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Dragonair celebrated the launch of its twice-daily service between Hong Kong and Taichung with a cocktail reception held in Taichung city on 28 May. More than 100 guests, including government officials, travel trade and tourism partners, frequent flyers and media representatives, attended the event, which was hosted by the airline's Chief Executive Officer Patrick Yeung.
Mr Yeung was joined by guest of honour Jason Hu, the Mayor of Taichung, and General Manager Taiwan & Korea Vivian Lo to officiate at the ceremony. Among the other distinguished guests was John Leung, Director of the Hong Kong Economic, Trade & Cultural Office.
Speaking at the event, Mr Yeung said: "Taiwan is a very important market for Dragonair and the Taichung service will further boost traffic between Taiwan and Hong Kong. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the authorities in both locations for their great support in getting our Taichung operation up and running smoothly.
"2012 is an exciting year for Dragonair as we expand our network through the addition of at least seven destinations. In addition to Taichung, we have already launched a new service to Jeju in Korea and resumed flights to Xi'an and Guilin. We'll also start new services to Clark in the Philippines tomorrow [29 May], Chiang Mai in Thailand in July, and Kolkata, India, this winter. Dragonair's network will extend to 40 cities in the Asia-Pacific region, further consolidating Hong Kong's position as an international aviation hub," added Mr Yeung.
Dragonair General Manager Taiwan & Korean Vivian Lo said: "Central Taiwan, and Taichung City in particular, is a market with great potential. The Taichung service not only provides passengers with more choice and greater convenience for travel between Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it also offers better connectivity to the extensive regional network of Dragonair and the worldwide network of our sister airline Cathay Pacific."
Dragonair had a charter service to Taichung between 2007 and 2009. The airline's twice-daily service between Hong Kong and Taichung, operated by Airbus A320 aircraft, began on 14 May. Dragonair now operates 77 passenger services out of Taiwan every week, covering three major cities, namely Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung.


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Paying the Price: The Economic Cost of Failing to Educate Girls
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This report presents a new analysis of the economic cost of failing to educate girls. Based on World Bank research and economic data and UNESCO education statistics, it estimates the economic cost to 65 low and middle income and transitional countries of failing to educate girls to the same standard as boys as a staggering US$92 billion each year. This is just less than the $103 billion annual overseas development aid budget of the developed world.

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Parachutes are designed to create as much drag as possible. So why do parachutes have holes in them?
When a human falls to earth (whether silently like Wile E. Coyote or while issuing the famous Wilhelm Scream), the earth's gravitational pull accelerates them faster and faster. In a vacuum, this would be the only force working upon them. Since most people on earth don't fall through a vacuum, gravity isn't the only force at work on them. The faster they move, the more quickly they're shoving down air molecules on their way to the ground. Those air molecules provide a counter-force to the push of the body against them. This counter force is air resistance.
The faster gravity accelerates the person, the more air resistance they encounter. The more air resistance they encounter, the slower they fall. Eventually an equilibrium is reached between the downward acceleration caused by gravity and the upward push caused by air resistance. This is called terminal velocity. It's the point at which a body will fall no faster.
For a free-falling human without a parachute, terminal velocity lives up to its name in more ways than one. Few people survive a long fall to the ground. Enter the parachute. It spreads out over a huge area, causing a falling person to displace much more air as they fall. Since more air molecules are being shoved down by the fabric of the parachute, the parachute – and the person attached to it – get pushed upwards in return. The equilibrium of terminal velocity is once again reached, but this time it's a velocity that's survivable. All because of the drag of the parachute.
So if that drag is so important, if pushing down as much air as possible is the key to slowing a fall, it doesn't make sense that round parachutes have holes in them. The holes let air slip through and continue on its way without slowing the jumper down.
It's easier to understand why parachutes have holes when observing laundry hung out on a line on a windy day. A large sheet will be pushed upwards by the wind. Gentle breezes make it billow at the center, looking a little like a parachute. When winds pick up, the sheet will start to move more erratically. First the one corner, then the other, will flip outwards in the wind. This will make the sheet start twisting one way, then another. The more violent the wind, the more the sheet will twist, as each corner in turn flaps out to relieve the pressure from the wind.
This looks peaceful enough if watched from one side. If watched from below, it's more ominous. If air can't easily move in a way that won't disturb the billowing shape parachute, it will rush out one side, then another. This will make the parachute twist unpredictably, and make it hard for the parachute operator to control the jump. If the twisting gets bad enough, the parachute will collapse. The sides will flip up and then central bulge will snap shut like a fan, leaving the jumper in free fall with some string and loose fabric attached. Building in a weak point that can be controlled is better than insisting on invulnerability that can't.


