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What, Exactly, Are "Natural Causes"?
And can they really explain Brittany Murphy's death from cardiac arrest at the age of 32?
Actress Brittany Murphy, famous for her roles in Clueless and 8 Mile, died Sunday of sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 32. The L.A. County Assistant Chief Coroner has stated that the death "appears to be natural." What does it mean to die of natural causes?
For a coroner, any death caused by disease or old age is natural. When someone dies a violent or suspicious death, medical examiners try to determine both a "cause" and a "manner." The cause refers to the biological condition that killed the victim—in Murphy's case, sudden cardiac arrest. The manner describes all the other circumstances that led up to that particular cause. Most states recognize five different manners: homicide, suicide, accident, natural, and undetermined. If a manner of death is deemed to be "natural," then the victim is thought to have died of an internal disease process or normal deterioration of the body. Outside forces, like chemicals or human intervention, had only a minimal influence. (There are some gray areas: Death by infectious disease is typically categorized as being natural, even though the killer microbes come from outside the body.)
In general, it's much easier to determine the cause of death than the manner. To say that Murphy died of sudden cardiac arrest means only that her heart stopped beating unexpectedly, a fact that might be explained by any of the five manner classifications. Her death might have resulted from "natural" conditions like an enlarged heart, thickened ventricle walls, disruptions in the heart's electrical signals, or clogged arteries—not unknown among 32-year-olds, especially if they have diabetes. Or it might have followed from the ingestion of drugs (like cocaine) or poisons—making it a homicide, a suicide, or an accident. (A massive blow to the chest can stop the heart, too, but that would have left obvious signs.) Drug deaths can be tough to categorize, because circumstantial evidence is required to separate accidental overdoses from suicides.
When all the tests are back from the lab, the medical examiner or the coroner—typically an elected official without medical training who consults the medical examiner—prepares the death certificate with the cause, manner, and a brief description. There is some variation in the forms. John Lennon's death certificate, for example, contains a series of causes to indicate the cascading physical effects of his gunshot wound.
Even when the facts are clear, medical examiners sometimes disagree on the manner. If a patient is killed by a clot that breaks off during a procedure to clear up his clogged arteries, medical examiners can call it an accident (the medical error) or natural (the underlying disease). A man who has a heart attack while shoveling snow dies a natural death, but if the heart attack happens during a fistfight, his death is usually a homicide. Death from an allergic reaction to a bee sting can be called natural or accidental. While acute alcohol intoxication from a night of binge drinking is always classified as an accident or suicide, the death of a lifelong alcoholic from cirrhosis of the liver is usually classified as natural. (If Murphy's heart was weakened as a result of an eating disorder, as has been rumored, the medical examiner may analogize this to an alcoholic's impaired liver.)
These classifications are medical, and they sometimes diverge from legal usage. For example, if a victim were killed by a drunk driver, the medical examiner would typically classify the death as an accident, but prosecutors may consider it a homicide. The opposite result is also possible. In cases such as a killing in self-defense, the medical examiner might deem a death a homicide, but the prosecutor would not file charges.
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One of America's favorite cookies, M&M Cookies are an adaptation of the traditional Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, topped with crayon-colored M&M candies. It's my friend Kathy's 'signature' recipe, one she's tweaked and perfected over many years. Best of all, her cookie recipe uses butter, real butter, not shortening.
Observant bakers, study the ingredient list. Yes, it's just a nibble different than the classic Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe, America's favorite for 75 years. But oh, the difference!
My friend Kathy has tweaked the M&M Cookies variation for a decade, achieving a perfect balance of crispy chewiness and chocolaty sweetness. If it stirs an irresistible urge to clip, bookmark or print – now! – you're not alone for the recipe rouses otherwise rational cooks into the kitchen at odd hours.
Kathy makes 15 – 20 batches a year and at Christmas, shares ten dozen at my friends' annual cookie swap where new recipes may be ooo-ed and aaah-ed over but Kathy's cookies are coveted. Topped with red and green M&Ms, they're just so eye-catching – the ones kids snatch up and grown-ups reach for first. Fights have been known to break out over the last cookie on the plate.
RECIPE for PERFECT M&M COOKIES
Start-to-finish: 1-1/4 hours
Makes 3-1/2 dozen cookies, easily halved
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour, fluffed to aerate before measuring (11 ounces by weight)
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 1-1/8 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, golden or dark
- 1 generous teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs at room temperature (or warmed in warm water for 5 minutes)
- M&Ms, 6 per cookie
Preheat oven to 375F.
In a small bowl, stir together flour, salt and baking soda.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars with an electric mixer until creamy. Add vanilla, then one at a time, the eggs, mixing well after each. Mix in flour mixture til fully combined. (Kathy doesn't but I like to chill the dough until firm before continuing, the cookie dough is easier to work with.)
Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray (Kathy uses Pam, I use Baker's Joy). Form balls a tad smaller than a golf ball and arrange well apart (see TIPS) on a baking sheet. Place in oven for about 9 minutes. Remove and lightly place M&Ms on top (see TIPS). Return to oven for 3 – 5 minutes. (Cookie sheets and ovens vary in performance. Track the exact number of minutes so your cookies neither under- nor over-bake.) Remove from oven and let cool before transferring to a rack to cool.
Perfect M&M Cookies: Perfect for Holiday Occasions
FLOUR Be sure to fully incorporate the flour. At least with a 1970s-vintage Kitchen Aid mixer, this means wiping down the sides three or four times.
Cooking Spray | Parchment paper is an okay substitute, so is a silicone mat, but cooking spray just works better.
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Taste great but just wondering. Thanks for all your great recipes. The Oatmeal Raisins are the BEST......Mary Brooks
Since Kathy makes them SO much and I tested her recipe myself three times, it isn't likely the recipe. I suspect that the baking issue is related to the dough, too, rather than its own issue.
I wish I could rush over and bring you some cookies!
I found that a 14 oz bag of M&Ms was just shy of enough for the double batch. I put some chocolate chips on top of the last few and it turned out fine.
1. My cookies looked gorgeous until I put the M & M's on them after 9 minutes of baking time. Then they collapsed flat as a, err... crepe! Flavor was great but I would have liked them to have stayed thick. Should I cook them another minute or two?
2. I followed Alyssa's suggestion about using the dark chocolate M & M's. They were yummy but to my surprise there were no white candies, only red, dark green and light green. Do the regular chocolate candies include white in the holiday mix? The white adds nice contrast, so in the future I may add some white sprinkles if I use the dark chocolate.
Adriana ~ Flat as a crepe. Hmm, no, I don't think that they'd fluff up again. Re: the white M&Ms, I bet I know that answer. The pictures were taken with a batch I tested with Christmas Reese's pieces, the candy-coated peanut butter thingies. They weren't half so good as plain M&Ms (though I'm much looking forward to trying Alyssa's recommendation for dark M&Ms) so I didn't include them in the recipe but the pictures were good, so I let them run. I do apologize for that surprise.
