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I made a couple of simple bands out of wood one day and decided to try and kick it up a notch and make something a little more complicated. While thinking about rings I remembered an instructable I've always wanted to do but didn't have the tools or supplies for: How to make a Green Lantern Ring
I've always been a comic fan, and I know more about Green Lantern than most people, but it's never been a series I kept up with. I still think the ring is super cool though so I decided it was perfect for my personal wooden ring challenge.
Here's what I did. Enjoy!
Step 1: Tools and materials
Cheap wood carving set
Dremel tool with Workstation and flex extension
Multiple sizes of grinding and sanding bits
Sandpaper - coarse and fine
Sanding block
Wood (I buy wood bits by the pound from American Science and Surplus)
Green wood stain (got mine from Ikea)
Wood filler (if you're better at carving then me you won't need this)
Brushes (unless you use spay polyurethane)
Does this include the original GL's weakness? (wood ...discussion of wood rings...)
BTW- the last picture looks like you might turning into the Hulk (thumb)!! :)
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According to the TNS Gallup survey, 46 percent of all Nordic organizations use OSS today, compared to 41 percent in the Benelux region. Finland is on top of the list of OSS usage with 54 percent. The survey also shows that deployment of open source should increase within the next two years – with one-third of the CIOs using open source today say they plan to increase their OSS within two years. 23 percent of CIOs in the Nordic countries who have not yet deployed open source software state that they plan to do so within two years, in comparison to 25 percent in the Benelux countries. Large companies use open source to a greater extent than medium-sized companies.
Additionally, more than half of the companies in the Nordic and Benelux regions use open source in both critical and non-critical applications. Of the organizations that use open source today, 49 percent of the organizations in the Nordic region use Sun's MySQL database. This places the Nordic region ahead of the Benelux countries, where 43 percent of the companies have adopted MySQL.
"We believe that the increased demand for open source in general and MySQL in particular is driven largely by the global economic downturn," says Magnus Stenberg, MySQL Sales Manager for Nordic's & Benelux region at Sun Microsystems. "This survey shows that CIOs highly prioritize cost savings, reliability and ease of use -- a major reason why 46 percent of the companies in the Nordic and Benelux countries use MySQL for database management."
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Lambert is nominated for entertainer of the year, single record and song of the year, video of the year, and female vocalist of the year, and she has two mentions in the vocal event of the year category.
McGraw is nominated for album of the year, single record of the year, video of the year and vocal event of the year.
Keith Urban, who will headline Nashville's Bridgestone Arena Saturday night, had six nominations including male vocalist and two mentions in the vocal event of the year category.
Other multiple nominees include: Lee Brice, recent Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves, the show's co-host Blake Shelton, and Taylor Swift with five nominations; Florida Georgia Line and Lady Antebellum who received four each; and Luke Bryan and Darius Rucker, who earned three nominations.
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I suppose you could say that here at Jalopnik we're Jordan Taylor fans. He not only runs a hilarious Twitter account, he's also blindingly fast, seeing as how he was last year's Grand-Am champion in the Daytona Prototype class. But I'm more a fan of his mullet.
Sadly, though, I don't think I could ever be as big a fan of Jordan's mullet, as Jordan is of his mullet:
Have to also add that I'm very thankful for a healthy head of hair. The best part about the mullet is that it gets better by the day.
— Jordan Taylor (@jordan10taylor) November 28, 2013
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Flying and magical hair. It's all about the mullet flapping in the wind.
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#TBT - Mullet progress through 2013 (January to September). #Mullet http://t.co/9Eb7c8sUyG
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He even uses his mullet as a pickup line, telling all the ladies to "meet the mullet." Though it's not just narcissim – he even likes other people's mullets:
I'm no expert, but that looks like one mean mullet on @calvinfish! #BringBackTheMullet pic.twitter.com/VJ1A2AL3pE
— Jordan Taylor (@jordan10taylor) January 18, 2014
In fairness, those are pretty glorious mullets.
Jordan is racing today in the 24 Hours at Daytona, so we'll see how much power the mullet truly beholds. I'm betting it's a lot.
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A Senate panel is expected to vote Thursday on the sweeping gun-control measures proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), kicking off what's likely to be an intense effort to change the bill.
Gun-rights supporters who sit on the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee will propose numerous changes — from eliminating licensing provisions to changing the definition of an assault weapon — said Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R-Dist. 34) of Abingdon.
O'Malley's proposed ban on assault weapons covers a number of specific semiautomatic pistols and rifles, as well as "copycat" weapons with certain features similar to the other banned guns, such as a grenade launchers, telescoping stocks or stocks with thumbholes.
But some of those features can be found on rifles used for hunting and target shooting and don't make the weapons more powerful, Jacobs said. Telescoping stocks, which adjust the length of the gun to fit properly against the user's shoulder, are needed for some shooters, such as small-framed women, to use rifles, Jacobs said.
The same is true of thumbhole stocks, which enable the shooter to get a better grip on the gun, take pressure off the shoulder and improve stability, all particularly important for women, Jacobs said.
