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Solar breakthroughs are relatively commonplace. However, typically they are iterative -- small increases by a percent or two in efficiency. Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have invented a new solar cell that is anything but iterative as it blows away past offerings by a large margin; something RPI calls a "game-changer" for the solar business.
Against relatively cheap coal power, solar -- like nuclear and wind -- has struggled to compete from a purely economic standpoint. Worse yet, it trails wind and nuclear in terms of how close it is to being cost competitive. The light at the end of the tunnel is that solar have shown the highest gains in efficiency of any alternative energy source, making its future look very bright.
The new RPI solar cell is a normal cell covered in a special anti-reflective coating which traps sunlight from nearly every angle and part of the spectrum. The new cell is near perfect; it absorbs 96.21 percent of the sunlight shined on it, while a normal cell could only absorb 67.4 percent. That 43 percent efficiency boost, coupled with mass production, if properly implemented could place solar on the verge of competing unsubsidized with coal power, at last.
Shawn-Yu Lin, professor of physics at Rensselaer and a member of the university's Future Chips Constellation describes the breakthrough, stating, "To get maximum efficiency when converting solar power into electricity, you want a solar panel that can absorb nearly every single photon of light, regardless of the sun's position in the sky. Our new antireflective coating makes this possible."
Most materials have a mixture of light absorbing (anti-reflective) and light reflecting properties, depending on the angle and wavelength of light. For example, eyeglasses allow light to pass through on direct angles, but begin to reflect light at sharper angles. Solar panels in their current form operate with similar mixed character. In order to improve efficiency, mechanical components must be added to turn to panel to face the sun. This system entails significant cost and loss of energy efficiency, as well as a great maintenance burden.
With Professor Lin's discovery, the world's first cost-efficient static solar arrays could be produced. No matter what angle the sun was at, nearly all sunlight would be absorbed and converted to power. Professor Lin describes, "At the beginning of the project, we asked 'would it be possible to create a single antireflective structure that can work from all angles?' Then we attacked the problem from a fundamental perspective, tested and fine-tuned our theory, and created a working device."
Rensselaer physics graduate student Mei-Ling Kuo helped Professor Lin investigate various antireflective coatings. Their eventual choice was a nanomaterial, consisting of several fine anti-reflective sheets. Normal antireflective coatings consist of one sheet, which absorbs light at a specific wavelength. By stacking seven separate layers into a composite coat, they were able to absorb nearly the entire spectrum. Furthermore, the staggered nature of the layers "bent" the flow of sunlight to a favorable angle, trapping it in the coating. This means that if light manages to reflect off a lower layer, it will be sent back down by the upper layers.
Each layer was made from a special nanomaterial consisting of silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide nanorods positioned at an oblique angle. The material was grown through standard chemical vapor deposition techniques, and could be applied to the manufacturing of most standard solar cells, including III-V multi-junction and cadmium telluride cells.
On a microscopic level the nanomaterial looks like a forest of tiny, densely packed trees. Each layer is 50 nm to 100 nm thick.
The team hopes to bring their technology quickly to market, as it will require little in the way of manufacturing line changes. The research is detailed in the paper "Realization of a Near Perfect Antireflection Coating for Silicon Solar Energy", published in the journal Optics Letters.
Besides Lin and Kuo, the other researchers listed as co-authors on the paper were E. Fred Schubert, Wellfleet Senior Constellation Professor of Future Chips at Rensselaer; Research Assistant Professor Jong Kyu Kim; physics graduate student David Poxson; and electrical engineering graduate student Frank Mont.
The research was funded with the help of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences, as well as the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.