I think these are just completely delicious, I don't think you'll get any complaints, no matter!
I had the same problems as two other people's comments.
1) The dough was a bit too gooey to roll into a ball (I read the comments before I started, so I was very careful about my measurements--I definately used the right amount of flour and the butter was room temp, not melted). So instead I used a spoon and made little mounds on the cookie sheets.
2) The cookies came out very flat. After cooking several sheets worth of cookies, I discovered that cooking them a bit less worked well. Also, I enlisted my husband to help put the candy on so the cookies were out of the oven a minimal amount of time. They were still very flat, but not as bad as the first few batches.
I have one question: might refrigerating the dough help? I make snickerdoodles a lot, and the dough has to be cold to roll into balls. Otherwise, it sticks to your hands. Has anyone tried this recipe with cold butter and eggs?
And one final suggestion: I used an airbake cookie sheet and a baking stone. The cookies cooked more evenly on the stone. However, I only have one, and it takes a while to cool.
Another reminder: these really do spread. I can only get six cookies onto a cookie sheet.
I've also learned to really watch the cookies as they bake, my new electric oven bakes/heats differently than my old gas oven did. Once I figure out the right timing, it all goes fine.
The good news, these cookies sure do taste good! They're worth perfecting.
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Traveling closer to the hills, the rocks and brown grass of those hills slowly came into view, giving contrast to the lush orchards and vineyards on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley.
The sharply uplifting mountains and foothills emerged as if they were coming out of the valley's trademark winter fog. However, it was summer, and there was no fog. It was smog.
San Joaquin Valley townspeople and rural residents alike often bemoan the loss of their once daily view of the magnificent Sierra. When rains wash away the gunk in the air and the rare morning sunrise frames the mountains, it is breathtaking.
For decades air pollution had been the exclusive domain of Southern California. No more. Earlier this summer the California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted the most stringent fine particulate matter air quality standards in the world for California, lowering the PM10 standard to less than half the federal annual average.
About the same time, the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District voluntarily requested change in the valley's air quality status for ozone to "extreme" non-attainment from serious non-attainment because the control district staff does not believe the valley could meet its "serious" attainment requirements by 2005. What that means is that the district wants more time to meet an attainment standard and will lower the permitting threshold for pollution sources.
As California hurls toward a population of 50 million within the next 40 years, air quality will join water availability and quality as the trifecta of California political nightmares.
Unfortunately, agriculture is becoming air pollution's poster boy in the agricultural valleys. After all, everyone can see — as they play dodge ball with the thousands of semis and millions of cars hurling down Highway 99 through the heart of the San Joaquin -- tractors disking a field or spraying orchards and vineyards, therefore, agriculture must be a major air pollution source.
Maxwell Norton, University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor in Merced County, makes a very good case that the growing air pollution problem cannot be laid on the turnrow of farming.
It will take more of that as well as hard facts via air monitoring about what agriculture contributes and does not contribute to California's growing pollution problem to battle the political air pollution firestorms ahead.
Agriculture has proven it will do its part, within reason, to control air pollution. Water trucks are common now to keep dust down. California's cotton gins are among the cleanest operating in the world. Agricultural processing plants readily comply with air quality standards.
Agriculture should not be asked to do more than its fair share in dealing with a growing problem brought on mainly by a burgeoning population.


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Wildcats Compete Across the Country
Nov. 6, 2003
The Arizona women's tennis team competed in two states today. Junior Dianne Hollands played today in Ann Arbor, Mich. in the 2003 ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships. Senior Debbie Larocque, junior Kelly Perry, and sophomore Kelly Duncan all competed today in Palm Springs, Calif.
Hollands competed in the first round against Florida's Jennifer Magley and won in three sets 2-6, 7-6(8), 7-6(9). She will move on to the round of 16 and will meet Armstrong Atlantic's Zsofia Golopencza tomorrow in Ann Arbor.
Duncan, Perry, and Larocque all lost in their matches today. Duncan fell to USC's Erica Sauer in two sets 6-3, 6-3 in main-draw action. She then went on to lose in consolation play. Larocque also lost in first round main draw action to Ohio State's Erica Fisk 6-1, 6-3. She then went on to lose in the consolation round. Perry was defeated in the first round by UCLA's Anya Loncaric 6-4, 6-0, and did not compete in the consolation round.
The doubles team of Larocque and Perry also lost today in their first round main draw match to UCLA's Loncaric and Joshi, 9-7.
The tournament will resume tomorrow in Palm Springs, Calif. The Fall Desert Classic continues until Nov. 9.
Hollands will resume play tomorrow in Ann Arbor, Mich. The ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships will continue to Sunday Nov. 9.
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ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships
Singles (First Round)Dianne Hollands (UA) def. Jennifer Magley (Florida) 2-6, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (9).
Fall Desert Classic
Singles (First Round) Erica Sauer (USC) defeated Kelly Duncan (UA) 6-3, 6-3. Erica Fisk (Ohio State) defeated Debbie Larocque (UA) 6-1, 6-3. Anya Loncaric (UCLA) defeated Kelly Perry (UA) 6-4, 6-0.
Doubles (First Round) Loncaric/ Joshi (UCLA) defeated Larocque/ Perry (UA) 9-7.
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Is this the world's fastest road car?
(Relaxnews) – A Hennessey Venom GT has managed to hit a barely believable 270.49mph (436km/h) at the Kennedy Space Center.
The world record is currently held by the Bugatti Veyron, which set its — until now unbeaten — top speed of 269.86mph (435km/h) back in 2010.
However, since Hennessey first started building the Venom GT, the company has been trying everything it can to bring the record back to the US from Europe and is getting closer and closer to its objective.
Unfortunately, the latest attempt, though valid, won't count.
For the new record to stand, it has to be ratified by Guinness. Therefore, the car needs to make a minimum of two runs and the average speed taken.
The Venom GT only made one pass. However, what's astounding is that it managed to go faster than the Bugatti over such a short distance — 3.2 miles (5km). When the Veyron set its record it was on Volkswagen's purpose-built track which offers a five-mile (8km) runway.
As the Venom's driver at the Space Center, Brian Smith, said, the car could have gone much faster but there was no runway left.
Whether or not the record is recognized, the achievement should still be celebrated.
Unlike the Veyron, which spent half a decade in development and burned through potentially billions of euros in the process, the Venom GT is a testament to American ingenuity.
Whereas the team at Bugatti started with a blank sheet of paper and a checkbook, John Hennessy and his team started with a Lotus Exige and then got creative. They strengthened and lengthened its chassis, threw away the standard engine and replaced it with a 7-liter V8 which is force-fed air via twin turbochargers.
The result is one of if not the fastest-accelerating production car currently on the market and has a devoted, growing fanbase.