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PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - April 15, 2009) - FLIR Systems, Inc. (
) announced today that it has received orders totaling $11.4 million from NSWC, Crane Division for its BRITE Star® II multi-sensor target designation systems. The orders were pursuant to a previously announced $125.3 million, five year requirements contract. The units delivered under these orders will be used by the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy for various missions.
Work will be performed at FLIR's facilities in Wilsonville, OR. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2010 and conclude in 2011.
"These new orders under the existing contract further demonstrate FLIR's position as a leading, world-class supplier of sophisticated, EO/IR laser designation systems," said Earl R. Lewis, President and CEO of FLIR Systems, Inc. "We are pleased the Navy and Marine Corps have selected FLIR products for their critical missions."
Forward-Looking Statements
The statements in this release by Earl R. Lewis, and the other statements in this release about the orders described above, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including the following: the ability to manufacture and deliver the systems referenced in this release, changes in demand for the Company's products, product mix, the timing of deliveries under the orders discussed above, the impact of competitive products and pricing, constraints on supplies of critical components, excess or shortage of production capacity, the ability of the Company to manufacture and ship products in the time period required, actual purchases under agreements, the Company's continuing compliance with US export control laws and regulations, the timely receipt of export licenses for international shipments, the continuing eligibility of the Company to act as a federal contractor, and other risks discussed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. In addition, such statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general domestic and international economic conditions. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release, or for changes made to this document by wire services or Internet service providers.
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US Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark
In the aftermath of World War II the United States' position as an emerging global superpower required an increased diplomatic presence abroad. In the thirty years subsequent to the war a profusion of embassies, consulates and staff housing was constructed throughout Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. These embassies were designed to be outward expressions of American ideals and were A-historical, often in stark contrast to other foreign diplomatic offices. With these projects, which were overseen by the U.S. State Department's Foreign Building Operations (FBO) agency, architecture was used as a vehicle to promote the United States as a political and cultural force asserting an idea of a young, progressive and modern nation. The projects were given to private architecture firms that were contracted with the State Department in an attempt to create a diversity of architecturally significant works.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Copenhagen was within the first wave of the new postwar embassy projects planned by the FBO. Preceded by embassy projects in Rio de Janeiro (1948-1952), Havana (1950-1952) and Madrid (1952-1954), when Ralph Rapson was charged with designing embassies in The Hague, Stockholm and Copenhagen the program for a modern embassy was still largely debatable. The convention of relating an embassy to an ambassador's residences was outmoded, with the post-war geopolitical environment mandating an increase in diplomatic office space and modern facilities. In retrospect of his Scandinavian embassies, Rapson detailed that he was unfamiliar at the time with contemporaneous embassy projects, stating that he had never even seen photographs of the embassies in Rio or Havana. Rapson later detailed that the jobs presented unprecedented deign freedom stating, "Mind you, none of these [embassy] jobs had programs…we had virtually no controls on us regarding design" (Loeffler, 75).
The importance of the Stockholm and Copenhagen commissions eventually warranted Raspon's dismissal of the embassy project in The Hague. Moving his offices from the Netherlands to Sweden, Rapson developed compositions concentrating on balancing volume and transparency for both Scandinavian embassies. Capturing the fleeting hours of winter daylight in Northern Europe was deemed important and both projects feature large expanses of glass. In Copenhagen, the site selected for the embassy was constrained and a set of design guidelines was produced by the city that defined the overall envelope of the new building (Hession, 101). Rapson was thus confined to a humble three-stories in order to relate the new embassy to its low rise surroundings. This defied his original design featuring an office tower with a rooftop garden and forced Rapson to fit a large, and yet undefined, program on a small plot of land while still retaining the openness and flow of space that modernity celebrated.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Copenhagen occupies a rectangular site on Osterbrogarden Avenue. The embassy is raised above street level by a series three steps and is set behind an allee of trees. Designed to appear as three suspended rectangular modules, the embassy consists of a two-story office block, a ground floor library and auditorium and a rear ground floor office wing. These spaces are connected through a glazed lobby that is recessed beneath the two-story office block. This office block is supported by a series of regularly spaced piloti. The one-story library and auditorium block is set beneath the office block but projects outwards, while the ground floor one-story office wing is to the rear but extends past the other pieces of the structure and thus can be seen from the street. The two-story office block is clad in a regular rhythm of operable aluminum windows that sit above aluminum spandrel panels. Each floor plate is articulated on the facade by a thin granite stringcourse. The interior spaces are defined by non-load baring wood and glass partition walls in units that allow for easy rearrangement. Due to past alterations the original circulation has been changed. The revolving doors that served as the main entrance to the embassy have been removed and a fence has been interjected in front of the glazed lobby. A new entrance has been built on the front facade that is accessible by a ramp and provides a more secure entrance. There is a metal awning supported by thin metal columns that covers this new entrance.