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Arctic Monkeys Announce Special 'Humbug' Show
Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce that they will play a special Humbug show at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on Sunday 28th March 2010. Performing their album 'Humbug' and related B-sides, tickets are available to UK website members only. Support comes from Anna Calvi. For details of how to get tickets see below.
To access the box office and purchase tickets, you will need your email address and entry code which was emailed to all UK website members registered before Friday 12th March. Tickets are priced at £27.50 plus booking fee and the show is strictly 14+.
- Tickets are limited to 2 per household
- The show is strictly 14+ and will require all entrants to bring a form of photographic I.D.(Passport, Driving License, National Identity Card).
- If you do not have a valid form of photo I.D. you will be refused entry to the venue.
- You will also need to provide proof of address or the credit card used to order.
- Each successful purchaser must when entering the venue on the night have a valid form of photo I.D. which correlates to the name on the ticket.
- Each successful purchaser must enter the venue with the person holding their second ticket. If the person with the second ticket is not with the purchaser then the 2nd ticket will be invalidated.
- The reselling of these tickets is strictly prohibited and resold tickets will be invalidated.
A limited edition poster is also available to purchase for £12.50 in the Online Box Office.
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For making this happen, Colangelo gets a mid-sized checkmark next to the multitude of huge Xs he's earned over the years.
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And in addition maybe also the "Animal Talk" which are often related to wrong livelihoods21 Kinds of Wrong Livelihood for Bhikkhus & Animal Arts (Tiracchāna Vijjā)
wenty-one Kinds of Wrong Livelihood for Bhikkhus
1.Medical practice (vejjakammaṃ karoti)
2.Acting as a messenger (dūtakammaṃ karoti)
3.Doing things at the behest of laymen (pahiṇakammaṃ karoti)
4.Lancing boils (gaṇḍaṃ phāleti)
5.Giving oil for medical application (arumakkhaṇaṃ deti)
6.Giving emetics (uddhaṃ virecanaṃ deti)
7.Giving purgatives (adho virecanaṃ deti)
8. Preparing oil for nosetreatment (natthutelaṃ pacati)
9.Preparing oil for medicine (pivanatelaṃ pacati)
10.Presenting bamboos (veḷudānaṃ deti)
11.Presenting leaves (pattadānaṃ deti)
12. Presenting flowers (pupphadānaṃ deti)
13.Presenting Fruits (phaladānaṃ deti)
14.Presenting soapclay (sinānadānaṃ deti)
15.Presenting toothsticks (dantakaṭṭhadānaṃ deti)
16.Presenting water for washing the face (mukhodakadānaṃ deti)
17.Presenting talcum powder (cuṇṇamattikadānaṃ deti)
18. Using flattering speech (cāṭukamyaṃ karoti)
19.Acting like halfcooked bean soup, i.e.,speaking halftruths (muggasūpiyaṃ karoti)
20.Fondling children (pāribattaṃ karoti)
21.Running errands (jaṅghapesaniyaṃ karoti)
Animal Arts
(Tiracchāna Vijjā)
They can be summarised as follows:
1.Palmistry, divination by signs, portents, dreams, or body marks.
2.Knowledge of animal behaviour.
3.Judging the value of gems, livestock, and other goods.
4.Predictions about the movements of armies.
5.Predictions about the movements of planets.
6.Predictions about the weather.
7.Predictions about the harvest.
8.Accountancy and mathematics.
9.Composition of poetry.
11.Arranging marriages and divorces.
12.Advising on investments.
13.Good-luck charms.
14.Black magic and spells.
15.Supplicating deities.
16.Consecrating building sites.
Although bhikkhus can visit a new house or a building site, and
chant to ward off dangers and evil spirits, they should not be involved in
choosing the site, the position for buildings on the site, nor the auspicious
time for starting work. Such decisions should be made by qualified
town-planners, architects, and builders.
17.Giving ritual bathings.
18.Giving various kinds of medical Treatments.
To summarise:
A bhikkhu should not do anything that would normally be done by lay people for a fee. He can teach secular knowledge or help others with voluntary labour out of compassion, but he should not accept anything in return. If he accepts any kind of reward for such services, it is wrong livelihood, and any goods he has received should be forfeited to another monk. Allowable goods can then be returned to him, and he can use them, but a scrupulous bhikkhu would normally give such things awayto others.
A bhikkhu's primary duty is to observe the Vinaya, study the Dhamma,and strive in meditation to realise nibbāna. If he receives any suitable gifts that people offer out of faith, it is right livelihood as he is fulfilling a monk's duty. If he can also teach Dhamma, it is excellent, but he need not, if he doesnot feel competent. Just by following the Vinaya strictly he is teaching the people how to restrain their desires and how to live a simple, contented lifein accordance with the Dhamma.
Animal Talk
(Tiracchāna Kathā)
Thirth-two kinds of talk obstructing fruition and rebirth in higher planes. (1)
1.Talk about kings (rājakathā)
2.Talk about robbers (corakathā)
3.Talk about ministers of state (mahāmattakathā)
4.Talk about armies (senākathā)
5.Talk about dangers (bhayakathā)
6. Talk about battles (yuddhakathā)
7.Talk about food (annakathā)
8.Talk about drinks (pānakathā)
9.Talk about clothing (vatthakathā)
10.Talk about dwellings (sayanakathā)
11.Talk about garlands (mālākathā)
12.Talk about perfumes (gandhakathā)
13.Talk about relations (ñātikathā)
14.Talk about vehicles (yānakathā)
15.Talk about villages (gāmakathā)
16.Talk about market towns (nigamakathā)
17.Talk about towns (nagarakathā)
18. Talk about districts (janapadakathā)
19.Talk about women (2) (itthikathā)
20.Talk about heroes (sūrakathā)
21. Talk about streets (visikhākathā)
22.Talk about watering places (kumbaṭṭhānakathā)
23.Talk about relatives who have passed away (pubbapetakathā)
24. Tittletattle (nānattakathā)
25.Talk about the origin of the world (lokakkhāyikakathā)
26.Talk about the origin of the ocean (samuddakkhāyikakathā)
27.Talk about annihilation belief (numbers 27 to 32 are known as Itibhavābhavakathā)
28.Talk about eternity belief
29.Talk about worldly gain30.Talk about worldly loss
31.Talk about self-indulgence
32.Talk about self-mortification.
These 32 types of talk are listed in the Sandaka Sutta (Middle-length Sayings, Sutta 76),
where the wanderers were talking all kinds of worldly talk. Seeing Venerable Ānanda
coming, the wanderer Sandaka told them to be silent, saying that the Buddha's disciples donot like a lot of noise. (ed.)
Talk about men is omitted in accordance with Majjhima Pannāsa Atthakathā. p.156. 6th.
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Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is a painful condition of the joint in the jaw. The temporomandibular joints are the small joints in front of each ear. They attach the lower jaw (mandible) to the skull. The disorder may affect the joint in the jaw or the muscles surrounding it. The disorder can include:
- Damage to the joint surface or intra-articular disc
- Displacement or complete dislocation of jaw bones
- Muscle spasm
The exact cause of TMD is often unclear. Possible causes include:
- Injury of the jaw or face
- Excess tension in the jaw muscles
- Faulty alignment between the upper and lower teeth
- Disturbed movement of the jaw joint
- Displacement or abnormal position of the jaw joint or cartilage disc inside the jaw joint
- Arthritis or similar inflammatory process in the joint
- Excess or limited motion of the joint
Risk Factors
TMD is more common in women aged 30-50 years old. Other factors that increase your chance of TMD include:
- Clenching or grinding of teeth
- Stress
- Arthritis
- Poorly fitting dentures or crowns
- Fibromyalgia
TMD may cause:
- Pain in the temporomandibular joint, jaw, or face
- Pain may be worse with chewing, yawning, or opening the mouth
- Clicking, popping, or grating sounds with movement of the jaw
- A sensation of the jaw catching or locking briefly, while attempting to open or close the mouth, or while chewing
- Difficulty opening the mouth completely
- A bite that feels off, uncomfortable, or as though it is frequently changing
- Headache
- Earache
- Neck pain
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. The physical exam may include:
- Range of motion of the jaw tests
- Listening for sounds of popping or clicking in the temporomandibular joints
- Visual inspection of your teeth, temporomandibular joints, and muscles of your face and head
- Palpation of the joints and the muscles of the face and head
Images may be needed of your jaw to check for abnormalities causing TMD. This can be done with:
Usually, the least invasive measures will be tried first. Treatment may include:
Lifestyle Measures
The area will need time to heal:
- Rest the jaw with a soft diet
- Restrict movement with smaller bites, avoiding wide yawning, and gum chewing
- Apply ice or heat packs for pain relief
- Gentle jaw stretching and exercises
The most commonly used medications include:
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen
- Muscle relaxants
- Antidepressants
Some medication may be injected into the jaw such as:
- Pain relievers, such as cortisone or lidocaine
- Botulinum toxin (Botox)—may offer temporary relief if pain or clicking are major symptoms
Physical Therapy
To help reduce pain and allow muscles to relax:
- Gentle massage or stretching exercises
- Gentle strengthening exercises or muscle balance exercises to retain alignment
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
Stress Reduction
Some may benefit from counseling to learn stress management and relaxation techniques, such as:
Dental Procedures
A splint or mouth guard can be made to relax the jaw muscles, and prevent clenching and grinding of the teeth. The guard is usually worn at night. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of proof it works.
Correction of bite abnormalities by a dentist or orthodontist is sometimes needed.
Surgical Procedures
Surgical correction is a last resort. Many of the available procedures have not been well-studied for their effectiveness.
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100,000 reasons to love the Super Bowl
Maybe you were one of the 151 million people to watch the Green Bay Packers victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in yesterday's Super Bowl XLV. If you're not a sports fan, surely you still enjoyed the cheeseburger sliders, nachos, great commercials, and good time with friends and family.
Certainly, there is nothing quite like American football that can split a nation by team, and then bring us back together for one unforgettable championship game. But that's not the only reason to love the power of the Super Bowl. Any production that bids 30-second ads at around $3 million each is worth tuning into — if not for the spectacular cinematography, then at least for a hardy laugh or two.
And while the Super Bowl is the Holy Grail of American sporting events, it's also a source of hope and help to thousands of people around the world — which is one reason why World Vision loves it.
Children and adults in Zambia receive new clothing from NFL donations. (Leah Missbach Day/WV/2007)
For the past 15 years, the National Football League has donated to World Vision its pre-printed championship merchandise bearing the name of the team that does not win the title. This means that right now, thousands of articles of merchandise, including t-shirts, sweatshirts, and ball caps, are being sorted by the NFL and retailers to be sent to World Vision.
Here's how it works: The NFL pre-prints about 300 shirts and hats for both Super Bowl contenders for after the game. At the same time, retailers like Sports Authority, Dick's, and Modell's place their merchandise orders in advance according to the market location of their stores and the potential winning teams. Basically, a retailer in Green Bay, Wisconsin, would order the pre-printed Super Bowl Champion Packers gear the same way a retailer in Pittsburgh would buy pre-printed Super Bowl Champion Steelers gear. But a retailer in Florida might not order either contender's pre-printed merchandise, because their market doesn't have much of an interest in buying Super Bowl Champion gear for either team.
Volunteers at World Vision's international distribution center in Pittsburgh sort through mislabeled Super Bowl gear. (Anne Duffy/WV/2008)
Once the gear is pre-printed, it is shipped from the printing center to the retailers' distribution centers, where it is counted and distributed to individual stores. Once at the stores, staff members hold the gear until the winning team is determined, at which time shelves are stocked and gear is sold. This is where World Vision comes in.
At this point, all unused gear for the team that does not win is repackaged, shipped back to the retailer distribution centers, counted again, and donated to World Vision. As gear begins to arrive at World Vision's international distribution center in Pittsburgh, as it will in the next couple of weeks, it is counted one more time and sorted by size, gender, and destination — meaning that a t-shirt might go to a country with a warm climate, like Nicaragua, and a sweatshirt to a country with a cold climate, like Mongolia.
World Vision identifies countries and communities in need overseas who will benefit from the gear. This year's unused Super Bowl merchandise will make its way to Zambia, Armenia, Nicaragua, and Romania in the months to come. On average, this equates to about 100 pallets annually — $2 million worth of product — or about 100,000 articles of clothing that, instead of being destroyed, will help children and adults in need.
That's 100,000 reasons to love the Super Bowl even more.
Read related post Football frenzy: A super (bowl) success
Read our latest updates to this discussion: GIK and development programming, The financial costs and benefits of sending a shirt overseas, Basic overview of World Vision's strategy and structure and our U.S. GIK operations, and Response to GIK discussion.


