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In a word or phrase, what does leadership mean to you? Honorable.
Why did you join the program? It is a great opportunity to show my leadership skills, to progress in life and not become a follower.
What have you gained from the program? My favorite part of the program is that we became one as we took the trip to Texas. I would really love to take another trip.
What is your favorite part of the program? I learned better vocal skills and communication skills. I also gained many friends when I met the other Leaders.


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The shark bit Robson in his knee and retreated when he hit it with the end of his fishing rod.
The shark bit Robson in his knee and retreated when he hit it with the end of his fishing rod.
Firefighters found heavy smoke and flames spreading to the roof and called for a second alarm.
A single dose protected all four vaccinated monkeys when they were exposed to high levels of Ebola virus
The state Department of Health is investigating whether it came from ingredients in a potato salad.
The man tried to move from the hay rack closest to the tractor to the second hay rack, fell and was run over.
One read "R-word = N-Word" and another said "Indians are Human Beings Not Mascots."
The New York City Gay Men's Chorus sang Broadway hits before six-time Tony Award-winner McDonald sang her tribute.
Violations would be a Class C misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail and/or a fine of between $1 and $499.
Wilson played 19 seasons in Major League baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago Cubs.
That has sparked outcry from some dog owners and animal rights activists who call for sterilizing and vaccinating dogs rather than killing t…
The tomb, in the town of Amphipolis, dates between 325 B.C. — two years before Alexander the Great's death.
Police said officers arrested four people on suspicion of coercing women into having sex with non-Jews and exploited them sexually
"It can be dangerous, because you have all these (non-law enforcement) people out there running around the border," said Kevin Oaks.
Mathiau was highly intoxicated, and during her travels, had activated the car's emergency break numerous times in the middle of traffic.
Rhonda Bailey was committed in 1993 after raping two boys and was moved into the all-male Minnesota Sex Offender Program in 2008.
Schwarzenegger has made few political appearances with the exception of advocating for renewable energy.
"I want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we're going to deal with it."
The New York City Council approved $4.9 million to fully fund the program for the fiscal year that started July 1.
Efforts to improve relationships between police departments and communities date to the 1950s and 1960s.
Three people are in jail in Junction City after a drug bust at home. Police say it was nearby a school.
One person was injured after a gas line in a southeast Topeka home ignited early Saturday evening.
Crowds filled the Kansas State Fair Saturday morning.
It was good food and good wine for a great cause Saturday night in downtown Topeka.

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Icon fonts are great. They're more scalable than PNGs, they're re-colorable in CSS, and it's easier than ever to create them. But most of us are using them wrong, and it's ruining your markup. Recognize this?

This is fast becoming the de-facto standard syntax for inserting icons in your webdesigns. No need to fiddle with weird glyphs. No CSS needed to insert icons, even.
No CSS.
Hold up. The promise of CSS was that we could separate presentation from markup. We could create standardized, semantic and sensible markup, that could then be completely re-skinned solely by replacing a stylesheet. That was the whole point of the CSS Zen Garden. By using nonsense spans with verbose classes, that's out the window, all in the name of convenience. I too have been bitten by the icon-font bug. I'm into them. I think it's so great that I can re-color icons with a line of CSS. I like how they zoom, and how they have broader support than SVGs.
But they're not SVGs. They're not images. We shouldn't pretend they were, or that they could ever be as accessible as images are.
Theoretically an icon from a font could be inserted in a semi-accessible way by outputting the actual glyph in the code to ensure copy/paste-ability. You'd also have to make sure to only use an icon that already existed in the unicode-table so screen-readers could make sense of them, thus severely limiting your options as a designer. Need a hamburger menu icon? Sorry, doesn't exist in the unicode table. Pretty much all the benefits of using an icon font would be out the window at this point.
Rewind for a bit. Take a deep breath and think. Why are you using an icon font in the first place? Easy HiDPI and CSS colorability? Easy to show at multiple sizes? Fair enough.
Now pretend icon fonts didn't exist, what would you do instead? Use a PNG or GIF as a CSS background, right? You'd treat the graphics as presentational elements. Visual aids. You'd keep it separate from your markup. You'd be able to reskin your whole site with a single stylesheet. You'd keep the markup as simple and semantic as that of the CSS Zen Garden. Hopefully you'd be a good person and worry about accessability where it mattered most: in the structure of your markup.
You can still use icon-fonts and have sensible markup while keeping the presentation separate. But doing so means you can't rely on those bundled CSS helper classes. You have to do it manually; put in the work. Don't treat icon-fonts like images. Pretend they're sprites and keep them in your stylesheet. You'll thank me.