The Copenhagen embassy is sited on Osterbregade Avenue, which connects the center of Copenhagen with its northern residential suburbs. When the embassy was being designed the City Plan of Copenhagen mandated that the structure maintain a vernacular Scandinavian appearance to tie it in with the Canadian Embassy next door (Hession, 101). However, Rapson and van der Meulen's modern design was eventually approved on the condition that the new building maintained the existing cornice-line of the street and that the main block was set back 23 feet. The embassy was thus constricted in size in order not overwhelm its traditionally scaled and aesthetically similar neighbors.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Copenhagen did not debut any new construction techniques nor did it utilize any new materials in any particularly novel ways. The flexibility of the interior spaces however was dependant on an innovative HVAC system. The ventilation system was designed to avoid using trunk ducts and dropped ceilings along the normal corridor line. Instead, riser ducts at circulation and service centers lead to distribution plenums between the joists and tubular ducts, cast in the floor slab, supplying washed and heated air at each window. From every two four-foot bays a return duct recirculates the air to the risers and fans, so that no room is without the supply and return air (Us embassy building in Copenhagen, Stockholm and paris, 241). The embassy is built on a reinforced concrete frame. Circular columns that are set back from the walls support the main beams that run parallel to the main facade. Smaller joists at right angles are spaced at approximately four-foot intervals. Floors are of a marbleized plastic tile and ceilings are suspended and are a sound-absorbent perforated plaster tile backed with fiberglass and aluminum foil. Offices have fluorescent lighting tubes set in louvered recessed troughs (Us Embassy Building in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Paris, 242).
The Embassy of the Untied states of America in Copenhagen opened to the public on May 27 1954 (Us Embassy Building in Copenhagen, Stolckholm and Paris", 245). Awarded the Danish government's Danish Medal in 1955, the building was well received, with the New York Times declaring, "all modernists in Copenhagen are delighted by the $1,000,000 structure, which took two years to build (Soerensoen, 2). Rapson gained the embassy commissions in Copenhagen, Stockholm and The Hague, through a connection with Hans Knoll. Knoll Associates had been contracted with the FBO in 1951 as consultants, and to provide furnishings, for the U.S. embassy being built in Havana (Hession, 95). Hans Knoll convinced Rapson, then a professor at MIT, to contact Fredrick Larkin and Leland King, the director and assistant director of the FBO. Larkin and Leland had been given the tasks of acquiring sites and architects for each of the new embassy projects. While the FBO was a relatively small department within the US State Department Larkin and King had been granted near sovereignty in regards to site, architect and design selection. A comfortable budget was assured for each project through a variety of funding streams including debt credits incurred under the terms of the Marshall Plan as well as $100 million in credits and $15 million in dollars authorized by congress in 1946 (Loeffler, 50).
In 1951 when Rapson met with Larkin and King in Washington DC plans for embassies in Copenhagen, Stockholm and The Hague were being developed. Less than a month later Rapson was on his way to Europe with all three of the high-profile commissions. In each of the embassies Rapson partnered with fellow American architect John van der Meulen who provided a technical and structural expertise. The FBO insisted that their American architects worked with a local architect in order to navigate foreign codes, zoning, construction procedures and climate for each embassy project. Rapson and van er Meulen were partnered with Swedish architect Andres Tengbom and it was out of Tengbom offices in Stockholm that the Copenhagen and Stockholm embassies were designed (Us Embassy Building in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Paris, 242).
Programmatically, the Copenhagen embassy was developed through loose requirements mandated by the FBO. The concept of a modern embassy however was largely void of precedents in the early 1950s, as previous Embassies had always corresponded with an Ambassador's residence. To better understand the procedures that would eventually take place in the building, Rapson met with and interviewed embassy employees, military attaches and security personnel. Through this it was concluded that the embassy should be "architecturally modern, open and inviting and should function well as a place of business while being bold, dynamic and user-friendly" (Hession , 101). The decision to articulate the United States' political presence abroad in aesthetically modern buildings helped signify the United States as a modern nation whose political structure differed both from the Soviets as well as the old governments of Europe. Ralph Rapson and John van der Meulen's US embassy in Copenhagen demonstrates this concern and was designed to appear open and inclusive with only one entrance for both the general public as well as embassy employees.
