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Jessica Lewis, Fundraising Innovation Consultant, hjc
With all the buzz surrounding the Boston marathon this week, it brings back memories of my last race in New York in November. I caught the marathon bug a few years ago, running my first one in Toronto in 2012 and then Chicago the following year. After running Chicago, I decided that I wanted to complete another major marathon and was determined to run New York.
You can get into the New York marathon by either gaining entry through the lottery system, qualifying with extremely fast race times (speedier than Boston) or signing up with a charity team. I decided to sign up to run and fundraise for Team for Kids, which is the New York marathon's partner charity that supports New York Road Runners by offering health and fitness programs to children in under-served schools across the United States.
I chose to run with Team for Kids for two main reasons. One, I felt a connection to the cause. Two, the minimum fundraising goal was $2,620 which seemed achievable in comparison to other participating charity requirements. It might not seem like a lot of money, but I knew that I would likely depend on the support of my peers for micro-donations of $25 on average. Breaking down my total goal meant that I would need to get over 100 people to donate to my personal fundraising page. According to The Next Generation of Canadian Giving, 64% of Gen Ys are 1-2 times more likely than Gen X, Boomers and Matures to support someone else raising money on behalf of a charity. Most of my peers fall within Gen Y, so at least I had a better chance at gaining their support!
At hjc, we have been doing a lot more work with our clients around mapping optimal donor journeys, which has often led to improving the overall experience (and conversion rates) for event participants. It got me thinking about my journey running with Team for Kids – from the first touch point of creating a profile online to receiving the alumni newsletter.
If I were to map out my own journey with Team for Kids it would look something like this:
- I created a profile with Team for Kids and received a confirmation email
- I received multiple confirmation emails, including an acknowledgment of my self-pledge, a summary of my registration payment and a fundraising agreement outlining my commitment to raise $2,620 by October 1st
- I received a fundraising kick-off email with ample resources to kick start my fundraising and sent out my first donation e-appeal asking friends and family for support
- I received the first donation to my personal fundraising page!
- I received weekly coaching emails over the 5 months leading up to the event, which included both fundraising and training tips, and inspired me to host my own fundraising event
- I posted a link to my personal fundraising page on Facebook asking my friends for support
- There were other emails, videos, conference calls that included multiple resources for both fundraising and running. These resources were inspirational and connected me to the cause.
- I hosted a cocktail party to raise money for Team for Kids and reached my fundraising goal!
- I got race day reminders (e.g. transportation, pre marathon breakfast) and started packing for my trip to New York
- I ran the New York marathon!
- After the event, I received a congratulations email
- I received a post event survey
- I am now subscribed to the Team for Kids alumni newsletter
In addition to receiving email communications from Team for Kids, I followed their charity page on Facebook to connect with other participants. Because of this, on the day of the marathon I got the VIP experience and was able to jump on the charity bus to go to the starting line and huddle inside the Team for Kids tent to stay warm. Not to mention, the charity had also arranged for access to hot water for my pre-race ritual meal of oatmeal and a banana. After crossing the finish line, I was welcomed by a nice volunteer who helped me stumble over to the finisher's tent to rest my tired legs after a grueling 42 kilometers through all 5 boroughs of the city.
My journey from start to finish was fantastic – from the first Team for Kids coaching email to the post-race tent. This could have been dramatically different if the charity didn't provide me with resources to help me reach my fundraising goal, such as social media banners I could re-purpose for my efforts, or inspirational stories that were shared with me along the way to build my connection to the cause. Not to mention, the race day support like hot water and a cozy post marathon tent. These were moments that mattered to me.
Putting on my consultant hat, they did everything right. Team for Kids provided me with the tools and support to reach my fundraising goal. We know from our work with non-profit clients that journey mapping is effective in increasing donor conversion rates and building more personal relationships with constituents.
Does your organization personalize and optimize the experience for event participants? What does your current journey look like for participants from the time they register to the day of the event? Do you know what your supporters would consider the 'moments that matter?'
Jessica Lewis is a Fundraising Innovation Consultant at hjc, a global consulting agency in the nonprofit sector. She helps her clients use online technologies to fundraise, advocate and build brand awareness. If you want to chat further about this topic you can reach Jessica at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can follow her on Twitter @jessklewis.


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Please read all instructions before commencing
1. Cut a piece of light pink card 13cm x 13cm with a craft knife and ruler on a self healing mat.
2. Carefully lift of the Ribbon Sticker with the help of a Positioning Tool.
Attach along the 4 edges of the card.
NB. Start the ribbon sticker at the same point in each corner so they are evenly matched around the card.
Picture 1.
3. Carefully lift a corner of the ribbon sticker and cut using small scissors across the corners.
Start at the outer corner and cut towards the middle, where the corners meet up.
This will give you a lovely mitred corner.
Repeat on all the corners.
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4. Cut the main card with a paper trimmer 14.2 x 28.4, score at 14.2 cm and fold.
Attach the ribbon topper with double sided tape. Leave to one side.
5. Place white card into the Daisy embossing folder and run through the Cuttlebug with plates A and 2 x B plates.
With the Large Oval Die place the embossed card on top and run through the Cuttlebug once again this time using plates A, B and C.
6. Cut out the Marianne Craftables Basket 1208 using a Cuttlebug with plates A, B and C,
Run through the Cuttlebug once again this time with the embossing mat.
Colour the basket with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink using a small ink sponge.
7. Attach the embossed oval to the pink card with Elmers Glue. See card for positioning.
Attach the basket using Zig 2-Way glue.
8. Snip the wire from the back of the Marianne Design Paper Flowers, arrange the flowers to your liking.
Use tweezers to place the flowers on the basket with Helmar glue.
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9. Pick up a Just For You with a pokey tool and place in the centre of the card.
10. Place 2 holographic butterflies onto a piece of acetate with a pokey tool and with scissors carefully cut around the butterflies. Bend the wings at the thorax to give the butterfly dimension. Holding with tweezers place a small amount of Helmar glue to the thorax of the butterfly. Place a butterfly on each side of the peel off.
Your card is now complete!