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High-level executive heads have rolled, the stock continues to fall and losses on a bad trade are expected to mount — but believe it or not, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) still is a buy.
Yes, traders continued to pile out of the stock Monday amid the firm's shocking revelation last week that it suffered a $2 billion-and-counting trading loss — a position JPMorgan maintains was a hedging strategy gone bad. Another $1 billion in losses are possible through the end of the year, the bank has said, so naturally Wall Street is discounting the stock for an even worse scenario.
As they say on the trading floor, there's never just one cockroach.
JPMorgan's stock has plunged more than 12% since the bank's supercilious CEO Jamie Dimon dropped the news bomb, costing shareholders about $19 billion in market capitalization so far. For perspective, that's more than the entire market value of ketchup maker H.J. Heinz (NYSE:HNZ).
But panic like we're seeing in JPMorgan shares affords investors with longer horizons a rare advantage over traders whose holding times are now mostly measured in milliseconds. It's a chance to buy on the sound of cannons, as the saying goes. When headlines and momentum become divorced from fundamentals, well, that's often when you get shares on the cheap.
Take BP (NYSE:BP), for example. Two years ago, at the height of the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, BP lost more than half its value. Little wonder there, given the uncertainty of the outcome and ultimate costs of the disaster. But just as ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) survived the Valdez tanker catastrophe (and the tobacco companies overcame a $200 billion legal settlement), BP didn't die. Indeed, if you bought shares at the point of maximum panic in the summer of 2010, you'd be sitting on a gain of more than 50% by now.
True, JPMorgan's reputation as the nation's best-run bank has been tarnished, and it's a huge, embarrassing blow to Dimon — both personally and in his quest to quash the Volcker rule and other new banking regulations. It's also possible that further losses could balloon. Traders are harrowed by the thought, "If one trade blew up, what else is the bank sitting on?" It's a cliche, but it's true: Wall Street hates uncertainty, and that uncertainty — the fear of more cockroaches — is driving the selloff.
But even assuming additional losses double the total to $4 billion, as some reports suggest, the bank is sound and the drop in shares appears to have discounted the hit to earnings. Analysts' average estimate for the current quarter has dropped to $1.02 a share from $1.05, according to data from Thomson Reuters. Furthermore, the Street still forecasts ample profits for the firm. Net income is expected to top more than $4 billion in each of the three remaining quarters of the year, good for profits of nearly $18 billion in fiscal 2012.
Some estimates are even higher and, more important, the bank's self-proclaimed fortress balance sheet remains intact, analysts note.
"Given that we estimate JPM should earn around $5 billion each quarter this year, we believe this event could create earnings volatility, but it is not large enough to be a capital event," writes Guggenheim analyst Marty Mosby. "Therefore, we do not expect capital positions to erode from current levels, rather, this event would only slow the improvement."
If anything, investors should be aware that the selloff has JPMorgan trading at some compellingly cheap valuations. The stock offers discounts of more than 45% to its own five-year average on both a forward and trailing earnings basis, according to data from Thomson Reuters Stock Reports.
How cheap is that? The beating has gotten so bad that the market is now valuing JPMorgan on par with … wait for it … Citigroup (NYSE:C).
Whatever its current predicament, JPMorgan is no Citigroup. Dimon has cleaned house in the office responsible for the trading loss, and you can bet every position his traders hold is undergoing risk reassessment and intense scrutiny. The CEO was clearly humiliated by this fiasco — no nit will go unpicked in the bank's books.
And, critically, the bank's dividend and share buyback program remain in place. (If there's a silver lining, this is a great time for JPMorgan to repurchase its own stock.) Also, Mosby notes that the loss recognized in JPMorgan's position actually was created by a significant improvement in credit experienced over the first quarter of this year. That hardly suggests that the bank's bad trade reflects an increase in systemic risk in the broader financial sector.
Dimon was wrong to dismiss initial reports about the trade as a tempest in a teapot, but that doesn't mean the current storm in bank stocks and JPMorgan in particular isn't overblown.
As of this writing, Dan Burrows did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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OCEAN CITY – During a vacation, PJ Aldridge's life turned upside down in a matter of days, but his life-altering encounter has transformed into a successful groundwork for the PJ Aldridge Foundation (PJAF).
In February of 2010, PJ Aldridge was visiting a friend in Costa Rica. His daily activities consisted of surfing and working on his friend's fishing boat. He had a couple days off where he went further down the coast to visit some other friends from the states and to surf.
"I paddled out and got winded and it was just kind of odd because it wasn't that far of a paddle," Aldridge said. "I didn't really think a lot about it … we had a great day that day."
During the next day's surfing trip, Aldridge's breathing got worse and by the third day he could barely breathe. The following day he was on a plane on his way to San Jose when in mid-flight one of Aldridge's lungs collapsed.
"I barely made it to San Jose," Aldridge said.
Aldridge ended up in a hospital in Costa Rica for almost a week where he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
"He was told he had three months to live," foundation co-founder and loyal friend Vera Taylor said.
When Aldridge returned home, he immediately entered the University of Maryland in Baltimore for treatment. He began on a "chemo drip" while waiting for the test results of whether his cancer was non-small or small cell.
"Fortunately the kind [of cancer] that I have allows me to take a pill [Tarceva] and I have been on that ever since," Aldridge said.
According to the prescription's website, Tarceva is prescribed for patients with advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer whose cancer has not spread or grown after initial treatment with certain types of chemotherapy. Tarceva shrinks the tumor until hopefully it is non-existent.
"When we were at the hospital and he was being discharged, one of things they said to us was he can believe he has three months to live and think negatively or he could walk out thinking positive," Taylor said. "I say 50 percent of attitude and 20 percent of nutrition and exercise, so we own 70 percent of it."
In May of 2010, Aldridge and Taylor attended a charity event and on the drive home they discussed the possibility of a foundation of their own.
"PJ didn't want others to have to go through what he had," Taylor said. "We said we need to do something about this."
Through research, they found that lung cancer is the highest diagnosed cancer of all and the least funded for research and awareness. Taylor also pointed out that Aldridge's cancer is not caused from smoking and there are other causes of lung cancer besides smoking. There were different options, such as raising money and donating to other lung cancer foundations, but Taylor found administrative fees are involved in that process.
"I didn't want to pay someone's salary I want to pay for lung cancer," Taylor said. "So we started a foundation and through the amount of people that love and adore him [Aldridge] everyone kind of rallied together."
The PJAF has recently donated $150,000 to Dr. Martin Edelman, Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of the Solid Tumor Oncology Greenebaum Cancer Center. Edelman leads the team in research for lung cancer. Less than 2% of the dollars donated go to administrative fees, which PJAF firmly believes is critical.
Later this summer Aldridge and Taylor are heading to California to raise awareness on the west coast. They will attend an in-store event at a retail store called "The Club" and PJAF will be introduced by well-known fashion designer, Robert Graham, which is also Aldridge's favorite designer and pretty much all he wears. During his time in California, Aldridge will also play golf at Pebble Beach Golf Club with Graham and Ralph Lauren.
One of the most exciting events that has recently happened for the foundation was Aldridge and Taylor were invited to join a filming of a Oprah Winfrey show. The show had responded to a letter Taylor had submitted explaining why Aldridge is a hero. Upon arriving they were surprised to find the theme of that day's show was "Oprah's Favorite Things", which is one of her most famous shows where she gives millions of dollars' worth of gifts away to her audience.
"I had never won anything in my life except a 50/50 raffle, and I won $7.50 and I donated it back," Taylor said. "We researched what other people were doing with it [winnings], and we are doing something that nobody has ever done and that is raffling the entire package off."
To raise money for lung cancer research and awareness, the PJAF is raffling off all of their winnings from the Oprah Winfrey show. The prizes include an iPad, Sparkling UGG boots, $1,000 Nordstorm gift card, Dana Rebecca diamond earrings, a 10-piece Le Creuset collection, and the best of all, a 2012 Volkswagen Beetle.
Taylor explained that Oprah had paid all taxes on the prizes so PJAF will pay it forward by doing the same for the raffle winner. They expect to hold their on Aug. 31 and the beetle is expected to arrive by September.
"Our goal was that it would launch and people would buy raffle tickets like crazy," Taylor said. "We are really trying to figure out how to launch it more … we have gotten what it's worth but we were hoping to do a lot more with it."
Aldridge said that through everyone's prayers and positive thoughts he is certain that "PJ's Favorite Things from Oprah Raffle" will take off. In first developing PJAF, he and Taylor joked they would be on Oprah one day. It just goes to show the unimaginable is possible.
"There are other things coming our way we just haven't seen them yet," Aldridge said. "They're there, it's coming, and it's just a matter of when. If we keep working and trying hard, it's going to happen."
Aldridge has not been able to surf since his time spent in Costa Rica but continues to live a normal and inspirational life by building his successful real estate career through Holiday Real Estate and golfing as much as possible. He is currently tumor free and the cancer has not spread.
"This last year has really been a great ride but I told her [Taylor] wherever we go it's together through thick and thin, it's been great," he said. "I am very blessed. My mom helps me and we have a great team at Holiday that helps us out. We are very lucky."
To support Aldridge and the PJAF you can join his Facebook page, Pray for PJ, which has close to 3,500 followers, or visit www.pjaf.org. The foundations website contains more information on Aldridge's story, his personal blog, fundraisers, events, and even videos. There is also information about "PJ's Favorite Things from Oprah Raffle", including a video of the prizes, and the sale of raffle tickets.


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This unit is a complete waste of time.
2000 Lincoln Navigator
This unit is a complete waste of time. The unit GPS worked about about 4 months. Even the clock didn't work. I upgraded the firmware several times. After a few times, the clock started working. I've tried uploading different map files to this system. Still, no maps. Nothing will come up now. Radio still works but it's useless seeing that I purchased this for the GPS.
Pros: Radio still works
Cons: GPS is horrible. Upgrading is horrible. Setting the clock is horrible.


