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We present you with this amazing new extension with Full HD wallpapers of the Christmas Cities.
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The first Thanksgiving song was "Jingle Bells".But that song is now official, Christmas song. So James Lord Pierpont has written this song in 1857 and has published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh". And it was supposed to be played in the composer's Sunday school class during Thanksgiving as a way to commemorate the famed Medford sleigh races. Also, "Jingle Bells" was also the first song to be broadcast from space. Rudolph's red nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respiratory system.
According to Roger Highfield, the author of the book "The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey" the world's most famous reindeer has a red nose due to a parasite. However, Rudolf's relationship with his parasite is symbiotic: after all, the red nose illuminates the path through the winter night for the whole reindeer team.
Although Christmas is a family holiday, we are celebrating with our friends and some family members.
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I had a pleasant ride in this morning, my first ride all the way (in one direction, at any rate) in quite some time. Dew mixed with road salt and melting snow and left the road wet this morning, but with temperatures nearing 60*F, I couldn't help but ride.
Several companies you've heard of are headquartered right here in the greater KC area. Among them are Sprint/Nextel, Garmin, and of course AMC Theaters.
AMC has been doing a lot downtown. I've shown you the Midland Theater before. Now, they're almost done renovating the Mainstreet Theater as well.
That's all I've got for ya this morning. Time to catch up on whatever I missed at work yesterday.
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I had a pleasant ride in this morning, my first ride all the way (in one direction, at any rate) in quite some time. Dew mixed with road salt and melting snow and left the road wet this morning, but with temperatures nearing 60*F, I couldn't help but ride.
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I was talking with you on Jan 29th about thinking about commuting to the bus stop in Blue Springs. You told me to find a good used $100 bike.
There is a long story of it, but I'll spare you... I did recently find one at the BikeStop in Blue Springs. A used Specialized Crossroads i think it's called.
Made my first bike ride to the bus stop this morning circa 6am. The 5 miles took me 29 minutes.
Also, got a bike locker right at the stop so my bike and gear are safe and sound.
What an awesome day for a ride here in KC!
- March 05, 2009 12:07 PM
P.S. I got pretty muddy too. I need to get some fenders for this thing!
- March 05, 2009 12:09 PM
- Noah said...
Awesome! Congrats! 5 miles in 29 minutes is a decent clip, about 12 MPH even with any stopping calculated in. The Specialized Crossroads is a good hybrid bike.
Also, I mentioned the road grime in my post, but how quickly I take my fenders for granted. The Twelve is equipped with SKS Commuter fenders which I'm not entirely that fond of (they've cracked in a few places already in less than a year) but I'd gladly take my hacked, patched-together fenders over no fenders on a morning like this!
- March 05, 2009 12:18 PM
- Antennaguy said...
I commuted to work by bike this morning also. Temp was 47 F at 7am here in Lincoln! However, streets were really wet and lots of sand and mud. Had a nice streak of mud on my shorts and backpack when I got in. Guess a fender would help me too.
- March 05, 2009 12:20 PM
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American Scamocracy
The assholes running this country (Republicans, Democrats, it's all the same, really) have absolutely no qualms spending trillions of other people's money. They're not just spending our money, they're bankrupting our children and their children and consigning them to be born in an America where they will live in debt slavery from cradle to grave. The politicians don't care, they'll be long gone by then and their children and children's children will be sitting pretty on the wealth that their parents and grandparents are stealing from you and me right now Read More


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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Only one in five women are aware that heart disease is their greatest health threat, but new campaigns like Go Red for women are trying to get the message out that it's the number one killer.
When you think of heart disease, you likely think it's mostly a problem among men. But since 1984, women have died more often.
Even when a woman has a heart related problem, they don't recognize the symptoms, because they're sometimes different from men's symptoms.
"They come in complaining of the worst heartburn they've ever had, or some pain in the jaw or back pain. They think it's everything else but the heart," Dr. Kimara March said.
If women have any of those symptoms, or nausea or sweating, March said it's important to get to the ER right away.
"They can have the chest pain or the chest pressure, but actually very commonly they don't come in complaining of that," March said.
Women tend to be 10 years older than men when they have their first heart attack, so knowing your numbers and preventing an attack is key.
March said women should be aware of "what their blood pressure is, what their cholesterol is, what their optimal weight is and if they're a smoker." That way, women and their doctors can figure out the best way to keep your heart healthy.


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Reporting that Rafael Nadal won a match on a clay surface is a lot like reporting that the Mets lost a game, so we needed another angle on his 6-2, 6-2 win over Gael Monfils in the Barcelona Open quarterfinals today. Luckily, the cameras on hand for the match captured that angle for us. In the incredible career that is Rafa on clay, only one real adversary persists. [Deadspin]
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After a few days in Europe to support the English football team, David Beckham was back in LA last night, courtside for the Laker's dramatic buzzer-beating win over the Suns at home in Los Angeles. My heart broke for Steve Nash.
Anyway, as you can see, Becks seemed to enjoy himself very much with his boys which, for a minute, included Jeremy Piven. They talked about where to find it after the game. Not sure if they invited LipGloss.
LipGloss practised his man moves last night too, high fiving and fist bumping, filling in for his idol Leo who surprisingly enough didn't seem to be there. Have you seen Zac's appearance in that ad for the MTV Movie Awards for Aziz Ansari? That little baby stache above his mouth, it embarrasses me.
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There is a true art to giving gifts. Finding that perfect something for someone you love, something that you know will make them gasp or giggle, and then wrapping it up in bits of beauty and whimsy. Our hand-illustrated Santa Wreath Cameo gift tags will add that magical oomph to your presents this year.
-Each set includes white string and 10 tags
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I got sent a couple of links to footage on Youtube of some Eastern European forestry railways.
One is in Ukraine:
The other is the more well known Viseu de Sus line in Romania:
Wonderfully battered locos, rolling stock and equipment that would make a great modelling challenge; decrepit track (probably un-modellable if you like your models to move!) and some seriously dodgy (Ok, downright dangerous) working practices. And it was all happening in 2013.
Does anyone know if the lines are still in operation, or has the modern world caught up with them?
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Queen + Adam Lambert Is Still a Possibility, Says Adam Lambert
Talk of Queen touring with 'American Idol' star Adam Lambert has been floated and denied more times than we can count, but just because Lambert put the official kibosh on those rumors a couple of weeks ago, that doesn't mean he won't be working with the band in some capacity.
