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The FormBox is a desktop vacuum former, powered by your vacuum cleaner. Oh the possibilities!
Sketching with Two Point Perspective Hack
This video demonstrates how to use an elastic string anchored at the horizon of a canvas to sketch a drawing with two point perspective. Brilliant!
A Stunning DIY Spiral Staircase
Ben Uyeda built a DIY spiral staircase using layered pieces of plywood cut with a CNC machine. This is absolutely stunning.
Intricate Letters Hand-Cut from Paper
How incredibly stunning is this hand-cut paper by Annie Vought?
DIY Cloud Light
Making this DIY Cloud light takes about an hour and costs only $10. Super adorable!
DIY Tattly Eggs
Easter is just around the corner. What's your plan for decorating eggs? I'll be going the Tattly route..
Embroidered Animal Portraits
Loving these embroidered animal portraits by Emillie Ferris.
Michele Kingdom Embroideries
Really beautiful embroidery art work by Michelle Kingdom.
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Giant Paper Snow Flakes
Totally want to make some of these giant paper snow flakes with my kids this weekend!
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Felt Cat Bed
Last week this little family adopted a rescue cat from an ASPCA shelter in Manhattan. While we are still trying to figure out a name (most difficult process in history) the cat is super happy and so are my kids. And I have discovered pet accessories. What a huge market! Can we talk about this felted cat bed. Made me smile.
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Grant Thompson shares a tutorial on how to make completely edible gummy LEGO bricks and figures using a mixture of corn syrup, Jello, and gelatin.
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DIY Abstract Picture Frame
Love the playfulness of this abstract DIY Picture Frame. It comes with a tutorial.
Letterpress at Home Kit
This Letterpress At Home Kit is very tempting. My kids and I could have some serious fun with it. Anyone know if it's any good?
Ping Pong Balls + LED Lights
Love this DIY idea: Using ping pong balls and LED lights to make a festive garland.
Smartphone Virtual Reality
This site lets you turn your smartphone into a virtual reality device.
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DIY Tattly Ornaments
My team surprised me with these DIY Tattly Holiday ornaments. I squealed! Nic wrote a step-by-step guide on how to make them! This makes me so happy! (Reminds me of the eggs I decorated a while back)
Papier-Mâché Projects
This little family is currently spending a week in the Northfork, enjoying the last week before school starts again. I've reconnected with my younger self and looked up some papier-mâché projects to do with my 8 year old, Ella. Here are some of my favorite finds:
Papier-Mâché Lollipop man (no instructions)
Papier-Mâché Face (no instructions)
Papier-Mâché Turtle with Step-by-step instructions
DIY Papier-Mâché Pencil Toppers (step-by-step instructions)
Papier-Mâché Bowls (with step-by-step instructions)
And then here, slightly creepy personalized DIY papier-mâché pinatas:
Don't know how to make the 'glue'? Here's a round-up of various papier-mâché recipes. What are you going to make?
Art Supplies Tattly
These brand new Art Supply Tattly by Peagreen Designs make me way happy.
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littleBits Space Kit
Woah! littleBits just launched a Space Kit, in collaboration with NASA.
littleBits is the LEGO of electronics. It's a library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun.
I am a fan.
Artifact Uprising
Artifact Uprising is an iphone app that allows you to beautifully tell your story with soft- and hardcover books and postcards. Beautifully designed. Simple. Definitely giving this a try.
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Giant Origami
Sipho Mabona has taken Origami to extremes. He's folded this life-sized (!) elephant out of one sheet of paper. So much respect.
Washing Machine Drum gone Firepit
I may have mentioned a similar tutorial before but I am so in love with the idea I had to point to Apartment Therapy's recent post on how the size and shape of the drum inside a basic washing machine lends itself perfectly to being upcycled into a fire pit.
Arm Knitting
I shared an Instagram of Ella (7) knitting a few days ago and one of my followers left a comment saying I should look into arm knitting. A quick Google search let me to the above YouTube video. Looks fascinating, no? Also, lots of arm knitting stuff to find on Etsy.
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Blackboard FAQ: Grades, Excluding Individual Record
I want to excuse a student from an assignment because he/she was allowed to join the class late. How do I do this in the Grade Center?
Yes, you can do that using the Exempt Grade feature. The exempting of an individual grade can be useful in situations, like where you would like to drop a low quiz/test score or you do not want to include a particular grade when calculating the student's total score.
From the Control Panel, enter the Grade Center (select the Full Grade Center option). Go to the column of the item in question and click on the individual cell (i.e. grade) that you want to exempt; then click on the double downward pointing arrows that appear. From the drop-down menu, click the Exempt Grade option.
You will now find that the area that contained the grade will show a small blue square in its place. The student will also see the same icon in place of a grade when he/she checks the grade in the Grade Center.
Note: If later on you want to undo this process and enter a grade for that cell, you can repeat the above process -- this time, though, from the drop-down menu, click the Clear Exemption option. The cell will now no longer show the blue square and you can then enter a grade into that cell.