She and some of her colleagues also will try to strike O'Malley's handgun-licensing proposal, which requires eight hours of instruction — something that people who have been shooting safely for years shouldn't have to take, Jacobs said.
However, supporters and opponents of the governor's plan may be able to find some common ground on licensing, Jacobs acknowledged.
The committee is likely to sign off on the proposal, which will then face many additional amendments when it is debated by the whole Senate, said Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Dist 27) of Chesapeake Beach.
Miller has said he expects the assault weapons ban to pass his chamber, but that the licensing provisions, particularly a fingerprinting requirement, will be a tougher sell.
Miller told reporters Friday that if some adjustments weren't made to the ban's criteria, Maryland ran the risk of losing manufacturers such as Beretta U.S.A. in Accokeek, which employs about 400 people in Maryland, to states will less-restrictive laws such as Virginia.
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Does the possession of knowledge carry an ethical responsibility?
To what extent do you agree?
Jan 22 2013: Is not the possession by itself of the knowledge what brings up the moral issue. The ethical problem begins on the sharing and applying of that knowledge. Not sharing or applying a knowledge that can save lives, is obviously the unethical thing to do, on the other hand, it is also obviously unethical to share or apply a knowledge which's unique (or main) usage is to destroy. The extent of the moral responsibility for having a specific piece of knowledge depends on the degree or benefit and damage such knowledge can cause. But the thing is not so simple, most of the times when you generate new knowledge you cannot figure out more than just one application, or maybe a few. To make it worst, most of the knowledge we have can be used for constructive or destructive purposes, so there's not an easy way to pound the ethical value of sharing knowledge, so most of the times you guess...
Let say you have the knowledge for making knives, you know knives are both weapons and tools, so what you do? keep secret that knowledge and damage those that will use knives as a tools, or spread the word and benefit those that will use them as weapons...
I hope you see, whatever your decision may be in this case, you will be acting both ethical and unethical, at the same time.. to which extent?... you just can't know in advance.
Jan 22 2013: Well said George
Moreover morality , ethics etc evolves with knowledge as well...
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Jan 22 2013: Yes
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The definition of ethics is survival. (not morality) Survival not just for yourself but for all life. When you get the idea that you are in the same boat with all life you are willing to take responsibility for all life, not some sort of self abnegation but real responsibility for your fellows.Feb 4 2013: all knowledge carry ethical responsibility. However, it is ethical responsibility that you need to define. Different cultures, different people define ethical differently. I dare you to find me the correct version, or perhaps, are all versions correct??
CheersJan 26 2013: There's a hungry animal in a cage and a button to feed it and a button to give it a painful electric shock. I know which button is which. You don't. You have to push a button. You ask me which button is which. I may now either tell the truth, lie, or say I don't know. If I think it's likely you will try to give the animal a shock, it may be ethical to lie or say I don't know. If I have no reason to distrust you, it is ethical for me to tell the truth.
If I didn't know which button was which, it would only be ethical for me to say I don't know. But since I do know, ethics require me to use my knowledge responsibly.Jan 24 2013: Everything has ethical responsibilites.Jan 22 2013: There are various types of knowledges and we need to use them wisely.
If we possess knoweldge that can bless the human life , we are responsible to share it with others.Some knoweldges should be given freely with everyone whereas others should be monetized.We have been given a brain ,parents and siblings and friends to help us how to manage our knowledges effectively.
Gail .
Jan 22 2013: What knowledge should be monetized?
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Jan 22 2013: For me it does. For most people, it does not.
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If I have information that will dramatically improve your life, but I withhold it unless you pay me money for that knowledge - and then I only release parts so that you will have to keep paying me for more parts, then I am no better than the Wall Street Exec or hedge fund manager who pays himself a three billion dollar bonus for screwing me because he withheld knowledge that would have helped me.
In saying this, I emphasize the word "knowledge". Knowledge does not mean untested assumption. Knowledge does not mean partial truth. Knowledge does not mean faith. Knowledge means that which is known.Jan 22 2013: The possession of knowledge carries ethical and moral responsibilities. Knowledge provides insight; and such it is power and advantage. A depraved human being can not be trusted with power and advantage; because he or she is not guided by bounds of ethics and morals.
Power without control, the right control, reminds one of a damaged nuclear power plant; the power would have been put to good and productive use; but it is not, because it destroys.Feb 1 2013: Ethics are social constructions and influenced by time, place and resources.
Knowledge is also the interpretation of data through socially constructed frameworks.
There is still so much 'out there' that is in need of some kind of interpretation and understanding.
Religion seems to work as a framework where there is an 'oral' tradition of record keeping or a 'pictoral' tradition of record keeping e.g the patterns in mosques or the artworks of the Renaissance.
Science seems to work as a framework where there is a 'written' culture of letters or symbols, it seems to be more precise because it either is or isn't and is far less open to ambiguity of meaning. Maths is one of the most rigid languages I can think of.
So .....how much is the knowledge 'worth' as a marketable commodity seems to be the essence of it's value.
And there is a saying knowledge is power and another one that says that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Hmmmmm.........not easy is it.
Dan F
Jan 30 2013: Depends on the knowledge, the motivation and the situation.
