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Blackwater guards escorting an American diplomat to the Iraqi Justice Ministry took positions on the roof of the building, according to the Post. The Iraq Media Network compound, guarded by an Iraqi security team, was adjacent to the ministry at a distance of about 450 feet. An argument ensued between the Iraqi guards and some civilians who wanted to park a car between the ministry and the media compound, the Post said. When Hadi, 23, a guard stationed on a balcony in the compound, stood up with his weapon and shouted at the people on the ground, he was shot by a Blackwater sniper, the paper reported.
When colleagues tried to retrieve Hadi from the balcony, the sniper shot another guard, al-Maliki, 31, in the neck, forcing the others to retreat, the paper reported. An Iraqi army unit in charge of the area responded to the scene and withdrew the bodies of both guards. Hadi died at the scene, while al-Maliki succumbed to his wounds a few hours later at a nearby hospital. Guards discovered Salman, 40, charged with maintaining small arms, lying dead on the same balcony more than an hour after the sniper had fired his first shot, the Post said.
Guards from both the Iraq Media Network and the Justice Ministry, along with the Iraqi army commander and several network officials, said the slain guards did not fire their weapons or provoke the shooting. The Justice Ministry, the Interior Ministry, Iraqi police, and the Iraq Media Network found Blackwater responsible for the incident, the paper reported.
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I had 3 of these in high school and thought they were all gone until I discovered one left at my parents' house. New grip and new poly strings and it's ready for the court! Will try it out this weekend. With an overgrip and dampener, it is 12.45 oz and 6 points HL.
I just did some casual hitting this morning with my son, but man, what a beast! It actually felt a lot like the PDR+ that I usually play with... except heavier and more solid on contact. Tons of power and tons of spin, and just an unbelievable amount of heaviness to the balls that were coming off of my racket... and I never really unloaded on any. I'm playing singles tomorrow with another 4.5 guy so it might be a different story, but I thought it felt great. My son thought it was funny and kept calling it my "1900s racket"... I guess he's right.
Ok, well, I played singles against a 4.5 guy this morning and won 2,3. The Graphite II does everything well... so crisp and solid on all shots. I like stiff frames, but this one is really stiff. I only felt it flex (a little bit) once, and that was on a forehand return that I just crushed. Compare that to the PDR+ which I can feel flex quite often. I played the two sets and then went back to the PDR+ for a 10-point tiebreaker. The transition between these two frames is amazingly easy. After playing with the Graphite II, the PDR+ felt light and whippy. Conclusions... while I played well with the Graphite II, I would probably start struggling to keep up against harder-hitting 5.0s. When I switched back to my PDR+, my first thought was that everything just felt more effortless. The bottom line is that there is really no benefit to me playing with such a heavy frame.
I'm not saying to switch frames but I'll offer an argument as to why this frame can still compete w/ today's "technology." Sure it has heft compared to your newer frame. It was made w/ better components and is probably foam filled rather than hollow. That just means it has less room left for customization and its heft will lead to a heavier ball. I doubt that the frame will cause you to lose to a 5.0 player. Its my experience that controlling the depth of your shots will dictate whether you are competitive or not. That is, if you are able to keep your shots in the back half of the court, you'll have a better chance. A few years ago, I felt like you do and switched frames. I went to a lighter Head Radical. I missed the plow through but enjoyed the ability to swing harder and faster. What I found out after a period of time was that I was working harder to hit a deeper ball and that technique allowed me to hit the deeper ball easier w/ my POG and control rallies. I really missed the pop on my serves. That's my 2cents; just sharing. I believe that the POG2 is still a good frame and a worthy competitor to today's frames. I think the headsize is also 97 sq. in.
There's no doubt that the Graphite 2 can compete with today's frames. It hits a heavy ball, is probably the most rock-solid feeling frame I've ever played with, and it has tons of control and power. The sweetspot is plenty big, there are no dead spots, volleys are crisp and have tons of pop, and there was so much I could do with my serve. I've tried to go lighter many times, but like you, I always end up back with a 12 oz frame. I was just saying that there may not be enough benefit for me to go from my 11.8 oz PDR+ to the 12.5 oz Graphite 2. If I could find the feel of the Graphite 2 at about 12 oz, I'd probably jump on it in a heartbeat.
Simple. Take off the leather grip, replace with an overgrip only. It should end up about 12oz and ballance would change closer to PDR, too.
Graphiteii I just bought one of these from a local used sporting goods store for $25. It has the leather grip and I put an overgrip on it . On my scale it measures about 12 ounches flat with a dampener attached. I looked up specs and they are listed at 11.8 strung. How do you get 12.45?? I also played with the PDR Roddick variety and this one feels just as nimble but more solid and more precise than the hollow elbow dismanteler PDR. It reminds me of my old graphite oversize with a crispier more powerful feel while retaining the same control. I'm concerned however about the 14/18 pattern and string breakage. Does this one pop strings like the original POG? What can I do to fix that aside from redrilling the racket ?
I expect the original grip has a bit of extra weight from imbedded sweat. To make it lighter, I would add a Head synthetic leather grip (feels like leather but weighs the same as a synth grip). Then consider removing any bumper guard to try and retain a similar balance. That could drop it to just over 11oz.


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Policing is undergoing extreme changes.
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Just because you wear a uniform, it does not make you a policeman!
Can you imagine the scene? It's a tense stand-off outside a foreboding derelict house. Inside a desperate gunman holds a terrified hostage to ransom. Outside the police cordon flutters in the wind while the blue flashing lights illuminate the oppressive night sky and the world's media are herded behind barriers, their cameras trained on the house watching the drama unfold.
Then, out of the darkness, a police car screeches into view and out steps the superintendent with a megaphone. Is this the grizzled, battle hardened copper we all recognise from endless Sunday night TV dramas and Hollywood blockbusters?
Is this the cross between Gene Hunt and Inspector Morse who's dealt with dozens of tense situations in his career – here to save the day, to talk the nutter down or tell the armed response unit to take the clean shot?
No, it's Barry, it's his first day on the job and, until yesterday, he was a senior investment banker specialising in cocoa derivatives. "Ooh, this is tricky," grins Barry with a goofy smile. "I never got this working at RBS."
Welcome to the police force of the future – a place where you don't need any policing experiencing to be a top cop.
Think I'm joking? A new Government report is recommending our police forces should look at bringing in "outside" managerial talent into its higher ranks – labouring under the, quite frankly, bonkers illusion that management is management, no matter what the industry/public service/whatever is.
Just because the bloke from the Village People wears a police uniform, it does not make him a policeman.