Ralph Rapson began his formal architectural education in the 1930s at the University of Michigan. He was educated within the pedagogy of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, which retained a firm position in American architectural schools. Rapson proved to be a gifted student, capable of producing detailed and stylistically distinct drawings with great speed and accuracy, and upon graduation he was granted a two-year scholarship to the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Led at the time by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, the Cranbrook Academy of Art taught students utilizing theories of modernism developed and imported from Europe. Building stagnated during the Great Depression and World War II in the United States and thus Rapson's early work was largely competition based. Along with fellow architects Eero Saarinen and Fred James, Rapson received first place for an entry for a festival theater and fine arts center for the College of William and Mary in 1939 (Hession, xi). The entry represented the first fully modern campus building constructed for an American University. In 1945 Rapson drew wide critical acclaim for his "Greenbelt House" submission to Arts and Architecture magazine's Case Study program for postwar housing. A year later he was elected to an assistant professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and it was from this post that he took leave to design the Scandinavian embassy projects. In its unaltered state The Embassy of the United States of America in Copenhagen would have appeared largely transparent with the library, reading room and auditorium all placed near the entrance and thus widely accessible to the public. These public spaces are articulated in the massing of the embassy making the structure easily understood from the street. The building fits neatly within the postwar canon of modernism that greatly influenced American corporate architecture and brought open plazas, piloti and curtain wall systems to the forefront of design. While originally a constriction opposed by Copenhagen's city planner the low-slung horizontality of the embassy aided the building in retaining a human scale which proved to be an important theme within Rapson's work. The fact that the building was recessed from the street also provided an opportunity to engage with the public, as the allee of trees helped to frame views of the embassy and separate the modern composition from its vernacular surroundings. These considerations created a commentary on the supposed transparency of a democratic government while disassociating the United States with the old vernacular architectural forms, themselves symbols of European empire and the political climate that brought upon World War II.
When The Embassy of the United States of America in Copenhagen was completed in May of 1954 it was generally considered a success. While Rapson and van der Meulen's design was not particularly inventive in its architectural treatment, the embassy's design correlated to the post World War II architectural environment. Rapson, who was 37 when given the Copenhagen embassy commission, had studied architecture during the 1930s at a time when the architectural ideals of the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier were potent (Lathrop, 107). This influence can obviously be seen in the embassy's planar facades, glass and metal grid, and piloti. The most innovative piece of the Copenhagen embassy is in the way in which the architecture dealt with the separation of public and private spaces. Rapson was very careful to maintain a separation between private offices and public spaces without creating a stratified experience to visitors. This is executed by placing offices on the second and third floors as well as to the rear of the public spaces. Furthermore the singular main entrance and human scale of the project help maintain a sense of accessibility.
It is easy to dismiss The Embassy of the United States of America in Copenhagen upon its altered appearance today. The fencing off of and removal of the original entrance and the addition of the ramp and the new entrance have detracted from the openness of the original scheme. These alterations make it difficult to appreciate Rapson and van der Meulen's original intent for the embassy building as a publicly accessible and easily understandable structure. When it was completed the Copenhagen embassy project fit neatly into the canon of post war modern design and can be seen as a reflection of American optimism in democracy and capitalism. The program for foreign embassies was largely undetermined when the Copenhagen project was being designed. As Ides Van der Gratcht, the regional director of the FBO who oversaw the construction of both the Copenhagen and Stockholm embassy projects, stated in regard to the two projects "most Europeans still envisage the Embassy in terms of the Congress of Vienna or the movie 'Roman Holiday'" (Hession, 103). Through both the Copenhagen and Stockholm embassy projects Rapson and van der Meulen significantly aided in the creation of the modern embassy typology.
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O Blimey! We are in serious shite now!
The British are still having elections!
Things got terribly exciting for the British journalists yesterday when Gordon Brown committed a 'gaffe'.
He was talking to a sweet old lady (sweet by British standards. In Britain anybody who doesn't get drunk and beat up their husbands or have bad teeth is referred to as 'sweet'.) who asked him "All these eastern Europeans are coming in, where are they flocking from?".
Instead of answering her by saying "East Europeans? They come from Africa, of course!" or telling her to shut her gob, the Prime Minister said some boilerplate about immigration and then asked her about her grandchildren.
Well, that was that.
Afterwards, while heading back to his car, the following happened:
But Mr Brown was still wearing a microphone provided by Sky News, which recorded him turning to his aide Justin Forsyth, and pronouncing: "That was a disaster."
He added: "Whose idea was that?" He then blamed "Sue" – Sue Nye his longest serving aide and friend.
He was then asked by the aide what Mrs Duffy had said.
He replied: "Everything, she was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour."
Basically he called his whole base (working middle class who are worried about "them immigrants stealing me job" ), bigots.
Although, when I first heard that Gordon Brown had called someone a bigoted lady, I thought he had run into David Cameroon.
This is probably the first mildly interesting thing to happen to Gordon Brown.
