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Autowrite is a project carried out at the LaBRI laboratory at the University of Bordeaux. Autowrite is an experimental tool written in Common Lisp for checking properties of term rewrite systems (TRSs) .It was initially designed to check call-by-need (CBN) properties of TRSs. For this purpose, it implements all the basic operations on tree (term) automata (determinization, minimization, union, intersection, decision procedure for emptyness) and many useful operations on terms, TRSs and term automata.
A graphical interface frees the user of any lisp knowledge. It is written using FreeCLIM , the free implementation of the CLIM specification. From this interface, one can handle TRSs, term automata and build many term automata related to TRSs. one can check membership to CBN for the different approximations of a given system.
Autowrite can also be used independently from the graphical interface (and independently of CLIM) as a library of operations on terms, term automata and term rewriting systems.
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Moleskine on the way to Venice for the new Detour/My Detour event, click on Flickr for the entire gallery
Ten international architecture studios, an anthropologist, an artist, six academic institutions and two foundations have been brought together by the VIU, Venice International University, and Moleskine to work on the "Mapping Contemporary Venice" initiative. The city of Venice seen in a new prospective, then mapped and reinterpreted in Moleskine notebooks.
A special edition of Detour project, which has already travelled to New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Istanbul and Tokyo. Alongside the works from the major studios, the myDetour section is dedicated to new talents.
From August 26 to September 20, 2010, from 10 am to 5 pm at the Venice International University, Island of San Servolo, Venice. An event associated with the Architecture Biennale. On our Flickr pages you can view images of the opening.
Detour is a travelling project. New contributions join in the show city after city, creating an archive of decorated notebooks, donated to the non-profit organisation lettera27. The next stop will be Shanghai, in October.
The gallery of Detour / myDetour exhibitions are also online at moleskine.com, whilst the Detour Venice catalogue is available on our webstore

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's prime minister presented his resignation on state television in a broadcast at 4 a.m. local time, hours after soldiers who led Mali's recent coup arrested him at his home in Bamako.
Prime Minister Cheikh Modibo Diarra said in his address: "Men and women who are worried about the future of our nation, you are hoping for peace. It's for this reason that I, Cheikh Modibo Diarra, am resigning along with my entire government."
A police officer and an intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press confirmed that soldiers loyal to Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, the leader of the March 21 coup, arrested Diarra at his home at around 10 p.m. Monday. He was driven to their military base.