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CEO Ken Burns Out at Patelco Credit Union
Patelco President/CEO Ken Burns will resign from the $3.9 billion credit union, according to Chairman Peter Hanelt.
The board of the Pleasanton, Calif.-based institution came to an agreement in which Burns will leave "on a voluntary basis," Hanelt told Credit Union Times on Monday.
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Patelco CEO Says Split is Amicable
The chairman would not provide any further details but said the 274,000-member credit union would issue a press release in a day or two.
Patelco was the victim of two Distributed Denial of Service attacks this year, allegedly at the hands of an Iranian group that also taken down the websites of big banks like Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
The credit union also faces a class action suit alleging unpaid wages to assistant managers.
Financially, the credit union reported a record year in 2012 that included a $55.5 million net profit, according to its financial performance reports posted on the NCUA's website.
Burns took over at Patelco in May 2009. He had been CEO at the $1.3 billion Technology Credit Union in San Jose, Calif.


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"Most fans of musical theater would agree that the two biggest leading men of Broadway's golden age of musicals (1940s'60s) were Alfred Drake and John Raitt. This was a time when vocal training for opera and the theater was not really all that different, and early in their careers, both men sang for the Metropolitan Opera's 'Auditions of the Air'
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Agt0804.dll should be noted that adware and spyware are actually not viruses as they do not have the same reproductive ability. Many viruses attach themselves to legitimate executable files on a host computer that allow the virus to be loaded when the user opens the file. A virus generally will be activated when it is loaded into a computer's memory, and then it may continue to spread its viral code into a number of other programs and files stored on the host computer.
However, not all registry(Agt0804.dll) repair programs are the same. Make sure that the software can provide you with comprehensive help especially if you have no technical knowledge what is going on with the registry. The ideal registry repair program should be able to back up your registry, scan for problems, clean invalid entries and repair damaged files. Some programs even give you the option to defragment and scan for viruses. Scan every file including Agt0804.dll before you download or open it. This will help you avoid troublesome Malware that could infect your system. You should also pay attention to which websites you visit. Avoid those that provide illegal Microsoft Corporation downloads or illicit content. Such sites frequently infect visitors with worms. You don't even have to actively download any files for these websites to infect your computer with Malware they can simply attack your web browser and change your home page.
We http://www.vincenttwomey.com fill Sorry to break the bad news, but Macs can get a virus too. Typically PCs were the most targeted because of the abundance of users and it made more sense for hackers to attack the majority of users. As Mac users have become more common in the market, hackers have begun attacking Macs as well. On a PC, change the CMOS setting of your boot up process from booting first on the A drive (floppy) and then on the C drive (hard drive) to just booting on the C drive. This will not only speed up your boot up process but also completely eliminate the risk of infecting Agt0804.dll.
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Wed, 07/16/2014
Meet Danielle Nicholas, 2013 Enviropreneur Institute alumni. In a video and Q&A, she introduces herself and her product and proposes to producers and consumers alike that variability is no longer a liability, it is an asset.
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Enviropreneur Danielle Nicholas (Alumni 2013) is the owner and founder of Crazy Mountain Grass Fed Beef, LLC in Bozeman, Montana. She came to PERC with the aim to market grass fed beef as the sum of all its parts with the concept: "terroir of beef." In this video she introduces herself and her...
Charlotte Huus-Henriksen
Wed, 05/14/2014
Tackling air quality issues one smartphone at a time.
Charlotte Huus-Henriksen, Annie Ireland, Todd Graham
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In first-of-its-kind legislation, the National Park Service and the Oglala Sioux have proposed the 133,000-acre South Unit of Badlands National Park be turned into a Tribal National Park. Can it be done?
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Fri, 01/03/2014
Dino Falaschetti, PERC's Executive Director, shares a story on the lessons of green energy policy and green growth.
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Te Maire Tau, a member of the Māori in New Zealand, discusses how their tribe is fighting to reinstate indigenous rights to own property and build an economy. Tau says that tribal groups must actively shape the legislation that defines their economic future.
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PERC Julian Simon Fellow David Schmidtz focuses on conflict resolution at the intersection of economics and ecology. In this video, he explores "alien priorities."
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PERC's executive director Dino Falaschetti interviews Kenneth Bickford, president of Chapapeela Development Corp., who discusses "new urbanism" and his development plans in the greater New Orleans area.
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PERC's Terry Anderson and the Hoover Institution's Carson Bruno examine the hydraulic fracturing process and the market mechanisms which would allow us to take advantage of fracking's benefits and mitigate its costs.
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Do you visit national parks for the monumental value or for their ecological value? Can they be the same and how can we manage to keep our parks operating well into the 21st century? Join Alfred Runte and Holly Fretwell for a conversation on national parks.


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Charlotte Metro FCU Revamps Investments Services
A new name and logo are just a few of the changes Charlotte Metro Credit Union has put in place for its investment services division.
The $290 million credit union in Charlotte, N.C., said MEMBERS Financial Services is now Charlotte Metro Investment Services.
Along with the changes, Brian Re, a chartered retirement planning counselor, has been hired as CMIS' new investment representative. Re joins the division with 20 years' experience in the financial investments industry, according to Charlotte Metro. He is also FINRA-registered to sell securities and holds life and health insurance licenses.
Prior to coming to CMIS, Re was director of marketing and sales at DP Technologies in Matthews, N.C. In that role, he was responsible for the sales and marketing of annuity-based financial software applications.
Assisting Re will be Jessica Cale, who has been with Charlotte Metro since 2007. She began in the role of investment coordinator before being promoted to sales assistant.
Charlotte Metro Investment Services will continue to offer the same products and services through the same channels that MEMBERS Financial did, the credit union said. Those services include retirement planning, investment services, insurance planning, tax-advantaged investment planning, personal financial assessments, estate conservation and education funding.


