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December 2007, TruckingInfo.com - Feature
by HDT Staff
Do you run transport refrigeration equipment in California? Do you operate a terminal with 20 or more doors where reefer trucks make pickups and deliveries? Maybe you've heard about new emissions requirements coming in just about a year, on Dec. 31, 2008. They'll affect those terminals and every reefer, whether the trailer or truck body it's on is based in, goes into or merely passes through the Golden State. If you haven't heard, you'll need to know about the California Air Resources Board's upcoming regulations so you can start planning now to comply.
CARB's rules thus far have gone along with the federal Environmental Protection Agency's, which regulate reefer units via Tier limits (that primarily affect off-road equipment). Tier 2 is now in effect, and it's not as stringent as EPA's '07 limits for on-highway diesels. Starting in '08, Tier 4 Interim limits will reduce allowable particulate matter (PM, commonly called "soot") by 50 percent. In 2013, Tier 4 Final limits will cut PM by another 90 percent — but Tier 3 does not affect reefers.
In most of the country, you may legally continue to run today's and tomorrow's reefers indefinitely, as long as they meet the limits in effect when those reefers were built.
But not California. CARB wants all reefer units to comply with its upcoming limits. That means many existing reefers must be upgraded, shut down, or sent out of state. Basically, this affects reefers seven years or older.
Late this year, the requirements will affect units built in 2001; in '09, it'll affect '02-model units, and so on, up to 2013, when the most stringent Tier limits are due. Nothing more stringent is scheduled beyond 2013, but reefers then will be so clean that CARB and EPA will have trouble measuring the few pollutants that will still blow out their stacks.
One way to meet the CARB limits, according to Carrier Transicold, is fleet planning: Send only the newest refrigerated units into California or base them there, and use older ones elsewhere. This might work for some fleets, until a cross-country rig makes a delivery in, say, Reno, Nev., and could then go into Truckee, Calif., to pick up an eastbound load, but can't because its reefer is non-compliant. A majority of reefer trailers regularly go into California because its 37 million people consume so many products — temperature-sensitive or otherwise — and so much produce is grown and shipped from there, constituting convenient backhauls. So it'll be difficult trying to avoid sending in the "dirty" ones.
The second way is to buy new, compliant reefers to coincide with CARB's seven-year schedule. That way everything you have will be legal and you can run like you do now. But that might be too costly for many carriers. So the third way is to upgrade existing reefers. This can be done by replacing their engines with new cleaner-burning diesels, or fitting existing engines with diesel particulate filters, which Carrier Transicold and Thermo King are developing. The DPF route is less costly, and would meet the 2013 limits — called "ultra-low emissions" by CARB — so is a longer-term solution.
Either way will cost thousands of dollars per unit. Obviously, it wouldn't be a good idea to upgrade an older reefer that has only a few years of economical life remaining, unless you consider fines of many thousands of dollars per day that CARB promises to levy against anyone caught running an illegal reefer. New or retrofitted units must prominently display a sticker with California ARB numbers. Larcenous souls are sure to produce and sell counterfeit stickers, but can you imagine how irked an enforcement officer would be to find a phony sticker on a non-compliant unit, and how much the resulting ticket would cost? However, choose the legal retrofit route and you might be eligible for Carl Moyer grants. This money can offset some of the upgrade costs.
A fourth way to comply is to employ "alternative" technologies, such as reefers cooled by frozen CO 2 , which are sometimes used on containers. Cold-plate reefers that run locally would also meet the rules, and advances are being made on these. "Standby" electric power, which is an option on current reefers, is a means to comply while trailers are parked. Their electric motors run on 460/480-volt plug-in power supplied from the local grid. Cold-storage warehouses, distribution centers and other facilities will have to provide plug-ins under the CARB proposals.
CARB's upcoming rules must be approved by EPA, which is still considering them. The American Trucking Associations and other groups are urging EPA to block them. But, notes Ignacio Aguerrevere, Carrier's director of North American marketing and product development, EPA over the years has eventually gone along with every CARB proposal, and is likely to approve this one.
More information on all this is available from Carrier Transicold and Thermo King on their web sites, or at their dealers, or from ATA. It would be wise to get educated and plan accordingly, whether it's to alter your operations, buy new reefers or retrofit the ones you have — or get out of California and stay out.
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Yeah the ACC is kind of a joke right now.
Mississippi State is in no way a better program than Miami. Regardless of competition.
Vanderbilt is in the SEC too...is that a better program? hardly
I don't really want Mullen anyway. I can't stand the fruity offense teams are running these days.
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Vanderbilt is an ACC school in the SEC, that's a horrible comparison to any SEC school. They don't even have an athletics department. Mississippi State is in the top 25 right now, in the best conference in the land, and Mullen has already gotten a two year head start in bringing in his brand of players. What does Miami have other than weather and the recruiting hotbed of Florida? Miami is a 3rd fiddle (maybe 4th, thanks SFU!) in the state right now anyways, so it's not like they're hauling in all of the big recruits in Florida as is.
The only thing that UF and FSU require to pass admissions is a pulse...Academic standards are going to be the death of Miami football in the end.
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While I might agree that at this very moment Miss State may be in better shape than Miami. I have to say that Miami has a much higher ceiling than Miss State in terms of success. With the right coach Miami could be an annual national championship contender in the ACC. You can't say that about Miss State a program that is still seeking their first SEC Championship.
I can't see how anybody would be able to consistently field a Miss State team that would top teams like Auburn, LSU, Arkansas and Alabama on a yearly basis.
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I don't see Mullen chickening out of the SEC, because he's already building a nice program. I don't see why he can't compete, I don't think many people would have tabbed South Carolina as the 2010 winners of the SEC East a few years ago (mind you, the SEC East is horrible this year, but still). He has Mississippi State on the right track, at Miami, he's got to start all over again after only two years. Is the ceiling higher? Probably. But he's young and already building a program, so why leave to rebuild another?

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Kyle Bean's wonderful design project is supposed to be a comment on runaway consumerism. Named Disposable Technology, it is a "response to our consumer relationship with technology and obsolescence", representing the throwaway culture of gadgets by constructing their likenesses in plain, worthless cardboard.
Nice try, Kyle, but you messed up. These cardboard clones are amazing: Far from making us meditate on the wastefulness of technological progress, they make us wish that somebody would actually make a cardboard camera or corrugated computer. Muji would be the obvious choice for this — the company already makes cardboard speakers. And the environment would benefit, too. After all, who's going to miss a few more trees?
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The first upside down cake I ever saw was a pineapple one made by Ofelia on TV – I believe it's fair to say that she was the Brazilian equivalent to Julia Child and I loved her cooking show when I was younger (11-12 years old, to be more precise). Back then, her show was aired weekday mornings, while I was at school, but my brother would tape it every day for me – you might think he did that out of sheer kindness but in fact he did it because he knew that I would cook and bake all those delicious recipes as soon as I got home. :D
Many years later, when I started blogging, I saw Martha's gorgeous cranberry upside down cake and fell in love with it, but unfortunately fresh cranberries do not exist here in Brazil. That image got stuck in my head, though, and after that I ended up making upside down cakes with other flavors, but I have to say: this blackberry version, a recipe from DH magazine, is the prettiest and tastiest of them all.
Blackberry and almond upside down cake
slightly adapted from the always amazing Donna Hay Magazine
450g frozen blackberries
1 ¼ cups (250g) granulated sugar, divided use
125g unsalted butter
finely grated zest of 1 lemon
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
200g all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
slightly heaping ¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup (50g) almond meal
2/3 cup (160ml) buttermilk*
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Butter a 20x7cm round cake pan (do not use one with a removable bottom or the juices will escape), line the bottom with a circle of baking paper and butter the paper as well.
Place the blackberries on paper towels and let them thaw slightly while you make the cake batter.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter, 180g of the sugar and lemon zest until light and fluffy, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, almond meal and buttermilk and beat on low speed just until incorporated. Set aside for a moment.
Cover the bottom of the baking paper with the blackberries and sprinkle with the remaining sugar (70g). Spoon the batter over the berries, then bake for about 50 minutes or until golden and risen and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan over a wire rack for about 2 hours or until just warm. Carefully invert the cake onto a serving plate, remove the pan, then the paper.
Serve it on its own or with whipped cream.
* homemade buttermilk: to make 1 cup buttermilk place 1 tablespoon lemon juice in a 240ml-capacity measuring cup and complete with whole milk (room temperature). Wait 10 minutes for it to thicken slightly, then use the whole mixture in your recipe
Serves 8-10
Friday, October 25, 2013
Blackberry and almond upside down cake + a memory from long ago
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almond meal,
Donna Hay,
lemon zest,
5 comments:
- Laura (Tutti Dolci) said...
So beautiful, I love the blackberries!
- October 25, 2013
- Vanessa said...
That looks so fresh and yummy. Must try!
- October 26, 2013
- Pille said...
Patricia, I love the intense purple colour of the cake!!!
Blackberries aren't very widely used in Estonia, so I've actually never ever baked with them (but I have used them to make simple berry desserts). - October 28, 2013
- Dina said...
it looks yummy!
- October 28, 2013
- ela@it's better when I make it myself said...
I love fruit cakes and this one has a pound of them!
- October 29, 2013
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Talk:Sir Aaron
From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
Where the heck does the Japanese version ever call him Arlon? As far as I can tell, the katakana can just as easily be rendered Aaron. In fact, standard romanization would render アーロン as AARON, exactly the same name. So who changed his name to Arlon, or is there some official Japanese material that says his name is Arlon in romaji? Satosuke 03:01, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Ask Urutapu. I've seen Arlon used on another website, possibly Dogasu's Backpack. --ケンジのガール 03:08, 10 August 2009 (UTC)- Oh, wait. Maxim changed it. He said it was an official romanization. --ケンジのガール 03:10, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
- Very well. I'd like to see Maxim's evidence, though...Satosuke 17:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