Now, since anything that happens in this election has to be compared to the 2008 US Presidential elections, because that was the only election that happened on earth ever, the sweet racist lady is now Britain's Joe the Plumber. Damn. I hate that guy!
Anyways, sweet racist lady, Mrs. Gillian Duffy, now has an agent. and stands to profit to the tune of £250,000.
That will buy her a lot of East European maids, won't it?
Strangely, for the first time, all the brown people in Britain are going "Wait, someone said something racist and it wasn't about one of us? That's a bloody miracle!" In fact, the were missing racism so much they decided to go to the airport, just to be racially profiled, for old times sake.


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Where Wealthy Chinese Are Investing Overseas
As China's wealth grows, more residents are taking their money overseas. The WSJ's Wei Gu talks about which countries Chinese investors are looking to for hedges and deals.
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Our sadness is mixed with the joy of a wonderful, sometimes hard, but always very rich life well lived.
Our dear wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Josephine vandenBrand, passed away Wednesday, June 1, 2011 with her husband and all of her nine children by her side.
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A fossilised humerus of a lovebird tells little of the Pleistocene habitat of Australopithecus robustus
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Stidham1, having described a fossil lovebird, genus Agapornis, from Kromdraai B, in a set of breccia deposits in the Bloubank River Valley, approximately 2 km from Sterkfontein in Gauteng, South Africa, inferred 'a wide variety of wooded and forested habitats'. He also inferred the fossilised lovebird was a 'diminutive' member of the genus on the basis of the length of its humerus.
Stidham's1 data are based on measurements of a humerus of the extinct lovebird and comparisons made with measurements of a few specimens of all but one of the extant species. The humerus of the extinct lovebird is smaller than that of the extant species (although numerical analysis is clearly impossible). However, the measurements given for the humerus of A. canus (the smallest extant species, in terms of body mass), are larger than those for the humerus of A. roseicollis, the largest extant species.2 This finding poses the question, 'Is there a significant correlation between linear measurements of the humerus and body mass?' It might be that the length of the humerus is a function of the type of flight, which varies with habitat. The extant species with the shortest humerus, A. lilanae, is an (open) Mopane woodland species2 (Mzumara T 2010, personal communication, October 20). Agapornis taranta, the most woodland-adapted or forest-adapted extant species for which Stidham1 had data (as A. swinderianus material was unavailable), has one of the longest humeri. Therefore, although the extinct species was small it may not have been unusually diminutive. Inferring a woodland forest habitat for the extinct species of lovebird, and hence also for Australopithecus robustus, requires, at least, further substantiation.
The four extant south-eastern species (clade) of Agapornis are predominantly granivorous or even graminivorous and not frugivorous,3 in contrast with the north-western species.2 Geographically, the fossil species is closest to the south-eastern species (clade), and one might argue that it is taxonomically closer to the derived clade. In which case it would likely have had a white eye-ring, been monochromic and social, and most likely have been graminivorous, feeding on the seeds of grasses.4 Alternatively, if the small size of A. canus and the fossil infer close affinity, one would have to argue that a small ancestor colonised the south-east, in parallel and competition with the white eye-ring clade, or that a descendent of A. canus recolonised Africa from Madagascar.4 Either argument would be difficult to envisage, let alone substantiate.
The most parsimonious interpretation is that the fossil species was a small granivore, or, more likely, a graminivore. This interpretation contradicts Stidham's1 argument of a woodland or forest habitat, unless the birds moved long distances to feed, which is unlikely.3 Stidham1 inferred, from the presence of the lovebird in association with the Australopithecus robustus remains at the excavation site, that the habitat there was a wooded or forested valley during the Pleistocene. This conclusion is not indicated from the inferred trophic niche of the fossil lovebird.2 However, although lovebirds do not migrate, they do move locally, most often in search of water or food,3 but also in search of a cavity in a tree as a nesting site. Today's southerly distributed lovebirds usually nest in the cavities of trees in Mopane or Acacia woodland (or commensally with sociable weavers, Philetairus socius) but not in forest tree species. The presence of a lovebird humerus at the excavation site at Kromdraai B therefore, unfortunately, tells us little of the habitat in which Australopithecus robustus lived during the Pleistocene.
1. Stidham TA. A lovebird (Psittaciformes: Agapornis) from the Plio-Pleistocene Kromdraai B locality, South Africa. S Afr J Sci. 2009;105:155-157. [ Links ]
2. Perrin MR. Niche separation in African parrots. In: Harebottle DM, Craig AJFK, Anderson MD, Rakopomanana H, Muchai M, editors. Proceedings of the 12th Pan-African Ornithological Congress; 2008 Sep 07-12; Rawsonville, South Africa. Cape Town: Avian Demographic Unit, 2009. p. 12-20. [ Links ]
3. Warburton LS, Perrin MR. Foraging behaviour and breeding ecology of the black-cheeked lovebird, Agapornis nigrigenis in Zambia. Ostrich. 2005;76:118-129. doi:10.2989/00306520509485484 [ Links ]
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It's been a while since I've played consistently, but I'm probably 3.5-4.0 based on reading the NTRP descriptions.
