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On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines flight No. 007 strayed into the airspace of the Soviet Union, and was shot down by a Soviet fighter with the loss of all of those on board.
While there has never been any evidence, then or now, that the Soviets were fully aware that it was simply a commercial airliner off course and not a reconnaissance plane, that fact did not stop most of the U.S. political class from going ballistic about this tragic incident.
President Ronald Reagan delivered an angry, impassioned speech to the nation about the tragedy, and most U.S. politicians and journalists engaged in quite inflammatory rhetoric as well.
The great American political thinker Richard M. Weaver used to say, "Ideas have consequences." They do indeed, and so does inflammatory rhetoric.
From Nov. 7-11, 1983, NATO conducted an exercise called "Able Archer." This exercise was a simulation of a Soviet nuclear attack on Western Europe. In the poisonous, distrustful state of U.S.-Soviet relations in the aftermath of the KAL 007 disaster, the Soviets came to believe "Able Archer" was a cover for a U.S. nuclear strike on the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union put all of its nuclear forces on the highest possible alert; there were several instances when Soviet warning systems indicated that a U.S. attack was under way — fortunately, the Soviets decided to ignore these warnings.
Historians of the Cold War are unanimous in saying the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and the "Able Archer" case of 1983 are the two instances in the Cold War when the world came closest to nuclear war.
When President Reagan learned of the near disaster of "Able Archer," he was stunned and sobered. A few days later, on Nov. 20, 1983, the president along with 100 million other Americans watched the grim movie "The Day After" about a hypothetical nuclear attack on Kansas City.
The president resolved to end the dangerous U.S.-Soviet nuclear standoff, and when Mikhail Gorbachev became premier of the Soviet Union in the spring of 1985, Reagan quickly launched a campaign to peacefully negotiate an end to the Cold War.
It is instances like this that make Reagan a great US President. I stress that I did not vote for him either time, so I have no stake in how history sees him.
Specifically, he had the all-too-rare ability among statesmen to learn from his mistakes and to correct them. I mention this case because, once again, a civilian airliner has been shot down killing all those on board. Here again, there is no evidence that whoever is responsible for the destruction of this airliner knowingly shot down a civilian plane.
But, that fact has not stopped all-too-many people in the U.S. political class from engaging in over-the-top attacks on Russia for this tragic incident. A lot of these individuals are citing Reagan's speech on the KAL disaster — contrasting Reagan's "toughness" with what they claim is the "weakness" of the Obama administration in foreign policy.
They are conveniently forgetting that after the near disaster of "Able Archer" Reagan came to regret that speech. Reagan was a great president because he could learn from his mistakes — it is a most damning indictment of his so-called "followers" that they cannot do so as well.
LV Times columnist: Lessons from the tragedy of KAL 007
On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines flight No. 007 strayed into the airspace of the Soviet Union, and was shot down by a Soviet fighter with the loss of all of those on board.


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Before Randy Apuzzo and Andy Fleming met, they both spent years working as web designers, each creating multiple Content Management System solutions for clients because of their frustrations with the limits of other solutions. In the summer of 2010, the pair crossed paths at an AIGA member event, which led to conversations on building a CMS together, and eventually exploring codes and ideas.
The resulting collaboration led Randy and Andy to form the startup Variable Action in June 2011 in San Diego. Variable Action, a member of the Rackspace Startup Program that uses the Rackspace Cloud to power its business, is dedicated to utilizing the potential of the web though innovative programming and development. The team at Variable Action believes software should be smart so users don't have to be, creating applications with comfortable interfaces and broad functionality.
"What drives Variable Action is a deep desire to make the website development process faster, more fun and more intuitive for website owners and web professionals alike," explains Fleming, founding partner and Chief Creative Officer of Variable Action. "Based on our own experience in the field, we saw just how much content management systems were inhibiting the goals of businesses and web professionals – to such a degree that it almost looked like they opposed each other. We're passionate about solving the problems with existing content management systems so that businesses and web professionals can both succeed."
In 2012, Variable Action publically launched Zesty, an all-in-one content management system that reinvents how businesses and web professionals work together.
"We designed Zesty to meet the unique needs of business owners but also to address the changing needs of the web development community," adds Apuzzo, founding partner and Chief Architect at Variable Action. "The product spent three years in private development, where we found the results are in the user experience."
Zesty was built to provide site owners an easy way to edit their websites, while simultaneously providing a powerful development playground for designers.
"Business owners using Zesty find it easier to use and better suited to their needs than any other content management systems they've tried," continues Apuzzo. "And developers find that the site saves them time and lets them come up with creative, tailored solutions to meet their clients' needs."
Powered by cloud technology and built on the Rackspace infrastructure, Variable Action's Zesty CRM is developed and maintained by designers. Variable Action takes advantage of a number of services at Rackspace including Cloud Databases, Cloud Servers, Cloud Files, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Load Balancers and Cloud Backup.
"The Rackspace Startup Program has given us that extra boost with the provisioning of additional cloud resources, as well as some guidance and insight as to how to get the most out of our cloud setup and overcome technical challenges," says Apuzzo.
Looking ahead, Fleming says Variable Action will continue to push its product forward while driving interaction and integration between web professionals and their businesses to improve the web.
"This year, we hope to continue to be at the forefront of rethinking how web professionals and businesses collaborate together to create dynamic, powerful business websites," concludes Fleming. "We've launched a new version of our online editing tools in Zesty, and it is amazing. We're rolling out the ecommerce portion of Zesty and will continue to proactively create and improve the feature set of Zesty. We also will focus on the Zesty Institute, which provides training for web professionals, including a certificate program. Web professionals who complete the course will be included in our Zesty database, which we market to businesses. It's a great way for web professionals to expand their businesses and resumes."
Do you have a startup that's part of an accelerator, university program or funded by a venture capital firm? If so, the Rackspace Startup Program can provide the rocket fuel you need to launch your startup on a world class open cloud computing platform backed up with Fanatical Support™, and powered by Rackspace. Just drop the Space Cowboys a note.

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Reviewed By Martin G (Santa Clara, CA) Reviewed for a 2008 Mitsubishi Outlander —12/14/2016 5:29 AM
Ordered 4 wheel kit for a 2008 Mitsubishi Outlander. The kit arrived as scheduled and the parts were very good quality. I replaced all four rotors and pads in three hours. Parts fit perfectly. The car stops smoothly with no break noise. Dealer quoted $1100 for the job. Break kit cost $180 on AutoAnything. 5 stars!


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Close to water park
This all-suites hotel lies in a tranquil resort development a half mile from Universal Studios Orlando, home of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and City Walk, and 6 miles from SeaWorld.
Shuttle to parks
The hotel offers a heated pool and spa tub surrounded by a sundeck, as well as a fitness room. It also features theme-park shuttle service and a complimentary buffet breakfast. Free onsite parking is available.
Wi-Fi and microwaves
The 101 guest suites at the Comfort Suites Near Universal Orlando Resort have separate sitting areas, microwaves, refrigerators, 2-chair dining sets, TVs with pay movies, and complimentary wireless Internet access.
Languages Spoken
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Comfort Suites Near Universal Orlando Resort
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Hotel Amenities
The Comfort Suites Near Universal Orlando Resort offers a heated pool and spa tub surrounded by a sundeck. The fitness room has 4 cardio machines, while the laundry room offers coin-operated machines. A 24-hour business center in the lobby helps business travelers stay connected to their offices.
Complimentary amenities include a buffet breakfast, complimentary wireless Internet access, parking, coffee in the lobby, and a theme-park shuttle service.
This is a smoke-free property.
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free theme park shuttle
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- Fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Free breakfast
- Express check-out
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- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Outdoor pool
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour business center
- Laundry facilities
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 101
- Television in common areas
- One meeting room
- Number of floors - 4
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Theme park shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
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Languages Spoken
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Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free WiFi
- Separate sitting area
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- Television
- Daily housekeeping
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- Free newspaper
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast, including waffles and other hot items, is provided each morning in the lobby.