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There used to be issues with drivers' licenses, and I believe it was the interstate commerce clause that prohibited states from denying driving privileges to out of state drivers. I'm not sure you could make the same argument for CWPs.
Saving state's rights for another day, I'd like to see not only CWPs standardized across state lines, but firearms laws in general. When I was in Philly, I had to run to Ft.Dix for reserve duties. I took my Colt 1911 with me to shoot at the range. Fortunately the range officer felt pity on me, and quietly told me to stash my illegal semi-auto pistol and make my way back to the car and get the hell outta NJ before I get in real trouble. Just by driving across a bridge, I convert from a law abiding citizen, to a weapons-violation criminal.


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Cancun Airport (CUN) Public Transportation
Public transportation from Cancun Airport to your destination: note that there are no cars or taxis parked outside, nor can you flag down a taxi to take you to your hotel. Arriving passengers without reservation must pay for the transfer service at any of the transportation desks at the arrivals area of their terminal, or make reservation with any other Cancun transportation company authorized by the Airport. Driving distance to city center is about 20 minutes.1. For transportation to your lodging, call toll-free from US & Canada at 1-888-414-0017, or from Mexico at 01-800-822-7116; or direct at +52 998-848-0335.
2. The 'CancunShuttle.com' provides safe and reliable transportation from the Airport to all hotels and other destinations in Cancun & Riviera Maya.
U.S. News & World Report quoted:
"Cancún has an excellent bus system that motors through the Hotel Zone on Boulevard Kukulcán as well as Avenida Tulum in the downtown area. You can flag down drivers along the strip; once inside the bus, you'll find the stop-request button located above the handrails. Cancún buses charge a flat rate of 8.5 Mexican pesos per ride. (Be sure to have Mexican currency on hand.) If you'd like to travel in luxury, Bus One is the only air-conditioned bus in the Hotel Zone and costs 11 pesos. There are also regional buses that take tourists to and from Chichen Itza and nearby tourist towns like Tulum and Playa Carmen. These buses leave from the downtown area at the intersection of Avenida Tulum and Uxmal."
What you need to know:
Only approved companies are authorized to make passenger pickups. Cash upon arrival is strictly prohibited.
The 'Airport Price' is the price you pay at the Airport if you don't have a reservation. The 'Online Price' offers a discount.
'Reserve Now' is the price some transfers offer, which is the lowest rate available for that transfer for the date requested. The online reservation system can book your transfer in a few easy steps at the lowest price, and secured credit card paymen via Paypal saves even more. Confirmation will be sent via e-mail. On arrival a Cancun representative with an orange vest holding a sign 'Cancun Shuttle' will meet you outside Arrivals.
CancunShuttle.com also has representatives at Cancun hotels & the Riviera Maya.
Rental cars: If at all possible reserve online - you save money, time & a lot of aggravation due to overcharge and add-ons! When you get to your car, make sure there is an extra tire and tools - in case you need a tire change. In general, renting a car there is not recommended for various reasons.


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I have this problem as well. The flagstones that most of the Sydney CBD is paved with are pretty slippery and not to friendly to those of us with nailed leather heels. I made a tit of myself when I slipped on my ass outside Wollies a few days ago, then there was the time I tried to walk back from the Dymocks building in teh rain in a pair of loafers. I slid about 3 metres before smacking into a pole.
Sometimes I think they made the footpaths in the Melbourne legal precinct out of those slippery stones so that when damp they would thin out the herd.
Went ass-over-teakettle in an unexpected summer storm earlier this year when caught without umbrella or rubber-soled shoes and put my foot down on a particularly greasy spot while hurrying to get under cover. Somehow didn't ruin the suit although I did have to dry clean it!