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Really? Dang.
Part 60: Now you have all gods. I hope you try out the extra altar prep. Goblin assassin is nice, but you aren't playing the SUPER ASSASSIN. I won't spoil the strategy, but it is totally counter intuitive, and it only requires one glyph past level 1. Thank you for thinking. That was going to give you mana burn. EM is nice in magma mines. I don't know how, but magma mines seems to waste a lot of your tiles, so you almost always run out of regen space. IMAWAL can prevent that. As a low level EM worshipper, you should basically ALWAYS take a couple shots of vine form. There is no way you can get that kill without taking damage. Refreshment would be incredible. It is a great combo for the goblin. That is 5 (or is it 4) extra fireballs. Of course it is way better with a big mana pool (refreshed warlords FTW). You can totally regen fight him. There is no point in exploring around him if he already has first strike. Why aren't you using IMAWAL? And you remembered it! FINALLY! That level 5 is out of your league. Cave snakes are some of the worst targets in the game. They are like spawning poisonous meat men. It's TERRIBLE. How on earth would you kill him. WAIT! Dang. You didn't need CYDSTEPP to win. You could have just hit, fireball twice and first strike. Okay, well at least you aren't using CYDSTEPP to kill that level 4. A level 8 cave snake is terrible. You practically have to use swift hands. You could kill that meat man. If you just keep using APHEELSIK, this will work. Even still, I'm not sure that it's worth the amount of tiles this will take. 5 tiles is the magic number. 5 tiles is the amount of tiles it costs to cast APHEELSIK AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT! Why does this never occur to you? There still is reason for GETINDARE, but you don't really need that dodge chance. NO! USE APHEELSIK AGAIN! THAT WAS A TOTALLY VIABLE KILL! You are totally misusing APHEELSIK! The whole point is you keep casting it throughout the battle so the enemy never stops being poisoned. As long as APHEELSIK nets you 5 tiles, you can keep APHEELSIKing until you WIN! Seriously, unless you are going to properly APHEELSIK, you have no shot against that level 8 meat man. You are totally wrong. Without properly using APHEELSIK, you will never win this fight at such as low level. Why do you have such a strange problem with APHEELSIKing again. YES! YOU GOT IT! JUST KEEP APHEELSIKING! And mistake. You could have just fireballed twice and first struck. Don't get so wrapped up in your APHEELSIKing that you fail to kill him. Please do this right. Don't forget the true value of APHEELSIK. That's not just an extra glyph, that's 100 CP. NO! APHEELSIK IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT BURNDAYRAZ! If he is going to run out of poison and you can't kill him right then, you use APHEELSIK! You could have explored 1 tile and used IMAWAL. All you need is one BURNDAYRAZ. Why would you explore 5 tiles when 3 was sufficient? Precasting IMAWAL and CYDSTEPP is like tilecide. Seriously, you are totally throwing away your black space. WRONG! :_(. If targeted the magic one off the bat you could use your clearances to finish him easily and then first strike the physical one. See, if you had put your divine resources first and foremost (as you should), you would have chose the physical immune one. That was creative, but unnecessary. Guess what magic immune means? YOU CAN'T USE SPELLS! This fight is going to be tough to watch. You could have killed the physical immune one feeling parched. PHYSICAL IMMUNE ALREADY WAS EASY! EASIER THAN THE MAGIC IMMUNE! You can and one hit which does less damage than two fireballs, and you had to throw away a level up to get that hit, and your god boons don't help you, and you miscalculated you damage. That was a good use of the strength potion. The only shame is now you won't be able to immediately kill him. When you kill one, the other is reduced to 1 hp. Corrosion on bosses barely matters unless you can't take a shot. Why would you get to level 9 first when you could start the battle now. The thing is, you should almost always be scoring two level ups on a boss. You might be able to score 3 mid fight level ups. You still don't understand the true power of the assassin. Why would you not try for yet another mid fight level up? How lame. You had another level up. You are limiting yourself. You missed a level 9 goblin. That's on you. Anyways, nice win on your first good try on magma mines. It could have been better, but that's okay. The main terrible thing it you virtually never used your god. You were riding on max piety and not even looking at EM. YOu could have avoided purchasing both items simply by taking two hits of vine form. You could have scored feeling parched by using clearance.
KEY POINTS: When regen fighting, APHEELSIK IS TOP PRIORITY! If the monster is going to run out of poison (tile count is under 5), you have 5 mana, and you can't kill it right now, CAST APHEELSIK! Never forget your god. You will always regret it. You tend to overvalue CYDSTEPP--it is far to resource intensive.
Part 61: Magma mines is a fun dungeon. The thing about the immune guys, is you only really need to kill one. The rogue, warlord, and berserker all have fairly easy times in the magma mines. Generally, any character who is really good at physical or magical fighting are good at this dungeon, although it is generally easier for physical guys because mages can't always take a hit from the magic immune guy. Ah! THE PACTMAKER! Yeah, you've seen these altars. One thing is the pacts cannot get you punished. They just don't activate without the piety. The best pact for your rogue is the warriors pact. An exp valuable enemy is any enemy that gives exp. The thing is you need to find a reliable source of piety. That level 3 is way out of your league. If you use that strength potion you can almost kill it. It isn't just +damage. It is +BASE DAMAGE. Anything that says +damage is +BASE DAMAGE. That means it is modified by your huge attack bonus. You need to explore around him so you can WEYTWUT him without him fully healing. Just restart. Take the strength potion off the bat so you still have enough mana for WEYTWUT. Always have the strength potion for the first hit. Thankfully he didn't have a few more hit points, but if he had that would have been a colossal waste. You don't get punished, instead you don't get your pact effect until you can pay for it again. Always WEYTWUT the lowest level thing (unless you are moving something out of the way). This is one of the few instances where you might want to take drac off the bat. You won't really get any boons out of him, but you will get a bunch of hp. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? WHY WOULD YOU THROW AWAY THE MORE VALUABLE POPCORN ON PURPOSE?! You don't get that hp without the piety. You can't just cheat the pactmaker. That is a poisonous level 5 that won't level you. Better known as a BAD target. That's a guitar, not an axe. How smart of you to save the guitar. I was going to comment on how you should. You can't hit anyone because you're only looking at targets you can't hit! You don't need to keep WEYTWUTing guys. You can just use the titan guitar later. That is why you always take magnet: fireball. OH MY GOD! THE LEGENDARY PACKROG EMERGES! Packrog is the unfair combination of Taurog and the Pactmaker. The insane amount of piety taurog generates is enough to abuse the pactmaker's pacts and still get all of Taurog's stuff. NOOOOOOO! WHY WOULD YOU NOT ACCEPT THE MIGHTY PACKROG?! If only you had. This would have been a shut out. You really should. You see, you don't have to convert out of the pactmaker. You just have a symbiotic relationship with the pactmaker. You feed him piety, and he feeds you power. This ought to be a joke. You are smart to turn to the great Packrog's might. I hope you don't forget your compression seal. Yes, you better not make the mistake of converting BURNDAYRAZ. He is considered an exp valuable enemy. It just nets you 8 piety, or 5 with the leech. Taurog is giving you happiness. Why would you not choose the level 7 minotaur who has less hp. No, you should stick to level 7's. You don't have nearly enough. Unless you throw away your popcorn for hp, it's going to be very difficult to hit 97. Nice job! As unintuitive as that was, I agree with what you did. Congratulations on thinking outside the box. Okay, that wasn't so smart. You need to save SOME popcorn. NO! STOP RIGHT NOW! NOW THE MAGIC IMMUNE BOSS WILL FULLY HEAL AND YOU ARE OF TAUROG! YOU HAVE TO THINK! You just made the dungeon effectively twice as hard because of a rash, spur of the moment, not thought out decision. You could have avoided this whole thing and scored feeling parched. Why do you hate getting feeling parched. WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?! Why would you throw away a mid fight level up? You could have gotten two mid fight level ups and been only 14 damage short of killing the goblin jerk. Meh, Taurog doesn't get that angry. You have to REALLY not be paying attention to get punished by Tauorg, unless you intentionally convert some of his gear. Heck, your rogue almost has average hp. Just two more kills and he will! No, you don't the popcorn you kill will compensate for the fireballs. It's only 2 piety. Seriously, he won't get THAT angry. He isn't very easy. It's 5 solid hits from the boss. A mid fight level up (?), some fireballs., and a first strike hit should be plenty. Why would you fireball when you don't need to. This is not easier than HHoS. For a veteran player, HHoS is a much easier dungeon. You just don't have the same skill set as a veteran. Seriously, the better you get at regen fighting, the more of a joke the indomitable becomes. I've killed him at level 4.
KEY POINTS: Never kill one bodyguard unless you can see the other. Packrog is unstoppable. When you have a choice between killing more valuable popcorn vs less valuable (and in this case damaging) popcorn, always choose LESS VALUABLE. Always precast (pre-use?) the strength potion, so you also get your full magical resources against the enemy. An exp valuable enemy is any enemy without the "No Experience" trait.
Part 62: I agree with you. Do it until it's done. It may be just doing the same dungeon over again, but every run is unique. Each class makes you play differently unless you use Taurog (Read: CLICK TILL IT DIES!), and there are so many random elements that it is so different ever. Southern Swamp it is the easiest dungeon in the game (not counting Hobbler's Hold). Seriously, you have an issue with plants. Why would you take a piece of popcorn over 10 or so mana burn plants that are ALL in the way. Binlor is the god of all wall destroying happiness. Actually, he gives you PISORF. His first boon gives you ENDISWAL for 35 piety. You pushed him into a "flyable" as the devs named them. "Flyables" are the uncrossable, indestructible terrain that is usually represented by liquid (water, lava, etc) or a pit of spikes (or whatever that red stuff is). PISORF only does damage if you push something into a wall or another enemy. Generally when playing Binlor you should immediately get ENDISWAL as fast as you can. Yeah, you never had a shot against the meat man. Wow, you moused over every boon except the one that gives you ENDISWAL. That was rather amusing. You can't beat that meat man. ACCEPT IT! You can beat a level 3 enemy at best without any more boosters/glyphs/items. The boss is always the same. That's partially why it's so easy. There, now the level 4's are good targets. This is painfully amusing. You just threw away a health potion, and you've foolishly limited yourself to PISORF. You should target the level 6 gorgon. You can't quite beat the level 7 snake (which you pushed into blackspace). TT is the yellow god. He's a fun one. Probably my favorite god of all. THE CRUSADER! YES! UNLOCK HIM! You need to score 100 piety to get the crusader to talk to you. You seriously overvalue poison. His best boons are Tikki's Edge and Reflexes. Tikki loves APHEELSIK. If you didn't want BURNDAYRAZ, I'd take it. PISORF is designed to be a pain until you purchase ENDISWAL. If you gain max piety now you can get the crusader! You aren't even close to that level 8 zombie. Why would you convert to TT before a big fight. You should always convert RIGHT before you score a big kill. Be careful. If TT punishes you you are basically screwed. I told you, the poison boon is inconsequential. You only score a piety for the FIRST hit on each monster, and it amounts to basically one tile per level of poison. You're screwed. Two hits and he punishes. Wow that was close. I'm so glad you were paying attention to piety. I'm glad you understand how TT is best played. He poisons you. You may get the kill, but it will leave you poisoned. There is no point in using APHEELSIK against a poisoner. You already get that 1 piety from the poison boon, and using ENDISWAL scores the extra hit. NO! USE ENDISWAL TWICE SO YOU CAN SURVIVE AN EXTRA--DANG! You are cursed, so no matter what he does enough to kill you. YOU ARE EXPLORING?! YOU ARE CURSED! PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU HAVE ON YOU! Lol, you would have survived that. YOU'RE CURSED! That was a terrible overall result. He didn't even level you. No, you are fine. You can beat that boss handily with what you already have. If you use Reflexes this will be even easier. You should be able to score two mid fight level ups if you don't waste popcorn. Which, of course, is what you immediately did. If you are trying to get close to leveling, DO NOT USE POPCORN TO DO SO. Do good reasonable fights to get close, then popcorn to make the 1-5 exp remaining, so you can score TWO mid fight level ups. You cannot regen fight a two level higher zombie without BURNDAYRAZ. You've thrown away so much popcorn that I'm crying on the inside. WHY DO YOU LIMIT YOURSELF TO 1 MID FIGHT LEVEL UP? WHY, OH WHY, OH WHY?! Dodge is not that valuable. Reflexes is more valuable in almost every fight (every fight under 20 attacks). Scholar's Pack is the late game pack. It makes your mid fight level ups vs the boss very valuable, especially later in the game. It is the difference between one and two hits. Take reflexes. Good. Here's the 5 second explanation of both potions: You use it and get an extra hit. Why would you not use your excess mana on ENDISWALs? There. See, easy. Reflexes is an awesome boon.
KEY POINTS: Never level up with remaining mana unless you literally cannot use it. DO NOT LIMIT YOURSELF TO 1 MID FIGHT LEVEL UP. Look at taking early god boons. Seriously, you practically only consider late game potential, which is about 10% of the stuff gods can give you. And it isn't even the best 10%. Binlor's first boon provides ENDISWAL for 35 piety. I recommend it.