"I'm talking to Queen about doing something," Lambert told VH1 during a recent appearance on VH1′s 'Big Morning Buzz Live.' "I got to perform with them on the [MTV European Music Awards last November], which was so incredible — such an honor to be asked. And there may be something on the horizon, but I'm not joining the band. I have my own album that I need to promote this year, so… I think in a perfect world, I would like to try to find some sort of balance between the two projects, so I'm working on it."
Of course, Lambert realizes that any time he takes the mic with Brian May and Roger Taylor, he's stepping into some pretty big shoes — and he doesn't want to try and replace deceased Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. As he recently told the Daily Star, "The intention is to pay tribute to Freddie and the band by singing some f—ing great songs. It's to keep the music alive for the fans and give it an energy that Freddie would have been proud of.
"There's no intention in my mind of replacing Freddie," he continued. "That's impossible. The way I'm choosing to view it is that it's a great honor and one I'm in no way going to shirk."


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See also: Occupy Wall Street USDayOfRage Take The Square Kalle Lasn The Adbusters Media Foundation (AMF) is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1990 by author/activist Kalle Lasn and wilderness cinematographer Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Foundation describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age." Further, their aim is to "topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century." In the fall of 2011, AMF issued the following directive to its members and supporters:
"Its now time to amp up the edgy theatrics … deviant pranks, subversive performances and playful détournements of all kinds. Open your insurrectionary imagination. Anything, from a bottom-up transformation of the global economy to changing the way we eat, the way we get around, the way we live, love and communicate … be the spark that sustains a global revolution of everyday life!"
Boasting a membership of more than 91,000 as of September 2011, AMF refers to its activist supporters as "culture jammers,"—a term denoting efforts to challenge and discredit the dominant advertising messages disseminated in the mainstream media. By AMF's reckoning, advertising invariably corrupts American culture by creating and perpetuating a societal obsession with materialism and consumption. AMF publishes Adbusters, a not-for-profit, reader-supported, advertising-free "ecological magazine" that rejects consumerism, condemns "the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces," and seeks to eliminate "injustices in the global economy" as well as "any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons." Notable past and present contributors to this periodical include The Nation Institute senior fellow Christopher Hedges, polemical journalist Matt Taibbi, environmentalist Bill McKibben, science-fiction author Jim Munroe, documentarian and media-studies instructor Douglas Rushkoff, Marxist philosopher Michael Hardt, and Marxist sociologist Antonio Negri. Among AMF's most prominent campaigns have been the following: * Buy Nothing Day: Typically celebrated on the Friday after Thanksgiving in the U.S. (and the following day elsewhere in the world), this initiative emphasizes that "with catastrophic climate change looming, we the rich one billion people on the planet have to consume less!" An outgrowth of this tradition is "Buy Nothing Christmas," which urges people not to purchase Christman presents but instead "give your friends and family a 'gift-exemption' card; go to stores and ask holiday shoppers, "What would Jesus buy?"; and "dress as Santa and meditate in the middle of a busy shopping mall." * Blackspot Shoes: As an "affront to the consciousness of hyper-capitalism and profit-dominated boardroom policies," AMF promotes and markets a line of shoes—produced in so-called "fair-trade" factories and made from hemp, recycled tires, and vegan leather—bearing the label "Blackspot." Blackspot is an open-source brand, which means that it can be used by anyone, for any purpose, at no cost. * Kick It Over: This initiative encourages economics students around the world "to join the fight to revamp Econ 101 curriculums and challenge the endemic myopia of their tenured neoclassical profs." The campaign's signature document—the "Kick it Over Manifesto"—calls for "an economic revolution" that will yield "a new economics" which is not centered around Gross Domestic Product or any other "fundamentally flawed and incomplete" measures of economic progress. "Deep in recession and with scary ecological scenarios looming," said AMF in 2011, "now may be the ripest moment we'll ever have to power-shift global capitalism onto a new sustainable path." * One Flag: This was a competition which encouraged Adbusters readers to design and create a flag that symbolized "global citizenship," without using language or commonly known symbols. Frequently critical of Israel, AMF and Adbusters magazine have often condemned the Jewish state for allegedly expropriating Palestinian land, instituting a discriminatory system of laws reminiscent of South Africa's apartheid regime, illegally demolishing the homes of peaceful Arabs, and routinely using excessive force and violence in an effort to humiliate and terrorize Palestinian civilians.
AMF was a key organizer—along with such groups as Anonymous, NYC General Assembly, Occupy Wall Street, Take The Square, and USDayOfRage—of a September 17, 2011 "Day of Rage" protest which was staged in the vicinity of New York's Wall Street financial center, which AMF viewed as the very emblem of the capitalist system which it so despised—"the financial Gomorrah of America" and "the greatest corrupter of our democracy." Seeking to build on the anti-globalization movement and striving to promote "a worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics," AMF called for "20,000 people [to] flood into lower Manhattan [on September 17], set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months." In its communiques to the "radicals and utopian dreamers" who were planning to participate in the September 17 demonstrations, AMF warned that: "Strategically speaking, there is a very real danger that if we naively put our cards on the table and rally around the 'overthrow of capitalism' or some equally outworn utopian slogan, then our Tahrir moment [i.e., opportunity for revolutionary change] will quickly fizzle into another inconsequential ultra-lefty spectacle soon forgotten." To guard against this possibility, AMF called for "a deceptively simple Trojan Horse demand" that was "so specific and doable" that it would be "impossible for President Obama to ignore." Thus, under the slogan "Democracy Not Corporatocracy," AMF issued a demand for Obama to "ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington." According to journalist Aaron Klein, the September 17 New York City protests—which ultimately drew about 1,000 participants—apparently represented "the culmination" of a campaign by Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN and president of an SEIU local in New Orleans, who in March 2011 had issued a call for "days of rage in ten cities around JP Morgan Chase." Rathke's efforts were supported by Stephen Lerner, an SEIU board member and radical-left organizer who candidly aims to "destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement"; "bring down the stock market"; "bring down [the] bonuses" of executives in the financial sector; and "interfere with their ability to ... be rich." Between 2001 and 2011, AMF received $176,500 in grants from the Glaser Progress Foundation, and $309,773 from the Tides Foundation.