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One of the Lesser Sunda Islands of eastern Indonesia, Flores has Portuguese colonialists to thank for its name. Meaning 'flowers', the name has stuck for over four centuries, but the island has only just began to be recognised for its diverse yacht charter opportunities.
Stretching from Komodo and Sumbawa in the east towards the Alor archipelago, Flores is fringed by incredibly marine-rich waters lapping at its pink sand beaches, while inland the verdant landscape is punctuated by volcanic peaks and sweeping rice terraces.
In the far west, the lively harbour town of Labuanbajo is an emerging tourist hub, with connections to idyllic islands nearby as well as the Komodo National Park. Travellers, however, may even spot the legendary Komodo dragon in Flores itself as the island is one of the few places on earth inhabited by the legendary lizards.
One of the Flores' most impressive natural sights is the mysterious tri-coloured crater lakes of Mount Kelimutu. Over the years, the three lakes have changed hues ranging from bright red through to green and blue, and are never the same colour at any one time.
To experience the ancient culture of the island head to Bajawa where hillside villages such as Bena, Luba and Langa continue to practice local traditions, rituals and the week-long Reba festival despite the prevalence of Catholicism. Bena as well as the nearby Wogo Tua are also home to fascinating megalithic stones.
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While staying at the Ritz-Carlton in Phoenix, Arizona, one of Sandi's dreams came true during a "Tea for Two" courtesy of the handsome and multi-talented Ritz Carlton Tea Sommelier, Mr. Jeffery Hattrick. Watch as she is christened the worlds first cookie sommelier! As always look for the out-takes at the end!


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So, they're at it again. In the aftermath of Ohio State's (unexpected) victory over Oregon in the first-ever College Football Playoff Championship Game – is that what it's called? There have been so many iterations of the college football championship it's hard to know what's what – students at OSU's campus in Columbus, Ohio, were up to the kind of post-sports-championship hijinks we've come to expect. NBC News reports that a crowd of roughly 8,000 people "poured out of bars to celebrate" the win, converging on the football stadium, tearing down the goal posts, and lighting at least a dozen "trash bin and couch fires" (couch fires? Is that a thing?) before police dispersed the crowd with tear gas and pepper spray. Buzzfeed claims that "30 to 40 fires were started in trash cans and dumpsters," which seems a little less end-timesy than couch fires, but, still …
From the pictures and videos that accompany the NBC News and Buzzfeed stories, the crowd appears to have been predominantly white … which explains why they're described in the media as "celebrating" rather than "rioting". But every time this happens – that is to say, every time sports fans, predominantly of the white variety, go on rampages after wining (or losing) various championships – many of us with a few gray hairs on our heads are reminded of the Clash's seminal punk anthem, "White Riot," which was released as a 7-inch single (that would be on vinyl, kids) in March 1977, and was later included on both the UK and the US versions of the band's debut album, The Clash.
Now, I'm not going to lie. It's a great song. Musically speaking, it's more or less the Punk Singularity. It's fast and loud and angry, with a great hook. And if you listen to it often enough, you start to realize that it's actually got a goddamn good melody. It's just about the perfect punk song. Musically speaking.
Lyrically speaking, though, "White Riot" might seem, at first blush … well … a little problematic. I mean, just take a look at the first verse:
Black men got a lot of problems
But they don't mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick
And then, of course, there's the chorus:
White riot, I want a riot
White riot, a riot of my own!
White riot, I want a riot
White riot, a riot of my own!
Hold on, though. Not so fast. Once you know the background of "White Riot," the song takes on a very different meaning.
As I've mentioned before, the inspiration for "White Riot" came when Joe Strummer, the band's rhythm guitarist, singer, and primary lyricist, and Paul Simonon, its bassist and occasional singer, found themselves in the Notting Hill neighborhood in London's West End in August 1976, just as rioting broke out between the primarily Jamaican residents of the neighborhood and the police, "after a long summer of simmering tensions fuelled by overtly racist policing." As Simonon described in a recent interview on Spotify ("I Wanna Riot"), he and Strummer actually participated in the riots – until it occurred to them that, in Simonon's words, "actually, really, it's not our fight."
No doubt, Strummer and Simonon sympathized with the cause. In fact, to underscore that sympathy, the Clash's 1977 debut album also featured a cover version of Junior Murvin's reggae classic, "Police and Thieves," the song that was, according to The Guardian, "the soundtrack to the Notting Hill carnival in the summer it was released, 1976." But Strummer, Simonon and the Clash hadn't personally experienced and couldn't really know precisely what Notting Hill's primarily Black residents were dealing with (and, as the BBC noted, had had to deal with since the at least the late 1950s.).