The video of the run also highlights another salient issue when it comes to choosing the supercar that's right for you. Acceleration is more important than top speed, unless you can afford to borrow an airport runway or have your own private circuit in the backyard. There is pretty much nowhere in the world where there's enough straight road to hit 200mph in a car.
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Egg and bacon little pasties / Muna-pekonipasteijat
June 1, 2012
The #bacontwitterparty was last monday and I was so busy this week I couldn't post the recipe of my entry… as usually, you can check everyone´s contribution for this virtual potluck by checking the hashtags #twitterfoodparty #twitterbaconparty on twitter and taking a look at the Flickr pool dedicated to this fun happening!
This is a very easy recipe to make if you have everything at home, I had some frozen puff pastry and I thought it´d be a good idea to use it in this savory recipe.
Egg and bacon little pasties – Muna-pekonipasteijat
Recipe from the Finnish cooking magazine Maku 4/2003
Yields 12 little pasties
- 1 package (500g) ready puff pastry, thawed if from freezer
- 120g back bacon (fileepekonia , use streaky bacon if you don't have it)
- 2 hard boiled eggs
- 50 g chive cream cheese
- 1 tsp chopped thyme (I added chopped fresh oregano too)
- cracked black pepper
- 1 beaten egg to brush the pasties before baking
- poppy seeds
Heat oven to 225C. Fry the bacon in a non-stick pan over a medium heat until it gets crispy. Drain the excess fat on kitchen paper towels and chop into small pieces.
Chop roughly the boiled eggs inside a medium bowl using a knife or a fork. Add the cream cheese, bacon, thyme and mix well. Season with black pepper.
Unroll the pastry and with a rolling pin, roll out until it's large enough to cut out 12 square pieces of pastry ( approximately 10cmx10cm). My puff pastry comes already in rectangular shapes, needing only to divide in the middle to achieve equal square shapes. Lift onto a baking sheet.
Spoon the filling into the middle of each square. Brush the edges of the pastry with the egg wash, then bring them up to the middle, pinching with the back of a fork to make a triangular pasty. Brush the surfaces with the egg, sprinkle poppy seeds, then bake for 15 mins or until golden.
Leave to cool on a rack and serve.
The pasties can be eaten as appetizers, snacks, brunch/breakfast or a quick lunch with salad. Complemented by a fresh fruit portion it makes a neat filling for a bento box ^_^. Delicious even cold!
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Hello all,
Need help with a EZ Pro 120 countertop hoodless fryer. 120 volt -20 amp. Went on a service call today with another tech today. It had the exact same problem he encountered three weeks ago. The customer smelled a burning odor and took the side panel off. The female disconnect terminal to one side of the over temp limit was burnt and melted. The other end of this wire came from a heating element relay. Checked all wall power, ok.
When element on pulling about 17.5 amps. Everything appears to be working normal. Made frys ok. Thermo cycling the element on/off ok. #12 wire should be good for 20 amps. Anyone ever run into a problem like this on this unit or something similiar? Any suggestions would be appreciated!


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Just in case you haven't had enough snow since yesterday, AccuWeather says more is on the way. But there is also good news…
AccuWeather.com report into the first part of the weekend, light to moderate snow will push from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic states, but a blizzard may develop in eastern New England.
The storm has the potential to bring a new round of ground and airline disruptions to parts of the South and East that were hit with the winter storm at midweek and also to some places that escaped the storm in the Midwest.
The storm is forecast to remain rather weak along most of its journey. However, it could bring just enough snow to treat, shovel and plow from parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to much of Kentucky and Tennessee into Friday afternoon.
Motorists are advised to exercise caution this evening along Interstates 64, 65, 71 and 75 in Kentucky as temperatures falling below freezing can make for icy travel. Similar conditions in southeastern Pennsylvania early this morning contributed to a multiple vehicle accident on the Turnpike, north of Philadelphia.
The storm brought between 1 and 4 inches over a large part of Iowa and northern Missouri early Friday and was heading across central Illinois toward Indiana during the midday Friday. St. Louis received a wintry mix.
A swath of snow will affect portions of North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and New York during part of Friday night. A couple of inches could fall on parts of these states. The snow could conceal patches of ice beneath.
On the southern edge of the storm, rain and also a wintry mix may fall in part of northern Alabama, northern Georgia, central and southeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia. Just enough could fall to make roads in some communities slippery once again.
This storm is likely to strengthen upon nearing the coast. As this happens, more substantial snow-related problems may begin to unfold.
If the storm organizes quickly, a stripe of moderate snow could develop from part of northern North Carolina to eastern Virginia, the Delmarva Peninsula, New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania and southeastern New York. If this band of more robust wet snow develops, it might brush some of the cities from Raleigh, N.C., to Richmond, Va., Dover, Del., Atlantic City, N.J., and New York City.
How much strengthening the storm does just offshore will determine how much snow falls and how strong winds get over Long Island, southeastern New England and the Maritimes. Odds favor windswept snow to develop in part of this area, if not a full-blown blizzard.
Updates on this storm will continue on AccuWeather.com.
Major cities that have the best chance at receiving a period or two of accumulating snow from the new storm include Peoria, Ill., Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Knoxville, Tenn., Charleston, W.Va., Roanoke, Va., Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.
Despite the piling on nature of the storms of late, there is light at the end of the tunnel for warm weather fans and parents dealing with loss of work when kids have an excess number of snow days.
Steering-level winds will shift later next week allowing warmer air now building over the Southwest to expand northward and eastward.
The upcoming pattern will deliver a thaw. In addition to the release of winter's grip in many areas, concerns for ice jam flooding may be raised.
By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist for AccuWeather.com


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Safe Online Sessions
The Peace Museum
Monday, 19 March 2018 at 13:00
Event Details
Safe Online
A new assembly has been designed by the Peace Museum to explore the dangers posed by online grooming and radicalisation.
The assembly will:
- Build awareness around strategies used by perpetrators
- Raise understanding of techniques used to radicalise young people
- Reduce vulnerability to manipulative content
- Recognise the signs of someone who may be succumbing to grooming
- Give practical guidance on what to do if presented by malicious content
- Signpost further support for those who may need it
Using real life case studies, the session will explore how seemingly innocent online relationships can be a cover for more sinister motives through a range of media including Facebook, online gaming, texting and dating apps.
Delivered in your school or group context by an experienced facilitator, the session can be delivered to entire year groups or smaller groups. Sessions last between 60 & 90 mins (flexible depending on your time constraints)
Safe Online has been developed in parternship with the Calderdale Prevent Team.
The Peace Museum has delivered Prevent work to thousands of young people, supporting schools, families and communities to work togther to protect young people from harm.
Their innovative Choices project has been identified as a model of Best Practice by the Prevent team at the Home Office and is now being rolled out across the UK.
The Peace Museum is delighted to be able to offer schools and groups free workshops.