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Expressing a view or position, especially concerning something controversial requires intelligence and discretion to be an effective voice and good representative of what it is you as an individual choose to espoused.
Maintaining personal integrity is the guiding light. It is important to be true to yourself about what you believe or think. Ethics is what gives personal integrity value. Likewise, this sense of personal integrity means we should try to live in accordance to what we know and believe to exhibit consistent behavior and feel good about ourselves.
Just because someone is knowledgeable about something and has personal integrity doesn't mean that position is ethically responsible. There are religious scholars. It is possible to get a college degree in theology. As some one educated in biology my world view is a degree in religions is nonsense. Knowledge alone is independent of ethics, but the more diverse is our understanding of the real world the more likely we are to be more truthful in what we think and say.
Knowledge alone does not mean we are automatically more ethically responsible.
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Steel wire is hard and has a copper coating for lubricity while feeding, but can load up the liner with shavings. SS wire is very soft and tends to gall or drag in the liner.
Blow out your liner and try again. Increasing tension the v rollers more could deform the wire so be careful. If all else fails you might try putting the u groove rollers on and increasing the roller tension much more.
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Played in 16 games starting 14. Had six goals and six assists. Second on the team with 43 draw controls. Third on the team with 23 ground balls. Had two goals and three assists against LIU Brooklyn on April 5.
As a Sophomore in 2012:
Played in nine games, and started one during the 2012 season for the Bobcats … Recorded a groundball in her first game of the season at Connecticut on Feb. 25 … Tallied a groundball in a win over St. Mary's (Cal.) on Mar. 12 … Scored a goal and earned two groundballs in a matchup with Denver on Mar. 15 … Recorded an assists and tied her season high two groundballs in a matchup against Fairfield on Apr. 15.
As a Freshman in 2011:
Played in nine games … Scored two goals and added one assist for a total of three points … Assisted on a goal at Fairfield on 2/25 … Scored a goal against Brown on 3/8 … Tallied a goal in the NCAA Play-In Game at Navy on 5/7.
Before Quinnipiac:
Helped Bishop Stang High School to a Maritime West League Championship in 2010... She was named the 2010 Standard TimesFemale Athlete of the Year...In 2009 and 2010, she held the title of varsity lacrosse captain...Was named a 2008, 2009 and 2010 Maritime Lacrosse League All-Star...Awarded the Standard TimesLacrosse Player of the Year for both the 2009 and 2010 seasons...Honored as her team's Most Valuable Player in 2010...Holds the record for goals and total points at Bishop Stang...Played for the Rhode Island Metacomets Club Team...Was the varsity captain during the 2010 basketball season...Earned the Dave Cowens Achievement Award in 2010...Received praise in 2008-09 and 2009-10 with an Eastern Athletic Conference All-Star selection...Named her team's Most Valuable Player for both the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons...Won the 2010 Standard TimesPlayer-of-the-Year award...Earned a spot on the 2009 Standard TimesSuper Team...In the summer of 2009 and 2010, she was a Mattapoisett Summer League All-Star...In 2009 and 2010, she was selected for the Herald NewsSuper Team...Played for the Westport Warriors and Bristol Stars Club Teams...Was her team's varsity soccer captain during the 2010 season...Granted the 2009 Coach's Award.
A native of Acushnet, Massachusetts...Daughter of David and Kathleen Laplante...Has a younger brother, Isaac, and an older sister, Ivy...Awarded the 2010 Boston GlobeRichard Phelps Scholar-Athlete award....Granted the John C. O'Brien Scholar Athlete award in 2010...Plans to major in biology.


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Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide (GIP)
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Gastric Inhibitory Peptide is a 43 amino acid peptide structurally related to Glucagon and Secretin and is found in the mucosa of upper intestine produced by K cells. GIP was originally detected as a factor inhibiting the secretion of gastric acid and Gastrin secretion. Its major action has now been determined to be a potent stimulant of B cells to release Insulin and is also known as Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Peptide. Exaggerated increases in GIP are noted after glucose administration to patients with Pancreatitis. This increase is also seen in patients with Diabetes Mellitus. GIP levels are decreased by Calcitonin. Elevated levels are present in cases of Verner-Morrison Syndrome.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
No significant cautionary statements.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
Fasting: Up to 50 pg/ml
Postprandial: 110 - 720 pg/ml
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"The Vanishing of the Bees" takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. The documentary examines our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and honeybee. The film also highlights the positive changes that have resulted due to a tragic phenomenon known as "Colony Collapse Disorder."
Produced by: Maryam Henein, George Langworthy
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Opens: Apr 20, 2011 Limited
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Three disparate men, each facing unique personal challenges, try to outdo each other in the ultimate bird-watching competition in 1998 -- the year El Nino brought an unprecedented number of species to North America. Their quest takes them on an unforgettable trek throughout North America.
Cast: Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin, Rosamund Pike, Rashida Jones
Produced by: Stuart Cornfeld, Curtis Hanson, Carol Fenelon
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Written by: Howard Franklin, Mark Obmascik
Running time: 1hr 40min
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The Ambivalent Superpower
America and the world aren't getting a divorce. But they're thinking about it.