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Joints: Part 1
- Oct 15, 2001
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The mechanical engineering involved in the structuring of equine joints is both complex and masterful. Not only do healthy joints allow the horse to move freely, but they also help to effectively absorb concussion, especially when the horse is traveling at speed. In this article and one to follow next month, we want to take an in-depth look at joints and some of the problems that afflict them. Before we can discuss joint diseases, fractures, and other problems, we first must understand how joints are constructed and how they function. That will be the thrust of this article.
The information that follows has been gleaned from experts in the field, such as C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, Diplomate ACVS, of Colorado State University; the late and legendary O. R. Adams, DVM, MS, also of Colorado State, who authored the book, Lameness In Horses; as well as Robert A. Kainer, DVM, MSD, and Thomas O. McCracken, MS, both of Colorado State.
To begin, there are three different types or classifications of joints--fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial. Simply put, the purpose of a joint is to allow the back to flex and the limbs to bend.
Fibrous joints are basically immovable and united by fibrous tissue that ossifies with age. Included in this category are most joints of the skull (suture) and those between the shafts of some long bones (syndesmosis).
Cartilaginous joints have limited movement, such as the pelvis and vertebrae, and the growth plates, which extend a bone's length (physis) during the animal's early years.
The most active joints and the ones most apt to sustain injury or be attacked by disease are the synovial joints. Synovial joints, which are the horse's ball bearings, consist of two bone ends covered by articular cartilage. The cartilage within the joint is smooth and resilient, which allows for frictionless movement. Joint stability is maintained by a fibrous joint capsule, which attaches to both bones and collateral ligaments. The collateral ligaments are located on either side of most joints. They are important in maintaining stability in joints such as the fetlock, knee, elbow, hock, and stifle.
There are other ligaments within the joint itself, such as the cruciate ligaments, that also help to stabilize some joints, such as the stifle joint.
Other ligaments outside the joint cavity also lend support. A prime example involves the distal sesamoidean ligaments and suspensory ligaments that, together with the sesamoid bones, make up the suspensory apparatus and hold the fetlock in its correct position.
In addition to the fibrous joint capsule, the joint capsule itself also contains an inner lining layer called the synovial membrane. It secretes the synovial fluid that provides lubrication within the joint.
As we will see later, there are various disease processes that affect the nature of the synovial fluid and which can produce a number of soundness problems for the horse. While there is much that can go wrong within the joint, nature's overall plan for their development is masterful.
McIlwraith paid tribute to this excellent engineering job on the equine joint in one of his papers:
"The joint is a very well-engineered structure. Frictionless motion is provided by the combination of a smooth articular cartilage surface as well as lubrication of both the articular cartilage and the synovial membrane, together which make up the entire surface area of the inside of the joint.
"Shock absorption to the joint is provided by a combination of structures, including articular cartilage, subchondral bone (the bone beneath the cartilage), and the soft tissue structures (joint capsule and ligaments). Because of its resilient nature and ability to compress, articular cartilage in itself is a good shock absorber, but its thickness and overall volume is far less than bone or soft tissues. Hence, the soft tissues and the bone are the primary shock absorbers in the joint and any disease that affects bone (fractures, etc.) or soft tissue (fibrosis due to chronic inflammation) is going to interfere with this shock absorption.
"Resilience of the soft tissue is important for normal motion as well as shock absorption. It has been alluded to previously that friction comes from both articular cartilage and synovial membrane. Hyaluronic acid provides lubrication to the synovial membrane surface.
"Until recently it has been felt that it does not provide any lubrication to the articular cartilage, but more recently with some new research, it has been shown that hyaluronic acid, in addition to another protein structure called lubricin, is involved in the lubrication of articular cartilage. This substance moving over the surface of the joints is called boundary lubrication.
"A second mechanism of lubrication of the cartilage is effected by fluid being squeezed out of the cartilage onto the surface when weight-bearing occurs. When weight-bearing ceases, the fluid is absorbed back into the cartilage, ready for a next cycle of weight-bearing."
McIlwraith goes on to explain the composition of cartilage within the joint.
"On a normal microscopic section, the articular cartilage appears as a glasslike structure containing cells. The glasslike material outside the cells is called matrix. The matrix is made up of a framework of collagen, and within the framework are contained molecules called proteoglycans, as well as water. Both the collagen and proteoglycans are very important for normal function of articular cartilage."
McIlwraith then elaborates on the structure of a proteoglycan molecule. It consists of a backbone of protein with side chains of glycosaminoglycans. The glycosaminoglycans are chains of sugars with negative charges that repel each other. Because of this, McIlwraith says, the molecule is somewhat like a bristlebrush. Because of the repulsion to the side chains, and because of an attraction of water to the molecule because of the negative charges, the proteoglycans create stiffness to the cartilage and allow it to resist compression.
The proteoglycans are trapped within the collagen framework that contains them. The collagen framework also is highly important in the compressive function.
"Loss of proteoglycans or breakdown of collagen means that the articular cartilage cannot function normally," McIlwraith states.
Before leaving McIlwraith's descriptions of the joint and how it functions, it would be good to focus on his description of hyaluronic acid and the role it plays in joint functions.
"Hyaluronic acid is also known as sodium hyaluronate, or hyaluronan (the more correct term). Hyaluronic acid is a glycosaminoglycan. It is a normal component of joints, but it is generally agreed that there is some depletion of the amount in diseased joints.
"Hyaluronic acid is an integral component of both synovial fluid and articular cartilage in normal joints. Synovial fluid hyaluronic acid is produced by the synovial cells of the synovial membrane. Other hyaluronic acid that is incorporated in the matrix of articular cartilage is synthesized locally by the chondrocyte. Hyaluronic acid confers the property of viscoelasticity to synovial fluid, is responsible for boundary lubrication in the synovial membrane, and also is a factor in the lubrication of articular cartilage.
"Hyaluronic acid also influences the composition of the synovial fluid by acting as a high molecular weight barrier over the synovial membrane (called steric hindrance) and preventing active plasma components and leukocytes (white blood cells) from the joint cavity. It is also felt that solutions containing hyaluronic acid change the attraction of various other inflammatory cells.
"The hyaluronic acid that is in the articular cartilage is important in acting as a backbone for aggregations of proteoglycan molecules and aiding in the compressive stiffness of the articular cartilage."
Forelimb Joints
With the above information as our base, it is time to take a look at individual joints. While it would be inappropriate to say one joint is more important than another, the fact that a horse carries more weight on its front end than the rear means there is additional stress on joints of the forelimbs.
The forelimbs of the horse bear 60-65% of the animal's weight and are subjected to greater concussive effects, especially when a horse is galloping at speed. Thus, leg injuries to racing Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses tend to occur more frequently to the front limbs. Leg injuries to trotting and pacing Standardbreds, because of the more evenly distributed concussion, are more evenly distributed, front and rear.
While the engineering of the joints is excellent, one must wonder when looking at a drawing of the knee, for example, if the joint couldn't be a little less complex. The knee or carpal joint is composed of three main joints and numerous ligaments that keep everything tied into place. Keeping everything tied into place becomes a major concern when one considers the fact that the knee contains up to eight individual bones. (In some horses, the first carpal bone, embedded in the medial collateral ligament of the knee, might be absent.)
While they look a bit like building blocks gone awry, the seven or eight bones in the knee are arranged in two rows. Included in the top row are the radial carpal bone, intermediate carpal bone, ulnar carpal bone, and accessory carpal bone. In the bottom row are the first (when present), second, third, and fourth carpal bones.
This structure rests atop the cannon bone (third metacarpal), which is flanked on either side by splint bones (second and fourth metacarpals). Resting on top of this carpal structure is the radius.
When one considers the intricate nature of the carpal structure, the benefits of good conformation become ever more apparent. Horses which are over at the knee (buck kneed) or under at the knee (back at the knee or calf kneed) are going to be more prone to injury than are horses in which the radius blends in properly with the knee and the knee, in turn, blends in appropriately with the cannon bone.
Traveling downward, the cannon bone is connected via the fetlock joint with the long pastern bone, also known as first phalanx or P1. Also located at this junction are the medial and lateral proximal sesamoid bones, which serve as pulleys that change the direction of the deep digital flexor tendon. Although the proximal sesamoid bones are deeply embedded in and supported by ligaments, they are, nevertheless, subject to fracture.
The fetlock joint has a great degree of anti-concussive action. Adams puts it this way in his lameness book: "The stay apparatus changes the direction of concussion and weight distribution. In other words, weight is partially directed anteriorly (forward) from the distal (bottom) end of the cannon bone instead of entirely straight down. The joint is supported by the suspensory apparatus of the fetlock. The posterior cul-de-sac of the fetlock joint capsule is so constructed as to allow a great degree of motion. Of all the joints, the fetlock is subjected to the greatest stress, and at times the entire body weight may be pressed upon one fetlock joint."
Continuing our trip downward we come to another joint that connects the long pastern bone with the short pastern bone, also known as second phalanx or P2. This is the pastern joint.
The pastern joint is the least movable of the phalangeal joints. There is a minimum of anti-concussion activity at this joint.
Next, we come to the coffin joint. This joint and its function is best explained by Adams:
"The coffin joint is composed of the second and third phalanges and the navicular bone (also known as the distal sesamoid bone). This joint has a great degree of elasticity and motion because of the placement of the navicular bone and considerable anti-concussive action. Direct concussion to the coffin joint is averted by the partial distribution of weight from the second phalanx to the navicular bone. From the navicular bone, the weight is then transferred to the third phalanx (coffin bone), which descends slightly because of a yielding of the sensitive and insensitive laminae. The sole also descends slightly from pressure by the third phalanx.
"The navicular bone could not withstand great pressures but for the deep flexor tendon supporting it from behind and below. The navicular bursa has a smooth lubricating surface that reduces friction and the surface of the deep flexor tendon is closely fitted to the surface of the navicular bone.
"There is no 'pulley' action at the coffin joint because no leverage is gained; there is merely a change in direction of the weight distribution. The greatest pressure between the navicular bone and the deep flexor tendon does not occur when the foot hits the ground, but rather as the body weight passes over the foot. The central ridge of the navicular bone is subjected to greater pressure than any other portion of the bone."
That concludes our forelimb "joint" trip downward, beginning at the knee. There are, of course, two more major joints that figure into a horse's support and movement on the forehand. They are the shoulder joint and elbow joint. Because a good deal of concussion has already been absorbed by the time its effects can reach these joints, they are much less prone to injury.
The shoulder joint is devoid of ligaments, but the muscles and tendons around it hold things firmly in place and dislocation seldom occurs.
Medial and lateral ligaments stabilize the elbow joint.
Hind Limb Joints
Switching to the rear, there are two highly important joints that require discussion--the hock joint and the stifle joint.
The hock or tarsal joint is the spot where the tibia is joined with the metatarsal bones. The hock joint is a bit like the knee in that it is composed of a number of bones. There are six bones in the hock joint, but they do not have the degree of motion that is seen in the bones in the knee joint. Like the knee joint, the tarsal joint is held together by a complex set of ligaments that also enable it to function properly.
The partial flexion of the hock joint at all times aids in diminishing concussion.
The bones of the hock joint are the calcaneus and talus on the top side and the central tarsal bone, third tarsal bone, first and second tarsal bones (which are fused), and the fourth tarsal bone, all of which rest atop the metatarsal bones.
In his book on lameness, Adams described a unique aspect of the equine hock: "The oblique ridges in the tibial tarsal bone of the horse cause some differences in the action of the hock when compared with other animals in which the ridges are usually straight. As the body weight passes over the hind limb, it is not uncommon to observe a considerable outward twist of the hock joint in some horses. At the same time, the stifle joint and the toe turn in. This effect is due to the ascent of the lower end of the tibia on the oblique ridges of the tibial tarsal bone. During flexion, the oblique setting of the ridges on the tibial tarsal bone apparently aids in turning the stifle joint outward, which allows clearance past the posterior ribs."
Moving upward from the hock joint, since we have already discussed the function of the pastern, fetlock, and coffin joints when discussing the forelimbs, we come to the stifle joint, the spot at which the tibia joins the femur.
The stifle joint is the largest joint in the horse's body. One function of the stifle joint is to cause the limb to become rigid when the foot is on the ground. This is done by the contraction of muscles inside the patella.
Though this joint, similar to the knee joint in humans, is the largest in the equine body, it is not immune to injury. There are cases where there is upward fixation of the patella and the stifle and hock cannot flex, but the fetlock can. More about that next month.
Above the stifle joint is the hip joint, which is of ball and socket construction and is stabilized by strong bands of ligaments. It is the spot where the upper end of the femur fits into the socket of the hip bone. One of the ligaments that stabilizes this joint--the accessory ligament--does not occur in other domestic animals. It is found only in the horse.
The joints described above are the prime ones in the equine and the ones where problems, if they are to occur, will generally manifest themselves.
In each case, stability of the joint is facilitated by a complex network of tendons, ligaments, and muscles. When all is well in the equine world, these joints function in synchronized fashion and the horse travels along smoothly without a hitch in its gait.
As is readily apparent, however, there is much opportunity for things to go awry, especially when the joints are subjected to serious concussion, such as in racing, jumping, reining, or cutting.
Next month we will examine in detail some of the maladies and problems that can arise with the joints and their attendant stay apparatuses, as well as discuss the latest approaches in equine medicine for dealing with these problems.
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Anonymous-messaging app provider Secret is likely among the fastest of any startup to reach a nine-figure valuation.
Founded just nine months ago in San Francisco, Secret said it has raised $25 million from a group of investors led by Index Ventures, co-founder Chrys Bader-Wechseler said in an interview. A person familiar with the matter said investors now value the company at $100 million. Redpoint Ventures, SV Angel, Fuel Capital and Ceyuan Ventures also participated in the Series B round of financing.
The rapid rise of Secret's valuation – it was valued at $40 million by investors just four months ago – underscores the widening popularity of anonymous social apps, which let users confess to a love interest or dish rumors about an obnoxious colleague without the fear of accountability they would face on a real-identity social network like Facebook. Secret is one of the most popular apps in this growing field, along with Santa Monica., Calif.-based startup Whisper.
Bader-Wechseler said the company plans to stand out from competitors by getting more of the juiciest secrets posted to its service read by a broader group of people. With a new design for its website, unveiled today, Secret will feature messages corresponding to popular categories, like dating and work.
The app has also started letting users see posts from their friends on Facebook , masking their identities. Previously, users mostly saw messages left by people in their mobile phone's contact list.
"We want to be the biggest anonymous social network connecting people in context around ideas," Bader-Wechseler said. "When you're connected to more people, you'll have a much better experience."
Very few startups have reached a nine-figure valuation faster than Secret, though exact data of the entire industry are hard to come by. Whisper, founded in 2012, took more than a year to cross $100 million in valuation. It was most recently valued at about $200 million in a round of funding from investors including Tencent, Shasta Ventures, and Thrive Capital in May. Facebook also received a $100 million valuation a little more than a year after it started.
Secret has raised a total of $35 million from investors including Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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While the company has discussed possible business models with investors, it's not in a hurry to start making revenue, said Danny Rimer, a partner at Index Ventures who just joined Secret's board.
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Feb 12, 2012 09:16 AM|newbie2C#|LINK
I understand the difference between reference and value types. I don't understand why there are the two different types though.
Can someone please explain why one type uses the value and the other uses a pointer to point to a different location in memory?
What is the advantage of having the two different types?
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Feb 12, 2012 10:10 AM|Shellymn|LINK
Good article from MSDN refering the advantages and disadvantages of both value and reference types.Please go through
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Feb 12, 2012 10:23 AM|bhaskar.mule|LINK
it will shown the difference between value type and reference type
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Feb 12, 2012 11:30 AM|gerrylowry|LINK
this is the simplified answer.
(a) the feature is not unique to c#
(b) hardware architecture matters (see (c), below).
(c) size matters ... you'll notice that the value types are simple types that for all intents and purposes have a one to one correspondence to the physical design of the CPU and, to a lessor extent, the RAM.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1ax56ch.aspx "Value Types (C# Reference)"
<div class="introduction">
The value types consist of two main categories:
Structs fall into these categories:
Numeric types
User defined structs.
Get yourself a free copy of LINQPad 4* and do some experimentation ... write some very short pieces of code and look at the IL (intermediate language) by clicking IL button above the results window. Repeat your experimenents with value types ... the IL will be different because of the way the compiler designers are able to tweak the underlying hardware.
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LINQPad 4 supports c#, F#, SQL, vb.
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Feb 12, 2012 11:35 AM|gerrylowry|LINK
P.S.: i suspect that the compiler designers could implement absolutely everything as reference types; that would not be a good idea because they would not be taking advantage of the design of the underlying hardware. OTOH, if they tried to make everything a value type, that would lead to horrific inefficiencoes such as one might encounter when trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
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How to make on this site following. I want left "menu" to be fixed positon aswell as header and I only want the "content (menu, food whatever you call it)" to scroll. Is it possible to do that. You dont have to give me the code or write, you can give me only some example website. Or you can write a code. Or just some help.
Thanks anyway!
It looks as though you have already implemented a sticky/fixed sidebar but your header is really too tall to be fixed as it will swallow up half the page. A lot of sites are now just swapping in a smaller version of the header to remain fixed (something [like this from [URL="http://www.webtutorialplus.com/sticky-header-on-scroll-jquery/"]here) or [URL="http://www.jqueryscript.net/menu/jQuery-Plugin-For-Sticky-Header-Elements-clingify.html"]this](http://www.webtutorialplus.com/demo/sticky-header/default.html).
You need to be careful with the fixed sidebar because on small screens (height-wise) the content is unreachable when it goes below the fold.
On small screen there is no sidebar. This sidebar right now is dynamic, it moves dynamically. But I want to do is to make positioned absolutely/fixed and when you click/select menu category, only the content will scroll.
That's not true as if you just reduce the height of the browser the content is unreachable. I usually tile my windows to work on more than one thing at once so I never ever have my browser maximised. It's a minor issue but an annoying one for me
This sidebar right now is dynamic, it moves dynamically. But I want to do is to make positioned absolutely/fixed and when you click/select menu category, only the content will scroll.
The problem is that this is heavily scripted; it is not a CSS solution as such and will need help from the JS forum so I will move the thread there.
If you just wanted the header fixed and the sidebar fixed we could do that with css but then you would never be able to reach the sidebar content because it is below the fold even when my browser is maximised. It seems you must have the dynamic (js) solution for the design that you have to work.
You also say you want the header fixed but it depends on what you are calling the header? You would be better of just creating a sticky nav at the top as in that demo I showed. Of course this is JS territory again and not my remit.
You need someone like @Pullo to advise or one of the other JS wizards.
Thread moved.
Are u talking about navbar?
The element called navigation-menucard. If I have the browser closed half way up then I lose the last few menu items (more if I have zoomed the text). It's a minor issue but you just need to be careful with fixed elements.
Visit the site now and see what happens when you click something on that sidebar. A part disappears. Is that possible to fix in css? That "content" needs a margin-top or something like that, but Im not sure to which element.
I believe you can fix that in the JS settings as there is a variable called padding which applies a default padding to the top of the sticky box.
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
speed: 400,
[B]padding: 220,[/B]
constrain: true
Okay. And what about "class="page-header"". Is there a way to make it fixed and still visible?
That page seems to have changed as the side panel is missing now?
If you want to fix page-header then you are eating up a lot of your screen with a fixed element. You'd probably need to do something like this.
padding:300px 0 0;
.page-header {
background: url(images/bg-content.png) repeat-x 0 0;
(The above code is extra not a replacement)
Of course that will change all pages and you would need to change the sidebar again (wherever its gone to).
I'm not sure if that's what you meant anyway.
I want to remove .js functiion from sticky sidebar, so it wont be sticky anymore. But when I do that my mobile menu loses its function, it cant be activated. is there any way to remove that sticky function from the sidebar but at the same time keep mobile menu good and working.
I assume you removed this script:
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://bistro83.com/wp-content/themes/linguini/js/sticky.js?ver=3.6.1'></script>
and then removed this section from custom.js
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
speed: 400,
padding: 0,
constrain: true
That would seem to work.
Thanks. You are the best.
Another question. If you visit the site on your mobile phones, you will see it scrollable, thats because of the slider, I think. Is it possible to make overflow hidden only on homepage? Which element should I set overflow:hidden?
You can see here if you visit the site from iPhone http://iphone4simulator.com/... Just enter url
Can you clarify which page we are talking about as the original link seems to have gone awol
Then we will need to know what you are trying to hide exactly and how it differs from what we see?
Just open that link here http://iphone4simulator.com/ and you will see what Im talking about. The scroll bar will apear. How to hide that overflow, but at the same time not to affect menu?
I don't see the menu on the small screen display (or on the desktop at small widths).
The page scroll is mostly because you are placing the slideshow caption absolutely from the top (top:520px) and of course on small screens that too far below the fold (even on desktop).
You should probably optimise this a little better for mobile and hide the previous and next arrows and the text.
@media only screen and (max-width:600px){
content-home doesn't seem to be doing anything either (on the home page) so try hiding that as well.
.home .content-home {
Put it in the media query if it does have a purpose on desktop.
I applied your changes what do you think now?
Also I have new problem. HERE The left sidebar menu cant fit with height, one item is missing and my montitor is quite big (24" 1920*1200) so, who know what happens on 20" monitors. Do you have any idea what should I do to fix this?
This is the issue I mentioned originally with fixed elements
What you could do is use a media query based on height and when the height isn't enough to display all that side menu then remove the position:fixed and just let it be a normal floated menu instead.
@media only screen and (max-height:900px){
.navigation-menucard ul{position:static}
You'll have to play with the height until it fits.
The only other alternative would be to add a scrollbar but would look messy.
.navigation-menucard ul {
position: fixed;
bottom: 61px;
top: 346px;
overflow: auto;