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"The objective of the project - being able to provide the reports to the board at 7am every day - was completely fulfilled. Our collaboration with both Fujitsu and the systems house involved in the installation went very smoothly. The ETERNUS DX has never required any additional effort, either during the migration or now that it is up and running"
Jörg Lünser, System Administrator, KIND Hörgeräte GmbH & Co. KG
KIND Hörgeräte GmbH & Co. KG is headquartered in Großburgwedel near Hanover, and is one of the leading companies in the global hearing aid acoustics industry. The company has over 650 stores around the world and employs over 2,500 people. Customer-focused services, fair prices and transparent advice have made KIND Germany's market leader. With its audifon production facility, the group covers the entire supply chain from research and development to production and sales, qualified fitting and aftercare.
The response times for the daily BI reports needed to be decreased substantially. The existing storage system would take between 11 and 13 hours to produce the status reports required each day.
A separate FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX200 S3 system with Intel® Xeon® processors to host the database for the business intelligence system and exclusive use of flash storage media to meet the increased demands on performance.
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The city of Riverside is pulling its pledge of $100,000 toward the $1 million reward offered during the manhunt for rogue ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.
Dorner died in an apparent suicide during a standoff with authorities and cabin burning near Big Bear last month.
UPDATE: Los Angeles Police, City Remain "Committed" to Dorner Reward
Local news from across Southern California
Because the Riverside City Council resolution stipulated the money was for information leading to Dorner's arrest and conviction, the city will withdraw its pledge because neither condition was met, Riverside city spokeswoman Cindie Perry told NBCLA.
Riverside police officer Michael Crain was among four people killed by Dorner.
The city's move comes a day after a peace officers' union president told the Los Angeles Times that his organization was placing its pledge on hold, and said other donors had expressed similar misgivings.
LA's mayor and police chief have said they want to see the reward paid.
Two claims have been made on the money – one by a man who was carjacked by Dorner, the other by a couple who was held captive by the fugitive.
Both incidents happened in the hours leading up to Dorner's final standoff, and both parties called authorities to say they'd encountered a man who looked like the ex-officer whose 11,400-word angry manifesto and deadly rampage touched off a region wide manhunt.
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Dorner Carjack Victim Seeks $1.2M Reward
Map: Locations in Alleged LAPD Revenge Plot
Couple Held Captive in Dorner Manhunt Seeks Reward


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Can I use older, Nikon F-mount, what we retroactively call "Non-AI" lenses, on my modern DLSR.
The short answer is: ONLY IF, the rear-most lip of the lens does not interfere with the AI tab, located on a rotating ring that is just outside the camera mount. In many cases however, this lip will interfere with the tab, ramming into it, and it can actually damage your DSLR.
There are a lot of great resources out there which cover the histories of Nikon's mount systems and the variations. I will try to link some at the bottom of this page. But for the impatient, the crash course is simply ensuring that the lens you wish to mount does not contact the AI tab located on the camera.
Nikon AI Mount (N/AI)
In the image below, you see a Vivitar 90mm f/2.5 (N/AI mount) mounted on a Nikon D750. This (1) is the indexing tab located on the lens mount, at the base of N/AI lenses. As you rotate the aperture ring to set it, this pushes the camera tab (2) further in it's rotation, telling the camera information about what aperture is being used.
These N/AI lenses have no electronic linkage to the camera so, after simply mounting the lens, the camera has no information about what lens is being used, what the maximum aperture is, etc. There is a solution for this. By navigating to the Wrench Icon in your menu and selecting "Non-CPU lens data" you can manually enter the focal length and aperture of the lens you are using. Now that the camera knows where to begin, it can calculate, via that little tab linkage between the lens and camera, what aperture you are using, as you rotate through different apertures.
Next, I have my Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens mounted on the Nikon D750. This lens is akin to Nikon's "G" mount lenses. The "G" stands for "gelded", which essentially refers to the removal of the manually adjustable aperture (and thus the AI tab) on the lenses. Since modern lenses communicate with the cameras electronically, there was no longer a need to maintain this linkage (Though, some users dismayed over this since these newer lenses now possess less backwards compatibility because some of the older film cameras cannot communicate with lenses electronically - it was all mechanical.). As you can see, the rear portion of the mount, clears the AI tab (3). It is said, though I have never owned any, that some older Non-AI lenses, especially those by third-party manufacturers, such as Vivitar, while not AI lenses, didn't have a very long rear mount and would clear the tab. These lenses can safely be used.
Now that you have seen what the Auto-Indexing linkage looks like. You can hopefully see what is meant about ensuring the back of the lens doesn't collide with the AI tab on the camera. To the original question: Can I use [Insert Lens] on my DSLR? You need to ensure the lens mount clears this tab, and doesn't ram into it when mounted. As long as this tab is free, you can use the lens. Albeit, at reduced functionality of an AI lens, or modified Non-AI lens (machined to index with the camera correctly).


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In June 2012, 40,000 people met in Rio de Janeiro, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), and agreed that change was needed. Following up on Rio+20, the UN is continuing its efforts to promote sustainable development and to prepare a new development agenda that will take us beyond 2015.
On 24 September, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) will hold a special ministerial meeting on sustainable development. To help shape the conversation at this meeting, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the UN Department of Public Information have launched an online forum to collect your input.
You can post your questions until 24 September on Facebook or via Twitter (using #FutureWEwant and #Beyond2015). Select questions will be answered live on UN Webcast on 24 September 2012.
The time to act is now. Be part of the journey towards a sustainable future, building the future WE want.
Watch this video to learn more about the opportunities and challenges at hand and how to help shape the path towards a sustainable future WE want.
Additional links:
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NASA's Curiosity rover undergoes testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2011. A new rover planned for launch in 2020 would use Curiosity's basic design, NASA says.
NASA today announced a $1.5 billion plan to build another Mars rover based on the design of its current Curiosity rover, with the intention of sending it to the Red Planet in 2020 and perhaps storing up samples for later return to Earth.
The move comes less than a year after the space agency said it couldn't afford to contribute $1.4 billion to the European-led Exomars missions, and it seems likely to stir new debate within the planetary science community. Hoped-for missions to other interplanetary destinations, such as the Jovian moon Europa, could conceivably be impacted further by the revised plans for Mars exploration.
John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters, insisted that the budget could handle the new commitment. "This mission concept fits within the current and projected Mars exploration budget, builds on the exciting discoveries of Curiosity, and takes advantage of a favorable launch opportunity," he said in a NASA news release.