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I am in mckinney. 3.5 to 4.0 rightie baseline player...when do you avail to hit?
good point, didn't put enough useful info in there.
I live close to the intersection of Preston and Frankford, and have a pretty flexible schedule: weekday evenings Tue/Wed/Fri, weekday mornings most of the time, and weekends.
I can play weekdays in the evenings after 6:30PM or morning/evening in the weekends. I am more in the 2.5-3.5 bracket .. I can play anywhere in the Plano area. Let me know if you are interested .. you can text me @469-236-8659
Arun - call me to set something up if you want. I have access to private courts near Preston and Frankford. 347-882-8764 - Stephen
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Half a dozen characters vie for primacy in this rambunctiously entertaining L.A. crime novel from Edgar-winner Perry (Runner ). Aging strip-club owner Manco Kapak orders his boys to find the masked man who stole his cash receipts and take care of him. The boys settle on the wrong guy, L.A. newcomer Joe Carver, who decides to fight back. Jefferson Davis Falkins, the real thief, decides to continue to rob Kapak. LAPD Lt. Nick Slosser is mainly interested in keeping the peace—and keeping his two marriages a secret as well as figuring out how to pay for five kids at or nearing college age. Other meaty roles include Carrie Carr, who hooks up with Falkins and becomes a Bonnie Parker–like adrenaline junkie urging him to ever riskier deeds, and Spence, Kapak's trusted bodyguard and the only one smart enough to deal with Carver. Perry's exquisite timing and finesse provide near perfect endings to the multiple story lines and make this escapist reading at its best. (May)
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Before anything else, we're going to admit that at Cakespy, we're all total brats about Mother's Day. While we like the idea of celebrating dear mom, something about the whole Laura-Ashley-and-tea-party image of the holiday just doesn't sit right with us. Because really, doesn't that make grand assumptions about mom--that she's a meek little lady who just wants some tea and lace? What about those overbearing, in your face, powerhouse moms? The controlling, sometimes calculating ones, who call you four times a day? Certainly something else is in order for those moms.
And so, it's these moms that we choose to celebrate this Mother's Day: following are just a few ideas about how to mom how you really feel about her this year, with some subliminal messages that are sweet nonetheless:
Made for the mom who just can't let go, how about Empty Nester Cupcakes? These cupcakes have a mini "nest" --we made ours out of crumbled up Shredded Mini Wheats-- with "eggs" -- ours are jelly beans--sitting just outside. Why outside? Well, sometimes it's just time to move on. Mom still having trouble with you having, you know, your own life? Well, this is the perfect way to say "hey mom, I'm gone and I'm never comin' back!".
Idea 2: (s)Mother's Day Cake
This one's perfect for the overbearing mom who clearly just wants to take credit for everything you do, or who likes to suck the joy out of your achievements. Stage moms, soccer moms, moms who steal your boyfriend--we think you know what we mean. This cake actually has a cupcake buried within, so that the bigger layer cake completely obliterates the cupcake. However, once it's cut into, there's your subliminal message: "Hey ma, you've officially smothered me! Thanks a lot!". A bit heady, sure, but you like feeling smart and in the know, don't you?
How we did it: Make a cake (any type you choose, really); if it is a shallow pan, make it a two layer cake so that its height matches that of a frosted cupcake (in fact, you can use the leftover batter, if any, to make the cupcakes--that's what we did). Once the cake has cooled, if two layers, attach them with a dollop of frosting, but do not frost the top. Scoop out a ball from the center, and insert the frosted cupcake; the height should be slightly lower or even with the height of the cake. Frost just as you regularly would, making sure to cover the cupcake so that the frosting doesn't betray the secret within. Garnish to cover up any imperfections. Serve, and enjoy the confused faces as you get a massive amount of joy at your naughty little secret.
Idea 3: No Cake
Show your true colors this Mothers Day with an IOU--you know, something to the tune of "Sorry ma, meant to make you a cake, but I was out all night and stayed with that person I casually date--you know, the one you so clearly disapprove of. I owe you one! Thanks again for, you know, giving birth to me and everything"
Of course, if you must be kind to mom, here are some ideas that we've seen around:
Zabar's is offering a 7" Mother's Day Red Velvet Rose Cake, which is topped with cream cheese icing and filling surrounded with red cake crumbs and a cute little red rose topper. And, they'll ship it anywhere in the US--it Requires 2-day shipping, but wouldn't most things at this point, procrastinator? Available at zabar.com.