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Industrial communications: Beijer Electronics acquires Westermo
Malmö, Sweden —
Beijer Electronics
announced today that it is acquiring Swedish company
, active in industrial data communications for about $33 million (SEK 215 million, Swedish Krona)
Commenting, Göran Sigfridsson, Beijer Electronics' CEO and president, said: "The acquisition of Westermo is a strategic milestone in the Beijer Electronics group's continued development. Westermo's broad product range and high organic growth complements and enhances Beijer Electronics' automation offering for industrial and infrastructure."
Westermo is a family business founded in 1975, described as "a niche data communications player with specialized know-how in industrial applications." This segment has especially stringent demands for robust products in harsh environments, which require high reliability and safety, Beijer noted. Westermo products include switches, routers, fiber-optic modems, and modems for LANs and wireless communication. Westermo also manufactures at its plant in Stora Sundby, outside Eskilstuna, west of Stockholm. The company conducts marketing and sales under the Westermo brand, and has proprietary sales companies in Sweden, the U.K., Germany, France and Singapore, plus some 30 distributors worldwide. The Nordic market represents some 20% of sales, while the rest of Europe provides 70%.
At present, Westermo has an estimated global market share of some 5% for the products it sells, Beijer says, outgrowing the market, posting average yearly growth of 17% in the last 10 years. Estimated growth for 2007 is consistent with this average.
"Data communications are becoming a more important part of the automation solutions in manufaturing and infrastructure projects. That's why we anticipate yearly growth of 15-20 % in industrial communications, and especially in the Industrial Ethernet segment, where Westermo has a strong product offering," continued Sigfridsson, "at the same time, many customers want to deal with fewer but larger vendors of total solutions. So with the acquisition of Westermo, Beijer Electronics is sharpening its overall competitiveness."
For the short term, the main coordination gains are in sales, Beijer says. Largely, Beijer Electronics and Westermo target the same customers with complementary products. In the slightly longer term, the coordination gains will extend to procurement, product development and production. Westermo will be an independent business area of Beijer Electronics. Its management will retain their positions, with Lars Ola Lundqvist as CEO, whose experience includes many years with ABB Robotics.
The company reportedly will be consolidated into Beijer Electronics' accounts from Jan. 1, 2008. The acquisition will be financed with existing funds and loans and is expected to have a positive impact on Beijer Electronics' earnings per share in 2008.
—Edited by Mark T. Hoske, editor in chief
Control Engineering News Desk
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However [http://goo.gl/eG4q9 Benjamin Tissoires] posted a program on the kernel mailing list that allows pairing of additional devices also under Linux.
However [http://goo.gl/eG4q9 Benjamin Tissoires] posted a program on the kernel mailing list that allows pairing of additional devices also under Linux.
can [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58261 AUR
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Afterwards the code has to be compiled into the executable file ''pairing_tool'':
Afterwards the code has to be compiled into the executable file ''pairing_tool'':
$ gcc -o pairing_tool pairing_tool.c
$ gcc -o pairing_tool pairing_tool.c
==Pairing of Compatible Devices==
==Pairing of Compatible Devices==
Revision as of 10:35, 4 December 2012
zh-TW:Logitech Unifying Receiver The Logitech Unifying Receiver is a wireless receiver that can connect up to six compatible wireless mice and keyboards to your computer. The input device that comes with the receiver is already paired with it and should work out of the box through plug and play. Logitech officially supports pairing of additional devices just through their Windows software. However Benjamin Tissoires posted a program on the kernel mailing list that allows pairing of additional devices also under Linux.
Installing pairing_tool
From AUR
You can install pairingtool directly from AUR.
Compiling manually
If you want, you can also compile the sourcecode manually.
At first make sure that a C compiler is installed on your system:
# pacman -S gcc
Afterwards copy and paste the following code to a local file, for example pairing_tool.c:
/* * Copyright 2011 Benjamin Tissoires * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see . */ #include <linux/input.h> #include <linux/hidraw.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> #define USB_VENDOR_ID_LOGITECH (__u32)0x046d #define USB_DEVICE_ID_UNIFYING_RECEIVER (__s16)0xc52b #define USB_DEVICE_ID_UNIFYING_RECEIVER_2 (__s16)0xc532 int main(int argc, char **argv) { int fd; int res; struct hidraw_devinfo info; char magic_sequence[] = {0x10, 0xFF, 0x80, 0xB2, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00}; if (argc == 1) { errno = EINVAL; perror("No hidraw device given"); return 1; } /* Open the Device with non-blocking reads. */ fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK); if (fd < 0) { perror("Unable to open device"); return 1; } /* Get Raw Info */ res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWINFO, &info); if (res < 0) { perror("error while getting info from device"); } else { if (info.bustype != BUS_USB || info.vendor != USB_VENDOR_ID_LOGITECH || (info.product != USB_DEVICE_ID_UNIFYING_RECEIVER && info.product != USB_DEVICE_ID_UNIFYING_RECEIVER_2)) { errno = EPERM; perror("The given device is not a Logitech " "Unifying Receiver"); return 1; } } /* Send the magic sequence to the Device */ res = write(fd, magic_sequence, sizeof(magic_sequence)); if (res < 0) { printf("Error: %d\n", errno); perror("write"); } else if (res == sizeof(magic_sequence)) { printf("The receiver is ready to pair a new device.\n" "Switch your device on to pair it.\n"); } else { errno = ENOMEM; printf("write: %d were written instead of %ld.\n", res, sizeof(magic_sequence)); perror("write"); } close(fd); return 0; }
Afterwards the code has to be compiled into the executable file pairing_tool:
$ gcc -o pairing_tool pairing_tool.c
Pairing of Compatible Devices
Next you need to find the device that the receiver has, therefore take a look at the outputs of
$ cat /sys/class/hidraw/hidrawX/device/uevent |grep NAME
(where you have to replace X with the - on your system valid - integers) until you find your Logitech USB Receiver (here it was directly device 0):
$ cat /sys/class/hidraw/hidraw0/device/uevent |grep NAME HID_NAME=Logitech USB Receiver
Now switch off the device that you want to pair (if it was on) and execute your compiled program with the appropriate device as argument:
# ./pairing_tool /dev/hidraw0 The receiver is ready to pair a new device. Switch your device on to pair it.
Now switch on the device you want to pair. After a few seconds your new device should work properly.
Known Problems
Wrong device
On some systems there is more than one device that has the same name. In that case you will receive the following error message when the wrong device is choosen:
# pairing_tool /dev/hidraw1 Error: 32 write: Broken pipe
Keyboard Layout via xorg.conf
With kernel 3.2 the Unifying Receiver got its own kernel module hid_logitech_dj which does not work flawlessly together with keyboard layout setting set via xorg.conf. A temporary workaround is to use xorg-setxkbmap and set the layout manually. For example for a German layout with no deadkeys one has to execute:
$ setxkbmap -layout de -variant nodeadkeys
To automate this process one could add this line to xinitrc.


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Punjab (Indo Pak War) | Raj Brar | New Punjabi Song (Video)
This song by Raj Brar narrates the plight and sufferings of residents of Punjab in hostility between India and Pakistan.
In recent days when India claimed to have carries "surgical strikes" along LoC in Kashmir, the people of Punjab were ordered by the Government of India to leave their houses and vacate villages located wit in 10 kms of India-Pakistan International border. India shares border with Pakistan in Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan also but the people of Punjab were displaced by GoI.


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BCC Software releases statement regarding PRC decision
Friday, October 01, 2010
Press release from the issuing company
Rochester, NY — BCC Software announces the following statement by company President Christopher Lien, in response to today's announcement by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) regarding the proposed exigency rate case:
"We appreciate the perspective and sound judgment exercised by the PRC in their denial of the Postal Service's request for a rate case based on exigency. Although the USPS is undeniably in a difficult financial position, sharp rate increases cannot be considered a cure-all for the cumulative conditions facing this proud organization.
"With this decision comes the natural question of 'What's Next?' We at BCC encourage the mailing industry – who spoke so passionately against this proposed rate case for the past several months – to continue to make their voices heard. Congressional representatives must relieve the USPS of its mandated legislative burden in pivotal areas including retirement pre-funding and delivery frequency. The solution to this period of adversity must be found in innovation, and in strategic business decisions that adhere to modern competitive practices.
"BCC continues to support innovative actions by the USPS and the entire postal industry, as the necessary steps toward resolving our current situation."
BCC and its parent company, BÖWE BELL + HOWELL, are members of the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service, a lobbying coalition composed of companies heavily dependent upon the Postal Service™, such as printers, magazine publishers, financial institutions and direct marketers. When the Postal Service announced its proposed exigency rate case, the Coalition lobbied Congress to reject the proposal.
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If you're a business owner, you probably don't look forward to cleaning time. Some managers make their staff clean, others choose to hire professionals. The latter choice is much better.
Many people balk at hiring industrial cleaners because of the cost, but it is actually cheaper in the long run. There are many different factors that guide this.
When it comes to industrial cleaning services, the different tools used will blow your mind. Industrial cleaning materials are expensive. They do improve the quality and speed of the job, though. High-quality cleaning tools are expensive. The cost of acquiring the supplies needed is prohibitive in many cases.
Professional cleaning services already have all of these tools. They're built into the cost of the service. Since you aren't their only client, the cost is spread out amongst their multiple accounts. This provides you with a ton of savings when it comes to the material costs of cleaning.
Your other option is to make your office or warehouse staff clean. This is unadvisable for a couple different reasons. The most important reason is that employees can't perform their regular duties when cleaning. If you have your staff come in on their day off to do it, they need to be paid for the extra time. Usually, you're better off just reinvesting that money into cleaning pros.
Another way that cleaners save time is the sheer speed in which they complete the task. A warehouse cleaning job could take your staff a couple of weeks. The same job might take a contractor just a couple of overnight visits. You can get your business back on track much more quickly when the cleaning doesn't take too long.
Cleaning companies have seen it all. They have worked in every kind of building you can think of. There is no job too big or small. They will even notice problem areas you may not have realized need cleaning. Accumulating dust and debris can cause issues with air quality over time. Cleaning companies will eradicate any area where it may build up.
The most important reason to hire pro cleaners is that the job will get done better. It's their job to make your property sparkle. A clean workplace improves employee morale. People don't want to work in a dusty dingy warehouse and potential clients surely don't want to visit one.