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Feb. 1, 2013
Here is the latest edition of Week In Review - a series of weekly messages from the Mayor and City Council to help Richardson residents and businesses keep up to date on events at City Hall.
Mayor Presents State of the City
Mayor Bob Townsend gave the State of the City address Wednesday at the Eisemann Center. The presentation included a review of the City's accomplishments in the past year and a preview of what's ahead, including the largest office lease in the Dallas area's history, construction of a new regional hospital and the planned opening of the "coolest movie theater in the world."
Several particularly significant accomplishments received special recognition, due to their anticipated positive impact on the community for years to come:
The State of the City Address is available for viewing at www.cor.net/stateofthecity and will be replayed on the City's cable access station according to the following schedule:
State of the City Address replay schedule
Feb. 1–28
2 p.m. – Tuesdays and Thursdays
6 p.m. – Saturdays and Sundays
Time Warner Cable (channel 16)
AT&T U-Verse (channel 99)
Reverend Horton Heat to Perform at Wildflower! Festival
Reverend Horton Heat will bring their punkabilly sound to Wildflower! Richardson's Arts and Music Festival to open for Toadies on Saturday, May 18. This year's festival is set for May 17-19 at Galatyn Park.
Festival organizers made the announcement on Wednesday morning on the Wildflower! Facebook page. Fans of the Wildflower! Facebook page will be the first to know about additional performer announcements as they are posted to the site in the coming weeks.
The information will also be included on the Festival's website, the City's homepage, and Richardson Today's Facebook and Twitter feeds.
Wildflower! Festival website: www.wildflowerfestival.com/
Wildflower! Festival Facebook: www.facebook.com/wildflowerfestival
Houses Come Down to Make Room for New Park
Construction crews began demolition work this week on four houses at property on Weatherred Drive that will become Richardson's newest park this spring.
Construction of the $1.5 million Durham Park, which is funded through the 2010 Bond Program, is expected to be complete in May. The new park will be on four contiguous lots from 400 to 406 S. Weatherred Dr. and will include a playground, pavilion, plaza, open play lawn and butterfly garden. Some of the features will include bricks from the four houses that are being demolished to make room for the park.
Durham Park is named in honor of W.R. Durham and his daughter, Jessie. W.R. Durham began operating a farm in 1910 in the area that contains the park, and Jessie Durham inherited the farm house when her father died. She also operated a shop on Main Street, where she started the first library in Richardson in the back of her store.
Council Discusses Implementation of Main/Central Study
The City Council heard a wrap-up of the first phase of the Main Street/Central Expressway Corridor redevelopment study at Monday's work session. The presentation focused on plans for implementation and high-priority action items that will set the stage for redevelopment in the area.
High-priority action items include monitoring property conditions in the area and marketing the redevelopment opportunities to developers; establishing new regulations to advance the vision; and planning, funding and building infrastructure necessary to support development.
Redevelopment in the study area will be a cooperative effort between the City and the private sector. In the coming months, the City is expected to begin developing new zoning ordinances and development guidelines for the study area.
Watch the City Council work session presentation at http://bit.ly/X6dJjT and http://bit.ly/127ealq.
Council Reviews 2012 Year End Crime Statistics
The City Council heard an overview of Richardson 2012 crime statistics at its work session Monday, which included double-digit decreases in simple and aggravated assaults, auto theft and fraud. The overall crime rate went up 9 percent from the previous year, which is due in part to a change in how crimes are reported, with each offense at a crime scene now counted separately rather than grouped as a single incident.
The Police Department believes that a scheduling change implemented last year to have more officers patrolling the streets during certain hours led to double-digit increases in DWI arrests, weapon and liquor law violations, disorderly conduct and drug possession charges.
In 2012 the Police Department also helped expand the Crime Watch Patrol program, won second place in the nation for its National Night Out efforts and took home several awards at the Texas State Law Enforcement Explorer Competition.
Watch the work session presentation at http://bit.ly/WybhGE.
Richardson Arts Alliance to Present "Heart for the Arts" Award
The Richardson Arts Alliance will present its annual "Heart for the Arts" award to Forrest and Ann Green at its gala tomorrow evening at the Eisemann Center. The award is given to outstanding community leaders who have devoted time and resources to further the arts in the greater Richardson area. Forrest Green helped fundraise to build the Eisemann Center, and the second floor mezzanine area is named after him. Ann Green has served in leadership roles with many local arts groups.
Former Richardson City Manager Bill Keffler, who retired in May 2012, will also be recognized with the "Ambassador for the Arts" award for his continued support of the arts in the community. Debra Carter, co-founder of Repertory Company Theatre who has directed more than 150 plays, will receive the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for her leadership in bringing her passion for the arts to North Texas residents.
The Richardson Arts Alliance is a group for the arts and arts supporters in Richardson. Its mission is to have an organization where arts groups and friends can come together and expand the cultural base for the city. Supporting each other is their goal.
Tax Preparation Help Starts Feb. 1
Tax-Aide, sponsored by AARP and the IRS, will provide free tax return preparation and e-filing for low to moderate income taxpayers, with an emphasis on seniors. The service will be available from 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Fridays beginning Feb. 1 at the Senior Center and noon-4 p.m. Mondays beginning Feb. 4 at the Richardson Public Library.
The service is offered first come, first served. People should bring Social Security cards and all pertinent tax forms, including Social Security statements.
Richardson Today in Mailboxes
The February edition of Richardson Today began arriving in mailboxes this week. The latest edition focuses on the State of the City and includes the Spring Recreation Guide.
Richardson Today is mailed to every residence in the city and is also available at Huffhines Recreation Center, the Senior Center, City Hall and at the Richardson Public Library. A Richardson Today interactive edition, which includes links to CITV videos, is also accessible through the link below. Ask your local mail carrier if you live in the city and do not receive your copy of Richardson Today.
Click the link below to read the latest edition of Richardson Today, as well as archived editions: http://bit.ly/115dA8L
"Late Nite Catechism Las Vegas: Sister Rolls the Dice!" at Eisemann Center
"Late Nite Catechism Las Vegas: Sister Rolls the Dice!" will be performed at 8 p.m. Feb. 6-9 and 2 p.m. Feb. 9-10 at the Eisemann Center. The show is the latest in the Catechism series and follows Sister as she organizes a Las Vegas night.
Tickets cost $37 to $40 and are available at www.eisemanncenter.com or by calling 972-744- 4650. For more information about the show, visit www.entertainmentevents.com/shows/lncvegas.asp.
Backstage at the Eisemann Center with Video Games Live
"Video Games Live" took the stage last weekend at the Eisemann Center, and the City's Citizens Information Television crew caught up with the show's host and game industry veteran Tommy Tallarico backstage for an interview.
Click on the link below to see what Tallarico had to say about being at the Eisemann Center and some highlights from the show.
Upstage Me Teen Improv Games at Library
The Richardson Public Library will host Upstage Me! from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Basement Program Room. The event will feature teen improv games for students in sixth through 12th grade.
For more information, call 972-744-4358.
DART Rolls Out New Buses
DART rolled out the first of 459 smoother-riding, cleaner-running buses for service on Monday morning. The 30- and 40-foot vehicles run on compressed natural gas, which is expected to reduce harmful emissions and lower DART's fuel cost by nearly two-thirds by the end of 2015. The agency expects to introduce five new buses for service each week, gradually replacing the older models that run on either diesel or liquefied natural gas.
The new buses feature a low floor design to help with entry, bigger windows, wider aisles, interior cameras and LED monitors to display information on upcoming stops, rider alerts and more. For more information, visit www.dart.org.
Richardson Animal Shelter Pet of the Week
Mr. Paws was found as a stray in December 2012. He is a male about 2 years old, up to date on all his vaccinations and is very special. He was born with a significantly shorter right front leg, but that doesn't stop him from being a loving and happy cat. Contact the Animal Shelter (972-744-4480) about Mr. Paws or other animals available for adoption.
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Police arrested a 50-year-old man and his two adult children for robbing a branch of the Houston-based, $892 million First Community Credit Union in Katy, Texas, in October, and authorities say the three may also be responsible for five bank robberies in the Portland, Ore., area.
A spokesperson for the sheriff's office in Fort Bend County, Texas said Ronald Scott Catt and his son Hayden Scott Catt, 20, are accused of walking into the First Community CU branch on Cinco Ranch Boulevard in Katy around 1:50 p.m. wearing orange traffic vests and dark sunglasses.
They then allegedly held employees at gunpoint and demanded cash. Police said the older suspect wore a painter's mask and the younger suspect had on a fake mustache.
Ronald Catt's daughter, 18-year-old Abigail "Abby" Catt, is accused of driving the getaway vehicle, the sheriff's office said.
Police said based on the male suspects' attire, detectives connected them to an August robbery at a Comerica Bank branch in Harris County, Texas, during which suspects wore painter outfits with painter masks.
Detectives also tracked the orange traffic vests worn during the First Community CU robbery to a nearby Home Depot, where surveillance video captured the three suspects purchasing the vests and a painter's mask.
Ronald and Hayden Catt were arrested at a Katy apartment complex on Nov. 9, and Abby Catt was arrested later that day at the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office. They are being held at the Fort Bend County Jail on respective bonds of $140,000, $140,000 and $100,000.
Detectives believe the three family members — all natives of Oregon — are connected to five Portland-area bank robberies and have notified authorities in that state, according to the sheriff's office.


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FACULTY AWARD: McLanahan to receive Schelling Award
March 1, 2013 10:49 a.m.
Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, has been selected to receive the 2013 Thomas C. Schelling Award from Harvard University. The award is bestowed annually to an individual "whose remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy." The award, which is accompanied by a $25,000 prize, will be presented May 2.


