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Gifts for Dad
Offering 2,000+ experiences nationwide, Cloud 9 Living has just the gifts for dad to get him grinning from ear to ear! From golf and flying lessons, to food tours and driving experiences, the smiles and excitement will start as soon as he unwraps his gifts --- and they certainly won't stop there!
Flight Fan
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"This experience was a gift from my daughters, and it was the best gift ever. The ride along was a 'BLAST' and I enjoyed every minute of it....GREAT JOB CLOUD 9, keep up the good work, you got a winner here."
Cloud 9 Living has gifts for dad that will get you giving him a whole lot of happy on his big day! And with over 1,900 experiences to choose from, we have gifts to celebrate all kinds of dads — for every type of special occasion.
Thanking him for being the best dad ever? Put him in control of a plane or helicopter with a flying lesson. Or thrill him with the ultimate air mission as a fighter pilot!
Bring out his inner daredevil with an adrenaline-pumping birthday adventure! A ride or drive in a race car, a round of bungee jumping, or a wet 'n' wild white water rafting excursion will do just the trick.
Feed his golfing need with a lesson with a PGA Pro — he'll never see a fairway the same way again! Or say "bon appétit" with unique gifts for dad like dining cruises or food tours!
Whether you're shopping for a bucket list, birthday, holiday, or 'just because' — Cloud 9 Living has unforgettable gifts for dad to celebrate him on his big day.
Cloud 9 Living has gifts for dad to launch your pops into the ultimate air venture!
With an assortment of flying experiences offered nationwide, choose whether you'd like dad rolling, swooping and looping in an aerobatic biplane thrill ride, or calmly taking wing over a scenic cityscape or coastline in a vintage aircraft.
Or maybe he's ready to take the controls himself once he's airborne? Treat him to an airplane or helicopter lesson, where he can let his aviation ambitions shine. And if those piloting dreams of his involve a little more G-force, a fighter pilot experience will really get him jet-setting!
Maybe dad's idea of flying is actually more of a freefall? A skydiving, hang gliding or paragliding gift idea for dad will be right up his alley. Get him ready for take off, and send him soaring on his big day in any number of ways!
If gourmet goodness is dad's idea of a good time, you've come to the right place!
Offering an extensive collection of unique food and beverage outings, Cloud 9 Living is your one-stop shop for delicious gifts for dad! Encourage him to create his own cuisine art. Wine and dine him aboard a lunch or dinner cruise, complete with live or DJ entertainment and stunning waterfront views. Or send him sampling the finest bites and brews of a metropolis!
Our exquisite culinary connections satisfy every kind of craving, with topics such as chocolate and desserts, gourmet meals, artisan cheese, beer and wine, local dishes, and renowned restaurants, and more! So give dear 'ol dad the tastiest gift yet!
With Cloud 9 Living's mouth-watering 'menu' of food and wine gift ideas for dad, both his belly and his heart will be full.
Is dad the ultimate car buff, with a serious need for speed? Cloud 9 Living offers exceptional driving gifts for dad that put the pedal to the metal! Make his driving dreams come true in a power-hungry, high-performance race car on the very tracks raced in professional circuits!
Choose from an array of exotic, stock, Indy, Formula 2000, and dragster driving experiences. Each one is guaranteed to give dad the ride of a lifetime, whether he's either doing the driving himself or riding along at top racing speeds with a professional behind the wheel — or (better yet) both!
If dad's a big fan of bikes and open roads… check out our Harley Davidson rental opportunities! On the fence about his ideal set of wheels? Let him pick the hot rod he fancies most with a Cloud 9 Living Gift Certificate.
Maybe his idea of driving has less to do with fast cars, and much more to do with a cart and clubs?
Get dad teeing up on endlessly green fairways beside a PGA Pro, with one of our many golf lessons offered at select courses from coast to coast!
Does pops have a bucket list that keeps getting longer?
Cloud 9 Living's adventurous gifts for dad will tackle some of his daredevil tasks in no time with enticing action!
Dare him to get his heart pounding with a variety of expeditions by land or water! From rock climbing to new sights and zip-lining at impressive heights, to trying his hand at aquatic adventures like kayaking, scuba lessons, snorkeling or fishing --- find the perfect gift ideas for dad to get his heart racing with sheer delight!
Want to up the ante a bit? Double-dare that dad of yours to take on some adrenaline-pumping action like surfing, white water rafting, bungee jumping, and skydiving! Still not a big enough fix for your adrenaline junkie? Maybe diving with great white sharks will do the trick.


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Faculty experts available to discuss breast cancer
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Office of Media Relations has prepared a list of University of South Carolina faculty who are conducting breast cancer research. For more information or to schedule interviews, call or e-mail Megan Sexton in the Office of Media Relations, (803) 777-5400. (email@example.com)
Links between breast cancer and Vitamin D in African-American women
Low levels of vitamin D have been associated with elevated breast cancer risk. A new study has found African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer had lower vitamin D levels than white women with breast cancer. Low vitamin D was related to a greater likelihood for aggressive breast cancer. Black women are at a higher risk because darker skin color reduces the efficiency of the absorption of UV rays, which is imperative in producing vitamin D. Dr. Susan Steck, associate professor of epidemiology at USC's Arnold School of Public Health, led the study.
Support groups improve quality of life for African-American women with breast cancer
Dr. Sue Heiney, professor in USC's College of Nursing and School of Medicine can discuss the importance of support groups for African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer. Heiney's recent study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, found that telephone support groups improved the quality of life and family relationships for African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Breast cancer and diet
Research continues to show the relationship between breast cancer and diet. Dr. James Hebert, director of the S.C. Cancer Prevention and Control Program and professor in the Arnold School of Public Health, can discuss the specific effect of diet and related factors in causing cancer.
Role of stem cells in breast cancer research
Dr. Hexin Chen, an assistant professor of biological sciences, is working on three projects aimed at understanding breast-cancer stem cells and targeting them for breast-cancer treatment. The rare cancer cell population, called "Cancer Stem Cell," is thought to be the ultimate arbiter of tumor maintenance and propagation and the root cause of relapse and treatment resistance of many cancers. Studies are also identifying markers of cancer stem cells, which may help further characterize the types of breast cancer and select right treatment regimens.
Eating seaweed may help explain lower breast cancer rates in Japan
The idea of studying the health effects of eating seaweed came from studies of breast-cancer rates in different countries. In particular, women in the United States have four times higher rates of breast cancer as women in Japan. Lifestyle issues, such as smaller body size, more exercise and eating smaller amounts of fatty food and sugary drinks may all be important, but eating different foods, like seaweed, may be key to understanding the differences in breast cancer risk. Seaweeds are remarkably effective at preventing breast cancer in the laboratory studies using cancer cells in test tubes and in studies of animals given seaweed along with a carcinogen. When Dr. Jane Teas of USC's Cancer Research Center gave capsules of seaweed to healthy American women, she saw significant protective changes in hormones related to breast cancer. Seaweeds are enthusiastically eaten by millions of people in Japan every day. Sushi and seaweed-miso soup are the two easiest ways to eat seaweed in South Carolina.

