, you can surely try to make up for all of those years by incorporating vitamin-packed fruits and veggies into your skincare regimen. You know when you're feeling sluggish, how a healthy bowl of fruit or salad can give you that boost that your body's been craving? Well, our skin craves all of those nutritious goodies as well. Yes To Carrots is an amazing line of food-based skincare that is vegan, cruelty-free, paraben free, organic, and affordable. That's right, I said affordable. You can find these products at your local drugstore.
*Sunny's picks:
Yes To Carrots – This line is great for people with normal to dry skin. These products are packed with the antioxidant power of beta-carotene.
*Feel the C Pampering Hand and Nail Spa: This is by far, one of the best hand scrubs I have ever tried. It's made with dead sea salt, carrot juice, carrot seed oil, fig, pomegranate, sweet potato, pumpkin juice… hungry yet? This scrub will make your hands feel soooooo incredibly smooth. And if you're like me, you will be obsessively caressing your hands all day long. Follow this up with Yes To Carrots Hand & Elbow Moisturizing Cream and you're golden.
Yes To Carrots has a line of skincare for those with oily to combination skin called Yes To Tomatoes.
*Totally Tranquil Facial Hydrating Lotion: This Facial Lotion makes my face feel fresh and soft. I have the notorious T Zone oil action goin' on so after washing my face, I always make sure my facial moisturizer isn't oily or heavy. When I use this lotion on my face (after washing and toning), my skin feels nourished but not weighed down. This lotion contains 26 Minerals from the Dead Sea, tomatoes, rosemary, red pepper (the last two ingredients are powerful anti-oxidants), and a slew of other yummy ingredients.
Yes To Cucumbers is another line of products by Yes To Carrots. These work best for those with normal to sensitive skin.
*Eye Love Cucumber Soothing Eye Gel: I love this eye gel! Love it!!! There's no more need to slice cucumbers in the name of beauty. Who has time for that anyway? I prefer using this awesome cucumber eye gel which not only contains cucumber but is also made with spirulina (*personal note* I named one of my kitty cats Spirulina), green tea, chamomile, dead sea minerals, spinach, dill, and broccoli. That's a lot of green goodness! I'm a huge fan of food ingredients in my skincare. Nutrition for your skin can only come from the most wholesome gifts from the earth. This eye gel soothes and tightens the delicate skin under your eyes, helps reduce puffiness and dark circles. This gel is incredibly refreshing, light and cool.
All of these lines are available at Walgreens, Target, Safeway, and amazon.com. For a complete list of stores, visit the Yes To Carrots website.
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Thanks for this lovely tips. My sister had dark circles under her eyes. She used many things, but nothing was working. One day my roommate suggested to use Posh Naturals Cucumber Eye Cream, it seems it's nice. I told same to my sister, she used Posh Naturals Cucumber Eye Cream and it's actually worked. Thanks to Posh Naturals Skincare.
Most is still vegan, these are the exceptions as listed by the company
All of our products are vegan with the few exceptions. The only animal-produced or derived products in the Yes To lines are beeswax, honey and silk amino acids. These ingredients are derived naturally. Products in the Yes To line which contain one of these items include:
YTC Daily Softening Hand & Elbow Cream: Beeswax
YTCb Nourishing Baby Lotion: Beeswax
YTCb Soothing Diaper Cream: Beeswax
YTCu Natural Sunscreen SPF 30 Stick: Beeswax
YTB Line Reducing Lip Treatment: Beeswax
YTB Eye Firming Treatment: Beeswax
YTB Smoothing Daily Cleanser (old & new): Beeswax
YTB Rejuvenating Body Lotion: Beeswax
YTG Dark Circle Correcting Eye Cream: Beeswax
YTG Dark Spot Correcting Body Crème: Beeswax
ALL Lip Balms/Butters/Glosses: Beeswax
YTC Leave in Conditioner: Honey
YTC Dry Scalp Shampoo: Silk Amino Acids
YTC Dry Scalp Conditioner: Silk Amino Acids
YTG correct & repair Body Crème: Beeswax
YTG Correct & repair Eye Cream: Beeswax
YTCu SPF 30 Sun Stick: Beeswax"
Yes To Carrots is NOT vegan.
Most of their products contain honey.
Maybe in 2009 they were vegan, but they are not any more.
Please update this post.


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CHICO — A 19-year-old Rocklin man was stabbed early Saturday during a fight.
Chico police responded to a report of a fight and possible stabbing at about 12:30 a.m. on the 900 block of West Fifth Street, according to a press release from the Chico Police Department. Officers were unable to locate the man who had been stabbed.
About 45 minutes later, the man was found in the area.
He told police he had been in a fight, but was unaware of the knife injury at first, according to the release. He was taken to Enloe Medical Center in fair condition.


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'Exceedingly charming' is how Martin Luther described the Bavarian town of Coburg, and today's visitors can see exactly what he meant. An old quarter full of lanes, towers and churches, and not one but four castles, make this a unique combination of art, history and culture.
Martin Luther hid at Coburg Fortress for six months after being outlawed by the Emperor, whilst his most steadfast supporter Philipp Melanchthon presented the famous Augsburg Confession (the Lutheran statement of faith) to the Imperial Diet.
Today the castle high above the town is one of Germany's largest and best preserved medieval fortresses. Luther's living quarters, authentically furnished, and the chapel where he prayed serve as reminders of his exile. One highlight is the lifesize portrait of Luther, which was painted by Lucas Cranach the Younger in 1575.
Today the path from the medieval fortress leads through the baroque palace gardens, from where there are beautiful views of the town's Ehrenburg Palace from many angles. In stark contrast to Luther's Protestant frugality, here the rooms and the magnificent hall of giants with its 28 Atlas figures reflect all the lavish extravagance of baroque taste and design. Many royals have stayed here, from the first king of Belgium to Queen Victoria.
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For those of you who follow me on IG, you might remember this or this when I had made a series of paper geo shapes for the String shelf in our bedroom including a paper diamond. I've had this idea churning in my head and decided to give it a try this past weekend.