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On June 12, 2006, SWAT police stormed a house in Alvarado, Texas. They had received a call from what appeared to be the phone number, from an individual who reported that he was holding hostages and had killed family members with an AK47 while high on hallucinogenic drugs. The operation, which likely cost the state tens of thousands of dollars, came up empty handed -- there were no hostages and no gunman -- merely scared and confused victims. Miles away, Guadalupe Martinez, a "swatter" -- a phone hacker that spoofs the 911 system with malicious calls -- was laughing.
Many regard phone hacking as a dead pastime, believing it vanished in the 1980s. However, it is alive and well in some parts of the country, with a younger generation of phone hacker's (known as "phreakers") wreaking havoc. The latest case is that of a 19-year-old blind phone hacker in the Boston area who went on a similar spree of phone crimes and harassment, which earned him 11 years in prison.
Matthew Weigman, also known as "Li'l Hacker", is legally blind, but that didn't stop him from joining up with a crew of phone hackers and placing hundreds of harassing calls via the 911 system and other phone systems. The crimes began when Mr. Weigman was only 14, and continued until this year.
Targeting "employers, landlords, families and friends of multiple party line participants" with zeal, Mr. Weigman showed his victims little mercy. He and his friends would cut phone lines, snoop on conversations, and send police to his enemies' houses in a concerted attempt to get them fired or evicted.
He and his friends used a variety of classic phone-hacking schemes. Among them was "pretexting" calls -- calls to phone company workers where the group would pose as employees or customers in an effort to gain useful information. Mr. Weigman's phreaker friends would also use war-dialing -- auto-dialing thousands of numbers to try to gain access to the phone system. They would then meet up and trade passwords and intelligence.
Police first caught wind of Mr. Weigman in 2005 when he called officers to the home of Richard Gasper, a TSA screener, whose daughter Mr. Weigman knew personally. Mr. Gasper's daughter had refused to participate in phone sex with Mr. Weigman, so he responded with the malicious hoax.
In May 2008 Weigman, his brother and another swatter named Sean Benton, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, drove 70 miles to the house of a Verizon Wireless employee who was investigating the incidents. They tried to "intimidate and frighten him". Believing he was above the law, Mr. Weigman saw his unsavory dreams come crashing down; in this case the police showed up and he was arrested.
After a lengthy review and trial, three of his friends -- Stuart Rosoff, Jason Trowbridge and Chad Ward -- earned sentences of five years each. Guadalupe Martinez, the aforementioned friend of the group, received 30 months. Another phreaker, Carlton Nalley pled guilty, but failed to show up for sentencing. And Mr. Weigman, the audacious 19-year-old blind phone hacker, earned the longest sentence of them all -- 11 years (135 months). The sentence is one of the longest to date and brings to an end this crime saga, serving as a warning to other would-be phone hackers of the risk they are taking.


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All Star Voting is Here! Although we all love DD and LK, it is a virtual impossiblity they will not be making an appearance (outside of DD in the dunk off).
Lets rally together and get our leader, Bargs, to the All Star team.
I know it will be tough- Superman is a lock, and you have Horford and Bogut who will take alot of the popular vote (possibly Lopez as well).
If RR members rally together and vote for our boys everyday, we "might" be able to make it happen!
Lets get it!


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SHTns is a high-performance Spherical Harmonic Transform library. It was designed for numerical simulation (fluid flows, mhd, etc.) in spherical geometries, but can be used for any kind of problem involving scalar or vector spherical harmonics. It is very fast, thanks to careful vectorization and runtime tuning. It supports multi-threaded transforms via OpenMP. It features scalar and vector transforms, synthesis and analysis, and flexible truncation and normalization. A Python interface is included.
The pbs_python package is a wrapper class for the Torque Batch System C library. With this package, you now can write utilities and extensions in Python instead of C. This package was developed to replace xpbsmon by an ASCII version named pbsmon. PBSQuery is also included in this package. This is a Python module built on top of the pbs Python module to simplify querying the batch server. There are a lot of examples included in the source package.
Points&Forces is a set of software tools for architects, engineers, and surveyors. It uses a command line interface. It features a flexible design, total station control, digital camera control, real-time control and visualization, processing of point clouds (from laser scanners or other sources), geometry manipulations, projection of photographs on meshes, photogrammetry, in-situ measurements, and format translations for points, lines, and triangle meshes to formats that include dxf, stl, wrl, and pov. The tools were mostly used for the documentation of cultural heritage sites and buildings.
DFF (Digital Forensics Framework) is a simple but powerful tool with a flexible module system which will help you in your digital forensics works, including file recovery due to error or crash, evidence research and analysis, etc. DFF provides a robust architecture and some handy modules.
Angel is a 2D game prototyping engine based on OpenGL and C++. It was originally made by a group of employees at Electronic Arts Los Angeles for use in a GameJam they were planning for April of 2008. Angel provides many useful functions for prototyping gameplay, including simple physics, particles, text rendering, sound, input mappings, config files, pathfinding, and Python scripting.
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Are you ready for Thanksgiving? And for the uniquely American bonfire of commerce otherwise known as Black Friday? It's going to be a doozy of a shopping day. Plus – here's to JR Martinez for taking home that Dancing With The Stars mirror ball. It's nice to catch a show where the guy who should win, does win. Rather like the PCA's, I might add. Speaking of which, let's return to this year's icon-ography.
We have Favorite Movie Icon nominees…those uber-cool dudes who star in (and direct, and write, and produce) movies that we love and who have been doing this for literally decades. Pretty incredible group so far…George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman…and today?
The coolest, most intensely charismatic tough guy around: Robert DeNiro.
Now I say "tough guy" because of the whole Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Godfather(s) and Raging Bull stuff, but in reality Robert DeNiro is also funny, charming, and just plain powerful on screen, regardless of the subject matter. What's your first memory of Robert DeNiro? For me, it was the baseball film Bang The Drum Slowly, arguably one of the greatest sports movies of all time. Within 5 years DeNiro would go on to make Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter, at which point the America's greatest living actor talk really got going. The 2 Oscars and 6 Oscar nominations haven't hurt him in that regard either.
But seriously – here's a guy known for his genius playing mob types and yet, he's fantastic in the Meet The Parents movies and I also happened to love Everybody's Fine (even if critics didn't). Plus the love stories – who saw New York, New York (with Liza Minnelli) and Falling In Love (with Meryl Streep)? I think if you take a moment and watch these smaller, quieter movies one gains an even greater appreciation for this guy. There's not too much DeNiro can't do. Notoriously private, what we do know about him is that he's about as devoted a New Yorker as anybody, and after 9/11 he was one of Manhattan's most emphatic spokesmen – encouraging people to visit and rejuvenate his hometown. He started the Tribeca Film Festival (which brings a tremendous amount of income to the city) and owns several restaurants. By the way, did you know that the ubiquitous national anthem of New York City "New York, New York" actually came from that 1977 movie? Liza Minnelli put that tune on the map and then of course Sinatra worked a little magic with it too.
DeNiro remains humble and publicity shy, preferring to let the body of work speak for itself. Which it has indeed. Is Robert DeNiro your Favorite Movie Icon? If so, don't forget to vote and let your voice be heard. You'll know all on January 11th, 2012. We'll be back with more PCA nominees next week, in the meantime please have a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Cheers!
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Computer-Aided International Relations (CAIR) Teaching Package, 1965 (ICPSR 5705)
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This teaching package contains data on the national characteristics of 136 nations with populations of one million or more in 1965 and smaller countries that had become members of the United Nations by 1968 in the period 1965-1968. Data are provided for the political, economic, and demographic characteristics of each nation. Political variables provide information on the type of regime, representative character of the regime, government stability, party fractionalization, degree of freedom of group opposition and of the press, communist bloc membership, government action against specific groups, political violence profile, political participation of the military, and anti-government demonstrations. Economic variables provide information on the gross national product (GNP), expenditures on defense and education as a percentage of the GNP, trade, and total United States and Soviet aid received. Variables on population characteristics include total population, urban population, literacy rates, and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. Other variables provide information on the number of diplomats sent abroad, the nation's voting agreements with the United States in the United Nations, and the degree of the nation's westernization.
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So now that the Dwight trade has shaken up the league, it looks like the dust has finally settled enough to assume that nothing that happens between now and start of training camp will affect a rookie's role on his team. So sounds like a good time to start considering how the rookies stack up in the race for Rookie of the Year award and where the Raps rooks might fall.
So here is how I see the crop grouped. (Note: I didn't rank players in the groups)
The contenders
Anthony Davis
Jonas Valanciunas
Damian Lillard
Bradley Beal
These four represent the guys that have both the current skill set and best team situation where they will have the opportunity to put up number. I very much doubt Davis will win it, but as the top pick he certainly will be in the conversation. JV is widely believed to be the guy most teams would have taken 2nd overall in this year's draft. JV will get opportunity with the Raps and will have benefitted from playing in the Olympics this summer. Beal will be lining up next to John Wall and could explode in scoring this year.
My personal vote at this stage is Damian Lillard (the guy I desperately wanted the Raptors to draft but alas...) He will run the offence in Portland and has a legit low post scorer in Lamarcus Aldridge. He can hit the outside shot and should be a beast at attacking the rim.
The fringe
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
Harrison Barnes
Dion Waiters
I doubt Kidd-Gilchrist will be able to put up enough numbers on Charlotte to impress voters. He will be a good player, but I just dont see the flashy-enough numbers for the average voter. Barnes could put up huge scoring numbers in GS. Waiters will benefit from playing with Kyrie Irving and could score a lot this year.
The outsiders
Thomas Robinson
Terrence Ross
Austin Rivers
Maurice Harkless
Perry Jones 3
I don't think Robinson will get enough PT or touches playing down low with D-Cousins. Ross would be the under-dog that Raps nation would love to get behind, but I think he has an up-hill battle for this year's crown. Rivers will be a bust in my opinion, but on the Hornets he could score a lot and who knows, maybe I'll be wrong and he'll be an efficient scorer too. Harkless jumps up with the trade to Orlando that desperately needs everything. Harkless could produce. PJ3 would be the ultimate upset. I loved the kid in college and in OKC he will likely never see the light of day, but if he can be dependable and versatile, then he could fill the void behind Durant and even play some small ball PF.
So my final rankings for ROY voting are:


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California Closings: NCUA in Second Liquidation of the Day
The NCUA said Friday afternoon it has liquidated its second credit union of the day, another small California operation.
The $652,000 Pepsi Cola FCU in Buena Park, Calif., had been serving company employees for 57 years but no longer was solvent and had no prospect for restoring viable operations, the agency said.
The credit union lost $3,299 in 2012, according to its 5300 Call Report.
Earlier Friday, the agency liquidated the $3.4 million, I.C.E. FCU in Englewood, Calif., after it posted a $17,947 loss in 2012.
Four federally insured credit unions now have been liquidated so far this year.


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-no capspace in near future to take on large contracts
- bargnani=unmoveable as of right now derozan=hasn't lived up to contract, doesn't bring a unique skillset to the team, not an elite shooter or defender.
-not an elite team. decent chance we are stuck on that treadmill.
-amnesty can't save us.
-promising prospects ross, valanciunas
-good character players , locker room atmosphere
-coach has players respect
-at least bargnani isn't amare, looks like he is trying his hardest defensively.
-derozan has chance to live up to contract.
this is just off the top of my head. What is everyone else's thoughts on how far this franchise can go with this core of players. I want a good level headed discussion, no pity party, or tenforthewin delusional discussion, ok.


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Who knew Big Bird would be the star of the first presidential debate?
Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites lit up Wednesday night after GOP candidate Mitt Romney pledged to cut funding for public broadcasting.
"I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things," Romney said. "I like PBS, I like Big Bird, I actually like (Jim Lehrer) too."
Several Twitter feeds immediately popped up, including @BigBirdRomney, @BigBird,@FiredBigBird, and more, each gaining from hundreds to thousands of followers within minutes, Entertainment Weekly reported.
There's even a Big Bird for President Facebook page. #BigBird and his friend #OscartheGrouch both became Twitter trending topics during the course of the debate, while Romney's quip also spawned several memes and .gifs.
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launch of new iPods, it's sometimes easy to forget about some of
the the key players in the MP3 player market. One of the big names we
haven't heard from in a while is SanDisk, and they're debuting the
new Sansa
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The Sansa Fuze+ is the successor to the
older Sansa Fuze and features a completely redesigned body. The
player incorporates a 2.4" QVGA LCD; a "film strip"
GUI which makes allows quick navigation through photos, music, and
video with left/right finger swipes; and FM radio support.
Other features include a microSDHC card
slot for expanded storage capacity (SanDisk slotRadio
is supported) and a microphone for audio recording. The Sansa Fuze+
can operate for 24 hours straight while playing only audio; that
figure drops to five hours when playing video.
"The Sansa Fuze+ is the most
versatile portable media player available for under $100," said Tom
Bailey, senior director, AV retail, SanDisk. "We developed an
entirely new product to provide consumers with a stylish, affordable
device that performs exactly as a sophisticated yet easy to use
player should."
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INTERPOL calls on international support for the preservation of cultural heritage in Mali
LYON, France - The current situation in Mali is having a significant impact on its cultural heritage, which constitutes an important part of mankind's history. Mausoleums, tombs, sacred and historic sites, as well as archives and libraries in Timbuktu containing precious historic manuscripts, have been particularly vulnerable to destruction, damage, theft and looting during this period of turmoil.
INTERPOL therefore joins UNESCO's call for help to preserve Mali's cultural heritage and will provide all possible assistance and support with the assessment of the damages suffered. INTERPOL reiterates the international warning to the considerable threats to which Mali's cultural heritage is currently exposed, and calls for strong cooperation among international partner organizations for a coordinated response to this menace.
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What does 27 turkeys, 18 gallons of green beans and 500 servings of dressing have in common?
They can all be found on the menu for this year's Community Thanksgiving Dinner provided by Grace's Soup Kitchen of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church.
This is the 14th year the dinner will be served to the public, and volunteer Jerry Hart again finds himself behind the burners. Another year gone, another dinner to cook.
Hart and his wife Yvonne, have been regular volunteers at the soup kitchen and community dinner since 2000. He's been heading and coordinating the dinner since 2005.
The years fluctuate as to visitors and food production. The first year, they fed 50 to 100 community members and have had as many as 530 dinners served.
Last year, the dinner saw around 380 empty bellies ready to feast upon traditional Thanksgiving fare. The actual space for the dinner can only hold about 150 people but the amount of dinners that leave the soup kitchen are double that number.
"We have waiters and waitresses for the people who come in because this is a sit-down affair," Hart said. "But we also deliver. Anyone who wants a delivery can call before that Thursday and we will take them a meal. And after 12:30, we offer to-go dinners."
This year, Hart and other volunteers will be prepared for a large turnout but are always aware of factors such as weather conditions and other events going on in town.
"We don't turn anyone away," Hart said. "We just ask that they come hungry and be civil."
They start the preparation in mid-October. Buying the food, putting out advertising, finding volunteers to help set up and participate are the beginning processes. They begin cooking things like the onions and celery for the dressing, a week before the dinner and a few turkeys get cooked as well. Sometimes they will cook, debone and freeze the turkey.
"Twenty-seven turkeys don't cook overnight," Hart said with a chuckle.
All the cooking is done by Hart and other volunteers in the kitchen at St. Barnabas. During the year, the soup kitchen has about 25 regular volunteers that help dole out hot meals every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
For the Thanksgiving dinner, around 50 to 60 volunteers will partake in the preparation and serving. They take donations but do not take pre-cooked dishes. Frozen turkeys, canned green beans and pies are a few things they do accept.
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LAX Shooting — Gunman Opens Fire at L.A. Airport, Kills One TSA Agent [UPDATED]
UPDATE 2:30 p.m. EST: NBC is reporting that one TSA agent was killed and three others wounded. Airport police shot and may have killed the gunman at the scene. The shooter, whose identity has not been confirmed, was taken into custody after being shot.
A gunman opened fire at Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday morning. The terminal has been evacuated and authorities are dealing with what they call a "multi-patient incident."
At about 9:30 a.m. local time, someone entered the terminal and shot a Transportation Security Administration agent and possibly several others. At least one suspect is in custody and police are searching for any others.
The Los Angeles Times reports that all planes have been grounded and that as many as three TSA agents may have been shot. One of the shooters was also wounded.
The LAPD issued the following alert earlier:
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In my opinion the more effective and consistent player on the Raptors' roster is Leandro Barbosa, because he makes the most out of his minutes and has been a proven scorer off the bench in the past by winning the SMOTY award, second is DeMar Derozan, even though DeMar scores a lot more its because he gets more shots/ more minutes.
Least effective player on the Raptors' roster IMO is Sonny Weems, the dude took bad shot after bad shot when the team had a glimmer of hope during 3 quarters this season and turns the ball over more than a person playing with a fortune telling 8-ball. Second most inconsistent player would be Bargnani, I know that hes been taking more shots but damn the dude lives and dies by jump shots.
Name your most effective/consistent, least effective/inconsistent Raptors, I think my reasonings are unbiased.