He said the future rover would be built on the same basic design used for the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in August, and thus capitalize on the work that was done during Curiosity's development for its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission. Like Curiosity, the new rover would be nuclear-powered, thanks to a spare radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Grunsfeld said the use of spare parts and existing designs would result in cost savings.
"It's the availability of the spare parts, but also the people, the engineering that went into building Curiosity that we still have," he told reporters.
Grunsfeld announced the plan during a town-hall session at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco. Based on Twitter updates from the meeting, reaction was deeply mixed. "NASA town meeting audience is very quiet," Lindy Elkins-Tanton of the Carnegie Institution of Washington tweeted. "I think we are all in shock."
Projected budget cuts have cast a pall of uncertainty over future plans for interplanetary probes, but the idea of bringing samples back from Mars for study on Earth is on top of planetary scientists' priority list for the next decade. Grunsfeld told his AGU audience that the rover could have the capability to gather and store samples for later return, depending on how its science mission is defined. NASA said a science definition team would be selected to outline the mission's objectives, and that the selection of payload and scientific instruments for the mission would then be openly competed.
NASA said the mission would also help lay the groundwork for human exploration of Mars.
"The Obama administration is committed to a robust Mars exploration program," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in today's statement. "With this next mission, we're ensuring America remains the world leader in the exploration of the Red Planet, while taking another significant step toward sending humans there in the 2030s."
Two rovers are currently in operation on Mars — Curiosity and Opportunity. Meanwhile, three working spacecraft are orbiting the Red Planet: the European Space Agency's Mars Express as well as NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey orbiter. Next year, NASA is due to launch the $500 million MAVEN orbiter to study Mars' upper atmosphere. In 2016, NASA plans to send a $425 million lander called InSight to delve into Mars' depths.
NASA also plans to participate in the European Space Agency's Exomars program by contributing radios for an orbiter and lander due for launch in 2016, as well as scientific apparatus for a 2018 rover. But the space agency had to trim back its commitment to Exomars early this year, in large part due to the need to cover cost overruns on the James Webb Space Telescope. The Russian Space Agency is filling the gap left by NASA's pullback.
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who has been critical of past cutbacks in NASA's planetary science program, applauded the plan announced today.
"In its few short months on Mars, Curiosity has broadened our understanding of our planetary neighbor, and the findings announced thus far point to even greater discoveries as Curiosity continues to explore Gale Crater and Mount Sharp," Schiff said in a written statement. "An upgraded rover with additional instrumentation and capabilities is a logical next step that builds upon now-proven landing and surface operations systems."
However, Schiff said he favored launching the rover in 2018 — when the alignment of Earth and Mars is more favorable, permitting the launch of a heavier payload. "I will be working with NASA, the White House and my colleagues in Congress to see whether advancing the launch date is possible, and what it would entail," he said.
More about Mars:
- Rover finds organic compounds, but are they from Mars?
- Plastic beads on Mars: Rise and fall of a NASA spoof site
- Curiosity captures spooky self-portraits
- Mars rover driving through dried-up riverbed
- More news about Curiosity's mission
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SAN CLEMENTE – A bus driver was arrested in December on suspicion of driving a San Clemente route while under the influence, Orange County Transportation Authority officials said on Thursday.
Sheriff's officials identified Kerri Harper, 41, as the driver arrested Dec. 20 by a deputy responding to reports that she was driving under the influence.
No one on the bus was injured, and a replacement driver and supervisor were sent to make sure the route was continued, OCTA spokeswoman Laura Scheper said.
According to the Sheriff's Department's online blotter, the incident was reported shortly before 10 a.m. near North El Camino Real and Avenida Estacion.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Gail Krause said Harper was booked into Orange County Jail, then was cited and released the next morning, according to department records.
The driver was a "coach operator" for MV Transportation, with which OCTA contracts to run some routes, Scheper said. MV Transportation drivers are required to follow the same guidelines as OCTA-employed drivers, Scheper added, which means they come under a zero-tolerance drug and alcohol policy.
The driver was "immediately removed from service and subsequently fired by MV Transportation," Scheper said.
Following the incident, senior OCTA management members attended "morning pull-outs" at all of the agency's bases "to speak directly with the bus operators and reinforce safety requirements," Scheper said.
A "strong management presence" at the OCTA bases was kept over the weekend and the week after the arrest, and the OCTA drug and alcohol policy was updated to increase the amount of random testing of its employees to 20 percent from 10 percent annually, Scheper said.
OCTA officials also notified MV Transportation that it would be required to provide a summary of each driver's safety record and disciplinary status after any accident, Scheper added.
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What is Radiation?
September 25, 2015
Radiation is energy travelling through space.
Sunshine is one of the most familiar forms of radiation. It delivers light, heat and suntans. While enjoying and depending on it, we control our exposure to it.
Beyond ultraviolet radiation from the sun are higher-energy kinds of radiation which are used in medicine and which we all get in low doses from space, from the air, and from the earth and rocks.
Collectively we can refer to these kinds of radiation as ionising radiation. It can cause damage to matter, particularly living tissue. At high levels it is therefore dangerous, so it is necessary to control our exposure.
While we cannot feel this radiation, it is readily detected and measured, and exposure can easily be monitored.
Living things have evolved in an environment which has significant levels of ionising radiation.
Furthermore, many people owe their lives and health to such radiation produced artificially. Medical and dental X-rays discern hidden problems. Other kinds of ionising radiation are used to diagnose ailments, and some people are treated with radiation to cure disease.
Ionising radiation, such as occurs from uranium ores and nuclear wastes, is part of our human environment, and always has been so. At high levels it is hazardous, but at low levels such as we all experience naturally, it is harmless. Considerable effort is devoted to ensuring that those working with nuclear power are not exposed to harmful levels of radiation from it. Standards for the general public are set about 20 times lower still, well below the levels normally experienced by any of us from natural sources.
Background radiation
Background radiation is that ionizing radiation which is naturally and inevitably present in our environment. Levels of this can vary greatly. People living in granite areas or on mineralised sands receive more terrestrial radiation than others, while people living or working at high altitudes receive more cosmic radiation. A lot of our natural exposure is due to radon, a gas which seeps from the Earth's crust and is present in the air we breathe.
Radioactivity in material
Apart from the normal measures of mass and volume, the amount of radioactive material is measured in Becquerel (Bq), which enables us to compare the typical radioactivity of some natural and other materials. A Becquerel is one atomic decay per second, so a household smoke detector with 30,000 Bq contains enough americium to produce that many disintegrations per second. A kilogram of coffee or granite might have 1000 Bq of activity, and an adult human 7000 Bq. Each atomic disintegration produces some ionising radiation.
