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In 2016, the company exceeded its 50th franchise mark. The milestone comes off of consecutive years of positive growth trends since the company first began franchising in 2006 as the first placement and referral franchise business in the U.S. The company has now signed 62 franchisees in 20 states and the District of Columbia.
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The key factors that go into Entrepreneur's evaluation include costs and fees, size and growth, support, brand strength, and financial strength and stability. All franchises are given a cumulative score based on more than 150 data points, and the 500 franchises with the highest cumulative scores become the Franchise 500® in ranking order.
Over its 38 years in existence, the Franchise 500® has become both a dominant competitive measure for franchisors and a primary research tool for entrepreneurs. Assisted Living Locator's position on the ranking reinforces its strength in the industry.
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Following its expected launch of new MacBook Pros, Apple seems set to introduce new iMacs in June using Intel's new Ivy Bridge processor. A recent Digitimes report postulates both Quanta and Foxconn will be manufacturing new Ivy Bridge iMac models, with the new computers set to ship in June.
Noting a report in the Chinese-language Economic Daily News, Digitimes claims: "The new iMac is rumoured to feature an anti-glare display with Intel's latest Ivy Bridge-based i5 and i7 processors, noted the paper adding that Apple is also set to launch MacBook Pro notebooks featuring Ivy Bridge processors at the end of the second quarter."
Reports suggest that Apple will offer anti-reflective displays on a redesigned iMac when it launches. There is also speculation that Apple may put high-res 'Retina Display' equivalents inside its future laptops. Should Apple pop these things inside the iMac, this would immediately make an iMac a go-to destination for movie playback, and would help link Apple's media-based device strategy: iTunes, iPhone, iPad, the Mac and iCloud.
Apple's iCloud plans have been attracting much attention lately on news the company plans to open another data center in Prineville, Oregon, situated just a quarter mile away from a Facebook data center. This will be a 160-acre site.
What's interesting about this is that Apple's existing iCloud data center in North Carolina potentially offers server capacity to rival Google. "Apple could get away with a tenth of the space to run its iCloud at current capacity...Meanwhile Apple is running chunks of its iCloud on Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3," notes TechEye, citing i Cringely.
If that's true then it is also interesting to note Apple's move to build a 4.8-megawatt hydrogen-powered electricity generator close to its North Carolina data center. This will work in conjunction with a 20-megawatt solar farm and is set to go online by toward the end of the year.
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NHRA Notes: Massey Amasses Points
The operative term in boxing is "stealing a round" – a flurry of punches fired-off during the final 10 or so seconds to impress the ringside judges right before they mark their scorecards.
Similarly, Top Fuel rookie Spencer Massey scored big style points in his bid for the 2009 Auto Club Road to the Future Award with his victory against Larry Dixon in last Sunday's ninth annual NHRA Las Vegas Nationals. Massey earned his second national event victory of the season against Dixon – the driver Spencer replaced at Don Prudhomme Racing – in the final round at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Massey outran Shawn Langdon, Steve Torrence and Brandon Bernstein to reach the final, powering his U.S. Smokeless Dragster to a 1,000-foot pass in 3.827-seconds at 314.53 mph to defeat Dixon, whose Al-Anabi Racing Dragster lost traction at the start and clocked-in at 5.503-seconds and 174.87 mph.
"It's unbelievable just being able to get to the final round. Every race car out there is capable of winning," said Massey, selected by "The Snake" to replace Dixon during the offseason. Voted the NHRA's top rookie in 1995, Dixon drove Prudhomme's car for 14 seasons and won back-to-back championships in 2002-03 before joining tuner Alan Johnson's start-up team.
Dixon exited Vegas and Round 5 of the Countdown to 1 – NHRA's six-race playoff – just one point behind six-time and reigning champion Tony Schumacher. The archrivals will decide the 2009 Full Throttle Drag Racing Series championship in NHRA's premier division during the Auto Club Finals at Pomona, Calif., Nov. 12-15.
Massey, meanwhile, is among four rookies eligible for Auto Club Road to the Future honors, a lineup including fellow-Top Fuel driver Langdon, Matt Hagan in Funny Car and Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Doug Horne. More than 135 media members were invited to cast ballots in voting that ended Thursday.
Massey is sixth in Top Fuel points, 148 behind "The Sarge" and the last driver mathematically eligible for the title heading into Pomona. Langdon, 27, is eighth in points, 196 out. Horne, 21, sits sixth in PSM, 263 points behind championship leader Hector Arana. Hagan, 26, is 12th in Funny Car points.
Massey, who scored his first career victory at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Ill., in June, is the only rookie winner among the four professional classes. But in addition to on-track performance, voters were advised to consider the following criteria for each candidate: Relationship with fans, media and sponsors; participation in NHRA promotions, number of events competed and driver's potential as a future star in the sport.
"I don't like to think that I should or shouldn't (win rookie of the year)," said Massey, a 27-year-old native of Fort Worth, Texas. "I don't really think like that. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't. I would like for it to happen, but Shawn (Langdon) is an awesome racer and so is Matt Hagan and Doug Horne.
"Obviously, we've got a couple of wins now and the points are the points, but there's a whole lot of different situations and things that happen for the rookie of the year. I don't know if it (his second win) draws a line under it or puts a check by my name or whatever, but I'd love to find out at the end of Pomona that it happened that way."
Matt Hagan qualified No. 1 in Vegas, only to be trailered by Don Schumacher Racing teammate Jack Beckman in the second round of eliminations. The pair launched with nearly identical reaction times but a dropped cylinder in Hagan's Valvoline/shelor.com Dodge Charger R/T allowed Beckman to win by 11 feet.