How many sessions can I book?
Each group is entitled to one session in total.
Which groups should attend?
Sessions can be delivered for parent's groups or students. This is left to the schools' discretion.
How many can be in a group?
Each session is designed to accommodate one assembly or group. This is flexible depending on your needs.
What times will you deliver the sessions?
Times for morning, afternoon or evening sessions are flexible to accommodate your timing needs.
Sessions last between 60 & 90 minutes mins (flexible depending on your time constraints)
What space would you require?
A large space, e.g. drama studio, school hall, or whereever you would generally hold assemblies.
Do I need to provide anything else?
A car parking space with good access for unloading will be required.
A group supervisor ro teacher in charge of group supervision must be provided.
Are you DBS checked?
The Session leader, Jude Wright, has full current DBS check. Information will be sent out as to how to access this information via the government's portable DBS scheme with confirmation of booking.
Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?
When & Where
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U.S., Iran to Hold Talks on Tehran's Nuclear Program
WASHINGTON—The U.S. and Iran will hold bilateral talks on Tehran's nuclear program on June 9-10 in Geneva, the State Department said.
The high-level negotiations will take place five weeks ahead of a July 20 deadline that Iran and world powers have set to try to end the international dispute over Tehran's nuclear program.
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text: Grant Stockly has announced the culmination of an ambitious project to create perfect replicas of the infamous Altair 8800 -- widely considered to have officially kicked off the home computer revolution with the 1975 advertisement for the kit in Popular Electronics and relative buying spree it elicited. It's a switch-based computer with no display other than LED lights -- all programming was done by flipping switches on the front panel, with the big advantage being that you were programming the system about as directly as possible. Of course it established what came to be known as the S-100 bus (for expansion cards with 100 pin connectors) that could greatly expand the system's capabilities, from alternate input and output methods to various storage and subsequent OS integration (most popularly, CP/M). The S-100 bus standard lasted from the mid-1970's through to the early 1980's when more user friendly systems began to become more prevalent and powerful. Of course the Altair 8800 also begat many clones, including the more capable IMSAI 8080, released only about six months later and featured (in a greatly expanded form) in the popular 1983 movie, War Games, starring Matthew Broderick.


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==Phrack Inc.== Volume One, Issue Three, Phile 4 of 10 Signalling Systems Around the World For those of you who have the desire to make international calls, this info may be of interest. Thanks to TAP and Nick Haflinger. CCITT 1. An old international system, now deceased. Used a 500 Hz tone interrupted at 20 Hz (Ring) for 1-way line signals. CCITT 2. Proposed "International Standard" that never caught on much. Used 600 Hz interrupted by 750 Hz. Still used in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. CCITT 3. An early in-band system that uses 2280 for both line and register (!!). Used in France, Austria, Poland and Hungary. CCITT 4 A variation of 3, but uses 2040 and 2400 for end to end Tx of line and register. Used for international Traffic in Europe, but cannot be used with TASI (AKA Multiplex or "that dammed clipping"). CCITT 5 This is the most popular, and the one used in the US. 2400 and the infamous 2600 are used for link to link (not merely end to end line signals. Registers are handled via DTMF (Touchtones). Anyone know what 2400 does?? CCITT 5 bis. Just like above, but a 1850 Hz tone is used for TASI locking and transmission of line signals. CCITT 6 The newest and worst for phreaks. It uses digital data sent out-of-band to control the connection. In other words, the connection is made and billing started BEFORE you can get control. CCITT 5R1 A regional system like 5, but doesn't use the mysterious 2400 and can't use the multiplexer. CCITT 5R2 Probably the interface to AUTOVON, as it uses 120 Hz spaced tones for DTMF instead of 200. Also 3825 Hz is the blow-off tone instead of 2600. The "Extra" tones 1700 + 700 = Inward Operator 1700 + 900 = Delay operator, also, in TSPS,STP (a "Zero Plus" call from a coin phone) 1700 + 1100= KP1 (Start recognition of special tones) 1300 + 1700= KP2 (End recognition of special tones) 12-85 Data Line. CIS 72767,3207: TWX 650-240-6356


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Texas Motor Speedway will move the Sprint Cup Series race that traditionally is a Saturday night in early April, to Sunday afternoon in 2014 because of the NCAA men's basketball Final Four in Dallas.
The race will be Sunday, April 6 on a day between tournament games in hopes of attracting fans coming to see basketball to also see some racing.
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The Nationwide Series race that weekend will be Friday night, April 4, with Cup qualifying on Saturday.
When fans get there, they'll also see what track officials say is the world's largest high-definition video screen.
The 218-foot-long-by-94.6-foot-wide screen is part of a deal with Panasonic. The cost of the project was not released for the video board that will reach nearly 125 feet above the ground.
The 20,633.64 square feet of display is bigger than Charlotte Motor Speedway's (16,000 square feet) as well as Houston's Reliant Stadium (14,549 square feet) and the Cowboys' AT&T Stadium (11,520) in Dallas.
Track president Eddie Gossage has dubbed his new video board as "Big Hoss TV."
"This continues to show our company's commitment to our great race fans and our efforts to remain at the forefront of our industry," said Bruton Smith, owner of TMS parent company Speedway Motorsports Inc.
"Eddie always tells me everything is bigger in Texas, so I wanted to make this video board fit his motto."
TMS will remain the eighth race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. That race will remain a Sunday afternoon event scheduled for Nov. 2.
NASCAR is expected to announce its complete 2014 Sprint Cup schedule sometime in the next week to 10 days.