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A bit of ranting...
RE: A bit of ranting...
(07-08-2012 07:34 AM)Red Celt Wrote:(07-08-2012 07:04 AM)earmuffs Wrote: Capitalism, free trade, globalization etc... allow for efficiency (I swear I feel like a broken record at times, repeating myself over and over) of resources.
Quote:What is your view of people that disagree with you?
You will have to be more specific. I do not dislike someone because they have a different view as me. I mean look at Filox, him and me are polar opposites yet I tolerate him (, jokes you're a bit of alright Filox).
I mean I don't like you because you're asshole, not because you disagree with me.
Quote:That they just don't understand your graph? That, perhaps, if they stare at it long enough (and you do the broken record routine a few more times) they'll eventually stop being stupid?
Yeah, pretty much.
Quote:I've been interested in politics since Thatcher stole my milk. I've been politically-aware for a longer period than you've been alive.
CSB. There are athletes at the Olympics 2years younger then me, doesn't mean I'm gonna be able to throw a javelin further then them.
Quote:I have a brain the size of a planet
Physically improbable.
Quote:My opinion won't be swayed by an MS Paint graph
Would a photoshop graph do? I'm pretty good with the' ol' photoshop.
Quote: and the rantings of an under-informed youth who seems oh-so-very-annoyed that his political views aren't shared by everyone else.
Says the 'old man' who is getting oh-so-very-annoyed by that under-informed youths political views.
Quote:Widen your sources and look at the reasons why "lefties" hold the views that they do. When you're pointing at your graph and telling everyone to ignore the wealth-gap, keep in mind that the happiest societies on the planet are the ones where the wealth-gap is the smallest. There's a good reason for that... and it doesn't involve jealousy, in case you're tempted to return to your fall-back explanation about the left.
It does involve jealousy.
And that's what I'm saying, sure happier nations may be the ones that have the smaller gap but why? Because of jealousy. People flip shit when others have more then them. That's what I'm saying, stop looking at the green line and look at the blue line.
If you don't like where you are on the green line then change.
Also pleasant RC. Though next time may I suggest, if you are ever-so-informed as you say then you actually contribute rather then go on about my youth.
RE: A bit of ranting...
Another thing... And this has to do with the graph ears made. I like that graph. It is pretty accurate and good. Extra simple.
Listen here for a bit...
What makes people quiet? Fear or/happiness. Let's rule out fear here, because we can all ignore it when we want to, let's focus on this "happiness". What makes us happy? "Give us bread and games" - shouted the crowd. Your model is giving people much more games today. This means that a lot of people do not have money to pay their bills, but they still have Facebook, they go to Internet, they even drive cars, because, you gotta have a car. What people lack today is the "bread" part.
But until we have more "games" than "bread" we are being stupidified and kept silent. We are trying to find our own little place to cuddle ourself in and we see the good sides that we have, but forget the other things. Things like a house, food, cloths... What "they" are doing is painting the world with new paints. What we need to do is take a peek under that paint and remember how it used to be, what were our primary objectives and what was of prime importance. Because this, today? This is a joke my friend.
You yourself wanted to get a small credit to buy yourself an apartment. How is that going? Feeling fucked already?
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
-Hunter S. Thompson
RE: A bit of ranting...
(07-08-2012 07:40 AM)Filox Wrote:(07-08-2012 07:33 AM)earmuffs Wrote: I would take them to court.
Well then that brings it back to the post I made after RC interrupted us.
That's a result of corrupt government, corrupt police/court system.
The fact it got that bad in the first place says something...
Which, again, is not because of capitalism but rather the government.
Likely from past historical events like WW1/2, Cold War. The Balkans and Eastern Europe etc.. didn't fair too well.
And I didn't say you did, I said the guy in the article did.
And again, sure PEOPLE are bad, the system isn't bad. But bad behavior is not limited to social/economical status. There are bad people from Presidents to prostitutes.
Sure communism is good in theory, capitalism is better, but communism is pretty okay in its own rights depending on who you are.
RE: A bit of ranting...
(07-08-2012 07:54 AM)Filox Wrote: Another thing... And this has to do with the graph ears made. I like that graph. It is pretty accurate and good. Extra simple.
So you're saying people are spending money on luxury instead of necessities?
Well who's faults that! Don't spend your money on getting a new car if you can't afford food, that's basic fiscal responsibility.
A small credit? I wanted $112,000. And no I don't.
RE: A bit of ranting...
(07-08-2012 07:41 AM)morondog Wrote: I think... extremely well written article. (Btw, it was a good translation too.)
Look, the way I see it, like it or not, this is a bubble that has to burst. When it does, there will be no army or war that will stop the 99% of the people. So what you can do is prepare yourself.
You think that "Greece scenario" can't happen in any other country? Wait for a little bit more, people need to loose more, they need to starve more, in these nice, western modern countries.
Just look out for the Balkan region, we already started 2 world wars, wait until we explode all over our politicians, there be plenty of bloody mash for everyone.
I really wish I was so wrong and ears is right. That is my biggest wish in the world. But I guess time will tell. I see you in 10 years ears, then I will ask you the same thing, let us see how the world will shape you...
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
-Hunter S. Thompson
RE: A bit of ranting...
Luxuries today are really cheap. Food is not. It is easier to have Internet at home than to have food in the fridge. And people are happy if they can have these "normal" things, because everyone have them. Rihanna has Tweet, you need to follow her, so you need Internet. Lady Gaga as well... They'll somehow manage for food.
See something wrong here?
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
-Hunter S. Thompson
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RE: A bit of ranting...
(07-08-2012 08:02 AM)Filox Wrote:(07-08-2012 07:41 AM)morondog Wrote: I think... extremely well written article. (Btw, it was a good translation too.)
No it's not. It's not a bubble to pop. It's only the start.
And it's only going to go up from here. Globalization increases all over the world. More countries are trading with emerging powers (Brazil, Vietnam etc..) and then these countries are growing making their markets more viable etc.. Snowball effect yeah. This spreads the risk. The current recession is because the US traded massively with EU, so when the US crapped out, the EU followed. Well, as say the EU trade more with China and Brazil etc... if the US craps out again, they're not solely relying on the US and so the hit is less.
And you didn't start two world wars. Austria started the first and Germany the second.
And yeah sure, I will be standing here in 10years asking where the promised revolution was?
RE: A bit of ranting...
(07-08-2012 08:07 AM)Filox Wrote: Luxuries today are really cheap. Food is not. It is easier to have Internet at home than to have food in the fridge. And people are happy if they can have these "normal" things, because everyone have them. Rihanna has Tweet, you need to follow her, so you need Internet. Lady Gaga as well... They'll somehow manage for food.
It's cheap because capitalism allows it to be cheap.
Without capitalism food would still be expensive, but so would luxuries and you wouldn't have either.
And again, that's individual choice. The way you spend your money is nobodies responsibility but your own.
RE: A bit of ranting...
(07-08-2012 07:33 AM)earmuffs Wrote: I would take them to court.
How would you fund this courtcase if you haven't been paid for 6 months?.
Behold the power of the force!
RE: A bit of ranting...
You can rob a bank with a gun...... but you can rob the world with a bank.
When you have the UK Press reporting about 21 trillion in offshore taxhavens owned by the Elite... then the next day you have an article in the UK saying paying a tradesman cash in hand to avoid paying VAT is robbing the system...... the hipocrisy is often overlooked by the vast majority.
The economy is fucked..... kaput.... blammo..... they could sell all of the oil in the world and not have enough to pay of this "debt" that the world owes.
I fucking hate Central Banks
I feel so much, and yet I feel nothing.
I am a rock, I am the sky, the birds and the trees and everything beyond.
I am the wind, in the fields in which I roar. I am the water, in which I drown.
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South Florida Aquatic Environments
The goal of South Florida Aquatic Environments is to provide an interactive, internet-based program that increases public awareness and understanding of three imperiled south Florida ecosystems - the Everglades, Florida Bay, and Florida Keys. Human impacts and conservation issues, as well as the role of museum collections in providing a historical taxonomic and distribution database, are included. South Florida Aquatic Environments also shares and interprets valuable collection-based data from the Florida Museum of Natural History's Ichthyology Collection (UF). The UF collection of fishes is a large and comprehensive assemblage of more than 2 million specimens, representing more than 7,000 species. The principal strengths of the UF collection consist of western and eastern Atlantic shelf and deepwater marine fishes, western Atlantic reef fishes, North American freshwater fishes, especially from the southeastern United States, and freshwater fishes from certain parts of Central America, South America and the West Indies.
South Florida Aquatic Environments, originally referred to as PISCES: UF, is largely funded by the National Science Foundation as a supplement to the NSF-funded project, "Emergency Curation of the Endangered University of Miami Ichthyological Collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History." George Burgess is Project Director, Betty Dunckel Camp is Co-Project Director, and Cathy Bester is Project Coordinator. Special thanks to Florida Museum of Natural History staff members Robert Robins, Sean Morey, and Susie Gardieff for contributing their writing skills to various sections of this project.