I used some vellum paper & this template + instructions to make the diamond shape. Then I sprayed the diamond with silver spray paint, mostly on one side to leave the other still sort of opaque. Finally I cut a cross shaped slit at the top and put them over the lights. When the lights are on the diamonds glow since the paper is slightly sheer.
Let me know if you give this a try!
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I´m so impressed by all your amazing DIY´s... I love this!ReplyDelete
Thank you for your never ending inspiring ideas, Jennifer. You rock! :)
What a project and what a great job! It looks so stunning! Just have to do this! Thank you so much ofr sharing your creativity! Have a beautiful day :-)ReplyDelete
Hi sweet Jennifer. I have made some of these diamonds, and it is quite some job! You have done five (or more) of them! :) Love the idea putting light in them. Now the diamonds really have some purpose.ReplyDelete
(I have been cutting and cutting the parts of the paper-globe that you also have. I saw it on your blog some time ago, and I didnt know that it was a tutorial to it. Yesterday i found it, and that made me so happy! I will take some pictures of it today, and maybe make a blogpost about it. I will credit both you for the inspiration, and the maker of the tutorial, on my blog.)
Have a fine day, Jennifer!
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wow, so nice looking!ReplyDelete
Indeed I have seen it on instagram. Very nice! What a work to make.ReplyDelete
Have a lovely day.
So pretty! I'd love to make a multicoloured set.ReplyDelete
How did you know that I can't resist diamonds! Now these are a girl's best friend ; )ReplyDelete
oh gosh this is brilliant. thanks so much for sharing! I will be sure to share if I find the time to try this. xoReplyDelete
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sweet idea! looks really good in silver...ReplyDelete
this looks great but i'm afraid i am not thát handy :-)ReplyDelete
Absolutely love them. You must hav a lot of patience folding all these diamonds! :)ReplyDelete
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DAVIS, Calif. — You might not know John Pike by name, but you'd likely recognize him from the video that made him famous — or more accurately, infamous.
Now widely known as the "pepper spray cop," thanks to the viral video that earned him his notoriety, the former UC Davis police officer was filmed casually firing off pepper spray at close range into the faces of seated protesters during a November 18, 2011, Occupy rally on the northern California school's campus.
Pike lost his job over the incident, but he's now being awarded more than $38,000 as a result of it.
An administrative law judge ruled last week that the University of California must pay Pike $38,055.79 in workers' compensation for the depression and anxiety he suffered as a result of the video's popularity.
The 40-year-old was ridiculed on websites around the world and became the unwilling star of the "Pepper Spray Cop" meme, which included countless Photoshopped images of a helmeted Pike nonchalantly pepper-spraying everything from the United States Constitution to Paul McCartney crossing Abbey Road.
In his filing seeking workers' compensation, Pike said he had even received death threats. A psychiatrist who evaluated him as part of the case rated Pike's disability as "moderate," adding that the former police officer was dealing with "continuing and significant internal and external stress with respect to resolving and solving the significant emotional upheavals that have occurred," according to the Davis Enterprise.
UC Davis spokesman Andy Fell said the case was "resolved in accordance with state law and processes on worker's compensation.
"The final resolution is in line with permanent impairment as calculated by the State's Disability Evaluation Unit," he added in a statement e-mailed to HLN.
Pike's compensation is about $8,000 more than the amount received by the protesters he sprayed. Twenty-one plaintiffs won $30,000 each as part of a civil lawsuit brought against the University of California, which was settled last year.
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�Why do so many people think the South is so bad?� one of my international students asked me this winter on the first day of a class I taught about Southern history and culture. �I think it�s pretty great here.�
Lacking a good reply, �me too� was all I could muster.
It was a weak answer to an important question. Like the boll weevil that once blighted cotton crops, stereotypes about the South rob the region of its greatness and hamper efforts to improve its shortcomings.
Most Southerners realize �y�all� is a contraction and not a single word bequeathed to us by Southern birthright. Very few of us plan our New Year�s Eve celebrations around dropping �possums down a pole. Car horns that play the �Dukes of Hazzard� theme song are quite rare. Mullets are seldom preferred over molars. And fried butter is hardly a delicacy in Dixie, despite what Honey Boo Boo�s mom might have told you.
Repeating falsehoods tends to reinforce them. I�ll refrain from alluding to more here but trust me, You�ve heard them before.
Stereotypes about the South, both good and bad, stigmatize many native Southerners in a competitive global economy that values cosmopolitanism. They confuse people who are deciding where to live. They can mislead businesses when deciding where to invest. And they coerce government leaders to focus on the wrong issues facing the region.
Many of these stereotypes arise from the way we�re programmed to think in broad brushstrokes. It�s not just shortsighted, but actually dangerous, when folks assume that an �average� anything about a place applies to everyone who lives there. Efforts to build on Southern �virtues� or to repair Southern �vices� have a cracked semantic foundation. Such efforts mistake the trees for the forest.
America is in the details. We can only address social or economic problems by understanding them in their full complexity. Differences within states are usually greater than differences between them. For example, and contrary to popular belief, America�s wealthiest state, Connecticut, has more in common with its poorest, Mississippi, than the rich have in common with the poor in any given state.
Then there�s the media. Hollywood and many national news organizations provide a skewed view of the South. Forest Gump, though lovable, wasn�t real. Neither was Scarlett O�Hara. George Wallace, Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dolly Parton are realistic but atypical. In fact, there is no �typical.� That�s part of the problem we have when talking in generalities.
If that weren�t enough, the South suffers from what social scientists call �confirmation bias.� Humans selectively accept information that supports their views of the former Confederacy while rejecting information that challenges deeply held beliefs. It cuts both ways. Viewing �Southern hospitality� as universal is just as misleading as expecting a complex demographic group to be a monolith of �good ol� boys.�
Many stereotypes come from natural tendencies that, in the short term, help people make sense of a complicated world. In the long term, however, these tendencies in thinking further complicate that world.