The assumption is it doesn't matter if you're overseeing a bank robbery or a bank transaction – it's all the same. People are people, tough decisions are tough decisions. Blah blah blah.
Quite obviously this is nonsense. It's like recruiting someone to write a newspaper column who can't spel or even right that English proper or nuffin. Its stoopid.
Imagine recruiting a top manager from, say, a bakery firm and dumping him in at inspector level above those who have chased shoplifters, dealt with endless drunken domestics and walked the beat in the cold and wet wee-hours for decades.
Just imagine the resentment, the lack of respect and rancour from the rank and file below.
Rancour is probably what they'd call him. And just because you know your sesame seed paninis from your whole grain baps doesn't necessarily mean you've got any idea about how to help old ladies across the street or take down a major gangland drug baron. Admittedly, the sandwiches in the canteen might improve, but you can hardly take to the street armed with baguettes instead of batons.
Of course, there is a glimmer of a half-nugget of intelligent gold buried amid this fetid, stinking dog egg of an idea. The report suggests taking on "exceptional" people from the military and security services and I wouldn't be averse to having some no-nonsense former captains bringing a bit of army grit to law enforcement.
They say it currently takes about 25 years for a newly recruited constable to work their way to the most senior level of policing, a process that critics say puts off many of the brightest and best from entering the coppering profession – meaning it's slim pickings at the top when it comes to finding quality candidates. I'd argue the complete opposite.
The fact it currently takes a quarter of a century to reach the zenith of bobbying means only the most formidable and dedicated candidates stay the course – and when they do get there, they at least have a passing regard for what the average rozzer on the beat faces.
You can't just flounce into policing on a whim, decide you want to be a an inspector because you're bored with your career in interior design and decide you want to be that angry Victorian copper from Ripper Street, unleashing all those years of pent-up fury on that bloke who keeps nicking your parking space.
If you want to do that, get yourself a utility belt, a psychotic personality disorder and a Batcave.
It worked for Bruce Wayne.
So please, Mr Government, leave our coppers alone. I don't want my justice dispensed in seeded baps or baguettes – I want it delivered at the steely end of an experienced truncheon.


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All around America, men will soon gather in front of their computers feverishly conducting research, generally wasting time, and participating in one of the manliest things they likely will do for quite some time: their fantasy football league's draft.
Fantasy football is an $11 billion dollar industry (to put that into perspective, the NFL had only $6 billion in revenue last year) and there is a multitude of fantasy football-related patent applications and granted patents. But a search of the U.S. Trademark Office's records reveal only 56 live applications and registrations having the likely generic term "fantasy football" in their goods or services description (one of those happens to be for the WASHINGTON FEDSKINS).
I recently ended a self-imposed hiatus from fantasy football by being accepted into the WAFFL league – the preeminent fantasy football league, or at least so my friends who started it over 15 years ago tell me. Acceptance into the WAFFL league came after completing an application form longer than my law school application. I had to find a team name to fit in with the off-color team names like the Belfast Bombers and the Junior High Pedophiles. There was also a significant essay section on trash talking and a long essay on the prospects of the Philadelphia Eagles this year. It's so serious, folks, that I'm surprised they didn't make me do the 40-yd dash and take the Wonderlic.
Now acting like an owner in such a prestigious league, it's important to me to protect the league's important assets, including its WAFFL name. A quick search of the USPTO records suggests that it's available for use and registration, although internationally there is a WAFFL football league in England…but for that other kind of futbol. So I decided to ask a question for all fantasy football players: "hey Commissioner, can I get a trademark registration for my fantasy league's name for fantasy football league services?"
In order to get a U.S. trademark registration for a word or design, it must (1) function as a trademark, meaning it must be used to identify and distinguish the owner's goods and services over those of others and (2) be used in interstate commerce.
First, a fantasy football league name ostensibly distinguishes one league from another league – especially when you play in multiple leagues at the same time. The name distinguishes the entertainment services of providing and organizing a fantasy football league for one group over another's. A team name, however, would be unlikely to function in the trademark sense, because there really are no goods or services that your fake team is providing to others.
But as to whether a fantasy football league name would satisfy the second requirement, the typical lawyer answer applies: "it depends." Interstate commerce would include any use that might possibly be regulated by the federal government under the Commerce Clause, which has been interpreted to apply to just about anything. While secret, non-public, or certain "sham" transactions have been deemed such casual or de minimis use as to not give rise to federally registrable trademark rights, there could be room for fantasy leagues to file for federally registered trademark rights if sufficient use was shown. For instance, if a fantasy football league were to have at least a public website and offer its league services to teams in different states, that may be enough under current law to support that there is adequate use of the mark in commerce and the website would also satisfy the specimen of use requirement for the application.
So, is your fantasy football league serious enough to warrant some trademark protection? Doubtful, but if you really want to take the "fantasy" of fantasy football one yard further, I see trademark registrations and lucrative licensing deals for league swag in your future.
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Lorraine Kouwenberg brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 39 Designs von 10 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Unique Gourmet Gift Baskets
Thanks now for giving me your best shot at helping me launch my company.
Right now I am a bundle of nerves trying to get everything done perfectly. I want my business off to a great start and my designs to give people confidence and the desire to shop with me. This is a totally new career for me and I am loving it and learning a lot.
I am starting an online gift basket company that will be initially shipping across Canada and then eventually into the US. This is my first attempt at an online company and I am working with someone who is guiding me through this. In the requirement section is the info that my friend suggested I send you as a guideline. He knows his stuff.
The target group will be those people who are busy and need a gift sent quickly that will be attractive, properly shipped and give excellent representation to the thoughtfulness of the person sending the gift. Corporations at Christmas are a major buyer but throughout the year for baby showers, birthdays, house warming, just because and so on.
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We had great weather for Meredith's shower despite threats of rain. She got a lot of cute girl clothes for the (yet unnamed) baby girl who will be here in 2 weeks (we hope!). The onesies on the clothesline spell out O'Reilly.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 to Thursday, March 20, 2014Washington, D.C.
Agent for Change: The Communicator of 2014: We can't stop change but we can be agents for change. The savvy communications professional knows that whether we're dealing with institutional change or the need to transition to new marketing and public relations techniques, that it is better to lead change than to be led by it.