At the same time, Strummer and Simonon respected what Notting Hill's residents were doing: They'd had enough abuse, and so they were taking matters into their own hands. To participate directly in the Notting Hill unrest was, for white punk musicians unaffected by Britain's racism, largely a hollow gesture, but it nonetheless made Strummer wish his own peers – other young, disaffected white kids like him – would likewise take direct action to fight abuse and oppression. And so he wrote:
All of the power in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it
Are you taking over
Or are you taking orders
Are you going backwards
Or are you going forwards
Nearly forty years later, on this side of the Pond, African-Americans still struggle with racist police practices, some overt, some covert. And nearly forty years later, African-Americans have taken to the streets – all be it peacefully – and yet are still labeled rioters, thugs, and looters (even when those same protesters actually protect local businesses from looting).
As for white Americans? Well, yeah, forty years later they actually do riot on occasion. Over sports championships. Over the firing of a coach accused of covering up child sex abuse. Over – yes – pumpkin festivals.
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But imagine, if instead of unloading the pepper spray, the officer had instead casually kicked a student in the face? Or imagine that kick was aimed squarely at the face of 84-year-old Dorli Rainey? You think the officer would have been fired? You think he would've been sued, and likely prosecuted? Of course he would have.
Unlike a kick in the face, pepper spray tends not to leave any visible bruises or scars, but it's not like it hurts any less. Police are using it indiscriminately and without provocation against protesters because it appears more civil than boots, fists, and batons, yet inflicts at least as much pain. They are getting away with brutally assaulting civilians who pose no physical threat to the officers or others, simply because a spray of orange goo doesn't look particularly brutal.
But now imagine if a protester were to casually walk up to one of the officers and empty a can of pepper spray in his face. You think this pepper spraying protester wouldn't end up convicted and imprisoned on charges of assaulting a police officer? Of course he would. Because pepper spray is assault. And thus it should be reserved for use by police only when the use of such physical force is absolutely necessary... or so says one of the weapon's creators:


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Contraceptive methods of birth control are usually quite successful. By these methods, you can enjoy your sex without the worry of pregnancy. Modern technology has led to the formulation of avid techniques of contraception; some are temporary and the others permanent. However, no matter how well these methods work, almost all of them have got a variety of side effects on your body and health.
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- Intra Uterine Device: A device is fitted into the uterus, which does not cause pregnancy. An effective method with the following side effects:
- There is a risk of the device falling off.
- This causes puncture in the uterus.
- The device made of copper may lead to menstrual cramps and spotting.
- Depo Provera Hormonal Injection: This mode of contraception involves taking an injection, which restricts pregnancy for a period of three months. The side effects are:
- Gaining of extra weight, fatigue.
- Decrease of bone density.
- Menstrual bleeding along with spotting takes place.
- Birth Control Pills: Birth control pills are one of the most common and most effective ways of birth control or contraception. However, several side effects may be observed.
- Causes nausea, headaches and blood clots in very rare cases.
- In case you use other prescribed medicines along with birth control pills, severe damage may be inflicted.
- Condoms: Effective condoms are made of latex or polyurethane. Unrolled, condoms look like long, thin balloons. They prevent body fluids from mixing when two people have sex. The condom is put onto the penis before the penis comes into contact with the vagina, mouth, or anus. General Tips:
- Use a water based lubricant to decrease the chance of the condom breaking.
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- It may get out of place during sex and is likely to cause damage
- The process can be a mess
- Causes urinary infections
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Commonwealth leaders have delayed a decision on whether to suspend Zimbabwe from the 54-member organization because of pre-election violence in the east African country.
Meeting in the eastern Australian resort town of Coolum Monday, Commonwealth leaders agreed to set up a three-nation committee to evaluate Zimbabwe's March 9 and 10 election and take action, if the ballot was not free and fair.
In a statement, the leaders expressed deep concern about "incidents of violence and intimidation" before the election and called on all parties to refrain from violence.
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Lady Gaga might not have to show her "Poker Face" in court after all.
A lawyer for the diva's disgruntled ex-assistant, Jennifer O'Neill, who sued the Fame Monster claiming she was ripped off for overtime, told Manhattan federal Judge Paul Gardephe in a letter on Wednesday that both sides "have been engaged in significant settlement negotiations over the past two weeks."
"We have utilized the services of an independent mediator …who brought us to a place where we are in agreement on the most major terms related to a settlement," lawyer Paul Millus wrote. "I am hopeful that the parties can reach a mutual agreement thus obviating the need for a trial."
O'Neill claims she was at Gaga's "beck and call" during the 2009-to-2011 "Monster Ball" tours — and that the singer owes her 7,168 hours of overtime and about $400,000 in damages. She was paid a flat rate of $50,000 per year when she was first hired in early 2009 and then $75,000 when hired the second time in 2010.
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BBC survey suggests support for fracking in north west
More people are in favour of fracking for shale gas in the north west than opposed, a BBC survey suggests.
The poll of 1,941 people indicated 44% of those who know about fracking support it, while 34% are against. The poll found 22% are undecided.
Seventy-three per cent of those in favour said they still had concerns about the process.
Energy firm Igas said the results were "encouraging" but protesters said fracking would be "disastrous".
'Fully justified'
Fracking - or hydraulic fracturing - is a technique in which water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas.
Market research company TNS asked a cross-section of people from across the north west aged 16 or above for their views on fracking in a four-week survey beginning 30 October.