"We have a good race car," Hagan said. "We qualified well, and qualifying No. 1 is great, but it's even better when you go rounds on race day. Stuff happens. These Funny Cars have a lot of variables and you never know what can cause it sometimes, but we'll go to the next race and see what happens."
Hagan's consolation prize was both ends of the track record – a 4.030-second elapsed time and 313.88 mph – fastest speed in NHRA history racing to 1,000 feet.
Robert Hight's point-lead in Funny Car ballooned from 13 to 105 over John Force Racing teammate Ashley Force Hood in Vegas, where Hight and crew chief Jimmy Prock collaborated for their third win in five Countdown races.
Hight, son-in-law of team-owner and 14-time Funny Car champion John Force, has been a perennial contender for the title the past five seasons. But this will be the first time he will head into the Auto Club Finals as points-leader. The former JFR crewman attributed his current level of confidence to the performance improvement of the Auto Club Ford Mustang.
"You don't have to go out there and do dumb things trying to pull wins out," said Hight, brother-in-law of Force Hood. "I did that earlier in the year when we were struggling. I got lucky since I never red-lit. I was trying to do too much because I knew the car needed a little help. It doesn't work that way. You have to do what you know how to do. It 's all about confidence."
A two-time championship runnerup, Hight's ascension to the top of the points table has allowed him to reflect upon his current high-profile status.
"I never thought I would get to this point," said Hight, 40. "I never thought I would get to drive a race car. I was happy and content to be driving down the road in one of John Force's trucks and working on his race car. I just owe it all to him for giving me this opportunity to come out here. When you are on a team like this you're expected to win. That put a little added pressure on you. You also know you have good equipment and a good car. That makes it easier to learn, and trust me, I am still learning."
Ashley Force Hood delivered what amounted to a concession speech in Vegas, as a 105-point deficit to JFR teammate Robert Hight clearly has made her a longshot to become the first female Funny Car champion in NHRA history.
"My goal going into this year was to finish fourth or better; I would be pumped with that," said Force Hood, driver of the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang. "To be fighting for first or second this year has gone better than I ever expected it to. When you're right in the middle of it you get greedy and you want everything. Really, if you take a step back, I never expected to be running for first. Now after this year we will be gunning for first. The sky is the limit for us next year.
"In Pomona, if one of our teams is on that stage in first place, that's all that matters. That is what we have been working for all season."
New-car blues worked against Mike Neff at Vegas, where he again pulled double duty as driver/tuner of a Ford Drive One Mustang resting on one of the new John Force Racing chassis. The switch to the new chassis gave Neff a revised set of issues en route to a loss against Jack Beckman's Valvoline/MTS Dodge.
"The new chassis we built is great and it will be better than what we have," said Neff, crew chief for 2005 Funny Car champion Tony Pedregon during his tenure at JFR. "The problem that we discovered is the parts we put on it that control all the electronics…it changed everything. We couldn't get a handle on it. It kind of threw us a curveball. We're going to fix all that and go to Pomona. We will be close and take a shot at it."
Some cheap sunglasses might have helped Cory McClenathan advance into the Top Fuel final in Vegas. McClenathan scored a huge second-round win against Don Schumacher Racing teammate and points-leader Tony Schumacher in the second round before pairing-off against Larry Dixon in the semifinals. With the chance to eliminate the top two in points, Cory Mac found himself battling a setting sun.
The resulting glare on the starting lights became a factor as McClenathan took off behind Dixon with a 0.150-seconds reaction time to Dixon's 0.073 (0.000 is perfect). McClenathan lost the race while posting a quicker pass of 3.844-seconds/316.38 mph to Dixon's 3.845-seconds/314.61 mph. Dixon's subsequent loss to rookie Spencer Massey in the final left him one point behind Schumacher heading into Pomona. McClenathan, driver of the FRAM Tough Guard Dragster, is third – 48 points behind the leader.
"It had to be the glare," said McClenathan, a four-time championship runnerup in the 1990s. "It's ridiculous because as a driver you're either late, get beat on a hole shot, or you don't, and I did. We had a great opportunity to win. We ran great. Phil and Todd (crew chiefs Shuler and Okuhara) did their jobs, the rest of the FRAM team did their jobs, but the driver just flat let them down.
"I couldn't see where Larry was, I couldn't see if he was staged. By the time I finally said, 'Forget it, I have to look at my side and concentrate on that,' it was too late. The lights were coming down, I hit the gas. I knew I was late the whole time, knew we were trailing. All of a sudden I started seeing that we were catching him, but it was too late. I could have made it a lot easier on the Army team (Schumacher), I could have made it a lot easier on the FRAM team by going up there and doing my job, and it just didn't happen, for the all the wrong reasons."
Mopar will compete with a new Pro Stock Dodge Avenger beginning with the 2010 season. The car of Team Mopar driver Allen Johnson was on display at the 2009 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Vegas through Friday. Officially approved for NHRA competition, the Avenger's competition debut is scheduled for the 50th annual Kragen O'Reilly NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, Calif., Feb. 11-14. The Avenger replaces the Dodge Stratus R/T body, which has been in use by Mopar HEMI-powered competitors since the midpoint of the 2003 season.
The Avenger was developed in-house at Chrysler Group LLC, using tools and resources also employed in the production model. The greatest challenge to the Dodge Motorsports Engineering team assigned to the project was maintaining maximum identity of the Avenger in the new body without forsaking performance down the quarter-mile.
Led by Johnson, Mopar Pro Stock drivers worked closely with the engineering team to ensure the new Avenger was large enough to accommodate all safety features, including the roll cage and quick ingress and egress in case of an emergency. To that end, the size of the car's front door was adjusted to maximize driver safety.