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'A charm for a democracy, reviewed, analysed, & destroyed Jany 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affiliated friends'
by Thomas Rowlandson, published by James Whittle
hand-coloured etching, published 1 February 1799
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Angels:They're Not What You Think
December 19, 2012
Americans have long had a fascination with angels. From Della Reese in the TV show "Touched by an Angel" to Michael Landon in "Highway to Heaven," which you can still see on one of those retro TV networks.
But are those shows a biblical portrayal of angels? CIU professor Dr. Larry Dixon has taken on that question in an article titled, "Angels: They're Not What You Think." The article is published in the December 2012 issue of the magazine "Reach Out Colulmbia" and distributed in the Columbia, S.C. area. It is reprinted here by permission. Learn more about "Reach Out Columbia" magazine at http://www.reachoutcolumbia.com/.


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Ai ya ya. A Canadian firm has now filed a lawsuit against several Real Housewives of New Jersey cast members, accusing them of stealing the concept used for their bottled-water product, BLACKWATER, in addition to misappropriation of the trademark and breach of contract.
The lawsuit, which was filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, names BLK Brands LLC. ("BLK") and it owners — Albie Manzo, Chris Manzo, and Chris Laurita as well as Jacqueline Lauria and Louise Wilkie, as defendants.
The suit, filed by Canadian design and marketing company Creative Thinkers, Inc, alleges the Wilkies entered into an agreement with Creative Thinkers to bottle BLACKWATER(TM), a specialty health water infused with a proprietary blend of fulvic and humic acid. However, instead of working with Ivan Solomon (the owner of Creative Thinkers), his partner Gordon Jung, and their corporation, Blackwater Innovations Corp., the Wilkies allegedly stole the idea and trademark and marketed the product with the Manzo-Laurita family.
"One of the core premises of trademark law is the right and ability to protect one's name against imitations and customer confusion," said Bobby A. Ghajar, one of the attorneys representing Creative Thinkers. "This case goes to the heart of trademark law."
In July 2011, Blackwater Innovations Corp. sent a cease and desist letter to BLK after the Wilkies claimed they developed the idea for the product after they witnessed the water heal their sick mother. However, the suit alleges the defendants received confidential information about the Blackwater specialty product in a November 2009 agreement, and agreed to keep information about the health water confidential.
The court documents allege the Manzo-Laurita family inappropriately used their reality TV fame to sell a false story about how the idea for the blackwater drink originated. Creative Thinkers insists that the family stole the idea after attending a food industry trade show. At the trade show, the Manzo-Laurita family allegedly saw the BLACKWATER(TM) product and conspired with the Wilkies to steal the product, marketing and distribution plan.
"We are confident that the evidence will prove that the Manzo-Laurita family and the Wilkies stole the BLACKWATER(TM) specialty concept," said Mark D. Litvack, one of the attorneys on the case. "The Manzo-Laurita family has wrongfully used its fame to steal another's idea, and this suit seeks to restore ownership of BLACKWATER(TM) to its true originator."
Creative Thinkers, Inc. is now seeking to "have its stolen property returned, to recover the monies and good will wrongfully taken from it, and to prevent the defendants from wrongfully profiting from their theft, deception and infringement."
Blackwater Innovations Corp., Solomon, and Jung have also filed a countersuit responding to claims by BLK that they had infringed the company's trademark rights. BLK had originally filed their lawsuit as a response to the July 2011 cease and desist letter they received.
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COSMOS QA Criteria
COSMOS Quality Expectations
This has been put together to address Bugzilla ER 214576.
The terminologies/acronyms below are commonly used throughout this document. The list below defines each term regarding how it is used in this document.
|Quality Expectations
|Is a statement of some behaviour, characteristic or operational facility that a product must exhibit for it to be deemed 'fit for purpose'. Quality expectations are normally grouped into four main categories: functional/behavioural, operational efficiency, inter operability factors; and admin/management factors (to control TCO).
|Acceptance Criteria
|This is a quantification of how a quality expectation is to be validated. For functional/behavioural quality expectations this is a simple Boolean test – it either works or it doesn't. Hence, for most scope docs there is no need to specifically define functional acceptance criteria. However, other types of quality expectations – especially performance related areas – do require specific acceptance criteria because the quantification is normally some form of numeric threshold (with optional margin/tolerance) that states minimum levels of acceptable operational efficiency.
The purpose of this document is to set the quality expectations of COSMOS (the software) and matching acceptance criteria that would serve as a preamble to the COSMOS QA team while executing their work.
The QA team will use these criteria as a specification to define and plan their testing efforts for any given iteration. Specific test scenario's, environments and methods are to be documented in the QA iteration activities document eg) COSMOS_QA_i9_Activities
Is COSMOS 1.0 well-formed software?
COSMOS QA perceives COSMOS 1.0 as being a well formed software if it is built upon valid use cases, on bug free technology, with accompanying API documentation and providing easy installations, on some widely used platforms.
|Quality Expectation
|Acceptance Criteria
|QA Role
|Valid use cases
|COSMOS team to define use cases COSMOS_Use_Cases
|Validate ER definition against the use cases - manual
|Comprehensive Unit Test Coverage
|COSMOS team must provide unit test cases (Manual, TPTP/JUnits) to prove integrity of code changes; A unit test case walk-through to QA must be provided 215135 (i9)208604 (i9)
|Validate the test case scope and validity and sign off on all ER's. QA are not required to execute unit tests.
|API documentation/JavaDoc
|COSMOS team must provide API documentation/JavaDoc 197515 (i9) 216655 (no target)
|Manual verification of API documentation/JavaDoc
|Easy to use deployment package
|Release Engineering team to provide an easy install Build_Packaging_for_COSMOS
|Validate the ease of use of the package and accompanying install instructions – manual; RE process will not be scrutinized
|Base platforms support
|COSMOS team to specify the supported platforms COSMOS M2 Dependencies
|QA certifies release on specified platforms and runs Sanity tests on latest GA versions (where different).
Is COSMOS 1.0 a consumable entity?
COSMOS QA perceives COSMOS 1.0 as a consumable (adoptable) software if we can demonstrate its capability to successfully integrate with participating data managers and MDRs through integration and performance testing reports, code samples and other adopter aids.
Clear documentation, process definition for fixing COSMOS bugs or supporting future COSMOS enhancements can also contribute. Dependencies on 3rd Party software must be specified.
|Quality Expectation
|Acceptance Criteria
|QA Role
|Successful Application integration of COSMOS components
|COSMOS team must provide helper applications for integration with user scenarios 208274 (i9) 209990 (future)
|Test the function and effectivity of helper tools – manual. Recorded as manual TPTP tests
|COSMOS support across products / data sources
|COSMOS team must state the kinds of MDRs that can be integrated and provide samples 211093 (future) 214766 (i8) 209987 (i9) 212187 (i8) 212189 (i8)
|Execute integration tests with these sample MDRs – manual. Recorded as TPTP manual tests
|User documentation
|COSMOS team will write manuals 214805 (i9)
|QA validates the information - manual
|Additional platforms
|COSMOS team must specify 216210 (i9) COSMOS M2 Dependencies
|QA will certify the product on these platforms - manual
|Dependencies on other open source software
|COSMOS team to define a minimum version of the dependent software 215609 (no target) COSMOS M2 Dependencies
|QA will validate at minumum versions and sanity test at latest GA versions where this differs
|Future enhancements / bug reporting mechanism
|COSMOS team to set a process Bugzilla
|QA validates the process - manual
Operational Efficiency considerations
The operational efficiency of a system is considered to be the characteristics of a that system when deployed to a production environment and it's reaction load.
|Quality Characteristic
|Acceptance Criteria
|QA Role
|How many queries / clients may run simultaneously? The COSMOS components 216210 (i9)
|QA test that COSMOS components function with 2+ sessions
|Data Volumes/Performance
|Are there any restrictions on the amount of data that may be returned by a query? How many queries / clients may run at a time with acceptable performance? 216210 (i9)
|QA perform generic load/data volume tests to generate data points for further analysis
|COSMOS 1.0 will support a single Data Manager and Management Domain. How many MDRs and Data Managers may be added? COSMOS components must not crash when subjected to load.216210 (i9)
|QA perform generic load tests with increasing number of MDRS to ensure stability.
Task Breakdown
This section includes the tasks required to complete this enhancement.
- Jimmy Mohsin has generated this page to address bugzilla 214576
- The COSMOS team needs to provide input to this page
- Shivvy, representing the QA team, is supposed to review and sign-off on these criteria
Open Issues/Questions
All reviewer feedback should go in the Talk page for 214576.
A formal review is required to agree the content and detail of the quality expectations laid out in the three 'quality perspective' tables. This is a three step process…
- Review each quality expectation to agree whether it should be included.
- If it is to be included then determine whether the acceptance criteria can be met with an r1.0 timeframe, or be postponed to a subsequent release.
- All acceptance criteria must be linked to an ER that delivers the required quality. This can be illustrated by linking the acceptance criteria table cell content to either other relevant wiki pages or an ER. If the link is to an ER then this should also state the ER's status (e.g. not started / WIP /completed)