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- Efficient lysis of rhabdomyosarcoma cells by cytokine-induced killer cells : implications for adoptive immunotherapy after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (2010)
- Background: Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in childhood and has a poor prognosis. Here we assessed the capability of ex vivo expanded cytokine-induced killer cells to lyse both alveolar and embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines and investigated the mechanisms involved. Design and Methods: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from six healthy donors were used to generate and expand cytokine-induced killer cells. The phenotype and composition of these cells were determined by multiparameter flow cytometry, while their cytotoxic effect against rhabdomyosarcoma cells was evaluated by a europium release assay. Results: Cytokine-induced killer cells efficiently lysed cells from both rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines. Antibody-mediated masking of either NKG2D molecule on cytokine-induced killer cells or its ligands on rhabdomyosarcoma cells (major histocompatibility antigen related chain A and B and UL16 binding protein 2) diminished this effect by 50%, suggesting a major role for the NKG2D molecule in rhabdomyosarcoma cell killing. No effect was observed after blocking CD11a, CD3 or TCRαβ molecules on cytokine-induced killer cells or CD1d on rhabdomyosar-coma cells. Remarkably, cytokine-induced killer cells used tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) to activate caspase-3, as the main caspase responsible for the execution of apoptosis. Accordingly, blocking TRAIL receptors on embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines significantly reduced the anti-tumor effect of cytokine-induced killer cells. About 50% of T cells within the cytokine-induced killer population had an effector memory phenotype, 20% had a naïve phenotype and approximately 30% of the cells had a central memory phenotype. In addition, cytokine-induced killer cells expressed low levels of activation-induced markers CD69 and CD137 and demonstrated a low alloreactive potential. Conclusions: Our data suggest that cytokine-induced killer cells may be used as a novel adoptive immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with rhabdomyosarcoma after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
- Cytotoxic capacity of IL-15-stimulated cytokine-induced killer cells against human acute myeloid leukemia and rhabdomyosarcoma in humanized preclinical mouse models (2012)
- Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) has become an important treatment modality for patients with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and is also under investigation for soft tissue sarcomas. The therapeutic success is still limited by minimal residual disease (MRD) status ultimately leading to patients' relapse. Adoptive donor lymphocyte infusions based on MRD status using IL-15-expanded cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells may prevent relapse without causing graft-versus-host-disease (GvHD). To generate preclinical data we developed mouse models to study anti-leukemic- and anti-tumor-potential of CIK cells in vivo. Immunodeficient mice (NOD/SCID/IL-2Rγc−, NSG) were injected intravenously with human leukemic cell lines THP-1, SH-2 and with human rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) cell lines RH41 and RH30 at minimal doses required for leukemia or tumor engraftment. Mice transplanted with THP-1 or RH41 cells were randomly assigned for analysis of CIK cell treatment. Organs of mice were analyzed by flow cytometry as well as quantitative polymerase chain reaction for engraftment of malignant cells and CIK cells. Potential of CIK cells to induce GvHD was determined by histological analysis. Tissues of the highest degree of THP-1 cell expansion included bone marrow followed by liver, lung, spleen, peripheral blood (PB), and brain. RH30 and RH41 engraftment mainly took place in liver and lung, but was also detectable in spleen and PB. In spite of delayed CIK cell expansion compared with malignant cells, CIK cells injected at equal amounts were sufficient for significant reduction of RH41 cells, whereas against fast-expanding THP-1 cells 250 times more CIK than THP-1 cells were needed to achieve comparable results. Our preclinical in vivo mouse models showed a reliable 100% engraftment of malignant cells which is essential for analysis of anti-cancer therapy. Furthermore our data demonstrated that IL-15-activated CIK cells have potent cytotoxic capacity against AML and RMS cells without causing GvHD.
- IL-2 stimulated but not unstimulated NK cells induce selective disappearance of peripheral blood cells: concomitant results to a phase I/II study (2011)
- In an ongoing clinical phase I/II study, 16 pediatric patients suffering from high risk leukemia/tumors received highly purified donor natural killer (NK) cell immunotherapy (NK-DLI) at day (+3) +40 and +100 post haploidentical stem cell transplantation. However, literature about the influence of NK-DLI on recipient's immune system is scarce. Here we present concomitant results of a noninvasive in vivo monitoring approach of recipient's peripheral blood (PB) cells after transfer of either unstimulated (NK-DLI(unstim)) or IL-2 (1000 U/ml, 9–14 days) activated NK cells (NK-DLI(IL-2 stim)) along with their ex vivo secreted cytokine/chemokines. We performed phenotypical and functional characterizations of the NK-DLIs, detailed flow cytometric analyses of various PB cells and comprehensive cytokine/chemokine arrays before and after NK-DLI. Patients of both groups were comparable with regard to remission status, immune reconstitution, donor chimerism, KIR mismatching, stem cell and NK-DLI dose. Only after NK-DLI(IL-2 stim) was a rapid, almost complete loss of CD56(bright)CD16(dim/−) immune regulatory and CD56(dim)CD16(+) cytotoxic NK cells, monocytes, dendritic cells and eosinophils from PB circulation seen 10 min after infusion, while neutrophils significantly increased. The reduction of NK cells was due to both, a decrease in patients' own CD69(−) NCR(low)CD62L(+) NK cells as well as to a diminishing of the transferred cells from the NK-DLI(IL-2 stim) with the CD56(bright)CD16(+/−)CD69(+)NCR(high)CD62L(−) phenotype. All cell counts recovered within the next 24 h. Transfer of NK-DLI(IL-2 stim) translated into significantly increased levels of various cytokines/chemokines (i.e. IFN-γ, IL-6, MIP-1β) in patients' PB. Those remained stable for at least 1 h, presumably leading to endothelial activation, leukocyte adhesion and/or extravasation. In contrast, NK-DLI(unstim) did not cause any of the observed effects. In conclusion, we assume that the adoptive transfer of NK-DLI(IL-2 stim) under the influence of ex vivo and in vivo secreted cytokines/chemokines may promote NK cell trafficking and therefore might enhance efficacy of immunotherapy.


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Survey: Majority of Americans Say Smartphone Payments to Replace Cards, Cash
It definitely is not here yet – just 4% of Americans say they have paid with a tap of a phone – but in the latest Harris Interactive poll a majority of Americans predict that smartphone payments will eventually replace cards and cash.
About two in three – 66% – said smartphones would replace credit cards. Sixty-one percent said ditto for cash.
The question is when, and there, Americans express more caution. According to the Harris poll, only 32% – roughly one-third – believe smartphone payments will replace credit cards inside the next five years. The number dips to about one in four – 26% – who say smartphones will displace cash in five years.
Curiously, only tiny numbers self-characterize themselves as "very interested" in displacing credit cards and cash. Per the Harris numbers, 8% of all of us and 16% of smartphone owners say they are eager for the revolution.
However, generational and gender differences are highlighted in these results where a younger, male demographic especially wants to pay by phone.
Thirty-two percent of males express eagerness, compared to 22% of females. Thirty-four percent of Gen Xers and 40% of Echo Boomers want to do it, compared to 18% of Boomers and 7% of Matures.
The report also noted: "When asked how the ability to use their smartphones as a 'digital wallet' with electronic versions of all the identifications, loyalty program cards and other documentation normally carried in a wallet – thereby allowing them to leave their physical wallets at home – three in 10 Americans (30%) and over four in ten smartphone owners (43%) indicate it would make them more interested in doing so, but far fewer (8% and 12%, respectively) specify that it would make them much more interested."