"We've been racing the Stratus since mid-2003. Just having a change is an upgrade," Johnson said. "We feel we've been at a disadvantage with some of our competitors who have been racing in new bodies for the last few years. I was fitted for the new body in late September. NHRA was there, and we spent a lot of time going over the templates. That was exciting. I'm glad we're going ahead full-bore."
Cruz Pedregon Racing joined with NHRA's Competition and Technical departments for a series of test runs following the Vegas event, part of a continuing initiative to find a new combination designed to reduce horsepower in the nitromethane Funny Car and Top Fuel categories.
The combination tested on "The Cruzer's" Advance Auto Parts Toyota Solara included a single magneto, one less clutch disc and a smaller fuel pump. Currently, nitromethane race vehicles employ two magnetos in their engine set-ups. Pedregon, Funny Car champion in 1992 and 2008, described the tests as "encouraging," but further testing is planned. Dan Olson, the NHRA's director of Top Fuel and Funny Car racing; Pedregon and crew chief Rahn Tobler worked together on tune-up changes and strategies between each test run.
"We obtained some good data that will give us a great starting point for further tests," Pedregon said. In addition, NHRA will continue to work with Funny Car driver Tim Wilkerson and his Levi, Ray & Shoup Shelby Mustang team on the combination tested earlier in the season which included decreased displacement, use of a smaller capacity fuel pump, decrease in percentage overdrive in the blower, a change on the rear-end gear ratios, and the use of 90 percent nitro.
NHRA officials reiterated this is strictly a testing and research project with an open-ended completion date. Once any decision is finalized, NHRA would give affected competitors ample time to adjust.
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White Sox Win Juan
For a while it looked like…well, it looked like the same movie we've seen a million times. Pitching that keeps us in the game and wasted opportunities by an underachieving offense.
But today, in the rubber game of the series vs. the Rockies, it was a different theme. It was, in short, a satisfying come-from-behind extra inning 6-4 victory. A far cry from the tough and controversial loss in the opener.
Down 4-1 heading into the seventh inning, the Sox scored one in the seventh, two in the eighth to tie the game and two in the 10th to take the lead. Sergio Santos pitched a perfect ninth for his 17th save. He was preceded by starter Jake Peavy, who settled down after allowing a three-run, first inning homer to Troy Tulowitzki, and Will Ohman, Chris Sale and Jesse Crain, who each pitched a scoreless inning.
Two of the most maligned White Sox were today's heroes. Juan Pierre went 3 for 5 with three RBI, including the single that bounced off the right field wall to score the fifth and sixth runs in the 10th. Gordon Beckham went 3 for 3 with a walk, homered and drove in a pair.
Sox are now 40-42 and remain four games in back of the division lead as they head into Wrigley tomorrow for a three-game series with you know who.


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This blog is dedicated to Stones goddesses Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg, whose beauty and strength I find limitlessly inspiring (and whose photos I've spent thousands of dollars collecting and hundreds of hours scanning, so please, read the disclaimer at the bottom of the page, and don't re-post them without credit). This means you, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc., people.
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The Center for Dental History and Craniofacial Study (CDHCS) maintains four collections, its mission being to support the study of dental history, craniofacial biology and evolution.
The Ward Museum was founded in 1974 in honor of Abraham Wesley Ward, a pioneer of surgical periodontics and a 1902 graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The museum preserves historical and modern artifacts and documents related to the dental profession, including dental furniture, equipment, instruments, products, photographs, films and documents from the mid-1700s to recent times. Donated items are catalogued, with description and donor information maintained in an EmbARK database. (See the CDHCS Accession and Deaccession of Donations web page for in-kind donation guidelines.)
To promote community outreach, CDHCS maintains an 1870s-era dentist office at the Columbia State Historic Park in Columbia, California, and has loaned circa-1900 dental operatory pieces for the San Mateo County Historical Association's Woodside Store in Woodside, California.
Prior to the school's move to Fifth Street, all the Ward artifacts were photographed. Some artifacts are now viewable via the Virtual Dental Museum website.
Dental students are encouraged to volunteer in helping the curator catalog, inventory and arrange the Ward Museum collection.
This invaluable, world-renowned research and teaching resource consists of more than 1,500 human skulls collected by orthodontist Spencer R. Atkinson, primarily from autopsies and biological warehouses. Read more ›
The College of Physicians and Surgeons Historical Society collection houses historical documents and artifacts from "P&S" (forerunner of the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry). This collection includes sets of CHIPS yearbook volumes and Contact Point issues, photographs, lecture notes, grade cards and exams, diplomas, licenses, commencement programs, postgraduate correspondence and alumni events, dating from the late 1800s onwards.
Alumni are urged to contribute towards the Center's goal of maintaining a "comprehensive" chronicle of P&S and its students by donating photos and documents from their dental school days. Copies of these items are also accepted, or, as an alternative to donation, the Center will return to its owners any documents or photos loaned to us for scanning. As a repository for the school's history, this archive is accessible by appointment to historians, donors, alumni and the families of alumni. The curator is available to respond to specific inquiries by phone or email.
The P&S Comparative Anatomy collection features a variety of vertebrate skulls including fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Launched in 1923, the Comparative Dental Anatomy Museum grew over the years as students, faculty and alums donated a variety of interesting and diverse specimens. These skulls have served as the basis for important exhibits, research projects and educational outreach programs on dental anatomy, function and evolution.
In hands-on Selectives taught at CDHCS, skulls from this collection are used to demonstrate the evolutionary patterns found among vertebrates in their tooth structure, attachment, replacement and cusp composition. The amazing diversity in tooth number and shape, and in cusp wear pattern and jaw mechanics are illustrated and discussed in relation to dietary adaptation. In addition, students investigate specimens from the Order Primates with special emphasis placed on those cranial and dental similarities and differences recognizable among the various species, and, especially, between apes and humans.