The hotel does not have its own restaurant, but there are numerous dining options within the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
TGI Friday's
Carrabba's Italian Grill
Ponderosa Steakhouse
Nearby Things to Do
The Comfort Suites Near Universal Orlando Resort offers a medium-sized swimming pool and a 7-person spa tub surrounded by a sundeck. Numerous water sports are available at Orlando-area water parks. Golf courses abound in the Orlando area.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
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Monica Seles got all glammed up for the cover of TENNIS Magazine's August issue, which is on newsstands. TENNIS.com took readers inside the shoot today on its site, and we have several images for your perusing.
While TSF isn't too big of a fan of the cover shot chosen of Seles (She's looking very Michelle-Larcher-de-Brito SIMsy, right? Which in other words would be plainly: photoshopped.), the glamorous Seles was no doubt looking gorgeous and graceful. She recently was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, an honor that didn't get quite the press coverage it deserved.
The cover was shot by New York photographer Erin Patrice O'Brien, who has done covers for Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and Bust, among others.
For many modern tennis fans, Seles was the first power player off both wings, and the Yugoslavian-born American ushered in an era of grunting, grit and guile that would spawn tennis champions and divas from Mary Pierce to the Williams sisters and Victoria Azarenka.
Seles is proving that her popularity post-stabbing was well deserved, as she continues to do good work through her charities, public appearances and recent book release. But TSF is really curious: what's up with this whole dating thing? A little confusing, no?
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3.5 stars (out of 4)
After last year's one-two punch of El-P's "Cancer 4 Cure" and Killer Mike's El-P-produced "R.A.P. Music," the two artists come together, like a single fist to the sternum, on "Run the Jewels" (Fool's Gold).
The new project is less a continuation of last year's collaborations than a spirited, room-wrecking tangent. El-P – a master of ominous atmosphere and acidic commentary from the front lines of an urban war zone – has never sounded more scathingly unhinged as an MC. Killer Mike, who brought an urban philosopher's mind set to "R.A.P. Music," conjures that same level of intensity when he rains down insults alongside his new sidekick.
It's a smart move by two savvy hip-hop veterans; rather than trying to one-up two ambitious career-peak albums, they go back to the source of the music that inspired them in the first place. That means battle-rhyming and vanquishing unseen rivals with verbal swordsmanship. It means tag-team vocals that echo the call-and-response of vintage Run-D.M.C. and Ultramagnetic MC's. It means getting hilariously sleazy with Prince Paul on "Twin Hype." And it means a sense of playfulness and outrageousness that is the equivalent of a wild, weekend bender after a year of achievement.
El-P's production is typically sparse, but without some of his hallmark sci-fi and industrial trappings. In the margins, there are still strange happenings in the way the synthesizers snake and squirm, but mostly it's about big beats and bigger voices. The songs slam one into the next like bumper cars, and the rappers' verses leapfrog each other in a nonstop game of one-upmanship. El-P plays it fast and furiously; he piles up syllables and nimble internal rhymes with giddy dexterity. Killer Mike blasts out threats more deliberately, as if to savor each one. "Every word murderful/Surgical, painful, purposeful," he announces on "Job Well Done."
Above all, there's a sense of letting loose. On "Job Well Done," there's an audible "Ohhh!" as Mike gets in the ring and pummels another opponent with a string of ferocious putdowns.
Only on the final track, "A Christmas (expletive) Miracle," do things take a hard left toward the introspective, as El-P and Killer Mike ruminate on their less-than-festive childhoods. Perhaps it's a hint about where one of the most potent new tandems in hip-hop goes next.


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OK! is a British weekly magazine which specializes in celebrity news. Its first monthly issue was published in 1993 in the United Kingdom. A United States version was launched in 2005, followed by India and Mexico in 2006, Bulgaria in 2007 and Spain in 2008.
In an exclusive online video posted on June 13, 2012, Kermit the Frog and Pepe the King Prawn appeared to promote the British home video release of The Muppets. They talked about Twilight, diets and Kermit and Miss Piggy's 15 different sadfaces.


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Tony LindebergIn: Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering (Benjamin Wah, ed), John Wiley and Sons, Volume~IV, pages 2495--2504, Hoboken, New Jersey, Jan 2009. dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470050118.ecse609 (Sep 2008)
AbstractScale-space theory is a framework for multi-scale image representation, which has been developed by the computer vision community with complementary motivations from physics and biological vision. The idea is to handle the multi-scale nature of real-world objects, which implies that objects may be perceived in different ways depending on the scale of observation. If one aims at developing automatic algorithms for interpreting images of unknown scenes, there is no way to know a priori what scales are relevant. Hence, the only reasonable approach is to consider representations at all scales simultaneously. From axiomatic derivations is has been shown that given the requirement that coarse-scale representations should correspond to true simplifications of fine scale structures, convolution with Gaussian kernels and Gaussian derivatives is singled out as a canonical class of image operators for the earliest stages of visual processing. These image operators can be used as basis for solving a large variety of visual tasks, including feature detection, feature classification, stereo matching, motion descriptors, shape cues and image-based recognition. By complementing scale-space representation with a module for automatic scale selection based on the maximization of normalized derivatives over scales, early visual modules can be made scale invariant. In this way, visual modules will be able to automatically adapt to the unknown scale variations that may occur due to objects and substructures of varying physical size as well as objects with varying distances to the camera. An interesting similarity to biological vision is that the scale-space operators closely resemble receptive field profiles registered in neurophysiological studies of the mammalian retina and visual cortex.
Keywords: computer vision; image processing; multi-scale representation; gaussian smoothing; wavelets; feature detection; feature classification; scale selection; scale invariance; image-based recognition
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Private space station delivery to launch Sunday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A private company is on the verge of launching another cargo ship to the International Space Station.
On Sunday night, California-based SpaceX will attempt to send a Dragon capsule to the orbiting lab.
Liftoff is scheduled for 8:35 p.m. Forecasters put the odds of acceptable weather at 60 percent. Thick clouds and rain are the main concerns.
A Dragon cargo ship successfully docked to the space station last May, but that was considered a test flight. The coming mission is the first under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA that calls for a dozen resupply flights by SpaceX, essential in the post-shuttle era.
The Dragon will remain docked to the space station for most of October. Astronauts will fill the capsule with blood and urine samples, other experiments and old equipment, for its return to Earth.
The nearly 500 tubes of blood and syringes of urine have been stashed in space station freezers since the last space shuttle flight, by Atlantis, in July 2011. The decommissioned Atlantis, and sister ships Discovery and Endeavour, are now museum relics.
NASA nutritionist Scott Smith said these blood and urine samples -- part of medical studies -- will be the first to be returned since Atlantis' final voyage.
"This is the first real return vehicle for this type of sample," Scott told reporters Saturday.
The cargo ships periodically flown by Russia, Japan and Europe do not have the capability to return anything; they burn up upon re-entry. The SpaceX Dragons parachute down into the Pacific, reminiscent of NASA's old-time capsules.
"While it may seem very strange to some folks, my typical line is that, 'It may be urine to you, but it's gold to us,' " Smith said. "There's a lot of science that comes out of this."
SpaceX -- or Space Exploration Technologies Corp. -- is run by billionaire Elon Musk, a co-founder of PayPal who also directs the electric car maker Tesla Motors.
His space company is working to turn the unmanned Dragon vessels into craft that could carry American astronauts to the space station in the coming years. Until SpaceX or another U.S. company can do that, NASA astronauts will have to keep riding on Russian rockets at a steep cost.


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The five models in New Holland's 135- to 195-PTO hp T7000 Series tractors with the AutoCommand Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) combine driver-focused, high-performance features with power and productivity.