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Why Unemployment Number Doesn't Tell Whole Story
What percentage of working-age Americans are in the workforce? Who has given up looking for work? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... is that they don't ... do it with a Wall Street to the White House ... the unemployment rate ... is the merger of the number of people without jobs ... share of the labor force ... the good news ... deployments been rising modestly each month ... the unemployment rate dropping to six point six percent the bad news the number doesn't tell the ... story ... this Americans are only counted as unemployed ... if they're out of work ... and trying to find a job ... that's why Congress consider another statistic ... the labor force participation rate what is the labor force participation rate ... is the share of the population that's working or looking for work ... the number has fallen to near three decade low ... in January around sixty three percent of people for dissipating in the work force ... Congressional budget office projects that either the economy fully recovers ... a decade from now on the sixty one percent of Americans ... will begin the work looks wise as ... well so was due to the baby boom generation retiring ... I'm ... so sick to my attention and focus on those most likely to be working ... conversely for prime age for first between the ages of twenty five and fifty four years old to help those more like ... you retire are still in school ... some quick history of civil war to about fifty baht for some people in that age range of jobs ... the majority of women staying in hall ... but to the sixties seventies eighties and nineties when they enter the workforce in robes ... and by the Chinese sticks around eighty ... percent of prime age Americans ... were participating in the workforce together visited all them had jobs shows that they were either working or looking for work ... and what happened ... when the recession hit into thousandeight prime participation began sliding downward ... to around eighty one percent ... that means that now when it comes to the unemployment figure of around one in five working age individuals are out of the gains were the go ... WSJ's Mark Peters and David Wessel reports ... around ten a half million men between ages twenty five fifty fourth don't have jobs ... some of them lost their jobs to workers overseas were to technology ... among less educated which is the last two decades have been steadily declining ... making available jobs thus attractive for some to claim an attempt by new work so hard that they wrote in the towel ... many have gone back to school others now rely on government assistance ... the last three decades the number of Americans of all ages collecting disability payments nearly tripled ... most of them are older Americans around two million and under age of fifty four are on disability ... taken together all these complicated and hard to solve problems can result in today's labor force becoming ... as a share of the population ... the smallest kid in thirty five years as the soreness ...


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Arrow Films' Nordic Noir imprint powers up its very own time machine and transports us to the tail end of the eighteenth century with an audacious series that is equal parts criminal investigation, romance, political drama, and conspiracy thriller set against a background of immense social and constitutional transformation. The Age of Enlightenment was a time in which the world we know was being born. Reason battled with religion for the hearts and minds of the age. Europe may have been steeped in blood from wars and revolutions, its people tired of seeing its young men being needlessly slaughtered in military campaigns but by 1790 the continent was plunged into a conflict that had to be waged. The stakes were very high, liberation from the dark ages and the creation of a new society in which reason and science prevailed. Across the continent aftershocks from the French Revolution were still being felt. Ruling elites were fearful of contagion and rebels plotted in darkened corners to overthrow the existing regimes and replace them with more egalitarian and democratically accountable models.
Created by Johan Mardell ( former head of Fiction at SVT and Head of Production at Svensk Filmindustri) and Jonas Frykberg (The Girl who Played with Fire), Anno 1790 was an ambitious undertaking from Pampas Production. Mardell's initial aim was to create a series unlike anything else on Swedish television. By marrying the crime thriller with a historical drama Mardell and Frykberg soon realized that the dramatic possibilities afforded by not being able to rely upon modern technology to solve a plot point opened up a panoply of possible storylines. With location filming undertaken in Stockholm's historic quarters matched alongside some highly detailed sets constructed inside an abandoned hangar in Kumla, Anno 1790 is one of the most lavishly budgeted shows to have been commissioned by Swedish broadcaster SVT. Unflinching in its recreation of life in the 1800s, the series valiantly elects not to over sentimentalize the past, instead demonstrating the harshness of life for ordinary citizens and explores the extent to which institutionally sanctioned inequalities may breed discontent.
The Russo-Swedish war is in its final stages. Our hero, Johan Gustav Dåådh (Peter Eggers) is tending the wounds of injured military personnel. Emotionally torn between the need to alleviate suffering and finding a way to end this senseless conflict Dåådh is a Republican with an interest in science and a strong belief in French Revolution's ideals. Openly expressing such views within a year of the French revolution's opening salvo was very dangerous. Across Europe, governments feared replication and would meter out severe forms of torture to those suspected of fermenting sedition. Seeking aid as he tries to offer medical assistance to the battleground's weak, weary, and wounded Dåådh enlists the services of borderline alcoholic, and fervent Christian, Simon Freund (Joel Spira). This pairing of rationalist and spiritual believer provides a dramatically satisfying way to illustrate the key debate of the Enlightenment era, science versus religion, in a form that is consistent with what we know of this period from surviving historical texts. Suffering a gunshot wound, Freund fears that his life may be about to end and attempts to make the atheist physician swear a religious oath he will return the corpse to the family estate. Freund's wound is not fatal and despite not having vocalized a vow Dåådh escorts him back home. As tutor to the children of Carl Fredrik Wahlstedt (Johan Hson Kjellgren), the commissioner of Stockholm's constabulary Freund is a gateway to a realm of society which, by its very existence, is diametrically opposed to Dåådh's ideological beliefs.
The age of the resurrectionists was not quite over in 1790. Knowledge of human anatomy was an emerging field and in private conversation with a city official Dåådh admits that having delivered Freund he is eager to bid farewell so he can return to an academy in order to further his knowledge, unaware that he will soon have ample opportunity to do so as he is forced to perform an autopsy on a local dignitary found dead in a prostitute's boudoir. By offering assistance in the murder investigation Dåådh's is instantly placed in opposition against the Republican sympathizers with whom he previously consorted. The offer of permanent employment enables Dåådh to slowly transform the system from within ensuring that henceforth justice is to be administered in a merciful form. Any strides he may make in transforming the judicial process are viewed with deep suspicion by his former allies. Balancing on a double-edged sword, Dåådh must not attract attention from those in the political arena who may regard his personal beliefs to be treasonous. Struggling to deny his love for Magdelena Wahlstedt (Linda Zilliacus), the wife of the police chief constable, Dåådh lives with an ever-present fear that discovery would permanently exclude him from her company and also result in his post being filled by a competitor with less socially progressive views on how to police the city.
As a historical costume drama comparisons will inevitably be made with the feature film A Royal Affair and miraculously Anno 1790 manages to equal the movie's aesthetics on a considerably lower TV budget. Some intriguing stylistic choices have been made by the art director, specifically in the use of colour, demonstrating how much in accord the creative team was in terms of communicating the creator's collective vision and understanding the script's subtextual material. Anno 1790 is a superlative production, containing some of the most intriguing screen moments to have occurred since the explosion of interest in Nordic films and TV. It transposes the tropes of the modern police procedural onto a historical drama and in doing so teasingly invites the viewer to comment upon how little our society may have changed despite whatever progress we may think has occurred in the ensuing centuries. Offering a glimpse into the early development of pathology as an investigative tool alongside the foundations of modern Swedish parliamentary democracy, Anno 1790 is an undiscovered classic awaiting its moment in the spotlight. A benchmark example of Nordic Noir, the series can be compared favourably to A Royal Affair, The Killing, and Borgen. Possibly the finest series you've never seen it should find a welcome home amongst any Scandi fan's DVD library,
Anno 1790 is available to order from Amazon.