Due to space restrictions in the new building the Campbell Collection has been transferred to the Museum of Radiology and Medical Physics at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
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Today I ran across Paul Randal's latest post showing how to find open transactions and such. This is a nice little script and would prove very useful in certain circumstances. An obvious circumstance would in trying to find what is causing the transaction log to fill or even grow. Paul posted his article on Feb 1. An interesting coincidence for me is that I submitted an article for review that very day. In the article I discussed a couple of methods to help determine the cause of log growth. My script is more simplistic than Paul's – and has been adapted for a couple of different purposes. This script could also be easily adapted to fit other purposes.
As an extension to the article (if it gets published), is a blog about using Event Notifications for the very same purpose (finding the cause of log growth).
Anyway, I justed wanted to pass along that Paul has posted a great script. Go check it out.


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19 September: Cubes and Commanders
We started the day by reading out the tank pressure to finish our overnight decay test. After checking the results (no leaks) we continued the fuelling process with a new bottle of nitrogen and increased the pressure up to 304 bar. We were then honoured by the visit of the Cosmodrome Commander, Lieutenant General Anatoly Bashlakov, who was very interested in our project and the participating universities.
In parallel to the modified charging of the +y T-Pod, Graham upgraded our test ground stations, giving us UHF uplink and downlink on both ground stations and S-Band downlink on one of them too (5 channels in total). This was very difficult because we didn't have the right cables with us. It gives us the chance to simulate the performance of the satellite and SERACC when subjected to simultaneous telemetry requests from two radio amateurs.
The last activity of the day was setting up the charging of two of the cubesats (UWE-1 and XI-V). We then left the facility to go back to the hotel. After 17 days here in Plesetsk, the spacecraft is in good health, in comparison to some members of the launch campaign team who now have a cold… :-(
18 September: A high pressure Sunday in Plesetsk
After charging the last two T-Pods in the morning, we went through another important step for the launch preparation of SSETI Express: the final fuelling of the Coldgas Propulsion System. We made some modifications on the ground support equipment to increase its reliability (supported by the propulsion experts of SSTL), followed by a last checkout of all necessary equipment. Due to the fact that all operations with the 300 bar gas bottles are considered to be hazardous, we checked it thoroughly.
The actual filling was then done in five steps, to prevent the tank from potential damage due to the high temperatures which usually occur when the pressure increases. In parallel, our computer and communication experts set up a second command station in order to test how the SSETI Express Radio Amateur Communication Client (SERACC) responds when more than one ground station is communicating with the satellite.
We ended the day leaving the spacecraft with a tank pressure of 250 bar to perform a pressure decay test overnight, and one T-Ppod trickle charging.
17 September: Charging and beta testing
The task of the day was to charge the batteries in the T-Pods which will eject our CubeSat passengers into space shortly after launcher separation. The charging procedure went on without any problems, glitches or other nerve-wrecking events.
Most of the time, charging requires little human interference, so in the spirit of SSETI and radio amateur co-operation we took advantage of the availability of our spacecraft and spent some time beta testing a piece of software written by a radio amateur. It is a software TNC, which is capable of recording and demodulating radio signals received from the spacecraft even from our high-speed S-Band link. These tests went well and we produced lots of data to be sent to the developer in order for him to improve his programme, which will be very useful to radio amateurs wanting to communicate with SSETI Express.
Since some of the team members working on the other spacecraft were leaving today, we also took this opportunity to take a group photo of the entire DMC#3 launch campaign crew.
16 September: Preparing for the push
Today we performed a very important and critical launch preparation procedure: installation of the flight model of the separation system. This involved disintegrating the old ring from the base of the spacecraft, lifting the spacecraft on a crane, and installing the new ring instead. The pyrotechnic devices in this new system will be detonated once the spacecraft is in orbit, breaking the ring into two, and then the springs will push SSETI Express away from the upper stage of the rocket.
In spite of the continued confusion regarding the final launch date the SSETI Express team is planning to continue with the campaign as scheduled. Better to be ready early than late!
15 September 2005: Remote control
After the functional checkout of the spacecraft was completed at the launch preparation site, a 'live' operation of the S/C by the mission operations team was scheduled for today. As planned for the real spacecraft operations, the operation team, the mission control computer and the ground station were connected by standard internet lines and used the mission control software to establish a Tm/Tc link to the spacecraft.
In the preparation facility the communications link was transferred over the real-life UHF and S-Band radio communication channels from the mobile groundstation to the spacecraft into the cleantent. Everything went very well.
In the afternoon we got a tour of the Cosmodrome museum and were allowed to write down a short message and our names in the Cosmodrome logbook. It was a surprise for us to find out that the first SSETI spacecraft is being prepared for its launch in the first building ever built of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome! The building was commissioned in 1959 and is still active - we see this as a good omen for SSETI Express.
14 September: Is that a rocket...?
Every day is a working day in the spacecraft business and this Sunday was allocated to some more integrated system testing. The joy of the day was testing the on-board camera. This procedure required all of our combined expertise in the field of optical systems in order to position and orient a mirror above the camera lens which would enable us to photograph Graham standing in the assembly facility. After numerous attempts we finally obtained a beautiful picture down the radio-link.
Having completed all of the spacecraft checkout a little early we had some time today to work on all of the small tasks that had been filling up our 'to-do' lists. Some last minute touch-up work on the exterior harness was done, the solar cells were cleaned and some nice developments were implemented on the ground software.
The highlight of the day was seeing the rocket for the first time! We were all very excited, and it suddenly made the launch feel very close. Only 12 days to go...