These tractors bring a new level of operator convenience, efficiency and performance to mid-range tractors. The operator can settle into the high-comfort seat and adjust all the major controls exactly as they like, because every function is designed for optimal efficiency and control.
New generation
New Holland introduced the industry's first electronically adjustable control center, the SideWinder, on the revolutionary Genesis 70 Series tractors. Now, a new generation of this feature on the T7000 Series offers more advanced convenience and control. The SideWinder II armrest, mounted to the T7000's deluxe air-ride seat, not only accommodates the most frequently used tractor controls, it's electronically adjustable front and back on an inclined plane so that any size operator can move it into the position that's most comfortable and efficient.
The SideWinder II armrest houses New Holland's CommandGrip multi-function controller, engine throttle, electro-hydraulic joystick, electronic draft control, PTO engagement, and electro-hydraulic rear remotes. Less frequently used tractor functions are logically grouped on to the side of the SideWinder II on the Intuitive Command Console.
Bright, clear
The IntelliView III touch-screen display on the front of the AutoCommand's SideWinder II armrest is not only bright and clear for reduced eye fatigue, the position is also adjustable to ensure optimal line-of-sight for any size operator. The IntelliView III tracks tractor performance (work rate, area worked, fuel efficiency, etc.) and makes using the AutoCommand's systems quick and easy.
The ergonomically designed and placed CommandGrip multi-function controller is at the heart of the tractor controls. In addition to housing eight of the most frequently used operational controls, it also controls tractor movement. The operator can simply push it forward or pull it back to change speed or direction. The further the controller is moved away from the rest position, the higher the tractor speed.
When the desired speed is reached, the controller returns to the rest position and the speed is maintained. The CommandGrip controller always returns to its center position so it's in the perfect place for easy fingertip access to key operating functions.
One of the controls on the CommandGrip multi-function controller is for the New Holland Custom Headland Management System. This system provides operators with the convenience of programmable, one-button control of headland-turning resulting in fewer repetitive functions, less operator fatigue and greater productivity.
Controls to manage the three-point quick raise, IntelliSteer auto-guidance system, cruise control, and target speed selection and adjustment are also conveniently located on the controller.
The AutoCommand CVT is one of the most fuel-efficient transmissions available. It combines features of a hydraulic drive system and a mechanical drive system to provide superior fuel economy by enabling the engine to run at its most efficient RPM for a range of speeds. For operator convenience and efficiency, the AutoCommand CVT offers a choice of Automatic, Cruise and Manual modes.
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Standard engine power management means every T7000 tractor provides the benefits of constant RPM speed management and a power boost of up to 35 horsepower.
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Top Food and Beverage Companies: Leaders in Sustainability
How big food and beverage companies and small ones are protecting the planet and their bottom lines.
Caring for the environment is no longer just the right thing to do; it's essential that food and beverage companies commit to a long-term strategy of sustainable business practices. From internal operations and packaging, backwards to your supply chain and forward to your consumer marketing and public relations efforts, sustainability is a huge and complex but essential subject.
In this global and transparent economy, governments legislate and regulate sustainable practices, consumers increasingly demand it and watchdog organizations vigorously monitor and challenge corporate behavior on this front.
Defining sustainability is difficult. It means different things to different companies. In the story that follows this one, our annual Green Plant of the Year feature, ConAgra defines it as much in terms of maintaining the company and jobs in the community as in saving the Earth. And that's an increasingly common definition.
"Acting sustainably means maintaining a balance and not depleting your available resources," according to Brad Scott, senior director of Landor Associates, a brand consulting business. "In business this often translates into balancing costs against a product's impact on the community in which you operate. Some refer to this as the triple bottom line – profit, people and the planet."
So for this story, we've looked at how sustainability is defined by two of the world's biggest food and consumer products companies – Unilever and Nestle – who are universally regarded as leaders in sustainability. We also look at how smaller companies -- Naked Juice and Sunny Delight -- are doing their part to save the Earth.
Unilever's double/half challenge
Two Tomorrows Group Ltd., a UK-based international corporate sustainability agency, conducts an annual assessment of corporate sustainability practices of the world's largest food & beverage companies, following the Fortune Global 500 list, which ranks the world's largest companies by revenue. It ranked Unilever as the top sustainable food & beverage company in its most recent list, which was based on 2010 research.
In 2010, sustainability efforts were driven by consumers' social and environmental concerns as well as companies' fears that climate change and water scarcity put the security of supplies at risk, according to Two Tomorrows.
Potential customers in emerging markets was another strong incentive to develop new products and distribution models that work in challenging socio-economic circumstances and address special nutritional needs, according to the rating agency. While leaders such as Unilever, Nestlé and Danone demonstrated strong initiatives across these areas, all companies in the sector faced significant challenges, particularly within their supply chains.
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The Eagles needed to add another body to the wide receivers corps after Ron Johnson suffered what will turn out to be a season-ending injury on Monday. They made the move on Tuesday, signing Andrew Brewer from the United Football League and waiving/injured Johnson.
Brewer, a 6-foot-3, 215-pound Northwestern product, is a former teammate of Eagles backup quarterback Mike Kafka. He arrived at Northwestern as a quarterback before converting to wide receiver. He played in 2010 and 2011 with the Omaha Nighthawks, whose general manager was Rick Mueller. Mueller is now a player personnel executive with the Eagles. While with the Nighthawks, Brewer caught passes from formerEagles quarterback Jeff Garcia.
Because of the collective barganing agreement, Brewer cannot practice until Friday. By that point, the Eagles will have 11 healthy receivers. Riley Cooper, the 12th receivers, remains out through the preseason with a fractured collarbone.
The Johnson move is mostly procedural, and he could end up back on the Eagles' injured reserve. The "waived/injured" is a special designation for injured players. Had the Eagles just placed him on injured reserve, he would have counted against the 90-man roster. By waiving him injured, the Eagles could retain his rights if he clears waivers and he would not count against the Eagles' roster limit. The Giants tried this with Jake Ballard, who was suprisingly claimed by the Patriots. But Johnson does not yet have the type of NFL resume that would suggest a team would claim him.
Speaking of Johnson, he underwent surgery Monday to correct a fracture and dislocation of the left ankle. The procedure was performed by Peter DeLuca and Steve Raikin in Philadelphia.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jan 2012 10:06 UTC
And so the smartphonification of the general purpose computer continues. This time around, though, it might actually be for the better. Microsoft has detailed two new features in Windows 8: refreshing and resetting your computer. Reinstalls will be a thing of the past.
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RE[2]: Slow down?
by Brunis on Sat 7th Jan 2012 15:47 UTC in reply to "RE: Slow down?"
"Then maybe, you won't need to reinstall because of it "slowing down"
That's just bullshit. I have hundreds of applications and games installed and I am not getting any slowdown on my Windows installation. It was true back in XP, but it hasn't been true for Vista or 7. "
That's just worse bullshit.. they havent replaced the registry yet, so nothing changed there.. Windows WILL kill itself slowly.. App developers may be a bit wiser in the registry universe, so the bad impact on performance is probably less than it used to be.. no credit to Microsoft i'd say ..
RE[3]: Slow down?
by WereCatf on Sat 7th Jan 2012 15:54 in reply to "RE[2]: Slow down?"
RE[4]: Slow down?
by XenonXZ on Sat 7th Jan 2012 22:56 in reply to "RE[3]: Slow down?"
In my experience of upholding a domain of 600 machines all running Windows 7... Nah, don't agree, it may be good on a quad core with 8gb ram, but at the end of the day, it will still slow down and suffer from shitty problems that just shouldn't be there...
But... that's my opinion - no need to be nasty at your first post


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Montravius Adams, a 5-star prospect and Sporting News' No. 10 overall player, committed to Auburn on National Signing Day.