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September 24, 2003
Earlier today, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States issued its second interim report. FOS11 continues to monitor the work of the Commission and looks forward to providing updates to its members as they become available. Please visit the FOS11 website for more information at www.familiesofseptember11.org.
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Microsoft: Help Your Friends Switch From XP
How desperately does Microsoft want users to give up on XP? The company posted a blog asking people to help their friends and family switch from soon-to-be abandoned operating system.
The company urged readers to explain the seriousness of end of support to family members who just don't get it and explained the online resources available for helping loved ones check their computers for compatibility.
Support for Windows XP end on April 8, 2014.
Is Microsoft Ready To Challenge Kindle?
Microsoft may be looking to take on Amazon, at least in the eReader department. The company placed an ad for a software development engineer to work on a team to develop a "groundbreaking interactive reading app for Windows, which incorporates books, magazines and comics."
Microsoft has already invested $300 million into Barnes & Noble's Nook venture, so it's possible that a reading app would take advantage of access to that catalog.
Experts Warn Of "Most Advanced Malware Threat" Ever
We've warned you before about watering hole attacks. And one of the most dangerous malware programs to use that method is called The Mask. This bit of malware tends to target governments, big-businesses and large organizations. It works by luring visitors to tainted websites that look like newspapers or government agencies.
Kapersky Security detailed the threat in an extensive report. They say the sophistication of this malware makes it one of the most effective they've ever seen.
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Board Governance Series: Building Your Board
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (PST)
Event Details
Second in a six-part series to help you be an engaged board member
You will leave:
- Understanding how to build an effective board team.
- Knowing key steps in recruiting good board members.
- Learn how to retain board members and get the best from them.
Some participant feedback:
Mary helped me understand the "importance of a healthy board culture and good relationships."
It helped me "understand how to attract and recruit board members."
Mary Hiland, Ph.D., has over thirty five years experience in the nonprofit sector—both as a board member and executive director. She is an organizational consultant whose services focus on strengthening nonprofit executive and board teams as powerful forces for community impact. She is also an executive coach for new and experienced executives and board leaders.
When & Where
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
7807 Soquel Drive
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (PST)
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Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
Whether you're a donor, professional advisor or nonprofit, you'll find workshops, free consultation, a resource library and networking opportunities here at your local community foundation.


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have you looked in ifconfig?
Hello Folks,
When I type dmesg, i notice my internal wireless card included with Dell Latitude D610 ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq loads the driver although I have specified in the BIOS to disable.
is there a dirty quick way to turn off once in bk3?.
Thanks to advice
have you looked in ifconfig?
Give credit & show appreciation for members creations,
modprobe -r <module name>
A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.


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Familiar faces lead the way in Thursday premieres
Veteran programs, including CBS' The Big Bang Theory and ABC's Grey's Anatomy, showed continuing strength on Thursday of TV premiere week.
Big Bang, with its biggest season premiere to date (15.7 million viewers), and Grey's (11.7 million) were both up, 11% and 13%, respectively, compared to last season's openers. They ranked first and second for the evening, respectively, in advertiser-coveted young adults (18-49).
CBS' Person of Interest was second on the night in viewers (14.3 million) and grew 7% from last year's premiere, while newcomer Elementary, which followed, opened solidly (13.4 million viewers). It built on Person by 7% in young adults.
ABC's Last Resort had a more modest series premiere (9.3 million) against tougher competition, including Big Bang, CBS' Two and a Half Men and Fox's The X Factor. On a more promising note, its audience grew in its second half hour.
Men (12.5 million), new to Thursday, was down about 15% from last season's Monday average.
Against more original competition, X Factor (9.4 million) and Glee (5.8 million), which followed on Fox, were down 7% and 23% from a week earlier. On ABC, Scandal's season premiere drew 6.7 million.
In NBC's comedy block, Up All Night (3.3 million) was up 6% from a week earlier. SNL's election special (4.7 million), The Office (4.1 million) and Parks and Recreation (3.3 million) dropped 8%, 5% and 6%, respectively, from the previous week.
CBS won the night in both viewers and young adults.
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Russian Railways presents 'Broad Gauge to Vienna' project in Slovakia
Today in Bratislava, Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin presented a project to build a 1520 mm gauge railway line to Vienna <http://eu.vocuspr.com/Url.aspx?522698x400877x-528533> .
Vladimir Yakunin's talk was part of a presentation of joint Russian-Slovak projects, during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Slovakia.
Mr Yakunin said that under the project, the broad-gauge railway will be extended from Ko&scaronice to Bratislava and Vienna. The goal of this project is to create a competitive direct rail link connecting European states with Russia and Asian countries.
As a result of this project, the need to shift cargo between trains at stations where the European rail network meets the broad-gauge track will be avoided. This will halve freight delivery times from Europe relative to sea routes – from 30 to 14 days - and the working capital saved, depending on the value of the freight, will be between $100 and $1000 per container.
Mr Yakunin noted that in 2007 and 2008, the project's four-way working group (involving Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Austria) carried out a preliminary investment feasibility study and began market research.
According to estimates, the volume of transport on the Ko&scaronice – Bratislava line could reach 23.7 million tons by 2025, and 18.5 million tons on the Bratislava – Vienna line. The planned route to Europe will carry both containers and raw materials (iron ore, non-ferrous metals, and others), and the reverse route will carry containers.
According to preliminary estimates, the cost of the project to build the new rail line could exceed 4.7 billion euros.
"I would like to note that we consider the project to build the Ko&scaronice - Bratislava – Vienna rail line, along with other international projects of Russian Railways, to be a centre of gravity for other areas of business, cumulatively forming a powerful trade and transport system. This will prove to be a catalyst for the process of rapprochement and effective cooperation between 1520 mm and 1435 mm gauge railway systems, and will provide a boost to economic ties between countries of the European Union and Russia, and between Europe and Asia as a whole", Vladimir Yakunin <http://eu.vocuspr.com/Url.aspx?522698x400876x-128648> said.


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Copy of David Waters Fitness Training Hard Core Fitness Week
Monday, April 8, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
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Celebrity Trainer // David Waters
Chances are, if you turn on your TV, you've seen one of David Waters' clients.
He's the guy Peta Murgatroyd and Damian Whitewood call when they want to get in shape for Dancing with the Stars.
He has trained top NFL players and prospects to get them ready for pre season games.
David Waters is the elite fitness trainer in LA that will make your body stop people in their tracks! Experience an intense, total body workout that will not only burn calories, but shed fat and tone trouble spots quickly. David's technique is an innovative, challenging blend of strength training, cardio, and mixed martial arts. No workout is ever the same twice.
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Muay Thai Kick Boxing!
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David Waters Fitness Training
11611 San Vicente Boulevard
Monday, April 8, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
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Your work with the people who come here includes both meditation methods and the humanistic psychology methods. Can you explain what you are trying to achieve through this?
We are trying to present a new synthesis between East and West. The Eastern methods are more individualistic, more inward-going, and more concerned with solitude, aloneness, and the person. They are meditative methods, more concerned with the person and his integrity. They are not group methods.
The Western methods are all group methods, and are more out-going, more concerned with communication and relationships, with the group, and integrity in relationships, not in aloneness. So what they can be reduced to is: the Western methods are more concerned with love, the Eastern methods more with meditation.
These are the two polarities of human consciousness - love and meditation. Meditation means to be alone, as if you alone exist. And love means that you are not, the other is; as if you exist only in relation to the other, and there is no other existence. These are the two polarities. Taken separately they both become extremes and both are dangerous.
The East has tried the first extreme - of meditation. It became life-negating and escapist - hence the poverty, the ugliness. There has been no scientific progress in the East, because nobody has paid any attention to society. All those who were interested in any search always escaped to the forests and the mountains.
In the West, the society has progressed. There is a better standard of living, more affluence and comfort, more convenience, more health, and more life. But they have moved to the other extreme and the individual has by and by disappeared.
These two things taken separately are dangerous, because life exists in polarity. The whole emphasis here is that there are no opposites, there are only complementaries. Meditation and love are not opposites, they are complementaries. All religion should be life-affirming, and life should be meditative.
So we are trying to create a synthesis, and it is not only an ideology - because that is not difficult. This synthesis is really in the being of people who come here. A new synthesis is being tried and much depends on it.
We have to give birth to a world psychology. The East has succeeded in certain ways and failed in others, just as the West has failed in certain areas but succeeded in others. Now there should be no more of this bifurcation of East and West. There should be a unitive psychology, global, in which there is no East and no West, but the polarities meet and dissolve.
Our work is on human beings. It is not academic, theoretical, philosophical. It is absolutely personal and existential.