�Discovering Dixie,� as I called my winter class, ain�t so easy. Fertile farms, graceful charm and other sweet things sit juxtaposed with troubled legacies, economic hardships and lingering social problems. Mansions line remote swamps while homeless line urban mansions. Skyscrapers rise from old cotton fields while weeds grow from decaying factory yards. Myths fuel lies while piquing fascination.
I ended my winter class with a better answer to the student�s question. Simple observation alone will not lead to a true appreciation or understanding of a place. They need to seek a deeper, richer view of the South by looking at real evidence and seeking a diversity of experiences. Accept that grand statements about an area, however appealing, are almost always a mile wide and an inch deep.
Resisting our personal biases won�t end misunderstanding of the South, but it�s a worthwhile start. Stereotypes hamper the region�s progress and compromise the potential of a nation.
Many people tell me they would have difficulty finding anywhere worse. I would have difficulty living anywhere else.
Jason Husser is an assistant professor of political science at Elon University and a Louisiana native. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Texas Instruments, known for its OMAP series of SoC, that have powered most of the 2011 range of Motorola devices and the Galaxy Nexus, have decided that they will be reducing their focus on the mobile market. The company will instead focus on making embedded chips for car makers and other such markets.
The OMAP platform from TI is the most 'open' SoC out there, and is one of the favorite SoCs of Android developers, thanks to its open-source drivers. The problem, however, for TI has been that they have consistently failed to reach the deadlines for their products, and have been consistently outpaced by their competitors in bringing newer generation SoCs to the market first. This year, the OMAP SoC has been found powering only one device – the recently announced Kindle Fire HD.
"We believe that opportunity is less attractive as we go forward," Greg Delagi, senior vice president for embedded processing, said during a webcast of the meeting.
TI was widely expected to be the first to the market to launch its OMAP 5 SoC, based on the Cortex-A15 architecture, by the end of this year, but after today's announcement from the company, the chances of that happening are close to nil.
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By Vishal Patel, Nuun Hydration Nutritionist
The New York City Marathon is usually a nice indication that fall is coming to an end, but as we shift gears into winter with athletes beginning their off-season programs it's safe to say that many don't stop training!
Should I hydrate less in the winter?
During the winter we hear a lot from our consumers that they tend to not drink as much water or Nuun as compared to summer months, and generally it's due to the perception that we do not sweat as much when it's colder. That theory may be true at times, however, many other factors come into play to determine how much fluid you need. For instance, winter air is cold and dry, that in turn will lead to an increase in thirst – a sign of dehydration.
Note: a mere 2% loss in body-water content has been noted to cause dehydration leading to a decrease in athletic performance.
But I feel like I sweat less in the winter!
Yes, in the winter it may seem as if you are not sweating as much. On top of dry air affecting your hydration status, the regulation of your internal body temperature (thermoregulation) has a tough time adjusting to the drastic changes.
The cold air triggers your body to try to reserve heat and maintain fluid balance by decreasing the release of heat (through sweat). But what we often forget is that runners tend to add layer upon layer of clothing to help keep the body warm. This increase of layers will cause your skin temperature to increase, which can lead to heat needing to be released (through sweat). So, in some instances we can actually sweat more due to winter layering and taking too drastic of an approach to stay warm.
Ways to balance the cold weather and your body temperature:
Hypothermia & Hydration
Hypothermia is a concern for athletes who partake in cold weather sports at high altitude. Mountain air is most difficult to breathe due to the very cold and very dry nature of air at altitude. But oftentimes the difficulty breathing is the result of a decrease in blood volume flowing freely through your heart and on to working muscles. Having proper fluid balance with electrolytes will help get blood to wear it needs to go, and help muscles function properly.
Air Humidity & Hydration
The last factor to take into account is the high levels of humidity in the mornings. The combination of cold, dry air, and more moisture in the air will increase the occurrence of dehydration. Knowing how much to drink is just as crucial as going into your workout adequately hydrated! The cardinal rule is to drink according to thirst, without exceeding 20 oz per hour. Also, it's never a bad time to take a sweat test to determine your sweat loss.
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Google Fiber Is World-Changing! Or Maybe Not. Or Both!
Google has now announced plans to roll out its high-speed broadband service in three cities, which excites lots of people who get excited about the notion of fiber lines delivering a gigabit per second.
Lots of other people, though — including investors and the cable guys — don't know what to make of Google's moves.
They have two big questions:
- What is Google actually trying to do here?
- How much is Google willing to spend on whatever they're doing?
And there are multiple theories to answer those questions, which aren't necessarily mutually exclusive:
- It's a sandbox for Google. It's literally trying to figure out what goes into offering that kind of speed, and what happens when customers take advantage of it.
- Google thinks that by offering blazing-fast fiber in a bunch of cities, it will spur the likes of Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other incumbents to up their own investments in speed. And that eventually means that more people will have faster Internet, which is presumably good for Google.
- Google really does plan on wiring a big swath of the country. Because, why not? It's Google. It can afford just about anything.
- During yesterday's earnings call, analysts again tried to suss out what Google was up to. Both CEO Larry Page and CFO Patrick Pichette did a good job of speaking at length and not saying very much, beyond the notion that it would be good if lots of people had fast Internet.
Here's one exchange between Bernstein analyst Carlos Kirjner and Page that is pretty representative:
Kirjner: "How do you expect fiber to have a major impact, given that it would take many billions and several years to pass something like 20 million U.S. homes — and after all of that time and money, you would be at best a mid-sized provider (Note: Comcast, the U.S.'s biggest broadband company "passes" — i.e., could provide service to — 53 million homes) in a market that accounts for less than half of your current business?"
Page: "I'm glad you're very ambitious — the fiber industry's not big enough for you. So I applaud that. We'd love to find businesses much bigger than our entire business to invest in, but I think that there's only a small number of such companies that even exist. So I think on fiber, we look at places where we can provide products that we can make a very big difference in people's lives, and we can make a lot of money and resources doing it. And I think it certainly meets that criteria."
Does that spell things out for you? Me, neither. But Kirjner seemed to get some value out of it. In a note this morning, he writes:
- That he is now convinced that Google is not experimenting with fiber, but is serious about it.