Ionising radiation – alpha, beta and gamma
Ionising radiation comes from the nuclei of atoms, the basic building blocks of matter. Most atoms are stable, but certain atoms change or disintegrate into totally new atoms. These kinds of atoms are said to be 'unstable' or 'radioactive'. An unstable atom has excess internal energy, with the result that the nucleus can undergo a spontaneous change. This is called 'radioactive decay'.We all experience radiation from natural sources every day
An unstable nucleus emits excess energy as radiation in the form of gamma rays or fast-moving sub-atomic particles. If it decays with emission of an alpha or beta particle, it becomes a new element and may emit gamma rays at the same time. One can describe the emissions as gamma, beta and alpha radiation. All the time, the atom
is progressing in one or more steps towards a stable state where it is no longer radioactive.
Alpha particles consist of two protons and two neutrons, in the form of atomic nuclei. Alpha particles are doubly charged (arising from the charge of the two protons). This charge and the relatively slow speed and high mass of alpha particles means that they interact more readily with matter than beta particles or gamma rays and lose their energy quickly. They therefore have little penetrating power and can be stopped by the first layer of skin or a sheet of paper. But inside the body they can inflict more severe biological damage than other types of radiation.
Beta particles are fast-moving electrons ejected from the nuclei of many kinds of radioactive atoms. These particles are singly charged (the charge of an electron), are lighter and ejected at a much higher speed than alpha particles. They can penetrate up to 1 to 2 centimetres of water or human flesh. They can be stopped by a sheet of aluminium a few millimetres thick.
Gamma rays, like light, represent energy transmitted in a wave without the movement of material, just like heat and light. Gamma rays and X-rays are virtually identical except that X-rays are produced artificially rather than coming from the atomic nucleus. But unlike light, these rays have great penetrating power and can pass through the human body. Mass in the form of concrete, lead or water is used to shield us from them.
Ionising radiation
The effective dose of all these kinds of radiation is measured in a unit called the Sievert, although most doses are in millisieverts (mSv) – one-thousandth of a Sievert. We each receive about 2 mSv per year from natural background, and maybe more from medical procedures. Anything less than about 100 mSv is harmless.


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The Price of Mexico's Drug War is Too Damn High
Turns out, when you declare war on something, there's a solid chance a lot of people are going to die because of it. In Mexico's case, their War on the Cartels has killed roughly 60,000 in the last five years or so and has accomplished well, a lot less than 60k people could produce in a lifetime. This animated infographic from Jess Bachman at Visual.ly explains just how FUBAR the situation really is. [Boing Boing]
How to Build a Bike Shop in an Industrial Meat Locker
Bike maker SRAM got a great deal on a building in Chicago's old meat-packing district but there was one hitch. The building used to be used for cold storage and had since filled with frost—like the ginormous freezer it is—since the plant last operated. Check out what it takes defrost a ten story ice cube. [Perkins & Will via Neatorama]
Here's a brief smattering of all the cool shit you're missing out on in life while melted to your couch.
You Owe It to the Internet to Watch This Legomation Castlevania Movie
What, it's not like you don't have 2:30 to kill watching KastleVania 4 - Vanian Legenda; the movie, based on the game, based on the toy, based on the true story, based on the novelty Denny's meal. [Nerd Approved]
Glass Machine - My Great Ghost
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I'm pleased to announce my poem "Bone Music" was published in the new Winter 2018 issue of Contrary Magazine.
This poem is the second to be published from a series of personal poems about healing and recovery. Two years ago my son (21 at the time) was in a horrible accident in which he was hit on his bicycle by someone in a pickup truck in downtown Salt Lake City. He nearly lost his life. Recovery was difficult, but he made it through and I'm grateful every day that he's still here with us. It took me a long time to begin writing about the incident, even now, the writing and processing continues.
Contrary is a paying market and is currently open to submissions until March 1, 2018. They publish fiction, poetry, and commentary.
I was curious how and why this magazine began, so I asked Poetry Editor Shaindel Beers a few questions to find out. See my interview with Beers and a link to submission guidelines below.
HOPKINSON: Tell me a little bit about Contrary Magazine.
BEERS: Jeff McMahon and I started Contrary in 2003, and we've evolved a bit since the early days, but our goal is to publish the best work we can find, whatever the genre.
HOPKINSON: How/why was Contrary Magazine originally started?
BEERS: If I remember correctly, I think it was started on a whim. Jeff and I were both on University of Chicago email lists for alumni, and he mentioned to me that my name would look great on the cover of a book. I had just been published in a literary journal and asked him if the back cover counted and sent him a copy. He must have liked my story because he emailed that he'd been thinking of starting a journal and wanted to know if I would co-edit it with him. Fifteen years later, here we are.
The internet was pretty new-fangled then, and we had a lot of writers who were reluctant to publish online, so it's been amazing to see the shift over the years of online journals becoming more and more popular.
HOPKINSON: What type of work are you looking for?
BEERS: All I can say is send us your best work. There are so many poems that are just a gut-punch. They get you right there. For me, that's what does it. We publish fiction and creative nonfiction as well. Frances Badgett is the Fiction Editor, and Jeff McMahon edits Creative Nonfiction. They might have something more intellectual to say, but since you're interviewing me, I'll just leave it at we're just looking for work that blows us away.
HOPKINSON: What do you wish you'd see submitted, but rarely comes in?
BEERS: We get a lot of phenomenal work, so this is a tough question to answer. The work that doesn't make the cut is often work that just needs to be pared down. It might just have too much clutter for me to get the essence of the poem. I like poems that take chances. I know they're out there. Keep sending them.
HOPKINSON: What are some of your favorite lit mags/journals?
BEERS: There are so many good ones. I really like Tahoma Literary Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Iron Horse Literary Review. I think it's important to read widely and to see who is publishing diverse voices and work that you find exciting.
HOPKINSON: Where can folks send submissions?
BEERS: All of the links are here: http://contrarymagazine.com/submissions-2/
HOPKINSON: If someone has a question, how can they contact you?
BEERS: Our "Contact Us" form is right here: http://contrarymagazine.com/contact/
Click here to read submission guidelines.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2018
FORMAT: digitally online
SUBMISSION FEE: None
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When I first got interested in bookbinding – after watching and reading a few tutorials, I had three issues;
What do I need to get?
