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Digital power monitor capable of industry's widest common mode input voltage rangeJuly 21, 2014 10:05 am | Intersil | Product Releases | Comments
Intersil Corporation (Intersil, CA) announced the ISL2802x family of digital power monitors capable of supporting a wide common mode input voltage range of 0V to 60V. The ISL2802x family is comprised of three devices offering a range of capability....
Hotspot: Unmanned submarine sets sail for testingJuly 21, 2014 9:46 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | Comments
An autonomous unmanned vessel designed to track quiet diesel-electric submarines spanning miles of ocean depths for months at a time with minimal human input is now under construction and is expected to set sail for testing in 2015. Leidos, a national security, health and engineering solutions company ...
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When I hear or read the phrase wind power, I immediately imagine tall-towered machines with tri-blade impellers tracing out huge arcing sweeps against partly cloudy skies. Your imagery may vary. Globally, wind generation capacity climbed to 318 GW in 2013 and has increased, year-over-year, an average of 37 MW since 2008....
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Custom MMIC (Westford, MA) announced the addition of the CMD206, a DC-50 GHz distributed low noise amplifier in die form, to its product line. Applications for the CMD206 include…
Industrial grade filters for AC/DC power supplies are offered in 10-A and 20-A versionsJuly 18, 2014 12:42 pm | Schaefer Power Inc | Product Releases | Comments
Schaefer, Inc. (Hopkinton, MA) has introduced 10-A and 20-A industrial filters for its TER Series of low profile, AC/DC power supplies. The TER-10ASF and TER-20ASF are designed to attenuate high frequency noise on AC lines thereby reducing the level of conducted emissions.
Lunar pits could shelter astronauts, reveal details of how 'man in the moon' formedJuly 17, 2014 7:04 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
While the moon's surface is battered by millions of craters, it also has over 200 holes – steep-walled pits that in some cases might lead to caves that future astronauts could explore and use for shelter, according to new observations from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.
'Nanocamera' takes pictures at distances smaller than light's own wavelengthJuly 17, 2014 6:40 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated that an array of novel gold, pillar-bowtie nanoantennas (pBNAs) can be used like traditional photographic film to record light for distances that are much smaller than the wavelength of light (for example, distances less than ~600 nm for red light). A standard optical microscope acts as a "nanocamera" whereas the pBNAs are the analogous film.
Security MCU offers high RF integrationJuly 17, 2014 5:53 pm | Texas Instruments | Product Releases | Comments
Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) introduced the RF430F5978 microcontroller (MCU) and accompanying evaluation module (EVM). Building on Tithe company's CC430 product family, the RF430F5978 MCU is a highly integrated RF solution with desirable read zone and battery performance for…
Ethernet and InfiniBand devices monopolizing your budget? Don't let them!July 17, 2014 2:55 pm | by Krishna Mallampati, PLX Technology, www.plxtech.com | Plx Technology, Inc. | Articles | Comments
Organizations are losing money simply because they are not looking critically at the interconnect technology choices they have. Why? Because they are too wed to Ethernet and InfiniBand to acknowledge that these two are no longer the most economical technologies in system connectivity.
First ab initio method for characterizing hot carriersJuly 17, 2014 2:16 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed the first ab initio method – meaning a theoretical model free of adjustable or empirical parameters – for characterizing the properties of "hot carriers" in semiconductors. Hot carriers are electrical charge carriers - electrons and holes – with significantly higher energy than charge carriers at thermal equilibrium.
Plasmon-enhanced Polarization-selective filterJuly 17, 2014 1:54 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
As we all know, some optical devices can only work with a certain incident polarization direction. In this case, a polarizer is necessary to shift the polarization direction of linearly polarized light. A common polarizer is also called half-wave plate, which constructed out of a birefringent material (such as quartz or mica).
No-wait data centersJuly 17, 2014 1:34 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
At the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, in August, MIT researchers will present a new network-management system that, in experiments, reduced the average queue length of routers in a Facebook data center by 99.6 percent — virtually doing away with queues.
Carnegie Mellon combines hundreds of videos to reconstruct 3D motion without markersJuly 17, 2014 1:23 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed techniques for combining the views of 480 video cameras mounted in a two-story geodesic dome to perform large-scale 3D motion reconstruction, including volleyball games, the swirl of air currents and even a cascade of confetti.
An anti-glare, anti-reflective display for mobile devices?July 16, 2014 6:10 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
If you've ever tried to watch a video on a tablet on a sunny day, you know you have to tilt it at just the right angle to get rid of glare or invest in a special filter. But now scientists are reporting in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that they've developed a novel glass surface that reduces both glare and reflection
ITAR-free OpenVPX rugged mission computer targets compute-intense applicationsJuly 16, 2014 6:07 pm | Curtiss-Wright Controls | Product Releases | Comments
Curtiss-Wright Corporation (Ashburn, VA) announced that its Defense Solutions division has introduced a new fully integrated, ITAR-free compact mission computer, the MPMC-9365 Multi-Platform Mission Computer (MPMC). The compact, SWaP-optimized MPMC-9365 supports up to...
Taking great ideas from the lab to the fabJuly 16, 2014 5:30 pm | by EurekAlert! | Intel Corporation | News | Comments
A "valley of death" is well-known to entrepreneurs--the lull between government funding for research and industry support for prototypes and products. To confront this problem, in 2013 the National Science Foundation created a new program called InTrans to extend the life of the most high-impact NSF-funded research and help great ideas transition from lab to practice.
NASA's Van Allen Probes show how to accelerate electronsJuly 16, 2014 5:04 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
One of the great, unanswered questions for space weather scientists is just what creates two gigantic donuts of radiation surrounding Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts. Recent data from the Van Allen Probes -- two nearly identical spacecraft that launched in 2012 -- address this question.
Self-assembling nanoparticle could improve MRI scanning for cancer diagnosisJuly 16, 2014 4:22 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
Scientists have designed a new self-assembling nanoparticle that targets tumours, to help doctors diagnose cancer earlier. The new nanoparticle, developed by researchers at Imperial College London, boosts the effectiveness of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning by specifically seeking out receptors that are found in cancerous cells.
NOAA's GOES-R satellite Magnetometer ready for spacecraft integrationJuly 16, 2014 4:06 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
The Magnetometer instrument that will fly on NOAA's GOES-R satellite when it is launched in early 2016 has completed the development and testing phase and is ready to be integrated with the spacecraft. The Magnetometer will monitor magnetic field variations around the Earth and...
Eight-channel Type K thermocouple amplifier signal conditioner suits industrial applicationsJuly 16, 2014 2:15 pm | Product Releases | Comments
The Sensor Connection (Troy, MI) has expanded its line of measurement and control instrumentation with the addition of the model TCA-MS-K-8-A4. This eight-channel Type K Thermocouple Amplifier Module converts the low output voltage signal from 8 Type K thermocouple probes to eight…
How to drive LEDs with power factor correction in a single stageJuly 16, 2014 1:47 pm | by Brian King, Texas Instruments, www.ti.com | Texas Instruments | Blogs | Comments
A PFC-SEPIC converter can be controlled using a traditional PFC-boost controller. An important characteristic of the SEPIC is the lack of isolation. This limits the use of this topology to applications that don't require safety isolation. Think about applications that are completely sealed with no user-accessible energized parts, like street lights and high-bay lighting.