- But! He also doesn't think Google is going to embark on a truly massive effort: "Google is playing a very long game and does not aim to change the broadband access and pay-TV world in three or even five years … We remain skeptical that we will see a mass roll out involving billions of capex to build a fiber network passing millions of homes in the next few years, but think they will continue to expand Google Fiber's footprint."
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I played and sang at the Fertile Hilton yesterday. I went in an hour early to visit Aunt Olla. She was in good form, although a pinched nerve is making it painful for her to stand and walk. I rolled her outside a while and we visited in the gazebo.
However, she had expected the entire family to show up to play and sing and it instead it was just me. I thought she might get over that, but it stuck. She kept mentioning it. "So the others aren't coming?" Over and over. I was in a bit of hot water. I was eager to start the program so she would forget.
Aunt Olla listened politely to my hour of music. We then went to the dining room for coffee her friend Virginia before I pushed her back to her room. It took us a long time to get down the hall, and I think she forgot that I was the one pushing her chair.
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Renesas Electronics Revises Full-Year Forecasts
08 Feb 2013
TOKYO, Japan, February 8, 2013 — Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today revised its consolidated financial forecasts for the full year (the period from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013), which it disclosed on December 10, 2012.
1. Revised forecasts for the full-year consolidated financial results
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Background to the revision of full-year forecasts
As for the sales forecasts for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013: net sales are expected to be 770.0 billion yen, 50.0 billion yen down from the previous forecast (announced on December 10, 2012); sales from semiconductors are expected to be 711.0 billion yen, 49.0 billion yen down from the previous forecast.
Sales from semiconductors for the three months ended December 31, 2012, were lower than the expectation. This was mainly due to a decline in demand of semiconductors for automotive and industrial applications which were expected to recover the demand at certain level in the second half of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013 as well as semiconductors for consumer electronics whose sales were expected to be steady through a large-scale custom project, influenced by production decrease at customers due to the prolonged downturn of the global economy. In addition to this, production decrease of automotive, electronic and other equipment for China also brought further impact on demand of semiconductors through the period. Moreover, the Group expects sales from semiconductors for the three months ending March 31, 2013 also to fall below its original expectation due to the same factors at the previous quarter. For these reasons, the Group has made a downward revision to its forecasts for both net sales and sales from semiconductors. The Group expects the sales from three product areas; MCUs, Analog & Power Devices and SoC solutions; to be lower than the previous forecasts respectively.
As for the earnings forecasts for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, despite the Group's efforts on holding down costs including personnel expenses, lower profit is expected along with decrease in sales from semiconductors and production decrease. Therefore, the Group has revised the earnings forecasts as follow: operating loss is expected to be 26.0 billion yen, 47.0 billion yen down from the previous forecast; ordinary loss is expected to be 34.0 billion yen, 44.0 billion yen down from the previous forecast; net loss is expected to be 176.0 billion yen, 26.0 billion yen down from the previous forecast.
The consolidated financial forecasts for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013 are based on the rate of 83 yen per USD and 109 yen per Euro for the average of the second half of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, 82 yen per USD and 106 yen per Euro for the average of the full fiscal year ending March 31, 2013.
Details will be explained in Renesas' announcement of financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2012 on February 8, 2013.
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The statements in this press release with respect to the plans, strategies and financial outlook of Renesas Electronics and its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively "we") are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties. We caution you in advance that actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking statements due to several important factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions in our markets, which are primarily Japan, North America, Asia, and Europe; demand for, and competitive pricing pressure on, products and services in the marketplace; ability to continue to win acceptance of products and services in these highly competitive markets; and fluctuations in currency exchange rates, particularly between the yen and the U.S. dollar. Among other factors, downturn of the world economy; deteriorating financial conditions in world markets, or deterioration in domestic and overseas stock markets, may cause actual results to differ from the projected results forecast.
About Renesas Electronics Corporation
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power, and SoC products, Renesas provides comprehensive solutions for a broad range of automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT applications that help shape a limitless future. Learn more at renesas.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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We've all seen futuristic movies with awesome Hal and Jarvis computers that are smart enough to recognize what we want them to do. They're like people. Today's computers are learning to be like that and they're already replacing us.
Take this example of a mother walking into a doctor's office and asking an assistant about her son's diarrhea:
After a few more questions, the assistant declares herself "not that concerned at this point." She schedules an appointment with a doctor in a couple of days. The mother leads her son from the room, holding his hand. But he keeps looking back at the assistant, fascinated, as if reluctant to leave.
Maybe that is because the assistant is the disembodied likeness of a woman's face on a computer screen - a no-frills avatar. Her words of sympathy are jerky, flat and mechanical. But she has the right stuff - the ability to understand speech, recognize pediatric conditions and reason according to simple rules - to make an initial diagnosis of a childhood ailment and its seriousness. And to win the trust of a little boy.
And in the glorious future, other artificially intelligent computers will schedule your meetings, effectively replace call centers or even plan a date for you and the missus. Which sadly means that they'll be replacing a lot of jobs that do better with human interaction, because a lot can get lost in translation when talking to a computer. As the article puts it, it's sort of like talking to "a waiter for whom English is a second language in a noisy restaurant." Asking for sushi might result in listings for Asian escorts.
We already deal with speech-recognizing software and computers during troubleshooting calls or even by using Google Voice Search. But AI is quickly advancing to the point where machines will be able to not only listen, but to process and learn from the things they hear. They might not necessarily get your jokes, but it's not like any humans ever did anyway. [NY Times]


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posted by kakadu, Sun 01 Jun 2003 08:02:20 PM UTC - 0 replies
You'll now find the demo cartridge in the download section. Hope it will help...
posted by kakadu, Thu 29 May 2003 05:49:50 PM UTC - 0 replies
The kiwa developpment team ;) is proud to announce the release of kiwa version 0.11.0. This is a new major version with little changes on the kakadu engine and the session management. The main change is you may now use dia to design your own automats. See the homepage for more infos...