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Thursday, July 16 2009 - Other Important News
Oliver Stone, the relaunch of JFK and the Unspeakable, and 9/11
from Barrie Zwicker
Canadian-born James Douglass of Birmingham, Alabama is a Christian pacifist , a 9/11Truther and author of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters (Orbis Books).
The book rose to number 31 on Amazon's best seller list two weeks after Oliver Stone appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on June 26th last holding a copy of the 2008 book, which was shown on camera. Stone said it is a "great book."
The question "why" that Douglass's book addresses in the case of JFK's assassination arguably is also the most important question concerning 9/11. Douglass recently has been added under "Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth" on http://PatriotsQuestion911.com
Douglass's book deserves wide readership. It's a tremendously well-researched work, one of the best of the 400+ books on JFK's assassination. Douglass conducted original interviews with people now able and willing to talk after decades of silence. He also drew on thousands of recently released US government documents to reveal the logic of the plot to kill Kennedy. The plot's purpose was not only to assassinate a president who was turning toward peace but also to implicate the Soviet Union and Cuba in his murder so as to justify pre-emptive attacks upon them. The parallels with 9/11 are highly educative.
Douglass's editor, Robert Ellsberg, feels the Stone endorsation is a peg upon which to "re-promote" the book. I agree and commend it thoroughly to all frequenters of 911blogger.com. For the Stone interview, go to
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5AYPA2bYBw
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm_w04kz9So
I know James through our working together to publicize the trial in Memphis, Tennessee in 1999 to determine who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. That trial and its outcome are little known because all the media except for Douglass and one Memphis TV reporter, Wendell Stacy (now deceased), ignored the trial. James Douglass's report on the King trial can be found in Probe magazine at http://www.ctka.net.
The Memphis trial was a civil action brought by the King family. The purpose was not money. The family sought only 100 dollars; the purpose was the truth. At the end of six weeks, after hearing 70 witnesses, a jury of six black and six white people took just 2-1/2 hours to conclude that Dr. King was murdered by a multi-layered conspiracy that included US government agencies.
In his introduction to JFK and the Unspeakable, James Douglass has described how Martin Luther King's murder awakened him to the meaning of John F. Kennedy's. Both Kennedy's and King's false flag assassinations (with Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray as the patsies) are in turn critically relevant to 9/11, especially regarding provenance, outcome and cover-up. JFK and the Unspeakable illuminates the murderous history of the 60's that laid the ground for 9/11.
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1570757550/ref...
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Politico reporter forgets Politico's role in pushing Michelle-Obama-as-liability storyline
Blog ››› ››› JAMISON FOSER
Politico's Jeanne Cummings on MSNBC about half an hour ago, discussing Michelle Obama's popularity:
She's doing much better than what people thought. There was a time during the campaign in 2008 when lots of Republicans thought that Michelle Obama could become some sort of liability.
Hmmmm. I don't remember that sentiment being limited to Republicans; I remember a lot of reporters expressing it as well. Reporters like ... Jeanne Cummings Politico colleagues. Let's fire up The Nexis, shall we?
Jim VandeHei & John Harris, Politico, 3/17/08:
The GOP has proven skilled at questioning the patriotism of Democratic candidates. Just ask John F. Kerry, defeated presidential candidate, and Max Cleland, defeated senator, if such attacks work in the post-Sept. 11 political environment.
They will blend together Wright's fulminations with quotes of Michelle Obama saying her husband's candidacy has made her finally proud of America with pictures of Obama himself sans the American flag on his lapel (the latter a point that has thrived in conservative precincts of the Web and talk radio).
In isolation, any of these might be innocuous. But in the totality of a campaign ad or brochure, the attacks could be brutal, replete with an unmistakable racial subtext.
Glenn Thrush, Politico, 8/25/08:
Plastic bags stuffed with big M-I-C-H-E-L-L-E signs are being loaded into the Pepsi Center for a prime-time speech by would-be first lady Michelle Obama. Her tasks are twofold: to introduce herself to the convention as a strong-willed, nonthreatening surrogate who has always been proud of her country - while portraying her Barack as a messy, absent-minded, regular dad who likes playing with his daughters when he's not out inspiring the millions. How she is received could determine how much she is used on the road this fall.
Mike Allen, Politico, 8/25/08:
Michelle Obama set out to reassure voters Monday that she would leave the governing to her husband and would not be a domineering White House presence.
Nia-Malika Henderson, Politico, 3/28/09:
Traditional? Hardly. In fact, Obama's approach so far is decidedly different from the usual model of the modern first lady - pick a platform of two or three issues and stick to it, by and large, for four years.
Yet in the midst of all those themes, it isn't yet clear whether her self-described core messages - about military families, volunteerism, and helping working women balance work and family life - are truly breaking through. Some wonder if she's spreading herself too thin to emerge in the public mind as a leading voice on those topics.
[F]or some, Obama's multi-tasking approach to the job raises the specter of Rosalynn Carter, who was dogged early on by questions of whether she was taking on too much and trying to be all things to all people. Ironically, some are raising the same "too much, too fast?" question about Michelle that they're raising about her husband, the president.
As for her more official three-issue platform, branding expert Hodgkinson said that for Obama, "the broader mission is to install herself in the psyche of the country and then after that take a look at what does she then wants to advance and can reasonably advance. "
Military family issues might not be the right fit, she said.
"When you think about military families it's not a connection you first make with the first lady," she said. "Without that natural pull, it's going to be a harder campaign especially if people's ears are turned elsewhere."
But now that Mrs. Obama has proven to be quite popular, Politico's Jeanne Cummings wants you to think it was just the Republicans who thought she'd be a liability -- just forget all about what Politico wrote about her.
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Yet Rand's father, former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul - with whom Rand is closely aligned - endorsed Broun.
Of all of the candidates, Broun was picked as "the most conservative candidate in the race."
Former secretary of state Karen Handel ranks second with 14 percent, while Broun places third with 13 percent.
A recent PPP poll showed Broun with a double digit lead over the entire field.
Dooley describes Broun as "very friendly, not at all elitist" and very, very conservative.
Broun is prone to controversial remarks, including that the Big Bang Theory comes from the pits of hell.
If this is a gesture, all I can say is, it is a pinwheel; and yet Broun writes only about things he knows about.
Anyhow, it does not seem to us that Broun carries honesty to excess.
There was Burbage, I mind weel, and there was Broun; guid men both—no better men on th' road!
But just as often Mr. Broun misses his mark and falls on his face.


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Robotic fabrication is becoming a more popular approach to constructing geometrically-complex assemblies with a high degree of precision. Initially, architects employed robots in the construction of small-scale prototypical installations. But as the technology continues to develop, and architects' experience with it evolves, the machines are being used to create larger, more permanent structures.
Earlier this year, Stuttgart University's Institute for Computational Design completed the construction of its Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall, a pavilion created for the purpose of demonstrating innovative building methods. With a prefabricated lightweight timber shell, the project represents an important milestone in the maturation of robotic construction processes. According to the project team, the hall is the first of its kind to have a primary structure made entirely of beech plywood plates that are prefabricated by a robot.
Based on sophisticated structural simulation tools that can accurately predict material behavior, the team was able to create an ultra-thin plate structure of only 50 millimeters in depth. Using the microscopic plate joints in sand dollars as inspiration, the team devised a series of plywood plates with perimeter finger joints for plate-to-plate attachment. They employed a seven-axis industrial robot to fabricate the plates due to the robot armature's flexibility and the precision required to craft the complex individual joints. In addition to the 243 interior plates, the team also prefabricated the building insulation, waterproofing, and exterior cladding.
The new exhibition hall demonstrates that robot-driven fabrication is no longer a fad, but a legitimate method for building construction—particularly in cases where designers wish to create formal complexity with heterogeneous components while optimizing material resources. Nearly all off-cuts were reused as parquet flooring. This effort also bridges the gap between product and building: as raw plywood is transformed into elaborate, interlocking panels, the unique construction system becomes inseparable from the final product.