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Stained glass windows still popular after 3,000 years
Mesopotamian potters discovered the method for making multi-colored opaque glass beads around 2,750 BC. Circa 1,100 AD, a window of colored glass was documented in Germany. Colored glass windows were used in churches, monasteries, and other places of worship.
Artisans, like worshipping pilgrims of the day who made pilgrimages to holy sites, traveled from church to church to work on stained glass window projects during the Medieval period. Most stained glass windows were made of colored glass with images of saints painted onto the glass itself. The colorful images for each glass panel were kiln fired. This firing made the colored images a permanent part of the glass.
The Arts & Crafts movement of the mid-1800s blossomed in England and America. A strong interest in hand-made objects and quality workmanship was embraced by William Morris (1834-1896) and his company, Morris & Company. A popular artisan of the movement was Sir Edward Burne-Jones who produced stained glass windows for the Victorian collectors of the day.
Edward Burne-Jones counterpart in America was an accomplished designer named John LaFarge (1835-1910) who worked along with W. J. McPherson. LaFarge made opalescent glass pieces and created stained glass windows in the late 1870s in opalescent glass. This process made it unnecessary to paint the glass and fire it in a kiln.
Other stained glass masters included the artisans John LaFarge who was active in the late 1800s to 1910, Louis Comfort Tiffany who was commissioned to produced stained glass windows for public institutions and private clients, and Frank Lloyd Wright who integrated stained glass windows into his architectural works.
John LaFarge's stained glass windows were highly detailed and highly decorative. In 1885, Louis Comfort Tiffany established the Tiffany Glass Company. Tiffany windows were made in many different types of glass making techniques. They featured landscapes and figures and were produced for significant buildings such as churches and private homes.
Tiffany first began experimenting with glass art in 1873. He opened the Tiffany Glass Company in 1885. Tiffany produced stained glass windows for many different clients using various techniques: opalescent, etched, and enameled glass. Other famous artists also worked in stained glass including Frank Lloyd Wright and Marc Chagall among others.
Today, stained glass windows continue to attract collectors and enthusiasts as the art form has evolved. Today, contemporary artists work in colorful stained glass window art forms with the aid of advanced digital imagery technology such as contemporary stained glass artist, Clifford Ross.
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Green Bay Packers sign quarterback Scott Tolzien
GREEN BAY (WITI) — The Green Bay Packers signed quarterback Scott Tolzien to the active roster from the practice squad on Wednesday, November 6th. The team also signed wide receiver Alex Gillett to the practice squad.
Tolzien, a 6-foot-2, 213-pound third-year player out of the University of Wisconsin, was signed to Green Bay's practice squad on Sept. 2, where he spent the first nine weeks of the season. He entered the league as a non-drafted free agent with the San Diego Chargers in 2011. Following the 2011 preseason, Tolzien was claimed off waivers by the San Francisco 49ers, where he was a member of the 53-man roster for both the 2011 and 2012 seasons, but did not appear in a game.
Gillett, a 6-foot-1, 214-pound rookie out of Eastern Michigan, signed with the Packers as a non-drafted free agent on May 22 and was with the club until he was released on Aug. 26. He played in 45 games with 33 starts during his college career, with 30 of the starts coming at quarterback and three at wide receiver. Gillett will wear No. 1 for the Packers.


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Instinct, reason and free will
An Internet article about the Food Network was the impetus for an interesting conversation.
Apparently, the demographic group of 18 to 25-year-olds has claimed watching the Food Network as one of its favorite pastimes. The coveted group, according to the media moguls, brought the network up to 40% of cable subscribers. That's a high percentage by anyone's calculations.
A look at the programming on the network reveals that the health conscious are not in control of content that hits the airwaves. "Death by Chocolate" and "Ace of Cakes," as well as a program that features the host's favorite dives, diners and fast food, pretty much says that the popular shows are about food that tastes good.
Not that programs about eating healthy don't exist – they do, but the popular shows are all about goodies, treats and excessive calories.
That inspired a conversation about free will and the ability to reason setting humans apart from animals. The ability to think is a substantial power that gives humans a responsibility over all other living species.
The question was: What have we done with that ability?
One would think that a nation where obesity is a major issue would use the cognitive abilities of its population to focus on healthy lifestyles. The Internet, television, the publishing industry and every educational institute in the country spew information, encouragement and programs for improving physical and mental health.
However, how many of us take health seriously enough to do something about our physical condition? According to statistics, a little more than a third of the population leads a moderate to healthy lifestyle.
That doesn't seem to make sense if we have free will and the ability to reason. How was that ability allowed to go astray and work against our instincts?
Let's take a look at the animal kingdom. How often do we see obese animals in the wild? I don't believe I can recall ever seeing that. Domestic animals – yes, because we overfeed them. But when animals are left to forage for themselves, they appear to eat what is necessary.
Food is only one issue. What else have humans accomplished with their cognitive abilities? We are the only species to go to war over ideology. That seems severe for differences of opinion about how governments should be managed. On a smaller scale, humans commit murder over ideology.
One could argue that some animals fight to the death over leadership, but that is rare. Most altercations for leader of the herd do not end in death. The contests come from survival instincts so that only the strongest will lead. Usually, an altercation between animals of the same species ends when one stops resisting the other and walks away in defeat.
Since none of the people involved in this discussion were scientists, the conversation about what mankind has done with the innate ability to reason and make logical decisions stayed at an elemental level, which made it interesting. The conclusions were accurate, and that is sad.
At the top of the "worst use of the human mind" list was the invention of weapons of mass destruction. That spawned other contributions to the conversation, citing innocent inventions that were thought to bring unparalleled improvement to the lifestyle of modern humankind, but did the opposite.
One of them was the invention of the internal combustion engine. The concept of varying types of engines dates back as far as Leonardo da Vinci's time. The credit for the first internal combustion engine goes to Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci. They are rumored to have patented the first four-cycle engine in the mid-1800s, but the patent was lost.
If they had known the turmoil that would result from their invention, would they have made it available to the world? Their engine laid the foundation for the oil industry as we know it today. The internal combustion engine has been used in wars, polluted the planet and exhausted resources. The premature deaths of millions have occurred because of its use.
We can say the same thing about weapons, chemicals and all things that humans have invented in the name of need that have gone against the laws of nature.
Maybe a good look at the way the lesser creatures live might be a lesson for the so-called intelligent species inhabiting our little corner of the universe.
It is little wonder why we live in a system we can't understand.


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X-Photographer Kevin Mullins from the UK shoots with the GF45mmF2.8
Kevin Mullins talks on street photography with the X100F
"Inside the camera bag of X-Photographer" Series
Kevin is pure documentary wedding photographer. He started shooting weddings professionally in 2008 and since then has photographed weddings right across the UK and Internationally. Shooting in a documentary style he strives to tell the story of the wedding through photojournalism, rather than "traditional" contrived wedding photography.
He has been shooting with Fujifilm equipment since 2011.
I'm a wedding photographer by trade with a passion for people watching. I want my wedding photographs to be snapshots of real, uncontrived but tender moments in time. Weddings are where I ply my trade, but really it's just "people being people" – they happen to be at weddings.
I shoot with the small, Fujifilm mirrorless cameras and with natural light only. This allows me to shoot the wedding from the inside out, rather than being the photographer looking in from the outskirts with a telephoto lens. I want my clients to be taken right back to that moment in time when the image was exposed and see it from their guest's eye view. It's imperative to me that my clients don't remember their wedding day as a fashion shoot with the photographer. I'd rather they forget entirely about me, but in 50 years' time when they are showing their grandchildren the pictures of their wedding they can point to real moments, real people, real photographs.
I don't pose or direct anything at all at a wedding. My role is an observer and the curator of the memories. I'm not there to make those memories, I'm there to capture them.
I'm a Fujifilm ambassador and with that in my belt, I've spoken at conventions as far afield as Japan and Argentina. I've shot weddings in the United States and many countries in Europe. But none of that means anything if the clients don't buy into to what I do… which is really to make real pictures, of real moments.