13 September : Building up the pressure
Today, after the functional checkout tests of the S-Band unit and some minor modifications on SERACC, we ramped down the battery voltage until SSETI Express went into Safe Mode. We then charged the battery with the help of a Solar Panel Simulator until the spacecraft automatically entered nominal mode again.
After lunch we started the second part of the checkout of the Propulsion System with the pressurisation of the mid- and low-pressure area up to 70bar. All typical manoeuvres (e.g. rotations) were performed. All valves and transducers worked fine.
With these last steps, we finally finished the Integrated System Test, which is a major milestone in the SSETI Express Launch Campaign.
We are all very happy!
12 September: Radio tests and the launch adapter
Today we tested the S-Band transmitter system. Everything went well and the DTMF telemetry, which is already available on the Express Mission website, showed the power output and PA temperature. The RSSI number showed the very high background noise level that exists in the assembly room on the 437.250 MHz frequency - luckily it did not create any difficulties with our testing.
During the afternoon we were invited into the next "room" where the Cosmos launch adapter had arrived. We were able to inspect the separation systems that will deploy each satellite at the correct time and at the precise angle required.
Finally we joined in the usual Monday Express IRC chat and I was also happy to see that the final cricket match between England and Australia would result in a draw, meaning that England has regained the "Ashes"! This is not really as important as a successful launch of Express, but almost!
11 September: Happy integrators
Every day is a working day in the spacecraft business and this Sunday was allocated to some more integrated system testing. The joy of the day was testing the on-board camera. This procedure required all of our combined expertise in the field of optical systems in order to position and orient a mirror above the camera lens which would enable us to photograph Graham standing in the assembly facility. After numerous attempts we finally obtained a beautiful picture down the radio-link.
Not only did the successful photo session raise the team's spirits, it also allowed us to fix a communications problem which was discovered when using S-Band to download pictures from the spacecraft. The problem was in the ground segment and it was successfully resolved, leaving us with a perfect downlink via the AMSAT-UK radio. Happy integrators!


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The Quintland Sisters is available in print, e-book and downloadable audio formats at the Stratford Public Library.
Shelf Life: The Quintland Sisters
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My husband's mother is a triplet. She, along with her sisters, celebrated their 80th birthday a few weeks ago. It is no surprise then that The Quintland Sisters by Shelley Wood caught my eye. A well-researched work of historical fiction, it tells the story of the famous Dionne quintuplets, who were born to an Ontario family in 1934, just five years before my husband's mother and her sisters.
The Quintland Sisters is written from the perspective of a well-developed fictional character, Emma Trimpany, a young woman who assisted the midwife the night the quintuplets were born and lovingly took care of them during their early years. The book is written as a diary, interspersed with personal letters and newspaper articles. It primarily chronicles Emma's life with the quintuplets but also her own dreams, loves and tragedies.
We learn that the Dionne quintuplets were born in Corbeil, in rural northern Ontario, to a poor, young couple who already had five children. The provincial government took the babies under their official guardianship, declaring their parents unable to care for them. The province built a hospital across from the house where they were born. This hospital soon included a viewing gallery for the 6,000 visitors per day who came to see the girls, benefiting not only the local economy but their family and those who cared for them. At one point, Emma describes the quintuplets as a side show and the atmosphere outside the compound as a roadside circus complete with makeshift souvenir and snack stands selling postcards, cotton candy, popcorn and hotdogs.
It eventually dawns on Emma that everything in Quintland is done for appearances – a grand facade that hides the greed, pain and conflict of the girls' dysfunctional childhood.
My mother-in-law's parents had themselves made the trip to Corbeil to see the Dionne quintuplets, at the time never thinking that they too would one day be the parents of multiples. The triplets became minor celebrities in Kitchener. Their early childhood was chronicled in the Kitchener Record, with a photo of the girls appearing in the newspaper each year on their birthday. Fortunately, their parents had the opportunity to draw from the Dionne experience and moved their children to the backyard for fresh air and sunshine when onlookers congregated near the front porch.
The Quintland Sisters is available in print, e-book and downloadable audio formats at the Stratford Public Library.


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New archaeological evidence reveals that settlers at the Jamestown colony resorted to cannibalism during the "starving time" in the winter of 1609-1610. NBC's Ali Weinberg reports.
Experts have provided the grisly goods to back up 17th-century accounts of cannibalism during the Jamestown colony's "starving time" — including a skull that shows signs of being chopped at and pried apart.
"Our team has discovered partial human remains before, but the location of the discovery, visible damage to the skull and marks on the bones immediately made us realize this finding was unusual," Bill Kelso, chief archaeologist of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project in Virginia, said in a news release issued Wednesday. Specimens from the Jamestown site were laid out during a Washington news conference.
Written accounts described acts of cannibalism during the winter of 1609-1610, when sickness, starvation and attacks from native tribes in the area put the two-year-old Virginia settlement to its sternest test. Scores of the colonists who crowded inside James Fort died that winter. One of the accounts described a husband who killed his pregnant wife and salted her flesh for storage and consumption. (The husband was executed for the crime.)
There was no reason to doubt the accounts, but in the course of their decades-long excavation, archaeologists were on the lookout for remains that might tell more of the story behind Jamestown's hardships. They found the evidence in the form of a partial human skull and other bones lying in a 17th-century trash deposit. Kelso enlisted the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History to sort out the clues. Colonial Williamsburg and Preservation Virginia helped provide historical context.
'Jane of Jamestown'
Based on an analysis of the bones — including the skull and its teeth, as well as the size of a tibia and bone growth in a knee joint — experts determined that the remains came from a 14-year-old female, nicknamed "Jane." The isotopic distribution of elements in the bones suggested that she consumed a European diet of wheat and meat.