The 6-4, 310-pound defensive tackle from Dooly County (Vienna, Ga.) High School visited Auburn last weekend, solidifying his choice. He picked Auburn over Clemson, Georgia and Alabama.
"Auburn was a team that I already liked. When all the coaches got fired, I kind of (thought I was) not going to go there, but I gave em a second chance, and my second chance, I ended up going there," Adams told ESPNU.
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For the Tigers, Adams joins a defensive line class that includes DE Carl Lawson (SN No. 50) and DE Elijah Daniel (No. 68). Both defensive ends are rated 5-star prospects by 247Sports.com.
It's been a good first signing day for Auburn coach Gus Malzahn. First, he was able to get Daniels to flip from Ole Miss, then also added OL Deon Mix, a 3-star (247Sports) guard who previously was committed to Mississippi State.
The addition of Adams was the latest feather in Malzahn's cap, and there could possibly be more. Auburn is considered a finalist for 5-star DB Mackensie Alexander out of Immokalee (Fla.) and 4-star RB Johnathan Ford.


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A lightweight, fly-only shelter that accommodates fast and light treks, tours, and expeditions.
A multi-day ski tour in the late spring requires a lot of necessary gear, and the Rab Element 2 Shelter enables you to cut weight while still providing ample shelter for the milder weather. Its floorless design lets you carve out a comfortable basecamp in the snow, and it also works with the Element 2 Bug Tent (sold separately) to create a solid shelter against biting insects and summer storms.
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Awesome picture Fro !!!
I selected this image to feature on the homepage of Backcountry.com in our Activity Feed! Congrats on being GOATWORTHY !!!
Excellent picture. To Backcountry.com, you would do well to replace the image shown with the product with this image. The marketing image is just awful, showing a terrible sagging pitch
Great Shelter With Modifications
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I?ve got 600-plus off-trail backpacking overnights in the Talkeetna Mountains of Alaska using flat shelter tarps and trekking poles. I bought this item for its light weight
My RAB Element 2 Shelter works great?with two modifications which the manufacturer ought to make known and/or available to prospective users.
The RAB 2 came with little metal stakes which easily pull out---barely useable on uneven ground or tundra. On a 5-day trek in early July I left the metal stakes home and took my usual, beefy, plastic stakes---two heavy ones for the guy lines (which I added) and eight medium-size plastic stakes for the tarp tent itself.
I tied parachute cord to the tips of my trekking poles and passed them up through the eyelets (for the pole tips) in order to run a guy line at either end to the heavier stakes. This stabilized the tarp-tent considerably and tightened up the walls. There probably should be sewn-in loops for the extra guy lines but I managed without them
I also ran a cord from pole-tip to pole-tip inside the shelter---this is for drying gear and further stabilizes the structure.
The RAB 2 was my base camp. Enough room for myself, 12-pounds of camera gear and a big pack dog at one end when it rained. Two people? Small and in love or very minimalist types.
I like the fitted tent-design and the zippered ends for convenient ventilation or shutting out the elements. The pointed ends form nice vestibules.
Love the light weight since I?ve been using a much larger, three-pound Kevlar tarp. Of course I worry about the occasional 80 mile-per-hour winds that pulled stakes and left stretch marks on my much stronger Kevlar tarp. I?ll deal with that by staking the RAB 2 low as possible in a storm (or wrapping myself in it) and securing all loose items inside my pack.
I really like this shelter-tarp.
Amazing review Fro!
Thanks so much for sharing your extensive experience with this product!
Are the eyelets a problem spot for water leakage in foul weather?
I see in the other review here that one customer returned the shelter without using it due to this perception.
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
Hiked the AT in December and January from Harpers Ferry to Killington with a 7x9 tarp. Did Katahdin to Monson and Maryland's C&O Canal in summer with a 5x7 tarp. Saw this and thought great a flat tarp with a beak end, I won't have to use a rain jacket to shield my head anymore. What a disappointment. Not sure how to seam seal it with the reinforcing fabric covering the interior ridge stitching. Set it up to see if it was worth the trouble. Goes up easy but those eyelets are going to leak if it is strung up between two trees. And they are closer together than I expected. Using trekking poles I didn't fit at 5'11" and 160lbs. I was brushing against the poles or the sides even on a diagonal. Looked like there would be a lot of condensation in a storm or cold weather. Forgot when I ordered it how frustrating I find operating european zippers. They're on the opposite side.
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One Person Or Two?
Two. But a snug two. I'd tape the length and width out on the floor with masking tape to make sure you're comfortable with the amount of space you have.
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Can someone show the set up for the Rab Element 2 shelter?
You can check out more photos of setting up the Rab Element on their website: http://rab.uk.com/products/equipment/bivis-and-shelter/element-2.html


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Fun with the Saxophone by William Bay. For Saxophone (All). Solos. Fun With. Folk. Beginning. Book. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.93273). ISBN 9780871664587. Folk. 8.75x11.75 inches. A popular collection of 47 folk songs arranged in big-note easy style for the beginning alto and tenor saxophone student. Written to provide fun playing material at an early level of development. A good method supplement.
Pages: 32
Instruments: Saxophone, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk
Fun with the Flute by William Bay. For Flute. Solos. Fun With. Folk. Beginning. Book. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.93274). ISBN 9780871664433. Folk. 8.75x11.75 inches. A popular collection of 47 folk songs arranged in big-note, easy style for the beginning student. Written to provide engaging playing material at an early level of development. An excellent method supplement containing many fun and familiar melodies including: Alouette; Aura Lee; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Bill Bailey; Won't You Please Come Home; Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair; Blow the Man Down; Down By the Riverside; Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes; Frankie and Johnny; Greensleeves; and more.
Pages: 32
Instruments: Flute, Woodwinds
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Fun with the Clarinet by William Bay. For Clarinet. Solos. Fun With. Folk. Beginning. Book. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.93272). ISBN 9780871664396. Folk. 8.75x11.75 inches. A collection of 47 big-note, easy solos on folk favorites designed to build technique, range, and endurance while maintaining student interest. The solos are fun to play and serve ideally as a supplement to any method.
Pages: 32
Instruments: Clarinet, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk
The Art of the Native American Flute by R Carlos Nakai and James Demars. For Flute. Solos. Native American. Beginning-Intermediate. Book. 132 pages. Published by Canyon Records Prod. (MB.96718). ISBN 9780786628988. Native American. 8.75x11.75 inches. This nicely designed and illustrated book deals with the playing and care of one of the most evocative and expressive instruments in the world- the Native American flute. This volume will delight the novice or advanced player alike with both fundamental instruction and a significant number of transcriptions from R. Carlos Nakai's various recordings. This unique book includes a fingering chart, information in performance technique, style, rhythm conventions, ornaments, and history - plus an analysis of Mr. Nakai's role in contemporary Native American culture. All exercises, solos, and duets (with Boehm flute and E flat alto sax) are written in standard notation. A comprehensive discography and probing essay on "The Question of Authenticity" close this outstanding book.
Pages: 132
Instruments: Flute, Woodwinds
Genres: Americana, Native American, Folk, World
A Patriotic Celebration arranged by Kevin McChesney. Handbell. For Handbells with optional Flute & Snare Drum. Handbell Music. Warner Bell Pops. Patriotic; Secular. Handbell Score. 20 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.WBHB9602). Includes: America the Beautiful * Yankee Doodle Dandy * America (My Country 'Tis of Thee) * You're a Grand Old Flag * The Stars and Stripes Forever. With optional flute and snare drum.Inst. Parts Available (choral).