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Maintenance Therapy With Sunitinib or Observation in Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: a Phase II Randomized Trial.
- Compare the 6-month progression-free survival of patients with metastatic pancreatic
cancer without progression after 6 months of induction chemotherapy treated with
sunitinib malate as maintenance therapy vs observation.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms:
- Arm I: Patients receive oral sunitinib malate once daily for up to 6 months in the
absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
- Arm II: Patients undergo observation only.
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment
6-month progression-free survival
CT scan
every 2 months during therapy; every 3 months thereafter
Michele Reni, MD
Principal Investigator
Istituto Scientifico H. San Raffaele
Italy: Ministry of Health
February 2008
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Molecular Machines - at Scientific American site - a very short general intro
Nanotechnology - a good intro
|"The Technology of the 21st Century"
"Featuring the Stunning Industrial Possibilities of Mastering Atomic Precision Construction, or "Building with Individual Atoms"
This inevitable consequence of continued advancement in the fields of chip manufacture, biology and chemistry will open the era of self-replicating consumer goods, super-health, super-economy and inventions impossible to fabricate with first wave industrialization. The steps toward manipulating matter on such a fine scale and a glimpse of a very different world are presented by pioneering scientists in the field. Follow monthly the discoveries and evolution of a technology sure to change the human experience and dominate the 21st. Century."
On this site you will find a good and very readable overview of what nanotech's about and what it can deliver. Some nice graphics too.
Nanotechnology Now - lots of links, news, other resources, provides relevant and up-to-date information on future technologies such as Molecular Manufacturing, Nanomedicine, Extropianism, and Transhumanism.
Nanotechnology News - current news and events in the nanotechnology world
Center for Nanoscale Systems - includes huge list of links
NanoTechnology - links page
Nanotechnology / Molecular Engineering - list of resources and links; unfortunately this useful website does not seem to have been updated in some years
Nanotechnology - Wikipedia page and portal which contains a decent amount of info
Ralph Merkle's nanotechnology page gives an excellent introduction to key ideas and has annotated links to several dozen other web pages devoted to nanotechnology and related subjects.
Foresight Institute A nonprofit educational organization formed to promote nanotechnology. Their goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition. Foresight focuses its efforts upon nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision, and upon systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion. Eric Drexler is chairman.
Nanomedicine Art Gallery - part of the Foresight Institute web site, some great images here of nanobots inside the human (or any organic) body
Institute of Atomic Scale Engineering - devoted to the promotion and development of Molecular Nanotechnology as clarified, in part, by Dr. K. Eric Drexler. A technology that will induce the most profound changes in the ways of the world. Includes some nifty on-line articles by Forrest Bishop. Check out their links page too
Soft Machines: nanotechnology and life by Richard A.L. Jones - a book about nanotechnology, that explains why things behave differently at the nanoscale to the way they behave at familiar human scales, and why this means that nanotechnology may be more like biology than conventional engineering. This website contains The Soft Machines weblog, general information about nanotechnology, links to other articles and reports written by Richard Jones, and links to other reports and websites.
Nanocomputer Dream Team:
using the power of the Internet to gather people from all over the world in every scientific field, amateur and professional, to create the first Nanocomputer.
Yashnanotech - Provides marketing and consultancy services for products developed by nanotechnology. Promotes nanotech awareness through training, educational publications, seminars, workshops and conferences.
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Final Fantasy 14 Expansion: Stormblood Release Date Set For June 2017
The Final Fantasy 14 expansion Stormblood's release date is on June 20, 2017.
What's New
Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood happens in the location of Ala Mhigo. Players are set to fight a new antagonist named Zenos. New areas have been added to the game, and there will reportedly be a "full standalone game's worth of content." There will be a fourth residential area as well as new Primals, dungeons, and high-end raids.
The game will also be expanding the players' swimming and diving abilities. The flying mount can even be brought in this new skill added to the game. These underwater areas may now be open-ended but battles will not ensue in these areas. A player has to complete a quest at the beginning of this expansion to be able to use these abilities.
The new Red Mage class may probably be the biggest addition to the game. The class can deal with ranged damage by using magic which is quite akin to Black Mage. However, the difference lies in the new Mage class having a one-of-a-kind melee weapon that can be used in combat.
Stormblood also introduces a new beast tribe called the Ananta, a snake-like mostly female tribe. They are able to do magic. Another new raid called The Bend of Time Omega sets the players on a journey for the Omega Weapon.
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Old-time Final Fantasy fans will also enjoy the new expansion because composer Nobuo Uematsu and game designer Yatsumi Matsuno will be returning to the franchise. Uematsu is a renowned veteran composer in the saga who has provided the legendary music in the 30-year run of the game. Matsuno has worked for the Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy 12 versions. Uematsu currently works on the theme music and Matsuno works on the new 24-player raid, Return to Ivalice, for the said expansion.
The Stormblood expansion marks the end of PlayStation 3 support for this version of the game.
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Beliefnet: How did your faith help sustain you during the campaign and recount period?
Lieberman: Generally speaking, my faith orders and gives perspective and hopefully purpose to every day. You have a faith in a benevolent God. If things work out, great, but if they don't work out, they weren't meant to be.
Beliefnet: You say if it wasn't meant to be, it wasn't meant to be. Do you think that in essence, it was God's will that Bush win the election?
Lieberman: That's where I cease orating. You accept the judgment. Obviously, those are questions beyond my understanding. Every day that we have is a gift, and we should make the most of it and understand that if things didn't workout the way we hoped, well, today gives us another chance.
My mother embodies all sorts of wisdom for me. The night of the election, when we thought we'd lost, I went to her hotel room in Nashville because I wanted to tell her myself before we conceded. Her line to me was, "Don't worry, we're proud of how well you did, and remember you didn't lose a life, you lost an election." Which is another way of putting an essentially spiritual insight into effect.
Beliefnet: What was the nature of your prayers during the recount period?
Lieberman: Well, that a just result be achieved, and that I should be clearheaded in the judgments that were being made, and strong and willing to take risks or do some things that were controversial if I thought it was in pursuit of justice. But then [that] whatever happened, I accept it and move on.
I would never get so specific in my prayers as to pray for a victory.
Beliefnet: No? Why not?
Beliefnet: You had this moment when you were the most famous Jew in the world. What does that do to your own sense of Jewishness and your own identity as a Jew?
Lieberman: I must tell you that I didn't think of that while it was happening. When I first got selected and so much attention was centered on the fact that Al Gore had broken a barrier in choosing a Jewish American to run for a national ticket, I was very grateful to Al for choosing me and very proud that I was chosen. And also a certain sense of almost vindication, because I'd been raised to believe that you didn't have to assimilate or homogenize to be a good American.
One of the things that was not adequately appreciated at the end of the election because of the long recount was the wonderful fact that although my faith was the focus of the attention at the beginning of the campaign, it was hardly mentioned at the end.
I also felt that because of the visibility as a Jew, I wanted to behave well -- I wanted to conduct myself honorably so that it would reflect well on both my religion and others who are religiously observant.
He said he needed to get back for the Sabbath, and they said, "Oh you mean just like Senator Lieberman." And they called the plane back.
Lieberman: Yeah, that was tough. Just to prove my profound human imperfection, I made mistakes. On that morning that I got drawn into that conversation with Don Imus, first about interracial and then interfaith dating, really I was in over my head. One of the religious organizations said very mercifully, when asked to comment, he's running for vice president not for chief rabbi, and I thought that was a good point.
Beliefnet: What I wondered when I heard that was whether you were viewing yourself as having two missions -- one was explaining the views of the Gore-Lieberman ticket and second to explain Judaism.
Lieberman: I didn't feel that. The fact that I was observant created a buzz. A lot of people have told me that "I'm so grateful you ran, because now when I told my boss or co-workers that I'm taking off for this holiday, they understand." Or [there was] some guy who missed the plane and had to get back to New York by sunset and ran to get another plane and the plane had already begun to leave the gate.