High-speed, backplane connector system is presented as future-proofJuly 16, 2014 9:46 am | Molex Incorporated | Product Releases | Comments
Molex (Lisle, IL) announced today its Impel backplane connector system is available for use with the company's Backplane Pin Map Configurator. This connector solution provides equipment manufacturers with the ability to have systems operate at today's data-rates and costs, while providing…
GigE vision: Coming soon to a military screen near youJuly 15, 2014 4:46 pm | by John Phillips, Senior Manager, Product Management, Pleora Technologies | Articles | Comments
Vision systems are playing an increasingly important role on the battlefield. Prized for their ability to improve surveillance while keeping troops out of harm's way, these systems are becoming the vital electronic "eyes" in a growing range of military operations....
Forty-Watt radiation-hardened 120-V Input DC/DC converters target satellite power systemsJuly 15, 2014 4:42 pm | International Rectifier | Product Releases | Comments
International Rectifier, IR (El Segundo, CA) announced the introduction of the M3G120 Series of 40-W radiation-hardened (RAD-Hard) 120V input DC/DC converters for a wide range of digital and analog satellite power systems requiring up to 15 years or more of mission life.
Automotive convenience and safety systems rely on optical sensorsJuly 15, 2014 4:33 pm | by Jim Toal is Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Vishay Optoelectronics | Articles | Comments
Twenty years ago, I worked for a flexible circuit manufacturer supplying to automotive instrument panel manufacturers. At that time, these manufacturers were wary of LED lighting. The tried and true twist-in bulb represented 99.9% of interior and exterior automotive lighting....


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I entirely agree that a hectic family holiday is not the best time to bring a new pet home - but on a more positive note let's remember that most people have several days off work at this time of year. Using those days to ease a new dog into the family may be a very good idea for all concerned.
Adopting over the holidays draws a lot of passion. I don't think it's a bad idea for everyone. I just hope the shelters are doing a good job vetting the adoptive families.
I've twice waited until after the holidays to bring a new dog into my home. But as the childless family, we're the ones usually expected to travel. Adopting a dog in December would be a disaster for us.
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My local Humane Society encourages people to give "Adoption Certificates" in lieu of getting the pet. Then the recipient can return to choose the pet of their choice.
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Qualifying didn't reflect the final result however. In the fourth position, he masterfully weaved his way to the front of the pack until reaching Power after both drivers pitted at the midpoint of the 85-lap event. The Aussie led 57 laps before giving up the advantage to O's speed demon.
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That last picture wasn't that appetizing, so here's a treat for you- VEGAN S'MORES. This is from Mohawk Bend in Echo Park (Los Angeles). You're welcome.
Almost twice baked potatoes. The skins fell apart when I tried to scoop them out, but they were still yummy. Daiya, broccoli, tempeh bacon- oh yeah! Recipe from the new Spork-Fed Cookbook.
Last time I went to Mohawk Bend, they were out of the vegan burger. I was disappointed because I love veggie burgers and I wanted to try it. This time, I got it, but found myself wishing I hadn't… The flavor wasn't bad but it was gray and mushy. I found myself really tempted by that pizza in the background! Next time, I'll stick to vegan pizza or the amazing Flash Gordon salad. Dessert was great though- pics to come!
Vegan apple pie milkshakes. Sounds amazing right? Sadly, I was disappointed- these were way too sweet! This was the first recipe I tried out of the new Spork-Fed Cookbook by the sisters of SporkFoods, and although the final product wasn't my thing, this was not a total loss! I learned a great shortcut to apple pie- mix up your apple filling and bake on in puff pastry for 15 minutes- so easy and the pie part was delicious!
Lentil walnut pate from the Spork-Fed book launch party in Hollywood last Sunday. Jenny and Heather are the reason I'm vegan, so I am thrilled for them! Go buy the book and support the SporkFoods sisters!
Happy Vegan Mofo!
I kicked off the month yesterday at the wedding of two of my dear friends. I was fully prepared to bring my own snacks, but the bride texted me a few days prior to tell me there would be a secret vegan option if I asked the caterer. I am a very low-maintenance vegan who never wants to make anyone go out of their way for me, so I was super grateful. Especially when I found out I was the only vegan (though my friend who can't have dairy partook as well). I think that kindness and thinking of others is so indicative of who these two are and they are going to have a beautiful life together!
As for the food, it was acorn squash stuffed with wild rice and mushrooms, topped with marinara. The salad was romaine with candied walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette and served with an assortment of tasty breads. Delicious! They had vegan-friendly Smoking Loon wine and the yummiest basil lemonade.
Beautiful wedding, beautiful food, beautiful couple!
Whole wheat vegan pancakes with apple cinnamon topping! I made these for my fiancé on Sunday morning while he watched football. But don't think I'm going to be such a typical wife- I ate more pancakes than him.
even though i love vegetables, when i cook at home, i usually stick to a select few and am not so good at expanding my horizons to eat more vegetables. my fiancé is even more reluctant to try new things, so we're always looking for new ways to sneak veggies into our meals.
tonight we had spinach pasta (one of our favorite sneaky veggie tricks) with tomato sauce and field roast sausage. i felt like we needed more veggies though, especially since we didn't eat amazingly on our vacation. i felt inspired to get zucchini at the grocery store (even though i only like it in baked goods usually) and found that it was perfect thing to sneak in.
i grated a chunk into the sauce, it took on the tomato sauce flavors and the texture even became mozzarella-like! i was thrilled and it was delicious! mr. fiancé even went back for more sauce. sneaky veggie victory!
Chocolate tofu dessert from Nobu in Waikiki! Why the lovely chocolate words? Amyeatsvegetables is engaged! Vegan wedding cake tasting, here I come :)
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Wall St Firm steals hundreds of millions from customer's private accounts and the funds will NEVER return! (LMAO! Thats what the hell y'all get!) http://www.cnbc.com/id/45360952
by Nicolas Duplessis
- I am really sick of the local media, in various cities, that simply ignore the fact that the US Government DOES create most of the violence in America. The criminal Federal Government is trying to destabilize The South & Southern Cities with guns and Illegal Aliens, just as they are destablizing the Mid East!
- The success of America, depends on every state being a sovereign entity but when the Southern US has these foreign UN rigged in politicians or deviants like Tx Gov Rick Perry, La. Gov Piyush Jindal or S.C. Gov Nikki "Mahatma" Hailey (ALL REPUBLICANS)-you simply cant win. The American People will continue to loose, on top of being targeted by trailer trash animal mutants (Janet Napolitano & Hillary Clinton), heading up all of these frivolous "security" agencies & the US State Dept.