The world never really loved America as much as Americans like to think. In the Eisenhower era, to take one period now seen in rosy hues, Latin mobs pelted Vice President Richard Nixon's motorcade with stones, shouting, "Out, dog! We won't forget Guatemala!" Angry Japanese students protested American "imperialism," forcing President Dwight Eisenhower to cancel a "goodwill" visit to Tokyo, and Ike spent his days wishing he could find a way to get people in other countries "to like us instead of hating us." In the late 1960s and again in the 1980s, young Europeans took to the streets by the millions to protest American foreign policy. Even in the 1990s, with Bill Clinton and Al Gore in office, the French foreign minister decried the American "hyperpower," while leading intellectual Samuel P. Huntington wrote of a "lonely superpower," widely hated across the globe for its "intrusive, interventionist, exploitative, unilateralist, hegemonic, hypocritical" behavior.
Yes, it's true that throughout the Cold War much of the world watched American movies and was entranced by Jackie Kennedy, but they also saw segregation, poverty, riots, political assassinations, rampant capitalism, Vietnam and Watergate. And they shook their heads at a country that could elect a cowboy and B-movie actor as its president. The popular narrative following the Iraq War that there was once a time when the world looked up to America, wished to emulate it and eagerly sought its leadership, when America wielded immense "soft power" that gained the allegiance of others simply by the force of attraction, is more myth than history.
Yet always there was the other aspect of the United States, the one most valued if least spoken about. This was the America that others counted on, for security against threatening neighbors, as the defender of the oceans and the world's trade routes, as the keeper of the global balance, as the guarantor of an economic and political order whose benefits were widely enjoyed. This was the America whose troops were invited into Europe as protection against both a resurgent Germany and the Soviets in the late 1940s. This was the America whose movie-actor president Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand and Margaret Thatcher looked to for trans-Atlantic solidarity, and to whom Polish workers and Soviet dissidents turned for hope and inspiration. This was the America that, for all its undeniable flaws, became indispensable after World War II and whose departure from the scene was usually more feared than its presence.
For much of the past 70 years, in short, the world has been ambivalent about American power, both decrying it and inviting it—sometimes simultaneously. Even as Huntington was penning his screed against American arrogance in 1998, much of the world was expressing an entirely different concern—that the United States might be turning inward. It was the time of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The American president was hobbled. Suddenly, as the Times of London wrote, leaders "in all the world's trouble spots" were "calculating what will happen when Washington's gaze is distracted." The liberal German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau, which had been accusing Americans of "camouflaged neocolonialism," suddenly fretted that the "problems in the Middle East, in the Balkans or in Asia" could not be solved "without U.S. assistance and a president who enjoys respect." The irony was not lost on some observers. A French pundit took pleasure in noting (in the left-leaning Libération) that those who had only recently been calling the United States "overbearing" were suddenly "praying for a quick end to the storm."
A decade and a half later, as another U.S. president makes good on his promise to "focus on nation-building here at home," the world is again wondering whether the country that has been the principal upholder of the global order for the better part of the postwar era is finally pulling back from that outsized and unusual role. Anxiety about American isolationism is once again matching anxiety about American imperialism.
Over the past year, the World Economic Forum—the same folks who run the annual gathering in the Swiss resort town of Davos—organized a unique set of discussions around the world with dozens of international leaders, from Saudi bankers to Singaporean academics, African entrepreneurs to Latin American economists, seeking unvarnished opinions about the United States and its role in the world. Their ambivalence was palpable. Whether it is arrogance or incompetence, incoherence or insincerity, the critiques of the United States heard in these conversations are extensive—and often justified. There are old complaints about American "unilateralism" and hypocrisy, and new complaints about drones and eavesdropping. There are regions, like the Middle East, where U.S. policy is regarded as having produced only disasters, and others, like Latin America, where the United States is faulted for its failure to pay enough attention (except when its strategic or economic interests are threatened). American motives are often suspect and regarded cynically. Some see the United States pursuing only selfish interests. Others see confusion, an inability to explain what America wants and doesn't, and perhaps even to understand what it wants.
Anxiety about American isolationism is once again matching anxiety about American imperialism.
Yet what's striking is not the litany of complaint, but the lament about disengagement one also frequently hears, not the expected good riddance but the surprisingly common plea for more U.S. involvement. Africa wants more U.S. investment. Latin America wants more U.S. trade. The Middle East and Asia just want more: more diplomacy, more security, more commerce. This may come as a surprise to those Americans who are convinced the world not only hates them but also welcomes their decline. But the world, or at least much of it, has moved beyond this post-Iraq narrative, even if we haven't. These days, many foreign governments fret less about an overbearing America and more about a disappearing America. One way or another, it seems, every region in the world feels neglected by the United States. Setting aside whatever this might say about the effectiveness of Barack Obama's foreign policy, it says a great deal about America's role in the world. The problem others see these days is not too much of the United States, but too little.