Dangerous Pies, whose wares we drooled about on Bmoresweet, is now shipping pies within the US--depending on which side you're on in the pie vs. cake revolution, this might be a nice choice for mom. Our vote goes for the Custard Pie--the owner refers to it as a "White Trash Crème Brûlée "--a midwestern comfort food on crack, if you will? We like the thought of that.
Of course, if you're in the DC area, you may be intrigued by the prospect of these "buttercream blossoms" we read about on DailyCandy--Maryland-based Couture Cupcakes is offering cupcakes formed into little "bouquets"--cute as anything, and far sweeter than flowers, in our opinion. Find them at 301-926-7333 or couture-cupcakes.com.


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Konrad Hochedlinger, PhDProfessor of Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolAssistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard firstname.lastname@example.com
Stem cells have the dual potential to self-renew and give rise to differentiated cells. They play key roles in normal development, during tissue homeostasis and following injury in the adult. Moreover, stem cells have been experimentally shown to be the cells of origin in certain types of cancer. To understand the biology of stem cells and to exploit their use for therapy, it is critical to identify and characterize the factors that control the decision between their self-renewal and differentiation under normal physiological conditions and in disease.
We are particularly interested in the biology of embryonic stem (ES) cells which are the only cell type that retains pluripotentiality. The pluripotent state of ES cells is maintained by a set of transcription factors including Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog. Genetic studies have shown that Oct4 and Nanog keep ES cells undifferentiated by inhibiting their differentiation into trophectoderm and endoderm, respectively. Interestingly, some of these factors appear to be important also in other cell types such as neural stem cells as well as in different biological processes, such as nuclear reprogramming. We have recently generated pluripotent cells from fibroblasts by ectopic expression of the transcription factors Oct4, Sox2, c-myc and Klf4. These cells show global epigenetic remodeling, reactivation of a silenced X chromosome and broad contribution to chimeric animals including female germ cells.
We are using in vitro and in vivo model systems to further characterize the role of pluripotency genes in stem cell self-renewal, reprogramming and cancer. Specifically, future projects will include (i) the screening for novel genes involved in the self-renewal of stem cells and (ii) their analysis in normal development and cancer by establishing novel mouse models, and (iii) nuclear reprogramming of mouse and human cells by defined factors.
Research FellowsOri Bar-Nur, Ph.D.Justin Brumbaugh, Ph.D.Sihem Cheloufi, Ph.D.Aaron Huebner, Ph.D.Inna Lipchina, Ph.D.
Clinical FellowBen Schwartz, M.D.
Ph.D. StudentsJiho Choi (Harvard University)Abby Sarkar (Harvard University)Ryan Walsh (Harvard University)
Undergraduate StudentKyle Flattery (Harvard University)
Stadtfeld et al., (2008), Induced Pluripotent stem cells generated without viral integration, Science, Sept 25; 10.1126/science.1162494.
Maherali et al., (2008), A high efficiency system for the generation and study of human iPS cells, Cell Stem Cell 3(3):340-345.
Park IH, Arora N, Huo H, Maherali N, Ahfeldt T, Shimamura A, Lensch MW, Cowan C, Hochedlinger K, Daley GQ (2008), Disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells. Cell 134:877-86.
Maherali et al., (2007), Directly reprogrammed fibroblasts show global epigenetic reprogramming and widespread tissue contribution, Cell Stem Cell 1: 55-70.
Hochedlinger and Jaenisch (2006), Nuclear reprogramming and pluripotency, Nature 441;1061-1067.
Hochedlinger et al., Ectopic expression of Oct-4 blocks progenitor-cell differentiation and causes dysplasia in epithelial tissues, (2005), Cell 121(3):465-77.
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Failover Policy for Failover Cluster Instances
In a SQL Server failover cluster instance (FCI), only one node can own the Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) cluster resource group at a given time. The client requests are served through this node in the FCI. In the case of a failure and an unsuccessful restart, the group ownership is moved to another WSFC node in the FCI. This process is called failover. SQL Server 2012 increases the reliability of failure detection and provides a flexible failover policy.
A SQL Server FCI depends on the underlying WSFC service for failover detection. Therefore, two mechanisms determine the failover behavior for FCI: the former is native WSFC functionality, and the latter is functionality added by SQL Server setup.
The WSFC cluster maintains the quorum configuration, which ensures a unique failover target in an automatic failover. The WSFC service determines whether the cluster is in optimal quorum health at all times and brings the resource group online and offline accordingly.