The US Government, in an effort to create and award billions of tax payer's dollars to government-private industry hybrid created corps like the company run by former head of Homeland Sec under Bush, Michael Chertoff, which makes those cancer causing TSA machines, that was added to air ports AFTER records show that the CIA & Homeland Sec. basically put the "under wear bomber" onto an American Airline Flight, simply keeps a string of terror narratives happening in America!
These people in our government are criminals & greedy! They simply have no respect for American Lives & care about nothing beyond their own pockets. Timothy Geitner needs to find a way to bankrupt the accounts of our criminal Congress People.
The United States of America=F.A.B.A. (For Animals and By Animals)
Look at how Homeland Sec, headed up by that mutant, Janet Napolitano, who has an IQ of a retard because she is only a front "it" thing, is basically orchestrating the police brutality at different Occupy Wall St Protest.
(Innocent Protester in NY bloodied by fat, nasty pig cops, that are being paid by JP Morgan (British Run Wall St Firm), the same firm that profited off of the slave trade and stealing death benefits of US Troops. All of these white cops, heads of TSA and Homeland Sec only got the jobs because they are low IQ animals & nothing but over paid white indentured servants to their criminal slave massas.)
What about Hillary Clinton, CIA, Bank of America & Wells Fargo/Wachovia making over 350 billion last year, in the trafficking of guns and drugs in Latin America? Is anyone in jail? Hell No!
What about the border patrol agent that was killed as a result of the US Government, simply not only giving guns to gang members/cartels but also training these "cartels" in Ga. State?
How many people in New Orleans have been shot as a result of illegal guns, supplied to young black males & now illegal alien latinos by the U.S. Government?
So, to keep pretending that these isolated blacks in New Orleans are simply getting guns from some mystical, New Orleans Black Trafficking Ring, is simply asinine and absurd.
The only way that anyone gets shot in New Orleans, is if the government hires paid provocateurs or if the government (Fast & Furious) places the gun into the criminal's hand.
The same thing that Fast & Furious does in Mexico is the exact same thing that they do in the American Urban Centers like New Orleans,La.
The New Orleans Media will happily report gun violence and stories about people being shot but notice that the D.A., Mayor Landrieu and local media NEVER EVER says where the guns came from in the first place! That's no accident.
Perhaps Ann Duplessis, the city administrator, wants to shed some light on how 15 year old blacks in New Orleans, who have never been out of the city in their life, are magically getting the same high powered riffles, that the US Gov gives to drug cartels in Mexico under "Fast & Furious"?
Perhaps Hip Hop Music Producer & former Haiti Presidential Candidate, Wyclef Jean Duplessis, wants to explain to me, why Haiti now has US Government drug and gun operations, which moves drugs through Haiti into Florida, ever since Bush/Obama & Clinton started their United Nations "charity" in that country?
When Creole and La. Native, Arthel Neville (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Arthel_Neville), was on Fox News and made a comment about "guns & New Orleans" as a celebration for New Years, needless to say, I took her to task via email because the United States of Satan, has been too corrupt and too systemic in their targeting of blacks, for way to long, to have a black female, not only pretend like this "government created violence" isnt happening but to get on the most popular network in America, and float out the idea that these urban blacks simply have the skills or ability to traffic drugs and guns reaches the heights of delusions! Its a lie and blacks need to understand, that all of the violence in their neighborhood is being orchestrated by the U.S. Government.
The same people that are trafficking in the guns and funding the gangs, are the same ones who own the media in this country.
There is simply no reason to expect the media to ever tell Americans the truth about how dirty and mafia, 99% of every aspect the United States really is because to end at least some of this, we have to dismantle America because the voting public are not only simpletons with a genetic defect but they are holding on to one of the most sadistic and dirtiest forms of government in the world.
With all of that being said, can we see more of Arthel on Fox News cuz she is hot!!!!!!
Anyway this is her email back to me:
Hello Mr. Duplessis,
I hope this finds you in good health and spirits. I understand you were offended when I mentioned that some people in New Orleans bring in the New Year by shooting their guns. Perhaps I should have emphasized that not everyone does that. However, anyone who has followed my career, or is just becoming familiar with me on the air, knows that I am a champion of my beloved hometown.
I hope the new year brings you much happiness, good health and an abundance of prosperity.
Take care,
Former New Orleans D.A., Harry Connick Sr. knowingly sent innocent man away to prison for a life sentence by with holding and manipulating paper work http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/prisoner_to_be_freed_after_dis.html
Occupy New Orleans stage sit in's http://www.wwltv.com/news/Occupy-NOLA-protestors-stage-sit-in-at-council-meeting-134082468.html
New Orleans Metro Area Police Brutality being probed http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/covington_police_officers_bein.html#incart_mce
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Worth County is in the middle of a money problem. Officials say they do not have enough money to pay workers this Friday.
According to the county, the budget has a need for $350,000 but only $40,000 is available to pay out.
The county took a loan of $750,000 in early September, but commissioners worry about paying future bills.
Officials say they expect $600,000 from insurance refunds in the coming weeks that will help pay salaries and provide some cash on hand.
On Tuesday County Commissioners unanimously approved a vote to find a bank to issue a $350,000 loan at a competitive rate.
"We can't do anymore tax increases," said Commission Chairman Mike Cosby. "I mean we've got what we've got and we're gonna have to live with it and we're just gonna have to make every effort possible to keep up with every penny that's out there, count every dime and make sure our list is met."
County Attorney Clerence Miller, Commissioner Billy McDonald, and Commissioner Betty Bozeman were not present for the vote. Miller resigned earlier in the week.
Commissioners immediately moved into an executive session after the vote to discuss personnel issues.
Commissioners voted down a tax increase in July.There has not been an increase since 2006. Cosby says the commission won't revisit the issue and hopes to see more tax revenue collected during the holiday season.
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When the Lights Went Out
Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? Preparing for an air attack during World War II? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In New York City during a similar but more frightening blackout in 1977? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity? We often remember vividly our time in the dark. In When the Lights Went Out, David Nye views power outages in America from 1935 to the present not simply as technical failures but variously as military tactic, social disruption, crisis in the networked city, outcome of political and economic decisions, sudden encounter with sublimity, and memories enshrined in photographs. Our electrically lit-up life is so natural to us that when the lights go off, the darkness seems abnormal.
Nye looks at America's development of its electrical grid, which made large-scale power failures possible; military blackouts before and during World War II ("The silence was the big surprise of the blackout, the darkness discounted," wrote Harold Ross in The New Yorker in 1942); New York City's contrasting 1965 and 1977 blackout experiences (the first characterized by cooperation, the second by looting and disorder); the growth in consumer demand that led to rolling blackouts made worse by energy traders' market manipulations; blackouts caused by terrorist attacks and sabotage; and, finally, the "greenout" (exemplified by the new tradition of "Earth Hour"), a voluntary reduction organized by environmental organizations.