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Respected Gartner analyst Avivah Litan has claimed in a blog post that cyber crooks have used comparatively low level DDoS – distributed denial of service – attacks to confuse and distract financial institution security staffs as fraudulent wire transfers were in motion.
In an interview with SC Magazine, Litan offered more specifics, claiming that she knows of three incidents in the past few months in which DDoS was used in heists involving "millions" of dollars.
Litan explicitly indicated that these DDoS attacks were unlike the high volume DDoS that in the past year have taken down many U.S. financial institutions including $3.8 billion, Pleasanton Calif.-based Patelco Credit Union and University Federal Credit Union, a $1.5 billion institution in Austin, Texas. No thefts have been associated with these politically motivated attacks.
Regarding the incidents she blogged about, Litan told SC Magazine: "It wasn't the politically motivated groups. It was a stealth, low-powered DDoS attack, meaning it wasn't something that knocked their website down for hours."
Litan declined to name the institutions that she said suffered significant losses in these DDoS assaults.
Some months ago, security blogger Brian Krebs reported on a $900,000 heist at Bank of the West where DDoS also was used as a distraction.
In her recent blog. Litan offered details about how the attack unfolds: "Once the DDoS is underway, this attack involves takeover of the payment switch (e.g. wire application) itself via a privileged user account that has access to it. Now, instead of having to get into one customer account at a time, the criminals can simply control the master payment switch and move as much money from as many accounts as they can get away with until their actions are noticed."
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Indian Dude Wants the Right to Be Exploited by Harvard Jerks Like Mark Zuckerberg, Too
Sanjay Mavinkurve, a brilliant Indian immigrant, wants to live the American dream — you know, go to Harvard, have some wealthy putz steal your software, then slave away as a Google code jockey!
Mavinkurve is the star of a piece by Matt Richtel on immigration: He won an H-1B visa to work in America for Google, scored big in that company's 2004 IPO, but then fell in love with Samvita Padukone, an India-born woman who couldn't get a permit to work in the U.S. So she got a work permit in Canada, and Mavinkurve relocated to Google's Toronto office. He has to fly a lot, and boy are his arms tired!
That's the sum of the argument the article makes for liberalizing immigration rules. If it sounds weak, that's because it's almost a complete retread of an article which appeared last year in The American, the journal of the American Enterprise Institute, a pro-free-markets think tank.
The argument over liberalizing immigration is kind of stupid. Yes, on the one hand, American companies should hire more American workers. But have you met any American workers lately? Lazy and surly, the lot of them. The number of American college students studying science and engineering has been plummeting for years. Only recently have students started to figure out that studying computer science might be a good idea.
No wonder companies like Google and Microsoft want to hire people like Mavinkurve, who are genuinely excited about living in this country and writing software. So excited that they're willing to put up with any number of insults.
For example: In 2003, as a student at Harvard, the founders of ConnectU had Mavinkurve write code for their then-nascent social network. That group, which included wealthy Olympic-rower twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, then brought on a kid by the name of Mark Zuckerberg to do additional work.
Next thing they knew, he'd launched a remarkably similar site called TheFacebook.com, which ConnectU's founders believed was built on their site's code. Lawsuits ensued, which Facebook settled last year for $65 million.
The Times article described Mavinkurve as having "helped lay the foundation for Facebook" — which can't possibly be true, unless the newspaper is accusing Zuckerberg of having used Mavinkurve's code in his website. Don't feel too bad for Mavinkurve, though: We hear he got a piece of the ConnectU settlement. Now if only he could get his wife a green card.