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dia2kiwa is a script that translates dia files to kiwa XML. It allows users to draw automats using the UML library in dia. More details on http://www.coolkeums.org/kiwa/
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A Lot of bugs have been fixed, a better implementation of the %object.attr% syntax, more actions, enhanced user object and more documentation :)
See the change log on Kiwa's site for more infos.
posted by kakadu, Wed 14 Aug 2002 10:04:48 PM UTC - 0 replies
This mess seems to be functionnal.
Now this is time for writing actions, docs and a real website with this ;).
For details, see the changelogs on http://www.coolkeums.org/kiwa/
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Lot of bugs have been corrected. We have now something functionnal but there are a lot of thing to do :
Change actions'name, maybe change the Kiwa configuration file to manage log file location. Also a lot of new base actions and class to create so we can manage files, mail, url, XML flows etc ...
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Malloy seeks $3.2 billion for Connecticut infrastructure in wake of Sandy
Gov. Dannel Malloy is asking the federal government for $3.2 billion to improve Connecticut infrastructure in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Of the $3.2 billion the state is seeking, Malloy said the bulk of the money -- $2.5 billion -- would be used to improve Connecticut's electric power network. The money would be spent on making improvements to power transmission lines, placing some of electric distribution lines underground, making existing power lines better able to stand extreme weather conditions and creating micro-grids in high population density areas.
Micro-grids would include smaller power generation units that would keep the electricity on in town and city centers in the event of a power outage.
"While our state was not impacted as severely as New York or New Jersey during Storm Sandy, we have seen substantial damage from three storms now that occurred in a little more than a year's time," Malloy said in a written statement. "Changing weather patterns are a reality, and we must assume that the worst Mother Nature can throw at us hasn't happened yet. This funding would allow us to invest in a few areas that would put us in a better position to handle the inevitable when it occurs."
The remainder of money Malloy is requesting of the federal government, $620 million, is to be used for prevention and mitigation measures with $495 million for municipalities and $125 million for the state.
"It would give us the chance to fortify our coastline in a way that will protect us from future flooding while doing nothing to diminish the beauty of our coastline," Malloy said. "And it would give us the ability to mitigate future environmental damage by investing in the sewage treatment plants that spill over into Long Island Sound with disturbing regularity during weather related events."
Connecticut sustained more than $1 billion in damage between Tropical Storm Irene, the October 2011 snowstorm and Hurricane Sandy. But Malloy said that he and his counterparts in New York and New Jersey, Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie, are taking a big picture approach to seeking money from the federal government.
"Our states are intrinsically tied together, and the more we can advocate for our entire region, the better off all of our residents will be," Malloy said.
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IRVING, Texas (AP) The Dallas Cowboys have released cornerback Vince Agnew and replaced him by signing Michael Coe off waivers from Miami.
Coe appeared in seven games for the New York Giants before he was released Nov. 26. He played one game for the Dolphins before being released Monday.
A fifth-round pick by Indianapolis in 2007, Coe has 19 tackles and two fumble recoveries in 35 career games with the Colts, Giants and Dolphins.
Agnew was signed to the active roster Nov. 10 after joining the Dallas practice squad on Oct. 16.
The Cowboys juggled their practice squad by releasing cornerback Reggie Jones and tight end Chase Ford and adding cornerback Micah Pellerin.
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At least one thing: they've all made the pivot toward behavioural economics. And it's easy to see why.
Google has used behavioural principles to improve the dietary decisions of its employees within its cafeterias, netting a reduction in the company's health-related costs. Federal agencies under the Obama administration are now required to consider how to draw upon behavioural economics to boost their policies and programs. Meanwhile, the UK government's Behavioural Insights Team, dubbed the 'Nudge Unit', has been busy trialling behavioural strategies in policymaking to influence behaviours for the public good.
Behavioural economics has clearly done something right. By coupling psychology with neoclassical economics, it has produced insights to help unlock why we make the decisions we do (note 1 and note 2). This has catapulted the field beyond the halls of academia into the policymaking scene, and made it a permanent fixture in the media.
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team has named seniors Jaleen Thomas and Jessica Babe as captains for the 2013-14 season. Head coach Beryl Piper made the announcement this week after Babe and Thomas were selected by their teammates to serve in the position.
"I am very excited to have Jess Babe and Jaleen Thomas as captains for the 2013-14 school year," Piper said on Monday morning. "Both of these young ladies represent the University and the women's basketball program in a positive manner. They have up-beat attitudes and are hardworking individuals who are respected by their teammates and coaches."
Babe and Thomas joined the Blue Devils as freshmen and have contributed to 48 wins over the past three seasons. This past season, as juniors, both started for CCSU and helped the team to 16 wins and the #5 seed in the Northeast Conference Tournament.
Babe finished last season with a team-high 109 assists. She also led the squad in rebounding with 220 boards and a 7.3 rebounds/game average. Her 67 steals were second on the team and her 9.0 ppg mark was fourth. She has led the team in rebounds and assists each of the last two seasons.
Thomas finished tied for third on the team with 4.6 rebounds/game and averaged 2.5 points/game. She also made 31 steals and posted 20 assists on the season. Thomas led the Blue Devils to a 65-54 comeback victory over Wagner on February 18. She set career-highs for points and rebounds in the game with 15 and 19, respectively.
The 2013-14 women's basketball team will feature 10 returning letter winners, including three starters. Over the last five seasons, the Blue Devils are 78-73 and have a 48-42 record in NEC action.


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U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has suggested that the U.S. boycott the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, if NSA leaker Edward Snowden is granted temporary asylum in the country.
A key U.S. senator has told NBC News that the United States should consider boycotting the upcoming Winter Games if Russian President Vladimir Putin grants leaker Edward Snowden asylum — a suggestion that a top U.S. Olympic official quickly rejected.
"I love the Olympics, but I hate what the Russian government is doing throughout the world," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told NBC News on Tuesday. "If they give asylum to a person who I believe has committed treason against the United States, that's taking it to a new level." Graham even suggested that Putin's actions should raise the specter of the pre-World War II Berlin games hosted by Adolf Hitler's regime.