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Pall Mall Price Crisis Lyrics
Here we are, the wheels are always spinning but never getting too far. Don't know how we got to this point or where we're headed now. Times they change, we're still here, slowly going insane. All alone, touring across the world, four wheels feel like home. When's it our turn? What's left to learn? Are we next in line? We're running out of time. Can we live our dreams? It's further than it seems, please no more lies. When's this gonna change our lives? Always waiting, always wishing, we'll find what we are missing. There's always something we're searching for, but when will it be ours? Always losing, never choosing, if we'll make it where were going. We've been hoping for the moment, when our lives begin. You think you know, what's best for me, a straight and simple plan to as happy as can be but I got, some news for you: no one's gonna sit me here and tighten up the noose 'cuz I can't fucking work your stupid 9-5. You know I want to party and drink all night. Another wasted evening in your eyes, but I hope you know, this is the time of my life.


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Frame your television with stylish storage in this five piece console set. Open shelving in the console is perfect for your media devices and two glass doors enclose storage space for your movie and music collections. A compartment perfect for a sound bar and two small drawers line the top of the console that has a spacious 63 inch top. Keep your wine close with storage for up to twenty bottles or remove the rack entirely and enjoy the extra storage space. Hidden storage can be found in drawer of the other base storage piece. Opening the drawer completely reveals a felt-lined space ideal for hiding some of your prized and fragile possessions. Two open bookcases provide additional storage and display space and surround your TV.
The Hudson 5 Piece TV Console with Bookcase Piers by Parker House from Furniture Barn. We proudly serve the Pennsville, Bear, Newark, Hockessin, Middletown, New Castle, Townsend, Talleyville, Wilmington, Marshallton, Smyrna, Elkton, area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
This entertainment unit features adjustable shelves to help you create the most storage out of the space available. Simply move the shelves up or down, or remove them completely to create a space that will fit a large media console or your collection of Blu-rays. With adjustable shelving, you can customize this piece's look and storage options with ease.
Cord access holes allow you to snake wires directly from your media devices through the back of the unit, keeping cords hidden from view as you plug them into wall outlets or a power strip. The wire management holes also help to reduce dangerous heat build-up caused by media players by increasing air circulation in and out of the unit. In addition, decreased heat build-up means less noise from automated fans that work to keep each individual console cool. Connect and use your media devices safely and easily with this item's included wire management.
The Hudson collection, with its distressed look and modern features, will bring the transitional style you've been looking for into your home. Furnish your home office with multiple desk setups or create the perfect entertainment space for movie night with TV consoles and wall fixtures. Bar pulls adorn the door and drawer fronts of the pieces and provide interesting contrast to the dark Vintage Midnight finish seen throughout the collection. Ample storage and display space allows you to put a personal touch on these pieces. Turn your home into a versatile space with the office and entertainment items from the Hudson collection.
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As Americans replaced their laptop computers and mobile phones last year, it's estimated that more than 300 million lithium-ion batteries used to power these devices entered the waste stream. That number will grow with the increasing use of personal electronics and the commercialization of renewable energy storage systems for electronic vehicles.
Managing this growing waste challenge while protecting the environment and creating jobs, particularly within New York state, is the challenge facing Gabrielle Gaustad and her colleagues at RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability. The team is exploring that issue, supported by grants totaling more than $700,000 from national and state agencies.
"We have been quite fortunate to work with such forward-thinking funding groups on battery recycling, and I have personally been lucky to team up with such great collaborators here at RIT," says Gaustad, RIT assistant professor and lead investigator for these grants.
Gaustad, joined by Callie Babbitt, assistant professor of sustainability, and Brian Landi, assistant professor of chemical engineering, launched this research with a 2010 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to study economic viability of recycling and remanufacturing lithium-ion batteries. An additional $293,000 grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation this summer, will expand this research effort by quantifying environmental, health and safety tradeoffs of alternate recycling pathways, with particular focus on the fate of the nanomaterials that can be found in new battery technologies.
"Fundamental studies currently have mainly examined simple, homogeneous materials comprised of a single metal, metal oxide or a simple organic moiety," states Barbara Karn, program director for the Environmental Health & Safety of Nanomaterials division of Chemical, Biological, Environmental and Transport Systems at NSF. "Nanomaterials in commerce have moved well beyond these simple, first generation materials. To date there has been little work that explicitly addresses the environmental implications of nano-scale materials in batteries, despite recognition of considerable environmental uncertainties and concern at end-of-life."
A third grant awarded this summer of $150,000 from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute will allow Gaustad and Babbitt to focus their investigation on environmentally benign battery recycling processes. This work will compare cost, performance and environmental impacts of bio-based leaching acids as compared to the harsh inorganic acids normally used in battery recycling.
"Process optimization for cost and performance alone is not enough," says Anahita Williamson, director of the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, which is housed at RIT. "The focus of industrial process optimization has to include environmental impact as well. Developing a process that avoids the use of hazardous chemicals while maintaining or improving the performance of the process at an equivalent or lower overall cost would be a big step forward in the movement towards the increased use of lithium-ion batteries."
These grants are part of the broader research and educational initiatives in the areas of sustainable production, energy and mobility systems carried out at the Golisano Institute for Sustainability.
"Research and training opportunities provided by these grants will enhance the educational experience for our Ph.D. and M.S. students," explains Babbitt."Our unique graduate programs prepare students for the green economy workforce by combining depth through technology-driven research with breadth of understanding the systems-level sustainability implications of these technologies."


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About Eric Yahnker
Taking a maximalist approach to art making, Eric Yahnker employs elaborate metaphors and cultural commentaries in his monumental, irreverent charcoal and colored pencil drawings. Immediately appealing on their surfaces, Yahnker's drawings convey deeper meanings to viewers who patiently engage with them. The artist begins his drawings as a series of words in a sketchbook, collaging ideas as much as images. The results are aggregations of witty, politically charged imagery, as in Cheese Slice on Garland (2012), which depicts a slice of pizza on a paper plate laid on a bed of roses. Yahnker has said that the pizza and flowers function as a memento mori, objects that, like humans, constantly inch closer to decomposition and death.
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The probe of Libor manipulation is proving to be the tip of the iceberg as inquiries into assets from derivatives to foreign exchange show that if there's a chance to rig benchmark rates in world markets, someone is usually willing to try.
Singapore's monetary authority last week censured 20 banks for attempting to fix interest rate levels in the island state and ordered them to set aside as much as $9.6 billion. Britain's markets regulator is looking into the $4.7 trillion-a-day currency market after Bloomberg News reported that traders have manipulated key rates for more than a decade, citing five dealers.
"It's happened time and again: all of these markets have been influenced by major market-makers, which is a polite way of saying they've been rigged," Charles Geisst, a finance professor at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, said in a telephone interview.
While the indexes under scrutiny are little known to the public, their influence extends to trillions of dollars in securities and derivatives. Barclays Plc, UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc have been fined about $2.5 billion in the past year for distorting the London interbank offered rate, which is tied to $300 trillion worth of securities. Regulators are also probing ISDAfix, a measure used in the $370 trillion interest-rate swaps market, as well as how some oil products prices are set.
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Inquiries are broadening into the transparency of benchmarks whose levels can be determined by the same people whose income they affect. In the case of Libor, traders who stood to profit worked with bank employees responsible for submissions for the benchmark to rig the price, according to the U.K. Financial Services Authority.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions, or Iosco, a Madrid-based group that harmonizes market rules, identified a set of benchmarks in a January report that could impair the global economy if they were found to be prone to manipulation. Along with Libor, ISDAfix and energy market prices, Iosco flagged measures used in markets for overnight lending and repurchases, equities, bonds and alternative investments such as hedge funds.
Iosco may propose final guidelines as soon as next month for improving transparency and oversight of benchmarks, including the WM/Reuters rates used in the foreign-exchange market, the subject of last week's Bloomberg story, people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the talks aren't finalized said last week.
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By Joanne Mendes
Title: Alice Rice Cook papers, 1943-1972
Predominant Dates:1950s-1960s
Primary Creator: Cook, Alice Rice
Extent: 1.0 Mss. Boxes
Date Acquired: 00/00/1972
Subjects: Gilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker), 1868-1924, Motion study, Women's Archives at Purdue University
Languages: English
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
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Acquisition Source: Alice Rice Cook
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Preferred Citation: Alice Rice Cook Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
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HAGART wrote:On another note, I wonder, and I posted this before, do men and women lucid dream differently? I've read that men tend to be more destructive and women are more caring. This, of course, sounds stereotypical, but there might be an element of truth to it.
I do think there may be some truth in it as women prefer to nuture and may not have that "warrior"nature males have but it really I do think depends on the person to. Im in a dream group (there is 4 of us who share dreams together) and we have one male in the group... his dreams are so so peaceful and spiritual usuallly leaving me in awe wishing I had dreams like that. I'd really be surprised if I saw he'd had a killing dream (unless it was in defence).
I think things like babies may feature more in female dreams... babies and swords dont go well together