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"Emails are personal — and people feel that reading through their emails to sell ads is out of bounds," said Stefan Weitz, senior director of Online Services at Microsoft. "We honor the privacy of our Outlook.com users, and we are concerned that Google violates that privacy every time an Outlook.com user exchanges messages with someone on Gmail. This campaign is as much about protecting Outlook.com users from Gmail as it is about making sure Gmail users know what Google's doing."
Microsoft will spread the news and its new word "Scroogled" all over TV, Internet and print advertisements. It even
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Microsoft was even nice enough to offer a few examples of Google's practices.
"For example, if you write a friend to let her know you are separating from your husband, Google sells ads against this information to divorce lawyers, who post ads alongside it," said Microsoft. "Or if you ask a friend for vacation suggestions, Google uses this information to target you with ads from travel agencies or airlines that want your business."
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I love that statement, because it made the pain of New Moon worth it. I lived/read vicariously through Edward, he is my favorite character and I so fell in love with Bella... that statement to her as well as the others in The Truth chapter, just really made reading through the Jacob stuff worth it.
"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason. …And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything was black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything." Edward Cullen, Page 514, New Moon
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Enhanced CDs/DVDs
Mad Dancer became an industry leader for enhanced CD and DVD authoring, with the enhanced CD release of Jars of Clay's platinum-selling debut album, the first in the Christian music market.
1995 - 1999
Mad Dancer became an industry leader for enhanced CD and DVD authoring, with the enhanced CD release of Jars of Clay's platinum-selling debut album, the first in the Christian music market.
In 1998 Mad Dancer was nominated for a Gospel Music Association Dove Award for Enhanced CD of the Year for the album Love Revolution by NewSong.
In 1998, Mad Dancer co-founder Kari Scott supervised the design and development of the first website for Provident Music Group, which was then the Christian music division of Zomba Recording Corp. (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, N*Sync.)
Mad Dancer made its first forays into online advertising in 1998 with items such as animated e-cards, email blast campaigns, banner ads, and other online promotions for Provident Music Group, Word Entertainment, Warner Bros. and many other business and entertainment companies. Some of our original e-cards are on display in our portfolio.
2000 - 2004
As the importance of creating and maintaining an online presence grew for our clients, we realized we had an opportunity to expand our services further. In 2003, Mad Dancer began providing a robust in-house website hosting solution with a suite of cutting-edge hardware and direct access to a major internet infrastructure.
Mad Dancer is proud to have been the first online media company to work with superstar Taylor Swift. From web design and hosting to online marketing and fan interaction events, Mad Dancer managed every aspect of Taylor's online presence, helping to grow our reputation exponentially.
In 2002, Mad Dancer client WAY-FM, a national Christian music radio network, received the Website of the Year Award from A.I.R. for our groundbreaking design incorporating mini-sites for each regional station.
2005 - 2009
As demand for interactive retail products began to wane, we focused our creative energies on web design and hosting. Mad Dancer's growing reputation for innovative online solutions allowed us to work with an ever-increasing number of music artists as well as clients in the banking and healthcare industries.
In response to the needs of our clients in entertainment and mass media, in 2006 we upgraded our web hosting capabilities to provide load-balancing for high traffic sites, supporting up to 32,000 simultaneous users. This allowed us to provide high-performance streaming media and in-house e-commerce.
Our high-traffic hosting expansion allowed us to provide our clients with emerging options for direct interaction with customers and fans. Mad Dancer hosted live chats and streamed live performances for such clients as Wynonna, Little Big Town and gospel legend Vestal Goodman.
2010 - 2014
Building on our prior experience in providing services for local banks, Mad Dancer entered into a long-term agreement with Tennessee Commerce Bank to provide design, hosting and support for their corporate website and overall online business functions.
As companies across all industries felt the pressures of the struggling economy, it became clear that clients were looking for more affordable solutions for their online presence. While still providing the customized services for which Mad Dancer was known, we upgraded our infrastructure to allow us to transition from a proprietary content management system to confidently provide hosting for open-source content management solutions, including the WordPress, Drupal and Joomla open-source platforms.
In 2011, Mad Dancer's Kari Scott wrote a guest column for CBS News MoneyWatch on knowing which battles are worth are fighting as a small business (and which ones are not.) You can read it here: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-key-to-survival-know-which-battles-are-worth-fighting/
Thanks to emerging technologies including Angular.js, Socket.io, and Node.js we are now able to develop dynamic, real-time web applications for clients who need more than a simple website can offer.