Blackouts, writes Nye, are breaks in the flow of social time that reveal much about the trajectory of American history. Each time one occurs, Americans confront their essential condition—not as isolated individuals, but as a community that increasingly binds itself together with electrical wires and signals.
About the Author
David E. Nye is Professor of American History at the University of Southern Denmark. The winner of the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology, he is the author of America's Assembly Line (MIT Press) and other books.
"David Nye's history of blackouts in America is much more than a history of these events. What he has given us is an insightful and often surprising social and cultural history of our relationship to, and increasing dependence on, electricity and its unseen grid."
Paul Israel, Director and General Editor, Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, Rutgers University
"Meticulously researched and engagingly written, When the Lights Went Out is part history and part cautionary tale. David Nye illumines his subject with such insight and skill that a reader won't ever be able to flip on an electrical switch without thinking of this book and its consequential message."
Robert Schmuhl, Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism, University of Notre Dame
"Fifteen years ago, David Nye's groundbreaking Electrifying America showed us how the social, cultural, and political terrain shifted when the lights went on. Now he shows us what happened When the Lights Went Outa must-read for anyone who lived through or just heard about the big-city blackouts of 1965 onward and wonders what they meant."
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Slobodan Milosevic, the Communist leader whose embrace of Serbian nationalism set off almost a decade of Balkan warfare, was found dead in his cell at the United Nations detention center in The Hague on March 11, 2006.
Death came as Mr. Milosevic's four-year trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide was drawing to a close with a verdict expected later that year.
He was the first former head of state to answer charges of such crimes and his was the longest war-crimes trial of modern times, delayed by Mr. Milosevic's frequent bouts of illness related to high blood pressure and a bad heart.
The complex indictment covered the events of three wars — in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo — and almost a decade of bloodshed and vengeance that killed more than 200,000 people and earned Mr. Milosevic the sobriquet "Butcher of the Balkans."
As he rose and then clung to power by resurrecting old nationalist grudges and inciting dreams of a Greater Serbia, Mr. Milosevic became the prime engineer of wars that pitted his fellow Serbs against the Slovenes, the Croats, the Bosnians, the Albanians of Kosovo and ultimately the combined forces of the entire NATO alliance.
By stirring a dormant but incendiary nationalism, he succeeded in rallying support for himself in the late 1980's, at a time when Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe was in its death throes.
Exercising carefully calculated control of the media and operating ruthlessly behind the scenes, Mr. Milosevic established a cult of personality that struck fear into non-Serbs in Yugoslavia.
The consequences of Mr. Milosevic's rule for Serbia were devastating. His final confrontation, with the Albanians of Kosovo, provoked a NATO bombing assault in the spring of 1999 that destroyed government buildings, factories and much infrastructure in a land already ruined by years of international sanctions intended to punish Mr. Milosevic for instigating earlier wars.
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Two men from Harvard started a linguistics survey back in 2002 and finally wrapped it up in 2013.
They surveyed over 350,000 people about how we talk. Our every day lingo.
I took the survey and it said that I was from the Minneapolis St Paul area. Which comes as no surprise beings I was born and raised just across the border from there in WI. Crazy how these things work!
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Where's the beef? Not here
The supply of U.S. beef is down and retail prices up -- but some say that's not why we're eating less meat.
Ground beef was a staple of my family's diet when I was growing up, and though I don't eat much red meat anymore, that's by choice rather than necessity. Unfortunately, with beef prices steadily rising, a lot of families may no longer have the luxury of choosing whether beef is what's for dinner.
Beef prices, which rose 10% in 2011, are expected to increase another 4% or 5% this year -- with some estimates projecting a 10% jump, according to USA Today. The reasons are multiple, but supply is a big one -- down 2% from 2011 to a 60-year low of about 91 million head, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Post continues below.The decline is due, in part, to last year's severe drought in Texas, Oklahoma and other states. Rising feed prices and competition are also to blame, USA Today reported:
The crisis added to a long-term trend of ranchers thinning their herds because of the soaring price of corn -- a primary feedstock for cattle -- rising property costs and increased competition for land with corn, soybeans and other crops, says Kevin Good, a senior analyst at research firm CattleFax.
Also impacting the supply of U.S. beef for Americans is increased demand for beef in Canada, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Exports increased 22% in 2011.
All of which means higher prices at the grocery store for American consumers.
Americans eating less beef anyway
Rising prices might not be the only reason Americans are eating less beef. Nationwide, per-capita beef consumption is down 25% since 1980, Reuters reports.
According to the USDA (.pdf file), American meat and poultry consumption in 2012 will be 12.2% less than it was in 2007. The Daily Livestock Report (.pdf file) projects that Americans on average will consume the boneless equivalent of 165.5 pounds of meat and poultry this year.
"Beef consumption has been in decline for about 20 years; the drop in chicken is even more dramatic, over the last five years or so; pork also has been steadily slipping for about five years," wrote chef Mark Bittman on The New York Times Opinionator blog. Consumers are making an active choice, he contends: "We're eating less meat because we want to eat less meat."
In May, the nonprofit Meatless Monday initiative announced that half of those surveyed were aware of its campaign, and that 27% said Meatless Monday had "influenced their decision to cut back on meat."
The Values Institute at DGWB Advertising included "the rise of the 'flexitarians'" among its top five consumer health trends for 2012, OC Metro reported. The term, which blends "flexible" and "vegetarian," refers to people who reduce their meat consumption but don't give it up entirely.
Easy ways to eat less meat
Giving up beef -- or reducing how much you eat -- doesn't have to mean subsisting on lettuce, peanut butter and cheese.
Here are some suggestions for how to cut back your beef consumption:
Consider cutting meat out of your diet one or two days a week.
Americans eat more meat than people in other countries, so find inspiration in foods such as pizza, Asian noodle dishes and other recipes that include some meat but don't focus on it.
Use meat for flavor -- think green beans with bacon.
Decrease the size of your meat portions. Instead of a 12-ounce steak, order one that is 8 ounces or smaller.
Look up flexitarian recipes (or vegetarian recipes) online and experiment to find ones that work for your family.
Use half as much meat in recipes such as chili, tacos or pasta sauce, and make up the difference with protein-rich black or white beans.
"Flexitarians weigh 15% less, have a lower rate of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer and live 3.6 years longer than their carnivorous counterparts," says Dawn Jackson Blatner, author of "The Flexitarian Diet."
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Posted by Abhishek GuptaMicrosoft Program Manager, Linux Integration Services
Since 2010, we've worked with Red Hat to support our mutual customers with enhanced interoperability in Windows environments. This continues with today's beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.9.
The RHEL 5.9 beta was engineered with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V interoperability in mind. The device drivers needed to run RHEL as a first-class guest on Hyper-V are built right in, making it easier for customers to manage their heterogeneous Red Hat Enterprise Linux-Windows environments for virtualization and private cloud. The Hyper-V drivers included in this release will soon be certified through the Red Hat Hardware Certification Program – further validation that customers can expect a reliable, enterprise-class virtualization experience.