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Vince Gill among stars mourning Everly Brothers' Phil Everly
Listen to Vince Gill on iHeartRadio | Listen to The Everly Brothers on iHeartRadio
Vince Gill says it's hard to underestimate the influence the Everly Brothers have had on his career.
The country star tells "The Los Angeles Times" that with every guest collaboration he's been a part of over the past 40 years, he was "trying to be an Everly." He explains that he "was trying to make it as seamless as Phil did when he sang with Don."
Vince says Phil and Don Everly had "an unfair advantage" in creating such a compatible sound, since they were brothers, but that never stopped him from "chasing that beautiful, beautiful blend."
Gill's efforts included a duet with Phil himself. Billboard.com says one of Phil's last recordings was a guest appearance on Vince's 2006 album These Days. They teamed up for the Everly Brothers-sounding track "Sweet Little Corrina."
Vince Gill & Phil Everly ( Brothers ) ~ Sweet... by KUCERA
A number of country stars have covered Everly Brothers hits. Willie Nelson has recorded "Let It Be Me," Connie Smith has her own rendition of "'Till I Kissed You," and Reba McEntire's version of "Cathy's Clown" topped the charts in 1989. The Everly Brothers were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Project DescriptionCustom-Homes
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Homes Suspended Over Land Or Water Capture The Imagination.
Visual lightness and transparency are dear to the heart of many an architect. But it's not easy to achieve a building that perches delicately on the land, especially when pesky seismic, flooding, and other regulations come into play. Using a house to form a bridge over a waterway or landform can help an architect attain this coveted sense of weightlessness.
Bridge houses may look poetic in the landscape, but they also boast practical benefits. Their sensitive siting eliminates the need for invasive (and expensive) earth-moving tactics. Rainwater flows right underneath them. They provide a way of handling the idiosyncrasies of local topography. And on a more philosophical level, they implicitly acknowledge the primacy of nature by deferring to the existing site.
To ensure structural stability, the design and building of a bridge house can involve intensive engineering. But in the best ones, the effort never shows. All you notice is the lightweight look and the feeling of living within the landscape, rather than on it. Step into our collection of bridge houses to find that oh-so-bearable lightness of being.


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ĹBig Loveĺ to explore battle of the sexes
Theater South Carolina brings to the stage the struggles of relationships and the importance of love in their production of Charles Mee's "Big Love." The play will run Nov. 12-20 at Longstreet Theatre.
Tickets are $16 for the public, $14 for military, faculty and staff and $10 for students. Tickets can be purchased at the Longstreet box office beginning Nov. 5 at 12:30 p.m. or by calling 803-777-2551.
Based on Aeschylus' "The Suppliant Women," the play explores complex and changing ideas about the roles of men and women in relationships while following 50 women who, escaping their grooms, flee to an estate in Italy. Soon after their arrival, the grooms catch up with the wives by helicopter, and a battle of the sexes ensues, and issues of gender politics, love and domestic violence are brought to light.
Director Chris Clavelli describes the production as a music video that takes the audience around the world.
"There's a lot of opportunity in this show for music, and so we're going 'around the world' in our music choices for the show," he said. "We have calypso, 50's rock 'n' roll, classical, pieces from the film, 'Cinema Paradiso.' It's an outlandish, crazy three-ring circus of physicality. When the men and women get frustrated at each other, they basically beat each other up and throw themselves all over the set, which is actually a padded playground set … It's chaotic, it's ecstatic, it's hysterical. If the production works, the end should be a huge dance party for the audience."
First-year MFA acting students Jessi Noel, Amanda Forstrom, Yvonne Senat, and Catherine Friesen play the roles of the free-spirited women, while undergraduate theater majors Mark Whitesidis and Liam McDougall play the roles of the grooms.
Charles L. Mee is an American playwright and author, born in Barrington, Ill., in 1938. He was diagnosed with polio in 1953, which he documents in his 1999 memoir, "A Nearly Normal Life." Mee is also an accomplished historian, having written about the Potsdam Conference and World War II. He currently teaches playwrighting at the Columbia University School of the Arts.


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Woman's stomach ache really a 9-pound baby
(NEWSER) – Jennifer Scollin hadn't been feeling well lately and chalked it up to a stomach bug that was going around. But when the Connecticut woman woke up Saturday morning with bad stomach pains, she called her boyfriend to come home—and minutes after he did, her water broke. They called 911, and she ended up delivering their second child in an ambulance parked in her driveway. "We didn't know at first it was a baby coming, but once we did it happened fast," she tells the Connecticut Post. "Two pushes and he was out."
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Geocaching Shelties
Abby & Carter love to go geocaching with us. Each time we find a cache they have to examine it to see if there might be something in there for them. (This beautiful photo was taken at Big Island Lake near Flin Flon Manitoba, Canada.)
Trevor loved to do this too Shelly! He even had his own travel bug, but its gone missing. :( For all you Geocachers out there…you can also find us under "Team Trevor" once you log in!


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Marianne Bailey
Marianne Bailey's absolutely incredible design work for Yahama Design Lab's Box to Play. Watch the video here, to get the full effect.
That's not all – Bailey has also been working on a series of cell phones that double as musical instruments! There is a phone that changes your singing voice into a trumpet, as well as a phone that splits in half and can be used like drum sticks, waving them in the air produces the sounds!


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Almost Contained by California artist Nancy Eckels - abstract, contemporary,
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Wow Wingery and Cafe is the perfect place to go if your craving mouth-watering wings. With 15 different wing & tender flavors this Louisiana-born restaurant is sure to satisfy.
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T-Mobile = GSM
MetroPCS = CDMA
The only network that utilize both technology, able to charge lots of roaming charges... Especially international roaming charges making the big bucks.
Able to fully use Apple's CDMA phones with GSM card, finally giving CDMA people that must have CDMA ability to talk and search at same time.
Edit: According to this article that I found, MetroPCS' CDMA network will possibly be shutdown by 2015 to be used for augmenting LTE spectrum.
no one on Sprint pays their bills- reason for all the bad ESN on ebay - same as Verizon, though they happen to be the largest carrier next to AT&T- who thrives on the Talk & Surf, which largely is a fluke because it's not an acquired feature for most- next to app chatting and messaging... NOW, one Tmobile won't subsidize the iPhones- meaning you'll have to fork out a small fortune to get one (limiting the market to higher income, or frivolous spenders or they acquire from the unlocked iPhone scene) Now add in the pimp bosses MetroPCS customer base and drug dealers and you pull in the lower forms of the sesspool - - PERFECT MERGE!!!
grief they caused me. Story at http//SwensonStudio.com/metropcs.htm
While I believe that this merger is good for the consumer in general,
it's bad for the metroPCS subscribers. I'm glad that I bailed. If it
was bad to be a Metro customer before, it's horrible now. Customers
will be jumping ship by the boat load. Exactly, what T-mobile wants!
After all they are buying the company for it band spectrum, not the
customer base. The best case would be to take their Metro phones, get
them unlocked and subscribe to goSmart Phone. I think that's the basic
game plan. A plan that's $5 cheaper, without the narrow channels that
Metro uses means a much faster 4g, and way better coverage and much
better customer support. Not too bad unless you have a phone that
can't be unlocked or you can't unlock the one you have.
Then you'll have to queue up for your GSM/HSPA handsets and throw
your old CDMA phones away. Remember the 'service and plan subject to
change' fine print. Well, it's about to kick-in. If any of you think
that T-mobile is going to slow it's race to compete with Verizon and
AT&T, I have a bridge for sale. With their 40mhz pipe, double that of
Verizon and AT&T, they have much, much more data capacity, which is
where the action is. So, They have Verizon and AT&T in their sights.
Do they have the capital and expertise to pull it off? I don't know,
but it'll be fun to watch. That means the quickest possible phase out
of Metro's CDMA net and the assimilation of it's towers, and more
importantly band spectrum, into the T-mobile net is probably their
highest priority. It would be mine.
The only question that remains is how many 100's of millions of dollars
will the top executives at Metro get as a parting gift for selling their
company. If you think Metro's customer service was bad before. You
haven't seen anything yet.
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Great Lakes Christmas Ale to be tapped today
(Cleveland) - The holiday season officially starts today in Cleveland!
Great Lakes Brewing Company will tap the first kegs of Christmas Ale at their Ohio City Brewpub at 11:30 AM.
Christmas Ale lovers are encouraged to wear their favorite Christmas sweater, don some reindeer antlers, and dust off their jingle bells.
Even though Christmas Ale will be tapped today, there will be no growler or jug fills.
6-Packs and cases of Christmas Ale will be available in the GLBC Gift Shop ONLY beginning Thursday, October 31 at 10:00 AM.
After that, Christmas Ale will be available throughout GLBC's distribution markets. Distribution dates/times may vary.
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Frank M. Pixley, 8th Attorney General
" After losing his reelection bid for Attorney General, he ventured east to catch a taste of the Civil War. He posed as a California Senator so he could ride side by side with General Grant at the Battle of Cold Harbor. Pixley retired from politics in 1877 to pursue his lifelong dream - newspaper publishing - creating the weekly publication, the Argonaut. He died in San Francisco in 1895 at the age of 70.