Tuesday, March 18 8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.Welcome9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.Leading Fast: Successful Change for Your BrandStudents' decision journeys have forever changed. Now, nearly every student and university partner your brand wants to engage with is digitally enabled and socially connected. This new decision process forces marketers to transform how they market and to become change agents within their organizations. Whether you're stepping into a new role or want to shake up the status quo, this discussion will teach you six elements of leading a marketing transformation initiative, including: How to get support for your change initiative Why building relationships is crucial to your success and how to forge cross-functional alliances How to use target audience insight to inform your strategy and align your team's execution Join John Ellett for a transformative discussion on your brand and your career.Speaker: John Ellett, author of The CMO Manifesto: A 100-Day Action Plan for Marketing Change Agents and Forbes CMO Network contributor10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.Break10:45 a.m. - NoonTake Your Brand to the Top: How the University of Oregon became a #NationalBrandThe University of Oregon is one of the most visible athletic departments in the country and a true national brand. This presentation will cover the social media strategies used by the University of Oregon in their quest to become THE National Brand in college athletics. From the launch of the QuackCave, the first social media command center in college athletics, to using social media to help shape messaging, learn some of the practices Oregon uses on a daily basis.Presenter: Craig Pintens, Senior Associate Athletic Director/Marketing & Public Relations, University of OregonNoon - 1:00 p.m.Lunch1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.Effective Communications When Your Leader ChangesChange in campus leadership is an occurrence every higher education communications professional deals with, and sometimes too frequently. Effective communications to the campus community and to all stakeholders is paramount to ensuring a smooth leadership transition. This session will delve into the key issues that arise from the moment the current leader decides to depart, through the transition with the interim leader, and into the tenure of the new president/chancellor. What are the key do's and don'ts in a transition, the special pressures a communications staff feels, and how to work with the departing, interim, and new leader to ensure that their respective needs, and those of the institution, are best met.Presenters: Former University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly; Doug Mell, UW-Stout Executive Director of Communications and External Relations; and Paul Kincaid, Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President for University Relations, Missouri State University.
2:15 p.m.Break2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.Internal Communications During Transitions—Navigating Vulnerabilities and OpportunitiesMany colleges and universities across the country are in the midst of transformations—through mergers or acquisitions, consolidations or reengineering, or as a result of leadership changes. All of these transitions present opportunities and vulnerabilities for institutions to enhance their brand, reinforce their strengths and build community. This presentation will share internal communications considerations for periods of change including ideas for crafting messaging, addressing internal audience questions, and planning the timing of campus communications. Presenters: David Brond, Senior Vice President for Communications and Marketing at Georgia Regents University and Teresa Valerio Parrot, Principal of TVP Communications.4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.Reception Wednesday, March 19 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.Moderated roundtable discussions & breakfast Social Media: What Works, What Doesn't Establishing Relationships with Key Leaders on Your Campus You're Not Alone: Tips for Finding Colleague Support Within Your University System Crisis Management Case Study at Western Washington University Integrated Marketing/Branding – Sharing best practices Working With State and National Media for Major Campus Events 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Marketing in the Participation Age: A Guide to Motivating People to Join, Share, Take Part, Connect, and Engage!Daina Middleton believes marketing and advertising is experiencing a transformational change, and as a consequence the tools, processes and language marketers employ today need to evolve. These topics are the focus of her recently published book titled Marketing in the Participation Age: A Guide to Motivating People to Join, Share, Take Part, Connect and Engage. Participants will learn how and why the environment has changed, the previously unknown Participation Way formula for getting customers to interact with your brand, and the five values required for this new "nurturist" approach to marketing to thrive. Presenter: Daina Middleton, author and global CEO of Performics, one of the largest global performance agencies10:45 a.m. - 11 a.m.Break11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Leadership in Times of Change and Adversity: Serving as Stewards of Our CultureOrganizational life at a university is both exhilarating and difficult. It's hard to bless those who curse us. It's hard to befriend those who trespass against us. And yet, in organizational life, there's power and joy in everyday, ordinary practices — if we choose to practice them. If people hunger for meaning, for purpose in life, the question for all of us as organizational leaders is: How do our environments reflect our presence (and that of others) in it? We are all responsible for creating the types of environments that allow people to flourish.The facilitators in this session will share thoughts, observations, and practices that have changed their (and other individuals') ways of navigating organizational life. The lessons learned from these interaction patterns speak of leadership roles within higher education. Moreover, they speak about learning, leadership and the human condition.Speakers: Thomas Rios, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; Brent Bilodeau, Assistant Vice Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.Lunch 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.LinkedIn: Re-defining Access to Data, Amplifying Messaging, Changing the Way You CommunicateTake a deep dive into LinkedIn as a tool to aggregate audience, target market, communicate, engage alumni and learn how it offers strategic data you can use for annual planning, lead generation, amplification of message and development of social media ambassadors for your institution. Learn about LinkedIn's Alumni Tool, University Pages and much more, aimed at helping Higher Education harness the power of connectivity to alumni and students on the platform.Presenter: John Hill, Higher Education Evangelist at LinkedIn2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.Break2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Crafting a New Campus Identity: Merging Communication and TechnologyIT and Communications as one? At most campuses, these departments do not share a common culture, communications style or leadership. California State University Channel Islands has combined the Communication and IT departments in a single division, resulting in rapid progress in building a strong identity and utilization of social media, the web, and mobile communication.Whether or not it's feasible on your campus to combine these two areas, this session describes the benefits of working more closely together.Presenter: A. Michael Berman, Vice President for Communication and Technology, California State University Channel Islands
AASCU Members:Registration fee - $525Early registration (Before March 5, 2014) - $499Non-Members:Registration fee - $625Early registration (Before March 5, 2014) - $599
The conference will be held at the AASCU office building, 1307 New York Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
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The Henley Park Hotel - Washington926 Massachusetts Ave NWWashington, DC 20001(202) 638-5200Reservations must be made by Monday, February 24, 2014 in order to guarantee the group rate of $239 per night. Please reference AASCU Communications Workshop when making reservations. Guests may contact the reservations department at 202-414-0503 or 1-800-222-8474 or reserve online at www.henleypark.com and enter the code AASCUCW.
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Thursday, March 20 Media visitsVisits to media outlets covering higher education and national news will be scheduled the morning of March 20, 2014. This is an optional activity and conference registrants will receive more information about the process for participation after they register. There is no additional registration fee required.
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Focus on Funds
Riding Railroads Via ETFs Isn't Easy
We've noted several times on this blog that the Dow Jones Transportation Average Index Fund (IYT) has looked weaker than the major stock indexes recently, which can scarcely be a good sign for the health of the stock-market rally. But there are plenty of reasons to like rail stocks over the long term, such as the slow but steady improvement in the U.S. economy. Or clear signs of labor-market improvement. And hopes for increased employment and corporate expenditures.
There just aren't that many good ways to buy rail stocks in an exchange-traded fund.