The active SQL Server instance periodically reports a set of component diagnostics to the WSFC resource group over a dedicated connection. The WSFC resource group maintains the failover policy, which defines the failure conditions that trigger restarts and failovers.
This topic discusses the second mechanism above. For more information on the WSFC behavior for quorum configuration and health detection, see WSFC Quorum Modes and Voting Configuration (SQL Server).
Automatic failovers to and from an FCI are not allowed in an AlwaysOn availability group. However, manual failovers to and from and FCI are allowed in an AlwaysOn availability group.
Failover Policy Overview
The failover process can be broken down into the following steps:
Monitor the Health Status
There are three types of health statuses that are monitored for the FCI:
State of the SQL Server service
The WSFC service monitors the start state of the SQL Server service on the active FCI node to detect when the SQL Server service is stopped.
Responsiveness of the SQL Server instance
During SQL Server startup, the WSFC service uses the SQL Server Database Engine resource DLL to create a new connection to on a separate thread that is used exclusively for monitoring the health status. This ensures that there the SQL instance has the required resources to report its health status while under load. Using this dedicated connection, SQL Server runs the sp_server_diagnostics (Transact-SQL) system stored procedure in repeat mode to periodically report the health status of the SQL Server components to the resource DLL.
The resource DLL determines the responsiveness of the SQL instance using a health check timeout. The HealthCheckTimeout property defines how long the resource DLL should wait for the sp_server_diagnostics stored procedure before it reports the SQL instance as unresponsive to the WSFC service. This property is configurable using T-SQL as well as in the Failover Cluster Manager snap-in. For more information, see Configure HealthCheckTimeout Property Settings. The following items describe how this property affects timeout and repeat interval settings:
The resource DLL calls the sp_server_diagnostics stored procedure and sets the repeat interval to one-third of the HealthCheckTimeout setting.
If the sp_server_diagnostics stored procedure is slow or is not returning information, the resource DLL will wait for the interval specified by HealthCheckTimeout before it reports to the WSFC service that the SQL instance is unresponsive.
If the dedicated connection is lost, the resource DLL will retry the connection to the SQL instance for the interval specified by HealthCheckTimeout before it reports to the WSFC service that the SQL instance is unresponsive.
SQL Server component diagnostics
The system stored procedure sp_server_diagnostics periodically collects component diagnostics on the SQL instance. The diagnostic information that is collected is surfaced as a row for each of the following components and passed to the calling thread.
query process
The system, resource, and query process components are used for failure detection. The io_subsytem and events components are used for diagnostic purposes only.
Each rowset of information is also written to the SQL Server cluster diagnostics log. For more information, see View and Read Failover Cluster Instance Diagnostics Log.
While the sp_server_diagnostic stored procedure is used by SQL Server AlwaysOn technology, it is available for use in any SQL Server instance to help detect and troubleshoot problems.
Determining Failures
The SQL Server Database Engine resource DLL determines whether the detected health status is a condition for failure using the FailureConditionLevel property. The FailureConditionLevel property defines which detected health statuses cause restarts or failovers. Multiple levels of options are available, ranging from no automatic restart or failover to all possible failure conditions resulting in an automatic restart or failover. For more information about how to configure this property, see Configure FailureConditionLevel Property Settings.
The failure conditions are set on an increasing scale. For levels 1-5, each level includes all the conditions from the previous levels in addition to its own conditions. This means that with each level, there is an increased probability of a failover or restart. The failure condition levels are described in the following table.
Review sp_server_diagnostics (Transact-SQL) as this system stored procedure plays in important role in the failure condition levels.
No automatic failover or restart
Failover or restart on server down
Indicates that a server restart or failover will be triggered if the following condition is raised:
Failover or restart on server unresponsive
Indicates that a server restart or failover will be triggered if any of the following conditions are raised:
Failover or restart on critical server errors
Indicates that a server restart or failover will be triggered if any of the following conditions are raised:
Failover or restart on moderate server errors
Indicates that a server restart or failover will be triggered if any of the following conditions are raised:
Failover or restart on any qualified failure conditions
Indicates that a server restart or failover will be triggered if any of the following conditions are raised:
1 Default Value
Responding to Failures
After one or more failure conditions are detected, how the WSFC service responds to the failures depends on the WSFC quorum state and the restart and failover settings of the FCI resource group. If the FCI has lost its WSFC quorum, then the entire FCI is brought offline and the FCI has lost its high availability. If the FCI still retains its WSFC quorum, then the WSFC service may respond by first attempting to restart the failed node and then failover if the restart attempts are unsuccessful. The restart and failover settings are configured in the Failover Cluster Manager snap-in. For more information these settings, see <Resource> Properties: Policies Tab.
For more information on maintaining quorum health, see WSFC Quorum Modes and Voting Configuration (SQL Server).