We'll continue to collaborate with an eye on what's next for our mutual customers, including work that is underway to provide interoperability with future releases of RHEL and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Stay tuned on the blog for future announcements and let us know in the comments how we can better support virtualization in your datacenter or cloud.
Posted by Mark GaylerOpen Software Lead
This week I had the privilege to join some of the world's top open source researchers in Tunisia at OSS 2012 to discuss how Microsoft is collaborating with open source projects and initiatives worldwide and investing in support for open source solutions on Microsoft's platforms. Many attendees were interested to learn how they could have the best of both worlds – taking advantage of the Microsoft technology stack, particularly the benefits of the Windows Azure cloud platform, while leveraging existing investments in open source solutions and skills.
During my Microsoft, Open Source and the Cloud keynote, discussions focused on how interoperability and openness are built right into our cloud platform. Developers can build applications using any language, tool or framework – including open source languages like Node.js. The audience was particularly interested that Windows Azure SDKs for PHP, Java and Eclipse are available as open source projects on github. Linux on Windows Azure Virtual Machines also piqued interest. One question focused on the data privacy and security considerations for the cloud and I pointed out that governments and enterprises can choose public cloud offerings or build their own private cloud infrastructures, depending upon the application scenario.
For the many academic thought leaders in the room, we discussed how Microsoft is partnering with academic communities to spark innovation and support open science. We discussed the breadth of Microsoft Research's investment in open source projects, ranging from scientific computing and research management to publishing tools. Within the realm of scientific computing, I demo'd ChronoZoom, an open source community project released earlier this year, that has the ambitious goal of presenting the history of everything and is proving to be a vital tool in the evolving field of Big History, which examines historical data from the beginning of time, some 13.7 billion years ago.
There was also talk of how open government initiatives are emerging around the world. More and more data is publicly available, promoting transparency and engagement with citizens, as well as creating opportunities for new apps using government data. I walked through the Open Government Data Initiative (ODGI) DataLab (also available as an open source project on github), which is a cloud-based collection of software assets that enables publically available government data to be easily accessible and incorporated into new applications and services. OGDI helps governments achieve their openness goals while also creating more opportunities for developers, educators, and students to innovate with open and interoperable technologies. Many government entities, including several in the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Health in Italy, and the Government of Colombia, are benefiting from these resources today.
These events are great opportunities for me to listen to customers, partners, students, and community members about how we can continue to evolve our technologies to be more open. Any additional suggestions? Please let us know in the comments.
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Social networking accounts for 1 of every 6 minutes spent online, generating an enormous amount of content that could be useful to consumers, schools, governments and corporations – almost anyone interested in measuring trends – if only there were a way to harness it.
Enter Klout, a data services company, which offers fast, detailed insights from an index of the online activity of 100 million people, more than 2.7 billion pieces of content daily and 30 billion API calls per month on 15 leading social networks.
From these hundreds of terabytes of data, Klout customers and partners get nearly real-time access to information on what people are doing, searching and talking about on their social networks. "We take in raw data and make it into something that is actionable for our consumers, brands, and partners," says David Mariani, Vice President of Engineering at Klout.
As developers around the world create applications for an ever-growing set of devices and uses, the need for a powerful toolset that can support faster innovation is essential. With today's launch of Visual Studio 2012, developers have a simplified, integrated experience that can help them create compelling experiences across multiple connected devices powered by continuous services, regardless of platform.
Visual Studio 2012 contains a variety of tools that create transparency, reduce inefficiency, and accelerate project flow. Columbia Sportswear developers today described how they used a combination of Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 to facilitate collaboration by cross-platform teams, including Java and .NET developers, in the process "saving hundreds of hours of development time."
Today's launch follows last month's news that Microsoft LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 provides broader support for open standards like OData, allowing for the faster production of business applications that run well across multiple platforms and devices.
To learn more about how Visual Studio customers are creating great app experiences across platforms, watch the launch event keynote with Microsoft Corporate Vice Presidents, S. Somasegar and Jason Zander.
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8 miles of cables. 540 bean bags. 15,000 cans of soda. These are just a few of the amenities required to set a world record for the largest application development marathon in one location.
The Windows 8 AppFest set the Guinness World Record in Bangalore, India this past weekend with more than 2,500 talented developers from many backgrounds building Windows 8 apps for 18 hours straight.
Speaking from the Appfest, Jon DeVaan, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Windows Development, said, "Developers are at the center of Microsoft's success. And India is home to some of the world's most talented developers. We are focused on enabling developers to succeed as they build the next generation of apps. I can't wait to see some of these apps being built at the Windows 8 Appfest."


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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Just five weeks after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., concerns have been raised over changing gun laws, especially with the President's recent proposal to ban assault weapons.
In response, gun advocates proclaimed Saturday as Gun Appreciation Day, an event to show support for the Second Amendment.
Dottie Sollman waited two hours Saturday to hit the gun range at Coal Creek Armory.
She says she didn't know about Gun Appreciation Day, but she now thinks having a gun is more important than she did in the past.
"The high crime, I never thought I would ever feel the need to have a gun in my home, but I feel the need to have a gun in my home now. There's just too much crime and no matter what neighborhood you live in, you're at risk," said Sollman.At Coal Creek Armory, employees say they now see as much business Monday through Thursday as they used to see on Fridays and Saturdays.
For the most part, it's been people trying to stay out in front of legislation, get things before Congress can do anything that will bar them from getting them," explained Range Operations Manager Jonathan Carter.
Carter says there's no one day he thinks the armory will start to see a slowdown."Not until Congress has done what they're going to do. When that occurs, it will slow down, because the fear of an extreme knee-jerk reaction will be over," added Carter.
Sollman plans to buy her first handgun within a month, and she feels pretty confident after her first day at the range."Well, they tell me I did outstanding. I practiced in the simulation room quite awhile on the play gun and I did really, really well. That gave me an edge when I was using the real gun, and I missed my target twice out of 50," Sollman said.
Employees say they had a few customers talk about 'gun appreciation day' earlier in the week; those customers were planning to go to Nashville for the demonstration at the capitol.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Kardashians are in New York - but they're not real.
Characters costumed as family members from the TV reality show are starring in a musical production of Kardashian impersonators singing "The Princess and the Pea" story.
It's part of a Gotham Chamber Opera show called "Baden-Baden 1927." Four pieces were presented that year in the German city, asking composers, "What is art? What is reality?"
Director Paul Curran says he's using what some Americans consider art today - TV people who are special because they say so.
Soprano Maeve Hoglund stars as the princess. The Queen is played by a kind of Kardashian mother wondering if good taste is still alive.
The show runs through Tuesday at the Gerald Lynch Theater.
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Saratoga Springs • A perceived lack of transparency, lost zoning records and an explanation on the part of two Saratoga Springs City Council members for a private conversation that took place during an open meeting have prompted some residents in this Utah County community to pursue a legal battle.
On Nov. 13, City Council members discussed a rezoning ordinance to a current undeveloped piece of land that would allow triplex apartments in Saratoga Springs Development — an upscale neighborhood with $500,000 lakefront property surrounded by a golf course adjacent to Utah Lake.