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Don't be sad, but today we're wrapping up my three-part series on sports skincare. If you missed them, I covered smart sun protection in the first installment and looking like a beauty while training like a beast in the second. Today … today is the last cog in the wheel, the last essential: how to properly clean your face after all of your sweaty pursuits. All the sunscreen, any cosmetics you may have applied, layers of sweat, salt, mud, sand, sandwiched on by more layers of sunblock … your skin was a battlefield out there, yo, and now it's time to take care of it. Continue reading "Sports Skincare: Part Three, Getting Your Face Clean and Shiny Again"
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Korean skincare products are HUGE right now (and for good reason), but don't let that buzz distract from the amazing stuff coming out of Korea's neighbor, Japan right now. Japan may not be quite as flashy or in-your-face, but dang girl, have they got just as much amazingness going on over in the land of the rising sun (this cracks me up a bit, as I moved from the "land of the midnight sun" to the "land of the rising sun" … why so many suns?!). If you're stateside, there are lots of re-sellers that can get you almost any goodie your heart desires … even the oh-so-convenient Amazon.com. Keep reading for my personal favorite Japanese skincare products (so far) that are readily available on Amazon.
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text: Homespun yarns and tall tales ``edited, told, and retold'' by Erdoes (co-editor, American Indian Myths and Legends, 1984, etc.) in a problematic compilation of the legends that arose from the taming of the American wilderness. From the frontiers of the original colonies, this assortment of stories works its way westward across the 19th century, detailing encounters with two- and four-legged critters, natives, and most unusual natural phenomena. The famous figures of the West throughout the period, from Daniel Boone and Billy the Kid to Calamity Jane and Judge Roy Bean, find a proper place in episodes fashioned from dime novels and penny dreadfuls or culled from other sources, with mythical characters from both Native American and European traditions amply represented as well. In subjects ranging from cannibalism in the gold fields to the professional ethics of trappers, river boatmen, and loggers, through sagas of single combat and battles of wit that are generally hyperbolic and outrageous, the yarns reflect the nascent American spirit as well as the challenging circumstances from which it grew--but, unfortunately, overzealous recasting of the originals has produced much unnecessary commentary and a pervasive synthetic quality that dilutes and homogenizes the material instead of enhancing it. Meant to be a definitive collection but more often a derivative effort, unable to claim consistently either authenticity or a compelling originality. (B&w illustrations--not seen.)