In response, U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Patrick Sandusky tweeted Wednesday, "While we acknowledge the seriousness of the issues at hand, we strongly oppose the notion that a boycott of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in our country's best interests."
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that the U.S. government is continuing to work with Russia and hopes to see Snowden returned to the United States. "I'm not going to engage in speculation about that, and the Olympics are a long way off," he added.
And House Speaker John Boehner called Graham's suggestion "dead wrong," adding, "Why would we want to punish U.S. athletes who have been training for three years to compete in the Olympics over a traitor who can't find a place to call home?"
Responding to the case of Edward Snowden and other ongoing tensions with Russia, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested the U.S. consider threatening a boycott of the winter Olympics in Sochi to pressure Vladimir Putin. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
Why consider boycotting the Olympics, set to be held in Sochi, Russia, beginning in February 2014? Graham says that playing host of the Games gives Russia a propaganda platform to promote itself at a time when, he contends, the Russians are responsible for enabling Iran's nuclear program, threatening Israel and supporting Bashar Assad in Syria.
"If you could go back in time, would you have allowed Adolf Hitler to host the Olympics in Germany? To have the propaganda coup of inviting the world into Nazi Germany and putting on a false front?" Graham said of the Games.
"I'm not saying that Russia is Nazi Germany," Graham added, "but I am saying that the Russian government is empowering some of the most evil, hateful people in the world."
Snowden, who leaked classified documents on U.S. surveillance programs, has been effectively stranded in the Moscow airport for weeks because his U.S. passport has been revoked. The U.S. government has charged him with espionage. He recently applied for temporary asylum in Russia while he tries to plan his travel to one of the South American countries that has offered him permanent asylum.
"What I'm trying to do is let the Russians know enough is enough. How much more are we going to let them get away with before we make it real to them?" Graham said.
Russia is scheduled to host the Olympics in Sochi, a city on the Black Sea near Georgia, beginning in February 2014. The Games will be televised by NBC.
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The Winter Olympics arrive in Sochi on Feb. 7, 2014. A look at how the Russian city is shaping up for its moment in the spotlight.
The last time they were held in what is now a Russian city -- then-Soviet Moscow in 1980 -- the U.S. led a 65-nation boycott over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
President Jimmy Carter announced that boycott, and both the House and the Senate passed resolutions supporting the boycott.
In 1936, three years before the outbreak of war, Germany was awarded the Olympic games which allowed the rising Nazi regime to use it as a projection of power on the world stage.
Still, boycotting an Olympics is not technically up to the U.S. government to decide, according to the State Department. Instead, it's the U.S. Olympic Committee would make the final decision.
Graham said that an Olympic boycott is just one possible measure that the U.S. should consider if Russia decides to grant Snowden's temporary asylum petition.
"I don't know if putting the Olympics on the table is the right answer but I do know this: What we're doing is not working, and sitting on the sidelines and watching the Russians empower some of the most brutal people in the 21st century, and doing nothing about it is wrong," Graham said Tuesday.
"And I do know this: It was wrong to give Adolf Hitler the propaganda floor for the German Olympics."
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In their first game since the World Cup finals in South Africa, the United States take on Brazil at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Tuesday night (8 p.m. ET; ESPN2, Univisión).
Matches between these two sides have produced plenty of goals in recent years: In the 2009 Confederations Cup final, Brazil fought back from a two-goal defect to defeat the Yanks, 3-2. In 2007, in the so-called "Clash of Champions," Brazil got the better of a 4-2 thriller.
But what will be the outcome of Tuesday's match? Will the US exact some revenge on Brazil and edge the soccer power? Or will it be business as usual for the Seleção? What do you think? Let us know!


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It's 1974 and the corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backbiting as Britain's political parties battle to change the future of the nation, whatever it takes. In this hung parliament, the ruling party holds on by a thread. Votes are won and lost by one, fistfights erupt in the bars, and ill MPs are hauled in to cast their votes. It's a time when a staggering number of politicians die, and age-old traditions and allegiances are thrown aside in the struggle for power. James Graham's biting, energetic and critically-acclaimed new play strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to maneuver a diverse and conflicting chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.


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Rwanda, with Kigali as capital, has beautiful countryside views and a very varied fauna. It is best known however for the rare silverback mountain gorillas. Rwanda is a country of hills, lakes, rivers and wide savannahs and is situated between Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Congo. It is visited for its natural beauty. In the east of Rwanda, for example, there is the Akagera National Park, which is inhabited by lions, elephants and hippopotamuses. In the west, you can relax, sunbathe and go swimming in Lake Kivu.
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Called "The land of a Thousand Hills", Rwanda is an undulating, green landscape of hills, gardens, coffee and tea plantations. The renowned Volcanoes National park is home to the endangered mountain gorillas along with several other species of primates and loads of birds.


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In December, Shinzo Abe became Japanese prime minister by a landslide based on his economic stimulus proposals. Japan's economy has stagnated since the 1990s, with deflation and barely perceptible growth. The financial meltdown in 2008 added to the problems and Fukushima's triple disaster in 2011 compounded them.
Abe promised a dramatic new strategy to boost the country's economy. In January he announced a $103 billion stimulus package, and made Haruhiko Koda governor at the Bank of Japan. Koda agreed to double the country's inflation target to 2% annually. The yen obligingly fell, cheering companies dependent on exports as their wares looked more like bargains on the world markets and sales rose.
The Japanese stock market supported Abe's moves and amid the beginnings of "Abenomics" the Nikkei 225 stock index rose by 50%, with some of its top stocks gaining well over 100%. Other indices have risen as well, with the Topix Index gaining 61% since Abe hit the campaign trail in November and the Topix Securities and Commodity Futures Index soaring 172%.
Investment banks have been happy, too; stock sales have tripled so far this year compared to the same period in 2012, and corporate bond issues saw their best first quarter since 2009. Brokerage fees are up along with trading volumes.