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The change would allow the landowners, Capital Assets Financial Services, to develop the nearly 12-acre property with fewer buildings with more people in them. The mansion-style apartments are divided into three family units. But the homeowners association where the development is proposed doesn't want to see a mixed development created.
""We don't want duplexes and triplexes taking over our area," said Neighbors Against Density Abuse (NADA) president Troy Jenkins, who lives on Centennial Boulevard, which is on the street of the development. "We don't want the city of Saratoga to be a multifamily-housing city."
To that end, a civil suit was filed in 4th District Court on Dec. 12 by NADA — a group of more than 1,000 residents — against Saratoga Springs on allegations of violating the state open and public meetings law and also passing an illegal ordinance. The lawsuit asks the judge to find the city at fault for violating the Open and Public Meetings Act and reverse the council's decision and pay for legal fees.
In addition to the court battle, Utah County certified a petition recently will allow the rezoning ordinance to be voted on by residents in November.
Saratoga Springs planning director Jim McNulty told The Salt Lake Tribune earlier that Green Springs Manor — the planned development — has been part of the city's master plan since 1998. He said the issue is "dividing the community" but all the residents' referendum in November will do is delay when shovels start hitting the ground.
"We don't think it is going to change the project," he said.
NADA member Barbie Riccardelli said she's pleased residents will vote on the zoning issue this November.
"They need to listen to us," she said of city officials, adding that residents in Saratoga Springs worried about open areas transforming into crowded higher-density units.
The group is working on an initiative to repeal the existing overlay and future abilities for the city to allow higher density development above that permitted under city zoning regulations known as a Planned Unit Development (PUD).
A question of an open meeting violation came on Nov. 13, when City Council members Rebecca Call and Shellie Baertsch went from talking to each other in a meeting to leaving the chambers to "meet privately" with the city manager and city attorney, according to court records. There was no vote to close the meeting or a public announcement to have a private meeting, court records state. When the two came back in about 10 minutes later, according to several in attendance, the vote on the controversial ordinance was made and approved with both women voting in favor of the zone change along with Bernard "Bud" Poduska, according to court records. The two other council members voted against it.
However, Brigham Young University communications professor Joel Campbell, an expert on Utah's public meetings laws, said it's likely the city didn't technically violate any law since there weren't enough people to make up a quorum at the meeting. Campbell pointed out by state law there need to be at least three council members out of the five to make a quorum. But that doesn't mean the city employees couldn't have been more transparent, he said.
"It is troubling they would do this without thinking how the public views this," Campbell said. "You really shouldn't have two people just up and leave; you should do it as a body ... Otherwise, it ends up raising a lot of questions."
Baertsch declined to comment on what she discussed with Call behind closed doors and her reasoning for voting, citing the ongoing litigation.
Call wouldn't tell residents either until a senior member of NADA emailed her asking why she voted the way she did despite months of opposition from the home owners association about the rezoning plans for the development.
In an email, Call responded that she and Baertsch would rather see a different development but feared a lawsuit by the developer.
"We both do not encourage nor agree with granting any additional mid to high density in the city ... if we had made the opposite decision, we would have been legally and morally obligated to pay detrimental reliance to the developer; for I believe those decisions made long ago entitled him to something we would now be taking away," Call wrote in the email.
Call was referring to what previous City Councils granted to the developer who understood the land to be zoned for multi-family homes, but it was never officially recorded that way. She said if the entire city was willing to take on the repercussions for voting against the zone change, "we would have voted that way."
Call then encouraged the NADA member to "convince" residents this is why she voted yes, according to the December email.
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A Human Face behind the Refugee Statistics
June 21, 2012 - Posted by Guest
A post by National Immigration Forum communications intern Minola Fernando:
Yesterday, on World Refugee Day, I had the opportunity to attend No Place Called Home, a play presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
I learned that out of 43.7 million refugees worldwide, 4.7 million are Iraqis who were displaced due to military intervention in their country. Playwright and actress Kim Schultz and musician Amikaeyla Gaston brought this staggering statistic to life.
When the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq, the effects were devastating for many Iraqi civilians. Doctors, lawyers, artists and cab drivers, men, women, and children — all were affected. Many made the difficult decision to leave their homes and the lives they were used to behind in order to protect their families. Many had no choice but to leave. Some left because there was no longer anything or anyone left in the place they used to call home.
It can be easy to hear a statistic and overlook the fact that behind a number are real people with stories of sadness and suffering, but who also have hope for the future. Schultz and Gaston gave members of the audience an opportunity to "meet" these people and learn about the circumstances many of them endured that put them in the situations they are in today. They witnessed the murders of friends and family, and experienced violence and torture. They often could not even find refuge in the places to which they fled, as they were ostracized for being outsiders.
Although the war in Iraq may officially be over, millions of people still suffer the consequences. Not only on World Refugee Day but every day we must recognize the plight of refugees and reflect on their stories, dreams, and hopes for a future in which they may once again have a place to call home.


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Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #3: Lofoten Islands, Norway
Here's another chance to play geographical detective! This Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) image covers an area measuring 350 kilometers x 415 kilometers, and was captured by the instrument's vertical-viewing (nadir) camera on August 20, 2001. Use any reference materials you like and answer the following four questions:
1. Which nation's coastline is featured in this image?
True or False?
3. Which fish play important roles in the lifestyle and economy of this coastal region? Choose A, B, or C:
4. An American author wrote a short work of fiction inspired by a phenomenon associated with the area shown in the lower left portion of the image. The story was published in 1841. Who is the author and what is the title of the story?E-mail your answers, name (initials are acceptable if you prefer), and your hometown by Monday, October 1, 2001 email@example.com will be published on the MISR Quiz page in conjunction with the next weekly image release. The names and home towns of respondents who answer all questions correctly by the deadline will also be published in the order responses were received. The first 3 people on this list who are not affiliated with NASA, JPL, or MISR and who did not win a prize in the last quiz will be sent a print of the image.A new "Where on Earth...?" mystery appears as the MISR "image of the week" approximately once per month. A new image of the week is released every Wednesday at noon Pacific time on the MISR home page. The image also appears on the Earth Observatory, and on the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center home page, though usually with a several-hour delay.MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.
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The Boston Bruins announced on Saturday that they have bought out the final year of right winger Glen Murray's contract.
Following the buyout, Murray becomes an unrestricted free agent and can sign with any other NHL team.
Murray had 17 goals and 13 assists in last season's injury plagued campaign that saw him play only 63 games.
The two-time All-Star missed 19 games with a hip flexor and struggled through his least productive season in a decade.
In 1009 career games the Halifax native has 337 goals and 314 assists.


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Press Release
June 11, 2012
Marcus Mrowka
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AFT Stands with Chicago Teachers Union
WASHINGTON— AFT President Randi Weingarten's statement on the strike authorization vote taken by members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU).