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Doug Owsley, division head for physical anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, displays the skull and a facial reconstruction for "Jane of Jamestown" during a news conference at the museum in Washington on Wednesday.
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Strike marks are seen on the skull of "Jane of Jamestown" at the National Museum of Natural History.
The grisliest findings were reflected in the wounds to the head: The chief of the museum's division of physical anthropology, Douglas Owsley, identified chops to the forehead and the back of the cranium to open the head. Knife cuts on the jaw and the cheekbone could have been made during removal of the flesh. Other markings suggest that the head's left side was punctured and pried apart.
The scientists' conclusion: Jane was butchered for her meat.
"She was almost certainly dead when she was cannibalized," Jim Horn, Colonial Williamsburg's vice president of research and historical interpretation, told NBC News. "The way the cuts are configured on the skull points to the fact that she was dead. if she was not, there would have been more signs of a struggle, and the marks would have been more irregular."
Based on the bone analysis and the disposition of the remains at the site, researchers believe Jane arrived in Jamestown in August 1609, just months before the crisis. She might have been a maidservant, or the daughter of a colonist. Chances are that she died in January or February of 1610, from either sickness or starvation, Horn said.
"The 'starving time' was brought about by a trifecta of disasters: disease, a serious shortage of provisions, and a full-scale siege by the Powhatans that cut off Jamestown from outside relief," he said in Wednesday's news release. "Survival cannibalism was a last resort; a desperate means of prolonging life at a time when the settlement teetered on the brink of extinction."
When Lord De La Warr and his relief party arrived in Jamestown in the spring of 1610, he ordered the "cleansing" of the ruined settlement. "It must have looked like a charnel house when he arrived," Horn said. That's probably how Jane's remains came to be deposited amid a trash heap in an abandoned cellar, he said.
Jane's legacy
Jamestown went on to become the Virginia Colony's capital from 1619 to 1699. In the late 17th century, the settlement was devastated by a series of fires. At the dawn of the 18th century, Virginia's capital was moved to Williamsburg, and old Jamestown faded away. Decades later, the descendants of Jamestown's settlers played their part in the creation of the United States of America.
Researchers have not matched up Jane's bones with a specific member of the Jamestown colony, and although DNA samples have been saved for future analysis, they say there's little hope of identifying modern relatives for comparative genetic testing. But the excavation continues, and Jane's remains provide graphic evidence of Jamestown's desperation.
Horn acknowledges that the story of Jane has a grisly fascination to it, but he says there's a broader significance as well. "It revolves around what it took to successfully establish European colonies in the New World," he told NBC News. "In the early phase of European colonization of the Americas, most colonies actually failed. They failed for the kinds of reasons that we discovered at Jamestown. ... Most colonies lasted no more than six to 12 months. What we're looking in the case of Jamestown is a remarkable story of survival and endurance."
Researchers discuss the forensic evidence to back up accounts of cannibalism at the Jamestown Colony during the "starving time" of 1609-1610.
More about Jamestown:
- 400-year-old seeds found in Jamestown
- 'New World' shows off a new Jamestown
- Colonial armor found in Jamestown pit
An exhibition that tells the story of Jane and the survival of Jamestown, England's first permanent settlement in America, is due to open May 3 at Historic Jamestowne in Virginia. Jane's bones will be put on exhibit temporarily, and eventually they will be "respectfully reinterred," Horn said. The facility has also produced a book and DVD on the subject, titled "Jane." However, details of the discovery have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.


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Kolschbier is a popular "warm weather beer" and German classic. The name Kolsch (pronounced "kelsch") is derived from its location… Koln, Germany (or Cologne for us Yanks). The name indicates that the beer was brewed in the traditional style of that particular city.
In order to officially called a Kolsh, the beer must be brewed by a member of the Koln Brewers Union. Much like the name "champagne" in the snobbier world of wine, the name Kolschbier is protected and controlled by the Union and may not be used by anyone else.
Tasting Notes
Kolschbier is golden in color with a somewhat hazy finish, partly due to the addition of wheat, but mostly the result of being unfiltered. The style should have a delicate, lightly fruity flavor with a dry and medium hoppy finish. A very refreshing beer that is often enjoyed in the warmer summer months.
While it is brewed as an ale, with top fermenting yeast, it undergoes a cold fermentation and aging period, giving it its "hybrid" status (see Difference Between and Ale and a Lager for more info).
The Kolschbier is aslo said to have medicinal powers, specifically as an excellent curative for digestive problems (so put the pepto back on the shelf and grab a Kolsch!).
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PS3 Attitude: "From tiny outfits that provide no more protection than dental floss, to massive armour that even Chuck Norris would struggle to walk in, it has to be said that costumes in videogames often look pretty ridiculous. We literally could have picked a selection of games at random for this list and they'd still have been relevant, but these are the five characters we chose in the end (after we picked them at random)."
Hey,after suffering through all those "Kay's" I earned the right to see Myuria's skin!
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You may have heard this, but there's a new television show on HBO called Veep and it stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as embattled Vice President Selina Meyer. It's also really great and as sharp as one would expect from Armando Iannucci, the mind behind the BBC series (and Veep forbearer) Thick of It and its feature-length spin-off In The Loop. Vice President Meyer also has a fun YouTube page that serves as a small supplement to a few of the show's storylines. If you happened to catch this weekend's episode, you'll remember it ended with Meyer—much to her chagrin—being drafted to head up the unseen president's obesity campaign. (And no, that's not a major spoiler, so save it.) Below is the resulting PSA, which is pretty straightforward, but it's followed by a great "outtakes" clip that's as spot-on as everything else Veep does. And you have to watch the first to fully appreciate the second, so don't skip it. Okay? Don't. [via Vulture]
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Tonight's WWE RAW takes place from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with WWE Champion The Rock, John Cena, Chris Jericho and others.