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I've been doing bench-offs a ton which lifts my spirits
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I've been doing bench-offs a ton which lifts my spirits
Yeah, you could tell the quality of surf in a particular region by the attitude of the comments in this forum. It's hilarious.
surfline should be covering this stuff
Flowers ? who knew ! I hope eveyone keeps the positive energy flowing and remembers to save up for those much needed surf trips to their favorite destinations over the summer ..
I want to announce to those who don't know. The internet forums is the place to be funny since most of America is in a state of sensitive, whinny uptightness. This is why awesomeness exists on this virtual surf site.
1. This forum is the most convoluted f*cked up study of the techno-social behavior of young and middle aged thrill seeking males. Nothing in here can be explained or fully understood. Just go with it.
2. Our new zen coach Roy Stuart
3. Inspiration from the 23 footers and other extreme feats of mr. NJshredmachine
Side note, I have recently realized that the inside of one of my wetsuits is completely orange, so, watch out Roy.


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Thread: Yellow teeth
12th August 2012 06:44 AM #1
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Yellow teeth
I am Ann, mum to a twelve year old son.
Recently I have noticed that a few of the front teethes of my son have become yellowish. He himself brushes his teethes from a very young age of around 3 (first few months I helped him). He brushes twice a day in the morning and night. He is not having any pain or complaints.
What are the reasons for this? Is it due to excessive intake of Calcium or any other food? Do I need to consult a dentist?
Please advice.
13th August 2012 08:58 AM #2
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Hi Ann,
There are a number of causes of yellowing teeth. If a child drinks fluoridated water during his tooth forming years, the flouride damages the enamel-forming cells resulting in teeth that have a porous surface and the teeth turn a dingy yellow.
Tetracyline is an antibiotic which is contained in cold medication and can cause yellow teeth if ingested during the time when your child's teeth are forming.
Some foods and drinks are highly pigmented and will result in yellow tooth staining. Blueberries, cherries, soda, soy sauce, and coffee are all examples of highly pigmented foods. If your son regularly eats these foods (soy sauce?) the teeth can turn yellow.
And finally, not brushing and flossing regularly in order to remove plaque and staining substances can cause teeth to yellow. This is the one I think is probably causing the yellowing in your son's case, being that he is 12 years old and likely isn't diligently brushing and flossing twice a day.
It is important for your son to rinse his mouth with water after eating highly acidic beverages (sodas) and highly pigmented foods, and he should brush his teeth well (set a timer for 3 minutes) right after breakfast and right after dinner.
If your son is seeing the dentist every 6 months for a cleaning, then you probably don't have to make a special appointment to see the dentist for yellowing. If it's been more than 6 months since he had a cleaning, then I would take him in for a professional cleaning that may actually help to remove some of the plaque that could be causing the yellowing.
Here's an excellent page that discusses the causes of yellow teeth in more detail.
Warm regards,
9th January 2014 10:48 PM #3
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I'm planning to have my 5 year-old kid's front tooth extracted for the first time. I know it's painful and I'm afraid for her. I attempted to brought her to the dentist the other day but she cries and screams real hard. How can I convince my child to have her tooth extracted? Any advice.
14th January 2014 06:53 AM #4
Dear Leslie,
I'm sorry to hear this - it must be worrying for you.
Was it your dentist that recommended having her tooth extracted? Was he able to see her teeth properly at a previous dental visit?
Here is some information on tooth extraction in children. Sometimes a child needs a general anesthetic, this is particularly for very young children, where they are temporarily put into a state of unconsciousness and will not feel pain during the actual extraction itself (although they will feel some pain afterwards unfortunately).
Thinking of you,
20th January 2014 08:50 PM #5
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We have her teeth checked before when she was younger and it was fine. But now, I saw tooth decay and my dentist friend told me that it may need to be extracted.
21st January 2014 06:38 AM #6
Dear Leslie,
Ah ok so it sounds like it isn't confirmed yet. Try and find out which dentists in your area are particularly child-friendly (they could specialise in children or simply be recommended by other parents). Dentists tend to only recommend the extracting of children's teeth as a last resort if there is no other way.
Books such as the Usborne Book 'Going to the Dentist' can help to reassure children and help them to gently understand what is going to happen.
You may also find the Sesame Street teeth cleaning resources useful - they are all available at the link online.
It is best for your daughter to have regular teeth check-ups - every 6 to 12 months is normally recommended.
Warm wishes,


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Well that was more like it. A week after suffering through a disappointing season opener at UCLA, Utah's No. 15 gymnastics team looked like its old self Saturday as it easily won its home opener with a 196.95 in front of 14,917 at the Huntsman Center.
The Utes, who suffered three falls in their first four routines on the uneven bars at UCLA, made it through Saturday's meet without a fall and were much cleaner overall.
Utah's solid performance was a stark contrast to the visitors, who all had their problem areas. Oregon State was second with a 195.95 followed by West Virginia (192.125) and SUU (191.05).
SUU lost its top gymnast, Alyssa Click, to a season-ending knee injury in practice Thursday, and the T-birds struggled without her as they suffered three falls on the balance beam.
Oregon State and West Virginia both had falls on the uneven bars and balance beam.
The Utes, meanwhile, cruised through their routines with more determination and confidence than they showed at UCLA.
The only glitch for the Utes didn't even involve the team. The Utes experimented with some large video boards in the upper bowl that were supposed to show a running tally of the scores. But they didn't work until the meet was almost over.
Luckily, the Utes were clicking from the start.
Earlier in the week, Utah coach Greg Marsden said he was confident his team's struggles at UCLA had more to do with first-meet jitters than a lack of talent. His gymnasts backed up his vote of confidence with as strong a meet as they could have hoped for in the opener.
The Utes were led by Georgia Dabritz, who won the all-around with a 39.525. They also got a boost in the uneven bars' lineup with the return of Kassandra Lopez.
The sophomore missed the season opener due to a lower leg strain. She was well enough to earn a spot in the bars lineup and scored a 9.775 to set the tone for the Utes.


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College of Education honors awards recipients
The College of Education at the University of South Carolina held its annual awards ceremony. A student from your area is included in this list. Award recipients are as follows:
South Carolina Business Education Association Scholarship Award – Bridget Anne Baumgart, Murrells Inlet. Major: MAT Business Education. Parents: Steve and Deborah Baumgart. High School: Socastee High School.
Education Achievement Award-Early Childhood – Elizabeth E. Burke, Bluffton. Major: Early Childhood Education. Parents: Michael and Beth Burke. High School: Bluffton High School.
2010 Teaching Fellows – Hannah J. Carney, Columbia. Major: Elementary Education. Parents: Chris and Rebecca Carney. High School: Dreher High School.
2010 Teaching Fellows – Hannah R. Cato, Moncks Corner. Major: Early Childhood Education. Parents: Billy and Sharon Cato. High School: Berkeley High School.
Carolina Students' Association for the Education of Young Children (CSAEYC) – Meredith A. Chinnis, Summerville. Major: Early Childhood Education. Parents: Barbie and David Chinnis. High School: Fort Dorchester High School.
2010 Teaching Fellows – Ashley Taylor Christopher, Boiling Springs. Major: Math Education. Parents: Ben and Betty Christopher. High School: Boiling Springs High School.
2010 Teaching Fellows – Lindsay M. Cockman, Camden. Major: Middle Level Education. Parents: Don and Tammy Cockman. High School: Camden High School.
Robert A. Weber Memorial Award – Faye C. Colley, Columbia. Major: M.A.T Elementary Education.
Preston Award in Secondary Education – Steven Getz, Pottstown, Pa. Major: Secondary Education. Parents: Steven and Bonnie Getz. High School: The Hill School.