S&P Capital IQ equity analyst Kevin Kirkeby takes a stab at the issue today and finds that the above-mentioned IYT, which holds $373 million in investor assets, is his preferred ETF for riding the rails. But the fund was only about 28% invested in railroads as of the end of last year. Its top holding is Union Pacific (UNP), at 12%. Norfolk Southern (NSC) is fifth biggest, at 7.6%. IYT holds the biggest weightings of those two rail stocks of any ETF, according to XTF.com. The SPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN) ekes out the claim to biggest CSX Corp. (CSX) stake, at 2.9%.
It's somewhat jarring to think that the ETF industry has churned out trackers of the fishing-industry, of companies with patents, of Mexican small-caps and any variety of U.S. equity fund — with varying degrees of success — but it doesn't have a railroad ETF.


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The UCSC browser is a nice, useful but "mammoth-ish" bioinformatics tool that despite its web 1.0 aspect, can be a very powerful ally for any bioinformaticians or biologist.
I have to admit that for many years I avoided using the UCSC browser, dismissing it because of its very old fashioned look. It was silly of me to think that way, but its interface is objectively old: for example, the user is forced to reload the whole page to update the visualization, and the fonts are not anti-aliased, and they look ugly. To me, it didn't seem "professional" to use a pre-Ajax website for doing research.
Recently, however, I have changed my mind about this, as I discovered that this tool can be very powerful to integrate data from different sources and for doing "mash-ups". A local UCSC browser instance can be installed in a computer and be used as a central repository for all the annotations produced in a research unit: for example, sequencing data, results from experiments and from statistical genome-wide tests, etc. If all the custom annotations produced in a lab are available in a local UCSC browser instance (either as custom tracks or as tables), it is possible to compare them, and also to compare them against annotations available publicly, such as position of genes, non-coding regions and much more. The real strength of this tool is that if you have a workflow to automatize retrieval of data from it, you are able to compare your results with virtually anything that is known about a genome.
So, let's go to the point: I wrote a script to automatically fetch screenshots of a UCSC browser instance. It is available at this page:
The first difficulty I faced when writing this script was that there are a lot of possible different options, to define a region and how to visualize it. So, I have made the script to require three different configuration files: one for the regions to be visualized, one for the tracks to be shown, and one for the connection parameters. So here it is how you would call it:
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python fetch_ucsc.py --region <regions file> --tracks <tracks file> --config <connection configuration file> |
Have a look at this pdf that created with this script. If you continue reading the post, I will also describe the different configuration files.
The Regions file is a CSV file containing all the regions to be shown, one per line. For each region defined in this file, the script will connect to the UCSC browser and fetch a screenshot of that regions as a pdf file. If rst2pdf is installed in your computer, the script will also generate a multi-page report.
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Example of Regions file: #label, organism, assembly, chromosome, start, end, description, upstream, downstream IL10, human, hg18, chr1, 205007571, 205012462, "involved in immunity", 10000, 1000 PRNP, human, hg18, chr20, 4615157, 4630234, "Prion Protein", 10000, 10000 HSPB4, human, hg18, chr21, 43462210, 43465982, "Heat-shock protein", 10000, 10000 |
I know that CSV is not optimal for a configuration file, but in this case it seemed a good compromise. The script will fail if you miss a comma or if you change the order of a column; but if you are careful, everything should go fine.
The Tracks file contains the list of tracks to be shown. Everytime the script is called, all the regions will be fetched with the same tracks visualized. If you need to plot the same regions with different tracks visualized, just call the script more than once.
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Example of Tracks file: [visual_options] [custom_tracks] track1 = http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CKCuYGmX [tracks] wgRna=hide wgEncodeReg=hide cpgIslandExt=hide ensGene=hide mrna=hide intronEst=hide mgcGenes=hide cons44way=hide snp130=hide snpArray=hide refGene=hide wgEncodeRegMarkPromoter=full knownGene=full rmsk=hide phyloP46wayPlacental=hide |
I am planning to change the format of this file to a CSV-like one, allowing to define other options for each track, such as the color and the height of the track. However, implementing these parameters would require a lot of changes in how the script connects to the browser, so I am leaving this for later.
The last configuration file is the Connection Configuration file. Here you can define your email address (mandatory), URL to a custom UCSC browser installation, HTTP proxy address and password, and so on.
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Example of Connection Configuration file: [browser] ucsc_base_url = http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg18 username = password = user-agent = Mechanize client to get screenshots from the UCSC browser. Home page: https://bitbucket.org/dalloliogm/ucsc-fetch email = httpproxy = httproxy_port = httproxy_password = |
Finally, let me explain the requirements. The script requires the mechanize library from python to connect, and optionally, the rst2pdf tool, to produce the multi-page reports.


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Featured stories
Lasseter's lost reef
Nothing captures the Australian imagination quite like the thought of striking it lucky. So it's no surprise one of our greatest legends involves a search for a mysterious vein of gold.
Convict artists in the time of Governor Macquarie
Many used their art to record and interpret the landscape and people of the early settlement.
Frank Hurley's World War I Photography
by Alison Wishart
Frank Hurley's photographs of the western front in 1917 and the Middle East in 1918 are arresting and iconic.
Under the sun
by Claire Monneraye
Max Dupain's Sunbaker has inspired an exhibition of contemporary and thought-provoking artworks.
The Enjoyment of a good story
by Dr Anne Jamison, Narelle Ontivero and Deirdre Wildy
From tales of colonial adventure to moralising educational tracts, children's literature in nineteenth-century Australia played a significant role in educating children as the nation's future citizens.
Alec Chisholm: Bush Naturalist and Benign Nationalist
by Russell McGregor
Alec Chisholm (1890–1977) was once famous in Australia. Although that's no longer so, he's a man worth remembering. Journalist, historian, literary critic, naturalist, conservationist and encyclopaedia editor.
Boy oh boy!
by Cathy Perkins
In 25 years at the State Library, our Curator of Photographs has seen four people cry.
Red Cross under the Southern Cross
by Melanie Oppenheimer
Australian Red Cross has donated its NSW archive to the Library, spanning over 100 years of humanitarian aid.
Record Catch
by Dr Ruth Thurstan
Merging history and science, a Library fellowship tracked 80 years of fishing off the east coast of Australia.
Shutterbug Jitterbug Bondi Visionary
The photographs of George Caddy are an astonishing modernist record of Bondi Beach and its people during a remarkable era.
Under the Rainbow
The 1970s were a transformative time for northern New South Wales, especially in the regional town of Nimbin. The 1973 Aquarius Festival changed the small country town and the surrounding region forever.
The Garden Palace
Sydney's Garden Palace was a magnificent building with a grandeur that dominated the skyline and captivated society from its opening in 1879. Three years later it was destroyed in a devastating fire.