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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, James Harvard wrote: > I try to spread the word of standards-compliance by putting W3C > 'validated' icons on my web sites, Why? They are much worse than useless. They distract from the purpose and content of the page. And they mislead wannabe Web authors into thinking that validation guarantees that pages work. Moreover, they are rapidly becoming the sign of _invalid_ markup - there is no real control over this. More info: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html#icon > but it occurs to me that a 'normal' > visitor (such as a potential client) activating the link to > validator.w3.org/check/referer would probably be none the wiser > afterwards. Well, he might learn that the page claims to be valid without being valid. (Are you sure that no change will ever be made to the page without immediately checking that the modified version is valid.) More probably, he sees something that looks gibberish. > To be honest, a link to a developer tool like the validator is really > of no more use or interest to an average web user than say a link to the > XHTML specifications! Indeed. The same applies to users who are themselves web authors, or plan to become authors. > Can I suggest that you have some 'what & why' information at the top of > the "valid" page? Such things have been suggested, but they would not solve the problem that the icons create. It would mean further distraction, since people might start thinking the information is relevant to them. It isn't. The current technojargon makes that clearer. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Received on Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:40:00 UTC
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Fans of the CW series "iZombie" would have a hard time recognizing series star Rose McIver away from work. Her complexion is quiet rosy, a sharp contrast to the pale pallor she has as a functioning zombie in the TV series based on the comic book of the same name. Gone is the platinum hair, replaced by a much darker color. And then there's that New Zealand accent.
The real world transformation pales in comparison to her work on the series that's a hybrid of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Veronica Mars" and "The Walking Dead." McIver plays a zombie who can hold on to her humanity by eating brains. A job in the morgue gives her access to a smorgasbord of cerebellums.
There's a hitch. In each episode, McIver's character of Liv takes on the personality of the person's brains she's eaten. That's taken her from stripper to vigilante to basketball coach. These varied personalities come into play as she helps solve the mystery behind the death of the person who supplied her with the brains on the menu.
Getting to play a character with so many different personalities is why McIver loves her job so much.
"I get to play the variety and do a little of everything. But I'm genuinely terrified knowing what brains I might not have a clue how to perform," McIver says.
The writers tried to calm her fears. Before the season started, they showed her a list of 35 brains she could potentially eat. The list ranged from the sublime to the absurd.
McIver was allowed to veto one brain idea on the list. Her vote was not to eat the brains of a cat lady simply because the actor considers herself a dog person.
Even ideas that scared McIver ended up being fun to play.
"A dominatrix brain was pretty fun. Conspiracy theorist. 'Dungeons and Dragons' was easily one that I didn't expect to have as much fun with and I loved," McIver says.
McIver does bring plenty of different acting experience that helps her play so many varied personalities. Her resume ranges from playing the Yellow Ranger on "Power Rangers R.P.M." to a role on "Masters of Sex." Fans of "Once Upon a Time" will know her as Tinker Bell.
When it comes to "iZombie," not only does McIver have to come up with the right way to play the personality of the week, she has to go through the on-screen process of eating the brains that trigger the transformations. The writers have had fun with having Liv cook up the brains in a variety of ways to make them look more appetizing.
What McIver is having to eat is a coconut-flavored gelatin covered in corn syrup. The crew has tried to make the brains as appetizing as possible but McIver still finds them disgusting.
The good part is that she normally spits out the concoction after the cameras capture her taking a bite. At least once, that wasn't possible.
"The one almost unmanageable one for me was where it was like a milkshake. She had to chug a milkshake and you can't spit that. So I did that over and over again, and I was pretty done after that," McIver says. "They are not great, but come on. I get to play a zombie and get through this great show. It's like, what a self-indulgent problem."
The new personality challengers for McIver begins anew as season three begins Tuesday, April 4, on the CW Network.
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Reactions to this song, which has been played at least 26 million times on You Tube (LITERALLY), have ranged from "Worst. Song. Ever." to "Why is she getting up to catch the bus at 7:00? My bus comes at 7:00!" - but the one thing we can be sure of is that Rebecca Black is somehow now leading a Black Plague of some sort.
While I must say that the Worst Song Ever people are a little harsh (Sheryl Crow's Soak Up the Sun still holds that honor in a devastating sleeperhold), it kind of amazes me how....well...ridiculous this little song is. Really ridiculous. Even if it is fun fun fun fun fun fun..... (And is she really 13? Hell, none of us did anything that was seen 26 million times when we were 13, right?)
If nothing else, I gthink we should thank Rebecca Black for taking the spotlight from disasters like tsunamis, nuclear reactors, and Charlie Sheen. Well done, RB...I guess.
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The SNP argued the Conservative Party's funding scandal demonstrated why Westminster could not be trusted to run an independence referendum.
Outlining the party's concerns, Angus MacNeil MP, who initiated the 'cash for honours' inquiry, argued:
"The prime minister must fully disclose the details of his meetings with Peter Cruddas on Scotland's independence referendum.
"We know that David Cameron and Peter Cruddas discussed the referendum, and we know that the Tories were willing to discuss accepting donations from an overseas wealth fund based in Liechtenstein – something which is against the law.
"The revelations about the Tories' funding demonstrate why Westminster cannot be trusted when it comes to running Scotland's referendum.
"The disgraced Tory Treasurer and fundraiser was the man who financed the anti-AV campaign, and was already lining up with David Cameron against the Scottish referendum.
"The tightest rules on spending must be set in Scotland by the Scottish Parliament. Otherwise we will find Tories like Peter Cruddas raising money from Liechtenstein to attempt to buy the poll.
"Westminster has been left totally discredited – from cash for honours, to the expenses scandal, and now cash for access – there has been a deep decline in standards that has left voters disenfranchised and disheartened with Westminster politics.
"We should tell David Cameron to keep the Tory Party's grubby hands off Scotland's referendum."
Cash for Salmond
Scottish Labour, however, had its own concerns over the hospitality Alex Salmond had been providing, the Daily Telegraph this week revealing a couple who won £161 million playing the Euro millions lottery subsequently donated £500,000 to the SNP's independence referendum campaign just days after being hosted by the first minister at his official residence of Bute House.
The paper reported that the meeting was not recorded in the official register of the first minister's guests and no civil servants were present.
Calling on former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini to launch an inquiry into whether the code of conduct for Scottish Ministers had been broken, Labour's business manager at Holyrood, Paul Martin, declared:
"This would appear to be an abuse of the ministerial code of conduct and has to be investigated by the independent advisers.
"It is not befitting of someone holding the office of first minister to chase after lottery winners and hold tea parties for them at his official residence in a bid to secure donors for his separation campaign."
The allegations of improper conduct were denied by the first minister's official spokesman.
• Will Birmingham say 'alrite' to an elected Mayor? Amanda Ramsay
• Welsh government wants independence (for its legal system) Ed Jacobs
• Scotland's economy running on empty after Osborne's Great Stagnation Budget William Bain MP
• The Tories in Scotland – right message, wrong messengers Ed Jacobs
• Bertie Ahern, "the most cunning of them all", jumps before he's pushed Kevin Meagher
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As the Scottish Tories, meanwhile, sought to use their conference in Troon to outline a more assertive streak in efforts to take on the SNP over independence, the New Statesman's James Maxwell observed that the party's leader at Holyrood, Ruth Davidson, failed to address the points that actually mattered in her speech.
Recognising that she had given a "confident speech", Maxwell wrote:
Despite what was an undeniably well constructed and delivered address, Davidson failed to confront the two central challenges facing Scottish conservatism. The first is that the Scottish Tories are still run by the UK party, from London.
This has lead to Davidson's authority being badly undermined on two occasions: once by the prime minister, who announced in January that he was willing to enhance the powers of the Holyrood parliament beyond the provisions offered in the Scotland bill, despite Davidson having described the bill as a "line in the sand" as far as constitutional reform was concerned, and again this week by the UK government in its decision to support minimum pricing for alcohol, which forced her to abruptly abandon her opposition to the SNP's own minimum pricing proposals.
The second, much more deep-rooted challenge is that posed by the legacy of Tory rule in Scotland. Modern Scottish politics is to a large extent defined by its anti-Thatcherism.
The current generation of nationalist and Scottish Labour leaders came of age during the 1980s – when Scottish unemployment and poverty rates nearly doubled – and share a common antipathy towards the laissez-faire economics championed by the Thatcher government.
The problem for Davidson is that this antipathy is by no means restricted to Scotland's political class, but reflects the feelings of Scottish voters more widely.
So far, there have been no indications that Davidson understands how to overcome these obstacles – or that she even knows they exist. If in fact she does then, ironically, her best bet might be to adopt the strategy advanced by her defeated leadership rival Murdo Fraser, who argued the party needed to be completely disbanded and a new one – free from the baggage of the past – established in its place.
But there is no chance of that happening: Davidson won the leadership on the basis that she was the continuity candidate (she was endorsed by her predecessor Annabel Goldie and is thought to have had the private backing of the prime minister).
The difficulty, of course, is that continuity for the Scottish Conservatives means slow decline and then, probably, death.
Northern Ireland
Opposition politicians sought to pile the pressure on DUP health minister Edwin Poots by urging him to resign over the state of Northern Ireland's Accident and Emergency departments.
Just a day after the BMA outlined the pressures being faced by hospitals, UUP MLA Basil McCrea used a debate at Stormont to tell the Minister:
"You are the one who should stand up and be counted.
"You are responsible for the absolute destruction of the health service. You should be ashamed of yourself. Why is it this crisis has come on your watch? The minister is culpable. He is responsible. If heads are to roll, it should be his."
Dubbing the closure of Belfast City Hospital's A and E a "complete disaster", meanwhile, Alliance MLA Kieran McCarthy questioned Poots's ability to run the health department, concluding:
"Let someone else take over the reins if he can't do it."
Poots responded by declaring McCarthy had behaved "in true style as that of the village idiot".
The bitter exchange of words led McCarthy to call for an apology, arguing:
"I was disgusted that the minister used such language during an Assembly debate. The Assembly is meant to be a place for mature and grown up debate, not a place for insulting language to be used.
"I would have thought that a minister in our Executive would have the capability to come up with a valid response to my criticism but by using such language he has in effect lost the argument.
"This incident has been reported to the Speaker and I await his ruling but I would think that Mr Poots will do the honest thing and apologise to me."
Hain court trouble
Former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain, meanwhile, was notified he is to be summoned in front of a Belfast court on charges of contempt of court over criticisms levied in his memoirs at Lord Justice Girvan concerning the appointment in 2005 of a Commissioner for Families of Victims.
Pledging to stand up for free speech, Hain responded:
"I am astonished at this turn of events. I worked harder than anyone as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to uphold the rule of law and judicial independence and delivered the 2007 settlement which helped secure that.
"If free speech and comment in a political memoir is to be suppressed, then people will be entitled to ask what system of justice prevails."
Iain Dale, managing director of the memoir's publisher Biteback, explained:
"I am advised that proceedings for contempt for criticising judges have been considered obsolete in England and Wales since the end of the 19th century. Our lawyers are not aware of any such case having been brought in Northern Ireland in living memory.
"As a publisher, I strongly support free speech, not least by our elected politicians, and we will therefore be vigorously defending this case."
Everyone hates Osborne
There was embarrassment for the UK government as all parties in the assembly roundly condemned the chancellor's plans for regional pay.
Debating a Plaid Cymru-tabled motion which declared the proposal "unjust for workers, damaging to the Welsh economy and detrimental to business", Welsh Conservative finance spokesman Paul Davies told the Assembly his party in Wales had "huge concerns surrounding a regional pay system".
He continued:
"As a group, we have not seen any evidence at all of the benefits of introducing a regional pay system in the United Kingdom and that is why we are making it absolutely clear that we are against using a regional pay system."
For the Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, Peter Black AM declared:
"It is important we do not forget that it was under Labour that regional pay was first introduced in to the courts system. We opposed that move then and we oppose the current suggestion made by chancellor George Osborne that a similar system could be rolled out across other civil service departments.
"Like many of our colleagues in Westminster, Welsh Liberal Democrats are fundamentally opposed to regional pay."
The developments led to great hilarity within the ranks of Plaid Cymru, whose economy spokesman Alun Ffred Jones observed:
"Listening to the speakers today from the Tory party and the Liberal Democrats, you would not believe that one of them belongs to the same party as George Osborne and the other is in coalition with them in London."
Nuclear power plant plan scrapped
There was considerable surprise and concern, meanwhile, at the news E.ON and RWE npower were scrapping plans to build a new nuclear power station on the site of the current Wylfa plant in Anglesey.
Outlining the decision, E.ON UK's chief executive Dr Tony Cocker explained:
"E.ON has decided to focus its investment in the UK on other strategic projects that will allow us to deliver earlier benefit for customers and our company, rather than the very long term and large investment new nuclear power calls for.
"Our commitment to the UK remains as strong as ever and as our track record shows, with over £1bn of investment in the last year alone, we will continue to select the right projects in which to invest."
Summing the situation up, Iolo ap Dafydd, BBC Wales environment correspondent, wrote:
"Horizon is the company behind plans to build new nuclear power stations at Oldbury and Wylfa. We had been waiting for an announcement on new nuclear reactors for Wylfa – we were expecting confirmation this month – it didn't come. Instead we have this bombshell.
"There's quite a lot of history here – not least the Fukushima disaster in Japan. It's worth remembering the German government fairly quickly decided there would not be any support for a new nuclear build.
"Both companies are based in Germany and there are quite a lot of risks a year on from Fukushima – in terms of a market risk, a cost risk, a construction risk, and a political risk.
"It's worth remembering there are two nuclear power plants being built in Europe at the moment – one in Finland and in France. Both are behind schedule, and both have run into considerable overspends."
A spokesman for first minister Carwyn Jones described the decision as "extremely disappointing" – though the WWF weren't quite so unhappy, head of climate change Kate Allott saying:
"Despite the government's efforts to bend over backwards to support the nuclear industry, it's now blindingly clear that the economics of nuclear just don't stack up.
"Three major utilities have now pulled out of nuclear plans in the UK, and the only two reactors under construction in Europe are massively over-budget and behind schedule.
"The government needs to wake up… If it backs the renewables industry instead of flogging the nuclear horse, the UK could become a world leader in a sector that's already seeing massive growth."
Council by-elections
There were five by-elections this week:
• Buxton Central Ward, High Peak District Council: Lab hold.
– Lab 416 (45%, +3.4); Con 396 (42.9%, +9.4); LD 70 (7.6%, -3.4); Ind 42 (4.5%, +4.5). Swing of 3% from Lab to Con since 2011.
• Cowden & Hever Ward, Sevenoaks District Council: Con hold.
– Con 296 (78.5%); UKIP 81 (21.5%). Con was unopposed in 2011.
• Crokenhill & West Hill Ward, Sevenoaks District Council: Lab gain from Ind. Lab.
– Lab 304 (58.3%); Con 177 (34%); UKIP 40 (7.7%). Ind was unopposed in 2011.
• Heckington Rural Ward, North Kesteven District Council: Con hold.
– Con 578 (53.1%, -2.6); Ind 510 (46.9%, +20.6). Swing of 11.6% from Con to Ind since 2011.
– Con 1841 (49.1%, +0.1); Lab 1511 (40.3%, +17.3); LD 220 (5.9%, -13.3); Green 100 (2.7%, -4.6); UKIP 40 (1.1%, +1.1); Ind 38 (1%, +1). Swing of 8.6% from Con to Lab since 2010.