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Eavesdropping on cell phone conversations has long been
considered the domain of law enforcement and actors in spy movies. Security
researchers at the 2008 Black Hat conference in Washington, D.C. have unveiled
a new, faster method for eavesdropping that could be built for as
little as $1,000.
Most GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) networks use the 64-bit A5/1 encryption, which
has been cracked in theory for approximately ten years. The major breakthroughs
made by the security researchers David Hulton and "Steve" (who
declined to give reporters his last name), however, is in the cost and speed of
the cracking attempts.
According to the security analysts, a $1,000 GSM-snooping station would be able
to crack the encryption in 30 minutes, and $100,000 worth of equipment would achieve
similar results in 30 seconds. The basis for the technology is the use of
field-programmable gate arrays to pre-compute all of the possible keys – more than
288 quadrillion -- over a period of three months, and then use this massive
amount of data to decrypt GSM communications on the fly.
The vulnerability of the GSM SIM cards was also raised by Mr. Hulton and
"Steve" -- the SIM ID number is broadcast in cleartext, which could
reveal the make and model of handset being used. In conjunction with the
ability to break encryption, this could be used to push an "operator-specified"
application onto the card, or use triangulation to determine the location of
the handset relative to connected towers.
Cell phone users should not begin speaking in code just yet, however, as the
technology is still in development and has yet to be shown beyond a
proof-of-concept. GSM Association spokesman David Pringle also stated that more
advanced encryption is being deployed, and that some current GSM data networks
already use a superior encryption method.


text: Between 1939 and 1945, Universal Pictures filmed 14 Sherlock Holmes mysteries starring Basil Rathbone as Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. All but two of the films were "updated" to World War II England and often included Axis spies or saboteurs as antagonists. Each movie has been lovingly restored by the UCLA Theatre Archives from 35 mm master copies into a digital format and may be viewed in either colorized versions or in the original black and white.


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As for Ross, he looked far better in Summer League than he's looked in 3 preseason games so far. But we need to keep reminding ourselves that it's still early.
The one thing that has struck me is that Ross looks kinda lazy on the offensive end. I'm sure he's still learning how to get open, but he doesn't do much without the ball, and he's been forcing shots too.
Agree on both statements made about Barnes and PJ3 as they would have filled a need at SF as well as brought potential All Star talent.
As far as Ross goes it's really early still. They don't run plays for him so really the only thing he's been able to show thus far is defense which he has done okay with right now. I'm hoping the Rap's explore a rotation with both he and DeMar on the floor at the same time. I think at this point in Ross' development he would be best used as a defender and spot up shooter. If DeMar continues his aggressive attack of the basket style play he's shown in the preseason, Ross would be best served spacing the floor by spotting up at the 3pt line.
Again, too early to tell and granted it may be the system but stil...
He is a good shooter.. has a good cross over / shake move to free himself hopefully he can use that as well drive past defenders & attack the rim. I think he & DD will compliment each other
Ross has a good NBA foundation to work from --can shoot the ball (amazing looking stroke, splashes them in) and can already defend very well. Tack on his speed and leaping ability, he has enough skill to contribute on day one. Give him some time to learn the system, his teammates, NBA speed, then post this thread. Like a month into the season, not half a month into pre season.
Wasn't sure where this should be placed, so I thought I would throw it in here as we are discussing Ross' potential. The Point Forward blog on SI.com just released their 67 reasons to look forward to the 67th NBA season. Here was number 26:
I love the use of a word like 'instinctive.'Quote:
The arrival of instinctive swingman Terrence Ross in Toronto both as a promising prospect on his own terms and as a spark to light a fire under DeMar DeRozan.
He also is going to need to be on the floor with the right guys around him. This team doesn't have any playmakers other than Lowry and doesn't have any good, consistent passers other than Lowry and Calderon - maybe Fields - and I think that is going to hurt Ross as he is going to play off others at this stage. PLaying with guys like Derozan, Bargnani, Kleiza, Lucas who are allergic to passing won't help him.
i've been pleased with what i've seen from Ross for this reason. He's done what he has been asked to do, shoot the ball (mainly the open 3) and also play hard defence. He's done an excellent job at both, i'm more happy with him now then i was when he was originally drafted. Im confident in saying with no real proof that he is going to be a solid pick in the present and in the future. He will not be asked of too much this year he just needs to do what he's asked very well to contribute in his what i assume will be limited minutes. Down the road if he progresses as we all hope i could very easily see him being the go to scorer on the offensive end but one step at a time.
It frustrates me people are talking like this (saying they want Austin Rivers -- WTF?) only 3 games into the preseason. If you watched any Washington NCAA games last year you can tell this kid has the killer instinct on offense. People talk about his shooting and defending, but often forget about his athletic and finishing ability. He dunks HARD, and has an extraordinary leaping ability. He simply isn't very involved in the offense ATM, because he's not having plays run for him. That's expected for a rookie.
He has some Vince and T Mac in him. Not saying he'll be that good, but he can be.
T Ross will be huge off the bench for us
Being NBA ready is something that is appealing to me. Jonas has proven he's far more NBA ready than people thought, if anything the most NBA ready rookie in the league so far from watching GS, POR, CHA, and NO.
Terrence seems like a project right now, but can turn into a really good player, I just hope that once season starts, we'll see the offense more consistently. Defense has exceeded my expectations.
I think we haven't seen enough to really pass judgement on Ross. I mean, we've only seen him for a handful of sets really, and these were his first opportunities to play against NBA competition. We'll just have to wait and see, but so far, he's at least looking like he can play some decent D on the wing, which is nice.
I expect he will not be in Casey's 8-9 men rotation.
Lowry, DeRozan, Fields, Bargs, Val, Davis, Amir, Calderon
Lucas, Kleiza, Anderson, Ross
Benchwarmers or Sub for the Injured
Gray, Acy, Magloire???
So, what will Ross stats be at the end of the season if he's not in the lineup, I just hope he scores at least 6ppg and finish something like 7.5ppg in his rookie season unless one of DeRozan or Fields is traded but we will see.
Should've picked Royce White, Terrence Jones, Maurice Harkless, Andre Drummond, or Andrew Nicholsson but then again if and only if we win the coin toss with the Warriors, we would be getting Barnes with Fields come off the bench.
I like Ross but he would probably flourish on another team where they desperately need a 2 guard. Maybe Colangelo will package him and Calderon for a star-caliber 3 when trade deadline comes around. ;)
What the heck
It's only preseason ffs and he's been injured
Casey's gonna play him more in the last few games to get a good idea of where he should be, either if it's in the rotation or not

Casey said #Raptorsrookies Quincy Acy and Terrence Ross will play a lot in final 2 pre-season games. "I don't want to short-change them."
— Ryan Wolstat (@WolstatSun) October 21, 2012

Calm down dude now is not the time to overreact
What in the drugs are you talking about?!?!
Can you imagine - Dwayne Casey to BriCo. 'yeah so this rookie hasn't worked out during a couple of minutes in a pre-season game...I know, I know you picked him 8th. I'm just saying let's just cut him now and see if we can move on this Adam Morrison kid, he was great during the pre-season!'
Look, sorry to hate on, that was rude. But it's like when people saw the first JV game, it's ok for the kid not to get it right away takes a bit of time. Now look, he has a decent game and throws down on Amare and he's our favorite again. I think it's important to stay grounded during the pre-season. Sure it gives us a little insight as to what we may be previewing, but the coaches care more about trying and implementing new systems while the cost of a win isn't as great. Just watch, our boy Ross will be back at it again in no time :)