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Nevada at Pacific
Tipoff: 7 p.m., Spanos Center
Records: Wolf Pack 4-3, Tigers 3-4
Coaches: Wolf Pack: David Carter (third season, 38-35), Tigers: Bob Thomason (25th season, 417-313)
Radio: 1280-AM, pacifictigers.com
Projected starters: Wolf Pack - F Devonte Elliott (7 ppg, 4 rpg), F Kevin Panzer (6.4 ppg, 4.1 rpg), G Jerry Evans Jr. (5.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg), G Deonte Burton (18 ppg, 3 apg), G Malik Story (17.6 ppg, 2 apg); Tigers - F Colin Beatty (3.5 ppg, 3.9 rpg), F Ross Rivera (9.6 ppg, 2.7 rpg), C Khali Kelley (5.1 ppg, 2.4 rpg), G Sama Taku (6.4 ppg, 4.1 rpg), G Lorenzo McCloud (12 ppg, 3.1 apg)
Skinny: Pacific caught a glimpse of a future conference foe Saturday at Gonzaga, suffering an 85-67 loss to the Bulldogs in Spokane, Wash. The Tigers join the West Coast Conference next season, which the Bulldogs have dominated the past decade. No shame, however, really. Gonzaga had outscored its previous seven opponents by an average of 29 points. The Bulldogs are ranked No. 10 by The Associated Press this week. Travis Fulton came off the bench and scored a season-high 15 points and starting guard Lorenzo McCloud scored 14. Pacific shot 47 percent from the field and 53 percent from behind the 3-point arc but made only 11 of 19 (58 percent) at the foul line and was outrebounded 37-19, including 16-6 on the offensive glass. ... Pacific leads the series with Nevada 52-45. The Wolf Pack beat the Tigers last season at home 78-54 to snap a four-game skid to Pacific. In the past 10 games, Pacific holds a 6-4 advantage. Nevada's last win at Pacific (77-70) was on Dec. 3, 2005. ... McCloud is the only Tiger averaging double figures, scoring 12 points per game. McCloud is shooting 52.9 percent from the field and 58.3 from behind the arc. Ten other Pacific players are averaging between three and just under 10 points per game. Junior forward Ross Rivera is scoring 9.6 points per game and grabbing 2.7 rebounds per game. Travis Fulton tops the team with 4.0 rebounds per game and is adding 7.7 points per game. ... Nevada boasts two 1,000-point scorers - junior point guard Deonte Burton and senior shooting guard Malik Story. Burton scored his 1,000th career point on Nov. 17 against Green Bay, and Story joined the club on Nov. 18 against Southern Utah. ... The Wolf Pack is competing in the Mountain West Conference after spending 12 years in the Western Athletic Conference. Prior to being in the WAC, Nevada was a member of the Big West. ... Nevada lost Friday to Drake, 76-66, after beating UC Davis 84-83 on Wednesday.


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Jets try to build momentum vs. Sabres
After snapping their longest losing streak of the season over the weekend, the Winnipeg Jets continue their quest to reclaim first place in the Southeast Division as they host the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night.
The Jets held a six-point lead for the top spot in their division on March 27 before losing each of their next five games in regulation. They were outscored 20-6 in that time before a big second period on Saturday led to a 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.
Grant Clitsome, Kyle Wellwood and Evander Kane all scored during a 2:06 span in the middle frame and Bryan Little also tallied in the period. Blake Wheeler had two assists and Ondrej Pavelec made 30 saves.
"It was a big game. We were trying to get out of that funk or whatever you call it," Little said.
The Jets currently sit tied for ninth in the Eastern Conference with 40 points, two back of the first-place Washington Capitals in the division. The Caps do have a game in hand and visit the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday.
Winnipeg is also just two points behind the New York Rangers and Islanders for the final two playoff spots in the conference, while Buffalo is 11th in the East and four points back in the race.
The Sabres are hoping there is enough time for a late surge as they picked up their third straight victory on Sunday with a 3-2 shootout decision over the New Jersey Devils. That win streak comes on the heels of a 0-2-2 skid and Buffalo is 7-3-3 in its past 13.
Ryan Miller made 37 saves in Sunday's win and came up with another two stops in the shootout. Nathan Gerbe scored in the second round for the winner, while Patrick Kaleta and Steve Ott scored in regulation.
"We survived and got two points. Not pretty, but it's two," Miller said. "When you win hockey games, there's a certain belief. And we're just trying to do it one game at a time."
Buffalo is continuing to win despite leading scorer Thomas Vanek missing his sixth game in a row due to an upper body injury. He is questionable to return tonight. Fellow forward Ville Leino missed his fourth game in a row with an upper body issue and is out indefinitely.
The Sabres are trying to win four straight for the first time this season, but have lost each of their last four games against the Jets. That includes a 2-1 home setback on Feb. 19 in the first of three regular season meetings.
Winnipeg, which will visit Buffalo on April 22, got 29 saves from Pavelec and goals by Andrew Ladd and Little, while Miller had 26 stops for the Sabres.
The Jets have won both of their previous games in Winnipeg against Buffalo since relocating from Atlanta and have taken nine of the past 11 as the host in this series overall.


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Andrea Barzagli is of the opinion that Juventus can spring a surprise and win the Champions League, even though he realises that the Serie A champions are not the strongest team in the tournament.
The Bianconeri beat Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 on Wednesday evening as they secured top spot in their group and qualified for the knockout stages of European club football's elite competition, and the defender is full of ambition.
"We must admit that Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are perhaps a bit ahead of us," Barzagli told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
"So we hope to avoid Jose Mourinho's Madrid in the round of 16.
"However, as Gigi Buffon previously said, it doesn't always matter who is stronger. What matters is that you are the best at the right moment. Anything can happen."
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"Finally. For years, the holy grail of the Linux desktop has been to get a major computer vendor to commit to preloading a Linux desktop. It finally happened. On August 4th, we found out that Lenovo Group, the company that has taken over IBM's Personal Computing Division, had made a deal with Novell to preload SLED 10 on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation. For the first time, a major OEM has committed to preloading a Linux desktop."


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CARSON, Calif. (Monday, January 23, 2012) – The LA Galaxy announced today that the club has hired Jovan Kirovski to become an assistant coach starting with the 2012 season. Kirovski spent five of his 20 years as a professional player in a Galaxy uniform, including the last three years when he helped the club win the Supporters' Shield in back-to-back seasons and reach MLS Cup twice, culminating with his first MLS Cup title last season. Kirovski joins Dave Sarachan, Curt Onalfo and Ian Feuer on Bruce Arena's coaching staff, replacing Gregg Berhalter who left the club in December to become the new head coach of Hammarby in the Swedish Superettan.
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"Jovan is a very experienced guy, he knows our club and he knows the way that we do things," Arena said. "He has prepared himself to get into coaching and I think that it will be a good transition for him and he will be a great addition to our staff."
"I am excited for the future and I am excited to remain a part of this club," Kirovski added. "It was a great experience for me to be able to have had the playing career that I did and I am proud with where I have played and what I accomplished, especially the last few years here with the Galaxy, now I am looking forward to this next step of my career with a club that means so much to me."
A native of Escondido, Calif., Kirovski began his professional soccer career in 1992 when he joined the youth ranks at Manchester United alongside players like David Beckham, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes. After four years with United, Kirovski moved to Germany, signing with Borussia Dortmund and becoming the first American to win the UEFA Champions League in 1997 while also becoming the first American to score a goal in the competition, doing so against Sparta Prague. He would go on to play for fellow German side FC Koln and Sporting Lisbon in Portugal as well as Crystal Palace and Birmingham City in England before heading to the Galaxy and MLS ahead of the start of the 2004 season.
An All-Star for the Galaxy in 2004 when he scored an MLS-career-high eight goals, Kirovski spent the first year and a half of his time in MLS with the Galaxy. He was traded to Colorado in September 2005 and helped the Rapids reach back-to-back Western Conference Championships in 2005 and 2006 before finishing as the club's top scorer in 2007. He returned to the Galaxy in November 2008 following a short stay with the San Jose Earthquakes and became a key veteran contributor to the club's renaissance. He played in 56 games over the last three seasons as well as five postseason matches in that time, scoring six goals and adding three assists as the Galaxy re-established themselves as the premier club in Major League Soccer. He finished his MLS career with 30 goals and 13 assists in 174 regular season games.