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NH College Roundup: UNH hockey team drops to No. 7 in polls
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The University of New Hampshire men's hockey dropped three spots to seventh place in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls following a tough weekend in home games against the University of Maine.
The Wildcats (18-9-7) lost a 4-3 decision on Friday night at the Whittemore Center, and then skated to a 4-4 tie on Saturday night in Durham.
Quinnipiac (24-5-5) retained the No. 1 spot in both polls, while Dartmouth College (15-12-5) fell out of the top 20.
FDU-Florham 9, Keene State 8: At Winter Haven, Fla., freshman Ted Christie of Nashua got the start, and Keene State College used five pitchers in a tough-luck loss at Chain O'Lakes Park on Monday. Billy Hartmann of Greenland ripped a two-run double to give Keene State an early 2-0 lead. Howie Dietch and Greg Bates of Salem each had RBI-doubles in the sixth inning as the Owls upped the lead to 6-2. Keene State (4-6) faces nationally ranked Wheaton College in Auburndale, Fla., on Tuesday.
College of N.J. 2-15, Keene State 1-2: At Clermont, Fla., the Owls dropped a one-run game in the opener at National Training Center and were swept after getting blown out in the second game of the doubleheader. In the opener, Keene State freshman pitcher Mariah Crisp of Greenland worked 7-2/3 innings, allowing two runs on two hits, striking out 10. KSC dropped to 0-2, and the Engineers improved to 2-3.


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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For 15 years, Iranian presidents have been drawn to the U.N.'s global stage to mold their image and press their message.
Reformist Mohammad Khatami made his debut before the world body's annual General Assembly in 1998, declaring himself a "man from the East" seeking dialogue with the West. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went in the other direction, jabbing at Washington and its allies, and leaving a trail of jaw-dropping comments such as telling a Columbia University forum in 2007 that Iran has no gays.
Now it's Hasan Rouhani's turn. The U.N. has slotted Iran's new moderate-leaning president to address the global gathering Sept. 24 — just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to wrap up his speech.
The symmetry is fitting. Perhaps no trip to New York by an Iranian president has carried so many expectations and potential for important sideline diplomacy.
Obama and Rouhani have exchanged letters over the civil war in Syria, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Tehran's leaders — unwavering backers of Bashar Assad's regime — have a key role under any proposed deal to strip Syria's military of its chemical weapons arsenal and avoid U.S.-led military strikes.
Rouhani also has suggested he could use his time in the U.S. to reach out indirectly to the White House to restart nuclear talks, which have been on hold after a series of dead-end rounds.
"All the signals and talk about trying to reset Iran's relations and policies with the West could be put to the test at the U.N.," said Merhzad Boroujerdi, director of the Middle East Studies program at Syracuse University. "Everything Rouhani does and says will be very closely watched."
He has expressed eagerness to get the nuclear negotiations back on track. This call is apparently echoed by Iran's true decision-makers — the ruling clerics and their backers led by the Revolutionary Guard, who often use the president to carry their views.
So Rouhani's appeals to restart the dialogue with the six-nation group — the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany — is certain to be cleared at the top.
Rouhani said Tuesday he expects meetings with U.S. envoys and others on a timetable and venue for the talks, last held in April in Kazakhstan amid stalemate.
Iran says no progress can be made until the West rolls back economic sanctions. The U.S. and allies want Iran to make major concessions on its uranium enrichment program, which the West fears could one day churn out weapons-grade material. Iran says it only seeks reactors for energy and isotopes for medical therapy — and often cites a religious decree by the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that describes nuclear weapons as against Islam.
Rouhani has given no clear signs on whether Iran could significantly shift its negotiation positions. In speeches, however, he has not veered from Iran's demands to keep its uranium enrichment labs and its denunciations of sanctions as deal-killing pressures. Instead, he has offered only vague hints of seeking a new way forward.
"On the nuclear issue, the endgame should be a win-win," Rouhani said on Iranian state TV. "A win-lose game is meaningless. We are ready for this game. This job will begin in New York."
He warned, however, that he wants to return to Tehran with some progress to show.
"The world should know that that the time span for settling nuclear issues will not be unlimited," Rouhani said. "The world should use the opportunity that the Iranian nation has provided through the election."
Part of his unexpected victory in June is a cadre of Western-educated Cabinet members and advisers. Among them is Zarif, who is scheduled to accompany him to New York. Zarif served at Iran's U.N. Mission from 2002 to 2007.
Rouhani also received permission from the ruling clerics to make a potentially important shift in the negotiation team: taking control of the talks from security agencies and giving it to Zarif and his diplomats. His presence in New York adds significant weight to efforts at reviving the nuclear dialogue.
Zarif said he expects no direct talks with U.S. officials but could meet with former members of the Obama administration or other former policy-shapers.
Washington officials have not spoken publicly about Zarif's claim of a letter exchange with Rouhani on the Syrian civil war.
Some Iranian news agencies have reported that a message from Obama was carried to Iran last month by Oman's ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, whose country was a mediator before — when Iran released three Americans convicted of espionage despite claims they innocently crossed the border while hiking in Iraq in 2009.
The Obama administration has indicated interest in possible groundbreaking one-on-one nuclear talks with Iran after nearly 35 years of diplomatic estrangement. Envoys from Iran and the U.S. have previously held meetings on Iraq mediated by Baghdad officials.
The push for possible Iran-U.S. dialogue received a boost by the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, which the U.S. and allies have blamed on Assad's forces.
Obama has suggested Iran — a strong opponent of chemical weapons — could help pressure ally Assad into accepting a Russian-brokered plan to surrender stockpiles of lethal gas to international control. Iran suffered chemical attacks from Saddam Hussein's forces — then backed by Washington — in the 1980-88 war with Iraq.
"The use of chemical weapons is a crime, we believe it is a crime against humanity, but we believe that also the use of force, the threat of use of force, is also a criminal offense in international law," Zarif told state-run Press TV Wednesday. "Unfortunately, it seems to me that the United States seems to be living in the 19th century when the use of force was a prerogative of states. It is not."
On Thursday, Rouhani made his first trip abroad since his inauguration in August, to the Kyrgyzstan summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional bloc. Rouhani is expected to hold separate talks with the leaders of Russia and China — both key to any international consensus over Assad's chemical arsenal.
Tehran-based political analyst Saeed Leilaz believes Rouhani "will restore balance in Iran's foreign policy through reviving relations with the West and clarifying its ties with the East."
The conservative Iranian news website alif.ir urged Rouhani to use his time in New York for intense diplomacy rather than spotlight-grabbing like Ahmadinejad.
"We hope that the president, far from the annual hue and cry of the previous administration, defends Iran's stance strongly," it said. "Rouhani should ... use the opportunity to seek to end sanctions as well as regional disputes and conflict."
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ATLANTA — Just days before daredevil runners plan to dodge a stampede of bulls at a Georgia horse park, state agriculture officials approved last-minute permits paving the way for the event.
The Cotati, Calif.-based Animal Legal Defense Fund discovered last week that needed state permits had not been granted for Saturday's planned Great Bull Run in Conyers. The animal advocacy group has sought to block the event from taking place.
Organizers scrambled to file permits late Friday, saying there had been a misunderstanding about what was needed.
Georgia Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Mary Kathryn Yearta tells The Associated Press that the permits have now been approved.
Saturday's bull run at the Georgia International Horse Park is the second U.S. event this year. An August bull run was held at a Virginia drag-racing strip.