But Koda wasn't finished yet. In the first week of April, the BoJ governor announced a massive $1.4 trillion in stimulus, pushing markets even higher. Japan's other banks had sought additional revenue in overseas expansions, particularly in Latin America. They have taken Koda's latest move as a sign to intensify foreign expansion, and in Latin America they finance everything from infrastructure projects to M&A to small and medium-sized business loans for non-Japanese companies.
Abe's bold actions have certainly enlivened markets, raising speculation that gains will be "different" this time. Other market increases over the last 20 years or so have ended in selloffs rather than lasting gains.
However, not everyone is enthused about Abenomics. One of the doubters is Standard & Poor's, which, toward the end of April, said it saw a greater than one-third chance it would end up downgrading Japan's sovereign ratings because of the uncertainty surrounding Abe's gutsy strategies.
In its report, S&P said, "Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to lift Japan out of deflation and spur economic expansion—known as 'Abenomics'—has three pillars: bold monetary easing, fiscal efforts to spur growth, and a strategy to induce private sector investment. Of the three engines that Mr. Abe foresees reinvigorating the nation's economy, so far only one, monetary easing, has kicked into full gear. The others remain idle."
But indications are that it will not be long until Abe releases the "third arrow," as the Japanese refer to it, in his quiver of strategies—a push to drive new trade-friendly legislation that will cut regulations and increase corporate investment. One sign is a push by the Japanese casino lobby to win approval for legislation to permit casino gambling as a means of helping to grow the country's economy. Plans are afoot to propose not just casinos, but "destination" resorts including casinos, entertainment, conventions, and tourism.
Japan is attractive as a gambling destination for its population, both prosperous and large, and its location: near both Shanghai and Beijing. Japanese are already big gamblers, despite the lack of legal casinos, wagering instead on pachinko.
Abe's Liberal Democratic Party is considered business friendly, and Abe has already said he's open to the idea of casino resorts in Japan, though he added that it needs more study. That said, according to broker CLSA, Japan's gaming market could amount to at least $10 billion with approval of two large gambling destination resorts. That outpaces both Singapore, at $5.9 billion, and Las Vegas, at $6.2 billion in 2012.
Other nascent possibilities include scheduled end-of-April talks between Japan and Russia that have big goals: 20 memoranda of understanding (MOU) on various business deals, the launch of an investment fund, and negotiations over a territorial dispute over possession of four islands, known to the Japanese as the Northern Territories and to Russia as the Southern Kuriles, that has raged since WWII but may finally be laid to rest.
Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin were to discuss those issues, as well as the possibility of Japan participating in building a pipeline between gas fields in eastern Siberia and a Gazprom gas hub built in Vladivostok; such participation could cut Japan's cost for liquid natural gas, which soared after the Fukushima disaster took the country's reactors offline.
In addition, Japan has won approval to join the Trans-Pacific Trade Talks (TPT), and according to a letter sent by acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis to Congress, "Japan has confirmed it will participate positively and constructively in the negotiations. Japan also confirmed that it will subject all goods to negotiations—both agricultural and manufactured goods—and will join with the other TPP countries to achieve a high-standard and comprehensive agreement this year."


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Ash Bash 2007 - What a Rush! (2007-08-15)
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Airsoft Hawaii once again hosted the well renowned ASH BASH event in Hawaii to an impressive 380 players. With friends and family, the event was attended by close to 500 people making for another highly successful game! Held at the Kualoa ranch, a leisurely 35 minute drive from downtown Honolulu, the site is flanked by beautiful mountains and the beach leading into the cool Pacific ocean.
It took place on Saturday August 4th and registration started at 8am with the event wrapping up by around 5pm. True to ASH BASH fashion, there were many simultaneous events going on so players could choose which ones appealed to them most. Apart from the usual skirmishes that ran for 45 minute intervals, there were constant raffle drawings with numerous prizes from the likes of PDI, Laylax, Marui, ARMS, Madbull, NAM Magazine, Mil Force, Airsoft Surgeon, and many retailers such as IMPACT GAMES, Game Pod, and yours truly, RedWolf Airsoft.
As the proud title sponsor of ASH BASH 2007, RedWolf gave away a custom AK Saiga Shotgun to Kyle S. of Hawaii, and two Deep Fire M72 Launchers to two other lucky winners. We also gave away an Airsoft Surgeon Slug Shot shotgun to one of the lucky staff of Airsoft Hawaii.
Special "flown-in" guests of the event included Burst Head "Boss" from ARMS magazine and staff from high end Airsoft parts manufacturer PDI, who amongst other things, make the best precision barrels in the industry.
In the tradition of ASH BASH, the cardboard cutting contest and IPSC shooting competition drew lots of people to compete for prizes. The cardboard cutting contest is a test of accuracy, the gun's rate of fire, and its ability to feed BBs in a reliable and steady manner. Contestants are timed on how fast they can cut down a piece of cardboard using their AEGs. Most competitors had extremely fast guns and auto-winding magazines, cutting down the cardboard in seconds. A few brave souls competed with a regular high capacity magazine, forcing them to work the trigger with one hand while winding the magazine continuously with the other - an impossible feat! The IPSC shooting contest is for pistols only, and contestants had to shoot down all metal targets plus a final "hostage" target in the shortest possible time. Using a MADBULL IPSC timer, contests started firing at the sound of an audible beep, and the timer stopped when they hit the final plate. Admittedly, many more people braved the IPSC competition in their attempt to beat the 4.3 second best time that one contestant delivered to serious applause. Hitting the hostage added 3 seconds to your time so accuracy was a must!