Slide show
by Richard Aitken
The quirky and obscure Hallams slide collection is a curator's dream, revealing ordinary Australian gardens in the 1960s and 70s.
The modern garden
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Outstanding gardens are revealed by leading photographers in a new exhibition.
Bringing a rare herbal back to life
Read about the conservation treatment this rare book received in preparation for our Planting Dreams exhibition.
Planting Dreams: audio guides
Hear Jonathan Jones, Bruce Pascoe and Richard Aitken share their thoughts about some of the items on display in Planting Dreams.
French in Australia
The history of the French in Australia dates from the arrival of the La Perouse expedition at Botany Bay in January 1788, just days after the landing of the First Fleet.


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Champions League teams' pre-season friendlies
7 Aug
Arsenal (ENG)
Arsène Wenger spent the first half of summer working for television at UEFA EURO 2016, where his players performed well. The Gunners were back in training before the EURO ended though, on 5 July, and kick off their campaign at home to Liverpool on 13 August.
22/07: Lens 1-1 Arsenal (Lens, France)
28/07: MLS All-Stars 1-2 Arsenal (San Jose, United States)
31/07: Guadalajara 1-3 Arsenal (Carson, United States)
05/08: Viking 0-8 Arsenal (Stavanger, Norway)
07/08: Arsenal 3-2 Manchester City (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Atlético Madrid (ESP)
Diego Simeone's team returned to training on 11 July, some six weeks after their UEFA Champions League final defeat. Their first competitive outing of the new campaign is on 21 August at home to Alavés.
23/07: Numancia 0-2 Atlético Madrid (Burgo de Osma, Spain)
29/07: Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Atlético Madrid (Melbourne, Australia)
31/07: Melbourne Victory 1-0 Atlético Madrid (Geelong, Australia)
06/08: Crotone 0-2 Atlético Madrid (Cosenza, Italy)
12/08: Cádiz v Atlético Madrid (Cadiz, Spain)
Barcelona (ESP)
The 2015 winners had a day extra holiday compared to Real Madrid and their first match of the season also comes against Sevilla, in the Spanish Super Cup on 12 August.
30/07: Celtic 1-3 Barcelona (Dublin, Ireland)
03/08: Barcelona 4-2 Leicester (Stockholm, Sweden)
06/08: Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona (London, England)
10/08: Barcelona v Sampdoria (Barcelona, Spain)
Basel (SUI)
Basel's 2015/16 ended on 25 May, meaning they had little more than three weeks off before the call to work on 16 June. Their friendly preparations are already over wih their league campaign under way.
25/06: Basel 2-4 St Gallen (Tiengen, Germany)
01/07: Basel 1-1 1860 München (Geretsried, Germany)
08/07: Basel 2-3 Lausanne (Basel, Switzerland)
13/07: Basel 1-4 Zenit (Saviese, Switzerland)
16/07: Basel 0-1 Monaco (Montreux, Switzerland)
19/07: Basel 3-3 Wolfsburg (Basel, Switzerland)
Bayer Leverkusen (GER)
Leverkusen finished their holidays on 11 July and will – on paper at least – ease themselves into the new season with a German Cup trip to fifth-tier Hauenstein on 21 August.
15/07: Leverkusen 1-1 Verl (Verl, Germany)
17/07: Leverkusen 4-0 Delbrücker (Delbrück, Germany)
22/07: Leverkusen 4-0 Koblenz (Koblenz, Germany)
27/07: Leverkusen 1-1 Porto (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany)
09/08: Leverkusen v Kickers Offenbach (Offenbach, Germany)
13/08: Leverkusen v Real Sociedad (Leverkusen, Germany)
Bayern München (GER)
Carlo Ancelotti gathered his squad on 11 July ahead of a mouthwatering pre-season that culminates with the German Super Cup against Borussia Dortmund on 14 August.
16/07: SV Lippstadt 08 3-4 Bayern (Lippstadt, Germany)
20/07: Bayern 1-0 Manchester City (Munich, Germany)
23/07: SpVgg Landshut 0-3 Bayern (Landshut, Germany)
28/07: Bayern 3-3 AC Milan, Milan won 5-3 on pens (Chicago, United States)
30/07: Internazionale Milano 1-4 Bayern (Charlotte, United States)
04/08: Bayern 0-1 Real Madrid (New Jersey, United States)
Benfica (POR)
Portugal were still three games from UEFA EURO 2016 glory when Benfica got to work on 28 June. Their first competitive fixture is against Braga in the Portuguese Super Cup on 7 August.
14/07: Benfica 0-0 Setúbal (Algarve, Portugal)
16/07: Benfica 4-0 Derby County (Algarve, Portugal)
20/07: Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Benfica (Sheffield, England)
24/07: Benfica 2-0 Wolfsburg (Altach, Austria)
27/07: Benfica 1-1 Torino, Torino win on pens (Lisbon, Portugal)
31/07: Lyon 3-2 Benfica (Lyon, France)
Beşiktaş (TUR)
Beşiktaş returned to training on 8 July, spending almost two weeks at their Nevzat Demir Sports Complex before journeying to Austria. Their Süper Lig campaign commences on 20 August, a week after encountering Galatasaray in the Turkish Super Cup.
22/07: al-Hilal 1-1 Beşiktaş (Austria)
27/07: Beşiktaş 0-0 Hoffenheim, match abandoned (Austria)
30/07: Eibar 0-3 Beşiktaş (Austria)
07/08: Beşiktaş 1-0 Olympiacos (Istanbul, Turkey)
Club Brugge (BEL)
Club Brugge had their first friendly in late June, two weeks into UEFA EURO 2016. Unlike most of their fellow group stage contenders, they did not jet off across the globe, only going as far as the Netherlands. They beat Standard Liège in the Belgian Super Cup on Saturday despite being a goal and a man down.
25/06: Knokke 0-3 Club Brugge
29/06: Torhout 1-3 Club Brugge (Torhout, Belgium)
02/07: Oudenaarde 1-2 Club Brugge
06/07: Club Brugge 2-2 Shakhtar Donetsk (Garderen, Netherlands)
09/07: Club Brugge 0-2 PAOK (Garderen, Netherlands)
15/07: Club Brugge 0-0 Olympiacos (Roeselare, Belgium)
20/07: Roeselare 1-3 Club Brugge (Roeselare, Belgium)
CSKA Moskva (RUS)
The Army Men were at ease from 23 May to 20 June, with players involved at UEFA EURO 2016 rejoining the group a little later. CSKA's Russian Premier League agenda began at Anji on 30 July. On 23 July they lost to Zenit in the Russian Super Cup.