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The U.S. economy added 192,000 jobs in March, an improvement over previous months when winter storms and extreme cold cut into hiring and a potential sign that U.S. labor markets may be gaining momentum.
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The unemployment rate held steady 6.7% in February. Economists had predicted 200,000 new jobs would be created.
The U.S. Department of Labor said it revised upward by 37,000 jobs the number of new hires in January and February, another positive sign.
"The monthly employment report shows us what good old-fashioned, bread-and-butter job creation is about: Higher consumer demand equates to job growth," said Todd M. Schoenberger, managing partner at LandColt Capital in New York. "The immediate future for job creation seems to be robust, especially considering we are on the cusp of a tremendous econo-thaw in the USA."
Stock markets moved higher after the jobs numbers were released. The broad S&P 500 index rose 0.36% to 1,895.59, the Dow Jones Industrial average rose 0.23% to 16,610.96, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.12% to 4242.98.
The total number of unemployed Americans stayed essentially unchanged at 10.5 million. The number of long-term unemployed, or those without work for 27 weeks or more, was also unchanged at 3.7 million.
Lacking from this month's report for the first time in many months is a direct correlation between the March numbers and the Fed's bond buying program.
Fed policy makers have made it clear that unless the labor numbers in combination with other important economic indicators move sharply in one direction or another, the central bank will continue to move ahead with its plan to gradually reduce its bond purchasing program by $10 billion each month until the program expires later this year.
Instead, the new focus is on labor markets' relation to interest rates.
Newly installed Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has placed a renewed emphasis on strengthening U.S. labor markets through monetary policy.
In a speech earlier this week, Yellen said the Fed will maintain its highly accommodative policies in order to ease the burden on average Americans who have found it difficult to find and keep a well-paying, full-time job.
Specifically, Yellen said the central bank isn't likely to start raising interest rates until the unemployment rate falls to a range of 5.2% to 5.6%. At that point, inflation would become a concern because a tighter job market would mean higher wages and consequently higher consumer prices.
In the meantime, interest rates will remain at their current range of 0%-0.25% to spur borrowing, which can help businesses grow and eventually hire more workers. The low rates, Yellen noted, also help consumers pay smaller monthly mortgages and make cars more affordable.
All of that emphasis by Yellen on labor markets has placed a renewed interest on the headline unemployment rate, which is at its lowest level since the worst of the 2008 economic crisis.
Lance Roberts, chief executive at STA Wealth Management, said adding jobs to the economy is important but that policy makers need to focus more on creating "quality jobs."
"If you're working part time you're probably not going to be able to buy a house," he said. "Full-time jobs are what we need to get economic growth going."
Also being closely scrutinized are wage levels; the labor force participation rate, a key gauge of the percentage of working-age Americans currently employed; and the number of full-time jobs relative to the working age population of 16 to 54.
In March, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls fell by 1 cent to $24.30, following a 9 cent increase in February. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 49 cents, or 2.1%.
The labor force participation rate was 63.2% and the employment-population ratio was 58.9%, both numbers about the same as in February. The number of people employed part-time for economic reasons was also little changed at 7.4 million in March, according to the Labor Department.
While the headline unemployment rate has been somewhat misleading in recent months, falling because people are leaving the workforce and not because more jobs are being created, these other labor market indicators provide a broader view of whether job conditions are strengthening.
The Labor Department said job growth has averaged 183,000 per month over the past 12 months.
In March, employment in several major industries, including manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information, and financial activities, changed little from February.
Professional and business services added 57,000 jobs, in line with its average monthly gain of 56,000 during the past year. Health care added 19,000 jobs in March, while employment in mining and logging rose by 7,000. Employment continued to rise in food services and drinking places, where 30,000 jobs were added.
Construction employment rose in March by 19,000. Over the past year, construction employment has risen by 151,000. Employment in government was unchanged in March. A decline of 9,000 jobs in federal government was mostly offset by an increase of 8,000 jobs in local government. Over the past year, employment in federal government has fallen by 85,000.


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Grand Boulevard and Irving Park in the last week recorded their second homicides of the month, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found.
In Grand Boulevard, a 15-year-old boy was shot to death Monday in the 700 block of East 50th Street, police said.
Grand Boulevard has logged four homicides so far this year. The South Side community area recorded eight homicides last year, according to RedEye data.
In Irving Park, a 34-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday in the 3400 block of West Irving Park Road, officials said.
Irving Park has logged two homicides so far this year. The Northwest Side community area recorded one homicide last year, RedEye determined.
Citywide, gunshot homicides were logged in the last week in Austin and New City, according to police information.
Eighteen homicides have been recorded so far this month. Forty-one homicides were logged in April 2012, RedEye determined.


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Customers Can Now Gain the Combined Benefits of In-Memory Computing With Virtualization
PALO ALTO, Calif. and WALLDORF, Germany — To empower customers to innovate, simplify and move toward a software-defined data center architecture, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced that the SAP HANA® platform on VMware vSphere® 5.5 for production use has been released to customers. By combining the power of SAP HANA with VMware vSphere 5.5, a foundational component of VMware vCloud® Suite, customers can innovate and simplify their data centers by achieving faster time-to-value, higher service levels and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
"SAP HANA has led the market as the real-time enterprise platform by driving IT simplicity and by enabling breakthrough innovations for business," said Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG. "Together with VMware, we are enabling customers to operate their SAP HANA-based mission-critical applications in virtual environments with confidence and to accelerate their journey to software-defined data centers and ultimately to the cloud."
"Our customers are evolving their IT infrastructures from physical environments to a software-defined data center architecture and they are looking for solutions that provide agility, high availability, elasticity, efficiency and control for their most mission-critical and demanding in-production enterprise environments," said Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. "The SAP and VMware partnership is truly transformative. We are delighted to further extend that partnership and answer those customer needs by certifying SAP HANA for production use on VMware vSphere 5.5."
"AMG-Mercedes is now live in production with SAP HANA and VMware vSphere 5.5 with a 1TB memory configuration, accelerating our move to a software-defined data center," said Reinhard Breyer, CIO, AMG. "We believe virtualized SAP HANA with VMware vSphere could be the key to our future, as we move to cut operational costs and simplify our data center operations."
"SAP HANA on VMware vSphere is in production at EMC to run our next-generation SAP ERP system, and it is delivering tremendous value to our company," said Bill Reid, senior director, IT, EMC. "We have increased capacity of SAP HANA five times without growing headcount, are experiencing 99.9 percent uptime, can deploy new SAP HANA instances in minutes and are realizing significant OPEX and CAPEX reductions."
SAP HANA support of VMware vSphere 5.5's virtualized environment will help further simplify and streamline data center operation for customers implementing a data center virtualization strategy. It will also accelerate provisioning of new SAP HANA instances for production use. SAP HANA customers can benefit from increased infrastructure utilization, agility and productivity with the combined solution.
- SAP HANA on vSphere has been released to customers on certified SAP HANA appliances or on SAP HANA tailored data center integration application-verified hardware.
- Up to 1TB and 32 physical cores (64 virtual cores) per VMware vSphere instance are supported
- SAP HANA supports VMware vSphere capabilities for management of customer system landscape, including vMotion®, Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) and VMware High Availability (HA)
- Additional deployment best-practices and consideration are available via the SAP Notes tool and www.saphana.com.
SAP and VMware intend to continue their strong collaboration and deliver more advanced capabilities of SAP HANA on virtualized environments providing more deployment options to SAP HANA customers.
"By extending Capgemini and VMware's next-generation enterprise cloud orchestration and management platform to support SAP solutions, we plan to be able to help our clients improve their TCO, accelerate the adoption of SAP HANA and ultimately optimize the business value of migrating to a new platform," said Olivier Sévillia, CEO Application Services, Continental Europe, and member of the Group Management Board of Capgemini. "Capgemini's industry solutions from SAP are available on the SAP HANA platform, and can now be hosted on a highly available virtualized VMware vSphere infrastructure."
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