Most Americans are probably oblivious to this subtle shift in global sentiment. Foreign policy is not on their minds, except as something to be avoided. Both candidates in the 2012 presidential election went out of their way not to offer any grand—or even not-so-grand—visions of America's role in the world. To the extent that Obama pitched his foreign policy record at all, he did so around the killing of Osama bin Laden, which today looks like an increasingly symbolic rather than substantive triumph, as jihadists spread across the greater Middle East. Mitt Romney limited his foreign policy pronouncements to sporadic and ill-considered drive-by shootings at Obama's policies. There was a momentary debate about whether the United States was or was not in decline—Obama said it wasn't; Romney said it was, because of Obama. But since the election, the American people have grown ever more convinced that the United States really is in decline—more than half of them, in recent surveys—and the president has done little to dispel the impression. Little wonder then that much of the world today worries about American staying power.
Ironically, no U.S. policy did more to provoke global anxieties than one the Obama administration hoped would calm them. The "pivot to Asia," this "rebalancing" of U.S. diplomatic and military efforts from West to East, was intended to show that the United States was still capable of sober and rational calculation of its interests and capabilities. There would be no more obsession with the Middle East, no more draining wars in obscure parts of the world when the real game was obviously in a rising Asia. Yet the reaction has been both unexpected and revealing. In a world accustomed to seeing the American superpower wielding influence everywhere at once, the notion of pivoting from one region to another has been deeply unsettling—to everyone. In the Middle East, the "pivot" has been widely (and correctly) understood to be a deliberate turn away from intensive American involvement. But Europeans have also interpreted it as a turn away from Europe, and even Latin Americans, rarely the focus of U.S. attention, have seen it as a turn away from them. In the ultimate irony, for all the apprehension it has unleashed elsewhere, the pivot has not produced an equal degree of reassurance in East Asia. There the promise and rhetoric of the pivot has been measured against tangible realities, like defense cuts that leave the U.S. Air Force scrapping exercises with Asian partners and the Navy cutting back on ship movements in Japan. Nor have Asians failed to note that America's preoccupation with the constantly exploding crises of the Middle East, from Iran to Syria to Egypt to the peace process, has not appreciably lessened, while the president's attention to Asia has not grown nearly as much as advertised. Obama's canceled trip last fall to a Bali summit for the region's major leaders drove home the point. (It didn't help that the cancellation came amid a U.S. government shutdown that stunned foreign observers.)


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The stories linked to at the top of this post discuss the primary issue with well water safety as it relates to flooding: flood waters carry with them any number of contaminants, impurities and pathogens. As flood waters transform into run-off, they can quickly infiltrate wells, carrying all of these impurities with them.
If the water dispensed by your fridge is contaminated with pathogenic impurities, and face only the carbon filter in your fridge prior to pouring into your glass, these pathogens will still be present – for the simple reason that carbon filters are typically not designed to reduce bacteria.
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Norris Cole tells his GPS when it's time to make a turn.
Norris Cole tells his GPS when it's time to make a turn.
Great win tonight...great way to start the New Year...GO HEAT!
Big game tonight...let's continue the domination and beat the Hawks to make sure we stay atop the Southeast
I think having Norris Cole on his *** has made Chalmers play well he is ballin last 2 games
Competition breeds success.
We better figure out how to get this offense going against zone defenses. Besides that, just a really off night for Wade.
Wade is out for a couple of games. Love the guy, but they should have benched him two games back. He doesn't help himself or the team by playing hurt.....I don't get why coaches and trainers let these guys get away with it. Its one thing in a 16 game NFL season but in a 66 game marathon.....who cares if you're out 5 games in January?
On the plus side Miller is almost back to being healthy, whatever that means for him. But methinks you can only be that unlucky for so long.....hes had a couple freak accidents that aren't likely to reoccur. Now comes the question of where he fits into the rotation and whose minutes he takes. Personally I wish they'd just get it over with, switch Cole to the starting spot and bring in Miller when James or Wade take over the PG duties.
So I stopped breathing and crapped my pants when LeBron went down.....damn that scared this **** out of me
Nice blowout win tonight...hopefully we can take out the Hawks tomorrow night.


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Engaging U.S. and Japanese University Students in Social Problem-Solving
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ROUND 18 - Abu Dhabi 2-4 November 2012
Venue:Yas Marina
Circuit Length:5.554 Km
Lap Record:1:40.279 = 199.387 km/h, S. Vettel (Red Bull Renault) 2009
2011 ResultsPole Position: Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Renault); 1:38.481 = 203.027 km/h
1st: Lewis Hamilton (McLaren Mercedes) 1:37.11.886 (av. race speed = 188.494 km/h)
2nd: Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), 8.457s behind
3rd: Jenson Button (McLaren Mercedes), 25.881s behind
Fastest Lap: Mark Webber (Red Bull Renault), 1:42.612 = 194.854 km/h on lap 51
Yas Marina joined the F1 calendar one year after Singapore in 2009, but the UAE venue has established its own unique day-for-night identity by starting the race in daylight and ending it under lights. Only two men have won here: Sebastian Vettel in 2009-10 and Lewis Hamilton last year after Seb fell out with an instantly deflated tyre on the opening corner. They are also the only two drivers to have started from the front row in the three Abu Dhabi events so far.