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|Version: 1.1.19
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|Release: 9.7.2
|Build date: Sun Oct 30 03:39:08 2011
|Group: Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Players
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|Size: 18100
|Source RPM: xine-lib-1.1.19-9.7.2.src.rpm
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|Summary: Pulseaudio plugin for xine
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GPLv2+ ; Public Domain, Freeware
* Fri Oct 21 2011 email@example.com - fix build: /usr/share/xine/mad is no longer needed * Thu Jul 07 2011 email@example.com - Add xine-lib-v4l-2.6.38.patch: use the new v4l interface * Sat May 28 2011 email@example.com - included a patch to build against new ffmpeg abi * Thu Nov 18 2010 email@example.com - add patch from arch linux to fix build with newer xorg * Tue Aug 03 2010 email@example.com - remove unneeded libcdio-mini-devel buildignore again * Mon Jul 26 2010 email@example.com - update to 1.1.19 * Handle odd widths properly (for ffmpeg-decoded video). * Make buildable with current (external) libdvdnav & libdvdread. * Fix V4L2 check. * Add support for Ogg tag 'DISCNUMBER' and ID3 tag 'TPOS'. * Add support for EAC3. * Recognise video/mp2t and video/mp2p. * TTA fixes. * Add support for Xv gamma adjustment. * Better recovery from ALSA-reported errors. * Report stream buffer stats to the application. * Recognise and handle the WebM container format. (VP8 video is not yet supported.) * Recognise ScreamTracker 2 & 3 files. * Fix playback of the first file handled by the modplug demuxer. * Refuse to build with known-broken libmodplug (0.8.8). http://bugs.debian.org/588465 * Fix a potential freeing of unallocated memory. * Mon Apr 26 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - buildignore libcdio-mini-devel * Sun Mar 07 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - update to 188.8.131.52 * Oops. compat.c (for DXR3 support) was omitted. * Fix up V4L/V4L2 compilation. Some non-Linux have V4L2 but not V4L. * Fix a size check (wrong variable, causing int/ptr comparison) in rmff.c. * Fix build with the old, outdated and deprecated internal ffmpeg. * Wed Feb 24 2010 email@example.com - update to 1.1.18 * Bump the FLAC decoder's priority above ffmpegaudio. This should fix various problems with FLAC playback. * Build fix (undefined symbol) for when using older ffmpeg. * TTA demuxer fixes; allow seeking. * More meta-information tags. 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The current time should not be used here. * Added audio padding handling. (New buffer flag for this.) * Fix seeking in large raw DV files. * Ported to new libmpcdec API (retaining build compat. with the old API). * Cope with CDDB return code 211 (multiple entries). * Allow reading of non-block-sized chunks from audio CDs. * Add a user agent & protocol hack ("qthttp://...") to allow direct viewing of Apple film trailers. * Fixed int-to-float conversion in the JACK output plugin. * Work around MOD files with reported length == 0. * Reworked Matroska demuxer. Now reads files created by mkvmerge 2.7.0. * Support BluRay/HDMV streams & subtitles. * The XML parser & lexer code now has re-entrancy. * Fixed a bug which prevented "dvb://" (no channel specified) working with the default configuration. * Handle VC1 extradata requirement (should fix playback). * Wed Nov 18 2009 email@example.com - enable libmodplug on >= 11.2 * Sat Nov 14 2009 email@example.com - merged packman and openSUSE package - update to 22.214.171.124 * Security fixes: - Fix another possible int overflow in the 4XM demuxer. (ref. TKADV2009-004, CVE-2009-0385) - Fix an integer overflow in the Quicktime demuxer. * Enable libmpeg2new (if configured with --enable-libmpeg2new). 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This summer, several events drew attention to the tropical metropolis of Rio de Janeiro. In June, the Rio+20 conference set out to make progress in global environmental policy. In August, Brazilian entertainers and celebrities previewed the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Amidst the hubbub, the inaugural Green Nation Fest—an event organized by the Center for Information, Culture and Environment to promote sustainable community development and living—slipped in. Designers and manufacturers from Brazil and beyond presented a compelling picture of contemporary and environmentally progressive product development. Three pioneering individuals stood out.
Extensive travels in her native country have taken Brazilian artist Heloisa Crocco to the Amazon rainforest, where she researched indigenous natural fibers. A student of pre-Columbian art, Crocco makes decorative panels and surface treatments from discarded wood offcuts. Rather than homogenizing the material, in the spirit of engineered lumber, Crocco celebrates the grain and character of each piece, creating richly layered surfaces that she calls topomorfose, or transformation of the top cut of timber. An advocate for community-based arts and crafts endeavors, Crocco also cofounded Piracema Design Lab, which brings together design professionals and traditional craftspeople to collaborate on projects.
German microbiologist and fashion designer Anke Domaske discussed her method of creating natural textiles entirely from milk. While searching for a fabric alternative for allergy-prone clients, Domaske developed a process that transforms the casein protein in milk into a bio-compatible textile. Similar in texture to silk, the quick-drying, anti-allergenic, antibacterial, and durable Qmilch requires much less energy, water, and human labor than the manufacture of other textiles. Because its fibers can embody different properties and textures, Qmilch is an open platform for future experimentation. Domaske is currently scaling up Qmilch manufacturing to meet increasing demand from the fashion industry.
Also from the world of fashion, New York designer Elizabeth Olsen exhibited shoes made from repurposed postindustrial materials. In a heartfelt story about the inspiration behind her Olsenhaus Pure Vegan line, Olsen described her obligatory visits to slaughterhouses to select leather and other animal-based materials for shoe manufacture. Appalled by the inhumane conditions that she witnessed, she wrote on her website, "These industries thrive on lies and profit from the suffering of sentient beings." Making use of materials like recycled polyurethane, rubber, and canvas in place of leather, her collections of shoes are none the worse for the substitute.
These designers have followed less-traveled paths to develop goods that do good and look good. While the Rio+20 talks stagnated, and with Olympic planning hampered by infrastructure challenges, Green Nation Fest emerged as the summer's most invigorating testament to design and environmental progress in the city.


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Brad Paisley rumored to be joining "Rising Star"
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Brad Paisley is keeping fans in suspense over whether or not he's planning on joining the new ABC singing show "Rising Star." The country star was rumored to be in the running as a judge last week and on Monday his rep refused to confirm or deny the reports to CMT.com. Paisley has been a favorite of the network, hosting the CMA Awards on ABC for the past six years and appearing as a guest star on its drama "Nashville." If he does get confirmed for the judging role, there may be some scheduling conflicts. Brad is scheduled for a concert in Atlanta on the same night "Rising Star" premieres on June 22nd.