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While The Daily Show is airing retrospective episodes on the Trump Administration this week, most of the late night shows are airing new programs this week. Sadly, the relevant science and technology guests are to be found in the repeats on daytime.
On Tuesday, you can catch former doctor who plays one on television Ken Jeong on The Real. It's a repeat from February. On Thursday you can see Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence talk with Ellen DeGeneres about Passengers, their film from last year that focuses on two passengers on a sleeper ship.
As I continue to catch up from my recent travels, I'll note two other recent appearances of science and technology guests on late night. Al Gore continued his promotion of An Inconvenient Sequel with a July 26 visit to The Late Late Show. Adam Conover, who hosts Adam Ruins Everything, was on The Late Show on August 1. Conover's show assesses conventional wisdom and occasionally digs into scientific topics.


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Saturday, 16 March 2013
180g plain flour
125g butter, cold and cubed
55g castor sugar
Preaheat your oven to 170C fan. Combine the flour and sugar in a large bowl and mix well to combine. Add the cold, cubed butter and gently rub into the flour with your fingertips until you have fine breadcrumbs. Bring the mixture together and knead lightly until it forms a ball. Roll out on a lightly floured surface until about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with a shamrock shaped cutter or cut into rounds a pastry cutter. Bake in a preheated oven at 170C for 8-14 minutes, depending on the thickness of the biscuit. They should be cooked to a light golden colour. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
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The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request by state Sen. Chris McDaniel to grant him unfettered access to un-redacted election records from the June 24 GOP primary runoff against Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).
McDaniel's team had asked the court to issue a blanket ruling ordering courthouses throughout the state of Mississippi to grant him or his designees access to un-redacted poll books and other information at no cost. McDaniel's legal team says that, while they have enough evidence–which they are not sharing with the public at this time–for a challenge of the election results, they want to fully examine all of the records in each of Mississippi's 82 counties before doing so, because they can't add new evidence into the case after the challenge is filed.
More specifically, what McDaniel was asking the court was to clarify whether poll books apply to election materials as contained under Mississippi law. There is a specific Mississippi code, section 23-15-911, that allows a candidate or his designee to review the contents of ballot boxes after an election. McDaniel wanted the court to rule that the statute applies to poll books–which contain the names and other information about who voted on election day, as recorded by poll workers at the various some-1,200 precincts statewide.
The court denied McDaniel's emergency petition for writ of mandamus, which would have been a court order that would have allowed him, as his lawyers asked the court, "access to and full examination of all of the original election materials from the June 24, 2014[,] Republican Party primary runoff election, including such poll books and materials necessary to confirm the validity and legality of votes cast in that runoff election."
While certainly a heavy blow against his effort to launch an official challenge of the results soon, the ruling doesn't knock McDaniel out.
McDaniel's attorney Mitch Tyner of the Tyner Law Firm said at a press conference Wednesday in Jackson, MS, that he believes the campaign already has enough evidence for a challenge, despite the efforts by some counties to continue blocking access to such records, where evidence is available.
Tyner promised that soon, when the campaign files its challenge, it will publish all the evidence for the public to see. "We're going to put it all together in a complete package," Tyner said. "I was really hoping we'd have it today. Monday, a week ago, I was sure we would. But I wasn't sure we were going to run into this many problems. We're going to get that together and at the same time we file a challenge, we're going to give you a complete copy of it."
Tyner also told reporters that he'll be providing a copy of the evidence to federal and state law enforcement officials as well. "We're not only going to give it to you guys in the media; we're also going to give a copy of it to the U.S. Attorney, to the Federal Election Commission, and we're also going to give it to the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi," Tyner said to cheers from McDaniel supporters at the press conference.
McDaniel's in a tough spot now: The longer the campaign waits to publish any evidence it has, the more support he loses from conservative leaders who are waiting for action. But the campaign doesn't want to give Cochran's more-well-funded legal team any extra heads-up about the evidence ahead of a challenge.
"Am I going to sit right here and try my case in the media and do a tit-for-tat with the Cochran campaign?" Tyner asked rhetorically at Wednesday's press conference, which was widely panned by the mainstream media. "'We found this but it says that.' I'm not going to do that. We're going to be mature about this."