Where can I get this stuff?
What do all these tools do, what are they for?
Whenever you start a new hobby it is hard to know where to look for help and what questions to ask. So for anyone interested in starting bookbinding, here are the tools and equipment that I most use and some resource links for suppliers.
Cutting Mat;I use an A3 Jakar cutting mat, available from scrapbook stores
Knives: Stanley S.M.18 for board and S.M.9 for lighter papers
Spare Blades;S.M.9 knife needs blades 11.300 and S.M.18 knife needs blades 11.301. Cutting board blunts your knife really fast. For a clean cut, change blades often. These knives are available in DIY stores (B&Q in the UK)
Rulers;A steel ruler is essential for cutting board/paper. Your sharp knife would cut into a plastic ruler.For measuring I use Judikins rulers; GT013 is imperial and GT014 is in metric. The Judikins rulers have lines across their surface to make lining up across boards etc easy. Quilting rulers such as Omnigrid would be a good alternative and are available in longer lengths. Fiskars also make quilting rulers. These are available in scrapbook stores or material shops.
Bone Folder; Historically these were made of actual bone, and you still can get 'bone' folders. I prefer a plastic one easily available in scrapbook stores. You can also get Teflon folders, these are useful if you want to use book cloth and wheat paste as they don't leave shiny marks on the cloth surface when you burnish. Until you get serious, a plastic bone folder will be fine.
Pencil:I use a H grade pencil, it doesn't blunt as fast and leaves a fine line. Accuracy, with measuring, marking and cutting is vital with bookbinding. A softer grade pencil will soon wear down and you will end up leaving a line of a couple of millimeters thick. This leaves far too much scope for cutting your board/paper too wide or too narrow.
Binders Clips or clothes pegs; Sometimes you need extra pairs of hands and binders clips or clothes pegs do help hold things in place when you aren't blessed with extra arms.
All the products listed so far will be suitable for what ever kind of bookbinding you get into. The next set of items you will need in addition to the original list if you wish to sew your books together. Not all binds are sewn, some are glued or taped.
Piercing Tool;Often listed as an awl. Before you sew your pages together it is helpful to pre-pierce them in advance. I use Making Memories Deluxe Paper Piercer; Item #23454. This is a great tool, one end is the paper piercer, the other a needle threader, which unscrews off the end and there are needles stored in the barrel of the tool. How heavy a tool you need for piercing your signatures (collection of pages, nested in each other), will depend on the material you have used for your pages. Heavy paper or card will need a heavier tool. The thing to remember is that you don't want to make a hole any larger than the needle you will be sewing up your book with, or your bind will be loose. Try looking for this tool in scrapbooking stores.
Needles:I use John James Bookbinders Size No 18 Article no L4303. The size of needle will depend on the thickness of your thread. The size number is based on the size of the eye of the needle. I got mine from Falkiner's
Foam Mat;I pierce through my signatures into a foam mat. The mat is placed onto a cutting mat to prevent damage to the table I'm working on. Use a dense foam – like the kind on the back of a mouse mat. My mat is 1cm thick, and is from a stamping/scrapbooking store. Some packaging uses this kind of foam, my small piece was an insert from packaging.
Linen Thread;Your choice on the thickness of linen thread you need, will depend on a) the size of your book and b) the weight of materials used. Small books with light paper are ok with thinner thread. Large books of those with heavy paper/card for pages will need a thicker thread. I make A7 and A6 sized books and used Barbour linen thread, No 25 cord 3 for lighter projects and No 18 cord 3 for slightly heavier projects. It isn't easy to get coloured thread in the UK, so I buy natural coloured unwaxed thread, which I colour to match my project.
Beeswax;You will get a better finish to your binding by running your linen thread over beeswax. The thread will repel moisture which helps the thread last longer, the wax helps knots hold and if you have used waterbased colour to colour thread, wax will seal that colour in.
There is more to this article, but its getting a bit long for one day! Please come back tomorrow where I will continue the list and also give links to suppliers. If you are in a rush, there are some suppliers listed on the bookbinding tab, at the top of this blog.
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
Billie 🙂


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Yesterday the vet came out and cleared P to go back to work. She said he'd need a shoe on before he can really do anything, as one front shoe and one boot makes for unevenness. But I hopped on him last night anyway and we did a little 10 minute walk/trot, for which he was PERFECT.
So naturally, this morning I got this text from BO:
I mean…COME.ON.
But you know what? Whatever. I've pretty much made my peace that P will not be my main competition mount any longer, so there's really no pressure to get him back doing anything. Maybe I'll text the farrier…maybe not (who are we kidding, we all know I will).
Before I rode P last night, I rode C, who has now been sound for 4 days in a row. Last night I had to force myself to get off- he felt energetic and strong, which was quite different from when he arrived. He's older so after talking with our vet and his regular vet, we're putting him on Previcox just to make him extra comfy. But it appears the initial lameness he experienced was due to a stone bruise that is hopefully a thing of the past. If he can't hold up to work, he'll go back to his owner and I'll be on the lookout for a permanent replacement.
So after I got the text from BO about P, I was all, "At least I have C & S to ride."
Then I went to CrossFit…just like I do nearly every day. And we did lots of tall box jumps…of which I have done thousands over the past few years with nary a scrape. But today…today was the day my right leg was all, "JUMP!" and my left was like, "Nah, you go ahead."
So not only is my horse hobbling around like a cripple, but now I am also. And I had told myself that I would ride C every day this week to make sure he could stay sound and I had told BO that I would stay later at the barn tonight to ride S as well.
So as not to scare small children (the Tiniest Dictator asked me if my leg was going to fall off), I'm wearing super loose fitting pants to work and every time fabric so much as brushes against the gash, I want to die. So how I'm going to put on breeches and half chaps on is beyond me.
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Let $d\geq 1$ be a fixed integer, and $\mathbb{Z}^d$ be the lattice of all integers; consider the set $A_d \subset [-1,1]$ defined by $$ \alpha \in A_d \ \iff \ \alpha=\frac{v \cdot w}{\|v\| \|w\|} \mbox{ for some } \ v,w \in \mathbb{Z}^d $$ Of course $A_d$ is a set of quadratic irrationals and $\overline{A_d}=[-1,1]$.
Question: is it possible to caracterize all values that belong to $A_d$?