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The Crap We Missed – Monday 3.19.12
Welcome to the first The Crap We Missed post in over a week, in which it wouldn't be right if I didn't disclose upfront that you almost got Rita Rusic for your Final Five, but then I came across these. Glad I'm back? Anyway, despite some debugging delays as a result of our shiny new customer service center – Seriously, complain all you want, nobody's listening. – I'm happy to still bring your speed round of shame including two of my Crap favorites, here and here, as well as Alessandra Ambrosio absolutely pwning Jessica Simpson's pregnancy.
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Philips' inspection lamp with docking station is designed in such a way that it can be aligned in various positions while retaining stability. Its flexible multi-angle hook can be pulled inwards and outwards, and the lamp can also be attached magnetically.
Fifteen LEDs, focused on the working area, generate a bright light with an intensity of 1,200 lux, the vendor said. There is also an additional blue light which makes it possible to trace leaks in air-conditioning systems.
The lamp is IP54/IK09 classified and can be used for six hours at a stretch before it has to be recharged with the charging station that can be connected to the 220V power supply or with the 12-24V car adaptor.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
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I have installed BT5 on a USB thumb drive, but after I select which mode, I see text flying past the screen, then as the Backtrack splash screen should appear the screen goes black (as in no backlight) and the computer just sits idle. I have tried gnome and KDE. With KDE, I did try text mode, but I only made it to a bare ash shell with a message reading "unable to find a medium containing a live file system". The prompt read "(initramfs)". I'm not a virgin to UNIX/Linux and I've used Backtrack, but I really have no idea what's going on. From that prompt I can see everything on the flash drive so if a script needs to be modified, I might be able to do it (assuming vi is present).
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PHOTOS: Olivia Wilde Breastfeeds in 'Glamour' Spread
(NEWSER) – Olivia Wilde is Glamour's September cover girl, and in one picture from the inside photo spread making headlines, she breastfeeds her new baby Otis in a diner booth.
The picture "is so perfect because any portrait of me right now isn't complete without my identity as a mother being a part of that," Wilde says. "Breastfeeding is the most natural thing. I don't know, now it feels like Otis should always be on my breast."
She adds, however, "I certainly don't really look like that when I'm [typically] breast-feeding. And there's usually a diaper involved."
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This American Memory collection is a 167-item subset of the larger National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection.
The complete National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection is a library of 700-800 titles collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA and donated to the Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress on November 1, 1938. The bulk of the collection is derived from the library of Carrie Chapman Catt, president of NAWSA from 1900-1904, and again from 1915-1920. Additional materials were donated to the NAWSA Collection from the libraries of other members and officers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, and Mary A. Livermore.
The complete collection consists of a variety of materials--newspapers, books, pamphlets, memorials, scrapbooks, and proceedings from the meetings of various women's organizations--documenting the suffrage fight. When the Library of Congress acquired the collection from Carrie Chapman Catt in 1938, it was divided into sixteen sections, with individual items being assigned both an accession number and an item number within its particular section. The sixteen sections are as follows:
The Rare Book Division has maintained the collection according to NAWSA's original organization, and researchers can request items by using the same numbers assigned in the Deed of Gift. When the cataloging of the collection began, it was renamed from its original title of the Carrie Chapman Collection to its current name as the NAWSA Collection--a title that more accurately identifies the collection's contents.
The materials in the collection amount to 65,683 pages and can be broken down as follows:
The full collection contains a significant number of works about women's movements in Europe, especially Great Britain.
American Memory, partly because of cost considerations, sought to identify about 10,000 pages for digitization. The selection process required the editor to seek the best balance between the following considerations:
The selection was made by E. Susan Barber. The project benefited from contributions by Library of Congress staff member Sheridan Harvey, assisted by contract worker Mara Mrvos. Historians Anne Firor Scott and Robyn Muncy provided guidance as selection proceeded.


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text: Rotman Speaker Series How to build innovation into organizations Add to ... The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 9:59AM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 9:59AM EDT In this video from the Speaker Series @Rotman, Prof. Kevin Desouza, director of Metropolitan Institute and associate professor at Virginia Tech's Centre for Public Administration and Policy, explains the good and the bad of experimentation and how to build a process within the organization Watch More Video: Talking Management Video: How team tasks help retain new hires How neuroscience can explain your trading risk profile The CEO isn't the only leader any more What stage are you at in your career? The power of making people laugh at work How do we rate emotional intelligence at work? Governments need to be more inclusive, says Harvard's Tarun Khanna How Asia's economic forces will shape the 21st century Ed Luce on America's economic decline Canada's position in the global prosperity race Why companies have to place a bet to excel Rotman's Richard Florida on where our work force is heading Michael Porter on the role of companies in communities How can a company become responsible? Building social media for business NYT columnist reveals secret to self-control Why networked teams are the future of innovation MAC Cosmetics' noncommercial approach to success How ideals power growth and profit Whole Foods CEO on 'conscious capitalism' Comments Share via email Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on LinkedIn Print More Related to this Story Rotman Speaker Series Video: NYT columnist reveals secret to self-control Rotman Speaker Series Video: Why networked teams are the future of innovation ROTMAN SPEAKER SERIES Video: MAC Cosmetics' noncommercial approach to success


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Hi all, basically having trouble in what the Thread title says. Not too sure if it's a CSS issue though. It's basically a scroll to top button, in a fixed position that appears for a second while the page loads. I'm using 2 seperate script tags for 2 types of scroll, a scroll down the page and a scroll back to top. I don't know anything about javascript/jquery so not sure if that's causing the issue...
Here's a link - http://www.yoursoccerkit.com/test-site/premier-league/index.php
Thanks for any help.Al.
just looked at your page in Chrome.It seems fine to me. Did you get this sorted, or am I missing something?
Hi sorry mate, I changed it a few hours ago, didn't really seem to get much help about it, here or on other forums, and I want to get the site up and running tomorrow. I just changed the code (used a different scroll to top sample I found online), seems to be working pretty good now.
It was just annoying on the other one that it appeared for a second while the page was loading, and I don't know why.
Thanks for looking anyway.
What was happening in your last example most likely was the image was being hidden with javascript. It took a second for the js to load so that's why the delay. Often you can just say display none in your css. The javascript will often bring it back into view when called. If you need the opposite, meaning you want it there with js on but gone with js off then you need to implement one of these methods. http://www.visibilityinherit.com/code/add-css-with-javascript.php
Thank you for following up with this poster about his question. Turns out that I've asked this same question twice in the JavaScript forum and received no response once and one over-my-head response with no clarification offered. I think the link that you posted nails it for me. Thank you very, very much.