Pages: 20
Instruments: Flute, Percussion, Handbell, Woodwinds
Genres: 4th of July, Memorial Day, Patriotic, Celebrations, Folk
African Noel by Kenyan Folk Song. Arranged by Patrick M. Liebergen. Choir Secular. For Keyboard and Opt. Flute (SATB choir). Choral Octavo. Christmas; Multicultural; Winter. Choral Octavo. 16 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.SV9708). The story of Christmas is set to an adaptation of a Kenyan folksong here by Patrick Leibergen. For a wonderfully tasteful addition, try it with the optional flute part. The piece is easy to sing and will add a very nice touch of class to any holiday program.Inst. Parts Available (choral).
Pages: 16
Instruments: Choir, Piano, Organ, Flute, Vocal, Piano and Keyboard, Woodwinds
Genres: Christmas, Folk Songs, Miscellaneous, Folk
Yankee Dandy. (Includes D-Flat Piccolo Part). By Ralph R. Guenther. For Flute. Solo; Woodwind - Flute Solo. Patriotic. Grade 1. Part(s). 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.FDS00389). ISBN 0769227201. Patriotic.
Pages: 8
Instruments: Flute, Woodwinds
Genres: 4th of July, Memorial Day, Patriotic, Celebrations, Folk
Yankee Doodle Dandies by George M. Cohan (1878-1942) and George M. Cohan. Arranged by Acton E. Ostling. For Flute. Trio; Woodwind - Flute Trio. Patriotic. Grade 2. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.FDENS00001).
Pages: 12
Instruments: Flute, Woodwinds
Genres: 4th of July, Memorial Day, Patriotic, Celebrations, Folk
A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs edited by Maude Karpeles and Kenworthy Schofield. For recorder. Recorder - Soprano or Tenor Recorder Solo. Baroque. Collection. 72 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.B103). ISBN 0769289436. Baroque. 9x12 inches. Newcastle, Greensleeves, etc. for melodic instruments (soprano or tenor recorders or tin whistle D).
Pages: 72
Instruments: Tenor Recorder, Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: Baroque Period, Folk, Classical
Folk Music from South America by Various. Edited by Melchior Teschner. For Alto recorder/Flute, Guitar. Sheet Music. Published by Heinrichshofen Verlag (PE.N04117). ISBN M-3007-5450-5.
Instruments: Guitar, Flute, Alto Recorder, Woodwinds, Recorder
Genres: Folk
One, Two, Three, Play- (26) American Folk Songs - Score by Nitka. For 1-4 Soprano Recorders (optional Piano/Guitar ad libitum). Recorder with other Instruments. 2 - Easy to Moderate. Score. Published by Anfor Editions (MM.ASL0014). This book fills a long felt need for recorder players in the United States. It provides varied and interesting arrangements for 1,2,3, or more recorders on a level easy enough for beginning players, and utilizes familiar songs which are part of the American heritage. At the same time the advanced player will find them musically satisfying because of the broad experience in teaching and playing that Arthur Nitka brings to this task. Recorder players both young and old, at home and in schools, will find in this book a treasure trove of beloved music. TABLE OF CONTENTS PLAYABLE AS SOLOS OR DUETS Aura Lee The Band Played On Bicycle Built For Two The Big Rock Candy Mountain Billy Boy Caisson Song Dixie Down in The Valley The Girl I Left Behind Me Green Sleeves Home On The Range In The Good Old Summertime Ive Been Working On the Railroad My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be Oh My Darling Clementine Oh Susanna Polly WoUy Doodle Red River Valley Sidewalks of New York Yankee Doodle Yellow Rose Of Texas PLAYABLE AS SOLOS, DUETS OR TRIOS America America The Beautiful Battle Hymn Of The Republic Far Above Cayugas Waters.
Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Soprano Recorder, Piano and Keyboard, Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: Americana, Folk Songs, Folk
Danserye (1551) - Score and parts by Tielman Susato (1500-1561). For various instruments (ATTB). Recorder Quartets. Score and Parts. Published by London Pro Musica (MM.LPM0101B).
Instruments: Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk
Danserye (1551) - 4 scores and commentary by Tielman Susato (1500-1561). For various instruments (ATTB). Recorder Quartets. 4 scores and commentary. Published by London Pro Musica (MM.LPM0101A). Danserye begins with a mysterious group of dances, mostly called bergerettes and reprises, all of which appear under the heading of "basse danse". This is a complete edition of this classic collection and is the first to come with 4 score books and commentary. CONTENTS: Bergerette: Dont vient cela Reprise Bergerette: Sans roch Reprise [I Reprise [II]Reprise: Cest une dure despartie Bergerette La morisque Bergerette: Les grands douleurs Entre du fol Danse du Roy Reprise: Le joly boys Basse danse: Mon desir Reprise: Le cueur est ban Reprise: Cest a grant tort Ronde I: Pour quoy Ronde II: Mon amy Ronde III Ronde IV Ronde V Ronde VI Ronde VII: Il estoit unefillette Ronde VIII: Mille ducas en vostre bource Ronde IX Salterelle Les quatre Branles Fagot Den hoboecken dans De Post Reprise Danse de Hercules oft maticme De Matrigale Allemaingne I Recoupe Allemaingne II Allemaingne III Allemaingne IV Allemaingne V Allemaingne VI Allemaingne VII Allemaingne VIII Recoupe Recoupe aliud Pavane I: Mille regretz Pavane II: La dona Pavane III Pavane IV: Si par souffrir Pavane V: La Battaille Passe e medio Reprise: La pingne Gaillarde I Gaillarde II Gaillarde III Gaillarde IV Gaillarde V: Ghequest bin ick Gaillarde VI Gaillarde VII Gaillarde VIII: La dona Gaillarde IX Gaillarde X: Milk ducas Gaillarde XI Gaillarde XII Gaillarde XIII Gaillarde XIV Galliarde XV: Le tout.
Instruments: Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk
Sweet Land of Liberty - Score edited by Burakoff. Arranged by William E. Hettrick. For SATB recorders. Recorder Quartets. Score. Published by Sweet Pipes (MM.SP02359). Arranged by William E. Hettrick A collection of 11 American patriotic songs arranged for SATB recorders. Includes traditional tunes, national hymns and official marches.
Instruments: Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: 4th of July, Memorial Day, Patriotic, Celebrations, Folk
The Quartet Recorder, Book 1 (10 folksongs) - Score by Gerald Burakoff & Willy Strickland. For SATB recorders. Recorder Quartets. 3 - Moderate. Score. Published by Consort Music, Inc (MM.CM01025). Ten folksong settings of equal interest and difficulty for all performers. Enjoyable yet challenging.
Instruments: Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk Songs, Folk
9 Turkish Folk Songs - Score by Cesar Bresgen (1913-1988). For SATB recorders. Recorder Quartets. 2 - Easy to Moderate. Score. Published by Moeck Verlag (MM.MK00340).
Instruments: Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: 20th Century, Folk Songs, Classical, Folk
Crumhorn Collection (17 Pieces -Mostly Susato) - Score and parts by Tielman Susato (1500-1561). For SATB recorders or SATB crumhorns. Recorder Quartets, Miscellaneous Music. 4 - Difficult. Score and Parts. Published by Polyphonic Publications (MM.PP00056). 17 favorite Renaissance dances. Includes pavane, galliarde, branle, ronde and many more.
Instruments: Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk
Traditional Folksongs (19 Songs) - Score by Nitka. For 2 or 3 Alto/Treble Recorders with optional Guitar or Piano ad libitum. Recorder Trios, Recorder Duets. Score. Published by Anfor Editions (MM.ASL0016). CONTENTS:All The Pretty Little HorsesAmerican PatrolAunt Rhody
Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Alto Recorder, Piano and Keyboard, Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk Songs, Folk
Duets for Alto Recorder (10 folk songs) - Score by Sonya Burakoff. Arranged by Sonya Burakoff. For AA Recorders. Recorder Duets. 2 - Easy to Moderate. Score. Published by Sweet Pipes (MM.SP02326). A collection of 10 appealing American, English, Irish, Welsh and French folk-songs in duet settings. Both parts of equal interest & difficulty.