The survey - commissioned by BBC North West Tonight - revealed that 529 people had not heard of the process. Another 10 people did not know if they had heard of it.
Of the 1,402 participants who had, 610 (44%) said they supported fracking in the north west, 482 (34%) were against and 310 (22%) said they did not know.
Those who knew about fracking were also asked if they had any worries about the process.
Almost three-quarters (73%) said they did, with the majority expressing concerns over the risk of earth tremors and water pollution.
Rachel Thompson, a member of Frack Free Greater Manchester, said: "The fear that people have of fracking is fully justified - I'm surprised at the 27% who are not.
"When people see this around their town and neighbourhoods they are going to be really angry about it.
"It will be disastrous if fracking goes ahead," she said.
The group, which has been campaigning against a drilling site in Salford, said its surveys revealed people were opposed to extracting shale gas in the area.
Helen Rimmer, Friends of the Earth North West campaigner, added: "Local people are rightly worried about risks to the environment, including water contamination."
Igas said the results of the BBC survey showed it was "making progress in explaining natural gas extraction to our local communities".
The company has permission to start drilling to see what type of gas or oil can be found at Barton Moss in Salford.
A spokeswoman added that the firm "must continue" to work with communities over fracking concerns.
Drilling suspended
Fracking was temporarily banned in the UK after it was blamed for two earth tremors in Blackpool in 2011.
Igas said the government had introduced monitoring systems that would "halt operations immediately" if a seismic event of magnitude greater than 0.5 was detected.
Another shale gas company, Cuadrilla, was granted planning permission for exploration activities at the Anna's Road site in Lancashire April 2010.
But it has suspended all drilling in the area until 2014.
Francis Egan, chief executive of Cuadrilla Resources, said: "We acknowledge that people still have questions and concerns which we are committed to addressing as we seek to unlock Lancashire's energy potential safely and sensibly."
The company claims its explorations in Lancashire's Bowland basin have found the 1,200 sq km licence area holds at least 200 trillion cubic feet of gas.
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|List of exoplanets
|Parent star
|Right ascension
|12h 07m 33.47s[1]
|−39° 32′ 54.0″[1]
|172 ± 3 ly
−1.00[2] pc)
|Spectral type
|Observed separation
Observation epoch 2005[3]
|Angular separation
|769 ± 10[3] mas
|Position angle
|125.6 ± 0.7[3]°
|Projected separation
|Orbital elements
|Semi-major axis
|Orbital period
|046633–20[5] y
|Longitude of the node
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|Physical characteristics
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|April 2004
|Chauvin et al.
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2M1207b is a planetary-mass object orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207, in the constellation Centaurus, approximately 170 light-years from Earth.[2] It is one of the first candidate exoplanets to be directly observed (by infrared imaging). It was discovered in April 2004 by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile by a team from the European Southern Observatory led by Gaël Chauvin.[7] It is believed to be from 3 to 10 times the mass of Jupiter and may orbit 2M1207 at a distance roughly as far from the brown dwarf as Pluto is from the Sun.[6]
The object is a very hot gas giant; the estimated surface temperature is roughly 1600 K (1300 °C or 2400 °F), mostly due to gravitational contraction.[3] Its mass is well below the calculated limit for deuterium fusion in brown dwarfs, which is 13 Jupiter masses. The projected distance between 2M1207b and its primary is around 40 AU (similar to the mean distance between Pluto and the Sun).[4] Its infrared spectrum indicates the presence of water molecules in its atmosphere.[8] The object is not a likely candidate to support life, either on its surface or on any satellites.
Discovery and identification[edit]
2M1207b is around 100 times fainter in the sky than its companion.[9] It was first spotted as a "faint reddish speck of light" in 2004 by the VLT. After the initial observation, there was some question as to whether the objects might be merely an optical double, but subsequent observations by the Hubble Space Telescope and the VLT have shown that the objects move together and are therefore presumably a binary system.[8]
An initial photometric estimate for the distance to 2M1207b was 70 parsecs.[2] In December 2005, American astronomer Eric Mamajek reported a more accurate distance (53 ± 6 parsecs) to 2M1207b using the moving-cluster method.[10] Recent trigonometric parallax results have confirmed this moving-cluster distance, leading to a distance estimate of 52.75+1.04
−1.00 parsecs or 172 ± 3 light years.[2]
Estimates for the mass, size, and temperature of 2M1207b are still uncertain. Although spectroscopic evidence is consistent with a mass of 8 ± 2 Jupiter masses and a surface temperature of 1600 ± 100 kelvin, theoretical models for such an object predict a luminosity 10 times greater than observed. Because of this, lower estimates for the mass and temperature have been proposed. Alternatively, 2M1207b might be dimmed by a surrounding disk of dust and gas.[3] As an unlikely possibility, Mamajek and Michael Meyer have suggested that the planet is actually much smaller, but is radiating away heat generated by a recent collision.[11][12]
Although the mass of 2M1207b is less than that required for deuterium fusion to occur, some 13 times the mass of Jupiter, and the image of 2M1207b has been widely hailed as the first direct image of an exoplanet, it may be questioned whether 2M1207b is actually a planet. Some definitions of the term planet require a planet to have formed in the same way as the planets in the Solar System did, by secondary accretion in a protoplanetary disk.[13] With such a definition, if 2M1207b formed by direct gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula, it would be a sub-brown dwarf rather than a planet. A similar debate exists regarding the identity of GQ Lupi b, also first imaged in 2004.[14] On the other hand, the discovery of marginal cases like Cha 110913-773444—a free-floating, planetary-mass object—raises the question of whether distinction by formation is a reliable dividing line between stars/brown dwarfs and planets.[15] As of 2006, the International Astronomical Union Working Group on Extrasolar Planets described 2M1207b as a "possible planetary-mass companion to a brown dwarf."[16]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c "TWA 27". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
- ^ a b c d "The Distance to the 2M1207 System" Archived 2008-01-24 at the Wayback Machine., Eric Mamajek, November 8, 2007. Accessed on line June 15, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f The Planetary Mass Companion 2MASS 1207-3932B: Temperature, Mass, and Evidence for an Edge-on Disk, Subhanjoy Mohanty, Ray Jayawardhana, Nuria Huelamo, and Eric Mamajek, Astrophysical Journal 657, #2 (March 2007), pp. 1064–1091. Bibcode: 2007ApJ...657.1064M doi:10.1086/510877.