New for this year was the sniper contest, which had contestants shooting three balloons from 100 feet, and a bonus balloon at 150 feet. The visual effect was quite impressive as some contestants were able to shoot all four balloons within 10 shots. Mind you, these were highly upgraded sniper rifles that were as accurate as they were powerful. One contestant even had a CO2 powered Type 96. Spring powered bolt action rifles did very well for this event and went to prove that these purpose built sniper rifles delivered far superior range and accuracy than highly upgraded AEGs. One brave soul competed with a DIGICON Target, which only takes one shell at a time and forces the shooter to open the center breach and reload on each shot! To make things more challenging, the contestants not only had to shoot at the balloons, but also had to run about 100 meters before starting their shoot. If after 10 shots they were unable to hit all three balloons at 100 feet, they had to make another 100 meter run before being able to attempt the next 10 shots. Each contestant had a total of 30 shots, and failure to hit all three balloons within that allotted number meant a "Did Not Finish" rating. This event was probably one of the more entertaining to watch as shooters ran up and down the field for their 100 meter dash, dodging branches and falling occasionally into the grass. But the worst part was having to aim their crosshairs while panting and trembling from the strenuous run. Winning the contest called for physical fitness and sniping finesse!
Another tradition of ASH BASH is the COSPLAY competition, which is very popular in Japan. Contestants dress up in costume of their favorite character, and are judged for authenticity. Acting as judges, the ARMS staff chose Lisa W. as the winner in her Lara Croft outfit!
Not to give up too much of this exciting event, you can see all the action when the ASH BASH 2007 DVD comes out! You can find out more about this yearly event here
We would like to give thanks to Airsoft Hawaii and its entire volunteer staff for pulling off another fantastic event. We extend our sincere gratitude to Airsoft Hawaii for inviting RedWolf to be the sponsor of both ASH BASH 2006 (in California) and this year's ASH BASH 2007.
Below, you can take a look at some of the products we've mentioned in our report. The Redwolf Custom AK Saiga, which caused a stir at this years ASH BASH, will be coming out soon and available at Redwolf Airsoft naturally. Then we have other crowd pleasers such as the Airsoft Surgeon M870 Slug Shot Shotgun, the Deep Fire M72 launcher, Madbull IPSC Timer and a couple of old favourites. Click the pictures for more info / to buy:
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I would personally picked either one of the India legs, or the Paraguay leg.And LOL at no one of the Final Five being on the cover of the DVD.
I would have personally chosen the bravia leg. the yodeling( i believe same epi) snow castles witches food.
But CBS' choice isn't bad. I think that safari drive through the crater might be the winner!
This leg would've been my second/third choice behind Leg 3 and maybe Leg 4.
Quote from: racer on June 29, 2012, 09:54:02 PMThis leg would've been my second/third choice behind Leg 3 and maybe Leg 4. Leg 4? Really?I didn't thought it was memorable and I haven't seen anything from Italy.
Was Leg 4 Torino? The progression of Rachel killing it at the Road Block then having a meltdown with salami was great to watch.
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Stastny scores twice to lead Avs past Flames 6-3
Paul Stastny scored twice, including the go-ahead goal in the third period, to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 6-3 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night.
John Mitchell and P.A. Parenteau also each had two goals and an assist for the Avalanche, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Matt Duchene and Jamie McGinn both added a pair of assists.
Jiri Hudler had two goals and an assist in a losing cause for the Flames, who hadn't played since beating Edmonton 4-3 at home last Saturday. Alex Tanguay had the other goal for the Flames, while Matt Stajan added two assists.
In his first start of the season for the Avalanche, Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped 25 of 28 shots to pick up the win.
Tied 3-3 in the third period and with Calgary defenseman Mark Giordano in the penalty box for tripping, Stastny scored his first of the season on an unassisted wraparound at 17:20.
He added his second of the 89 seconds later, before Parenteau scored into an empty net.
Hudler opened the scoring at 7:23 of the first period with his first of the season and first as a member of the Flames. Hudler set up the initial scoring chance when he feathered a pass into the slot that Stajan one-timed on net. Hudler the pounced on the rebound and swatted the puck past Giguere.
Tim Jackman nearly put the Flames up by a pair during a hard-working shift later in the first period. After being denied by Giguere on his first attempt, Jackman then tipped a shot off the post that trickled wide.
With just 47 seconds left in the first period, Mitchell intercepted a clearing attempt by Chris Butler before skating toward the slot and snapping a shot past Miikka Kiprusoff to tie the game.
The Flames then went up 2-1 early in the second period when Hudler finished off a nice three-way passing play with Stajan and Roman Cervenka. For Cervenka, it was his first NHL point after signing a free-agent deal with the Flames in the offseason.
After Parenteau backhanded a shot through Kiprusoff's legs, Mitchell put the Avs up 3-2 when he converted a feed from Chuck Kobasew at 16:58 for his second of the game.
But with just 18 seconds left in the period, Tanguay wired a touch pass from Hudler past Giguere to it at 3 heading to the third.
Notes: After finishing off a season-high four-game road trip, the Avs will play their next four games at home starting Saturday against Edmonton. ... The Flames have played four of their first five games at home. After hosting the Chicago Blackhawks at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Saturday, Calgary will embark on a three-game road trip starting in Detroit against the Red Wings on Tuesday. ... Heading into the game, Calgary had beaten Colorado in four of the previous five games at the Saddledome.


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Even during his lifetime Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was subjected to anti-Semitic smear campaigns. The Nazis even banned his works – but they searched in vain for substitutes for his Violin Concerto and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Mendelssohn grew up in Berlin, the city of his musical mother. He was a musical prodigy and played the piano for the famous poet Goethe, among others, at a very young age. When he was only 17, Mendelssohn composed his masterpiece, the overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream. At that time his family lived at Leipziger Strasse 3 in Berlin, later the site of the upper house of the Prussian parliament and now the Bundesrat.
As a pianist, composer and conductor, Mendelssohn made many concert tours to places such as London, Paris and Italy. He was director of music in Berlin and Düsseldorf, and he worked at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Frankfurt Cecilia Society. Mendelssohn had a huge influence on German musical life: in 1829 he revived Bach's St. Matthew Passion after almost 90 years (in Berlin) and in 1843 he founded Germany's first music conservatory (in Leipzig).
There are memorial sites for Felix Mendelssohn and his equally talented sister Fanny mainly in Berlin and Leipzig but also in Hamburg, the city of his birth. The composer's final residence can be seen in Leipzig at the museum in the Mendelssohn House. Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, who died the same year, were buried in Berlin.
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