In addition to his club career, Kirovski, who recently completed the course work for his U.S. Soccer Federation's "A" coaching license, made 62 appearances with the U.S. National Team, scoring nine times for his country during an 11-year international career. He made his National Team debut in October 1994 and scored his first goal a month later. He helped the U.S. qualify for the World Cup in 1998, 2002 and 2006 while also appearing in the 1995 Copa America, the 1996 and 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cups as well as the 1999 and 2003 FIFA Confederations Cups.
The LA Galaxy opened the 2012 preseason today at The Home Depot Center. The club will play their first official game of 2012 on Wednesday, March 7 when they face Toronto FC in the first leg of their 2011/12 CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal, which will be played at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They will open the 2012 MLS season three days later on Saturday, March 10 when they host Real Salt Lake at The Home Depot Center in MLS First Kick 2012, presented by Dick's Sporting Goods. That game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. (PT) and tickets are on sale now as part of season ticket packages as well as three and six-game plans. Visit www.lagalaxy.com/tickets to purchase Season Tickets.


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CARSON, Calif. – David Junior Lopes answered Gareth Bale's superb header, and the LA Galaxy claimed a 1-1 draw with England's Tottenham Hotspur in a friendly Tuesday night at The Home Depot Center.
Highlights: LA 1, THFC 1
Bale's header gave Tottenham a 17th-minute lead, and Lopes, with his first goal since joining LA in April, netted the equalizer in the 28th.
Tottenham, which opens the English Premier League season Aug. 18 at Newcastle United, withstood an impressive first-half appearance by the Galaxy, with former Spurs star Robbie Keane the primary target.
The Galaxy, who also face Real Madrid in an August 2nd friendly at The Home Depot Center, went with a younger lineup after halftime and were fortunate to hold on for the draw.
LA head coach Bruce Arena gave No. 2 goalkeeper Brian Perk his first start since May and rookie Jose Villarreal, the hero in the victory over Vancouver six days earlier, was in the first XI for the first time.
Tottenham's starting lineup included Rafael Van der Vaart and Jermain Defoe, but American goalkeeper Brad Friedel didn't feature. Van der Vaart departed after 35 minutes with an apparent groin injury, heading straight to the locker room.
Spurs had the better of the early chances, forcing Perk into two good saves, and the third time was the charm.
Gylfi Sigurdsson – a new arrival, from Hoffenheim in Germany – swung a ball from the left. Bale, about 13 yards out, outleapt Omar Gonzalez, flicking the cross over a leaping Perk into the upper-left corner.
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The lead lasted just 11 minutes, though. Hector Jimenez sprinted in behind left back Sebastien Bassong as Marcelo Sarvas curled the ball onto his path, and he volleyed it back across the box for Lopes to stab home.
Keane was a handful for the Spurs' backline during his 45-minute stint, battling gamely with Ajax transfer Jan Vertonghen and twice threatened, only to be denied by Spurs full back Kyle Walker and goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini.
The Galaxy made seven substitutions at halftime; Tottenham just two, bringing on six more players during the second half. Among LA's changes: rookie goalkeeper Brian Rowe making his club debut, Mike Magee returning from a shin injury, rookies Rafael Garcia and Tommy Meyer moving onto the backline, and Jack McBean joining fellow teen Villarreal up front.
With LA fielding a less experienced lineup in the second half, Tottenham dominated the proceedings, but were unable to regain the lead despite a good look for Defoe and penalty appeals from Bale, Sigurdsson and youngster Harry Kane.
The game was the fourth friendly the Galaxy has played against English opposition, though they have yet to win one of those games.
LA have an MLS game Saturday night at FC Dallas while Tottenham's US tour continues with games Saturday against Liverpool in Baltimore and next Tuesday against the New York Red Bulls at Red Bull Arena.


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NPS—USGS Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring Partnership Program
In 1998, the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) initiated a water quality partnership program with support from the Clean Water Action Plan. The partnership program is a mutual collaboration between both agencies. The goal of the program is to develop information on park water quality to enable the National Park Service to address its most critical water quality management responsibilities.
As directed by the initiative, USGS District Offices and individual parks collaborate closely to refine project statements from NPS Resource Management Plans. Submitted project proposals are ranked by an interagency work group and selected for funding. The projects selected address the highest priority NPS water quality issues identified by park managers. They include investigations of nutrient transport in groundwater; nutrient, sediment and metal transport and loading in streams; atmospheric deposition in streams and lakes; microbiological contamination in recreational waters; organic contamination in stream and lake sediments; and aquatic biological health. In addition, fixed-station monitoring and technical assistance projects are implemented to address park needs related to providing baseline water quality data and advice on specific water issues.
Perhaps the most beneficial result of the partnership is the interaction of park staff with USGS scientists. Through the activities of the partnership, new relationships are established which provide opportunities for future collaborations. Also, the partnership is producing tangible products for park managers including data for resource decision-making, information for interpretation purposes, monitoring plans for park staff, and professional reports with detailed results.
In 2011 eight projects were selected for funding beginning in 2012. To date, 163 partnership projects have been initiated in 110 parks. The NPS and USGS are exploring ways to expand the partnership concept to address other water resource needs in parks. These discussions culminated in the establishment of a liaison position in 2007 to facilitate increased communication and exchange of technical information between the agencies, and help develop new opportunities for water resources collaborative project work in parks.
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Growth Stocks to Power Your Portfolio
Investors should focus their attention on companies that have a strong balance sheet and are expected to grow their revenues by double digits. Oliver Pursche joins Markets Hub with his stock picks. Photo: Reuters.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. stock market finished lower Wednesday after mid-afternoon selling intensified when President Barack Obama, in a speech in Brussels, called for further economic sanctions against Russia over its annexation of Crimea.
Stocks rose in the morning on the back of a strong headline number for durable-goods orders, as well as hopes for additional European and Chinese stimulus measures. However, gains soon evaporated.
The S&P 500 SPX, -1.82% ended the day 13.06 points, or 0.7%, lower at 1,852.56. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.70% finished the day 60.69 points, or 1.4%, lower at 4,173.58. The tech-heavy index turned negative for the year and is now underperforming the benchmark S&P 500.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.21% dropped 98.89 points, or 0.6%, to 16,268.99.
Read the recap of MarketWatch's live blog of Wednesday's stock-market action.
"It was a repeat of some of the recent weakness. Early strength was in the blue chips, while tech and small caps were weak. Once the afternoon hit, it became a cascade of selling," said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
The high-profile debut of King Digital Entertainment PLC US:KING maker of the popular 'Candy Crush' game, disappointed investors as the stock dove 16%. One analyst said King's debut was hit by "extremely fast money." King Digital has faced skepticism, with some experts describing the company as a "one-trick pony."