There will be no Brock Lesnar or Triple H on tonight's show unless last minute changes were made. The Undertaker is being advertised by the arena but not by WWE. No matches have been announced for tonight but The Shield vs. Cena, Sheamus and Ryback is advertised locally.
WWE is focusing on the following points for tonight's show:
* What will happen when Cena and Rock come face to face?
* Can AJ Lee disrupt Kane and Daniel Bryan?
* Does CM Punk have an unprecedented advantage over The Streak?
* What will Chris Jericho have to say to Fandango?
* Will Jack Swagger feel the wrath of Alberto Del Rio?


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The Frankfurt Motor Show will play host to the latest round of concept car teasers this season and the latest stunner is the Volkswagen L1. Somehow this amazing concept vehicle simultaneously screams muscle car and protective family car cocoon.
Shaped like a bullet, and shown off in what appears to be gun-metal silver, the L1's body is composed of lightweight carbon fiber and aluminum which allows it to achieve an amazing 189 miles per gallon. Outfitted with a diesel-electric hybrid engine, and capable of a top speed of 99 miles per hour, the company hopes to get the car into the hands of the public within three years.
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Aussie Open crowd serenades Kerber
It was a good day to be Angelique Kerber. The German put an end to Madison Keys' run at the Australian Open on Friday, beating the American teen 6-2, 7-5.
To top it off, it just so happened to be Kerber's 25th birthday, and the Aussies being the gracious hosts they are, took the time to serenade her after the match. Rennae Stubbs, working for Australia's Channel 7, presented Kerber and led the crowd at Rod Laver Arena in a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday."
The win puts Kerber into her fourth straight Round of 16 at a Slam, a solid streak for the WTA No. 5, who had never made it past the third round of a major until the 2011 U.S. Open, where she had her breakout run to the semifinals. Since then Kerber's missed out on the fourth round only once, at the Aussie Open last year. She'll face No. 19 Ekaterina Makarova next.


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Saturday, 8 January 2011
Guerlain Holiday: Rouge G Le Brillant Lipstick in Bee
Its a vibrant shade of berry with a touch of fuchsia and golden shimmer. Whilst a pretty shade I should have known to trust my initial instinct, as this is too bright for me and I do have to blot it down to make it wearable.
I also find that as my skin is recovering from a bad break out, wearing anything that has a lot of colour emphasises my redness/spots.
I am however pleased that I bought this as I think its good to have a few lipsticks in your collection that are a bit out of your normal comfort zone.
I really like the Rouge G Brilliant formula; its smooth and quite moisturising with a lightweight and comfortable feel.
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I have not tried the Rouge Gs yet, but that colour does look rather pretty. I know what you mean about those sorts of colours emphasising redness/spots - ages ago I made the mistake of wearing a red tinted lipcolour without foundation and someone at work asked if I was ill! I have recently found a few brights shades that I am rather liking which are definitely out of my comfort zone.ReplyDelete
what?? I wish guerlain went on sale here! I have had my eye on that but decided it was too similar (not really but I have alot of lippies) to what I already owned. If it was half price...o man.ReplyDelete
High end makeup NEVER goes on sale in Australia boo hoo. I've wanted to try the Rouge Gs for awhile, but being on the exy side I've tended to avoid them.ReplyDelete
Bee looks beautiful though, a great festive fall shade.
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I think it would suit you. I remeber I was waering a pink Illamasqua shadow at work and have two people say I looked very ill, I've not worn it since! :)
Hi luv2smilexo,
If it makes you feel any better its only a few of their limited of discontinued products that go on sale around Christmas, and they always get snapped up really quickly! I always usually miss out so made sure to be quick with this :)
Hi Jen,
It seems to be a few items from brands like Dior, YSL, Guerlain, but its not always the best items.
Festive fall shade is a good description of it.


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When Michael Jackson's two eldest children took to the stage at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, to accept their late father's lifetime achievement award, the world stopped to watch.
But on Monday, reports surfaced that Blanket, Michael's youngest son, was supposed to appear on stage but backed out at the last minute after becoming overwhelmed. However, a source close to the Grammys told Access Hollywood that gossip is fiction and Blanket was just fine.
The source told Access that Michael's children themselves decided just Prince Michael I and Paris would speak on stage and accept the award on behalf of their dad.
Blanket did attend the event with Katherine Jackson, his grandmother, who was backstage. She looked after her grandchildren during the big event, the source added.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, following a 3-D tribute to Michael, the King of Pop's eldest children – Prince and Paris – took the stage to accept the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of their late father.
"We are proud to be here to accept this award on behalf of our father, Michael Jackson," Michael's 12-year-old son, Prince, told the captivated audience.
"First of all, we'd like to thank God for watching over us for these past seven months, and our grandma and grandpa for their loving support," he continued. "We'd also like to thank the fans – our father loved you so much because you were always there for him."
Prince and sister Paris took the stage, along with a few of their cousins, following a tribute performance to Michael of "Earth Song" performed by Carrie Underwood, Usher, Smokey Robinson, Celine Dion and Jennifer Hudson.
"Our father was always concerned about the planet and humanity," Prince added. "Through all his hard work and dedication, he has helped many charities."
The child closed his speech with a vow to continue to spread his father's message of love.
"Through all his songs, his message was simple – love. We will continue to spread his message and help the world," an emotional Prince Michael said. "Thank you. We love you daddy."