In other words, can one caracterize all angles which occour between two integer vectors? For instance: are there two integer vectors in the plane which form an angle of $\pi/3$?
PS: this problem comes from the question of a collegue, who wants to cook different versions of a linear algebra test for undergraduate students in such a way that computations are different, but equally simple (I guess the question has already been raised and solved - but I am not an expert).


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I can actually say that this morning I feel that autumn has come. For the nature lover, autumn is a special time. Each day brings changes as autumn creeps slowly across the land. The careful observer cannot help but sense the beauties and mysteries that happen in Iowa this time of the year. Each activity, though small, is part of a larger story called autumn.
Already we are seeing flocks of blackbirds making their way south. Also it seems we are having more gusty winds from the north-west, which really makes our linden tree shed many of it's leaves.
For some people, autumn is a sad time, a time of passing when the life of one year ends and another begins. But autumn should also be a glad time, a time of a good and bountiful harvest, the beauty of the changing colors, and the rush of activity as wildlife prepares for the bleak winter. It's the activity and color that provide the most striking elements about the outdoors in autumn. Each person has his or her way of seeing beauty, but for most of us it seems to be the sense of color and activity. Some feelings seem to be pure observation but subconsciously really comes from being there. That is why I like living where there is the four seasons,
One thing I have noticed this year is the absence of the Monarch butterflies. Usually around this time of the year we see more Monarchs that we are seeing this year. They travel on wind currents and scientists' think that may have something to do with it. In the fall they are floating on the Iowa wind and southward on flights that will take them home to hillsides in a region of Mexico. How they know where to migrate every year and how they travel so far on fragile wings are two mysteries of nature. Monarchs only travel during the day and when sunset is close they find a place to rest during the night. They especially like evergreen trees because of the thick foliage and one year we had them come by the thousands to spend the night in one of our evergreen trees-what a sight! Instead of thinking of the cold weather coming, just enjoy autumn.
Cooler weather calls for hearty meals and here is a recipe that is fork tender and richly flavored.
1-1/2 lbs. boneless
chuck, cut into 1-1/2″
2 Tablespoons vegetable
2 large baking potatoes,
cut into 1″ pieces
2 large onions, peeled
and chopped
4 large carrots, cut into
1″ inch pieces
1 large turnip, cut into 1″
pieces (optional)
3 Tablespoons flour
1 cup beef broth
1 cup of burgundy wine
3 bay leaves
1 teaspoon fresh basil,
1 lb. can tomatoes,
drained and chopped
Brown the beef in hot vegetable oil in a large stew pot. Add all the vegetables, except the tomatoes, and saut over low-medium heat for about 5 minutes. Sprinkle the flour over the meat and vegetables and stir to coat. Add broth, wine and seasonings. Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to low and simmer, covered for 1 1/2 hours until meat is very tender, stirring occasionally.
AUTUMN: "Loveliest time of a lovely year."


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announced that California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, Nevada, New York, and Vermont received in total more than $765 million in new grants to support the establishment of state health insurance exchanges.
These grants give states additional resources and flexibility to invest in technology services and skills that they need to establish online exchanges, which must be operational by Jan. 1, 2014. The federal government has already provided more than $1 billion to assist with state insurance exchange development.
Developing state exchange websites presents complex technological considerations as the exchanges aggregate data from federal and state agencies as well as from health plans, consumers, and employers, noted Janice Young, program director for analyst firm IDC's health research.
"Building state insurance exchanges is one of the most significant new initiatives in healthcare insurance in recent decades. Exchanges support entirely new programs, processes, customers, information and data, much of which has yet to be clarified," Young said. "The integration issues can't be understated because a lot of information, including eligibility and financial data, needs to be available as individuals participate in these programs."
Several states have outlined how they intend to use their funds to bolster their technological capabilities. Iowa, for example, will use its $27 million grant to conduct focus groups and stakeholder outreach regarding user interface design and program development, and continue to plan and develop an integrated, automated eligibility system.
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The resulting Iowa Health Benefit Exchange (IHBE) will offer one-stop shopping both for individuals and employers looking to purchase and enroll in healthcare plans. Specifically, Iowa will use its grant money to:
-- Redesign the current database and Web application to develop an intuitive website for residents and businesses.
-- Implement an enterprise service bus, a software model used for interacting between software applications.
-- Integrate the eligibility system into the state's system for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program.
-- Integrate the eligibility system into the IHBE to facilitate the determination of Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, as well as tax credit subsidies or other eligibility for qualified health plan participation.
-- Further automate eligibility business processes and incorporate expanding populations into online enrollment.
New York will use its $95 million grant to hire executive leadership that will work toward developing the exchange in several areas. The state expects to:
-- Further improve the IT systems needed to operate the exchange
-- Continue work to establish New York's All Payer Claims Database and develop the back-end operations of the exchange call center to provide customer support and other consumer assistance activities.
-- Design a campaign to educate prospective users in preparation for open enrollment in October.
Vermont will use the $104 million it is receiving mainly to develop IT systems that can run its state exchange and ensure interoperability with other state healthcare systems built as part of the greater eligibility modernization project. It will hire additional IT staff, implement an outreach and training program, and review its organizational structure to make sure the enrollment process is easy both for consumers and employers.
According to the HHS, California, Hawaii, Iowa, and New York were awarded Level One Exchange Establishment grants, which provide one year of funding to states that have begun the process of building their exchange. Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, and Vermont were awarded Level Two Establishment grants, which HHS awards to states that are further along in building their exchanges. These grants provide funding over multiple years.
Through state exchanges, consumers are able to apply for health insurance online and learn if they are eligible for tax credits, cost-sharing reductions, or other healthcare programs such as the Children's Health Insurance Program. Small businesses become eligible to receive tax credits for coverage purchased for employees through the exchange. These competitive marketplaces make purchasing health insurance easier and more understandable and offer consumers and small businesses the benefits of increased competition and choice.
InformationWeek Healthcare brought together eight top IT execs to discuss BYOD, Meaningful Use, accountable care, and other contentious issues. Also in the new, all-digital CIO Roundtable issue: Why use IT systems to help cut medical costs if physicians ignore the cost of the care they provide? (Free with registration.)


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The Hamptons Union, Thursday, November 20, 1913
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Good hydrant streams and little or no wind prevented a conflagration from sweeping over Hampton Beach early Wednesday morning, when fire broke out in the Ashworth Hotel, a four-story wooden structure, erected a year ago last summer. As it was, the hostelry was entirely destroyed, entailing a loss of about $20,000, while several smaller buildings in close proximity were badly scorched and damaged by water. The blaze is believed to be of incendiary origin.