In after-hours trade, Citibank shares fell 5% after the Fed rejected the bank's capital plan. The firm announced it had requested a $6.4 billion common stock repurchase program through the first quarter of 2015 and an increase of the quarterly common stock dividend to $0.05.
Movers: Facebook, Five Below, Plug
Among other individual stocks, Facebook Inc. FB, +0.67% lost 6.9% after the social-media giant said late Tuesday that it's buying virtual-reality goggles maker Oculus VR Inc. for $2 billion.
On the upside, Five Below Inc. FIVE, -8.97% surged 11% after the youth retailer posted fourth-quarter results late Tuesday that topped Wall Street estimates. Read more in the Movers & Shakers column.
Volatile fuel-cell company stocks sold off. Plug Power PLUG, -1.69% plummeted 24%, at one point triggering Nasdaq's short-sale circuit breaker. Ballard Power Systems Inc. BLDP, -2.45% also dived, losing 23% after surging 32% a day earlier, and FuelCell Energy Inc. FCEL, -14.61% slid 18% after gaining 20% on Tuesday.
Plug Power had surged 49% on Tuesday, its best daily percentage gain since early January, following a MarketWatch report that it has a major deal in the works.
In economic news, orders for big-ticket items rose 2.2% in February, powered by higher bookings for autos and aircraft. That topped the flat result expected by economists surveyed by MarketWatch. Stripping out the volatile transportation sector, orders rose a smaller 0.2%.
"Once you get beyond the headline number, the details are a bit disappointing," said Anastasia Amoroso, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds. But she added that investors are encouraged, because autos and aircraft orders — "volatile or not, core or not" — still do matter and help the economy.
Amoroso also said while this week's economic reports have been mixed, the Federal Reserve continues to signal that it sees overall improvement. "What trumps it all is the Fed's conviction that we are now on the path to a self-sustaining recovery," she told MarketWatch.
Hopes for measures that could boost China's economy as well as speculation of more stimulus moves by the European Central Bank contributed to positive sentiment in early trade, according to Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital.
"The big thing is that yesterday one of the ECB officials indicated they will fight deflation, and so that's a sign of increasing stimulus, and if China and the ECB both begin to increase stimulus, that's an indication that the global economy can perk up and the threat of deflation spreading can be halted," Cardillo said.
In other markets, European stocks rose and Asian equities also saw a largely positive session.
Oil CLM4, -2.48% prices rose, but gold GCM4, +0.00% was slightly lower. The ICE dollar index DXY, -0.24% which measures the U.S. unit against a basket of six major rivals, advanced.
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I'm sitting just 14m underwater on a shelf on the southern side of Wolf Island in the Galapagos looking at something I've waited my whole life to see... schooling Hammerheads... not just a few... hundreds!
Apart from the hundreds of Hammerhead's parading in front of us, there are curious Galapagos sharks (looking more intimidating than the hammerheads), schools of the biggest eagle rays we've ever seen circling so close we could touch them, cruising turtles, and so many fish that they photo bomb the photos we're trying to take of the sharks. This really is a diver's dream and enough to make even decades-experienced divers beam with joy and wax lyrical about all they saw once back on board the boat.I eventually stop taking pictures on my new camera system, stop shooting video through the GoPro attached on top, and I just let myself take it all in... I'm underwater in the Galapagos Islands and they're here! It was the start of an amazing 8 days of diving and land tours that we'd planned for almost two years and saved for just as long.
Galapagos isn't easy – it's one of the hardest dive sights to get to, and the conditions are not perfect flat calm diving like your normal tropical destinations. But all that is forgotten when you hit the water – and for a kiwi diver it feels familiar and even looks similar to many Hauraki Gulf Islands both above and below the water (apart from the inhabitants!)
The reason it's such good diving is that there are seven different oceanic currents that hit the Galapagos, but the main one is the largest upwelling system in the world, called the "Humboldt" cold water current. This is the most productive on earth with almost 20% of all fish caught on the planet bathed by its flow! This, combined with warm tropical currents, is why there's so much life here and why we have to be prepared for temperature ranges of 14 – 25 degrees underwater!
We visit an island to see Land Iguana's and are amazed at how close we can get without startling them – great pictures are almost embarrassingly easy! Sea Lions lie ignoring you on the sand while you take pictures of "Blue Footed Boobies" (yes, that is their real name!) performing mating rituals and making nests and tending to eggs while Frigate birds with huge red waddles try and attract mates in front of beaming people glued to their cameras! We look out to sea and watch acres of dolphin leap and play in the water surrounding the island – this place is just so full of life you don't know where to look or point the camera!
Then we're back to the main boat to travel another 6-7 hours north to Darwin Island and more importantly Darwin's Arch. For me, this is the focus of the trip – it can make or break the whole two weeks if they're not there!
I shouldn't have worried... 4 minutes into the first dive – the guide suddenly frantically signals and points before disappearing as fast as he can into the blue. We follow, kicking as fast as we can – all scared we won't see her... But there she is – a 15m pregnant Whale Shark – she's huge (even for a Whale Shark!). And we get closer than I thought we would – I get so close I'm being pulled along in her slipstream, and I can slow my kicking right down and glide with her like I'm a remora. One of the coolest moments I've ever had underwater!
I look to my buddies and they're all having a blast, I look to the huge schools of big eye Trevalley, the Hammerhead and Galapagos Sharks in the distance, the Turtle posing for pictures, and the millions of other fish that surround us all at once and think... This is what diving is all about!
We end up seeing a total of 14 Whale Sharks during our dives at Darwin's Arch and on the last dive – like most trip organisers before me – I have a quiet sigh of relief that it's all been so amazing... then I turn back to my camera before I miss the next shot. You can never have too many Whale Shark pictures!
We're back from the Galapagos Islands now and it was the best dive trip we've ever done! There is something we got wrong though... "Once in a Lifetime" isn't correct - we are so going back!
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EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Industrial employment in Idaho increased 1.5% over the past year, according to the 2013 Idaho Manufacturers Directory®, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc. (MNI) Evanston, IL. MNI reports Idaho gained 1,096 manufacturing jobs from October 2011 to October 2012, the first gain the industrial publisher has recorded for the state since 2006.
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"Idaho continues to see its manufacturing sector improve," says Tom Dubin, President of the Evanston, IL-based publishing company, which has been surveying industry since 1912. "Its educated workforce and low business costs have made it easier for manufacturers to expand."
Bright spots for the state the included the opening of Chobani's $450 million yogurt-manufacturing plant in Twin Falls; Cives Steel Company's plans to open a steel fabrication factory in Idaho Falls; and the opening of a Southwark metal ductwork plant in Caldwell. In addition, several manufacturers operating in Idaho have announced expansions, including Precision Machining in Nampa; Lactalis American Group, also in Nampa; Schweitzer Engineering in Lewiston; and ATCO Structures and Logistics in Pocatello.