His younger sister, 11-year-old Paris – who so memorably spoke during the public memorial for Michael over the summer — then took to the microphone with a brief comment before exiting the stage.
"Daddy was supposed to be here and Daddy was going to perform this year [because he] couldn't perform last year," she said. "Thank you. We love you Daddy."
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Without a doubt, selling assets could generate some badly needed revenue for the city while improving services for residents over the long term. The city might not be in such dire financial straits, however, had it heeded the recommendations of Mackinac Center Fiscal Policy Director Michael LaFaive when he recommended selling these and other assets more than 11 years ago.
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The folks at CineFix are responsible for spiking my Ovaltine with some happiness today, as they posted an "8-bit" video game version of Anchorman to YouTube last week, and if there's anything my inner frat boy loves, it's 8-bit video games (easy to play when hammered) and Anchorman (the babes at Tri Delt love when I quote it). Of course, as with any 8-bit video game tribute, I spent the whole weekend pissed off that this isn't real and I can't actually play it for hours on end instead of working.
Also, as astute YouTube commenter "Harrawesome" points out, the title is misleading, because this isn't actually 8-bit. A mistake on the Internet? My monocle just shattered on the floor of this strip club bathroom.
Alright… This is gonna make me sound like a complete troll… and I'm bot tryin to hate, but… This isn't actually 8-bit. And I don't mean the color scheme. I could really care less about how many colors there are. I mean the pixel size. The pixels on the character outlines are large blocks, but they get much smaller to make up the face and other details, creating an overall unclean look. Sorry, I'm probably gonna be hated on, but… I couldn't hold it in.
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The pill. So singularly significant, that's all the ID it needs. And soon, May 9 to be exact, it will celebrate its 50th birthday. And while how much of the change those 50 years have seen can be attributed to The Pill is debatable, it'd be pretty damn hard to deny the effect that little plastic case has had on the lives of countless women. In the sexual realm, yes–although, as you'll find in the current slew of stories on this very subject, many believe the link between the Pill's arrival on the scene and the sexual revolution to be (wildly) overrated–but more so (wait for it…), in terms of the choices over one's life that control over one's body opened up. As Nancy Gibbs writes in Time magazine's current cover story, The Pill at 50: Sex, Freedom, and Paradox:
when contraception was put under a woman's control, it put many other things under her control as well…
By the 1970s the true impact of the Pill could begin to be measured, and it was not on the sexual behavior of American women; it was on how they envisioned their lives, their choices, and their obligations. In 1970 the median age at which college graduates married was about 23; by 1975, as use of the Pill among single women became more common, that age had jumped 2.5 years. The fashion for large families went the way of the girdle. In 1963, 80% of non-Catholic college women said they wanted three or more children; that plunged to 29% by 1973. More women were able to imagine a life that included both a family and a job, which changed their childbearing calculations.
As I myself put it some time ago:
Finally, women could screw with abandon! Or at least with a greatly reduced chance of a lifelong reminder of a night of screwing with abandon. No longer would our dreams have to take a backseat to an accidental pregnancy. With the choice of when–and if–we'd become mothers in our own control, all kinds of other choices–like hey, what do I want to do with this life of mine??–materialized.
All was not immediately groovy, of course. Many doctors–even Planned Parenthood–would not prescribe the Pill to women unless they were married. The Catholic Church forbade its use. And then there was the stigma–that, though "nice girls" might get carried away in a moment, they certainly don't plan for such moments. And if they did, well, it's a slippery slope to becoming the town strumpet–or so suggested Peggy's smoking gyno, in this Mad Men clip, who offered the sage advice that "even in our modern times, easy women don't find husbands":
That's fiction, of course… but yesterday's On Point offered the real-life counterpart. The show counted Gibbs and Elisa Ross, ob/gyn and staff physician in the Women's Health Institute of the Cleveland Clinic, as guests, but the standouts were the callers, who recalled their own experiences, marked by the absence of choices when it came to their reproductive systems–and, subsequently, their lives. Two of the callers were in college and engaged or just graduated and newlywed when the Pill was approved. One, Catholic, said she sobbed when the Catholic Church came out against its use: she had a toddler and a new baby–just 14 months apart–and was justifiably freaked out that, before she knew it, she'd have an entire litter to raise. The other, just prior to her wedding, which was to take place in between she and her husband-to-be's senior years of college, was denied the Pill by her Catholic doctor. (Which should give us an additional something or two to think about, in light of today's "conscience clauses," which allow hospital workers and pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions, based on their own beliefs.) She got pregnant on their honeymoon. She loves her children, of course, but she said she wonders what kind of path her life would have taken, had things been different. But the best call was from a man, a physician, who said there was one woman in his class at med school. In 1990, he returned to that school, as Dean, to a class of med students that was nearly 50% female. And he thought it was wonderful: "Women are born healers," he said. "Men have to be taught."
Indeed, left without the excuse that hiring women–or even accepting them into school–would be a waste, as they might get pregnant and drop out or quit at any time, women's numbers both in the workplace and in college exploded. Which is, of course, good stuff. The Pill, low unemployment (Gibbs quotes federal manpower expert Howard Stambler saying, of 1966's 3.8% unemployment rate, "There are almost no men left" to hire), the strengthening women's movement, Title IX, they all conspired to bring women into the fold. And, historically speaking, quickstyle. But, pithy as ever, Gloria Steinem in 1962 offered an insightful warning:
'The real danger of the contraceptive revolution may be the acceleration of woman's role change without any corresponding change of man's attitude toward her role.'
And that, dear reader, is the rub–and not just in terms of man's attitude. But in terms of our own aptitude to deal with all the incredible choices we have before us–and in society's aptitude to support the woman who wants both, to be a mother to her children and the mistress of her own destiny.