"Today's announcement by CTU that more than 90 percent of its members participated in the strike authorization vote and that 98 percent of them voted yes makes several things clear: Chicago's public school educators are deeply concerned and frustrated about decisions being made that affect their schools, their students and their jobs; and they feel disrespected and demoralized by not having the tools, time and trust they need to help their students succeed. Many doubted the 75 percent threshold could be met; few believed it would be exceeded.
"This level of participation and engagement by Chicago's educators is both inspiring and instructive. It represents not just anger and frustration, but also a real commitment to Chicago's students and a desire to be active participants in building strong public schools that help all Chicago children thrive."
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The AFT represents 1.5 million pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel; higher education faculty and professional staff; federal, state and local government employees; nurses and healthcare workers; and early childhood educators.


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Masoud Amralla Al Ali
Artistic Director, The Managment
As Artistic Director of the Dubai International Film Festival, Masoud curates all Festival programming, overseeing the feature films, documentaries and shorts selected for the Arab and international sections. He also oversees the Festival's competitive Muhr Arab and Muhr AsiaAfrica Awards. Masoud has been closely involved with DIFF since its inception. In its early years, he was responsible for its Arabic programming, including the popular Arabian Nights section and UAE-focused Emerging Emiratis, which has since evolved into a pan-Gulf showcase. His dedication to the region's talent led Masoud to found the Emirates Film Competition in 2001. The UAE's first showcase for local film talent, the annual competition is widely recognized as a turning point for Gulf cinema and a critical launch pad for its talent. Today, Masoud serves as director of its successor entity, the Gulf Film Festival. Masoud's involvement with DIFF is the most recent step in a career steeped in the arts. A lifelong creative, the Emirati national first emerged into the public spotlight with his passion for poetry. After moving into filmmaking as a visual exploration of the written word, he produced his first short films and documentaries in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His wealth of film knowledge, first-hand experience in writing, directing and producing films, and passion for encouraging talent from the region makes Masoud one of the defining voices and leading mentors of contemporary Arab cinema. A graduate of UAE University, Masoud has previously worked for the Dubai Police and as artistic director for the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation.


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Occupying 16,000 square kilometres of the far northeast on the Brazil border, PARQUE NACIONAL NOEL KEMPFF MERCADO is the country's most isolated, pristine and spectacular national park, and one of the most remote wilderness regions in South America. Encompassing several different ecosystems including Amazon rainforest, savannah, and scrubby Brazilian cerrado, the UNESCO World Heritage Site supports an astonishing range of wildlife, including over 630 species of birds, eleven species of monkey, all the major Amazonian mammals, pink freshwater dolphins and the highly endangered giant river otter. Moreover, your chances of seeing these animals are much higher here than elsewhere in Bolivia.
Established in 1979 as the Parque Nacional Huanchaca, the park was renamed (and expanded) in 1988 in honour of the pioneering Bolivian biologist and conservationist Noel Kempff Mercado, who was murdered by drug traffickers after stumbling across a secret cocaine laboratory on the Huanchaca plateau. The park was expanded again in 1997 under a pioneering "carbon credit" scheme, whereby two US energy corporations and the oil giant BP paid around $10 million to buy out loggers operating in an adjacent forest area of 6340 square kilometres, which was then added to the park.
The park's remote location means it is expensive and difficult to visit: even the organized tours can be pretty tough going. The park's southern border is over 200km from the nearest town, San Ignacio de Velasco, itself another 400km from Santa Cruz. It is also extremely difficult – and often impossible – to visit the park during the rainy season (Nov–May), when the mosquitoes and other insects are also particularly ferocious.Read More
Huanchaca plateau
Huanchaca plateau
The park's most remarkable natural feature is the Huanchaca plateau (or the Caparú Plateau), a vast sandstone meseta (plateau) rising 500m above the surrounding rainforest to an elevated plain of grasslands and dry cerrado woodlands, from where spectacular waterfalls plunge down the sheer escarpment into the park's rivers. This isolated plateau covers over seven thousand square kilometres, just under half the park, and inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World – at least according to Colonel Percy Harrison Faucett, the legendary British explorer who was the first European to see the plateau when he came here in 1910 while demarcating Bolivia's borders, and who later described the landscape to Conan Doyle in London.


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POLK COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - A northwest Wisconsin man has pleaded not guilty in the brutal beating death of his fiancé.
45-year-old Scott Youngmark of Milltown entered the plea Wednesday to a Polk County charge of first-degree intentional homicide.
The defense said it was working on a request to move Youngmark's possible trial, citing excessive pre-trial publicity. A judge will hold a hearing on that request April 16th.
Authorities said Youngmark was freed on a reduced bond for bail jumping just 15 days before he allegedly stabbed and beat 47-year-old Kari Roberts. She was found dead in her apartment on December 1st.
Prosecutors said Youngmark was awaiting sentencing at the time for a 2011 incident in which he stabbed a man just below the neck, and hit another man in the jaw with his knee.
After he was arrested in that case, officials said he asked family members to encourage witnesses not to testify against him. He ended up striking a plea deal.
Authorities said Youngmark has also had numerous convictions in neighboring Minnesota from 1996 through 2008.


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Today is Picture Book Wednesday and we'll be talking about what good rhyme looks like. So often we hear that editors don't want rhyme at all when what they really don't want is bad rhyme. Because they get so much bad rhyme, they often say they don't want rhyme at all. Studying good rhyme can help us when writing our own rhyme. I'll be using Cats' Night Out by Caroline Stutson, illustrated by J. (Jon) Klassen.
Perfect Rhythm
The rhymes in this book have wonderful meter and flow easily as a read-aloud. But more than that, Caroline sets a dance-like tone and an intriguing opening that are accessible to little listeners.
"From the alley, music drifts.
Shadows sway to a trumpet riff…"
This is a wonderful example of a rhyme that is not perfect, but works perfectly. There is no"t" at the end of "riff," but the sound works well so we hardly notice. Similarly with "right/stripes" later in the book.
"Music drifting" lulls us, but "shadows sway" immediately raises a question–whose shadows? We immediately want to turn the page, where we are introduced to the first pair of cats.
Hidden Counting
Caroline continues to maintain a rhythmic, musical quality with her word choices and lilting rhyme while slipping in counting by twos. Children may not even be aware of it, but will have fun counting the cats as they multiply page after page.
Sophisticated, yet fun, Illustrations
The illustrations convey the mystery and magic of the night, while giving listeners plenty to point out and find. What's that in the window? (A record player the first time, other items in other spreads) Which cats wear capes? Tip their hats?
Cats' Night Out is a wonderful book and a great tool for those writing in rhyme. Study this book and others like it to immerse yourself in the flow of effective rhythm and rhyme.


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- Hors d'oeuvres and beverages, music and eye-candy supplied.
- Dress in your most glorious celestial finery.
- Bring tribute to lay before the Queen. Together, we will create an evening worthy of her sacred name.
- Also on display will be Anne Marie's other recent work featuring Deities of the Four Quarters.