Instruments: Alto Recorder, Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk Songs, Folk
American Folksongs (23 short songs) - Score by Gruskin. For Soprano voice. Classroom, Recorder Solos. Folk, Patriotic. 1 - Easy. Score. Published by Magnamusic Distributors Inc (MM.MM00014). Indian Song (Chippewa) Rain Pease Porridge Hot Betty Martin (early American) Hickory-Dickory-Dock Looby Loo Grandma Grunts (Appalachian) Do, DoPity My Case (Louisiana) Buckeye Jim (Appalachian) The Boll Weevil The E-R-I-E The Belle of the Mohawk Vale (Civil War fife & drum tune) Soldier, Will You Marry Me Pretty Saro Springfield Mountain (MA) Pick a Bale of Cotton Shoo Fly, Dont Bother Me A Frog Went a-Courtin Shake That Little Foot The Streets of Laredo Wayfaring Stranger Did You Ever See a Lassie? Hark, The Herald Angels Sing.
Instruments: Recorder, Soprano Voice, Woodwinds, Voice, Vocal
Genres: 4th of July, Americana, Folk Songs, Memorial Day, Patriotic, Celebrations, Folk
American Folksongs From Southern Mountains (18) - Score by Bixler. For Alto recorder and voice. Recorder Solos, Recorder with other Instruments. Folk, Patriotic. 1 - Easy. Score. Published by Magnamusic Distributors Inc (MM.MM00018). Sourwood Mountain (fiddle tune) Down in the Valley Fair and Tender Ladies One Morning in May Black is the Color Going to boston Shady Grove Evry Night When the Sun Goes In The Riddle Song The Wind in the Willows Cindy Wondrous Love Shell Be Comin Round the Mountain Old Joe Clark Lonesome Valley DUETS (A, T):Cumberland Gap A Paper of Pins Lord Lovel.
Instruments: Voice, Alto Recorder, Vocal, Recorder, Woodwinds
Genres: 4th of July, Americana, Folk Songs, Memorial Day, Patriotic, Celebrations, Folk
Mostly Irish Airs. For solo hammered dulcimer, flute, or fiddle. Folk and Irish. Difficulty: easy-medium to medium. Hammered dulcimer songbook. Chord names. 20 pages. Published by Kitchen Musician Books (KI.KM5). With chord names. Folk and Irish. 9x12 inches. 10 Carolan tunes, 20 other airs, some second parts, hammer dulcimer tablature, standard notation, chords.
Pages: 20
Instruments: Flute, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk
Occasional Collection of Fine Tunes (for Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle, Flute, Etc.). Arranged by Sara Lee Johnson. For C instrument. Kitchen Musician No. 4. Folk. Difficulty: medium. Fakebook. Introductory text, standard notation and chord names. 16 pages. Published by Kitchen Musician Books (KI.KM4). With introductory text, standard notation and chord names. Folk. 9x12 inches. 32 tunes common to dulcimer and folk repertoires.
Pages: 16
Instruments: Piccolo, Flute, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk
Occasional Collection of Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes (for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, Etc.). Arranged by Sara Lee Johnson. For C instrument. Kitchen Musician No. 2. Folk. Difficulty: medium. Fakebook. Standard notation, chord names, introductory text and lyrics (for some songs). 15 pages. Published by Kitchen Musician Books (KI.KM2). With standard notation, chord names, introductory text and lyrics (for some songs). Folk. 9x12 inches. 30 tunes, including many modal tunes from Southern U. S.
Pages: 15
Instruments: Piccolo, Flute, Woodwinds
Genres: Folk


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Projects, Products & Design Inspiration: Ombre at Home
Whether subtle and sweet or bold and dramatic, the ombré trend has taken off in a big way. While this isn't the first and likely not the last time the trend has taken hold, its influence has been seeping lately into fashion, beauty and home decor. With this easy to adopt trend you can pick up pretty faded bowls, arrange flowers by shifts in color, or highlight stair rails with a gradually desaturated hue. Check below the jump for products, inspiration and DIY's.
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6. Inspiration from Style Me Pretty
7. Inspiration from Norske Interior
8. Fabric Ombre Chandelier, $40 via Adaura on Etsy
9. Ombre Paper Bowl, $14 via Up In the Air Somewhere on Etsy
10. Windsor Love Seat, $1,498 via Anthropologie
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Main point was - don't call it holographic, don't reinforce such usage, don't waste the "holography" term by using it on some pop-cultural contraptions of, probably, ever dubious practicality. The term is much more specific, and at the same time might very well give something much (figuratively) bigger, nicer, broader than limited visions of directors or visual effects artists would suggest.
But also don't dismiss it so readily. Few points:
Remember, a good proper holographic display, if it also tracks viewers (comparatively trivial, relative to its other advances), could easily display completely different thing to each and every pair of eyes looking at it, that is just its inherent property.
(those constraints of "imposed imagination", ultimately limited one - vs. actually "applied" one, on the basis of how the world, science, etc. are - that I mentioned)
If some promising paths prove fruitful (possibly, say, applications of graphene and their implications), decent holographic displays could as well end up covering almost everything, at least in places with any notable ("valuable"? ;/ ) human concentrations and where they would likely look. And/or they could have the physical form of, essentially, wallpaper.*
Yes, to you (or to me for that matter) that would seem "crazy" and insanely wasteful - but, consider how people living just few short centuries ago would think the very same thing about covering whole facades with something so valuable as glass (especially one so incredibly translucent and smooth!), or aluminium and such.
Heck, "glass houses" were used less than a mere century ago in one locally notable novel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spring_to_Come )
as an idea, symbol representing unrealistic dreams of perfect place. Now look around you ...no perfect place in sight, glass houses everywhere.
And that's only when touching on physical in-setting screens.
Because, see, what you don't realize is that there would be most likely a major technological overlap between such good holographic displays and ...good eye-displays. They are not so separate as they appear, able to use fundamentally similar technology in their quest to be any good.
What present eye-screens seem mostly "good" for - if they don't have optical systems making their size, weight & price not trivial - is giving people headaches.
However: the "substrate" required for good holographic screens basically would be also a perfect optical system (for the wavelengths larger than its "pixels", at least). You could possibly, perhaps, even hack a "wallpaper display" and reconfigure it (via ~firmware!) into something acting as & easily rivalling (being perfect optically) some tediously laboured lenses or mirrors in best telescopes.
That's also something which would be very helpful in good eye-screen (the other approach which seems promising is a direct laser projection on the retina, though possibly with more "schematic" graphics - but that's OK, since it will most likely be practical much sooner)
Generally, unspecific fantasies (how would it work, roughly, while doing it good?) are not ingenuity. Too often they are closer to wishy-washy visions which miss both the issues of what they propose, and many upcoming opportunities in somewhat different approaches.
We don't "waste" glasses for anything (good), not at this point.
(but BTW, I do have a related small & silly pet project on hold / waiting for some basically already "here" technology... but that's all I'm saying now! ;> )
*Best of all, if covering the inside walls, imagine: it could easily seem like every room has great view Also when it doesn't actually have any windows! (say, in some monolithic mega-unit to find housing space for massive overpopulation ). More, each of the occupants could have the view they prefer (as long as all scenes comparable lighting, I imagine; otherwise it would probably often lead to weird mood mix in the room), even "back to nature" - for example, looking like an open tent inside of a forest (yeah, probably more depressing if anything; but perhaps it points to implications of another hypothetical major advancement way further down the line - if we would "augment" our bodies with some forms of technology allowing us to not care about cold, rain, elements overall, what difference do the walls make?)
"especially if someone has to carry lights"?


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"God," Julie said, "you're so cold. You don't care about anyone, or anything, except your animals."