01/07: CSKA 1-0 Strogino Moskva (Moscow, Russia)
02/07: CSKA 2-2 Yenisey Krasnoyarsk (Moscow, Russia)
08/07: CSKA 4-0 Dolgoprudny (Moscow, Russia)
12/07: CSKA 1-0 Ufa (Moscow, Russia)
14/07: CSKA 2-0 Krumkachy Minsk (Moscow, Russia)
17/07: CSKA 3-1 Arsenal Tula (Moscow, Russia)
Dortmund (GER)
BVB had their first training session on 4 July, a full week ahead of their great rivals and first opponents in 2016/17, Bayern. The sides lock horns in the German Super Cup on 14 August.
08/07: SpVgg Erkenschwick 2-5 Dortmund (Erkenschwick, Germany)
09/07: Wuppertal SV 0-2 Dortmund (Wuppertal, Germany)
14/07: Dortmund 3-2 St Pauli (Brixen im Thale, Austria)
16/07: 1860 Munich 1-0 Dortmund (Munich, Germany)
22/07: Manchester United 1-4 Dortmund (Shanghai, China)
28/07: Manchester City 1-1 Dortmund, City won 6-5 on pens (Shenzhen, China)
05/08: Sunderland 1-1 Dortmund (Altach, Austria)
09/08: Athletic Bilbao v Dortmund (St Gallen, Switzerland)
15/08: Sanhausen v Dortmund (Sandhausen, Germany)
23/08: Hallescher v Dortmund (Halle, Germany)
Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)
Having got back into shape at a training camp in Austria, Dynamo's domestic schedule is now under way.
20/06: Dynamo 3-0 Kolos (Kyiv, Ukraine)
25/06: Dynamo 1-0 Olympik (Kyiv, Ukraine)
30/06: Dynamo 1-0 Würzburger Kickers (Schwaz, Austria)
03/07: Dynamo 2-1 Ludogorets Razgrad (Schwaz, Austria)
04/07: Dynamo 2-0 Dinamo Tbilisi (Jenbach, Austria)
07/07: Dynamo 1-1 Botosani (Schwaz, Austria)
08/07: Dynamo 8-2 RNK Split (Jenbach, Austria)
10/07: Dynamo 3-0 CSKA Sofia (Schwaz, Austria)
Juventus (ITA)
Juventus were back training on 6 July and after ten days' fitness work they flew to Australia on 17 July. Their first Serie A date of 2016/17 comes the weekend of 20 August.
23/07: Melbourne Victory 1-1 Juventus, Melbourne won 4-3 on pens (Melbourne, Australia)
26/07: Juventus 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Melbourne, Australia)
30/07: South China 1-2 Juventus (Hong Kong, China)
07/08: West Ham 2-3 Juventus (London, England)
14/08: Cologne v Juventus (Linz, Austria)
17/08: Juventus v Juventus Youth team (Villar Perosa, Italy)
Leicester City (ENG)
The Premier League champions began pre-season on 4 July and kicked off their campaign in the Community Shield against FA Cup holders Manchester United, losing 2-1 at Wembley on 7 August.
19/07: Oxford United 1–2 Leicester (Oxford, England)
23/07: Celtic 1-1 Leicester, Leicester won 6-5 on pens (Glasgow, Scotland)
30/07: Leicester 0-4 Paris Saint-Germain (Carson, United States)
03/08: Barcelona 4-2 Leicester (Stockholm, Sweden)
Lyon (FRA)
Lyon assembled early, on 23 June, some six weeks before their first competitive date of 2016/17, a 4-1 loss to Paris in the Trophée des Champions in Austria on Saturday. They begin their Ligue 1 challenge at Nancy on 14 August.
02/07: Bourg-Péronnas 2-2 Lyon (Bourg-en-Bresse, France)
09/07: Lyon 2-1 Zenit (Thonon-les-Bains, France)
23/07: Sporting CP 0-1 Lyon (Lisbon, Portugal)
31/07: Lyon 3-2 Benfica (Lyon, France)
Napoli (ITA)
Napoli met up on 6 July at their headquarters at Castelvolturno and three days later travelled to the Alpine retreat of Dimaro (their summer base for five years now). They headed back to Naples on 30 July.
18/07: Napoli 10-0 Anaune (Dimaro, Italy)
23/07: Napoli 4-0 Trento (Dimaro, Italy)
28/07: Napoli 5-0 Entella (Dimaro, Italy)
01/08: Napoli 3-0 Nice (Naples, Italy)
07/08: Napoli v Monaco (Naples, Italy)
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)
Unai Emery took his first training session as Paris boss on 4 July. Treble winners last term, PSG defeated league runners-up Lyon 4-1 in the Trophée des Champions in Austria on 6 August, and launch their Ligue 1 title defence at Bastia on 12 August.
13/07: Paris 2-1 West Bromwich Albion (Schladming, Austria)
24/07: Internazionale Milano 1-3 Paris (Eugene, United States)
28/07: Real Madrid 1-3 Paris (Columbus, United States)
30/07: Leicester 0-4 Paris (Carson, United States)
PSV Eindhoven (NED)
PSV beat Feyenoord to win the Johan Cruyff Shield – the traditional Dutch season curtain-raiser – on 31 July. They started their pre-season on 27 June, prior to a training camp in Switzerland from 11–19 July.
02/07: PSV 3-1 Dongen (Dongen, Netherlands)
08/07: PSV 0-1 QPR (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
13/07: PSV 2-1 St-Étienne (Thonon-les-Bains, France)
16/07: PSV 2-1 Sion (Le Chable, Switzerland)
18/07: PSV 5-0 Sporting CP (Lausanne, Switzerland)
21/07: PSV 3-0 Porto (Arnhem, Netherlands)
23/07: PSV p-p West Brom (Arnhem, Netherlands)
26/07: PSV 0-1 FC Eindhoven (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
31/07: PSV 1-0 Feyenoord (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Real Madrid (ESP)
The holders returned to training on 18 July and their first game of 2016/17 comes on 9 August when they take on Sevilla in the UEFA Super Cup.
28/07: Real Madrid 1-3 Paris Saint-Germain (Ohio, United States)
30/07: Real Madrid 3-2 Chelsea (Michigan, United States)
04/08: Bayern München 0-1 Real Madrid (New Jersey, United States)
Sevilla (ESP)
Sevilla resumed training earlier than the other Spanish UEFA Champions League hopefuls, on 6 July. That was 12 days before Real Madrid, their opponents in the UEFA Super Cup on 9 August, which will be new coach Jorge Sampaoli's first match.