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The raw numbers suggest that Gerell Robinson should have redshirted last year at Arizona State rather than use a year of eligibility on his transition from high school quarterback/safety to college wide receiver.
His position coach at Arizona State disagrees.
"I'm glad we didn't redshirt him," Eric Yarber said Monday. "He would have been with the scout team and not learning, then he gets to us this year and he's green again because he wouldn't have been working with the offense. He was able to learn the plays and able to learn the system. Youth is a disease, and the only cure is experience."
Early evidence is that Robinson as a sophomore will make fans forget about the true freshman who was limited to three catches for 26 yards in 11 games. He has been among the receiving stars in the first five preseason practices, along with seniors Kyle Williams and Chris McGaha.
McGaha, the starting flanker, is even practicing some in the slot in part to open up opportunities outside for Robinson and another sophomore, T.J. Simpson.
"For us to play our best guys, it's easier to move Chris inside," coach Dennis Erickson said. "It's more to get the top-four guys out there."
The 6-foot-4 Robinson is one of those, especially after the loss of senior Brandon Smith on Saturday because of what is believed to be a torn anterior-cruciate ligament in his right knee. Robinson is pushing junior Kerry Taylor for the starting job at split end.
"It's just me getting back to playing like myself," Robinson said. "I was overwhelmed last year with a lot of things I was doing, but I've found my groove."
He has vastly improved his route running since his days at Chandler Hamilton High, for which he caught 26 passes as a senior when not occupied at another position. His versatility boosted him to No. 8 nationally among Rivals.com all-purpose ratings, put him in the 2008 U.S. Army All-American Bowl and brought scholarship offers from elite programs such as Notre Dame, Oregon, Florida, Southern California, Nebraska and Tennessee.
Robinson's learning curve at receiver would have been just as steep elsewhere and maybe even tougher to deal with living away from home. Now he believes he has caught up with his hype and is ready to produce.
"He's exceeded my expectations right now," Yarber said. "He's grown by leaps and bounds. He's playing faster, he's quicker (at 215 pounds), he's learning the position. . . . As a freshman he didn't have a lot of patience, and (if) you want to be a great route runner, you've got to have patience.
"Gerell is his worst critic. As soon as he comes back, it's, 'How did I do, did I get better at this, did I get better at that?' He wants to be great, and I told him it's my job to take him from good to great."
Robinson sees his role through the prism of the offense.
"Kudos to the defense, but we don't want to be known as a defensive team," he said. "We want to put points on the board, and we want to keep fans in the stands. Our defense carried us last year. We feel like it's our turn to step up and do the same."
True freshman tight end Christopher Coyle has a broken bone on the outside of his right foot, suffered Sunday, that will require surgery. He is expected to miss six weeks.
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Woods Brings No. 1 Rank Along With Intimidation to Masters
Michael ButeauTiger Woods's return to the Masters Tournament this week coincides with his ascension to golf's No. 1 ranking. He's also regained an advantage he held when he won his 14 majors.
"Intimidation," former U.S. Open champion Curtis Strange, now an ESPN television analyst, said on an April 4 media conference call. "Great players are intimidating. Jack Nicklaus had an air about him that was intimidating, and so does Tiger. That's part of it."
It's been several years since Woods held that edge. He hadn't been No. 1 for 2 1/2 years, and has gone eight years since capturing the most recent of his four titles in Augusta, Georgia. With bookmakers again making him the pre-tournament favorite, things appear to finally be turning around for the 37-year-old Woods, on and off the course.
Woods, who has won his last two starts and six of his last 20, spoke at a news conference today about his improved health and the changes he has made under Sean Foley, who replaced Hank Haney as his coach in 2010.
"I feel comfortable with every aspect of my game," Woods said. "I feel that I've improved and I've got more consistent, and I think the wins show that. That's something that I'm proud of so far this year, and hopefully I can continue it this week and the rest of the year."
Woods won his last U.S. PGA Tour event, taking the Arnold Palmer Invitational for the record eighth time last month and pushing his U.S. Tour victory total to 77, within five of Sam Snead's mark for the most titles.
Beating Woods
As his world ranking slipped to No. 58, the list of players who were able to beat Woods in a final round grew longer. It started in 2009, when Y.E. Yang overcame a two-shot deficit in the final round to top Woods in the PGA Championship, ending Woods's streak of 14 straight major titles when holding the lead entering the final 18 holes. At last year's HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi, England's Robert Rock was tied with Woods going into the final round. Paired with Woods, Rock birdied three of his opening six holes and won by one shot, while Woods shot 75 and finished third.
With Woods winning again, things seem to be returning to the way they were when he won his most recent major, the 2008 U.S. Open. Two weeks ago, Woods held a two-shot lead over final-round playing partner Rickie Fowler at Bay Hill. Needing to make a move to try to catch Woods, Fowler dunked two shots into the water on the 16th hole, leading to a triple-bogey. Woods birdied the hole and won by two shots.
Tee Time
Woods, who skipped last week's PGA Tour event in Texas to prepare for the Masters, will tee off in the opening round at Augusta National Golf Club at 10:45 a.m. local time with England's Luke Donald and American Scott Piercy, who is making his first appearance.
In five U.S. events this season, Woods has won three. His victory at Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge pushed him past Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. While Woods failed to win the Masters in the two other years (2003 and 2008) in which he collected three wins before the championship, he appears to have regained his confidence, his opponents said.
"He's hitting it nicely," U.S. PGA Tour player Steve Stricker, who played a practice round with Woods at Augusta National two days ago, said in a press conference yesterday. "Looks like he's got a ton of confidence in that putter, too."
Putting Tip
Stricker, 46, spent about 45 minutes helping Woods with his putting stroke before last month's Cadillac Championship. Woods then won his next two events and leads all PGA Tour players with a total of 1.47 putting strokes gained on the field per round. Woods also leads in scoring average at 68.3 strokes per round.
"Let's face it, no one on the face of the earth has ever putted like Tiger Woods putts, especially under pressure," former U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger said on a media conference call. "Now that he's putting good again, he can finish dead last in fairways hit and win."
Woods, who is four major wins shy of Nicklaus's record of 18, tied for 40th at last year's Masters after finishing fourth the previous two years. He is the 7-2 favorite at U.K. bookmaker William Hill Plc. McIlroy, a two-time major winner, is the second favorite, at 8-1, followed by three-time champion Phil Mickelson (11-1).
Remaining Target
Woods said today that he remained focused trying to break Nicklaus's mark.
"Yeah, I would like to be able to get to that point," he said. "It took Jack a while to get to 18, all the way until he was 46 years old. So there's plenty of opportunities for me."
Since his most recent Masters victory in 2005, Woods's life has undergone changes. In addition to becoming divorced from Elin Nordegren, his wife of four years, after admitting marital infidelity, Woods changed his coach, his caddie and his swing, and underwent a series of knee and leg operations. He recently disclosed that he was in a relationship with six-time World Cup skiing champion Lindsey Vonn.
"He's happy and he's relaxed and he just feels good about what he's doing with his game," Stricker said. "It's showing in his attitude, too. I fully expect him to be in the mix on Sunday."


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Penn State will face off against Florida in the Outback Bowl on New Year's Day in Tampa. While the Nittany Lions always draw a great crowd, I'm sure they will be in hostile territory, having sat in front of two obnoxious Florida fans when PSU played Tennessee in their last Outback Bowl appearance, a 20-10 victory in 2007. That 2006 team was a lot more convincing, to be blunt. Paul Posluszny l...


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New Phineas and Ferb Game coming in August
Majesco Entertainment Company and Disney Interactive have joined together to start development of an original video game based on the animated hit Disney television series Phineas and Ferb.
"We are thrilled to be teaming up with Disney to bring a new Phineas and Ferb game to market across multiple platforms," said Jesse Sutton, Chief Executive Officer, Majesco Entertainment. "Phineas and Ferb is known for fun-filled adventures and hilarious gags that appeal to a universal audience, and we're creating a game that leverages the characters and brand attributes of the highly successful series."
The new game will be developed for retail consoles and gaming handhelds, including smartphones and tablets, and is scheduled for release in August 2013.
Winners Of The Bloodrayne: Betrayal Giveaway
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We had 86 entries in the new lottery system that I built. Plus we had 3 video entries which are always fun to see what you come up with. There is a new method for picking winners at random! Check it out in action here! Congrats to Darklurkr23 (Lottery Ticket), Cheeto (Video Entry) & The_Nmac (Google+ Entry). Keep earning those points, we have more giveaways coming!
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EdEN already reviewed Bloodrayne: Betrayal and gave it a very respectable 85. He said it is a very fun old-school-based action game with great 2D artwork and animations that make everything pop and feel different from other games.
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Bloodrayne: Betrayal Review
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The original video game femme fatale, Rayne, has returned to battle and feed in a brand new hack 'n slash adventure. Slay ghastly enemies as Rayne, the sexy Dhampir with superhuman strength, speed, and agility, recruited by the vampire hunting Brimstone Society for one last mission. The target is a lavish, yet sinister ball in a secluded castle with plenty of dark and gruesome surprises. With the help of a mysterious friend, and members of Brimstone, Rayne must infiltrate the manor, take out the fiendish horde, and stop an evil master plot once and for all.


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WASHINGTON – It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the money going?
But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they either can't track exactly how they're spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it.
"We've lent some of it. We've not lent some of it. We've not given any accounting of, 'Here's how we're doing it,"' said Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in emergency bailout money. "We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to."
The Associated Press contacted 21 banks that received at least $1 billion in government money and asked four questions: How much has been spent? What was it spent on? How much is being held in savings, and what's the plan for the rest?
None of the banks provided specific answers.
"We're not providing dollar-in, dollar-out tracking," said Barry Koling, a spokesman for Atlanta, Georgia-based SunTrust Banks Inc., which got $3.5 billion in taxpayer dollars.
Some banks said they simply didn't know where the money was going.
"We manage our capital in its aggregate," said Regions Financial Corp. spokesman Tim Deighton, who said the Birmingham, Alabama-based company is not tracking how it is spending the $3.5 billion it received as part of the financial bailout.
The answers highlight the secrecy surrounding the Troubled Assets Relief Program, which earmarked $700 billion — about the size of the Netherlands' economy — to help rescue the financial industry. The Treasury Department has been using the money to buy stock in U.S. banks, hoping that the sudden inflow of cash will get banks to start lending money.
There has been no accounting of how banks spend that money. Lawmakers summoned bank executives to Capitol Hill last month and implored them to lend the money — not to hoard it or spend it on corporate bonuses, junkets or to buy other banks. But there is no process in place to make sure that's happening and there are no consequences for banks who don't comply.
"It is entirely appropriate for the American people to know how their taxpayer dollars are being spent in private industry," said Elizabeth Warren, the top congressional watchdog overseeing the financial bailout.
But, at least for now, there's no way for taxpayers to find that out.
Pressured by the Bush administration to approve the money quickly, Congress attached nearly no strings on the $700 billion bailout in October. And the Treasury Department, which doles out the money, never asked banks how it would be spent.
"Those are legitimate questions that should have been asked on Day One," said Rep. Scott Garrett, a Republican House Financial Services Committee member who opposed the bailout as it was rushed through Congress. "Where is the money going to go to? How is it going to be spent? When are we going to get a record on it?"
Nearly every bank AP questioned — including Citibank and Bank of America, two of the largest recipients of bailout money — responded with generic public relations statements explaining that the money was being used to strengthen balance sheets and continue making loans to ease the credit crisis.
A few banks described company-specific programs, such as JPMorgan Chase's plan to lend $5 billion to nonprofit and health care companies next year. Richard Becker, senior vice president of Wisconsin-based Marshall & Ilsley Corp., said the $1.75 billion in bailout money allowed the bank to temporarily stop foreclosing on homes.
But no bank provided even the most basic accounting for the federal money.
"We're choosing not to disclose that," said Kevin Heine, spokesman for Bank of New York Mellon, which received about $3 billion.
Others said the money couldn't be tracked. Bob Denham, a spokesman for North Carolina-based BB&T Corp., said the bailout money "doesn't have its own bucket." But he said taxpayer money wasn't used in the bank's recent purchase of a Florida insurance company. Asked how he could be sure, since the money wasn't being tracked, Denham said the bank would have made that deal regardless.
Others, such as Morgan Stanley spokeswoman Carissa Ramirez, offered to discuss the matter with reporters on condition of anonymity. When AP refused, Ramirez sent an e-mail saying: "We are going to decline to comment on your story."
Most banks wouldn't say why they were keeping the details secret.
"We're not sharing any other details. We're just not at this time," said Wendy Walker, a spokeswoman for Dallas-based Comerica Inc., which received $2.25 billion from the government.
Heine, the New York Mellon Corp. spokesman, said he wouldn't discuss spending details, but added: "I just would prefer if you wouldn't say that we're not going to discuss those details."
The banks which came closest to answering the questions were those, such as U.S. Bancorp and Huntington Bancshares Inc., that only recently received the money and have yet to spend it. But neither provided anything more than a generic summary of how the money would be spent.
Lawmakers say they want to tighten restrictions on the remaining, yet-to-be-released $350 billion block of bailout money before any more cash is handed out. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the department is trying to step up its monitoring of bank spending.
"What we've been doing here is moving, I think, with lightning speed to put necessary programs in place, to develop them, implement them, and then we need to monitor them while we're doing this," Paulson said at a recent forum in New York. "So we're building this organization as we're going."
Warren, the congressional watchdog appointed by Democrats, said her oversight panel will try to force the banks to say where they've spent the money.
"It would take a lot of nerve not to give answers," she said.
But Warren said she's surprised she even has to ask.
"If the appropriate restrictions were put on the money to begin with, if the appropriate transparency was in place, then we wouldn't be in a position where you're trying to call every recipient and get the basic information that should already be in public documents," she said.
Garrett, the New Jersey congressman, said the nation might never get a clear answer on where hundreds of billions of dollars went.
"A year or two ago, when we talked about spending $100 million for a bridge to nowhere, that was considered a scandal," he said.