I cared about her. I just didn't know how to say it. I'm a veterinarian. Julie was a colleague. I followed her to a green Jeep Cherokee in my building's parking structure. She started her engine, then sat there with her hands on the steering wheel. Tears were streaming down her red cheeks.
I wanted to tell her how great her auburn hair looked in the morning sun. I wanted to tell her it didn't have to be over.
"So, do you wanna do something next week?" I asked.
"I'm moving to Santa Cruz, you idiot," she replied. "For good."
I had helped to clean out her house and move all her stuff but balked when it came to moving mine. How would I move all my books? Would I be able to throw away the cracked plastic food bowl my cat, Valentine, had used as a kitten 13 years earlier, the one with the yellow stripes and the circus kitties on it? As a hoarder, would I ever be able to move in with anyone? Would there ever be enough room for my pets and possessions and human love?
"Can I call you?" I finally said.
"No!" she yelled as she turned her key in the ignition, stepped on the gas, and drove away.
After Julie left, I worried that there would be no human love in my life.
Then I met Ruth. She was the only client who ever insisted that she be with her cat the moment I put him under for a dental procedure. Weird, I thought, but dedicated. I liked that.
Ruth was this Bohemian-dressed, French-speaking woman who wasn't French. She was Icelandic. She wore orange sweaters with knit green scarves and red beads. When her cat developed a urinary problem, she came by once a week with lab samples. After several emails about her cat, she sent one asking if I would like to meet for coffee. The header of my reply was, "Coffee, tea, or pee?" She said that made her laugh.
Over coffee at the 17th Street Café on Montana Avenue, I learned that French was the third language Ruth spoke. Icelandic was the first and German was the second. She worked as a doula. She said she was opposed to unnecessary C-sections and hated the death penalty. She belonged to Amnesty International and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. I asked her out to dinner the next week, and to a movie the week after that.
Ruth showed me films in French, in German and in Icelandic. I dragged her to see "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer." She didn't complain. But she did say I drank too much Coke. And that I ate too much bread. All those comic books and action figures I had lying around were unlikely to help me in my goal to write books someday, she said.
When Ruth moved in with me, it took her months to convince me to get rid of eight of my nine copies each of "Frankenstein," "Pride and Prejudice," "Dracula," "Anna Karenina," and "The Call of the Wild." I didn't need them all, she said, even if I did like the different covers, the different introductions and the different translations.
Then one day, while helping me clean up, Ruth dropped Valentine's plastic food bowl and shattered it. I was devastated. If the loss of Valentine's bowl made me so upset, what would happen when I had to lose Valentine himself?
I was 43, living with a woman for the first time in my life, and terrified. Ruth said Valentine's time on Earth was very limited, that's why it was important for me to show him that I loved him. Everybody's time here is limited, she said.
The seven years that I've been with Ruth are a record for me. Her complaints that I am distant and cold and care more about things and animals than about people are not so much an assault as they are an attempt to break through the frozen lake of my hoarding. Sometimes I'll sneak a plastic bag of books home from the thrift store.
"Robert? What are those?" Ruth will ask.
"Nothing," I'll say. I never expect her to understand.
It takes practice for me to understand that Ruth is not a threat. I often want to retreat, again and again, into solitude. So far she is the only woman unwilling to leave me there.
When Ruth gets upset with me, her Icelandic accent comes out.
"I didn't seenk I was doing anything wrong," she says, through tears, in a recent fight when she talks of leaving me.
"What? Sink? What sink?" I say.
"See what?"
Ruth starts to sob.
"Oh, think," I say.
Suddenly I realize that this intruder into my fortress, this crusading Viking, is my best friend. This is the voice I hear through the tears and the accent. This is my best friend.
"Don't go," I say.
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'This win gives us a boost of for the next matches'
An 85th minute penalty by Asamoah Gyan gave Ghana a 1-0 win over Serbia and Africa its first victory of this World Cup finals on Sunday in a match which brought a true flavour of the continent to the tournament.
A stadium more usually home to Springboks rugby matches was transformed into an authentic arena for Africa's unique way of enjoying football - very noisy and very colourful.
The late winner for Ghana sent their fans, decked out in their striking national colours of green, yellow and red, into rapture and will significantly aid the team's chances of progressing into the next round.
"This win gives us a boost of confidence for the next matches. But we are going to take it one at a time," said midfielder Dede Ayew.
Image: Ghana's Asamoah Gyan celebrates after scoring against Serbia
Photographs: Reuters
Ghana had good crowd support
Ghana were backed by local South Africans, sounding vuvuzela trumpets in a coordinated rhythmic fashion, rather than the drone that has been heard at some of the earlier games.
If the opening game on Friday, was all about the national pride of South Africa, this was simply about a continent's true football fans turning out to enjoy a game in the manner to which they are accustomed.
Ghana's John Pantsil, who caused controversy at the last World Cup by celebrating a win by waving the Israeli flag, was the first to race to the crowd at the final whistle and grab a giant Ghana flag.
He sprinted around the field while the crowd in the stands tumbled around in delight and his team mates danced in the centre circle.
Image: Ghana's John Pantsil celebrates with his national flag after beating Serbia
Serbia reduced to ten men
The memorable victory celebration came after a largely dull game which only came alive after Serbia were reduced to 10 men by the dismissal of Alekasandar Lukovic for a second yellow card in the 74th minute.
Down a man, the Serbs launched a series of attacks, as if suddenly awakening to the fact that they were about to pick up just a point from their opening game in a tough Group D which also includes Germany and Australia.
Milos Krasic had a fine effort palmed over and then Nemanja Vidic headed over from the resulting corner.
Branislav Ivanovic then went close with a long-range effort after bursting through from the right but Serbia will wish they had shown such adventure and aggression a little earlier.
"In a world cup, when you have two chances in a game you must score one goal," Serbian striker Danko Lazovic said. "And we missed both."
The breakthrough finally came at the other end - an unforced and unnecessary handball from substitute Zdravko Kuzmanovic, whose raised arm struck a ball hit across the area.
Image: Serbia's Aleksandar Lukovic receives a red card from referee Hector Baldassi of Argentina
Gyan had opportunities a plenty
Gyan, who had missed a number of chances, seemed a risky choice for the spot kick, but he confidently drove past Vladimir Stojkovic to grab the lead.
With a goal under his belt, Gyan, who plays for Rennes in France, nearly added a second with a curling shot which struck the far post.
It was the second time Gyan had struck the woodwork - on the hour he had met a long throw with a leap and downward header which scraped the post.
The missed chances and the long stretches of the game where it was more entertaining to watch characters in the stand, including one with a cooking pot on his head, will be irrelevant though to the crowd.
The Ghanaians danced out of the stands, flags waving high and into the streets of what was once the political stronghold of the apartheid regime.
Image: Ghana's John Mensah and Isaac Vorsah thank the Almighty after defeating Serbia


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Ideas & Inspirations: Dream Kitchens
A few days ago, we published a roundup of bathroom inspiration boards created by our writers. Also this year, we asked our writers to create their dream kitchen — a collage of products they'd like to see in their ideal kitchen. Check out the stylish results.
1. Carolyn's Calm & Classic Kitchen
2. An Earthy Cook's Dream Kitchen
3. Eleanor's Industrial Warmth
4. A Bright, Graphic Kitchen with Neon Pops
5. Regina's Rustic-with-Bling Kitchen
6. Claire's Retro Chic Kitchen
7. A Marital Mashup Style Mix for the Kitchen
8. Andie's Quirky Kitchen
9. Chris' Techno-Modern Dream Kitchen
10. An Appliance-Hiding, Light-Filled Kitchen
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Topical, edgy and charismatic, mélia mills has been described as what would be created if Chris Rock and Weird Al had a child.