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Just a year removed from a 5-16 campaign, the Durango Demons are going back to the playoffs.
The Durango High School girls basketball team beat Palisade 44-29 to finish fifth at the Class 4A Southwestern League/Western Slope League District Championships in Grand Junction, and in the process, the Demons finished 13-9 overall and earned a postseason bid.
Emily McCue had a double-double for Durango 15 points and 13 rebounds.
Molly Barnes, one day after her game-high 26 points in the consolation semifinals, scored 11 for the Demons.
Shanelle Bogus added eight for DHS, which rallied nicely after Thursdays first-round loss by 24 to Glenwood Springs to work its way back into the playoff picture.
They did a great job. We really rallied. ... We had a long talk about what we needed to work on, and we looked at that game a little bit and just saw we didnt execute things we typically execute in, Durango head coach Nancy Smith said.
What I love about the past two games was the entire team was enthusiastic. I felt like what we had last game that was missing was energy.
The Demons postseason performance will be their first since making a run to the Class 5A second round in 2010. The schedule and seedings will be revealed today, and the now-4A Demons likely will open play Tuesday night.
But for now, they will enjoy this accomplishment, making state in the Demons first full season under Smith and improving their win total by eight games over the previous season.
Smith inherited the girls basketball team midway through last season.
They are thrilled, Smith said. I am, too, but just to see the look on their faces ... they were dancing and jumping and laughing and excited for this opportunity. Especially for the seniors, this means a whole lot.