With just three races remaining, let's do Yas by the numbers. The phenomenon called Vettel has now led the last 205 Grand Prix laps, since the 23rd lap of Marina Bay in Singapore. He has 240 points, Fernando Alonso 227. Whatever happens Vettel can't win his third straight title in Abu Dhabi, but he can take another giant step towards it. If Seb wins and Fernando is second, it's a 20-point margin in the German's favour with two to go. If Seb wins and Fernando no-scores, it's a 38-point margin and the Spaniard's hopes are slim. If Alonso's Ferrari is first and Vettel's Red Bull second, it's back to just six points and all to play for. If Alonso wins and Vettel fails to score, Alonso turns it around and leads by 12. But one or two others might like to have their say – like our own Mark Webber.
Webber, looking for his third win of 2012, is in a three-way tussle for third place overall. His third place in India vaulted him to 167 points, two beyond Lewis Hamilton, into fourth. But Webber is now only six points behind Kimi Raikkonen, the Lotus man currently sitting in third place behind Vettel and Alonso. We should factor Jenson Button into the equation but McLaren's second man is on 141 points, 24 behind his teammate.
"I like the twilight element to the race – starting in the day and finishing at night," says Webber, who has good and bad memories of Yas Marina. The bad: eighth place in 2010 when he was so close to the title. The good: one of his finest defensive races here in 2009 when he kept new World Champion Jenson Button at bay to finish second. "The facilities are world class," says the Aussie. "For the track itself, you need good traction – there are slow and twisty corners, as well as a good top speed. It's a phenomenal spectacle and I'm looking forward to racing there."
Felipe Massa, continuing his strong finish to the season, will be out to sprint past Romain Grosjean and Nico Rosberg and into seventh place overall – not for his own sake but to keep the scarlet team clear of McLaren Mercedes in second place in the constructors' standings. Red Bull are pretty well untouchable on 407 points, in fact Christian Horner's men could wrap up their third straight title this weekend. With 43 points on offer at each race, they need to leave Abu Dhabi with an 86-point margin, and they currently have 91 over Ferrari and 101 over McLaren.
Speaking of McLaren, Hamilton and Button were fourth and fifth last time out in India. That was the team's 55th consecutive points-scoring finish in a streak which began in Melbourne in 2010. It equals the all-time record held by Ferrari so it's a reasonable bet that McLaren will go out on their own at Yas Marina.
A double no-score in India has left Sauber in with a greatly reduced chance of catching Mercedes for a top-five slot, but that hasn't deterred Nico Hülkenberg. On Wednesday at Yas Marina Sauber announced they have signed the 25-year-old German from Sahara Force India for 2013. "We've been observing Nico for some time now and his performances have been very persuasive," said Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn. "That was the case in GP2 and has continued into Formula One."
Hülkenberg, currently 12th, one point behind current Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi in 12th place, sees the Swiss outfit as an up-and-coming force: "The Sauber F1 Team is currently going through a very positive development and I'm certain that together we can achieve a lot," he said. "It's a well-placed team and very competitive. Plus it's a team in which young drivers have repeatedly delivered exceptional performances. I would like to take up that baton."
One driver not on the move is Kimi Raikkonen, who will be staying with Lotus for another year. It was in Abu Dhabi that Raikkonen had his last race before retiring at the end of 2009. Now, coincidentally, the Finn, who has just turned 33, will have his first race there since re-signing. "To be honest, I didn't expect to be fighting for the Drivers' Championship this season when you look at where the team was in 2011, so it has been great to be on the podium so many times and to score points on a regular basis," he said after putting pen to paper at the start of the week. "I feel very comfortable with Lotus F1 Team and we share the same philosophy of racing."
Yas is another circuit with an enormously long main straight calling for medium downforce, but this year there are none of the regular support races, including GP2, to clean the dust off the track. There will, on the other hand, be Australian V8 Supercars as the single category on the undercard. The F1 cars will be set up to assist with traction out of the slower corners, and Pirelli will bring a combination of medium and soft tyres to help cope. It will be the last time we see the P Zero Yellow (soft) option for 2012. It's really a three-part lap: two fast sweepers before the hairpin in the first, two long straights joined by a sharp right-left, then the sinuous final section with almost half of the 21 turns.


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whats the deal? why do all of our picks suck? odrick is worse then some teams 5th round picks? koa misi and a.j edds have literally the lowest possible strength a linebacker could have? john jerry rated top 3 interior lineman is a 65 overall? i dont understand how lex hilliard is so slow. i understand hartline is in his 2nd year but he lead the yards per catch stat, thats gotta mean something more then a 71 over all. camarillo is pretty damn clutch he shouldnt be an 80? and davone bess is a seventy effing four?! 75 receptions. wtf? my head is going to explode why are we always so underrated, even in a damn video game theyve got the raiders 4th and 5th round picks better then our 1st? come on. if not for suh and mccoy who are once in a decade DT prospects, odrick would be a top 10 pick. the dude is a great, powerful, high motor, strong tackling, 6'5 304 pound long tackling machine with good character and leadership quality. so they can rate a players "swagger" now but we cant give the dolphins some normal stats for once.