Entertaining since infancy, mélia wrote her first song about her sister fresh out the womb and penned her first rap about MLK set to the Beastie Boys' Paul Revere. She wows crowds with her sharp wit, outrageous characters and comedic rhymes. Fans love her commentary on politics, celebrities, relationships and current events.
At the Improv, just prior to a routine by Jerry Seinfeld, mélia took the stage before a packed house and gave her raw uncensored performance. The crowd went wild. As soon as she walked off the stage Cuba Gooding, Jr. approached her and exclaimed, "You are hilarious! I am going to set up a meeting with my management for you." Mélia's comedic star has been rising ever since.
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RISR is a wearable sensor network that teaches you how to improve your body language through vibration feedback. It detects and analyzes through an Infrared camera the posture of your social target. Algorythms based on psychological theories of gestures (eg the Mirroring effect) calculate the appropriate posture for you and make the sensors vibrate to give you the best control on your body's nonverbal communication.
There are a lot of questions remaining about the reality of this product and its detailed hardware-software specifications.
Techcrunch featured the video on Sept. 10th. But no corporate information on RISR website. It seems that the product is developped by School of Art & Design in Basel, Switzerland. Anyway, the concept seems interesting. Waiting getting more information.
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The number of commercial health clubs, fitness centers and gyms in the United States increased to a record 26,830 facilities as of January 2005, according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA). This growth represents a 14 percent increase over January 2004, and a 3 percent increase since July 2004. IHRSA estimates that the U.S. commercial health club industry grew to $14.1 billion in revenues as of January 2004, representing steady growth.
IHRSA estimates that more than 10 million Americans will join a health club in 2005 and nearly two million of them will do so in the month of January, which is the most popular time of year for new health club memberships. Industry research shows that this membership growth can be attributed to all age groups. In fact, two of the fastest growing demographic segments of U.S. health club members are Americans under the age of 18 and over the age of 55, accounting for 11.4 percent and 17.4 percent of the health club membership respectively, according to the IHRSA/American Sports Data Health Club Trend Report.
The past year's growth can be most notably seen in the increase of smaller, niche clubs. IHRSA estimates that small, express workout centers—clubs with less than 3,000 square feet of space serving approximately 350 members—account for more than 10,000 of the facilities in the United States. This type of gym represents the majority of clubs that opened in the past 12 months.
Likewise, larger workout centers showed a growth pattern. A quarterly survey of some of the larger U.S. health club companies found that revenues grew and profitability improved throughout 2004. During the third quarter of 2004, the most recent information available, this group of 14 club companies grew their revenues by an average of 7.9 percent while improving their earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and rent by an average of 8.1 percent.


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For J.R. Ewing, Season 13 is as unlucky as a steer at a Texas barbecue. He starts by lying and cheating Ewing Oil to the brink of destruction and ends by kicking and screaming in a psychiatric hospital. In between he tires of his pretty young wife, seethes while Cliff Barnes's political star rises and bumps into a past he didn't know he had. Meanwhile, Clayton and Miss Ellie investigate a multiple-murder mystery, folks from seasons past unexpectedly return to stir up trouble and Bobby stays busy removing J.R.'s knives from his back, chasing after a Pam look-alike, and bringing a new Mrs. Ewing to Southfork. Y'all come 'round and meet the happy couple!


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FAMU still dealing with fallout from hazing death
FAMU still dealing with fallout from hazing death
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The fallout from the hazing death of a Florida A&M University drum major appears unlikely to end soon.
University leaders will hold an emergency meeting next week to start the search for a new president after James Ammons, the president since 2007, abruptly resigned Wednesday.
Ammons had vowed a month ago to remain at his job, despite a no-confidence vote from trustees in June.
"This is unexpected, this is unanticipated," said Rufus Montgomery, a FAMU board member who had expressed doubts about Ammons' job performance.
Meanwhile, the famed Marching 100 band remains suspended for the coming year. And the university is dealing with a deficit in its athletic program, which has traditionally relied on the band to help draw large crowds to football games.
In October, 11 students will head to trial on charges related to the death of Robert Champion. The 26-year-old was fatally beaten by fellow band members during a hazing ritual aboard a bus parked outside an Orlando hotel following a football game against the school's archrival.
Montgomery and other trustees agreed late Wednesday to hold the emergency meeting to discuss finding a replacement for Ammons and the specific terms of his resignation. Even though Ammons' contract allows him to stay on the job 90 days, some board members said they still want to discuss how active a role he will play at the school.
Ammons, in a letter to the chairman of the university's governing board, said he plans to exercise a provision in his contract that allows him to remain at the school as a member of the faculty.
An alumnus and former top administrator of the school, Ammons was first hired five years ago to help steady FAMU in the wake of financial woes and threats to its accreditation.
But Champion's death on Nov. 19 put a spotlight on a hazing culture that he and other top FAMU officials had been unable to eradicate.
Eleven FAMU band members face felony hazing charges, while two others face misdemeanor counts for alleged roles in Champion's hazing. They have pleaded not guilty.
Hazing that involves bodily harm is a third-degree felony in Florida.
Ammons did not explain why he chose Oct. 11 as his final day, or why he chose to announce his resignation Wednesday, the same day Champion's parents, Robert and Pamela Champion of Decatur, Ga., sued the university.
In his resignation letter, Ammons said his decision came after "considerable thought, introspection and conversations with my family."
He acknowledged "new challenges that must be met head on" at the university, but his letter did not mention Champion directly.
Still, the Champions applauded the move.
"Before the school can move forward, they have to do house cleaning," said Pamela Champion. "That means taking care of the entities that are there in order to prevent something like this from happening again."
FAMU math professor Calvin Robinson called Ammons' resignation "the worst news I've heard."
"I'm a second-generation Rattler," he said, referring to the nickname given to school alumni and students. "This is like the darkest day. … Ever since Nov. 19 I saw this pressure coming, but I was hoping they'd realize the better strength of this man."
Given the intense pressure Ammons had been under, his move was not completely unexpected.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott at one point had recommended that Ammons be suspended from the job while investigations of Champion's hazing death were under way, a move that brought a nighttime protest outside the governor's mansion from hundreds of FAMU students.
The school's trustees gave Ammons a vote of no-confidence in June, after questioning his leadership in several areas, including what some saw as his lax attitude toward hazing and management of the band prior to Champion's death.
"This is not about hazing, this is about leadership, this is about serious lack of leadership," Montgomery said Wednesday.
Champion had bruises on his chest, arms, shoulder and back and died of internal bleeding. Witnesses told emergency dispatchers the drum major was vomiting before he was found unresponsive aboard the bus.
Ammons suspended the band right after Champion's death. He announced in May that the suspension would stay in effect for at least one more school year as officials moved ahead with trying to eliminate the hazing culture that surrounded the band. The president also recommended new stringent eligibility requirements for membership in the band.
Veteran band director Julian White was fired last year, but then his dismissal was placed on hold while the criminal investigation unfolded. He insisted he did nothing wrong and fought for months to get reinstated. He changed his mind in May and decided to retire after it was revealed that at least 100 band members were not students when Champion died.
Hours before Ammons' announcement Wednesday, Champion's parents added the university to a lawsuit they had brought against the bus driver, whom they alleged stood guard outside the bus while the hazing took place. The bus company owner initially said the driver was helping other band members with their equipment when the hazing took place.
The Champions claim Florida A&M University officials did not take action to stop hazing even though a school dean proposed suspending the band because of hazing concerns three days before their son died.
School officials also allowed nonstudents to play in the band, fell short in enforcing anti-hazing policies and did not keep a close eye on band members to prevent hazing, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit seeks damages greater than $15,000, but does not give a specific amount. The university said in a statement that it knew the lawsuit was coming but had no further comment.
Associated Press writers Brent Kallestad in Tallahassee, Fla., and Mike Schneider in Orlando, Fla., contributed to this report.
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Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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