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Infiltration of KPMG Draws Waxman Probe
In the wake of a BusinessWeek article on corporate espionage, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who chairs the chief investigative committee of the House of Representatives, is asking for more information. On Mar. 12 Waxman sent a letter to Gordon Dobie, an attorney at the law firm Winston & Strawn, asking for documents related to Diligence, a Washington corporate-intelligence firm. On Feb. 26, BusinessWeek revealed the details of an espionage operation—code-named Project Yucca—run by Diligence in 2005 (see BusinessWeek.com, 2/26/07, "Spies, Lies and KPMG").
In that case, Diligence's CEO, Nick Day, impersonated an MI5 intelligence agent in order to convince an accountant at KPMG Financial Advisory Services in Bermuda to leak internal KPMG information. Diligence was trying to get the inside track on KPMG's Bermuda government-prompted investigation of IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd. Diligence was working for the Washington lobbying firm Barbour Griffith && Rogers, which in turn was working for a subsidiary of IPOC's business rival, the Russian Alfa Group Consortium.
Diligence Defends Actions
In the spring of 2005, Day approached KPMG accountant Guy Enright in Hamilton, Bermuda, and led Enright to believe that he was an intelligence agent for the British government. Soon, Enright was leaking internal KPMG documents to Diligence—going so far as to hide documents under a rock at a predetermined "dead drop" site in Bermuda. For its part, Diligence ran the operation like a full-blown government intelligence mission, complete with psychological profiles, covert surveillance, and fake identities. In order to be sure that Diligence itself was not compromised, the firm used sophisticated counterintelligence techniques, including following a process known as "dry cleaning" designed to make sure Diligence employees themselves weren't being followed by walking through preset "choke points" to check for tails.
Now Waxman, whose committee has broad oversight jurisdiction, is demanding "any information and documents" relating to this situation that IPOC's law firm Winston & Strawn has in its possession. Waxman did not set a deadline for the information or say whether he'll hold hearings on the matter. Committee spokeswoman Karen Lightfoot described the Waxman missive as "a preliminary letter designed to gather information."
Diligence did not receive a request for information from Waxman, but the firm is likely to reach out to the committee on its own. Diligence and others have contended that IPOC is an illegal front for Russian money laundering. Says firm CEO Day, "this is a frivolous case, and we would welcome the opportunity to talk to Chairman Waxman and explain our investigation into Russian money-laundering organizations and the Russian mafia."
Edward MacMahon, a lawyer representing Barbour Griffith & Rogers, says the firm "has done nothing wrong," adding, "IPOC is a money-laundering organization run for the benefit of a corrupt Russian official. If that is what Waxman is looking for, I'm sure that the lawyers for Winston & Strawn can give him all of the information about who runs IPOC, the source of their funds, and their businesses." Contacted on the afternoon of Mar. 14, Dobie's office said he was traveling and could not be reached.


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LMU came out of the gates as the aggressor against Cal State Northridge Friday at Sullivan Field. But despite unleashing four shots in the opening 13 minutes of play, and 10 for the balance of the game, the Lions could never find their mark, falling 3-0 to the Matadors. This was a tough loss for the Lions, but with a new addition, Mental Fitness Coach Katie Mckee, the Lions look to continue their win streak on the road as they head to UNLV this weekend. The lions have a clean record of 3-0-0 on the road. I sat down with Katie and asked her a few questions.
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Watched the remake of Night of the Demons today. Fun and forgettable, and it takes place on Halloween night, so it can't be all THAT bad. Actually it can, but I don't regret watching it.
Click below and watch the first minute and a half - the film's teaser (apparently the entire film is on youtube in 8 parts):
I have a feeling Vintage Seance will dig the intro.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Night Of The Demons
night of the demons,
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- Scott said...
Dang. Was hoping it would be a career comeback movie for Ed Furlong. He has been missed.
- October 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM
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wow, that hanging scene was brutal! I remember the original from the 1980's maybe, had scream-queen Linnea Quigley I believe...
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Jennifer Lawrence: Boyfriend Nicholas Hoult and I Act Like "Perverted Homer Simpsons"
Some couples bond over movie nights and candlelit dinners at four-star restaurants. Jennifer Lawrence and her boyfriend Nicholas Hoult, however, are just fine with Cheetos and televised beach volleyball, thank you very much.
In the December issue of ELLE magazine, the Hunger Games star, 22, opens up about date nights with Hoult, whom she met on the 2010 set of X Men.
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"[My boyfriend] is honestly my best friend, and hopefully I'm his best friend too," Lawrence tells the mag. "He's my favorite person to be around and he makes me laugh harder than anybody."
"We can eat Cheetos and watch beach volleyball and we turn into perverted Homer Simpsons, like, 'Oh, she's got a nice ass,'" the Oscar nominee adds. "I never thought we'd have such different opinions on asses."
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It seems Lawrence's laid-back approach to date nights extends to almost all areas of her life. Despite her major blockbuster paydays, the Silver Linings Playbook actress reveals she still lives with her family.
"Ten million dollars and I'm still living in my parents' condo," Lawrence says. "I've always lived in a tiny rat-infested apartment in New York, or a little condo in L.A., or a normal house in [her native] Kentucky. I think it would be very bizarre to live in a big mansion by myself."
Unlike other actresses, the star doesn't stress about slimming down for roles, either.
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"I'm never going to starve myself for a part," she explains. "I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner. That's something I was really conscious of during training [for The Hunger Games], when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong -- not underfed."
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And I hear you on the pre/pro world. I was just saying on another thread today, that receivers, right now, are waay ahead of our high end pre/pros as far as connectivity and flexibility. Great to have superior sound and build quality, but if you can not use it to the fullest, what good is that!! Right now, Integra has done well with their new pre/pro. . |
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Will Sony bring back the Betamax? Is a new Quadraphonic Turntable in the offing? My highly unknowledgeble viewpoint is that companies introduce products to try and capture a huge market share while making all other companies play catch up. Sometimes it's the product itself, sometimes it's the perception of the product in the market place. DB vs HD-DVD is more of this... in the long run they'll go VHS or Beta and we'll plug directly into our skulls... or whatever the next step is...
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The problem with the states is replacing the landlines. Which they are starting to do. It really will take years before we catch up. Some areas will be faster than others but again due to first getting the lines put in, then having customers pay for the faster speeds, it's not a viable option today or in the near future. |
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My predictions,
I've heard rumors that Microsoft will swallow it's pride & release a Xbox 360 with a HD-DVD drive even though they have criticized Sony for including a Blu-Ray drive in the PS3. There will be more media servers than you can shake a stick at. Toshiba will announce they have won the HD war because they sold more players than Blu-Ray has. Blu-Ray will announce they have won the war since they have sold more media. Nothing will change, the war will go on, Joe 6 pack will remain on the sidelines & early adopters will still not be happy, Everyone looses. |
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If you're right and MS releases a HD DVD 360... war over. Meaning that both will survive, and it likely will spark more Studio neutrality in 2008 and keep Warners releasing on both. Then it will be like choosing between Cable and Satelite or any of the other things with two formats. Consumers will win. That is who wins. Even Sony will start releasing to HD DVD if the money is there and BD is healthy. |
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War will not be over....
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If Republican Ken Buck seems too establishment for you, perhaps you'll take a closer look at Maclyn Stringer, an Aurora contractor who appears to have won the Libertarian Party's primary for U.S. Senate (via The Denver Post).
But the big news on the right side of the spectrum is the victory---by more than three percent---of Buck's anti-insider campaign.
The Weld County district attorney challenged and defeated former Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, who had been an early favorite to win and had the backing of her party's apparatus.
But Buck, who survived a couple cowboy-boot-in-mouth moments during his campaign (from offending birthers to his "high heels" remark), didn't dwell much on his victory last night. Instead, he focused on the task at hand: defeating Democrat Michael Bennet, who was appointed to his Senate seat last year by Governor Bill Ritter.
"We are going to reach out our hand for those independent voters and Democrats who are also fed up with Washington, D.C., ignoring them," Buck told supporters at his headquarters at the Embassy Suites in Loveland. "We have a great opportunity in November to give voice to those Americans who haven't given up on our country's experiment in self-government" (via Fox 31).
Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli says Buck "was perfectly positioned to be adopted by the Tea Party and to also articulate their mood. He was a credible candidate, but he was not, in any way, shape, or form, associated with the decision-making of the last decade" (via The Greeley Tribune).