- ^ a b Estimated observed projected separation from observed angular separation and estimated distance.
- ^ a b c d e f g Blunt, Sarah; et al. (2017). "Orbits for the Impatient: A Bayesian Rejection-sampling Method for Quickly Fitting the Orbits of Long-period Exoplanets". The Astronomical Journal. 153 (5). 229. arXiv:1703.10653 . Bibcode:2017AJ....153..229B. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa6930.
- ^ a b c Star: 2M1207 Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine., Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Accessed on line June 15, 2008.
- ^ a b A giant planet candidate near a young brown dwarf. Direct VLT/NACO observations using IR wavefront sensing, G. Chauvin, A.-M. Lagrange, C. Dumas, B. Zuckerman, D. Mouillet, I. Song, J.-L. Beuzit, P. Lowrance, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 425 (October 2004), pp. L29–L32. Bibcode: 2004A&A...425L..29C doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200400056.
- ^ a b Yes, it is the Image of an Exoplanet: Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System, ESO Press Release 12/05, April 30, 2005, European Southern Observatory. Accessed on line July 10, 2010.
- ^ Bolometric luminosity, Table 1, Mohanty 2007.
- ^ Mamajek (2005). "A Moving Cluster Distance to the Exoplanet 2M1207b in the TW Hydrae Association". The Astrophysical Journal. 634 (2): 1385–1394. arXiv:astro-ph/0507416 . Bibcode:2005ApJ...634.1385M. doi:10.1086/468181.
- ^ An Improbable Solution to the Underluminosity of 2M1207B: A Hot Protoplanet Collision Afterglow, Eric E. Mamajek and Michael R. Meyer, Astrophysical Journal 668, #2 (October 2007), pp. L175–L178. Bibcode: 2007ApJ...668L.175M doi:10.1086/522957.
- ^ "Planet collision could explain alien world's heat". New Scientist Space Website. January 9, 2008. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
- ^ E.g., Soter, in What Is a Planet?, Astronomical Journal 132, #6 (December 2006), pp. 2513–2519. Bibcode: 2006AJ....132.2513S doi:10.1086/508861.
- ^ Fresh Debate over First Photo of Extrasolar Planet, Robert Roy Britt, space.com, April 30, 2005. Accessed on line June 16, 2008.
- ^ A Planet With Planets? Spitzer Finds Cosmic Oddball, Whitney Clavin, news article, NASA, November 29, 2005. Accessed on line June 16, 2008.
- ^ Lists of Extrasolar Planets Archived 2008-06-19 at the Wayback Machine., IAU Working Group on Extrasolar Planets, August 28, 2006. Accessed on line June 15, 2008.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2M1207 b.
- ESO Press Release 12/05:Yes, it is the Image of an Exoplanet
- BBC: Planet 'seen' around distant sun
- Space.com - Astronomers Confident: Planet Beyond Solar System Has Been Photographed
- Space.com article on the discovery
- Jean Schneider (2011). "Notes for Planet 2M1207 b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- "A Giant Planet Candidate Near a Young Brown Dwarf" (PDF) from the European Southern Observatory.
- Space.com: Fresh Debate over First Photo of Extrasolar Planet
- "A Moving Cluster Distance to the Exoplanet 2M1207 B in the TW Hydrae Association"
- "The Planetary Mass Companion 2MASS 1207-3932B: Temperature, Mass, and Evidence for an Edge-on Disk"
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After Thursday's matinee, 90 losses sounds more believable than Sandy Alderson's goal of 90 wins.
The Mets lost another player in Chris Young, then lost 8-2 to the Nationals, completing a three-game sweep at home to start the season for the first time in their history.