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On Saturday, the last of the country's 50 usable nuclear reactors will be switched off, completely idling a power source that once supplied a third of Japan's electricity. At a time when temptation to set the aircon to deep freeze is at its greatest, companies and ordinary Japanese will be obliged to economize amid temperatures that can climb above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
Nuclear energy seemed a steady mainstay of Japan's power supply until the March 11, 2011, tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in the worst atomic accident since the 1986 Chernobyl explosion. Authorities have since tightened safety standards and refrained from restarting reactors that were shut down, mostly for routine checks.
To offset the shortfall, utilities have ramped up oil- and gas-based generation, giving resource-poor Japan, the world's third-largest economy, its biggest annual trade deficit ever last fiscal year. That $100 million-plus a day extra cost, worries over the risks of nuclear power and concern over carbon emissions are leading many decisionmakers to view renewable energy such as solar, hydro and wind more positively.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has pledged to reduce Japan's reliance on nuclear power over time. And Japan is debating renewable energy targets of between 25 percent to 35 percent of total power generation by 2030, looking to Germany, which raised the proportion of renewables from 5 percent in 1990 to 20 percent by 2010.
"If Japan has the motivation, it can do this, too," said Sei Kato, deputy director of the Environment Ministry's Low Carbon Society Promotion Office. "We have the technological know-how. Japan can do anything that Germany can."
Real change has been slow. Giant solar arrays and wind farms can't be built overnight and powerful utilities that spent billions on nuclear are lobbying to protect their interests. The government is muddling along, seemingly unable to take a decisive stand either way as opinion becomes increasingly polarized between mavericks calling for massive investment in alternative energy sources and big business interests that favor keeping Japan Inc. nuclear powered.
Many believe Japan has little choice but to restart nuclear reactors even in the face of spirited public opposition. Utilities predict power supplies could fall 16 percent below demand in western Japan during the summer peak.
The government is eager to restart some reactors in coming months if it can persuade skeptical local leaders and residents that they are safe.
"The bottom line is that without nuclear power Japan will have a very hard time meeting demand," said Paul Scalise, a fellow at the University of Tokyo who specializes in Japan's energy sector.
Oil, coal and gas now generate about nearly 90 percent of Japan's electricity, with hydropower accounting for about 8 percent and other renewables — solar, wind, geothermal and biomass — making up the balance.
The International Energy Agency estimates shutting all nuclear plants increases oil demand by 465,000 barrels a day to 4.5 million barrels a day, raising Japan's daily costs by about $100 million.
Hiroshi Hamasaki, an energy expert at Fujitsu Research Institute, estimates that with stable "feed-in" tariffs, which guarantee renewable energy producers a fixed price for their power, renewable energy generation could surge by 200 times over the next three years.
"There will be a boom close to a bubble, with many companies rushing to enter the market over the next three to five years," Hamasaki said.
Although experts are enthusiastic, green energy in Japan still faces numerous obstacles and headwinds. Besides the nuclear industry's vested interests, those barriers include stifling regulations, a power grid ill-suited to accommodating volatile solar and wind energy, and the huge upfront costs of building solar or geothermal plants. Both are technologies in which Japan is a world leader, although it has lost out to China in solar cost competitiveness.
To help move things along, the government is easing restrictions on land use for solar and wind power. It also is relaxing regulations on small hydropower projects and regulations on drilling for geothermal energy in national parks.
More crucially, last week it approved feed-in tariffs that are expected to spur investment by guaranteeing higher returns for renewable than for conventional energy.
From July, utilities will be required to buy electricity from renewable energy from providers at a rate of 42 yen ($0.52) per kilowatt hour (kwh) for solar energy, 23 yen/kwh for wind power and 30-35 yen/kwh for small-scale hydropower. These preferential rates will apply for 10 to 20 years depending on the energy source.
Most of those higher rates will be passed on directly to consumers.
That business incentive is essential, said Masayoshi Son, a telecoms tycoon and leading proponent of renewable energy. He said the rates were a "good start," adding that if prices were any lower, "Japan would likely never see a new energy era."
Son, founder of telephone company Softbank Corp., set up SB Energy Corp. in October, 2011, to promote, generate and sell renewable energy.
The company has begun building five mega-solar plants across the country, with output capacity of 2.1 megawatts to 2.8 megawatts. The first will begin operations as soon as July 1. That is still just a fraction of Japan's 3.5 gigawatts of installed solar capacity.
The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan says member companies are building 20 mega-solar facilities capable of providing 103 megawatts by March 2015.
A vocal critic of Japan's business establishment for years, Son has publicly blasted Japan's regulators and utilities for working together to block new entrants and keep the power rates consumers pay high.
But the heavy political influence once exerted by the country's "nuclear village" of power companies and regulators is waning, experts say.
"Before, many companies were reluctant to move toward renewable energy because they were afraid of displeasing the utilities, but that has changed," said Koichi Kitazawa, head of an independent commission investigating the Fukushima crisis and former president of the Science and Technology Agency.
Many of Japan's biggest corporations, from steel mills and automakers to ceramics and electronics makers also are developing renewable technologies, often incorporating solar and wind power features into their own offices and factories.
Most renewable initiatives remain piecemeal, such as a "smart community" plan for Kamaishi, a tsunami-hit city planning to rebuild as an eco-town powered by solar, wind and other renewable energy.
Unlike a European country such as Denmark, which has pledged to shift entirely to renewable energy by 2050, Japan is an island isolated from neighboring countries. An Asian "super grid" proposed by Son that would link Japan to mainland Asia, and massive wind power capacity in the Gobi desert, will take years and could prove prohibitively expensive.
Even Son concedes that renewable energy is going to serve only a small percentage of electricity demand over the next few years.
"The point is to change components of the energy mix 10, 20 or 50 years from now," he said.


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32.0305 Wage and Hour Board-Powers and duties.Cite as [A.S.C.A. § 32.0305]
(a) The Board:
(1) may prepare and promulgate such rules as it deems necessary for the enforcement of this chapter:
(2) shall prepare and promulgate, after a public hearing, such wage and hour orders as it deems necessary for the operation and enforcement of this chapter. Wage and hour orders requiring the payment of minimum wages shall require the approval of the Governor of American Samoa before they become effective.
(b) For any occupation, the Board shall make and revise, subject to the approval of the Governor, such rules, including definitions of terms, as it may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of, or necessary to prevent the circumvention or evasion of this chapter and to safeguard minimum wage rates. Such regulations may include, but are not limited to:
(1) regulations defining and governing outside salesmen;
(2) learners and apprentices, and their number and pay;
(3) special pay for special or extra work;
(4) charges to employees for allowances for board, lodging, apparel or other facilities or services customarily furnished by employers to employees;
(5) allowances for gratuities;
(6) allowances for such special conditions or circumstances as may be usual in a particular employment relationship.
(c) Regulations or revisions thereof pursuant to this section may be made only after a public hearing held subsequent to publication of notice of the hearing, at which any person may be heard.
(d) Regulations or revisions, except as otherwise provided, take effect upon promulgation after approval by the Governor.History: 1965, PL 9-23.