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At the basic level, creating and positioning text in Corona SDK is simple: just create the object at the desired position in the specified font size and you're done. For example:
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local myText = display.newText( "Hello World", 200, 200, native.systemFont, 16 ) |
However, when you need to position/align text in creative ways, things get a bit more complicated. In this tutorial, we'll inspect the actual display object that Corona generates via display.newText() so that you can understand and achieve advanced positioning and alignment.
The basics
Under the hood, Corona takes the information that you pass to the display.newText() API and it generates an image, rendered to texture memory like any other display object. Because Corona SDK uses the operating system's font rendering, fonts may render differently between devices and the Corona Simulator, in particular between Windows and OS X.
Single-line method
The most basic usage of display.newText() is the single-line method. Using this method, you simply output a string of text to the screen. Once it's rendered by Corona, the theoretical "bounding box" (indicated by the green line) will fit precisely around the text display object:
In regards to screen position, the x
and y
of this "box" is based upon its center point. You can, of course, position any text object via this center point, but if you're building a series of text objects such as labels on a statistics screen, you'll probably want to left-align all of them to a vertical "guide line." This can be accomplished using anchor points, where — in regards to the x
position — an anchor point of 0
indicates the left-most point of the object, 0.5
indicates the center x
point, and 1
indicates the right-most point. A similar concept applies to the y
anchor point, where a y
anchor of 0
represents the object's top, 0.5
the vertical middle, and 1
the object's bottom.
Let's inspect a basic example:
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local myText = display.newText( "Hello World", 0, 0, native.systemFont, 16 ) myText:setFillColor( 0, 0, 0 ) myText.anchorX = 0 myText.x = 10 myText.y = 100 |
Because the anchorX
value is set to 0
(the left edge), and the x
value is set to 10
, this code block positions the text with its left edge 10 points to the right of the content area's vertical 0
point. Remember, however, that you're not "aligning the text," but rather positioning its bounding box (this point will become more important further on).
Multi-line method
For more advanced alignment, you may utilize the multi-line method. In this case, you pass a table of options to the display.newText() call. Most of these options mimic those from the "shorthand" single-line declaration outlined above, but there are three additional properties which extend the alignment possibilities: width
, height
, and align
This property specifies the width of the multi-line "bounding box" in pixels. This is similar to drawing a flexible text box in a graphics application like Photoshop or Illustrator, where the text — no matter how much you enter within the box — will wrap within the confines of its boundaries. As expected, if a word is too long to fit within the remaining width available on that line, it will wrap to the next line.
If specified, the text will be cropped at this value, in pixels. If you want an "unlimited" height for the text box, set this value to 0
and the box height will adjust depending on the amount of text within it. However, it will never exceed the maximum texture size limit for the device.
This specifies the alignment of the text when the width
parameter is supplied. Default value is "left"
. Valid values are "left"
, "center"
, or "right"
. We'll discuss this in more detail shortly.
Principles of alignment
Although it may seem non-intuitive to create a single line of text using the multi-line method, let's explore the advantages from Corona's standpoint:
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local options = { text = "Hello World", x = display.contentCenterX, y = display.contentCenterY, fontSize = 24, width = 200, height = 0, align = "left" } local textBox = display.newText( options ) textBox:setFillColor( 0, 0, 0 ) |
Because the string Hello World, in the default system font at size 24, fits within the width of 200 pixels, it won't wrap to a second line. Thus, this code visually produces a single line of text. However, while it may appear the same as the first example, it's important to understand that the "bounding box" is now 200 pixels wide, not the pixel width of the actual text that you see on the screen:
In this manner, you can build a series of fixed-width text boxes and position them in a more unified manner rather than dealing with various text object sizes produced via the single-line method.
Want to right-align the text? Simply change the align
parameter to "right"
Or you may change it to "center"
In addition to these flexible alignment options, another advantage to multi-line method is that it lets you change the value of the .text
property and, if the new string is longer or shorter, the box remains at the fixed width and the text won't shift unexpectedly. In single-line mode, by comparison, if you position a text object by its center point and change the text string, the object may not align as you intended.
Multiple lines
Of course, multi-line mode supports multiple lines as well! Let's see how it looks in the three different alignment options:
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local myText = [[This is a long, multi-line string where we are randomly inserting some blank lines of text.]] local options = { text = myText, x = display.contentCenterX, y = display.contentCenterY, width = 200, height = 300, fontSize = 24, align = "left" } local textField = display.newText( options ) textField:setFillColor( 0, 0, 0 ) |
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local myText = [[This is a long, multi-line string where we are randomly inserting some blank lines of text.]] local options = { text = myText, x = display.contentCenterX, y = display.contentCenterY, width = 200, height = 300, fontSize = 24, align = "center" } --Output the text box with the specified options local textField = display.newText( options ) textField:setFillColor( 0, 0, 0 ) |
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local myText = [[This is a long, multi-line string where we are randomly inserting some blank lines of text.]] local options = { text = myText, x = display.contentCenterX, y = display.contentCenterY, width = 200, height = 300, fontSize = 24, align = "right" } --Output the text box with the specified options local textField = display.newText( options ) textField:setFillColor( 0, 0, 0 ) |
As you can see, the align
option affects the positioning of the text within the box. In all of these examples, the height of the box is defined at 300
. If you set the height
to 0
, the bounding box will match the actual height of the text. However, this may affect vertical alignment depending on the box's y
anchor setting. Also, while a height
setting of 0
creates a text box of "unlimited" height, the text that is created will never exceed the device's texture size limit. This is an important restriction to be aware of if you place a significant amount of text into a single text box.
On the topic of multiple lines…
In Lua, there is some confusion around how to put line breaks into strings. While Lua supports the traditional double quotes ("..."
) or single quotes ('...'
), it also supports multiple lines via the [[...]]
declaration. As such, you may use this method or the Unix "Newline" character (\n
) within quotes:
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longString = [[This is a really long string with multiple line breaks.]] --OR... longString = "This is a really\nlong string\nwith multiple\nline breaks." |
Note that if you attempt to input multiple lines using Corona's single-line method, the line breaks will be ignored.
In summary
Hopefully this tutorial has shown you some useful techniques for aligning text in Corona SDK. With the single-line method and the more powerful multi-line method, almost any alignment scenario should be possible with just a few lines of code.