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With a new year come new opportunities and if you're thinking about buying a home this year in Sandy Springs, the opportunities will abound. We may very well look back on 2009 as the best year to buy real estate in the last 25 years. Home prices have come down and interest rates are phenomenal.
The year in review:
The 2008 mortgage -related headlines read as follows: Bank Failures; Subprime Meltdown; Financial Crisis; Government Assumes Control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; Treasury to Buy Mortgage-Backed Securities; and so on.
2008 was a good year for some people. It was a terrible year for many. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you sit, we can all agree that it is now gone.
I've never seen more volatility in the financial markets than in 2008. 30 year fixed home loan rates varied between a high of around 6.50% to a low of just under 5.00%. Interest rates bounced all over the place and changed by nearly .50% in a single day on several occasions.
So, where do we go from here?
What to expect:
Home loan rates are going to start 2009 at historical lows. The markets are still a mess and the volatility should continue. The $10 million dollar question of course is: Are rates going to continue to drop and how low can they go?
The experts differ on the answer so I'll offer some advice. We are at once in a lifetime levels right now. There is a chance for rates to move either direction from here. If you are considering buying a home, you don't want to miss this opportunity.
Many feel we will see the bottom of the housing market this year. So, low rates coupled with low home prices should make for a nice combination in 2009.
Next 7 days: Friday's job report could help rates move lower
Next 30- 90 days: Chance for lower rates; Governmental interaction likely
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Talking Wall | Queen Creek, AZ | 10/22/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"From the very first chord that 23 year-old Herbie Hancock plays the listener realizes that they've popped something very special (dare I say magical?) into the CD player. I am a huge fan of Miles's electric period but lately I've been collecting the earlier releases. I wasn't sure what to expect from this, I picked it up along with its sister release "Four and More" that was recorded during the same concert.
Surely this release was inspirational to Manfred Eicher who founded the ECM record label, known for its extraordinary sound production. "My Funny Valentine" sounds as though it could have been produced for that label, in fact, I'm very much reminded of Kenny Wheeler's 1975 release "Gnu High" (that featured x-Miles sidemen Jarrett, DeJohnette, and Holland). After listening to this I can understand why Miles's earlier fans were so upset with Bitches Brew - it hasn't changed my mind about the brilliance of Miles's electric music but this release is a testament to his ability to create great music in any genre (except maybe polka music).
I don't think I can add much more to what anyone else has said in the other reviews other than it is clear that on this disc and on "Four and More" that these musicians were playing and communicating on a level that is a rare achievement, thank God the tapes were rolling that night in February 1964! All of the players far exceed their usual brilliance. In particular I want to point out Herbie's playing on this release. I've always been aware of Herbie Hancocks abilities and brilliance, but his incredibly sensitive touch on those keys is almost overwhelmingly beautiful in places.
Not sure why everyone equates Miles's second great quintet with the addition of Shorter to the Carter-Williams-Hancock group. In my mind the second great quintet started with this band that included Coleman.
It's all good folks. I can't fathom why anyone who in musically knowlegeable would give this release less than 5 stars. Buy this along with its sister release "Four and More" You will not be disappointed!
A Valentine For The Ages
David Conklin | Albuquerque, NM USA | 04/17/2007
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"This is a splendid live recording, and probably one of my favorite Miles Davis CDs (I own about 30). The original recording at Lincoln Center was obviously of very good audio quality. The 1992 CD version--COMPLETE CONCERT 1964--sounded quite good. This remastered edition, which represents half the concert (disc 1 from the original set, which I prefer over disc 2) sounds even better, with more detail. Two other improvements in this new edition: 1) it starts right off with music, rather than the lengthy (1:40) Introductions by Mort Fega; 2) the liner notes include a nice new essay about the concert by bassist Ron Carter. If you haven't heard this music before, note that Miles is in very good form, George Coleman provides what's probably some of the best recorded work of his career, and Hancock, Carter, and Williams are, well......not too shabby. A most elegant performance.
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Case Quarter | CT USA | 11/03/2006
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"certainly one of my favorites, miles or any other recording. each song is a stellar performance. particularly the playing of george coleman; based on this recording, coleman remains one of my favorite tenors, whether it's the setting, the selections, or inspiration of the moment, i accept his masterful performance without question."


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January 30, 2013
The United States economy unexpectedly reversed course in the final quarter of 2012 and contracted at a 0.1 percent rate, its worst performance since the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2009.
What could cause such alarming and completely unforeseeable results?
The drop was driven by a plunge in military spending, as well as fewer exports and a steep slowdown in the buildup of inventories by businesses. Anxieties about the fiscal impasse in Washington also contributed to the slowdown.
While economists expected output to decline substantially from the 3.1 percent annual growth rate recorded in the third quarter, the negative number caught Wall Street off-guard. It was the weakest economic report since the second quarter of 2009.
"I'm a little surprised," said Michael Feroli, chief United States economist at JPMorgan. "It grabs your attention when you have a negative number across everyone's screens."
It's a good thing we don't have to worry about further decreases in military spending... you know, like a 20% pay cut for civilian DoD employees.
Or 46,000 Pentagon layoffs. Isn't it funny how the Obama administration keeps telling us that government is the engine of economic growth and prosperity?
Except for the military, which somehow isn't. Whenever I start to feel bad about this, I console myself with the comforting thought that immigration reform for same sex couples is receiving the full attention of President Obama.
Priorities, people.... that's what real leadership looks like.
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A story I heard on CFN over here in Germany last week seemed to indicate that Canada, at least, sees our government spending as a means of "propping up" our "failing economy" and they aren't certain how much longer we'll be able to keep it up, given the fact that we are so "heavily indebted."
I believe the rest of the world is expecting to either bail us out or watch us crash.
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Lexmark names new president and general manager of Lexmark Asia Pacific
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Australia, 1 September, 2005 – Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) has named David Chan as president and general manager of Lexmark Asia Pacific, based in Singapore.

In his new role, Chan will be responsible for driving all aspects of Lexmark's strategy and operations throughout the region. Chan will report to David Goodnight, Lexmark vice president of Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Chan joins Lexmark with more than 25 years of experience in senior Asian positions within IT companies in Asia Pacific. Chan started his career with IBM in Singapore and spent 15 years there. He was the general manager of products and services when he left IBM. Subsequently, he then joined Dell as the vice president for Asia for five years and also started Dell business including manufacturing operations in China. His last job prior to Lexmark was with EMC where he joined them as the vice president for Greater China and Southeast Asia.

"David's extensive background in top-level, innovative IT companies will allow him to be a strong leader and to drive our fundamental business strategies within the region. He holds the knowledge and expertise to understand what our customers really want: solutions and simplicity," said Goodnight, Lexmark vice president of Asia Pacific and Latin America.

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Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) makes it easier for businesses and consumers to move information between the digital and paper worlds. Since its inception in 1991, Lexmark has become a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing and imaging solutions for customers in more than 150 countries. Lexmark reported $5.3 billion in revenue in 2004, and can be found on the Internet at www.lexmark.com.

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