Shortly before midnight Mr. O'Dea, who lives near the hotel was awakened by the light of flames shining in his bedroom window. On looking out he discovered that the exterior of the cook room in the rear of the hotel was all ablaze.
The alarm was quickly given and soon the winter residents of the Beach were manning the fire apparatus and several streams of water were being played onto the flames. The fire, however, had made such a headway before being discovered that it was found impossible to save the hotel and efforts were directed by the firefighters on the buildings nearby.
At one time it was thought that nothing could stay the progress of the blaze toward Hampton Casino, but determined efforts on the part of the volunteer crew, augmented by Capt. Charles and members of the Salisbury Beach Life Saving Station, who were rushed to the scene in an automobile when the light of the fire was discovered, kept the blaze in check and the all out signal was given about 1:15 o'clock.
Mr. Ashworth, the proprietor, reached the scene soon after the fire started. From him it was learned that nobody has been living in the building for a number of weeks, and from the fact that the fire was first discovered burning from outside, leads belief that the blaze was set.
Three other houses, one of them owned by Mr. Ashworth, adjoining the burned property, caught afire several times, but steady streams of water prevented their destruction. The houses, however, were badly damaged by the flames and the large quantity of water thrown into them.
"The Breezes," owned by E. Janvrin was damaged to the extent of $500.
The building, with its white pillars, was one of the finest hotels on the Beach. It was situated a short distance to the north of the Casino.
The light of the fire lighted up the whole northeastern sky and was plainly seen from Newburyport.
At one time it was thought that the whole Beach was doomed.
It is uncertain as to whether Mr. Ashworth will rebuild. His loss is a heavy one, amounting to more than $10,000 in excess of his insurance.
Editor's note: The Ashworth was rebuilt for the next season but it, too, fell victim to the flames in the big Hampton Beach conflagration of 1915. A third Ashworth was promptly constructed and still stands to this day. [2005]


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Think about biofuels for a minute. Now, what comes to mind? Ethanol? Biodiesel? If your knowledge of biofuel ends there, you're certainly not alone. But with the book Why Are We Producing Biofuels?, father-son co-authors Robert and Tristan Brown delve into the subject in a way designed for all audiences to comprehend. So even if you're not a scientist, you'll walk away with an understanding of the social and scientific importance of biofuels.
As one of the "Top 100 People in Bioenergy," Robert Brown knows his biofuels, while attorney Tristan Brown knows the ins and outs of the social and political issues concerning the subject. And we're lucky to have them both at Iowa State — Robert as the Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering, and Tristan as a research associate at Iowa State's Bioeconomy Institute.
Authorities. Specialists. Thought leaders. No matter how you describe them, this much is true: Iowa State is full of experts who are known and respected around the world for everything from biofuels and business to architecture and apparel design. At Iowa State, students get the opportunity to learn from professors who are experts in their field. Which goes a long way to help those students become leaders.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vince Carter had 22 points and nine rebounds and Dirk Nowitzki scored 16 points to help the Dallas Mavericks to a 100-77 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night.
Brandan Wright added 13 points and seven rebounds for the Mavericks, who have won three straight and four of their last five in a last-ditch push for the playoffs. They entered the day in 11th place in the West, three games out of the eighth spot.
Derrick Williams had 18 points and nine rebounds for the lethargic Timberwolves, who had no energy on the second night of a tough back-to-back that started in Denver. J.J. Barea scored 16 points, but Minnesota's bench managed just six other points. The Wolves are 6-25 since Kevin Love broke his hand for the second time on Jan. 8.
The Mavericks have boasted one of the league's best benches all season, entering the game third in the NBA in bench scoring at 40.7 points per game. With Shawn Marion out for the second straight game with an injured left calf and leading scorer O.J. Mayo held to eight points, Dallas needed another strong night from that group, and got it.
Elton Brand had 10 points and 12 boards and Darren Collison added nine points and eight assists. They topped 50 bench points for the 12th time this season, and Carter led the way once again.
The Timberwolves, playing with only nine healthy players, were victims of the schedule as well. They played in Denver on Saturday night, then essentially lost two hours with the time zone change and Daylight Savings. Most players and coaches didn't get home until after 4 a.m. on Sunday, then had to be at the arena an hour sooner than normal for an early start to the game.
Both teams were stuck in mud early, but the Mavericks turned it on when the reserves came in. Carter hit six of his seven shots in the first half, including three 3s. He outscored the Wolves bench 15-8 by himself in the first half, and two from deep during a 16-2 run put Dallas in control.
Nowitzki missed the first 27 games of the season while recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, and it's been a long, gradual climb back to the Dirk he was before the surgery. That buttery jumper is steadily getting homed in. He hit 7 of 13 shots on Sunday, the eighth time he's shot at least 50 percent in the last month.
The rust isn't entirely off, though. Early in the third quarter, Nowitzki came off a screen for his patented pick-and-pop on the baseline. He had the ball for a wide-open jumper, raised up, then landed without releasing the ball for a traveling violation. He head-butted the ball to the official to acknowledge his brain cramp and headed back up the floor.
It mattered little against the woeful Wolves, who shot 36 percent and were outrebounded 59-40.
NOTES: Mayo also had eight rebounds and seven assists and was able to play through a right ankle injury in the third quarter. … Wolves G Alexey Shved's horrendous slump continued with an 0-for-7 night. … Barea was 6 for 15. The rest of the Wolves bench was 2 for 15. … Mickael Gelabale had 13 points for Minnesota.
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One way to think of a bedroom is as that space where you can remove yourself from the rest of the world, relax and remain disconnected from everything outside while you recharge for the next day. How better to do that than by (literally) hanging out in a box (designed by ECDM) that is physically separated from the rest of your home?
Complete with bed and television, this clever box bedroom is in many ways a central element within this place – defining and displacing space around it, making its presence known on all sides but also positively shaping circulation around it.
However, while it exists in such a central location it is also completely concealed from the primary living area below – as secluded as one could ever need to be and completely safe inside on a bed inside of a steel box hanging from the ceiling.
Moreover, when not in use as a sleeping space the lip of the bedroom provides comfortable-height informal bench seating for guests. Why just loft your bed when you can simply loft your entire bedroom?


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