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Cincinnati 28, Southern Methodist 25: Brendon Kay threw for a pair of touchdowns, and the Bearcats (7-2, 4-1) held on to beat the Mustangs (3-5, 2-2) at Cincinnati.
North Carolina 45, Virginia 14: Marquise Williams recorded a TD passing, rushing and receiving to help the Tar Heels (4-5, 3-3) beat the Cavaliers (2-8, 0-6) at Chapel Hill, N.C.
Syracuse 20, Maryland 3: Jerome Smith ran for 118 yards and two TDs, and the Orange (5-4, 3-2) used a strong defensive effort to beat Terrapins (5-4, 1-4) at College Park, Md.
Boston College 48, New Mexico St. 34: Tailback Andre Williams scored on two long runs in the fourth quarter to help the Eagles (5-4) beat the stubborn Aggies (1-9) at Las Cruces, N.M.
Duke 38, N.C. State 20: At Durham. N.C., DeVon Edwards scored three touchdowns, two on interception returns in a span of 16 seconds, to help the Blue Devils (7-2, 3-2) beat the Wolfpack (3-6, 0-6) and secure Duke's first winning season in nearly two decades.
Texas 47, West Virginia 40 (OT): Case McCoy threw a 2-yard touchdown pass in overtime, and linebacker Steve Edmond then intercepted West Virginia's Paul Millard in the end zone on fourth down to give the Longhorns (7-2, 6-0) the victory over the Mountaineers (4-5, 2-5) at Morgantown, W.Va. Texas maintained sole possession of first place in the conference over No. 5 Baylor.
TCU 21, Iowa St. 17: Trevone Boykin scored on a 1-yard TD run with 38 seconds left, and the Horned Frogs (4-6, 2-5) rallied to the Cyclones (1-8, 0-6) at Ames, Iowa, to snap a three-game losing streak.
Iowa 38, Purdue 14: Jordan Canzeri ran for a career-high 165 yards on 20 carries to help the Hawkeyes (6-4, 3-3) beat the Boilermakers (1-8, 0-5) at West Lafayette, Ind.
Minnesota 24, Penn State 10: David Cobb carried 27 times for 139 yards and a TD, and the Gophers (8-2, 4-2) held the Nittany Lions (5-4, 2-3) scoreless over the final 33-plus minutes to grind out the win at Minneapolis.
Indiana 52, Illinois 35: At Bloomington, Ind., Cody Latimer set career highs with 11 catches and 189 yards receiving and hauled in three TDs as the Hoosiers (4-5, 2-3) defeated the Illini (3-6, 0-5) to extend Illinois' school-record conference losing streak to 19 games.
Colorado St. 38, Nevada 17: Kapri Bibbs had a record-breaking day, rushing for 312 yards and four TDs, both school records, as the Rams (5-5, 3-2) beat the Wolf Pack (3-7, 2-5) at Fort Collins, Colo. Nevada QB Cody Fajardo (Servite High) had 334 all-purpose yards.
Utah State 28, UNLV 24: Bruce Natson's 12-yard rushing touchdown with 3:56 left in the game capped an 11-play, 82-yard drive and gave the Aggies (6-4, 5-1) the victory over the Rebels (5-5, 3-3) at Las Vegas.
San Diego St. 34, San Jose St. 30: Adam Muema rushed for 111 yards and two touchdowns as the Aztecs (5-4, 4-1) beat the Spartans (5-4, 4-1) at San Jose.
Georgia 45, Appalachian State 6: Aaron Murray threw two TD passes to set the SEC career record, and the Bulldogs (6-3) broke open a close game with a dominant second half to beat the Mountaineers (2-8) at Athens, Ga. Murray began the day one touchdown pass behind Danny Wuerffel's SEC record of 114 at Florida from 1993-96.
Vanderbilt 34, Florida 17: Tyler Murphy's four turnovers led to three touchdowns, helping the Commodores (5-4, 2-4) embarrass the Gators (4-5, 3-4) for Vanderbilt's first win in Gainesville, Fla., since 1945.
Mississippi 34, Arkansas 24: At Oxford, Miss., Bo Wallace threw for a career-high 407 yards and three touchdowns, Donte Moncrief had 149 yards receiving and a touchdown and the Rebels (6-3, 3-3) handed the Razorbacks (3-7, 0-6) their seventh loss in a row.
Navy 42, Hawaii 28: At Annapolis, Md., quarterback Keenan Reynolds ran for four touchdowns, including one for 67 yards, and threw for another as the Midshipmen (5-4) kept the Warriors (0-9) winless.
Western Kentucky 21, Army 17: Antonio Andrews, the nation's leading rusher once recruited to play at West Point, ran for 117 yards and the winning touchdown with 32 seconds left as the Hilltoppers (6-4) came back to beat the Black Knights (3-7) at West Point, N.Y.
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Which Cut of Beef Is Best?
Best for Grilling & Searing
Filet Mignon: Cut from the tenderloin, it's the most melt-in-your-mouth steak on the steer.
New York Strip: A rich, flavorful cut from the upper part of the short loin, behind the ribs.
Porterhouse Steak: Cut from the short loin, behind the ribs it's part tasty New York Strip and part tender Tenderloin.
Rib Eye: A fatty (read: moist & tasty) cut from the top of the rib section.
Sirloin: Sandwiched between the short loin and the lower-brow round, it's less expensive than other popular steaks, but just as tender when cut from the top.
T-Bone: Easy to identify by its namesake bone, the t-bone is cut from the front of the short loin, making it slightly less tender than the Porterhouse but ideal for grilling.
Best for Broiling
Hanger: Full of flavor, it's cut from the "plate," a muscle beneath the bottom rib.
Flank: A tougher cut from the muscles near the belly that's perfect for marinating.
Top Round/London Broil: A boneless, lean cut from the rear, behind the sirloin. Ideal for marinating and broiling. Note: Cuts labeled "London Broil" may also include pieces of flank and/or sirloin.
Best for Sautéing
Skirt: Cut from the plate, it's tasty, yet tough, and excellent sautéed in fajitas or skewered for kebabs.
Flank: Its flatness and relative toughness makes it the perfect choice for a stir-fry or steak sandwich.
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Twitter Attack Prompts U.S. CFTC to Speed Trading Rule
Silla BrushThe top U.S. derivatives regulator today promised to publish in the next month or two ideas for boosting oversight of automated and high-frequency trading after a market-moving hack of the Associated Press Twitter feed.
"Last week's events remind me once again," Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said at a meeting in Washington about technology. The April 23 hack placed a false report about an attack on the White House on the news service's Twitter feed. Traders responded by wiping out $136 billion from the Standard & Poor's 500 Index before it recovered within minutes.
The CFTC's so-called concept release would seek comment on new testing, supervision and risk controls for automated trading, Gensler said. "I think we will do that in the next month to two months," he said. A concept release is an early regulatory step to seek comments on if or how authorities might propose eventual rules.
CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton has said the agency is looking into the trading activity of 28 futures contracts in the five minutes before and after the fake report.
The S&P 500 was up about 1 percent at about 1,578 at 1:07 p.m. New York time on April 23 when a posting on the AP's Twitter account said there had been explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama had been injured. The benchmark gauge for American stocks erased almost the entire gain, falling as low as 1,563.03 by 1:10 p.m. The index recovered from the plunge within three minutes as the news service said its Twitter account had been hacked and there were no explosions. The S&P 500 ended the session up 1 percent at 1,578.78.