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2 1/2 cups
whole wheat flour
1/2 cup
bread flour
1/3 teaspoon
1 1/4 cups
4 tablespoons
maple syrup
2 tablespoons
olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoons
active dry yeast
A nice bread! I personally would add a bit more salt and more maple to up the flavor. I also want to add that if you are having trouble with your wheat breads rising try adding in some Vital Wheat Gluten Flour, it's available in most grocery stores in the baking aisle. In this recipe I replaced 1/4 cup of white flour with the wheat gluten and I got a lovely loaf of bread. With using the Vital Wheat Gluten Flour I have success with even true 100% whole wheat breads. I also prefer to bake my bread in my oven. I use the dough cycle on bread machine and remove dough and knead a few times, maybe 10, on a floured board, shape and place in a greased bread pan. Let rise, check every 10-15 minutes until desired height. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and loaf sounds hollow when tapped. If you can resist ;) let bread cool a bit before slicing or the loaf gets kinda squished.
This bread had a great maple taste and a spongy texture. However, I've tried making it twice - the second time with more yeast and both times I've ended up with a short, dense loaf. I probably won't make it again.
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I used 2 cups whole wheat flour, 1/2 c rolled oats and 1/2 c bread flour.
I also used 3/4 c apple juice and 1/2 c water instead of 1 1/4 c water because we tend to like our bread sweeter.
The bread is a touch moist, but has a great texture and is VERY tasy.
I was getting tired of the dense bread that I was getting from my breadmaker, until I tried this recipe. Such a lovely soft texture, perfect for P&J sandwiches.
This is a very nicely flavored loaf. A little fluff, good crumb, just a great recipe for an everyday loaf. Only thing I did different was use melted butter because I am all out of oil. I used my Kitchen Aid from beginning to end. I warmed my maple syrup with the water to the right temp to proof with my yeast in my mixer bowl. After ten minutes, I added the melted butter, then all the dry ingredients. I had to add at least another 1/4 c. of flour, but that's only because I think the weather was wetter. I kneaded with my bread hook for about five minutes or so, then set in a large greased bowl covered with saran wrap and a towel on a warm oven to rise for an hour. After it had doubled, I pounded it down and shaped into a loaf and set it to rise in an xl loaf pan for a half hour or so. I baked it at 350* for about 40 minutes. I don't usually time bread as I've gotten to know about when it smells ready. Very good bread. This one is going to be made regularly. I love how the flavor fools you a bit, because even though you know it's maple.....you still think it might be something else. This would be a great base for cinnamon bread. NOTE: This is even better the next day, warmed a bit, slathered in butter and drizzled with real maple syrup. Pure heaven.
There should not be more wheat flour than bread flour if you want your bread to rise more. Too much wheat flour is what makes bread so dense. Try adjusting the flour if your complaint is the density.
This has become our new basic homemade bread. I vary the amount of maple syrup based on the grade of syrup I currently have on hand. It is very easy to cut into sandwhich sized slices and my husband loves it for his breakfast sandwhich before work. I mix it in the bread machine and bake it in the oven as other reviewers have suggested, most breads fall in my bread machine if I bake them in it, so it is pretty standard for me to use it just for mixing anyway. The recipe is so simple I memorized it after just a few times of baking it so I can easily make it a couple of times a week.
SO good...with modifications. The lack of salt in this recipe could be to blame for all the problems other reviewers have had with the bread being dense, not rising or falling. I increased the salt to 1 tsp. I also reduced the liquid to 1 cup and used milk instead of water. When the beep sounded on my breadmaker I added chopped almonds. Delicious!! Fluffy, just sweet enough, and makes a killer egg salad sandwich the next day! :-)
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Maple Whole Wheat Bread
Serving Size: 1/12 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 12
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 144
** Calories from Fat: 26
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En español | Nonexistent as recently as 2009, the tablet market has exploded. Even as "phablets," such as Samsung's Galaxy Note and Apple's recently launched iPhone 6 Plus, have increased in popularity and nibbled at the market, sales of full-blown tablets have mostly held steady. Last year, nearly 200 million tablets were shipped worldwide, and in the first half of 2014, more than 100 million were sold. According to a 2013 Pew Internet study, more than a third of all Americans over the age of 18 own one. Among those between ages 50 and 64, 32 percent own a tablet, and 18 percent of Americans over 64 are tablet owners.
At this point in the tablet's evolution, most devices can reliably offer sharp screens, vivid cameras for photos and videos, and access to myriad video, music, apps and books. We've chosen these standout devices for overall functionality, reliability and price. But, you might ask yourself, which is right for me? Read on.
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With most tablets marketed to people under 50, AARP saw an opportunity and seized it. Working alongside Intel, the organization designed the RealPad, the first tablet specifically geared to tech-wary people age 50 and older. Preorders can be placed online now, with first shipments due in mid-October, at which point the RealPad will also be available at Walmart.
Created with the needs of the newbie tablet user specifically in mind, the RealPad boasts an intuitive interface featuring larger graphics and icons meant to be easy on the eyes. It comes loaded with a suite of apps — including AARP publications, brain and word games, news and media outlets, and social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.