Losses for the state included layoffs at Lewiston's Clearwater Paper lumber mill after it was purchased by Idaho Forest Group.
MNI reports industrial machinery and equipment remains Idaho's largest industrial sector by employment with 15,331 jobs, down 1.7% over the year. Food products manufacturing ranks second and accounts for 14,883 jobs, down 3.3%. Third-ranked lumber/wood represents 8,808 of the state's jobs, up 2.4% over the past twelve months.
Most other industrial sectors gained jobs over the year including textiles/apparel, up 5.5%; primary metals, up 5%; fabricated metals, up 4.7%; paper products, up 4.3%; instruments/related products, up 3.2%; furniture/fixtures, up 3%; chemicals, up 2.9%; transportation equipment, up 1.7%; and stone/clay/glass, up 1.1%. Losses were seen in printing/publishing, down 5.4% and electronics, down 1.3%.
According to the industrial directory, Southwest Idaho accounts for the largest share of the state's manufacturing employment with 41,547 manufacturing jobs, up 1.9%. Southeast Idaho ranks second at 17,972 manufacturing jobs, up 1.7%. Northern Idaho is home to 14,401 industrial jobs, with no significant change reported over the year.
MNI reports Boise remains the state's top city for manufacturing employment, with 21,939 jobs, up 1.4% over the year. Nampa ranks second with 5,890 jobs, up 2.4%. Jobs increased 3% in Idaho Falls, with the city now home to 4,347 industrial jobs. Industrial employment in Lewiston decreased 8.4% over the year with the fourth-ranked city accounting for 2,916 jobs, while Pocatello is home to 2,827, up 4.8% over the past twelve months.
Detailed profiles of Idaho's 2,152 manufacturers and 390 distributors can be found in the 2013 Idaho Manufacturers Directory®, available in print for $89, or available online through MNI's subscription-based service at www.ezselect.com. Users may generate custom profiles of manufacturers using a variety of criteria, including area or zip code, county, SIC, sales volume, number of employees, and more. Each profile provides up to 30 facts, including vital contact information (phone, web, e-mail), 7,439 executives by name and title, product(s) manufactured, annual sales, and number of employees. MNI also maintains IndustryNet.com, an industrial search engine designed specifically for locating manufacturers and suppliers nationwide, and has recently launched an expansion and relocation guide for manufacturers.
Manufacturers' News, Inc. is the nation's oldest and largest publisher of state manufacturers directories. For 100 years the company has identified, researched and profiled manufacturing establishments. MNI employs an 85-person editorial staff to scour state business registrations, trade journals, financial reports, and many other sources to pinpoint every manufacturing establishment in the U.S. Each manufacturer is contacted throughout the year to update their profiles, including their employee counts. For more information, contact Manufacturers' News, Inc., 1633 Central St., Evanston, IL, 60201, 847-864-7000, FAX 847-332-1100. www.manufacturersnews.com. Information is also available on Facebook and Twitter.
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I think implementing this the way you're doing it, where it changes existing setups on upgrade, is a bad idea, because it will leak the disk space used by the original /tmp and the administrator will have no obvious way to get at those files to delete them (even more so if the "administrator" is just an average home user). It's also quite rude to change existing setups that way.
I think this should be set up in the default fstab for new installations only (if at all). (The reason you give for not using fstab is so it also works for upgrades, but that's exactly the wrong thing to do.)
I'm also worried about the compatibility with many existing applications, and I disagree about the Downloads xdg-user-dir being an appropriate place for temporary downloaded files, as opposed to downloads the user intends to keep. But the decision to overrule the existing fstab instead of honoring it is the biggest issue.
--Kkofler 21:03, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
We definitely should update existing setups, how we do it for all other changes too. /tmp is kind of an "API" VFS (i.e. unlikely real device FS like for /home), and APIs shouldn't differ between installations. (By "API" VFS I mean that is there to implement a certain API to application -- in this case mkstemp() and mkdtemp() and friends -- and not to provide user storage). And it's not at all rude to make upgrades to the system if the user explicitly started the upgrade process.
Simply mounting /tmp over is not really "leaking" since this does not actually result in any additional disk usage. We can document in the release notes how the admin/user can reclaim the space used by old /tmp files.
This definitely should not be listed in /etc/fstab, since it is an API VFS and we want to keep those out of the view of the admin/user. It is something that "should just work", in the background, without being visible to the user. It's not something that is supposed to be primary subject to user configuration, and be exposed as a direct configuration option by listing it in fstab.
In fact, we believe that the delta towards stateless read-only systems should be made minimal and we should head towards installing an entirely empty fstab by default, so that fstab is exclusive property by the admin and user.
Also, not changing /tmp to tmpfs by default for existing installtions will mean that our testing base during the development of Fedora 18 will be much smaller and we have no chance finding out which applications are incompatible with tmpfs on tmpfs.
Patching /etc/fstab on package installation is not realistically possible, since it cannot be implemented idempotent (i.e. if we place the /tmp entry in fstab once, and the user removes/comments it, on the next upgrade we'd have to readd it).
Finally, the tmpfs .mount unit is an upstream change that is now available in other distributions, too. We should not deviate in Fedora from that. Not even Debian lists /tmp in fstab anymore.
Compatibility with applications is a real problem, but some nebulous fear of it is is not going to help. The only thing that is going to help is finding out more about it, is by enabling it across a big number of development installations, and collecting feedback. Hence we suggest to enable this early in the development process in F18 and be prepared to revert it.
You know, the answer to "there might be a problem! OMG!" is not "let's not do it", but "ok, let's find a process to figure out if that's really true, and whether we can fix it". And that's what we are doing here. Enable it early in F18, collect data, fix if possible, revert if not. Also, Debian has already turned this on and is collecting information about it in their development cycle. They have already found a small number couple of culprits, which are being fixed.
Uh? no, "temporary" downloaded files should not be in xdg-user-dir's download directory. Did anybody claim that? It's the directory for user downloads and user downloads-in-progress. Please don't spread FUD.
--Lennart 10:28, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
BTW, we now changed things so that /etc/fstab takes precedence over our distro tmp.mount unit. That means the user can change the /tmp fs by editing fstab just fine, and we'll not override what the user might have configured there before with the upgrade.
--Lennart 16:30, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
That doesn't help the common case where /tmp is on / and where your new tmpfs now shadows it. Sure, disk space will not increase, but there will be files totally unreachable during normal operation (which is perfectly in my definition of "leaked"), and unmounting /tmp (to get at those files) is impractical to impossible on a running system, it requires reconfiguration, a reboot, reversion of the reconfiguration and another reboot to perform reliably.
--Kkofler 03:01, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- sudo mount /dev/sda1 /some/where/just/to/see/whats/inside/tmpdir will do the trick.