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Mouth Diseases |
Corner-of-mouth fissure05/22/2006 |
For the past three weeks I have been bothered by a small fissure in one corner of my mouth. It starts healing, but ofter a few days it cracks open again. I don`t have skin folds, and the corners of my mouth are usually dry. I`ve tried ChapStick, but it does not help. If this is an infection, are there any over-the-counter treatments I could try?
The most common cause for cracking and redness at the corner of the mouth is a mild yeast infection. ChapStick and other petroleum-based materials will often prolong such an infection by sealing moisture in the keratin layer of the epithelium, resulting in a perfect environment for the yeast.
There really are no over-the-counter medications that would treat a yeast infection in this area, plus there could be other areas of yeast infection or colonization in the mouth that could be perpetuating the problem at the corner of the mouth. It would be a good idea to see an oral pathologist for evaluation and treatment.
Carl M Allen, DDS, MSD Professor Emeritus of Oral Pathology College of Dentistry The Ohio State University |


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Night Slave (PC-98)
Genre Perspective Art Gameplay Vehicular Setting Narrative |
Critic Score
100 point score based on reviews from various critics. ...
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A terrorist organization known as Slave Dog poses a threat to the entire world. Steel Fox is the name of an all-female special squad, highly trained in counter-terrorist combat. Assisting them is the independent, state-unbound corporation Neo Logic, which produces assault suits -basically giant robots with their own heavy weaponry, which can be navigated by a skillful pilot. The young female pilot Rei from the Steel Fox is sent on a decisive mission, codenamed "Night Slave" - an assault on the terrorist base.Night Slave is a side-scrolling action game, influenced in setting and gameplay by the Assault Suits series. The player controls Rei in an armored robot, navigating her through hostile areas. The gameplay is heavy on shooting, the stages consisting mostly on fighting one's way through a level, fighting powerful enemies, mini-bosses and stage bosses.
The player finds power-ups of different categories. Some can restore Rei's health, protect her robot with a shield, etc.; others are used to upgrade main and secondary weapons. Weapons can "level up", depending on how many power-ups were spend to upgrade them. The player can choose when and how to spend the power-ups. Weapons are selected before the beginning of each mission.
Extensive cutscenes and dialogues move the story forward between the missions of Night Slave. Some of the scenes feature explicit nudity and sexual situations.
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Winter in Minnesota
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This was taken near Lake of the Woods in Northern Minnesota just across the river from Canada. It had just snowed and the sunset was spectacular! We got snow here in Minnesota this morning inspiring me to scrap these winter layouts.
Credits: Digital Scrapbook Place - The Seasons Change Word Art; Ice Storm Overlays; Snow Angels kit
Gorgeous layout with a fabulous photo of the sunset. Love the snow around the edges. Really a great job.
Wowee! Gorgeous photo and LO. I love the sprinkle of "snow" around the edges.
Beautiful photo and like the icicles!
Your pictures are amazing! I usually love sunsets on the beach, but your pictures are making me think twice. Great job scraping them!
STUNNING!!! Love the photo!
Great layout - I love the icicles across the bottom
The photo is just awesome!
And I love the wintry feel of your LO!
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Beautiful photo! Love the page design too.
All I can say is WOW! Well maybe Awesome as well. Fabulous lo, just like your other ones.


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Kuhn Rikon thought of everything when designing their Colori knives. The knives offer a fresh new look to the kitchen in an array of bright colors. With nonstick blade coatings, meal preparation goes faster and smoother than ever before. Each knife in the Colori collection comes with its very own secure fitting blade sheath so knife storage is a worry of the past. Color your kitchen with these quality blades made of high grade steel that are both playful and practical.
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Canadian Cardiovascular Society http://www.ccs.ca/home/index%5Fe.aspx/
Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery http://csvs.vascularweb.org/
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Coarctation of the aorta. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin website. Available at: http://www.chw.org/display/PPF/DocID/21361/router.asp . Accessed June 2010.
Cincinnati Children's. Aortic coarctation. Cincinnati Children's website. Available at: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/info/heart/diagnose/coarctation.htm . Updated September 2009. Accessed June 30, 2010.
DynaMed Editorial Team. Aortic coarctation. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php . Updated June 2010. Accessed June 30, 2010.
McCoy K. Aortic coarctation. EBSCO Health Library website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=15topicID=81 . Updated September 2009. Accessed June 30, 2010.
Rothman A, Galindo A, Evans W, Collazos J, Restrepo H. Effectiveness and safety of balloon dilation of native aortic coarctation in premature and neonates weighing <2,500 grams. Am J of Cardiology . 2010;105:1176-1180.
Vijayalakshmi K, Griffiths A, Hasan A, O'Sullivan J. Late hazards after repair of coarctation of the aorta. BMJ . 2008;336:772-773.
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Lilia Vu Wins Bruin Wave Invitational
Sophomore Lilia Vu recorded the first victory of her collegiate career.
Vu Overnight Leader at the Bruin Wave Invite
Sophomore Lilia Vu was bogey-free in her opening round on Monday.
UCLA Co-Hosts Bruin Wave Invitational
Junior Lydia Choi is making her first tournament appearance at the Bruin Wave.
Bruins Finish 10th at Northrop Grumman
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Most of us are familiar with the Google maps. Google has provided a very reach API to use in our own applications. But, we need some sort of JavaScript knowledge in order to use it. I don't know about others, but for me, it was a little difficult to use JavaScript along with the Google APIs in ASP.NET pages, specifically when using server-side functions to draw Google maps dynamically. For example, in my case, I wanted to pull latitude/longitude information from a SQL Server database and then use that to insert pushpins on a Google map. If you are familiar with the AJAX framework, you know the answer. You will have to call ASP.NET server-side functions from JavaScript and use the retrieved data to draw a Google map. How simple is that? :). Not at all; at least, not for me. So, I have decided to write a user control which can take care of the JavaScript part and allow me to concentrate on the server-side functions.
In this part of the article, I don't want to explain how I created this control. Instead, I want you to start using it.
Follow these steps in order to use it in your ASP.NET website:
Now, we will add a reference to the AJAX library. If you are already using AJAX controls in your application, you can skip the following four steps.
<httpHandlers> <remove path="*.asmx" verb="*"/> <add path="*.asmx" verb="*" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" validate="false"/> <add path="*_AppService.axd" verb="*" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" validate="false"/> <add path="ScriptResource.axd" verb="GET,HEAD" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" validate="false"/> </httpHandlers> <httpModules> <add name="ScriptModule" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptModule, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> </httpModules>
Note : Make sure that the version of the System.Web.Extension library is the same as what you have selected when you added the reference.
You won't be able to see the Google Maps control in Design view. Instead, you should see a Script Manager as part of this control.
Let's add few pushpins on this map. For that, you will have to add some code in the Page_Load() event of your page.
if (!IsPostBack) { GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.APIKey = "<YourGoogleMapKey>";
Note that the initialization code for the map should go inside the if (!IsPostBack) block.
if (!IsPostBack)
GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.APIVersion = "2";
GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Width = "800px"; GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Height = "600px";
GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.ZoomLevel = 14;
GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.CenterPoint = new GooglePoint("CenterPoint", 43.66619, -79.44268);
GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Points.Add( new GooglePoint("1", 43.65669, -79.45278));
Alternatively, you can also do it like this:

GooglePoint GP = new GooglePoint(); GP.ID = "1"; GP.Latitude = 43.65669; GP.Longitude = -79.43270; GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Points.Add(GP);
You can add as many pushpins as you wish. Now, run the website again, and you should see pushpins on the map.
GP.IconImage = "icons/pushpin-blue.png";
Note that the path to the image is relative to the root folder. You should have an icons (or whichever) directory in the root folder of your website.
GP.InfoHTML = "This is Pushpin-1";
For example:
GP.InfoHTML = "This is Pushpin-1";
Up to this point, I have explained you the basics of using the Google Maps control. Now, let's implement some advanced functionality. Let's say, we want to move pushpins when the user does some action. For example, when a user clicks on a button. For that, follow the steps below.
You can create an interactive map using the Google Maps control. You can move pushpins when the user clicks on a button. Here is how you can do it.
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Points["1"].Latitude += 0.003; GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Points["1"].Longitude += 0.003; }
We are incrementing Latitude and Longitude values for the Pushpin 1 here. Note that I am using the ID (in the above code, "1") of the pushpin to set the new Latitude and Longitude.
You can use the AJAX Framework's timer control in a similar way as the button control (as I have explained above). On the Timer_Tick() event, you can specify the new latitude longitude for all the pushpins. This way, the map will move all the pushpins automatically after a specified time delay. You can hook up any GPS service with this control to create a GPS navigation system.
GooglePoint GP1 = new GooglePoint(); GP1.ID = "GP1"; GP1.Latitude = 43.65669; GP1.Longitude = -79.44268; GP1.InfoHTML = "This is point 1"; GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Points.Add(GP1); GooglePoint GP2 = new GooglePoint(); GP2.ID = "GP2"; GP2.Latitude = 43.66619; GP2.Longitude = -79.44268; GP2.InfoHTML = "This is point 2"; GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Points.Add(GP2); GooglePoint GP3 = new GooglePoint(); GP3.ID = "GP3"; GP3.Latitude = 43.67689; GP3.Longitude = -79.43270; GP3.InfoHTML = "This is point 3"; GoogleMapForASPNet1.GoogleMapObject.Points.Add(GP3);
//Define polyline GooglePolyline PL1 = new GooglePolyline(); PL1.ID = "PL1"; //Give Hex code for line color PL1.ColorCode = "#0000FF"; //Specify width for line PL1.Width = 5; //Add points PL1.Points.Add(GP1); PL1.Points.Add(GP2); PL1.Points.Add(GP3);
//Define Points for polygon GooglePoint GP1 = new GooglePoint(); GP1.ID = "GP1"; GP1.Latitude = 43.66675; GP1.Longitude = -79.4042; GooglePoint GP2 = new GooglePoint(); GP2.ID = "GP2"; GP2.Latitude = 43.67072; GP2.Longitude = -79.38677; . .//Define GP3,GP4,GP5,GP6 and GP7 in similar way . GooglePoint GP7 = new GooglePoint(); GP7.ID = "GP7"; GP7.Latitude = 43.66656; GP7.Longitude = -79.40445;
//Create Polygon using above points GooglePolygon PG1 = new GooglePolygon(); PG1.ID = "PG1"; //Give Hex code for line color PG1.FillColor = "#0000FF"; PG1.FillOpacity = 0.4; //Stroke is outer border of polygon. PG1.StrokeColor = "#0000FF"; PG1.StrokeOpacity = 1; PG1.StrokeWeight = 2; //Add points to polygon PG1.Points.Add(GP1); PG1.Points.Add(GP2); PG1.Points.Add(GP3); PG1.Points.Add(GP4); PG1.Points.Add(GP5); PG1.Points.Add(GP6); PG1.Points.Add(GP7);
Go through the samples provided in the download. I have explained all sorts of circumstances in which you may want to use the Google Maps control. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
In Part 2, I will explain to you the source code of the Google Maps user control and how to customize it for your own use.
I am releasing a new version of this control. The following changes have been done in this version:
The following features have been added in this version:
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The GNU General Public License (GPLv3)
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Copenhagen MG seminar: Ice cold world record attempt (part 7)
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Peter Barham on his way to beat the current world record for the fastest ice cream
In case you didn't know the current world record for the world's fastest ice cream is 10.34 seconds! To obtain the record you have to make one liter of ice cream from milk, sugar and flavoring (no eggs). Liquid nitrogen is used to rapidly cool and freeze the ice cream mixture. The current record was achieved by Andrew Ross (UK) at Cliffe Cottage in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK, on 6 June 2010. Prior to that the world record belonged to Peter Barham who in 2005 shaved two seconds of his previous record, ending at 18.78 seconds. To conclude his presentation on how food can be used to make students interested in physics and chemistry Peter decided to beat the current world record. Here's a video of how it went:


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Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: The Story
28 Oct 2013 // 9:30 PM
Ray Davies tries to make sense of his long love-hate relationship with America, the country that both inspired and frustrated him.
Old Country Comfort: How the British Might Save American Music (Again)
16 Oct 2011 // 5:00 PM
The British saved rock 'n' roll, reignited the blues, and may just make country music more American.
Ray Davies: See My Friends
3 Apr 2011 // 5:00 PM
Ray Davies' latest album is part tribute compilation, part vanity project. Mark my words, no one will be discussing this a year from now.
Ray Davies
28 Apr 2008 // 6:05 PM
A master songwriter and relentless showman, Davies has always had a knack for the chord change or lyrical turn that can snap you back into focus and cause you to rearrange your life.
Kinks frontman and band hit the road with new album
8 Nov 2011 // 2:35 AM
MINNEAPOLIS — He wasn't as cute and playful as Paul McCartney, as sexy and dangerous as Mick Jagger or as handsome and wholesome as Peter


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A Hindu organisation that successfully campaigned for the removal of author Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus: An Alternative History" from shops has demanded the recall of another book by her.
Dinanath Batra of Shiksha Bachao Andolan, the group that had filed a legal complaint to get the book withdrawn, on Saturday said the contents of Doniger's "On Hinduism" too were "disrespectful" and "malicious".
"It is dirty, sexy and malicious. It is natural for the people for India to be provoked and agitated," he said.
Doniger, a University of Chicago professor, is an international scholar of Hinduism, whose works focus on an alternative history of Hindu culture, dwelling on its mythology, lore and traditions. Sex and caste are major themes.
Murali Balaji of the Hindu American Foundation, among those who have questioned Doniger's works, wrote in the Huffington Post that Doniger presents an "often insulting" narrative of an "erotic, exotic, mythologically rife Hinduism".
Penguin, in an out-of-court pact, decided to voluntary withdraw the "The Hindus", citing the laws that outlaw acts causing religious hurt. The decision had sparked widespread outrage from free-speech advocates.


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The Tokyo / Yokohama English Speaking Pub Crawl & Activities is the BIGGEST Meetup group based in Yokohama,
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Not only will we be exploring the vast varieties of awesome bars, pubs and cafes that Tokyo and Yokohama has to offer. But we will now be including various events and attractions based in these areas .
Some events will be FREE and some will have a small cost involved according to the various venues policy, but at all times we aim to keep the cost to a minimum.
Also, we want to provide an opportunity for Japanese people and other non-native English speakers to have conversations in English
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite images, Mutlu Ozdogan, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is automatically generating maps showing where trees have been harvested in the form of clear-cut areas over five-year intervals.
By many measures, Wisconsin has the largest forest-products industry in the country, and according to Forward Wisconsin, it is the biggest employer in 23 counties, with 72,000 employees, and 14 percent of manufacturing jobs.
Nonetheless, tracking what's happening on the ground in terms of the location, shape, and size of the harvested plots has never been easy, says Ozdogan.
About 30 percent of Wisconsin forests are publicly owned, and maps have been available showing harvests on that land. However, most harvesting occurs on private lands, leading to a gap in our knowledge.
Wisconsin's forest covers 16 million acres, says Ozdogan, "and it has vast economic, cultural, ecological and recreational benefits." Large-scale harvesting, mainly of softwood for paper, is leading to fragmentation, and changes in forest composition and biodiversity, he says. "Wisconsin is the number one paper-making state in the nation, and cutting down forests affects these values in different ways, but the first step in understanding what is happening is to make a map."
The maps start with images from NASA's Landsat satellite, which views Earth in several different wavelengths of light.
To power photosynthesis, tree leaves absorb most of the sun's visible red light, so removing trees greatly increases the visible red light reflection. Although areas with diseased, wind-thrown or burned trees can also increase reflectance, these phenomena can usually be distinguished from tree removal, Ozdogan says. "Most harvesting is bounded by straight lines, while fires, wind throws and disease outbreaks have irregular shapes, so most of the time, they are easily distinguished from harvests."
To confirm accuracy, Ozdogan compared his maps to hand-drawn maps, based on the same Landsat images. "The human brain is the world's best image processor," Ozdogan says, "and I assume those hand-drawn maps are better than ours, but we correspond at least 90 percent of the time."
Where the computer excels is in productivity. One pass of Landsat covers a square about 110 miles on a side, so only three passes can document the situation in Wisconsin's northern forests and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Ozdogan is developing a series of maps showing changes at five-year intervals, from 1985 through 2010.
Once the technique is perfected, Ozdogan plans to extend it to the entire North American forests. "We have the computer resources to do this and once the algorithm is stabilized, we will move in that direction, mapping harvested areas, wall-to-wall for the entire country every few years, using free and open source tools."
Ozdogan also envisions building a web platform at UW-Madison "where scientists, non-governmental organizations, policy makers and anyone else interested in this kind of data would be able to come and do the analysis themselves. They will be able to interpret results and draw their own conclusions from data that are free of subjectivity."
Ozdogan adds that the computer-generated maps can be merged with other datasets related to water conservation, insect and disease outbreaks, fire, weather and climate.
The maps will also be useful for exploring how Wisconsin's large deer herd, which is changing the forest as it finds suitable habitat in characteristic north-woods plants and trees. Tree removal creates "edge" habitat a meeting of fields and forests that deer prefer, and a better ability to analyze the locations of edge and deer should improve our understanding of their relationship, says Donald Waller, a UW-Madison professor of botany and expert on deer in Wisconsin forests.
"Seeing the extent of forests, openings and edges and their proximity to each other is important because deer and other wildlife species respond to edges and openings," Waller says. "This work is valuable for showing us the true condition of our forests at the landscape scale."
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