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The Texas Tech Red Raiders not only grabbed the national championship race by the throat in defeating the Texas Longhorns, they also burned their image into the historical consciousness of college football.
In the immediate aftermath of the monumental victory, we have heard that it was the greatest win in the history of Texas Tech football. ESPN.com's Tim Griffin told RedRaiderSports.com' Chris Level that it was the greatest game in recent college football memory.
But I will up the ante. Tech's upset of the No. 1 Longhorns is one of the greatest games in the history of college football. And Graham Harrell's 28-yard touchdown heave to Michael Crabtree with one second remaining, will become one of college football's iconic moments.
Much like Doug Flutie's Hail Mary to defeat the Miami Hurricanes in the month of November, in the year 1984, Harrell-to-Crabtree will be replayed again and again in the coming decades whenever college football retrospectives are aired.
It was not just a play. It was a moment.
And the context was and is everything.
More so than with the Miami/Boston College clash, the build-up to Texas Tech/Texas 2008 was epic. And it was colossal.
National media scrutiny was intense.
Raiderville, the tent town of Tech students that sprang up on the outskirts of Jones AT&T stadium captivated America's sports public and testified to the meaning of this game for the citizens of West Texas.
Matt Williams, a heroic everyman who parlayed a made field goal in a kicking contest into a key position on one of the best college football teams in the land, fired imaginations from Hollywood to New York.
Then there was the reality of two undefeated teams from the same state set to do battle.
The mighty top-ranked Texas Longhorns, only three years removed from a national championship, looked poised to claim another if they could get past Texas Tech.
And what of Texas Tech? Sure, the Red Raiders were positioned at No. 7 in the BCS rankings, but the little tortilla school out on the high plains had never defeated a No. 1 team in the 84-year history of its football program. Moreover, they entered the contest with Texas trailing in the series record by a massive 42-14 margin. And sure enough, the mavens of Las Vegas had installed the Longhorns four to six point favorites.
This rich stew of peripheral storylines and intrinsic importance tempted ESPN's College GameDay to sojourn to Lubbock for the first time in that program's 15-year history.
And what a wise decision it turned out to be.
On a glorious Saturday morning in West Texas, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler decamped to Texas Tech's engineering key and were greeted serried ranks of thousands upon thousands of frenzied Tech faithful. Legendary basketball coach Bob Knight joined ESPN's crew on stage and delivered a pungently comedic performance worthy of Don Rickles or Andrew Dice Clay.
Then the piece de resistance. In the show's most anticipated moment, Corso donned the headgear of Tech mascot Raider Red, fired two muskets into the brilliant blue, and in so doing, prophetically declared Texas Tech to be the night's victor.
The Red Raider crowd went into a maddened frenzy. Bob Knight turned scarlet and appeared to tear up.
All that remained was to play the game.
The crowd, vibrating with pent up anticipation, burst the dykes. The denizens of Raiderville, looking like so many thousands of fragments of coal in accordance with "black out" clothing marching orders, stampeded into the stadium to grab the choicest seats. 56,333 football-loving souls packed the arena overfull 30 minutes before kickoff.
ABC was there to broadcast the proceedings to a nation awaiting in fascination. The old king, Brent Musberger was there, along with the young prince Kirk Herbstreit.
The game kicked off at 7:12 central standard time, and proceeded to unfold with a drama that cannot be equaled outside the confines of sport.
Tech's Colby Whitlock struck the first blow, decking Texas running back Chris Ogbonnaya in the end zone for a safety and the game's opening points.
Whitlock's mates on a Tech defense beset by doubters, then authored the unthinkable, shackling Heisman Trophy frontrunner Colt McCoy and the lethal Texas offense, holding them to six points in the first half. The Red Raiders led at the break 22-6.
But unease was gathering at the corners of the old stadium. For only two years before, McCoy had rallied the Longhorns from a three-touchdown deficit to nip the Red Raiders. And this team was ranked #1 for a reason. They would not go quietly. Was heartbreak once again in the offing for the home crowd?
Texas' Jordan Shipley took a punt at the Tech 45-yard line, sprinted to his left, and lanced into the end zone. And at this point one could foresee an emotional catastrophe about to unfold.
Texas Tech's Daniel Charbonnet appeared to delay the agony with an interception for a touchdown to make the score 29-13 midway through the third quarter. But two Malcolm Williams touchdown receptions later the score was 29-26 and a sickening sensation began to flow freely.
Tech's Donnie Carona hit an improbable 42-yard field goal to make the score 32-26.
But Texas got the ball back with around six minutes remaining and there was frankly no doubt that the Longhorns would score a touchdown to take the lead, and probably spoil what had been a week out of dreamland for the Red Raiders and West Texas. The only question was, would Texas leave any time on the clock for Tech to mount a desperation comeback drive?
Inevitably, the Longhorns took the lead, but left 1:28 on the game clock.
Tech's Jamar Wall took the subsequent kickoff five yards deep in the end zone and returned it to the Red Raider 38-yard line to keep hope alive. Graham Harrell began working his magic and methodically marched his team into enemy territory.
But then it looked as though all was for naught.
Harrell, avoiding pressure, stepped up in the pocket and fired a shot that ricocheted off a receiver's hands and into the arms of Texas safety Blake Gideon. The freshman dropped the dagger, however, and the Red Raiders had one more card yet to play.
With eight seconds left from the Texas 28-yard line, Harrell dropped back to pass with excellent protection from the stalwarts up front. Rather than toss a quick out to get into better field goal range, however, Harrell unbelievably unleashed a thunderbolt in the direction of double-covered Michael Crabtree at the Texas six-yard line. The ball singed the fingertips of a Longhorn defender and somehow reached the mitts of Crabtree, who shrugged off a tackler and sprinted into the end zone with one second remaining.
Blinded with delirium, Tech fans swarmed onto the field to celebrate. An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against the Red Raiders was the result.
Matt Williams kicked the extra point, and again the fans rushed the field. Another flag, and there was still a second to be played.
Because of the two penalties Tech was forced to kick off from their own seven and a half-yard line. And in a game as insane as this one, who was to say that something bizarre and savage was not still in store for the Red Raiders?
Alas, the final kick return proved stillborn and Tech escaped with a pulse-pounding 39-33 victory.
In the post-game press conference, Tech running back Baron Batch made it a point to first praise God and to mention his belief in the power of prayer. It was only fitting. Because this was not merely a football game, it was a quasi-religious experience.
But then isn't college football? Notre Dame has Touchdown Jesus. There was Boston College's Hail Mary. And with Harrell-to-Crabtree in what can only be described as a mystical setting, Texas Tech too has authored a book in the holy scripture of the American rite known as college football.


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Petr Kacha is from Hranice. He is a nice looking guy with a healthy endowment and a nice ass. He doesn't have the best of bodies, but a little work would improve him immensely.
Petr Doan is from Prague. He is quite a good looking guy, with a reasonable body. He doesn't have the best posture, but we can deal with that quite easily. Petr is well endowed down below and has a very nice ass too.
Roman Galko comes from Teplice. He is a good looking guy with quite a fit body. He gets naked and hard in this casting. Sporting a nice erection and spreading his ass for the camera. Most attractive.


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"The Tallest Man Cannot Reach Heaven; the Broadest Man Cannot Cover Earth" – Reconsidering the Proverb and its Biblical Parallels
AbstractAn ancient Mesopotamian proverb states: "even the tallest man cannot reach heaven; even the broadest man cannot cover earth". This proverb, occurring in different contexts, periods and versions, expresses the limitedness of the human ability, physically as well as mentally. The proverb seems to stand at the background of several biblical passages, especially Deut 30:11–13; Amos 9:2–3; Job 11:8–9; Job 28:12–22; and Ps 139:8–10. This article seeks to re-examine the different manifestations of the proverb, and to trace the development of the topoi reflected in it, with a focus on their adaptation in the Hebrew Bible.


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Questions swirled Friday about the possible role prescription medications may have played in the death Thursday of pop idol Michael Jackson, people close to him said.
His autopsy was completed, but further tests must be carried out before the cause of death can be determined, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner said.
Craig Harvey said the tests would take four to six weeks, after which "we anticipate being able to close the case and issuing a final cause of death." Among the tests to be carried out, he said, are neuropathology (brain) and pulmonary (lung) tests. Read full article »
CNN's Alan Duke and Drew Griffin contributed to this report.
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