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Pusha T announces plans for second album
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Pusha T is enlisting Neptunes producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo for his next project.
In an interview with MissInfo.tv, the G.O.O.D. Music emcee revealed that he and The Neptunes will hit the studio on January 2nd.
Pusha plans to only spend 20-days working on the album.
While he hasn't set a release date for his second solo project, he says it will certainly be titled King Push. The name is also the title of a song on Pusha's debut album My Name Is My Name, which arrived in October.
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Asustek Computer has announced the Maximus VI Impact, a mini-ITX gaming motherboard based on Intel Z87 chipset for the latest fourth-generation Intel Core processors.
The Maximus VI Impact features the SupremeFX Impact discrete sound card for 115dB SNR audio and Impact Power digital power-management technology for the same overclocking control as ROG full-size ATX motherboards. The Maximus VI Impact also features connectivity with onboard 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0.
The ROG Maximus VI Impact features the SupremeFX Impact discrete sound card with a custom design that keeps the PCI Express x16 slot free. The dual-differential circuit design splits the audio chip's analog signal into opposing phases that are combined by four operational amplifiers (op-amps) to produce a single, stronger and cleaner output, while ELNA audio capacitors help provide smooth high and low-frequency signals to deliver warmer sounds.
The Maximus VI Impact also features Perfect Voice technology that uses active noise cancellation on the microphone input to keep VoIP chat clear in noisy environments, and Music PnP technology that allows external sound sources to play through PC speakers when the PC is shut down. Together with SupremeFX Shielding that reduces audio distortion from electromagnetic interference, lossless 115dB output and the ability to drive high-impedance headphones (up to 600ohms).
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
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The Enigma of the Bra
Fashion is pain, and pain is beauty. Right?
I complimented a friend on a new sundress recently, and she thanked me and then showed me her clever solution to the dress' lacy strap area – she put a scarf on to hide her bra peeking through. As cute as the ensemble was, there was that voice at the back of my head saying – why? Why does my friend have to have a whole other accessory in order to accomplish wearing a dress?
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MONUMENT, Colo. - The head of the Colorado Department of Corrections was shot and killed when he answered the front door of his home, and police were searching for the gunman Wednesday.
Tom Clements was shot at around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night at his home in Monument, north of Colorado Springs, said Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer.
A family member called 911 to report the shooting and officers found 58-year-old Clements dead in his home, he said. Search dogs have been called in to comb through a wooded area around Clements' home, and authorities were going house to house trying to find out what neighbors heard.
Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed Clements to the post in 2011 after he served for more than three decades in the Missouri Department of Corrections. He replaced Ari Zavaras, a former Denver police chief who led the department under two governors.
The department operates 20 adult prisons and a juvenile detainment system.
In a statement released early Wednesday and sent to department employees, Hickenlooper said he was in disbelief over the killing.
"As your executive director, he helped change and improve (the department) in two years more than most people could do in eight years. He was unfailingly kind and thoughtful, and sought the 'good' in any situation. I am so sad. I have never worked with a better person than Tom, and I can't imagine our team without him," Hickenlooper said.
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The Library Diversity Committee provides leadership and guidance to the Library by encouraging awareness about and discussions of diversity. Specifically, the Committee will focus on diversity issues with regard to Library climate, staff training and development, services to patrons, and campus outreach.
Working with Library Administration, the Human Resources Office, and the Staff Development and Training Committee, the Library Diversity Committee will establish and prioritize goals regarding the provision of diversity services and training. The Committee will also plan and promote diversity activities within the Library. Finally, the Committee will support, if and when appropriate, the work of the Library's Affirmative action Officer and Equal Employment Opportunity Committee.
The Committee is appointed by the University Librarian, with the advice of the Executive Committee. The Gender and Multicultural Services Librarian, the Inclusive Illinois Representative(s), and a representative from Library Human Resources will serve as ex-officio members. In addition, the Committee will include one member from the International and Area Studies Library. The Committee will also include at least six additional members at-large. Members at-large are full- or part-time Library employees from both academic and support staffs, serve two-year staggered terms, and may be appointed to one successive term. The chair is appointed annually by the University Librarian. Additional members may be appointed to represent special concerns.
The University of Illinois library is committed to diversity. The greater the complexity of a task or problem, the better the outcome if varied perspectives are brought to creating the resolution. If everyone thinks in the same way, our innovation and creativity are limited. In all aspects of our work, in order to solve problems and innovate, we need different points of view, different mental models, different training, different understanding, different approaches. We need difference. Research supports the notion that teams with diverse experiences perform better than those with homogeneous experiences. The complexity of our challenges demands that we strive for diversity in our organization.
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text: Will Alpha improve Massey safety and environmental performance? By Ken Ward Jr. January 31, 2011 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Alpha Natural Resources' buyout of troubled Massey Energy creates a coal giant that will rank among the top three in the country, have significant operations in several major coal basins, and dominate the U.S. market for coal that is used to make steel.But will Alpha reverse a culture at Massey that critics of the company say frequently put coal production ahead of worker safety and environmental protections?United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts -- among Massey's most vocal longtime critics -- certainly hopes so."Massey had come to represent all that was wrong with the coal industry, whether it be safety and health issues, environmental issues or simple respect for its workers, their families and the communities where they live," Roberts said. "While Alpha inherits those problems from Massey, one hopes that Alpha recognizes that sorry record and has a plan in place to move swiftly toward resolving many of those issues."The Alpha-Massey deal, announced Saturday, creates a coal giant worth $15 billion, with the second-largest private coal reserves in the country, and likely to take over a slot as the second- or third-largest producer in the nation.Abingdon, Va.-based Alpha plans to keep its own team of top executives and its own board of directors, but the plans for operational management of regional units and individual mines has not been announced.Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield said his company planned to introduce its own safety, environmental and production programs -- under the title "Running Right" -- at Massey's operations."From a safety perspective, 'Running Right' means engaging all of our employees to work toward the common goal of returning every employee home safely every day," Crutchfield said. "From an environmental perspective, 'Running Right' means a collective commitment on the part of our entire workforce to not only remain in compliance with, but often exceed regulatory environmental standards in leaving the environment in a condition that is at least as good or better than we found it." During the same call, outgoing Massey CEO Baxter Phillips said the two companies found their corporate cultures "to be extremely compatible with each other" and would work together to "reduce regulatory impediments" on the industry.Joe Lovett, director of the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment, said he's not sure what Phillips -- who is expected to become an Alpha consultant of some sort -- is talking about."I don't think the regulatory impediments are as strong as they should be in the first place," Lovett said. "That certainly is code for 'We don't want to protect the environment.'"Massey's history dates back to 1920, and the company has been operating as a publicly traded firm since 2000 under the controversial leadership of CEO Don Blankenship. Following a strike in the mid-1980s, Massey has operated mostly with non-union workers and has been at odds with the UMW.Safety advocates and environmental groups have long complained about Massey's practices, and its subsidiaries have admitted several times to criminal violations of both safety and water pollution laws. Scrutiny of Massey increased after two mines died in a January 2006 fire at Massey's Aracoma Mine, an incident that produced record safety fine of $4.2 million in civil and criminal fines.But it was the April 5, 2010, explosion that killed 29 workers at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine that began a downward financial spiral, with Blankenship retiring in early December and Massey's board agreeing less than two months later to a buyout. While Alpha has avoided a huge disaster like Upper Big Branch, the company came dangerously close to such an incident in May 2009, when seven workers were trapped underground for more than 24 hours by a mine flood in Mingo County. Federal regulators cited the company for improper maintenance of outside drainage systems that allowed heavy rain to inundate the underground tunnels.And in January 2007, Alpha's Brooks Run subsidiary was cited for major safety violations following a roof collapse that killed two workers at an underground mine in McDowell County.In terms of production, Alpha already ranked higher than Massey among U.S. coal operators, largely because more than half of its 84 million tons of 2009 coal output came from two huge surface mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.Alpha ranked fourth in 2009 West Virginia production. Corporate disclosures listed about 1,700 employees in the state.Formed in 2002, Alpha grew over the next decade by purchases of Pittston Coal -- another old UMW foe -- from Brinks, and of Coastal Coal, Nicewonder Coal, Progress Fuels and of some West Virginia operations of Arch Coal.Two years ago, Alpha also purchased some of the holdings of Foundation Coal, including two large underground mines that employ more than 1,000 UMW members in Greene County, Pa. Roughly three-quarters of Alpha's employees and slightly more of its production base are still "union free," and the company warns shareholders that additional unionization "could adversely affect the stability of our production and reduce our profitability."Roberts, the UMW president, said that unlike at Massey, his union has "open lines of communications" with Alpha.On the Upper Big Branch disaster, Alpha officials said that they had carefully examined Massey's estimates of the potential financial impacts of the disaster, any litigation and any government investigations and were "comfortable with the risk" involved in buying Massey."It was a tragic event and what we would hope for is resolving the matter in the foreseeable future," Crutchfield said.Reach Ken Ward Jr. at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1702. 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Barao vs. McDonald for the interim bantamweight strap!
Barao vs. McDonald for the interim bantamweight strap!
Terry Etim and Paul Sass also get their opponents confirmed; Renee Forte and Danny Castillo respectively.
Harris vs. Gomez and Lee vs. Motonobu Tezuka also added (as well as previously rumoured confirmations).
Top card so far, British fans will still moan though. Looking forward to Grizzly's post haha!
Valley of Kings - Coming Soon
Phil Harris vs Ulysses Gomez is on
If you love fighting you can never really lose!!!!!
2 days ago I posted that the fight I would love to see following Dominic Cruz being sidelined for another 12 months was Barao vs McDonald as personally I think McDonald is the top of the division (below Barao) and it is happening!! Finally the UK gets a meaningful fight, don't get me wrong I don't dislike the fact that the UFC come over here and give the UK guys a chance but they fly their Brazilians, Americans, Canadians etc etc all around the world to fight in other countries but as soon as it gets to the UK show they just litter it with British talent that we've spent the past 3-4 years watching.
I would personally like to see them announce another 2 fights that don't involve a British fighter that are good match ups.
Anyone moaning about this fight (and there are lots on various forums/social sites) want a f**king reality check.
Fighting, writing and mood lighting.
in this day and age, I don't get excited about a fight until about a week out.
Cause it seems every fight gets affected by injury these days.
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UFC confirmed an eleven-fight card this morning:
So that's as it stands right now!