They hadn't even recovered from putting closer Bobby Parnell on the disabled list when they had to do the same with Young on Thursday, thanks to a strained quad. The Mets fell to 0-3 for the first time since 2005, and dropped their first three home games for the first time in 17 years, with no bigger culprit than their beleaguered bullpen.
"It certainly leaves a sour taste in your mouth when you start out the season like this,'' said manager Terry Collins, who got a quality start from Zack Wheeler (0-1).
But the bullpen coughed up five runs (four earned) in three innings to continue its shoddy start in front of a tiny crowd of 20,561 at Citi Field. And Collins couldn't think of a single more deflating thing than bad relief work.
"No. It was tough. We certainly didn't pitch as well as we'd hoped to,'' Collins said. "When we come out of that bullpen, we've got to start throwing some strikes, that's the biggest [thing]. When you look at when we're successful, it's when you make the other team swing the bat. … You get behind, you start setting yourself up. When you're behind in the count, you're going to get in trouble.''
The Mets have seen nothing but trouble so far. Wheeler (six innings, seven hits and three earned runs) left trailing just 3-2. But the bullpen has pitched to a bloated 10.61 ERA this year and looked terrible again.
"Pitches are getting left over the middle and they're falling behind in counts. You just got to get ahead of hitters,'' said catcher Travis d'Arnaud, who has yet to get a hit this season. "It's part of the game. You got to keep your head up, keep working and things will turn around.''
Wheeler did hit 97 mph and threw well at times against Nationals emergency starter Tanner Roark (1-0), filling in for ailing Jordan Zimmerman.
Curtis Granderson — who was 0-for-9 with five strikeouts and hearing boos as a Met after two games — hit an RBI double in the first. And after Lucas Duda had worked a 10-pitch walk to load the bases, Juan Lagares hit the next pitch for a sacrifice fly and a 2-0 Mets lead.
But Ryan Zimmerman (4-for-4) tagged Wheeler for a solo shot to left the next inning, and he gave up two in the fifth. He walked No. 8 hitter Sandy Leon and paid for it, seeing him score and Jason Werth stroke a two-out RBI single.
That's when the bullpen imploded. Scott Rice started the seventh but gave up a leadoff single to Scott Hairston and after a sac bunt, took a Bryce Harper liner off his right shin for an infield hit.
Jeurys Familia entered but walked Werth on four pitches, then surrendered an Adam LaRoche single to shallow right that scored both Hairston and Harper for a 5-2 lead. Zimmerman's single to right brought home Werth from third, and a second error by second baseman Daniel Murphy — back after his wife delivered their first child on Monday — made it 7-2.
Carlos Torres gave up two hits, two walks and a run in the eighth, walking LaRoche with the bases loaded for the final margin.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONSKilroy G, Carter LE, Newman S, Burk DH, Manuel J, Moller A, Bowtell DD, Mynatt RL, Ghosh S, Floyd ZE. The ubiquitin ligase Siah2 regulates obesity-induced adipose tissue inflammation. Obesity 2015; 23: 2223-2232. PMCID: PMC4633373
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Larimore was honored with the 2010 Outstanding Leadership in Economic Development Award by the East Central Illinois Development Corporation. ECIDC covers an 11-county region. He is President of the Southeastern Illinois Alliance. SAIL represents a nine-county region with the goal of member education. The South Central Illinois Regional Planning and Development Commission awarded him the 2010 Essential Piece Award for the five-county region. On May 5, 2011, Newton Lodge 216 awarded Larimore the Community Builders Award for his "dedication and service to the people of Newton and Jasper County."


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May 9, 2010
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INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Committee has selected the teams that will compete in the 2010 NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship.
The championship provides for a 28-team tournament. Seventeen conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the championship. Five teams have been selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final six berths are reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and the remaining Pool B teams.
Ten first-round games will be conducted May 12 at campus sites. Eight second-round games will be conducted May 15, and four quarterfinal-round games will be conducted May 16. The second- and quarterfinal-round games will be contested at four regional sites on the campuses of participating institutions. Winners of the four regionals will advance to the semifinals and final, to be played May 22-23 at Clark Field at Gettysburg College, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Gettysburg will serve as host for the championship.
The following are the automatic qualifiers for the 17 approved conferences:
Capital Athletic Conference - Salisbury University
Centennial Conference - Franklin & Marshall College
Colonial States Athletic Conference - Cabrini College
Commonwealth Coast Conference - Endicott College
Empire 8 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Great Northeast Athletic Conference - Norwich University
Liberty League - Hamilton College
Little East Athletic Conference - University of Southern Maine
Middle Atlantic States Conference - Messiah College
North Coast Athletic Conference - College of Wooster
New England Small College Athletic Conference - Williams College
New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance - Bridgewater State College
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference - Babson College
Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Washington and Lee University
Skyline Conference - Montclair State University
State University of New York Athletic Conference - State University of New York at Cortland
USA South Athletic Conference - Christopher Newport University
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text: Fueled by a fear of performing (in his words, "I continue to do performance because it scares the shit out of me,") Kemang Wa Lehulere uses performance, together with a range of media, including murals, painting, and installation, to plumb the troubled history of his native South Africa and the ongoing ramifications of Apartheid. Exposed to acting from an early age through work in front of and behind the scenes, he weaves narratives, at once open-ended and direct, out of marks and materials, actions, gestures, and bodies. For Wa Lehulere, collaboration is key. In 2007, he co-founded the Gugulective artist collective, and he often incorporates other people into his ever-evolving performances. "My practice […] has a lot to do with the various experiences that I have had throughout my life," he explains. "Working in different forms with different people."