The Wi-Fi-only tablet also arrives equipped with more than a dozen tutorial videos that walk users through tasks such as connecting to Wi-Fi, using email, setting up accounts at social networks and using video chat services like Skype for virtual visits with far-flung relatives and grandkids. In addition, RealPad owners get access to free 24/7 customer service via an 800 number that's accessible with the touch of an icon at the bottom of the screen. Remote help is also available.
It may be aimed at tablet newcomers, but the RealPad packs technology to satisfy even savvy users: Powered by the Android KitKat 4.4 OS, it sports a 7.85-inch screen big enough for watching video content and reading e-books, 16GB of memory and front- and rear-facing cameras. Also included with purchase is a one-year AARP membership.
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Apple popularized the tablet market with the original iPad in 2010, then pioneered the small-tablet market with the iPad mini last year. Consumers have purchased more than 170 million iPads in the past three years. Competition is now stiffer than ever, but the iPad still sets the standard.
Upon its release last year, the iPad Air raised that standard. It's a slimmer, faster version of its predecessor, the now-discontinued iPad 4, and sports the same crystal-clear retina display. With a 9.7-inch screen, the Air lives up to its name, weighing in at a single pound, more than a half-pound less than the iPad 4.
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The translation for Quest is "búsqueda" but it just does not work properly. In English we say "I'm on a quest for the holy grail" this is not quite the same as "I'm searching for the holy grail." So how do I get the seance of adventure implied in "quest" in Spanish. Can some one think of a better word.
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Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest is part of our Go Active Breaks Collection, nestling deep in 40 acres of woodland in the heart of beautiful Robin Hood Country. Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest is the perfect, cosy getaway for couples and friends, and an excellent choice for a family break at any time of year.These superb lodges create a fabulous base for lovers of the great outdoors while enjoying one of Britain's most enchanting areas. The wonders of Sherwood Forest are best appreciated on foot or by bike, whilst the park hosts a fabulous array of activities to suit all ages and tastes, from archery Robin Hood style to WaterWalkerz and Body Zorbs.Cosmopolitan Nottingham is among a wealth of scenic and historic delights further afield.
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Lars and the Real Girl
Lars Lindstrom is a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him. He introduces Bianca to his brother Gus and his wife Karen, and they are stunned. They don't know what to say to Lars or Bianca--because she is a life-size doll, not a real person and he is treating her as though she is alive. They consult the family doctor Dagmar who explains this is a delusion he's created--for what reason she doesn't yet know but they should all go along with it. What follows is an emotional journey for Lars and the people around him.
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Poetry Reading with Karen Kotrba Monday, Nov. 5Posted Oct. 26, 2012
"Women. Horses. Babies. Mountains. Eastern Kentucky in the early twentieth century. The nurse-midwives of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) rode cabin to cabin on horseback, navigating a mountain landscape to deliver babies and care for families. FNS Founder Mary Breckinridge, the nurse-midwives and the families they touched have long intrigued me." Karen Kotrba
Poet Karen Kotrba will read from her recently published book of poems She Who Is Like a Mare: Poems of Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service on November 5, 2012. Readings will be held at 1:00 pm at Java Jo's, 514 East 5th Street, East Liverpool and at 5:30 pm in the Quiet Study Lounge of the Main Building, 400 E. 4th Street.
Karen Kotrba grew up and lives in Columbiana, Ohio. She is a graduate of Kent State University and the Northeast Ohio MFA Program. A former professor of writing at Kent State University East Liverpool Campus, Kotrba currently teaches at Youngstown State University. She has taught a number of writing workshops in community venues, including a workshop for MS patients at Cleveland Clinic. Kotrba says her interest in nursing and in the nursing profession was sparked by her mother's career in nursing.
Maggie Anderson, poet and retired Director of the Wick Poetry Program at Kent State writes: "The skillfully rendered dramatic monologues of Karen Kotrba's She Who is Like a Mare document the remarkable history of the Frontier Nursing Service in eastern Kentucky in the early twentieth century...She has brought to light a little known piece of women's history--a story of cunning, courage, and caring- and has done so with unforgettable imagery, beautiful music, and love. This is a book I want to keep near me and reread, to remind myself of what is still possible in poetry and in our lives."
Of Kotrba's work, poet and nurse Jeanne Bryner writes, "through the capable hands of Karen Kotrba's artistry, we saddle up, heave ourselves into the night's saddle and ride off to Kentucky's back country. In this book we witness the birthing of Mary Breckinridge's vision for healthcare delivery. These wellcrafted poems reconstruct a community of women pushing the boundaries of their lives."
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Phoenix Rush Girls Win President's Cup!
Last Updated on Monday, 05 May 2014 10:00
Congratulations to the U13 Phoenix Rush girls, recently crowned as President's Cup Champs of Arizona! The 01 Girls went undefeated in the tournament and will now be heading to Region IV Presidents Cup Regionals this June in Morgan Hill, CA! The girls outscored their opponents a combined 11-1 over the four game tournament.
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