17/07: River Plate 1-3 Sevilla (Orlando, United States)
19/07: Independiente Santa Fe 1-2 Sevilla (Orlando, United States)
24/07: Sandhausen 1-2 Sevilla (Sandhausen, Germany)
28/07: Mainz 0-1 Sevilla (Mainz, Germany)
30/07: St Pauli 1-2 Sevilla (Hamburg, Germany)
Sporting CP (POR)
The Lions won their last nine matches of 2015/16 and their ambition to pick up where they left off meant they convened again on 27 June. They kick off on 14 August at home to Marítimo.
13/07: Monaco 4-1 Sporting (Lausanne, Switzerland)
14/07: Nyon 1-3 Sporting (Nyon, Switzerland)
16/07: Zenit 4-2 Sporting (Montreux, Switzerland)
18/07: PSV Eindhoven 5-0 Sporting (Lausanne, Switzerland)
23/07: Sporting 0-1 Lyon (Lisbon, Portugal)
26/07: Villarreal 0-0 Sporting, Villarreal won 4-3 on pens (Badajoz, Spain)
30/07: Sporting 2-1 Wolfsburg (Lisbon, Portugal)
04/08: Sporting 2-3 Betis (Algarve, Portugal)
05/08: Sporting 0-0 Nice (Algarve, Portugal)
Tottenham Hotspur (ENG)
Tottenham will clock up 36,159km before they commence their campaign away to Everton on 13 August. New signing Victor Wanyama was among the players involved in the first training session on 4 July.
09/07: Tottenham 3-0 Nottingham Forest (London, England)
16/07: Tottenham 0-1 Fulham (London, England)
26/07: Juventus 2-1 Tottenham (Melbourne, Australia)
29/07: Tottenham 1-0 Atlético Madrid (Melbourne, Australia)
05/08: Tottenham 6-1 Internazionale Milano (Oslo, Norway)


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3/08/2006 11:31am, #11
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--Ueshiba was a religions cult leader near his death. He had built a following that looked at him like he was jesus. The problem was his top students were so much about what Ueshiba could do, that they lost sight of what he started out trying to do. Aikido was very hard when Ueshiba was young, but he got older and toned it down to fit with his new religious viewpoints. People like tohei latched onto those viewpoints and the concept of ki (one that from what I understand Ueshiba rarely talked about, only demostrated) and he helped water the art down even more (to meet closer with the goals of the old dead master).
I feel that most aikidoka belive that they can never be like Ueshiba, but they can pretend to be like Ueshiba. This is why they are so soft. I bet Ueshiba never told his students to not resist what he was doing (at least not until he was an old man). I do belive he knew exactly what he was doing as he got older, he was watering down his art and attempting to make it a component of his new found religion.
I dont blame current aikido teachers for watering down the art. I blame Ueshiba himself. The more I read about him the more I realized he destroyed his own art in an attempt to build a religion. Sure he may have accepted all challengers, he had too. But name one aikidoka sense him that has done the same.
The martial movments are still there for those who know where to look. Some of them have a lot of potential. I've even pulled off a few in judo and bjj class. Its just not worth looking when you could be spending your time working on the basics of juijutsu or some other effective art.
I make no excuses as to why I train aikido. I just find it fun and relaxing. It helps keep my ukemi strong, keeps me flexable, helps my timing and movement, and the guys I train with are great. But I dont think that when I stand strong with ki that I'm going to grab the end of a MMA fighters fist and throw a kotogeshi and armbar him for the win. Well not unless he gets sloppy with his punches. My teacher will tell ya, Ueshiba was a great fighter, but he didn't train aikido. He made aikido. If you want to be a great figther you are going to have to do the same, get out in the world and fight. As I get more focused on MMA competition I need more time to train and less time to hang out, so my aikido time may come to an end. But I will never regret the time I spent there or the things I learned. Aikdio has its uses as long as your not sucked into the Ueshiba hype.
3/08/2006 11:35am, #12
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-1Originally Posted by Mr. Jones
Chendokan Aikido in South Florida.
3/08/2006 11:42am, #13--
If anyone grabs your wrist, you are covered.
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--Originally Posted by Coyote
Let me get this straight, you play TKD and have the nerve to make fun of a martial art.
Baaaahahahahah!Last edited by konosan; 3/08/2006 12:04pm at .
3/08/2006 12:29pm, #15--
I at least have the decency to admit that the art that I have trained in sucks.
Besides, check my profile.
I have cross trained in several other arts, and will soon join a kickboxing acadamy near where I live.
I miss hurting people.
3/08/2006 12:38pm, #16--Ah! The dilemma of the no touch throws. Do they work? In my opinion, only if the attacker is truly giving an honest attack and the nage is able to effectively blend with the energy of the attack and connect with the uke in such a fashion to break uke's balance.You are a total Douchbag. Train more, post nevermore.
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3/08/2006 12:40pm, #17--
Did I just see a pig fly by my window?!?!?!
3/08/2006 12:42pm, #18--Originally Posted by konosan
Aikido Sucks.
Now that I said that, is your Aikido more Daito Ryu (straight line) or is is cirucular like Aikido. Remeber Ueshiba introduced the circular movments to make Diato Ryu less destructuve (breaking people =/= peace and harmony).
Teh r3al Aikido should look like Japanese Jujutsu, with strikes, breaks, and sparring. BTW what Ryu of Japanese Jujutsu do you practice?
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3/08/2006 12:43pm, #20--Originally Posted by kickcatcher
Is it time for you to post your "In our world attackers throw themselves" cartoon?


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. . . Five things you didnt know about Dr Seuss
Theodore Geisel is best known by the pseudonym Dr. Seuss (the correct pronunciation of Seuss rhymes with "voice" not "loose"), perhaps the most recognizable name in literature. Every December we're treated to How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and each year young kids are introduced to classics like Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat, yet the wider public does not appear to know much about the man behind these famous works.
To gear up for the release of the CGI-animated film Horton Hears A Who!, we aim to change that by presenting five things you didn't know about Dr. Seuss, the most familiar and beloved pen name in children's literature.
1- Dr. Seuss adopted his pseudonym by drinking gin
Geisel's father and grandfather were both brewmasters in Massachusetts prior to prohibition. While he was a senior at Dartmouth in 1925 — during the prohibition era — he served as a contributor to and editor of the campus humor magazine Jack-O-Lantern. That year he decided to throw a party, and he and his friends were drinking gin when they were caught.
In violation of the era's prohibition laws, campus officials demanded he resign not only from the staff of the Jack-O-Lantern but from all other campus activities as well. In an effort to continue contributing to the magazine, Geisel adopted a number of pseudonyms, most notable among them was his own middle name and his mother's maiden name "Seuss."
The addition of "Dr" came later, as Geisel wrote for another humor magazine, The Judge.
2- Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd"
Geisel's 1950 children's book If I Ran the Zoo is typically credited with creating the word "nerd." The book is narrated by Gerald McGrew, a child who is bored by the animals at the zoo and dreams of populating it with alternative creatures:
And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo
And bring back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo
A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!
While some believe the word to be a variation of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's dummy, Mortimer Snerd, If I Ran the Zoofeatures the first known appearance of the word in the English language. How it gained its current meanings and associations — since that much is clearly not suggested by Geisel — is a subject of some debate and the history of the English language.
3- Dr. Seuss used to brag about his imaginary child
It is a somewhat sad irony that the foremost author of children's books never had any children of his own. According to Philip Nel, author of Dr Seuss – American Icon, the primary reason was because Geisel's first wife, Helen, was unable to bear children
This did not stop the incessant bragging they would hear from their friends about their children's miraculous accomplishments. As a means of countering them, Geisel and his wife began to brag about their own (imaginary) child, Chrysanthemum Pearl. He even went so far as to dedicate his 1938 book The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins to this imaginary daughter.
4- Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham on a bet
The legend goes like this: Following the success of The Cat in the Hat, which Geisel wrote using a set list of a few hundred pre-approved words, Bennett Cerf, publisher at Random House, bet him $50 that he couldn't write a book using just 50 words. Geisel took the bet and set about writing Green Eggs and Ham, intent on creating a book for very young readers that was both educational and fun to read.
Early drafts of the manuscript show Geisel's strict attention to this word count: He keeps close watch on the number of words he has used at the bottom of the manuscript's pages. Published in 1960, Green Eggs and Ham ranks among the top-selling children's books of all time.
5- Dr. Seuss's fictional character the Lorax has real enemies
Geisel's 1971 book The Lorax follows a dialogue between the Lorax — a human-like creature who is an environmentalist; he might even be called a tree-hugger — and the Once-ler, a defender of unchecked industrial expansion and greed. Written and published at a time when the environmental movement was just taking off (the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, and Greenpeace launched its first at-sea protest in '71), the book has been seen as both a metaphor and a fable for what disasters awaited a world in which industry conquersenvironmental activism.
As a result, The Lorax has become the unofficial enemy of the logging business. Claiming that it "criminalizes the forestry industry," the book was banned by the school district in Laytonville, California, a town in the middle of redwood forest country in the northwestern part of the state. The National Wood Flooring Manufacturers' Association went a step further, sponsoring a children's book called Truax, written to mimic The Lorax in many ways, from poetic meter to narrative style. In it, the Lorax is represented by an unreasonable creature called the Guardbark, while Truax is a level-headed logger ("I'm Truax the logger. I harvest these trees / For ballbats and houses and such things as these…") whose tree-cutting efforts and common sense communication skills swing the Guardbark to his side, and come just short of saving mankind.


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Iran's Mehr News Agency reported Monday that local authorities have admitted that a 25-year-old detainee who was arrested in the wave of protests following June's presidential election in Iran died from abuse at the hands of prison officials, according to The New York Times. —KA
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The apparent admission of abuse appears to fit squarely with the recent strategy of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, of trying to calm the political crisis that has refused to let up, and to try to restore some of his lost credibility, political analysts said. As a religious and civil leader, he is supposed to be seen as above the political fray and as the embodiment of justice, qualities that analysts and reform supporters say were badly compromised when he sided with the president during the crisis.
The admission — if it is confirmed and leads to punishment — could also shore up his support among senior clerics and pragmatic conservative politicians upset about the treatment of prisoners, President Ahmadinejad's attempts to consolidate power and the Supreme Leader's handling of the post-election crisis. Mr. Ruholamini's case helped galvanize their anger.
Mr. Ruholamini's father Adolhossein, was a senior political adviser to Mohsen Rezai, a defeated presidential candidate and former commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards. Authorities had told the elder Mr. Ruholamini on Aug. 9 that his son died from meningitis. But Mr. Ruholamini, who leads a prestigious scientific center in Tehran, later said he found his son's bloodied and bruised body in a morgue.
A reported admission of abuse at an Iranian prison could help boost Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's public image. Here, Khamenei and re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad share an awkward embrace during an official ceremony Aug. 3.


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Image stabilization
Fujifilm labelled the image stabilization in the F50fd 'Dual IS'. 'Dual' because the camera uses not only its new CCD-shift system when shutter times get too long but also pushes up ISO and tries to find the best balance between the two measures. In our image stabilization lab test we lock ISO and exposure times and thus isolate the effect of the CCD-shift mechanism. You can chose between two different IS modes in the menu: Continuous (IS on all the time) and 'Shooting only' (stabilization is only activated when the button is half-pressed to lock exposure). Continuous mode in theory makes framing easier - the system steadies the preview image - but obviously uses more battery power (it's on all the time).
The CCD-shift's performance is nothing to get excited about. Whether you use mode 1 or 2 does not make too much difference; in both settings the effect of the image stabilization is fairly small. In fact, it was so bad that we repeated our lab tests several times, but with the same result. While other systems make handheld shots at 2 even 3 shutter speed settings slower than normal perfectly possible, the IS on the F50fd won't get anywhere near that - although it slightly increases your chances of getting a usable shot at very slow shutter speeds.
The stabilization test
In this simplified version of our SLR IS test, ten hand-held shots were taken of a static scene with the stabilization off and on. The shutter speed was decreased for each shot (from 1/200 sec to 1/13 sec). The zoom was set to its maximum position (105mm equiv.), the test target was 2.0 m away from the camera. The test was repeated 3 times and an average taken.
The resulting images were then inspected and given a blur score - 'Sharp' (no visible blurring at 100%), 'Mild Blur' (the kind of camera shake that is tolerable at small print sizes) and 'Heavy Blur' (virtually unusable due to camera shake) and 'Very Heavy Blur' (little discernible detail).
Hand-held, no stabilization (105mm equiv.)
As you can see from the chart below only at 1/100th sec or above can we be confident of getting sharp results from the majority of shots, at 1/50th sec we still get a large proportion of usable shots but at 1/25th sec and below the majority of shots are heavily blurred, and a sharp shot is highly unlikely.
Hand-held, stabilization on (105mm equiv.)
With stabilization on the results are only marginally better - in fact at 1/50 sec they are actually slightly worse. At very slow shutter speeds (1/25, 1/15) however you can roughly double your chances of getting a sharp shot. If you're shooting at three stops below the recommended minimum shutter speed at least you have a one in five chance of getting a completely sharp and an 50% chance of getting an at least acceptable image. Looks like you'll be needing the high ISO aspect of the 'Dual IS' after all.


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