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|The effects of incentives on the test performance of Hawaiians and Caucasians
|Kubany, Edward S.
|Reward (Psychology)
Motivation (Psychology)
Educational tests and measurements -- Hawaii
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|The central question posed by the present research was, can the introduction of incentives into the test situation have a bearing on the level of test performance? A review of the literature revealed conflicting results. Traditional theories of motivation have assumed that test motivation reflects a more general, intrapsychic "need" state which is not readily alterable; hence the belief that attempts to manipulate test motivation cannot result in improved test performance. In contrast, theories of motivation based on learning principles place much greater emphasis on situational determinants of "motivated behavior" while interpreting "intrinsic motivation" in terms of previous reinforcement history. Three experiments were conducted in order to test the hypothesis that the introduction of incentives will result in test score increments. Experiments One and Two also tested the hypothesis that indigenous Hawaiians would be more influenced by group incentives and that Caucasians would be more affected by individual incentives. Experiment One--considered a pilot study--revealed no evidence that the promise of reward can alter multiple-choice test math scores in a naturalistic school setting. Alternate explanations for the nonsignificant results were offered. However, the most important conclusion drawn from Experiment One is that standardized multiple-choice achievement tests provide virtually no information about the achievement levels of many Hawaiians, and discontinuance of their use in favor of free-response tests is recommended. In Experiment Two, which was conducted in a more laboratory-oriented atmosphere than Experiment One, sixth grade students were not only promised money but actually given money immediately contingent upon correct test responses. Relative to no-incentive conditions, subjects receiving incentives obtained significantly higher test scores and spent significantly longer periods of time working on their tests. There was also some evidence that the greatest "perseverance" was demonstrated by the Hawaiian subjects in the group-incentive condition. Experiment Three was conducted in the naturalistic atmosphere of a youth correctional facility. Results showed that not only did test scores go up when incentives were introduced, but that when incentives were withdrawn, scores returned to near baseline levels. These results were interpreted as calling into question the validity of test results obtained from "motivationally deficient" youth and give rise to the recommendation that--with such populations-tests should be administered under both standard and incentive conditions. General recommendations for future research were discussed, and an expanded diagnostic system, including the classification "motivational disability" was proposed. Staats' developmental-learning conception of motivation (the A-R-D system) was used as the theoretical framework for the expanded classification system, and on the basis of Staats' A-R-D system a new model for child assessment in clinical psychology was derived and described.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1971.
Bibliography: leaves [103]-108.
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I would have given my cheesecake of the month membership AND my "Degrassi Junior High" DVD collection to write about Kim Kardashian this week, but another columnist already called dibs, so I had to move on to someone equally annoying.
However, I couldn't think of anyone else that I thought should be euthanized. Then, for no apparent reason, George Clooney popped into my head.


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February 28, 2017 09:30 ET
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Feb. 28, 2017) -
Manson Creek Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:MCK) ("Manson") is pleased to announce the acquisition by staking of a 2,111 hectare property in the Cariboo goldfields, in central British Colombia. The property consists of a combination of both Lode and Placer claims, is easily accessible through an existing network of logging roads, and is located approximately 20 kilometers north of the town of Likely, BC.
While the geology of the region is widely known to be prospective for commodities such as gold, copper and nickel, the focus of exploration in this instance will be for nephrite Jade of which there are historical showings and reports in the area. The property covers approximately 6.5 kilometers of strike length along a favorable package of metamorphosed serpentinites and sediments, with significant thrust faulting, all elements which are critical in the formation of Jade.
Mr. JP Jutras, P.Geol. and President of the Company reports: "After recently returning from competing as an award winning Jade and Gemstone carver in one of China's largest competitions (Zi Gang Bei International Competition), and subsequently travelling extensively in China to visit large Jade carving centers and evaluating the Jade space, it is clear that there is a tremendous opportunity for an exploration Company with the proper skill set to make significant headway in this space. While North America, and specifically British Colombia has long been an important supplier of Nephrite Jade to the Asian markets, it has done so on the basis of deposits mostly discovered previous to the 1980's. There has been very little new exploration done using modern day techniques for this particular commodity, and with a dramatic increase in both the demand and the value of Jade over the last 10 years, we see an excellent opportunity to redeploy Manson's technical team in this underdeveloped space."