About the Artist
Anne Marie Forrester is a fine artist who also works in ceramics, scratchboard, digital collage, painting, and tattoo design & application. She loves creating ritual tools, making seasonal crafts, and occasionally-theatrical props and costumes. She also has over 25 years of professional experience in illustration, book design (including six years as Llewellyn Publishing's senior designer), print design, web graphics, advertising, and packaging.


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Shingles (Herpes Zoster) (cont.)
Steven Doerr, MD
Steven Doerr, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician. Dr. Doerr received his undergraduate degree in Spanish from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He graduated with his Medical Degree from the University Of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado in 1998 and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine from Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado in 2002, where he also served as Chief Resident.
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John P. Cunha, DO, is a U.S. board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician. Dr. Cunha's educational background includes a BS in Biology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a DO from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, MO. He completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey.
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- How is shingles diagnosed?
- What is the treatment for shingles?
- Are there any home remedies for shingles?
- What is the duration of a shingles outbreak?
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- Is it possible to prevent shingles with a vaccine?
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What can be done for recurrent shingles?
Though most people will experience only one episode of shingles during their lifetime, recurrence can occur in certain individuals. In order to help prevent recurrent episodes of shingles, individuals with no contraindications can receive the zoster vaccine (Zostavax), which has been shown to be effective in decreasing recurrent episodes of shingles. Otherwise, people who do experience a recurrent case of shingles should see their doctor as soon as the rash appears in order to promptly receive antiviral medication.
What is the prognosis of shingles?
Generally speaking, shingles typically resolves within two to four weeks in most individuals. The prognosis is excellent for younger and healthy individuals who develop shingles, with very few experiencing any complications. However, in older individuals and in those with compromised immune systems, the prognosis is more guarded, as complications and more severe outbreaks of shingles occur more commonly in these groups.
Approximately 1%-4% of people who develop shingles require hospitalization for complications, and about 30% of those hospitalized have impaired immune systems. In the U.S., it is estimated there are approximately 96 deaths per year directly related to the varicella zoster virus, the vast majority of which occur in the elderly and in those who are immunocompromised.
Is it possible to prevent shingles with a vaccine?
In 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a shingles vaccine (Zostavax). Currently, the FDA has approved its use for individuals age 50 years and older, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended its use for individuals age 60 years and older. It is a live attenuated vaccine that boosts the immune system and only needs to be administered one time. Ongoing studies are underway to determine how long the vaccine confers protection. It has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of developing shingles by about 60%, as well as reducing the incidence of postherpetic neuralgia by approximately 66%.
The shingles vaccine is not recommended for individuals who are pregnant or for those with weakened immune systems from disease or immunosuppressive medications, as it is a live vaccine. It is also not recommended for cases of active shingles or for those who have already developed postherpetic neuralgia. However, even if you have had shingles in the past, the vaccine can still be administered to help prevent future recurrent shingles.
The vaccination can be administered at a pharmacy or at your doctor's office. If you are vaccinated with the shingles vaccine, it is safe to be around children, pregnant women, and immunocompromised individuals, as there are no documented cases of people getting chickenpox from a recently vaccinated person.
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Shingles (Herpes Zoster)." <http://www.cdc.gov/shingles/>. May 18, 2012.
United States. NIHSeniorHealth. "Shingles." <http://nihseniorhealth.gov/shingles/aboutshingles/01.html>.
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Clean stoves to bring multi-benefits for Afghans
The United Nations and its partners have teamed up with local villagers in Afghanistan to develop clean cooking stoves that could potentially save lives by improving indoor air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on wood for fuel.
The UN-supported project brings together local metal-smiths, engineers and environmental experts in Bamiyan province to design prototypes for clean cook stoves and other low-cost energy solutions which are now being tested by villagers.
The design team has so far developed four prototypes: a tandoor (called the Sutra, meaning clean), a bhukari (called the Foladi, meaning iron), improved briquettes and a solar water heater.
As the stoves and other products are produced, they will be traded, rather than given away, as part of providing income sources and empowering local communities, according to Andrew Scanlon, officer-in-charge of UNEP's Afghanistan program.
"As Afghanistan moves from conflict and humanitarian crises to a development-driven agenda, practical programmes focusing on economic development, labour creation and the sustainable management of the environment are a high priority," Mr Scanlon said.
Health and environmental benefits
Indoor smoke from traditional Afghan tandoors, or drum-shaped ovens which are used for cooking and heating, is a major health issue.
A recent WHO study found that inhaling smoke from indoor heating and cooking kills about 54,000 Afghans per year. Regularly breathing smoke also leads to childhood pneumonia, lung cancer and other cardiovascular diseases.
The inefficient use of dung and wood for fuel is also adding to stress on the environment, says the UNEP, which notes that all Afghan forests will disappear within 30 years at the current rate of deforestation.
The project is part of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which is calling for 100 million homes to adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020 to cut the estimated 1.6 million to 1.8 million premature deaths each year linked to indoor emissions from inefficient cook stoves.
The project has added significance in that 2012 is the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. The initiative aims to bring about concrete action to achieve universal access to modern energy services and double both the rate of improvement in energy efficiency and the share of renewable energy in the global mix by 2030.
Source: UN News Centre
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The St. Louis Blues will have to play without one half of their goaltending tandem after placing Jaroslav Halak on injured reserve on Sunday.
The 27-year-old netminder suffered a groin injury in the first period of the Blues' 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Friday and is expected to be out at least a week.
He will miss the next two games and the Blues hope to have him back practicing on Friday.
Halak was pulled shortly after surrendering Henrik Zetterberg's second goal and Brian Elliot finished the game.
Halak is in his third season with the Blues after being acquired in a deal with the Montreal Canadiens, the team that drafted him 271st overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
To replace Halak on the roster, the Blues have recalled 22-year-old goaltender Jake Allen from the Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League.


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Budget of the United States Government - Appendix
This supplement to the annual Budget of the United States Government has been published since 1952, and provides more detailed information by agency, in a line-by-line format.
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All future iPhones and iPads will come with Touch ID, according to one analyst. Such a move would give a huge boost to Touch ID module shipments this year.
The company produces the TouchID fingerprint sensor for the iPhone 5S and has reportedly secured the contract for Apple's next handset.
To access Yahoo Sports Tourney Pick'Em up, users now need a Yahoo ID -- soon the same will be mandatory for services like Flickr and Fantasy Sports.
September 10 is around the corner. Here's what I hope I get to see before that day ends.
There are predictions, mock-ups, and rumors galore...but this is what the next iPhone could use most.
New cards available in the predictive search engine will make holiday travel a bit easier, Google says.
iTunes 7.0 Special Report: Incomplete ID3 tags for converted files
The Boston Acoustics iDS3 is a bit low on features but high on performance and sound quality.
iTunes 4.9 Special Report: MP3s/AACs being treated as QuickTime files; ID3 tag problems -- solutions
The FBI has released its first mobile application, which enables parents to alert authorities in the event their child goes missing.