The Company also announces a non-brokered private placement of up to 7 million units of the Company, at a price of $0.05, each unit consisting of one common share and one half of a common share warrant. Each full common share purchase warrant (a "Warrant") will entitle the holder to purchase one half of an additional common share at a price of $0.10 per share for a period of two years following closing.
The Common Units are to be offered on a non-brokered basis by way of private placement to accredited investors and any securities issued will be subject to a hold period of four months plus one day from the date of closing. A finder's fee of 5% will be paid to eligible agents upon closing. This financing is subject to TSX Venture approval.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors,
Jean-Pierre Jutras, President/Director
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Except for the historical and present factual information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release, including words such as "expects", "projects", "plans", "anticipates" and similar expressions, are forward-looking information that represents management of Manson Creek's internal projections, expectations or beliefs concerning, among other things, future operating results and various components thereof or the economic performance of Manson Creek. The projections, estimates and beliefs contained in such forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause Manson Creek's actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, those described in Manson Creek's filings with the Canadian securities authorities. Accordingly, holders of Manson Creek shares and potential investors are cautioned that events or circumstances could cause results to differ materially from those predicted. Manson Creek disclaims any responsibility to update these forward-looking statements.
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Deadline: May 3, 2016
The FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards are a global initiative designed to recognise artistic talent in emerging-market nations. The winners in three categories – Art, Fiction, and Film – will be announced at an awards gala on September 26, 2016. Each winner will receive a $40,000 award, and two runners-up per category will receive $5,000. The Award will be atributed to an artist who is a national or passport holder of one of the eligible Africa and the Middle East countries. The artist may submit up to twelve works, created at any time since 1 September 2011.
The works can be, but not limited to, paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, installations or mixed media.
Submissions should be made in the form of high-quality digital photographs or videos ('Work').
Video format is only accepted for artworks, where video is a chosen medium or video serves as a recording of installations or performances. Please note the length of the video cannot exceed 20 mins including the opening and closing credits, if applicable.
Submissions from galleries and nominators on an artist's behalf are welcome.
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Consumer Affairs issues warning on phishing emails
Thursday, November 15, 2012 | 09:47am
NASHVILLE, TN – "You have notifications pending." So states the email purportedly from Facebook, alerting you to missed updates related to your Facebook account. It features, under the familiar logo with "Facebook" spelled out in white letters in a blue bar, two boxes for you to click if you wish to go to either your Facebook homepage or to all of your account's notifications.
But, the boxes are links to a site not affiliated with Facebook, and clicking on either box could expose your computer to an attack aimed at stealing your information. And, upon closer inspection, you see that – though the sender is listed as "Facebook" – the sender's email address apparently has no relation to the social networking site.
Another common email features this request: "We suspect an unauthorized transaction on your account. To ensure that your account is not compromised, please click the link below and confirm your identity."
Don't click the links. Don't trust the emails. Fraudulent emails such as these are involved in "phishing" – when Internet swindlers send spam or pop-up messages to lure personal information (credit card numbers, bank account information, Social Security numbers, passwords or other sensitive data) from unsuspecting victims.
"Understand that fraudsters will use whatever means at their disposal to dupe an unsuspecting person into surrendering their personal information," Commerce and Insurance Consumer Affairs Director Gary Cordell says.
"We even have seen emails claiming to be from the New York Division of Unemployment Assistance stating that the recipient of the email is required to supply information related to a former employee after clicking on a link. We contacted the agency and got confirmation that it was a phishing email," Cordell says
Some phishing emails threaten a dire consequence if you don't respond. The messages direct you to a website that looks just like a legitimate organization's site. But it isn't. It's a bogus site whose sole purpose it to trick you into divulging your personal information so the operators can steal your identity and run up bills or commit crimes in your name.
Consumer Affairs offers these tips to help you avoid getting hooked by a phishing scam:
- Don't reply to email or pop-up messages that ask for personal or financial information, and don't click on links in the message. Don't cut and paste a link from the message into your web browser – phishers can make links look like they go one place when they actually send you to a different site (hovering your mouse pointer over the link can help you uncover the real address).
- If you need to reach an organization you do business with, call the number of your financial institution on the back of your card – not the number listed on an email. And, you always have the option of visiting the business in person.
- Use anti-virus and anti-spyware software, as well as a firewall, and update them regularly.
- Don't email personal or financial information.
- Be cautious about opening any attachment or downloading any files from emails that you receive, regardless of who sent them.
- Forward phishing emails to email@example.com – and to the company (in the Facebook example, the address would be firstname.lastname@example.com), bank or organization impersonated in the email.
The Federal Trade Commission has an e-card that you can forward to your friends to warn them about phishing scams. The link is www.ftc.gov/phishing.
Consumer Affairs (www.tn.gov/consumer) is a division of the Department of Commerce and Insurance, which works to protect consumers while ensuring fair competition for industries and professionals who do business in Tennessee. www.tn.gov/commerce/, @TNCommerceInsur (Twitter), http://on.fb.me/uFQwUZ (Facebook), http://bit.ly/ry1GyX (YouTube)


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